We went to the most distant part of  the village first that we might gain time.  We found the women all loved the pastor, and his wife, and it was evident that Badashan was a true helpmate to her husband.  They gave her a position above them, and she used this position for their good.  She was their Bible-woman, their leader in the prayer-meetings, and in their homes, for she was a model housekeeper.  Garabed was earnest, but very dignified, seldom forgetting his cane when he went abroad; and his people were pleased with this.  But Badashan would take her clean baby on her arm, and a bowl of soup in her hand, and go to some sick neighbor with her bright face all radiant with smiles.  In her eagerness to make somebody happy she seemed to forget that she was the pastoress.  She had a sunny face, and wherever she went scattered pearls, which no one thought of trampling, but only of gathering as precious treasure... (Daughters of Armenia, Wheeler, 1878)