CHAPTER VI.
supply of their temporal wants—full peace in the prospect of pestilence—opportunities of usefulness—promising state of the school—actual appearance of the plague—dissolution of the school—resolution of mr. and mrs. groves to abide at their post—awful mortality—feelings of the people danger of inundation—mr. groves exerts himself to save the property of the resident—difficulties as to the burial of the dead—four thousand dying daily—multitudes of orphans—inundation of the city—preservation of the missionary family till nearly the end of the plague—more than half the population swept away in two months—description of the disease—illness of mrs. groves—her calmness and faith—her suffering and peaceful departure—others of the household attacked—mr. groves’s arrangements and feelings in prospect of his own removal—his happy confidence when attacked by the plague—his speedy recovery decrease of the pestilence—preservation of mr. groves’s children—his review of their work, and of his beloved wife’s preparedness for her heavenly rest.
The first entry Mr. Groves makes in the Journal for 1831, the second year of his residence in Bagdad, is about the Lord’s goodness in providing for their wants; he says, “I have this day settled all may accounts, and find, after everything is paid, including the expenses of my baggage from Bushire, and of the house and school for another year, that our little stock will last us, with the Lord’s blessing, two months longer, and then we know not whence we are to be supplied, but the Lord does not
