Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 24-25

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Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

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Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913, p. 24-25

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Source 20230913-dadrian-eskijian (batch), Hovhannes Eskijian Archival Materials (subcollection), University of Southern California (contributing entity), Vahakn Dadrian Papers (collection)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

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Content “The first thing I saw in the darkened room as I
entered was a pale, glaring-eyed woman lying on her bed
‘near to death’ they said. Her husband, her son and a cousin
vere on one side of the room and our party on the other
‘The conversation began. T stated that T had come, not for
4 reprieve for a few months but for full pardon for the one
whom they sought to kill in revenge for their son. At once
the father poured forth a volley of fierce words; the dying
‘woman slowly roze in hed and fixed her glassy eyes on me. 1
looked the pity and entreaty that I felt as I again pleaded for
a definite answer. ‘The woman finally pressed her hand to
her heart and said, ‘I grant it.’ ‘Then her husband did the
same, then the son. “The cousin now put on a fierce look an
spoke at length. 1 watched the faces about me and eried i

wardly to God to spare from blood then and there for others
‘were also growing fierce, T allowed but one at a time to
speak, and urged the cousin to give his answer. Finally
he said, ‘I grant it) and the fifth relative also granted i
Then the aged brother of our Hamed rose, came across
and kissed the father and others and I said, ‘Our work seems
done. Let us thank God and I will go.’ The father then
said, ‘Has anyone in all these years ever come to my house
entreating me before? She has come all this distance, would
not anyone yield How I longed to tell them of our (and
their) Mediator! ‘The lesion has burned deep in my soul
ever since, Then an immense copper tray, four feet in diam
ter, full of rice and meat was set before me and 1 i

the family and others to sit down and eat. Later they sa,
“Had the Sheik been here it could not have been done so,
tbue this is far better.’ ‘May it prove so,’ I said and prayed
‘with them. So goo! is again seen out of adverse circum-
stances and I felt the jolting far less coming home, party

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because I rode in the saddle over the roughest portion and
partly because I was very happy. Dear people! ‘That ‘love
is the fulfilling of the law’ is the thought ever before me 2s
T see and listen to them.” Her own words reveal her in-
ner life of these days. “I have too litle leisure for long
we with God, but I do keep by the Saviour's side
ind I look constantly to Him for guidance. It is a sweet
almost strange life chat I have walked step by step through
these intricate ways, and have seen the snarls untangle and
the grand blessing continue. T tremble lest something upset
ie: yee T will not distrust.”

Being in one of the most isolated and dangerous parts
of Turkey, three days’ journey from the nearest mission
station, Miss Shattuck ad but few guests and often for
months she saw no one but natives. Yet she was extremely’
social by nature, and had a way of making much of her
friends whenever they visited her. She once wrote, “How.
many times do we ‘entertain angels unawares’ from the lack
‘of love and skill to draw them out.” Miss Shattuck always,
discovered ‘the angel” in her visitors!

Severe in all things which pertained to herself, she was
wonderfully sympathetic in the suffering of others. This,
ssmpathy found beautiful expression in the work for the blind
which Miss Shattuck began in December, 1902, and which
is now known as the Shattuck School for the Blind.

‘An orphan teacher in the day school, Mary: Harootoon:
yan, lost her sight and through Miss Shattuck’s influence
‘was able w go to the Royal Normal College for the Blind
in London, where she learned the Braille system and be-
‘came very skillful in the use of the typewriter.

Returning to Oorfa she gathered the blind children of
neighborhood and taught them to read. In a few

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Inherited Values

Title Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine, 1913 [cover]

Alternative Title Hayasdani Gotchnag 1941 (supplied title)

Description Emily Clough Peabody, editor. Corinna Shattuck: Missionary heroine. Chicago, Illinois, USA: The Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street), 1913. In English. (30 pages). Pages 14-15 include information on Hovhannes Eskijian.

Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Coverage Spatial 19 South La Salle Street (roadways), Chicago (cities), Illinois (states), North America (continents), USA (countries)

Inherited Subject Eskijian, Hovhannes, 1882-1916 (personal name), Shattuck, Corinna (personal name)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu (digital); eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com (original)

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections (digital); Ararat-Eskijian Museum (physical)

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 (digital); 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 (physical)

Rights Elmajian, E.E.; Peabody, Emily Clough; Shattuck, Corinna; The Gotchnag; Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior

Creator Elmajian, E.E. (writer), Peabody, Emily Clough (editor), Shattuck, Corinna (writer)

Contributor Ararat-Eskijian Museum (donor)

Publisher Hayaskani Gotchnag (original), The Gotchnag (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital), Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (Room 1315, 19 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA) (original), Հայասդանի Գոթչնակ (original)

Date Issued 1913, 1941-05-03

Type texts