er prospects, and color her whole future destiny. From the quiet and seclusion of her New England home, she w

. A journey of two hundred miles then involved greater perplexity and required nearly as much preparation, and was certainly attended with more fatigue than a voyage to England at the present day. The subject of evangelizing the heathen in foreign c

farthe

th, to distant b

edy victim to her zeal in their behalf,-a thing so common now as to excite no surprise and little interest-was then hardly deemed possible, if indeed, the idea of it entered the

stness and perseverance, they so far awakened an interest in their project, that a Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was appointed, and the young men were set apart as missionaries. During the two years in which Mr. Judson and his associates were employed in efforts to accomplish this r

the ocean; to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death? Can you consent to all this for the sake of Him who left his heavenly home, and died for her and for you; for the sake of perishing immortal so

"the noble army of martyrs" and "those who came out of great tribulation," in his final home,-as he looks back on the hour when he thus gave up his life and what was more precious tha

, but gon

to meet and

owers than

oes she now regret that to his solem

nth embarked on the brig Caravan, bound for Calcutta. Mr. and Mrs. Newell, also missionaries sailed in the same v

quently dissipates the gloomy clouds of spiritual darkness which hang over my mind and brightens my hope of a happy eternity. I h

earer land ... and the scene was truly delightful, reminding me of the descriptions I have read of the fertile shores of India-the groves of orange and palm trees. Yesterday we saw two vessels.... You h

l. We are sailing up the river Hoogly, a branch of the Ganges, and so near the land that we can distinctly discover objects. On one si

ang over them and appear truly romantic. The grass and fields of rice are perfectly green, and herds of cattle are everywhere feeding on the banks of the river, and the natives are scattered about, ... some fishing, some driving the team, and some

for us to go. The city is by far the most elegant of any I have ever seen. Many ships are lying at anchor, and hundreds of natives all around.

, and what will be their success I know not. The East India Company are violently opposed to missions, and have barely given permission to their own countrymen to settle here as preachers. We