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 WILLIAM Rankin 
 
 LATE TREASURER OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 
 
 Pkhsbyterian Board of Publication and 
 Sabbath-school Wokk, Philadelphia, 1895 
 
Copyright, 1895, by 
 THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD 
 OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH- 
 SCHOOL WORK. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Twenty-six years have passed since the Treasurer 
 of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions pub- 
 lished a i2mo volume prepared by Secretary Dr. 
 John C. Lowrie, entitled, ''Manual of the Foreign 
 Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A." The 
 latter portion of the book contains memoirs of the 
 loo missionaries of the Board and of the Western 
 Foreign Missionary Society who had died prior to 
 1868, the year of its publication. In the following 
 pages these memoirs are reproduced, and with them 
 gathered in the same way and alphabetically arranged 
 are blended the memoirs of those who have since de- 
 parted this life, viz., from 1868 to the close of 1894, 
 making in all about 250 names. Appended to these 
 are brief sketches of the five deceased Corresponding 
 Secretaries, also a narrative of events at Futtehgurh 
 in the Sepoy revolt of 1857 relating to the eight mar- 
 tyred missionaries. The compiler may be regarded 
 merely as such, in bringing together these necrologi- 
 cal notices or memoirs, as they are scattered through 
 and buried in the periodicals of the Board, In the 
 transition he has made but few changes or addenda, 
 and is not responsible for brevity in instances where 
 a fuller statement was justly due and would have 
 been more appropriate. Doubtless several much 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 esteemed native evangelists have been overlooked, 
 and possibly some foreign laborers, although, save in 
 three or four exceptional instances, it was not in- 
 tended to include those who once connected with the 
 Board died after being compelled from providential 
 causes to withdraw from its service and engage in 
 other relations. 
 
 The motives which have influenced these sons and 
 daughters of the Church to devote their lives to this 
 work of self-denial for the Master are so well stated 
 by Dr. Lowrie in his introductory chapter to the 
 '' Manual" that I have reproduced it as an appro- 
 priate Introduction to these memoirs. 
 
 This work has been a congenial one, accompanied 
 here and there with affectionate remembrances. 
 With most of this roll of worthies the compiler was 
 officially connected and to many personally attached. 
 In his judgment no more devoted and heroic fol- 
 lowers of Christ have appeared in the Presbyterian 
 Church during the last sixty years of its history than 
 can be found among the names herein recorded, and 
 no greater service is rendered to the human race than 
 what is accomplished through the instrumentality of 
 Foreign Missionaries. 
 
 William Rankin. 
 
 Newark, N. J., December 31, 1894, 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 By Rev. John C. Lowrie, D.D. 
 
 The work of Christian Missions has become one of 
 the marked features of the age. The larger bodies 
 of Christians, and many of the smaller, have their 
 missionary stations in various parts of the world. 
 Large sums of money are expended for the support 
 of missionaries, the establishment of schools, and the 
 printing of the Holy Scriptures. Hundreds of men 
 of superior education, and women of cultivated minds 
 and refined manners, have gone to live among the 
 Indians of our western forests, the Negroes and the 
 Hottentots of Africa, the Hindus and the Chinese, 
 the Feejeeans and others in the islands of the sea ; 
 they and their families are found living far from their 
 early homes, in unfriendly climes, amongst rude and 
 debased tribes, and patiently laboring year after year 
 to instruct the ignorant, and to bring the depraved 
 and degraded people around them under the influence 
 of the Christian religion. This stands out to public 
 view. 
 
 Some observers see all this without sympathy, and 
 some venture even to condemn the conduct of these 
 missionaries and their supporters at home. '' To 
 what purpose is this waste ? Why should the labors 
 
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 of SO many superior men and women be lost to their 
 friends and their own people ?" 
 
 In reply, some of the grounds on which the Church 
 is led to support the cause of missions may be very 
 briefly stated, and they will appear if we consider — 
 
 I. TJic Origin of the Missionary Cause. — This we 
 ascribe to nothing lower nor later than the eternal 
 love and purpose of God. The world perishing in its 
 sin against himself was before the mind of God from 
 eternity. Every human being, sinful, lost and hope- 
 less, like the apostate angels, was known unto God 
 from the beginning. All the dreadful darkness, 
 wickedness and wretchedness that should abound 
 amongst fallen men, which if unrestrained would 
 make the earth to be but the vestibule of hell itself 
 — all these God foresaw before the world was made. 
 The wickedness of men makes it necessary that 
 judgments should fall upon the earth, yet still the 
 purpose of God towards our fallen world was from 
 eternity full of grace. And from the divine counsels 
 proceeds the only salvation of lost sinners. To ac- 
 complish this, God ' ' spared not his own Son, but de- 
 livered him up for us all." '' For God so loved the 
 world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that who- 
 soever belie veth in him should not perish, but have 
 everlasting life." *' Ye know the grace of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your 
 sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty 
 might be rich." The invitation is now sent forth 
 among the Heathen, Mohammedans, Jews, and all 
 others, ''Look unto me and be ye saved, all the 
 
INTRODUCTION. 3 
 
 ends of the earth. " He that believeth shall be saved ; 
 he that believeth not is condemned already. The 
 Church has been established among men, and her 
 ministers and members have received the means of 
 grace for their own salvation, and as trustees for 
 those who are destitute. Freely they have received ; 
 freely they must give. Their agency in this work is 
 contemplated in the divine purpose. Angels might 
 have been employed as missionaries, but this was not 
 the will of God. His purpose to save his people was 
 to be fulfilled by the agency of redeemed sinners. 
 
 This was the origin of the missionary work. It is 
 not of human devising. It is not of this world. It 
 is not of time. It is of God, from everlasting. Its 
 progress among men is by the grace and power of 
 God. And hence its final issue is a matter of cer- 
 tainty, and its triumph shall be to the glory of God, 
 in this world and in everlasting ages. 
 
 II. The Coinniand]ncnt of Our Lord. — " Jesus came 
 and spake unto them, saying, All power is given 
 unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, 
 and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of 
 the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost : 
 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I 
 have commanded you. And lo, I am with you alway, 
 even unto the end of the world." 
 
 The permanent obligation of this commandment is 
 clearly shown by its own nature. While any nation 
 or even any human being is unacquainted with the 
 Gospel, this law remains in full force. The promise 
 accompanying it also shows its permanent authority. 
 
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 The promise of the Saviour's presence is inseparable 
 from the commandment. How, then, can the Cliurch, 
 or the ministers of the Gospel, expect the fulfillment 
 of this most precious promise of our Lord, while 
 neglecting the duty with which it is connected ? 
 
 III. TJie Example of the Primitive Church. — 
 Hardly anything was more characteristic of the early 
 Christians than the missionary spirit. They evi- 
 dently understood our Lord's commandment as re- 
 quiring them to spread the Gospel everywhere in the 
 world, and to do this in foreign countries without 
 waiting until the work of evangelization was com- 
 pleted in their own. They were to begin at Jeru- 
 salem, and thence to go forth amongst all nations, 
 preaching repentance and forgiveness of sins in the 
 name of Jesus Christ. See the example, particularly, 
 of one of the earliest churches, if not the first, or- 
 ganized among the Gentiles. The disciples were 
 first called Christians in Antioch, and the church in 
 that city sent forth two of the most eminent ministers, 
 Paul and Barnabas, on an extended foreign mis- 
 sionary expedition. This was done while the church 
 itself was few in numbers, feeble in resources, in the 
 midst of a heathen city, no doubt actively engaged in 
 home missionary labors ; but yet it was willing to 
 make sacrifices for those who were perishing in the 
 regions beyond the limits of Antioch or of Syria. 
 This was the spirit which animated the Church in the 
 purest age of its history, and this was the secret of 
 its power at home and abroad. It watered the fields 
 of others, and God watered its own gardens. It 
 
INTRODUCTION. 5 
 
 scattered, and yet increased. The faith, and love, 
 and devotedness of its own members were strength- 
 ened by their missionary labors. The examples of 
 apostolic missionaries reacted upon the churches, 
 making their members apostolic. The death of de- 
 voted laborers in the .spread of the Gospel called 
 other laborers into the harvest. And the work ad- 
 vanced with power. 
 
 IV. TJie Benevolent Nature of the Christian Re- 
 ligion. — It prompts lis to love our neighbor as our- 
 selves; to do to others as we would have others to 
 do unto us; to do good unto all men as we have op- 
 portunity. The influence of divine grace on the 
 heart is the very opposite of everything selfish ; it is 
 diffusive and evangelistic. It leads us to pity them 
 that sit in darkness and the shadow of death. It 
 constrains us to carry or send the Gospel, with all its 
 blessings, to every creature. . 
 
 V. The Spiritual Condition of Men Without the 
 Gospel. — This is truly deplorable. Ignorance, super- 
 stition and depravity — almost all kinds of evil — ■ 
 abound in countries where the light of the Sun of 
 righteousness does not shine. Under afflictions their 
 inhabitants are destitute of support, and in death are 
 without hope. This is stated with solemnity. Some 
 think the heathen will be saved without the Gospel. 
 They certainly will not be condemned for rejecting a 
 Saviour of whom they have never heard ; they will 
 be judged according to the light which they enjoyed. 
 Rom. i. 20; ii. 12-15. I^^t ^'without holiness no 
 
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 man shall see the Lord." With hearts depraved, and 
 living in sin to the very end of life, on what ground 
 can they expect salvation ? God inay^ indeed, extend 
 salvation to sinners without the means of grace ; he 
 does this, in the case of those who are saved in in- 
 fancy, and of such as received immediate revelations 
 from heaven before the written word was given. 
 But the sacred Scripture shows that salvation is now 
 extended to adult men only through Jesus Christ, 
 and through the means of grace. Thus it is written, 
 *' Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall 
 be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom 
 they have not believed ? And how shall they believe 
 in him of whom they have not heard ? And how shall 
 they hear without a preacher ? . . . . So then faith 
 cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." 
 
 VI. TJie Events of Providence in Our Day. — 
 These point in the line of Christian Missions. The 
 changes among the nations of the earth within the 
 last sixty years have removed many barriers to the 
 spread of the Gospel, and opened doors which had 
 been closed for centuries. The wonderful progress 
 of commerce is tributary to the progress of missions. 
 The steam printing-press, the steam railway-coach, 
 the ocean steamship and the electric telegraph, are 
 all servants of the God of missions, and tend greatly 
 to promote the interests of the missionary work. 
 Christian and pagan nations are now brought into 
 close relationship. The British and the Hindus live 
 under the same laws. Our countrymen and the 
 Chinese are meeting on the shores of the Pacific ; the 
 
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 Chinese themselves, with the other Orientals, have 
 been moved by political changes, looking towards 
 Christianity. Africa can be reached with ease from 
 Liverpool or New York. Multitudes of Roman 
 Catholics are seeking their homes in countries where 
 the Bible is an open book. 
 
 VII. The Seal of the Holy Spirit.—'' If this work 
 be of men, it will come to naught ; but if it be of 
 God," it cannot be overthrown. No more decisive 
 proofs of the favor of Heaven have been given to any 
 cause than to that of Foreign Missions, by the gra- 
 cious work of the Holy Spirit. Souls have been con- 
 verted in every mission. The power of Buddhism, 
 Brahmanism and Fetichism has been broken in many 
 instances. The False Prophet and the Papal Anti- 
 Christ have both been compelled to yield their sub- 
 jects to the missionary, to be led to Jesus Christ for 
 salvation. Converts in large numbers among the 
 Indian tribes, in Africa, Asia, and the islands of the 
 sea, have adorned their Christian profession by an 
 exemplary life, and many have died in the faith and 
 hope of the Gospel. 
 
 VIII. The. Certainty of Final Success. — For this, 
 the Church relies on the Word of God. " The earth 
 shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the 
 waters cover the sea." ''All nations whom thou 
 hast made shall come and worship before thee, O 
 Lord; and shall glorify thy name." "Until the 
 fullness of the Gentiles be come in ; and so all Israel 
 shall be saved." These are examples of prophetic 
 
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 language concerning the prevalence of the kingdom 
 of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. With these 
 predictions in view, no Christian can doubt the final 
 issue of the contest now waging in the world be- 
 tween the powers of darkness and of light. Nor can 
 any reasonable doubt be entertained concerning the 
 success of the measures now commonly employed by 
 the Church in the missionary work, as tending to the 
 general diffusion of Christianity. These measures 
 are the same, substantially, in unenlightened as in 
 Christian lands. The simple story of the cross, the 
 preaching of Christ and him crucified, is the main 
 characteristic of the work of missions in modern as 
 in ancient times. All Protestant missionaries ' ' preach 
 Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and 
 unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which 
 are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power 
 of God and the wisdom of God." The success of 
 this apostolic preaching will become more marked in 
 coming ages, until all nations are converted unto 
 God. We know no other means of success ; we look 
 for no other dispensation of grace; the outpouring 
 of the Holy Spirit, as on the day of Pentecost, shall 
 be witnessed in every place where the Gospel is 
 preached; and the long ages of the one thousand 
 years, each measured in prophetic time, shall bring 
 forth their myriads of truly Christian people. Then 
 shall our Redeemer '*see of the travail of his soul, 
 and shall be satisfied." 
 
 On grounds like these does the Church of Christ 
 proceed in her missionary work. Her faith is in 
 God, and in the power of his grace. Inspired by 
 
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 this view, and sustained by the presence of the 
 Saviour, her sons and daughters go forth as mis- 
 sionaries. They labor in various fields, with various 
 success, enduring manifold privations, for longer 
 days or few, as God may appoint ; and then they go 
 to their rest. But their works do follow them. 
 Their memory is dear to the Church. Nations now 
 heathen shall in future ages bless their names. The 
 Saviour will give to them a crown of life. And in 
 the heavenly glory, they will evermore rejoice that 
 they were counted worthy to be missionaries of the 
 cross. 
 
NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE 
 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 
 
 Rev. Robert E. Abbey. 
 
 Rev. Robert E. Abbey, after a protracted illness, 
 fell a victim to dysentery at Nanking, China, October 
 9, 1890. He made a profession of his faith in Christ 
 in Toledo, Ohio, under the ministry of Rev. H. M. 
 MacCracken, D.D., now Vice-Chancellor of the Uni- 
 versity of New York. He was subsequently gradu- 
 ated with honor from Wooster University of Ohio, 
 and in 1882 from the Union Theological Seminary, 
 New York. In the autumn of that same year he 
 joined the Central China Mission under appointment 
 of the Board and was assigned to Nanking Station, 
 where he continued to labor till his death. A few 
 months after his arrival he was married to the widow 
 of Rev. Albert Whiting, dec'd, late one of the mis- 
 sionaries at that station. 
 
 Mr. Abbey was thoroughly devoted to his work. 
 The burden of souls was upon his heart, and he 
 longed to see native laborers having command of 
 the Nanking dialect multiplied, so that the millions 
 around that former capital might be reached with 
 the Gospel. With this in view, he secured the con- 
 sent of the mission and the Board to establish a 
 
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 boarding school for boys, furnishing part of the 
 necessary funds from his own slender resources, his 
 purpose being to select the most promising and train 
 them for ministers, teachers and helpers. He had 
 the satisfaction of seeing a fair beginning made in 
 the enterprise and of welcoming several of the boys 
 to the fellowship of the Church before the summons 
 ca,me. Mr. Abbey had received permission of the 
 Board to visit his native land with his family next 
 year, hoping to return again to the prosecution of 
 his work on a larger scale ; ' ' but he rests from his 
 labors and his works do follow him." — CJiurcJi at 
 Home and Abroad^ December, 1890. 
 
 Mrs. Abbey, after the death of her husband, made 
 a visit to the United States, where she left two of 
 her children. She returned to her station in Sep- 
 tember, 1892, and writes ''joyfully of the goodness 
 of God in bringing her back for his good and large 
 service in China." 
 
 Ah-yuing. 
 
 Again the hand of the Lord has been laid upon 
 us, and removed from our midst one of the choice 
 plants in his vineyard here, from whom we expected 
 much, and whose loss we feel to be a sad and myste- 
 rious dispensation. Ah-yuing, wife of Tsiang Vong- 
 kweng (formerly catechist at San-poh, now stationed 
 at Ningpo), was originally a pupil in Miss Aldersey's 
 Boarding-school, and came into our school when 
 Miss Aldersey transferred her school to our mission. 
 She, her mother, and her grandmother, were all 
 baptized by Mr. Nevius in February, 1859. The 
 
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 mother is still with us, but the grandmother went to 
 her rest three or four years since. Previous to her 
 marriage, Ah-yuing acted for some time as assistant 
 teacher in our Female Boarding-school, and after her 
 marriage exerted a very happy influence upon the 
 families around her, in the part of San-poh where 
 her husband was stationed. 
 
 She was the most accomplished woman ever edu- 
 cated in our school, and had read quite an unusual 
 amount of the ordinary Chinese literature. When 
 her husband was taken under the care of Presbytery 
 and commenced his studies as a student of theology, 
 she studied with him, and was as thoroughly pre- 
 pared, and could have stood the examinations as well 
 as he. The pastor and elders at San-poh highly 
 respected her for her accomplishments and learning. 
 After the meeting of Presbytery in October, they 
 called to make her a parting visit, and when they rose 
 to take leave, she burst into tears, and told them she 
 should never see their faces again. They all showed 
 a good deal of feeling, and kneeling down, com- 
 mended her to God and to the power of his grace. 
 
 About a month before her death, I told her can- 
 didly that there were no hopes of her recovery, and 
 asked her how she felt in the prospect of death. 
 She said that when she thought of her sins, she felt 
 afraid. I told her that Jesus came not to save the 
 righteous, but sinners. She said that was a thought 
 that gave her comfort. She told her husband that 
 she felt troubled that she had done so little for Christ 
 when she had health and youth, and said : "What if 
 I should turn out an Ignorance at last " (referring to 
 
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 that character in Bunyan's ''Pilgrim's Progress"). 
 Her husband exhorted her to examine herself as to 
 whether she had sincerely given herself to Jesus or 
 not. After awhile, and after he had prayed with 
 her, she told him she could not think she had been a 
 hypocrite ; and soon commenced to comfort herself 
 by calling to mind the promises of God, and partic- 
 ularly delighted in repeating the 90th Psalm. She 
 said one day : ''AH the books in the world are not 
 worth one sentence of the Bible." One day during 
 a fainting lit, her mother and her husband com- 
 menced to weep aloud, thinking she was expiring. 
 As soon as she could speak, she gently rebuked 
 them, saying : "I am passing through the river of 
 death ; you ought to be comforting and uphold- 
 ing me, but I am obliged to comfort you." She 
 felt wearied with the conversation of those who 
 talked of worldly things, but expressed herself 
 refreshed and grateful when any one talked to her 
 of spiritual things. To all her unconverted friends, 
 when they visited her, she gave warnings and exhor- 
 tations to flee from the wrath to come ; and to her 
 Christian friends, she expressed the hope that we 
 should meet her in heaven. She told her husband 
 that she was surprised at herself that the fear of 
 death was all gone, and that she felt that Jesus was 
 with her as her helper and upholder, and that the 
 Holy Spirit was in her heart. On Monday, Decem- 
 ber 24, 1866, I saw her for the last time, but she was 
 so feeble that I only spoke a few words of comfort 
 to her, and left the room. Her husband came after 
 me to say, that his wife wished him to ask if I 
 
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 thought she would die that night. I told him that I 
 thought she would not die that night, but probably 
 before that time the next day. She replied: *'Oh, 
 that is good news!" She then told her husband to 
 give her dying thanks to those friends who had vis- 
 ited her and sent her little tokens of love during her 
 illness, mentioning them by name, and told him that 
 to go and be with Jesus was better than even to stay 
 with him. Very soon after this she became uncon- 
 scious, and about noon on Christmas day, she fell 
 asleep, aged twenty-three years. 
 
 I have written thus minutely for the confirmation 
 of your faith, as it has been of mine, in seeing an 
 intelligent, clear-minded Christian woman give such 
 comforting evidence of the power of Jesus to " make 
 a dying-bed feel soft as downy pillows are," and to 
 show that among those who are indeed born of God, 
 there is no difference, we are no more Barbarian and 
 Scythian, bond and free — but all fellow-saints, fel- 
 low-citizens of the better country, having one Lord, 
 one faith, one hope, one home in glory. — D. B. Mc- 
 Cartce, M.D. 
 
 Mrs. Mary J. Ainslie. 
 
 Mrs. Ainslie, wife of the Rev. George Ainslie, of 
 the Choctaw mission, died February 14, 1861 — ''in 
 the full hope of a glorious immortality; her last 
 words were, Jesus is precious ! He alone is pre- 
 cious!" — Annual Report^ 1861. 
 
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 Rev. Jonathan P. Alward. 
 
 Mr. Alward was born in Baskingridge, N. J., 
 graduated at Nassau Hall, and studied theology also 
 in Princeton. He went as a missionary to Western 
 Africa in 1839, on an exploring visit with Messrs. 
 Pinney and Canfield. Selecting the Kroo country as 
 their field of labor, they returned home, and the 
 next year Messrs. Canfield and Alward went back to 
 Africa with their wives ; but they were not allowed 
 to continue by reason of death. Mr. Alward entered 
 into rest April 21, 1841, at Cape Palmas, on his way 
 to Settra Kroo, in the twenty-eighth year of his age ; 
 and Mr. Canfield, May 7, 1842, at Settra Kroo. Mrs. 
 Alward and Mrs. Canfield returned to their friends 
 in this country. Mr. Alward is spoken of in the 
 Annual Report of the Board as a ^'talented and 
 devoted missionary." 
 
 Rev. James R. Amos and Rev. Armistead 
 Miller. 
 
 These colored ministers were both graduates of 
 the Ashmun Institute, and missionaries in Liberia. 
 Mr. Amos died soon after his return from that 
 country in 1864. Mr. Miller died at his station Jan- 
 uary 18, 1865. Both were men of considerable 
 energy and much promise, but were early taken from 
 their work to their rest. — Annual Report^ 1865. 
 
 Mrs. L. E. Ballagh. 
 
 The return to this country of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 C. Ballagh on account of ill health was mentioned in 
 
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 the last Report (1883). Since their arrival Mrs. 
 Ballagh was permitted to visit many of the mission- 
 ary bands and associations of the Philadelphia 
 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society and to attend 
 the meetings for prayer in Philadelphia early in Jan- 
 nary. She met everywhere with a warm reception 
 and awakened a great degree of interest in the cause 
 of missions until as the meetings were ending in 
 Philadelphia she was suddenly called to enter the 
 heavenly rest (January 13, 1884) — greatly loved, 
 greatly lamented. Mr. and Mrs. Ballagh went to 
 Japan in 1875. "Not only in the mission field but 
 at home among the churches Mrs. Ballagh made her 
 influence felt in a very peculiar degree. Few Chris- 
 tians of either sex have made a deeper impression 
 during the same length of time. Her memory is a 
 legacy to the Church." A beautiful memorial was 
 published, containing addresses and other services 
 connected with her funeral, also the action of the 
 Presbyterian Ministers' Association and of the 
 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. — Annual 
 Report^ 1884 ; Foreign Missionary^ May, 1884. 
 
 Miss Sarah P. Barber. 
 
 Miss Barber, a native of New York, and a teacher" 
 in the Chickasaw Mission, died October 10, 1859. 
 "She was a Christian missionary of no ordinary 
 excellence. Her associates in the missionary work 
 bear honorable testimony to the fidelity with which 
 she always discharged her duties as a teacher, and a 
 much greater number of witnesses, both in the 
 
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 Indian country and in the circle of her acquaint- 
 ance in New York, can testify to her eminent piety 
 and devotion to the Redeemer." — Annual Report^ 
 i860. 
 
 Rev. Joseph W. Barr. 
 
 Mr. Barr departed this life in Richmond, Va., 
 October 26, 1832, of cholera, while on his way to 
 embark for Western Africa. He was the son of 
 the Rev. Thomas Barr, of Ohio, graduated at West- 
 em Reserve College, studied theology at Andover 
 and Princeton, and was in the thirtieth year of his 
 age when he died. He is spoken of as a man of 
 remarkable energy and devoted piety. His death 
 was regarded as a great loss to the missionary cause. 
 His memoir, prepared by the Rev. E. Swift, D.D., 
 was published at Pittsburg in 1833, and a few years 
 later it was published by the Board of Publication, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Miss Mary M. Baskin. 
 
 Died in Tucson, Arizona, May 30, 1892, Miss i\Iary 
 M. Baskin, for fourteen years teacher of the Occi- 
 dental School, San Francisco. In July, 1878, Miss 
 Baskin took charge of this school under the Occi- 
 dental Board. She was an experienced teacher and 
 soon grew to have a strange fondness for her little 
 brown pupils. Her painstaking efforts were rewarded 
 by their very rapid progress, especially in knowledge 
 of the Scriptures. She taught under many discour- 
 
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 Her school-room was always in the heart 
 of the Chinese quarters, and the surrounding's were 
 not pleasant nor healthful. Changes were frequent 
 among the families of her patrons. Some returned 
 to China and others went to work. Her advanced 
 class was taken away to form the new public school 
 and she missed them. Still, the new scholar found 
 her just as careful in instructing him as if he were 
 to be with her for years. She never gave up her 
 boys, even though they went to interior towns in 
 China, but sent and received letters from pupils in 
 Honolulu, the Eastern States and from China. 
 
 Miss Baskin was unusually well qualified as a 
 teacher of Chinese. She was decided in discipline, 
 but kind and helpful to all. '' Faithful " is the word, 
 more than all others, expressing her relation to her 
 work. When strength began to fail she was unwill- 
 ing to give the school out of her hands, and only 
 when loving friends urged rest did she consent to 
 take a vacation. In December she went to SoutheiTi 
 California. A friend, there, writes of her: ''We 
 talked of the home-going many times and she would 
 say, ' I feel as though I could stretch out my hand 
 and brush away the veil which hides it. ' One morn- 
 ing, after a sleepless night, she said: 'I could not 
 sleep, for I have been struggling to reconcile m3"self 
 to living without my work. It would be so much 
 easier to die.' " 
 
 She did not gain strength, and friends advised a 
 change to Arizona. But again hopes were disap- 
 pointed. After weeks of intense suffering she closed 
 her poor sleepless eyes upon earthly scenes to open 
 
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 them upon the glories of heaven, ' ' For so he giveth 
 his beloved sleep. " 
 
 On Saturday, June 5, all that was mortal of our 
 dear friend was laid away in hope of a glorious 
 appearing, when he shall come whom she so 
 delighted to serve. 
 
 Her work is done, her Saviour's will obeyed, and 
 she is with the King in his beauty. Our great loss 
 is her infinite gain. " He doeth all things well." 
 
 Oakland, June 12, 1892. M. D. Condit. 
 
 — Womaji's Work for Woman, August 18, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. Jennie A. Beall. 
 
 Mrs. Beall, wife of Rev. M. E. Beall, died at 
 Saltillo, Mexico, April 22, 1885, after a brief illness, 
 leaving a young infant. She had been in the mission 
 only about a year, was still in the morning of life and 
 had every hope of a long period of consecrated ser- 
 vice for the Master. Conscious of her danger in her 
 last hours, she still exhibited in great degree the 
 serenity and peace of the Christian hope, and died 
 with kind messages and exhortations upon her lips. 
 She adds another to the cordon of missionary graves 
 which now belt the globe, and which remain as 
 pledges for the continued conquest of the Church in 
 all unevangelized lands. — Foreign Missionary, June, 
 1885. 
 
 Miss Catharine L. Beatty. 
 
 Miss Beatty arrived in India in 1862, and was 
 there connected with the Christian girls' school at 
 
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 Dehra. Her devoted and successful efforts in this 
 school for several years called forth the admiration of 
 her missionary associates, but were interrupted by the 
 illness which led to her returning to this country in 
 October, 1869, and resulted in her death at Allen- 
 town, N. J., December 24, 1870, after severe suffer- 
 ing- patiently borne. In her last days she was sus- 
 tained by the blessed hope of entering into the rest 
 that remaineth to the people of God. — Record^ Feb- 
 ruary, 187 1. 
 
 Rev. a. L. Blackford, D.D. 
 
 In July, i860, Dr. Blackford and wife joined the 
 Brazil Mission, where they labored fifteen years, and 
 then on account of the failing health of Mrs. Black- 
 ford they resigned their connection with it. In 188 1, 
 Dr. Blackford, after acting for some time as agent of 
 the American Bible Society in Brazil, was reap- 
 pointed by the Board. In 1890, ill health required 
 his return to the United States. He died at Atlanta, 
 Ga., May 14, 1890, while preparing to go to the 
 General Assembly at Saratoga. He was at the time 
 Moderator of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church 
 in Brazil, and appropriate action expressive of the 
 deep sorrow of the General Assembly on hearing of 
 his death, was taken by that body. '' Dr. Blackford 
 was the oldest Protestant missionary in Brazil ; his 
 labors extended over a period of thirty years, and his 
 whole life was given to the advancement of the 
 interests of missions in Brazil. " — Historical Sketches. 
 
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 Rev. Edward Boeklen. 
 
 Rev. Edward Boeklen went to Liberia in 1866, and 
 died of the African fever September 28, 1868. He 
 was a German by birth, and the missionaries all con- 
 cur in the opinion that he neglected the proper care 
 of his health and thereby contracted the sickness 
 which terminated his life. He was a man of choice 
 gifts and earnest child-like piety. His removal is a 
 serious loss to the high school of which he was 
 Superintendent, as well as to the people of Liberia, 
 but it was doubtless great gain for him to die. His 
 great desire to be with Christ raised him above the 
 fear of death. — Annual Report^ 1869. 
 
 Rev. Burgess B. Brier. 
 
 The death of Rev. B. B. Brier, of our Gaboon and 
 Corisco mission, which occurred at Batanga, West 
 Africa, on May 14, 1890, was sudden and unexpected. 
 Some time before he had been ill with la grippe, and 
 had scarcely recovered his strength. Moreover, 
 there was much sickness among the natives, the pre- 
 vailing influenza and other diseases prostrating many. 
 Though not a trained physician, Mr. Brier had some 
 knowledge of medicine, and with characteristic 
 energy did all in his power to relieve the suffering, 
 thereby severely taxing his already depleted strength. 
 On the morning of May 6, he took a ride with his 
 wife along the beach, greatly enjoying the refreshing 
 sea breeze. Scarcely had he reached home, how- 
 ever, when he was seized with a chill, which proved 
 
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 to be the precursor of African fever. His beloved 
 wife, herself in feeble health, did all in her power 
 with the assistance and remedies within reach to 
 arrest the fever, but in vain. He rallied once or 
 twice sufficiently to encourage the hope of recovery, 
 but finally sank under the power of the disease. 
 
 Mr. Brier was a graduate of Wabash College and 
 McCormick Theological Seminary, and a member of 
 Crawfordsville (Indiana) Presbytery. His testi- 
 monials from college and seminary were of a high 
 order both as to piety and scholarship. In applying 
 to the Board for appointment as a foreign missionary, 
 he expressed his readiness to go to any field, and 
 when the claim.s of Africa were presented, after 
 thoughtful and prayerful consideration, he replied, 
 ' ' I am ready to go to Africa, I think, with my whole 
 heart." He reached Gaboon with his young wife on 
 June 28, 1889, and after a few months spent at that 
 port of entry he pushed north to Batanga, where the 
 Board, after consultation with the German authori- 
 ties, had determined to establish a station on the 
 foundation already laid by our native workers under 
 supervision from Benita. The young missionary 
 entered with great earnestness upon his work, apply- 
 ing himself closely to the study of the Benga lan- 
 guage, and dispensing the ordinances w4th the aid of 
 Itongolo, a trusted native licentiate. From the first 
 he wrote enthusiastically of the field where his lot 
 had been cavSt, counting it a great privilege to labor 
 for Christ in West Africa. On April i, he wrote, 
 " I have the hearts of my people, and they acknowl- 
 edge me as their leader and counsellor." On April 
 
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 29, he penned his last letter to the Board, which 
 reached New York just before the news of his death 
 was received. In it he says, ''We are getting along 
 quietly, making some progress in the language. I 
 have prepared a sermon for next Sabbath which I 
 have written wholly myself in Benga." He had the 
 joy of receiving a goodly number into the fellowship 
 of the Church during his brief ministry, and was 
 looking hopefully for still larger accessions when the 
 summons came. His heart was especially set on 
 reaching the people in the ''bush," as the region 
 lying back of the coast is called, and at his own ex- 
 pense he had sent a native Bible-reader to break to 
 them the bread of life. He was happy and contented 
 in his lot, not only uttering no complaint, but writ- 
 ing enthusiastically of his home and his work. His 
 precious dust lies in the little cemetery which he had 
 laid out on the mission ground on the hill, while his 
 ransomed spirit has entered in through the gates into 
 the city to be forever with the Lord. Mrs. Brier, 
 wonderfully sustained during the terrible ordeal of 
 the past few months, has returned to her father's 
 home in Indiana, which she had left little more than 
 a year ago to share the joys and the sorrows of her 
 beloved husband in his mission life in Africa, and to 
 whose efficient cooperation in that work he bore lov- 
 ing testimony. 
 
 Notwithstanding the trying climate of the African 
 coast, the death of Mr. Brier is the first which has 
 occurred in our mission for a number of years past 
 which can justly be ascribed to climatic causes. It is 
 a severe blow to the mission in the present depleted 
 
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 condition of the force, but God will not suffer that 
 ripe field to remain without a reaper. Two ordained 
 missionaries, one of them also a physician, are 
 already under appointment for Batanga, and although 
 deeply impressed they are far from being daunted by 
 the shadow which has fallen upon the mission. 
 While remembering in our prayers the bereaved wife 
 and stricken households in this country, let us also 
 make mention of those who go nobly forth to pick up 
 the fallen sickle and reap for the Lord of hosts. 
 
 Soon after the death of Mr. Brier, Rev. W. C. 
 Gault visited Batanga and at the urgent request of 
 the session administered the Lord's Supper. Eleven 
 persons were received into the fellowship of the 
 Church, having been baptized on the basis of their 
 own confession of faith. — CJnirch at Home and 
 Abroad^ September, 1890. 
 
 Mrs. W. a. Briggs, M.D. 
 
 Mrs. Briggs died at Lakawn, Laos, March 22, 
 1 89 1, soon after the arrival there of herself and hus- 
 band. ''She was a missionary of great promise in 
 whom not only her home friends in Nova Scotia, but 
 those in New York, where she took her medical 
 course, had the highest confidence. Her death re- 
 sulted from rapid development of pulmonary tuber- 
 culosis," originating in a cold caught immediately 
 before sailing from America. — Woman's Work. 
 
 Mrs. Mary M. Bryan. 
 
 Early on Thursday morning last (May 19, 1891), 
 there passed from earth to heaven one of God's dear 
 
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 children. The long residence of the Dashiell family 
 in this community (Lakewood, N. J.), the prominence 
 of the father in all the church and social interests of 
 our village, the character, work, life work of the 
 daughter herself, Mrs. Bryan, all combine to draw out 
 the heartiest sympathies of their wide circle of friends. 
 Mrs. Mary M. Bryan was born in Stockbridge, 
 Mass., May 27, 1858, and was ten years of age when 
 the family removed to Lakewood, and here she grew 
 up to womanhood, here she united herself to the 
 Church of Christ on July 2, 1876, and here, in Octo- 
 ber, 1882, she was married to the Rev. A. V. Bryan, 
 in the church of which her father was then pastor. 
 It was not the ordinary life of comfort and home pri- 
 vileges these two then entered upon, for they sailed 
 shortly after their marriage as missionaries to Japan, 
 gladly leaving the old life behind them if only they 
 could do something for the Master. There they 
 remained until a year ago, when they returned to this 
 country for a much-needed rest. Their work in 
 Japan chiefly centred itself at the city of Hiroshima, 
 where Mr. Bryan was sent to found a mission station, 
 and where his wife gathered a large Sabbath-school 
 of 200 children about her, to whose training she 
 gave her strength and exceptional powers of teach- 
 ing until prostrated by a severe attack of typhoid 
 fever. It was during their residence in Tokio that 
 she lost her first-born son, Alfred Dashiell, a very 
 bright and promising lad three years old, and doubt- 
 less this loss as well as the following hard years of 
 joyful labor in winning souls to Christ from the igno- 
 rant around her were the means of bringing her to 
 
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 that nearness to God and strong faith in his power to 
 comfort and help which came out so clearly in the 
 last months of her life. Her visit to this country 
 was largely made to recruit her health for further 
 work in Japan. But God ordered otherwise and 
 has called her up higher. After much suffering, 
 but with a conscious and clear mind and an unshaken 
 faith in her Saviour she passed away at the residence 
 of her mother-in-law, in Orange, N. J., sending 
 many loving messages from that bed of death to 
 friends at home and in Japan, serenely confident that 
 she would see and greet friends gone before her to 
 the heavenly home and committing her two children 
 as confidently to the care of a covenant-keeping God 
 who never fails to respond to the trust of his people. 
 Mrs. Bryan was wonderfully gifted in the direction 
 of music and of art, her powers were recognized 
 and largely appreciated at home and abroad, and at 
 the same time her nature was peculiarly adapted to 
 the work to which she was consecrated. Hers was 
 a sunny disposition, genial and bright, enabling her 
 quickly to make friends wherever she went. Her 
 mind was strong to grasp the truth and very ready 
 and gifted in the powers of expression, so that .she 
 quickly took rank among her co-laborers in the field, 
 and at once found herself the centre of a large circle 
 of influence among the Japanese, whose hearts were 
 hers from the first. That work to man's eyes is 
 ceased on earth. Her hands are folded and her lips 
 silent. Yet can any good work well begun ever 
 stop ? The souls she has won to Christ shall speak 
 for her. The seed of truth sown in faith shall yet 
 
28 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 bring forth their harvest, and being dead her influ- 
 ence shall yet the more increase by the power of him 
 who called her into his vineyard and she heard the 
 call and obeyed. — Rev. Charles H. McClellan. 
 
 Mrs. Stephen Bush, 
 
 Mrs. Bush, wife of Rev. Stephen Bush, of Siam 
 Mission, died July 23, 185 1. Her last days were full 
 of Christian joy and peace. *' In the full possession 
 of all her faculties," one of the missionaries wrote, 
 '^without one cloud to separate between her and a 
 present Saviour, she went down into the Jordan of 
 death singing hallelujah in the triumph of victory." 
 The Siamese have lost in her a faithful praying 
 friend; the mission a kind and exemplary fellow- 
 laborer, and her bereaved husband an affectionate 
 and beloved companion. — Aimical Report, 1852. 
 
 Albert Bushnell, D.D. 
 
 Advices from Africa, bearing date of December 3, 
 1879, have been received, containing the painful in- 
 telligence that on Tuesday night, the 2d of Decem- 
 ber, at 11.35 o'clock, within sight of the African 
 coast, on board the steamship Ainbriz^ the Rev. Dr. 
 Bushnell departed this life, after a brief but most 
 acute illness, the natural sufferings of which were 
 aggravated by the confinement, the noise, and the 
 motion of the steamer. On the previous Saturday he 
 sliowed signs of illness, and became prostrated by the 
 
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 heart difficulty which had ah*eady occasioned serious 
 anxiety on the part of his friends. On Sunday morn- 
 ing, his stateroom being insufficiently supplied with 
 the fresh air for which he was panting, the captain 
 kindly prepared for him a bed in the saloon, where, 
 attended by his wife, by Miss Janet B. Cameron (a 
 lady also going out to the Gaboon Mission), and by 
 the faithful physician of the steamer, he received all 
 the care and comfort that medical aid and the ten- 
 derness of the most profound love could furnish. On 
 Monday morning he was more comfortable, and 
 spoke encouragingly of himself ; but shortly after- 
 ward a cold, which he had contracted on the previous 
 Friday, developed into congestion of the lungs; he 
 became speechless, and on the following evening ex- 
 pired in the arms of his wife. It must have been 
 within a few hours after his death that the harbor of 
 Sierra Leone was reached. The American Consul 
 visited the ship and arranged for the burial service, 
 which was held in the afternoon at the Cathedral, 
 whither the precious remains were borne, the coffin 
 being draped with the American flag, and strewn 
 with flowers. Mrs. Bushnell was able to go to the 
 grave, sustained by that unfaltering faith which alone 
 has been her support through the trying experiences 
 which have at last culminated in the death of her 
 beloved husband ; and now, accompanied by Miss 
 Cameron, she has gone on to Gaboon, bravely en- 
 countering the sorrowful landing there, unsupported 
 by the presence of him whose return to the station 
 was so eagerly anticipated by the converts whom his 
 ministrations had raised up on that darkened coast. 
 
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 The death of Dr. Bushnell, painful and melancholy 
 as are its details, is the crown of a truly sublime life. 
 And while the instinctive wish is that he might have 
 been spared to behold again the scene of those labors 
 to which his soul was knit in the bonds of sacred 
 affection, the circumstances under which his decease 
 has been accomplished emphasize in the most solemn 
 and conspicuous manner the Christian and chastened 
 heroism by which he was animated in the service of 
 God. The sweetness and gentleness of his refined 
 demeanor did not conceal the glowing spirit of the 
 martyr that burned in his breast. That exquisite 
 blending of courtesy with consecration (a union of 
 traits that made him an honored guest in many 
 homes of England, Scotland and America, as well as 
 an object of deep respect among the officers of the 
 French Navy frequenting the harbor of Gaboon) ; the 
 whole course of his self-denying ministry on the 
 west coast ; the assiduous literary labors undertaken 
 for the propagation of the Gospel in the vernacular 
 among the tribes of equatorial Africa ; and, above 
 all, the illumination of his countenance as he waved 
 adieu last autumn from the steamer's deck to those 
 who knew, as well as he knew, that he was going 
 to lay down his life ; this finished record of character 
 and achievement has now been signed and sealed of 
 God in the manner of his servant's death. From 
 that fresh and sacred grave at Sierra Leone comes 
 the most pathetic and the most soul-stirring argu- 
 ment for the consecration of new men to the foreign 
 ministry of the Church, and especially, at the present 
 moment, for the manning of the Gaboon Mission. — 
 Foreign Missionary^ February, 1880. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 3i 
 
 Rev. John Butler. 
 
 The death of Mr. Butler, together with that of his 
 little son, on the 12th of October, 1885, from cholera, 
 has called forth many expressions of sorrow from his 
 fellow-missionaries and others. So many separate 
 accounts of his death have been received that we can 
 only epitomize them in these columns, and add our 
 own tribute of high regard for the great worth of the 
 deceased. The family, with other missionaries, had 
 attended the missionary meeting at Nanking, and 
 were returning down the Yangtse in open boats. 
 While at church on Sabbath morning, at Chinkiang, 
 the little son was taken with cholera, from which he 
 died after about sixteen hours. Meantime the father 
 also was attacked, and died ten hours later. Medical 
 attendance had been secured, and all kindness and 
 assistance were shown by our OAvn missionaries and 
 those of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, residing at 
 Chinkiang; but no earthly sympathy or aid could 
 avail much in an hour so dark to the dying or the 
 bereft. Through the mercy of God the wife and the 
 younger child were spared, and no other deaths oc- 
 curred. Mr. Butler was connected with the Christian 
 Commission during the late war, and rendered good 
 service among our soldiers. After graduating at 
 Princeton Theological Seminary, he was sent as a 
 missionary of the Board to China in 1868. He was ap- 
 pointed to the city of Ningpo, and there he has lived 
 and labored continuously, with the exception of a visit 
 to this coimtry in 1881. Fourteen years of fraternal 
 correspondence, together with a visit, some years 
 
32 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 since, to his mission station, had won our high esteem 
 and affection for the departed, and onr sense of loss 
 is deep and genuine. He was genial and sunny, and yet 
 thoroughly consecrated. Next to piety stood his un- 
 failing common sense. He was a conscientious worker, 
 husbanding his time as one who should give account. 
 
 Rev. W. S. Holt, long associated with him in the 
 Ningpo Mission, says of him, very justly : " He was 
 an earnest, devoted missionary. He had made him- 
 self familiar with the dialect of the Ningpo people, 
 and was well known and highly esteemed among 
 them as a preacher of the Gospel. He had the con- 
 fidence and love of the native pastors, in whom he 
 took a fraternal interest, trying to enter into their 
 thoughts and feelings, and so be able to sympathize 
 with and assist them. In his counsels with the mis- 
 sionaries, concerning the questions before us, he was 
 cool, careful, thoughtful, seeking always those meas- 
 ures which should give stability to our work and de- 
 velop the piety of the Church. He also did good ser- 
 vice in training young men for the position of 
 preachers and helpers. Probably no mission in China 
 is better equipped with a well-trained native pastorate 
 than the one with which our late brother was con- 
 nected. He took great interest in education in every 
 form and grade, but perhaps the Presbyterial school, 
 carried on by the Presbytery of Ningpo, for the edu- 
 cation of the sons of Christians, was his chief pride. 
 Good service was also rendered by him in helping to 
 prepare a Christian literature for the mission. But 
 the chief part of Mr. Butler's work as a missionary 
 was preaching the Gospel to the heathen." 
 
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 Mr. Holt pays a high tribute to the deceased as an 
 itinerant preacher. He visited the cities and villages 
 of the plain of Chinkiang Province, navigated the 
 rivers and canals, traversed mountains on foot, in 
 chairs, in miserable boats, in all kinds of weather, in 
 perils oft, with little physical comfort, but with the 
 great satisfaction which labor for the Master gives. 
 Working upon the foundations laid by his predecessors 
 in the oldest mission field in Central China, and lay- 
 ing the foundations for new work in regions hitherto 
 unvisited, he delighted in the Gospel as the power of 
 God unto salvation, and he had the pleasure of seeing 
 it bring salvation to many heathen hearts. — Foreign 
 Missionary^ February, 1886. 
 
 Rev. John Byers. 
 
 Mr. Byers was born in the north of Ireland, of 
 pious parents, who from his infancy dedicated him to 
 the ministry. With this object in view he was sent 
 to the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he 
 graduated with honor in his seventeenth or eighteenth 
 year. I think that it was during his college course 
 that, knowing he was designed for the sacred minis- 
 try, and feeling at the same time a repugnance to 
 entering it without a change of heart, which he felt 
 he did not possess, he determined to avoid it 
 altogether. Still the wishes of his parents seemed to 
 weigh heavily on his mind, and to carry out his pur- 
 poses least offensively to them, he made up his mind, 
 with their approbation, to go to America. His 
 father furnished him with what means he could, and 
 
34 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 when he left his native land, I think his intention was 
 to engage in some mercantile business on his arrival 
 in the United States. During the voyage he was 
 much occupied with serious thoughts, which appear 
 to have disturbed his future plans. He landed in 
 New York in the fall of 1848, and as he afterwards 
 remarked, about the same time that the party of mis- 
 sionaries he was afterwards to join sailed for China. 
 
 Soon after his landing he became acquainted with 
 Rev. J. W. Alexander, D.D., through whose instru- 
 mentality he found himself, within ten days after his 
 arrival, on the way to Princeton, to enter the Theo- 
 logical Seminary. He became a member of Dr. 
 Alexander's church [whether by letter from home or 
 by profession at a future period he did not say — I sup- 
 pose the former, from the fact of church-membership 
 being required in order to enter the Seminary], but 
 his own conviction was that he never met with a 
 change of heart till his first year in the Seminary. 
 He found himself, as he said, in a different atmosphere 
 from what he had ever before been in. Whatever 
 may have been the change, the principles of religion 
 seem to have taken at this time a more deep hold of 
 his quiet yet earnest spirit. In his studies, which he 
 loved now both for their own sake and the relation 
 which they had to his future course, he seems to have 
 embarked with intense zeal. Trusting too much to 
 what he supposed was a good constitution, he soon 
 found himself a dyspeptic, with its accompanying fits 
 of melancholy. His zeal to engage in the work 
 which he had before avoided seemed to have led him 
 to the choice of the Foreign Missionary field. After 
 
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 completing his three years' course, and having been 
 appointed a missionary to Shanghai, China, he left 
 on a visit to his parents in his native land. After 
 spending nearly a year visiting his native land, and 
 portions of England and Scotland, during which time 
 he was married, he embarked again for the United 
 States, and soon sailed for Shanghai, China, where 
 he arrived August, 1852. 
 
 He gave himself to the study of the Chinese lan- 
 guage with what he aftenvards styled a miserly feel- 
 ing, too grasping and greedy in what was, to a proper 
 extent, commendable. It was not long, however, 
 before symptoms of pulmonary disease were de- 
 veloped. He lost strength rapidly, and, under medi- 
 cal advice, it was deemed best that he should return 
 to the United States. But he did not survive the 
 voyage, dying on May 7, 1853, a few days before the 
 ship arrived at New York. His remains were in- 
 terred in this city. His bereaved companion, a lady 
 held in high esteem, was received with warm sym- 
 pathy, and after some time she returned to her native 
 country. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph K. Wight, with whom Mr. Byers 
 was associated at Shanghai, whose sketch has fur- 
 nished the preceding particulars, says further : "It 
 was evident to all who knew him here, that God had en- 
 dowed him with a quick, vigorous and discriminating 
 intellect. He grasped knowledge quickly and thor- 
 oughly. His judgment was clear and good, and for 
 a man of his age uncommonly trustworthy. Even in 
 matters new to him which came soon after his arrival, 
 he soon saw and imderstood what course was best to 
 
36 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 be pursued. In disposition, he was gentle ; he was 
 neither rough nor forward; neither rash nor stub- 
 born ; and yet he was not easy and inactive, but full 
 of strong and earnest feeling ; ready, where judgment 
 and Christian principle sanctioned, to push forward 
 in any good work. His piety took in some measure 
 the shape of his disposition. It was practical, ex- 
 tending to his whole hf e, yet not officious ; still it was 
 earnest, and had possession of his whole nature. 
 Practical duties were performed not merely as duties, 
 but as the result of the inner life. His rehgion 
 welled up from a heart living by faith in the Son of 
 God, and was manifest, not so much because his ob- 
 ject was to manifest it, as because it existed ; because 
 the truth was loved and felt, and operated on the out- 
 ward life ; because out of the abundance of his heart 
 his mouth spoke. It was seen in his face and con- 
 duct; in the constant spiritual conflict and final vic- 
 tory even over the last enemy, death, when in peace 
 he went home to God." — ■/. C. L. 
 
 Rev. William Calderwood. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Calderwood, with other missionaries, 
 sailed from Boston for India July 17, 1855, and 
 reached their assigned station at Saharunpur in De- 
 cember. Mr. Calderwood was a minister of the Re- 
 formed Presbyterian Church, and sustained the same 
 relation to the Board as the other missionaries of 
 that Church in India. The year before his death he 
 became a member of the Presbytery of Lodiana. 
 After a long and faithful service he departed this life 
 
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 at Lodiana May 22, 1889, in the sixty-fifth year of his 
 age and thirty-fourth of his ministry. — Annual Re- 
 port, 1890. 
 
 Mrs. Lizzie Greenleaf Calderwood. 
 
 Mrs. Calderwood, wife of Rev. WilHam Calderwood, 
 of the mission in India, died August 15, 1859. Her 
 amiable disposition, her unaffected missionary zeal 
 and her humble and exemplary piety secured for her 
 the warm regard of her missionary companions who 
 mourn over her early removal from their ranks. — 
 Annual Report, i860. 
 
 A brief memorial of Mrs. Calderwood by her hus- 
 band was published by the American Tract Society. 
 
 ' ' All could easily see her courageous patience, but 
 all might not observe the form of one like the Son of 
 God walking in the midst of the fire with her, bend- 
 ing over her, comforting her so sweetly that even tears 
 of joy were brought to her eyes. ' Is Jesus with you ?' 
 I asked. Not in a whisper, but in so loud and cheer- 
 ful a voice that every one in the room was startled, 
 she replied, ' Yes, he is. ' Shortly after this, with an 
 unusual effort, she turned herself from her right to 
 her left side, so that she could extend her right hand, 
 saying, ' Now I am going home ; come. Lord Jesus, 
 come quickly.' These were her last words. Then 
 shaking my hand with an energy that quite surprised 
 me, she smiled, much as if we were parting only for 
 an afternoon. Two hours later she sank to rest, or 
 rather rose to glory. " 
 
38 necrological record 
 
 Rev. Joseph Caldwell. 
 
 This veteran missionary died at Landour, India, 
 June 3, 1877, after a short illness. Mr. Caldwell left 
 the United States December 29, 1837, for Calcutta, 
 which he reached in due time. He had therefore 
 been in India nearly forty years, having never re- 
 turned in all this time to his native land. He was a 
 member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and 
 in accordance with the wishes of that body he was 
 designated to Saharanpur, where Rev. J. R. Campbell 
 of the same Church was stationed. Mr. Caldwell was 
 twice married. He leaves a widow and several 
 children in India ; a son is in the United States study- 
 ing in one of our colleges. Rev. R. Thackwell, in 
 simply communicating the notice of his death, says: 
 ' ' He was a good man, with much of the spirit of 
 Christ," and adds, " Our old men are dropping off 
 fast. Warren and Caldwell gone, and who knows 
 how soon the rest will follow ? Humanly speaking, we 
 may expect death to make sad havoc in our ranks be- 
 fore long and we have no reinforcements to fill up the 
 gap." — Foreign Missionary^ August, 1877. 
 
 Mrs. Jane Caldwell. 
 
 Mrs. Caldwell, wife of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, died 
 at Saharanpur, India, on the 8th of November, 1839. 
 The Missionary Chronicle of April, 1840, pays a brief 
 but high tribute to her excellence as a Christian 
 woman and her qualifications for usefulness. 
 
 *■ ' She anticipated a fatal termination to her disease 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 39 
 
 (a fever), but was perfectly resigned and well sup- 
 ported by the grace of Christ Jesus. She was a truly 
 estimable woman, as all can bear witness who were 
 well acquainted with her. A more unaffected and 
 humble-minded follower of Christ we have seldom 
 known. She seemed also to be well qualified for use- 
 fulness, but her missionary course has been a brief 
 one. Such has been the will of the Lord."-—/. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Simeon Howard Calkoun. 
 
 The Syrian Mission and the cause of Christ have 
 met with a sad loss in the death of Mr. Calhoun, 
 which occurred at Buffalo, N. Y., December 14, 
 1876. 
 
 A year and a half ago the deceased returned with 
 his family from Syria, v/here he had labored in the 
 cause of Missions for about thirty-five years. He 
 had previously been employed about nine years by 
 the American Bible Society — having been the first 
 to represent that work as a special department of 
 service in the East. For a long period he had been 
 stationed at Abeih, where he had been instrumental 
 in training up most of the preachers and teachers 
 now employed in the S3^rian Mission of the Presb}^- 
 terian Board, besides several who are engaged by 
 other societies in Syria, Palestine and Egypt. 
 
 Even before the commencement of his missionary 
 labors and while he was engaged as tutor in Williams 
 College, he was noted for the peculiar simplicity and 
 ardor of his piety and for the great influence which 
 
40 NECROLOGICAL RFXORD 
 
 in this respect lie exerted on the minds of the stu- 
 dents. 
 
 These elements in his character especially quali- 
 fied him for his great work as an instructor of native 
 preachers in Syria. 
 
 •As was shown by his modest references to his 
 work in his eloquent speech in the last General 
 Assembly, all his instruction was eminently Scriptu- 
 ral. The Bible and the Catechism have never had 
 a higher place assigned them in any portion of the 
 Church at home or abroad than in the Syrian Mis- 
 sion ; and this may have been largely due to the 
 influence and example of the deceased. 
 
 He had good reason to love the Word of God. In 
 early life he had been skeptical, but had been fol- 
 lowed by the prayers of a Godly mother, who had 
 consecrated him to Christ and to the mission work at 
 his birth ; and he was at length constrained to search 
 the Scriptures for the revealed way of life. He 
 came to the Bible therefore on the start as a real 
 student, and he never ceased to be such till the day 
 of his death. 
 
 In his parentage he combined the Scotch and the 
 Protestant Irish elements, and on both sides he inher- 
 ited great strength of character. The family, in 
 which there were several sons, was a remarkable 
 one. All became men of influence and some of 
 them rose to high positions in our national councils. 
 It was often said of the deceased by his friends that 
 if he had not been a missionary he might have made 
 a statesman of the highest rank. No man could 
 ever look upon his commanding figure and strikingly 
 
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 noble face without feeling the strong magnetism of 
 his presence ; nor could one remain long with him 
 without feeling also the sympathetic glow of his 
 unfeigned piety. He was a far-sighted and sagacious 
 man, penetrating the character of those about him 
 very deeply ; and yet in all that related to himself 
 he had the simplicity of a little child. His whole 
 life was one of humility. He declined to receive hon- 
 orary degrees from the colleges, not from pride and 
 affectation, but from a sincere dread of ostentation. 
 
 It was my privilege two 3^ears ago to attend the 
 annual sessions of the Syrian Mission, at which he 
 presided. I can never forget those days. It was 
 easy to see that the reverence with which he inspired 
 me was felt by all his associates. He was revered 
 and deeply loved as a prudent counselor and a 
 father. At one of the closing prayer meetings he 
 read the Scriptures and followed with some remarks 
 on the reality of Heaven and the fact that if per- 
 mitted we should meet the New Testament worthies 
 of whom he had read — this one and that one — and 
 instead of communing with them in thought across 
 the abyss of eighteen centuries we should greet 
 them as brethren by our side. This anticipation, 
 which then seemed almost to irradiate his face, has 
 now become to him a blessed reality. 
 
 He spoke even then of the fact that he had 
 reached the limits of three-score years and ten and 
 could not expect a long service ; and since that time 
 I have often heard him speak of the uncertainty 
 which rested upon all his future except that which 
 lay beyond the grave. 
 
42 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 His influence in Syria was very great among all 
 classes. Not only the American missionaries, but the 
 English and German residents revered him and fre- 
 quently resorted to him for counsel. Natives, too, 
 of whatever religious faith, honored him with im- 
 plicit faith. It is. easy for those who know the deep 
 love of the native Christians of Abeih to predict that 
 the sad tidings of his death will make the place a 
 Bochim of sincere grief. 
 
 Those who were not of his faith also honored him. 
 A striking proof of this fact was given at the time of 
 the Druse massacre, fifteen years ago. Deir el 
 Komer and other adjacent villages were drenched 
 with the blood of the murdered Maronites, and it 
 seemed probable that not only natives but mission- 
 aries in Abeih and the vicinity would share the same 
 fate. On all sides, therefore, the Maronites hastened 
 to the house of Mr. Calhoun with their treasures, 
 while they fled to such resorts as they could find. 
 These were left without receipt or registry with the 
 confident belief that all would be safe. When at 
 length a French fleet appeared in Beirut harbor and 
 the Druses were panic-stricken, they also came to the 
 same asylum and with the same implicit trust. 
 
 Unbelieving critics and croakers may sneer at 
 missionaries and their so-called bootless work, but 
 such attestations of their influence as these should at 
 least silence all cavils of professed friends of Christ. 
 
 But Mr. Calhoun's influence was not confined to 
 Syria. Many a traveler from Great Britain as well 
 as from this country had looked with admiration upon 
 the consecration of a truly great man to the quiet 
 
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 and unostentatious work of a missionary in a little 
 mountain hamlet of Syria. An American theologi- 
 cal professor had said that nowhere had he found a 
 riper scholar in the wisdom of the Great Salvation 
 than in this modest sage of Lebanon. The real 
 power and grandeur of the mission work were nobly 
 illustrated by such a life and work, and men of wealth 
 and of letters came down from Abeih as from a mount 
 of vision in which they had seen a truer and a nobler 
 side of human life. 
 
 In the American churches also Mr. Calhoun had 
 sown the seed of goodly influence both during his. 
 former visit and since his last return. The former 
 visit was made while the Syrian Mission was still 
 under the care of the American Board, which the 
 deceased had served for so many years and which to 
 the end he deeply loved. He then visited princi- 
 pally the churches of New England, in which he 
 was always welcomed with the highest appreciation. 
 
 During his later visit he has seen more of the 
 churches supporting the Presbyterian Board with 
 which he was in full accord ; and they too — many of 
 them — have seen his face and heard his voice and 
 witnessed his Godly walk and have thereby been 
 strengthened in their missionary faith and zeal. It 
 would be difficult to estimate the value of his speech 
 before the last General Assembly. It seems a strik- 
 ing providence that almost as his last work he should 
 have been permitted to stand up before the Chief 
 Judicatory of the Church and make such a testimony 
 and breathe upon its hundreds of ministers and 
 elders such a spirit. The speech was eloquent, but 
 
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 it was more ; it had a kind of inspiration. There 
 was a great man and a holy apostle behind it. There 
 was already in his pale face and tremulous voice a 
 sort of prophecy of the end which has now come ; 
 and the effect upon the minds and hearts of the 
 whole Assembly was very deep and very salutary. 
 It was his desire, then expressed, to go back to Syria, 
 ''if the Lord will," and there having finished his 
 course to be buried among his people. The desire 
 has not been granted him; but wherever his grave 
 may be he still lives in Abeih and will live for gener- 
 ations to come. 
 
 He was fond even to the last of looking out into 
 the future and enjoying, as if already come, the sure 
 triumphs of Christ's kingdom. His work was not 
 the mere drudgery of the day, but was eminently a 
 work of loving faith and confident expectation. His 
 outlook and place of prayer on the heights at Abeih 
 was not unlike that which Elijah occupied on the 
 summit of Carmel, a little farther down the coast ; 
 and like that prince of the prophets, he too has long 
 watched the little cloud in the horizon, believing 
 that the fullness of the divine blessing would surely 
 come. — Rev. F. F. Ellinwood^ Foreign Missionary^ 
 December, 1877. 
 
 Rev. Charles William Calhoun, M.D. 
 
 Dr. Calhoun was born in Syria, a graduate of 
 Williams College, and died after four years' mission- 
 ary service at Schweifat, near Beirut, June 22, 1883, 
 in the thirty-fourth year of his age. 
 
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 *'The brief dispatch which brought the tidings of 
 the death of Rev. Charles William Calhoun, M.D., 
 of the Syria Mission, was one of those sudden shocks 
 which, however frequently they befall this earthly 
 life, never lose their strangeness nor their depressing 
 influence. The deceased was the only son of the late 
 veteran of Syria, the Rev. Simeon Howard Calhoun, 
 w^ho, in the days of his venerable dignity and power, 
 the late Dr. William Adams was accustomed to call 
 * the Cedar of Lebanon. ' On this son the father had be- 
 stowed much careful and prayerful training, and upon 
 entering into his own rest had great satisfaction in 
 feeling the son would bear forward in the conquest of 
 Syria the ensign which the father had laid down. 
 
 " Dr. Calhoun, after completing his course both in 
 theology and in medicine, sailed for Syria in the 
 autumn of 1879, ^-nd was assigned by the mission to 
 the Tripoli Station, where until last year he was 
 eminently active and useful. For months past he 
 had experienced much difficulty from petty persecu- 
 tions of the local Turkish authorities, instigated by 
 a rival native physician. Whether the worriment of 
 this trouble had any influence in developing his dis- 
 ease is not known. It is more probable that the 
 great fatigue which he had encountered in a recent 
 tour through Northern Syria prostrated him with the 
 low fever which finally proved fatal. Dr. Calhoun 
 was the chief solace and support of his mother, who 
 had spent long years in the midst of active mission- 
 ary labor ; and three sisters, to whom he was a 
 brother beloved, and in counsel also a father, are 
 left to mourn his untimely loss. 
 
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 "The congenial and happy disposition of the 
 deceased made him a favorite both in this country 
 and in Syria. Just at the time of his death there 
 was increased hope that all the difficulties which 
 had embarrassed his work were speedily to be 
 removed, and that his usefulness would be far 
 greater than ever before. Seemingly in vigorous 
 health, he had reason to expect a long life in the 
 missionary work ; but, alas ! ' the battle is not to 
 the strong, nor the race to the swift.' In this case, 
 as in that of the late Rev. Charles McLaren, of 
 Siam, we confront the mystery of that providence 
 which seems often to strike down those who are 
 strongest and richest in promise of good." — Foreign 
 Missionary^ August, 1883. 
 
 Rev. James R. Campbell, D.D. 
 
 Dr. Campbell was a native of Ireland, but came to 
 this country in his youth. He was a member of the 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, and pursued his 
 studies under its direction. Appointed as a mis- 
 sionary, he arrived in India with his wife in 1836. 
 With the exception of a visit to this country, during 
 which he prepared for the press a w^ork on Missions 
 in Hindustan, published in Philadelphia in 1852, he 
 spent his life as a minister in faithful labors on 
 heathen ground. His death is thus referred to in the 
 i?^<:^r^ of January, 1863: 
 
 ''It is with great regret we have to record the 
 death of the Rev. James R. Campbell, D.D., of 
 Saharanpur, at Landour, India, on the i8th of Sep- 
 
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 tember, 1862. His illness was a gangrenous affection 
 of one of his feet, which caused extreme suffering, 
 but he was enabled to bear his sufferings with 
 patience, and he departed this life in the blessed 
 hope of immortality. He was in the sixty-second 
 year of his age, having been a missionary in India 
 over twenty-six years. He was greatly esteemed by 
 his brethren of the Lodiana Mission and other friends 
 in India, as well as by a large number of Christian 
 friends in this country. His death is a great loss to 
 the mission. He was a laborious energetic faithful 
 laborer in the vineyard, and one greatly useful in his 
 work. We mourn over his death, but we feel grate- 
 ful to God for the grace manifested in his life and 
 labors during so many years. 
 
 "Dr. Campbell's account of the death of Samuel, 
 a native catechist at Saharanpur, and his reflections 
 thereon, may well supplement his own brief memorial. 
 ' I asked him if he was afraid to die. " No, sir," he 
 said; " I am not now afraid. I am now fully recon- 
 ciled to the will of God. I do not wish to live longer 
 in this sinful world. " On being asked where his hopes 
 for salvation were placed, he replied emphatically, 
 " On Christ alone; he is the only Saviour, and I know 
 he will not disappoint my hopes;" and then, bursting 
 into tears, he said, "Oh, sir, how much I owe to 
 you ! You are the means of leading me to Christ, and 
 of instructing me and saving my soul." This was so 
 much more than I had expected, it was too much for 
 me, and we both wept together. At that moment I 
 thought that this was more than enough to compensate 
 me for all the trials I have ever been called to endure 
 
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 as a missionary. I could have changed places with 
 dear Samuel, to enjoy his happiness and assurance of 
 hope.' Examples like these are precious seals of the 
 favor of Heaven towards the missionary work." 
 
 Mrs. James R. Campbell. 
 
 On the 19th of March, 1874, Mrs. Campbell, widow 
 of the late Dr. James R. Campbell, fell asleep in 
 Jesus at Ambala, N. India. She was at the time of 
 her decease the oldest female missionary in the 
 Lodiana Mission. She first went to that country in 
 1835, and for a large part of her life was connected 
 with the station at Saharanpur, and had much to do 
 with the establishment and care of the orphanage in 
 that place. Mrs. Campbell spent about two years, 
 from 1858 to i860, in Elizabeth, N. J., for the educa- 
 tion of her children, having brought them to this 
 country for that purpose. — Foreign Missionary, June, 
 1874. 
 
 Rev. David E. Campbell. 
 
 Mr. Campbell was a native of Pennsylvania, born 
 in 1825, and a graduate of Marshall College and of 
 the Allegheny Theological Seminary. He went to 
 India with his wife in 1850, and was settled at Fut- 
 tehgurh, actively and faithfully engaged in the usual 
 missionary labors, until overtaken by the storm of 
 the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857. Mr. Campbell, his 
 wife, and their two youngest children (the oldest be- 
 ing absent from home at the time, and thereby 
 
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 saved), Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. John- 
 son, and Mr. and Mrs. McMuUin, were led to seek 
 safety by trying to reach Allahabad, a British station 
 250 miles lower down on the Ganges; but their voy- 
 age ended in their being taken prisoners and put to 
 death at Cawnpore, by orders of the rebel chief Nena 
 Sahib, on the 13th of June, 1857. They, in com- 
 pany with a large number of other prisoners, Eng- 
 lish officers, merchants, planters, and many of their 
 wives and children, were shot early in the morning 
 on the parade ground of that city. The history of 
 these terrible times has been so often written, that 
 no particular narrative need be given here. Mr. 
 Walsh's book, Memorial of tJie FitttcJigiLrJi Mis- 
 sionarics^ will, of course, be consulted by persons 
 who seek fuller information. — See Appendix^ Narra- 
 tive of Events at FutteJigurJi^ etc. 
 
 Mrs. Mary J. Campbell. 
 
 Mrs. Campbell, wife of the Rev. D. E. Campbell, 
 was a native of Ohio. Her portrait in Mr. Walsh's 
 book would lead one to feel assured that a sweet and 
 gentle spirit animated her; and her life was indeed 
 marked by great Christian excellence. She was ac- 
 tive in fulfilling her missionary duties, and equally 
 faithful as a wife and a mother. Always trying to 
 do the work of the Lord, yet shrinking from notice 
 or commendation; humble, conscientious, trusting 
 only in the Saviour, she, no doubt, found his grace 
 all-sufficient in the last hour. She was in her twenty- 
 seventh year when she was put to death at Cawnpore. 
 
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 Miss Mary M. Campbell. 
 
 Miss Campbell, of the Laos Mission, died February 
 8, 1 88 1. She was drowned on her return by boat 
 from Bangkok to Chiengmai. She was bathing at 
 the time of the accident, and noble efforts were made 
 to rescue her by Dr. Cheek, who in his effort sank 
 with her. He was rescued by others; but she was 
 lost. Miss Campbell was a graduate of Western 
 Female Seminary at Oxford, O., and arrived on her 
 mission field in 1879. She was a mo.st earnest and 
 successful missionary, one who was beloved by all 
 who knew her, both in the mission circle and among 
 the native Christians and pupils by whom her loss 
 will be severely felt. She was the daughter of Rev. 
 John A. Campbell, of Frankfort, Ind. The circum- 
 stances attending her drowning are given by Miss 
 Mary E. Hartwell in Foreign Missionary for May, 
 1 8 8 1 . — Foreign Missionary. 
 
 Rev. Oren K. Canfield. 
 
 Mr. Canfield was a native of Massachusetts, but his 
 home was in Morristown, N. J., where he was pur- 
 suing his preparatory and college studies. He 
 graduated at Nassau Hall in 1835; spent the usual 
 time in the Princeton Theological Seminary, and 
 went to Africa with Mr. Alward, as already mentioned 
 in his obituary notice. Dr. J. L. Day, whose pro- 
 fessional service was rendered to Mr. Canfield in his 
 last illness, said of him, ''God was pleased to give 
 Mr. Canfield strength and perseverance to overcome 
 
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 all the difficulties in the way of erecting- a new mis- 
 sion station. He was abundantly inspired with zeal 
 in the good cause." Mr. Sawyer, his colleague, wrote 
 of him, " He died on the 7th of May, 1842, at the 
 age of thirty-three, after an illness of seventeen days, 
 a peaceful and triumphant death. The last hours of 
 ' Brother Canfield were marked by resignation to the 
 will of God. More than once he asked those attend- 
 ing upon him if they had heard him murmur or com- 
 plain, and upon being answered in the negative, and 
 that he had borne his sickness very patiently, he in- 
 terrupted by saying, ' Not unto me, but all is to be 
 ascribed unto the praise and glory of His grace.' 
 Seldom, if ever, has there been one more delighted in 
 his work, or more encouraged with the prospect in 
 view; and no sooner is it made manifest unto him 
 that his purposes and desires are about to be thwarted 
 than he exclaims, ' The will of the Lord be done.' " 
 — /. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Edward P. Capp. 
 
 Mr. Capp left his station at Tungchow, China, in 
 his usual health to accompany Mrs. Capp and Mrs. 
 Crossette on their visit to this country for medical 
 relief, but he was attacked with severe illness soon 
 after the voyag-e commenced, and when he reached 
 Yokohama it was considered best for him to remain 
 there in the hope of benefit from the change. In the 
 family of Mr. Loomis, one of our missionaries, our 
 friends received tender Christian sympathy and every 
 ministry of kindness, together with the best medical 
 
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 service; but all proved ineffectual, and he was called 
 from this life on the 26th October, 1873, in the em- 
 joyment of great peace to the end. He was a de- 
 voted missionary, fairly entered on his work after 
 many years of careful training, and large hopes were 
 cherished of his great usefulness — hopes that will yet 
 be fulfilled — for he being dead yet speaketh. Deep 
 sympathy is felt for his bereaved wife and for his 
 honored father and his family of Philadelphia. Mr. 
 Capp sailed for China in April, 1869. — Record^ Janu- 
 ary, 1874. 
 
 Mrs. M. B. Capp. 
 
 Mrs. Capp, whose death occurred on the 15th of 
 February, 1882, at Tungchow, China, has left a 
 vacancy in the mission circle not easy to fill. She 
 entered upon the mission work as a single lady in 
 1867, Miss M. J. Brown, but three or four years later 
 was married to the late Rev. Edward P. Capp. Hav- 
 ing become seriously impaired in health, she left her 
 mission field in company with her husband in 1873 
 on leave of absence for medical counsel. Even before 
 their steamer left Shanghai her husband was taken 
 ill and continually grew worse until soon after reach- 
 ing Yokohama he died, and the widowed wife herself 
 enfeebled by disease was compelled to pursue her 
 lonely journey homeward. After a year she returned 
 to China, chastened by her sore affliction, where her in- 
 fluence, like the perfume of cinished spices, became 
 only the more potent in opening the hearts of those 
 under her instruction as a missionary. Hers was a 
 
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 life of beautiful and consistent devotion. Being pos- 
 sessed of more than ordinary intellectual force, with 
 a large measure of common sense and practical 
 energy, she devoted them all to the work of instruct- 
 ing the young of her own sex. She varied the routine 
 work of the school-room by occasional visits to the 
 country villages, where she labored as opportunity 
 afforded among the Chinese women. During her ill- 
 ness, which was protracted, she suffered much from 
 pain and weakness, but always with a spirit of gentle 
 resignation; and when the final moment arrived, she 
 rendered up her account with joy and not with grief. 
 — Foreign Missionary^ Ju^y? 1882. 
 
 Mrs. M. B. Carleton. 
 
 The fact that our steps are often ordered by a will 
 higher than our own is illustrated in the death of 
 Mrs. Carleton, whose preparations had been made to 
 sail for India about this time in company with her 
 eldest son, who goes as a medical missionary of the 
 Board. Thirteen years ago, Mrs. Carleton, having 
 spent fifteen years as a missionary in India, returned 
 to this country for the purpose of educating her 
 family of six children, leaving her husband to the 
 faithful prosecution of his work on the field. 
 
 Establishing herself in Amherst, Mass., she 
 patiently pursued her purpose, supporting herself 
 partly by her own exertions while she endeavored to 
 train her sons and daughters for Christian usefulness. 
 With the exception of her two daughters, who have 
 been left at Wellesley Female College, she had 
 
54 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 accomplished her work and was preparing to rejoin 
 her husband after so long a separation, taking with 
 her one son, who was to labor in the same mission 
 and be able to perpetuate his father's influence when 
 he should be called to his rest. But some bodily ail- 
 ments intervened, the departure was delayed and 
 instead of the long ocean voyage came a summons 
 to the land of peace and rest. 
 
 Mrs. Carleton died at the house of an esteemed 
 friend in Brooklyn, November ii, 1881, with little 
 suffering and with a calm and satisfying hope. Her 
 remains were taken for interment to Barre, Vt. , 
 where she was born in 1825. — Foreign Missionary^ 
 December, 1881. 
 
 Mrs. Wilmot A. Carrington. 
 
 Mrs. Carrington died at Rio Claro, Brazil, Decem- 
 ber 26, 1 89 1. She was ill but nine days with a 
 malignant bilious fever, closely allied to the dreaded 
 yellow fever. Referring to her last moments, Mr. 
 Carrington writes: ''Her death was one of those 
 blessed in the Lord. With an imwavering trust in 
 her Saviour and without a regret that God had 
 chosen at this time and in these circumstances to call 
 her 'home,' with scarcely a struggle she sweetly fell 
 asleep in Jesus." Mrs. Carrington was the daughter 
 of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Emory, of Washington, 
 D. C. As a member of the Gurley Presbyterian 
 Church, of Washington, she was engaged in all forms 
 of religious activity, and as a foreign missionary her 
 life gave promise of great usefulness. (She had been 
 
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 on the field a little more than a year.) — Church at 
 Home and Abroad^ May, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. a. M. Gary. 
 
 On September 30, 1886, Dr. A. M. Gary and Rev. 
 D. G. GoUins, and their wives, sailed for Laos Mis- 
 sion. Mrs. Gary was not permitted to reach this 
 far-off field, but died of cholera while on her way 
 lip the Meinam river, midway between Bangkok and 
 Ghien Mai, January 17, 1887. She was highly com- 
 mended and greatly mourned. Her afflicted husband 
 and her sister, Mrs. GoUins, and husband continued 
 their journey to Ghien Mai. — Annual Report, 1887. 
 
 Rev. William Glemens. 
 
 Mr. Glemens was a native of Wheeling, Va., a 
 graduate of Washington GoUege, Pa., and of 
 Princeton Theological Seminary, and a missionary 
 for nine years in Gorisco, Western Africa. He was 
 a man of more than ordinary energy, great warmth 
 of heart, and piety the most sincere and devoted. 
 Accompanied by his equally devoted wife, he went 
 to Africa in September, 1853. Their health requir- 
 ing a change of climate for a season, they returned 
 in 1858 to this country on a visit, and went back to 
 Gorisco early in the next year. Mrs. Glemens' health 
 needing to be again recruited, she came home, leaving 
 Mr. Glemens at his post ; but it became necessary 
 for him also to seek health again in his native land. 
 
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 On the voyage he was taken to his rest on the 24th 
 of June, 1862, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, 
 and he was buried at sea in south lat. 2°, west long. 
 6° 27'. 
 
 Though compelled to take furloughs from his 
 work, Mr. Clemens' missionary life and labors were 
 but very little marked by the feebleness of ill health; 
 during most of the time, his health was good ; indeed, 
 so vigorous that he often went beyond the bounds 
 of prudence in his work, doing in Africa what few 
 men would attempt to do in this country. This was 
 particularly manifest in the building of his dwelling 
 house, in his journeys to visit the main-land tribes, 
 in order to obtain scholars for instruction at his sta- 
 tion in Corisco, and generally in all his work. What- 
 ever he undertook to do, he did "with a will," with 
 all his might. He was an earnest, whole-hearted 
 missionary. And his labors were not in vain. His 
 success in collecting scholars from several different 
 tribes, whom he hoped to prepare for usefulness 
 among their own people, was indeed remarkable ; to 
 secure it he had to make difficult and sometimes dan- 
 gerous journeys, remove prejudices, allay fears, and 
 win the confidence of heathen parents. It was a 
 cause of the greatest joy to him to see some of these 
 young men brought to a saving knowledge of Christ, 
 and devoting themselves to his service. In preach- 
 ing services, also, and in translating a part of the 
 Sacred Scriptures into Benga, Mr. Clemens bore a 
 full share. But it is impossible to give an adequate 
 view of the character, labors, and usefulness of this 
 good man — this able missionary, in this brief sketch. 
 
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 Let it be ended with the tribute paid to his memory 
 by his colleague, the Rev. C. De Heer, who was a 
 passenger with him in the same ship, likewise seek- 
 ing the restoration of health, and permitted to min- 
 ister to his comfort in his last illness. 
 
 " Again is our dear mission plunged into deep sor- 
 row by the loss of one of its most able and laborious 
 members. Answerable to his high calling as a mis- 
 sionary of the cross, our sainted brother executed 
 his office in season and out of season; indeed, by 
 night and by day, on the land and on the sea, the 
 mountain top and the valley, the chapel, as well as 
 the poor African hut ; in short, he was the missionary 
 everywhere. It was for Africa, long despised and 
 neglected Africa, that his noble Christian heart bled. 
 Honored with the privilege of becoming a servant to 
 * the servant of servants,' he sacrificed his all to win 
 them to Christ. To be the means of educating these 
 outcasts of the earth, he took his life in his hand and 
 went forward from tribe to tribe, planting the stan- 
 dard of the cross, proclaiming peace through the 
 blood of the Lamb, liberty to the captives." — /. C. L. 
 
 Rev. John Cloud. 
 
 Mr. Cloud was born and brought up in Western 
 Pennsylvania, but no information has been received 
 of his early life. He graduated at Jefferson College, 
 studied theology at the Allegheny Seminary, reached 
 Africa as a missionary December 31, 1833, and died 
 in April, 1834. He was a man of ardent tempera- 
 ment, which led him against the counsels of his col- 
 
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 leagues to undertake for missionary exploration a 
 journey of one hundred and fifty miles on foot 
 before he had fully recovered from sickness. The 
 unavoidable exposure and fatigue of the journey 
 prostrated his strength and brought on an attack 
 of dysentery under which he sank in a few days. 
 He is remembered as a man of loving heart, gener- 
 ous impulses, respectable talents and the sincerest 
 piety. His age was about thirty. — J, C. L. 
 
 Rev. Joseph G. Cochran. 
 
 The Rev. Benjamin Labaree, writing at Oroomiah, 
 December 4, 187 1, sends the following obituary 
 sketch of his lamented co-laborer, who died Novem- 
 ber 2, 187 1, aged fifty-seven years. It will be read 
 with great interest, and will confirm the impression 
 that one of the best missionaries has been called to 
 rest from his labors, and also that these labors were 
 eminently earnest and successful. The grace of God 
 is magnified in the life, the work, and the death of 
 this devoted missionary. May his example be kept 
 in view by all connected with the work of Christian 
 missions ! 
 
 Previous letters have informed you of the sad 
 providence which has bereaved us of our oldest as- 
 sociate in the missionary work, the Rev. J. G. 
 Cochran. 
 
 For twenty-three years he has taken a most active 
 part in the mission work among the Nestorians. He 
 brought to it unusual energy of character, that has 
 left its impress upon every department of labor in the 
 
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 field. His principal service has been in connection 
 with the Male Seminary in the training up of a 
 native ministry. It was a work to call out all the 
 enthusiasm of his ardent nature, and one to which he 
 had devoted himself most laboriously and faithfully 
 year after year for nearly a quarter of a century. At 
 first he was associated with Mr. Stoddard, but after 
 his death, the whole responsibility of the institution 
 devolved upon him alone. The fruits of his labors 
 in this department are the living men who are scat- 
 tered far and wide in Persia and Koordistan, repro- 
 ducing the evangelical teachings of their devoted in- 
 structor both in their lives and doctrines. 
 
 But his labors were by no means confined to in- 
 struction in the seminary. He took an active in- 
 terest in every department of the missionary work. 
 In connection with his seminary duties he was com- 
 monly engaged in the preparation of some text-book 
 or other work for the press. When not confined by 
 the seminary, no one was more enterprising in visit- 
 ing the villages. At all seasons and in all weathers 
 he was abroad on his tours of preaching and general 
 superintendence — tours the most widely extended 
 and fatiguing. During the two last winters especially 
 (the seminary not being in session), he had given 
 himself with the greatest devotion to spiritual labors 
 among the villages, and with most cheering evi- 
 dences, in several places, of the Spirit's blessing on 
 his labors. 
 
 Equally with the spiritual growth of the churches, 
 it was the desire of our brother to see a more com- 
 plete and formal separation of the evangelical Nesto- 
 
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 rians from the old Church — a more thorough sunder- 
 ing of every tie which linked the Reformed Church 
 with the corrupt and effete system out of which it had 
 gradually emerged. 
 
 To build up a Church untrammeled with any rem- 
 nants of a hierarchy or of superstition, organized for 
 self-direction and self-support, was the aim of his 
 missionary life, to which he gave himself with pecu- 
 liar earnestness in his later years. He was permitted 
 to see most decided progress in this respect. But the 
 year before he finished his labors among them, the 
 native churches, under his lead, made a new declara- 
 tion that placed them in an attitude of more com- 
 plete independence. In the matter of self-support, 
 too, they manifest an encouraging disposition to go 
 forward. It was a glad occasion to our brother last 
 winter when, after a long session of several hours, 
 with one of our native churches, in his efforts to 
 bring its members to united action, they voted to as- 
 sume the whole support of their pastor for the cur- 
 rent year. It was the first instance of such action, 
 and seemed to him the harbinger of better times. 
 
 The past year of Mr. Cochran's missionary life was 
 one of peculiar trial, as it was one of severe toil. 
 His whole family had been called home to America, 
 w^hile the exigencies of the missionary work con- 
 strained him to remain at his post. This trial of 
 separation, with the anxiety added to the heavy cares 
 that devolved upon him in the field, caused a severe 
 draught upon his mental and physical system. Un- 
 fettered by what some are pleased to call the Jiiii- 
 drances of family claims, his natural energy and his 
 
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 zeal for the cause led him to go to the full limits of 
 his strength, and, as we see now, even beyond it, in 
 a diversity of duties. While the seminary was in 
 session in the summer, he regularly gave from two 
 to three hours to instruction, besides the general 
 oversight of the institution, and occasional special 
 lectures and religious services. Every week he rode 
 to villages more or less distant, holding a meeting on 
 Saturday with the helpers of different districts, giv- 
 ing them instruction in homiletics, the bare prepara- 
 tion for which was a mighty duty. The Sabbaths 
 were spent in preaching, and in attending to any par- 
 ticular matters in the churches demanding the mis- 
 sionary's consideration. On Monday he returned to 
 his seminary studies. His associates remonstrated 
 against such an uninterrupted course of exhausting 
 labors. The checks and diversions of his own family 
 alone could have restrained him from this severe 
 strain upon all his powers. 
 
 In the midsummer he suspended his duties at the 
 station, and made a rapid journey to Constantinople, 
 to meet a part of his family (Mrs. Cochran and two 
 daughters) returning to Oroomiah, accompanied by 
 a considerable reinforcement of new missionaries. 
 With scarcely any delay at Constantinople, and with 
 no rest in fact, he started back, urgent to complete 
 the toilsome land journey before the cold weather 
 should set in. The conducting of so large a party, 
 with insufficient help, was a responsibility that rested 
 heavily upon him, and wore severely upon his already 
 strained nerves. 
 
 Symptoms of fever appeared a day or two before 
 
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 his arrival in Oroomiah, and as soon as the first ex- 
 citement of reaching us was over, he took to his bed 
 with what proved to be typhoid fever. In just a fort- 
 night after his arrival the disease did its work, and he 
 rested from his earthly labors. 
 
 When first made aware that his disease was proba- 
 bly the so often fatal typhoid fever, he was deeply 
 exercised. The possible issue of the disease was 
 forced upon his thoughts. On the one hand, he 
 clung tenaciously to life, and on the other, a sense of 
 his sins burdened him and made him shrink from 
 dying. But the struggle was only a short one. A 
 joyous assurance of complete acceptance with Christ 
 took possession of his soul. He called his wife and 
 daughters about him, and spoke to them freely and 
 calmly of their future in case he should be taken 
 away, leading them several times in prayer, and ask- 
 ing for different hymns to be sung. 
 
 From that time on, he was himself only at intervals, 
 but whenever his attention was arrested, his mind 
 was clear and full of assurance of pardon. At one 
 time a verse of a hymn was repeated, when he im- 
 mediately responded, reciting two verses of the hymn 
 '' Majestic sweetness," etc. At another time he was 
 asked if Jesus was near. He replied, "Yes." And then 
 rousing still more, he said with much effort, but with 
 peculiar emphasis, "Yes, yes, I do believe my sins are 
 all forgiven." In answer to other questions, he ex- 
 pressed a preference for many reasons to live, particu- 
 larly that he might begin a more consecrated life, to 
 live which he felt that the Saviour had communicated 
 to him a new and higher degree of power and grace. 
 
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 In the first stage of his delirium his mind labored 
 with the cares of the recent journey, but subsequently 
 he was for days almost wholly absorbed in the pros- 
 pective meeting of the preachers and delegates of 
 the native churches. (It had been appointed to take 
 place the day on which he died.) He often seemed 
 to be addressing the brethren, but the only words 
 really intelligible were, ''Go forward ;" and at another 
 time, not long before he died, "The subjects are ex- 
 hausted ; in the morning we may disperse. " Thus in 
 his last hours his distracted brain betrayed the deep 
 hold the prosperity of these Nestorian churches had 
 upon his soul. 
 
 Numbers of the native preachers, his pupils, had 
 gathered to attend the meeting alluded to, unin- 
 formed of the threatening nature of his illness. 
 Several of the more prominent ones acted as bearers. 
 At the funeral not a few gave expression to their 
 sincere grief, and paid most appropriate tribute to 
 the devotion and faithfulness with which their in- 
 structor had labored to bring them to Christ, and 
 afterwards to make them skillful preachers of his 
 word. — Record^ May, 1872. 
 
 Mrs. Deborah Plumb Cochran. 
 
 The death of Mrs. D. P. Cochran on the 9th of 
 March, 1893, at Oroomiah removes a venerable land- 
 mark in the mission to Persia. She left the United 
 States with her husband, Rev. Joseph G. Cochran, 
 for missionary labors among the Nestorians in 1847. 
 Thus for more than forty-five years she has been 
 
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 identified with the progress of the Gospel in that 
 land. Her arrival there antedates that of any other 
 missionary at present connected with the mission, by 
 more than twelve years. To those now in the field 
 she was a link with the pioneers of that mission, held 
 in high esteem and affection. 
 
 But Mrs. Cochran's life for this nearly half a cen- 
 tury of missionary service is memorable in other re- 
 spects than its long duration. It was eminent as 
 well for the choice qualities of Christian character 
 she brought to it, and for the untiring devotion with 
 which she was ready to spend and be spent in behalf 
 of the people she sought to win to Christ. If there 
 has ever been a missionary whom the Nestorians re- 
 vered and loved it was this devoted woman. She was 
 known among them as one who, for the love of Christ, 
 was willing to share the best she had, and almost the 
 very last, with the needy and distressed. And though 
 her patience was often sorely tried by thoughtless 
 and ungrateful recipients of her kindness, neither 
 patience nor kindness ever seemed exhausted. 
 
 During her husband's life she was his efficient coad- 
 jutor in the oversight of the school of the youthful 
 prophets under his charge at Seir. The tender moth- 
 erly interest and love she bestowed upon the wild rough 
 boys who, in early times especially, gathered there, 
 were a potent influence in the make-up of their char- 
 acters which has made very many of them preachers 
 and teachers of eminent usefulness. And in the 
 summer touring of her husband in the villages, with 
 all the hazards and discomforts attending it, she 
 bravely went with him, taking her flock of little ones 
 
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 with her. Here, too, her sweet and gentle manners, 
 her courtesy to the humblest peasant, her dignity on 
 all occasions, a quality highly appreciated among 
 Orientals, together with the order and propriety of 
 her model Christian family went far to win attention 
 and esteem for the truths of the Gospel urged by the 
 missionary preacher. 
 
 After the lamented death of Mr. Cochran, Mrs. 
 Cochran chose to remain in the missionary work, and 
 has been a much valued coworker in many lines. 
 For the last ten or more years she has been the 
 matron of the Westminster Hospital, under the care 
 of her son, Dr. J. P. Cochran. This institution has 
 earned a high reputation. It has had phenomenal 
 success. And it is no detraction from the honors due 
 the eminently skillful physician and surgeon in charge 
 to credit part of its high achievements to the matron's 
 most assiduous and competent cooperation. To the 
 inmates of the hospital she was an angel of light and 
 comfort, caring for their wants with, to them, un- 
 heard-of thoughtfulness and with a tenderness of 
 manner that in itself carried healing to their diseased 
 bodies. She was ever watchful, too, that the patients 
 in the institution should have their thoughts directed 
 to Christ as the Great Physician, reading to them her- 
 self very frequently from the Bible, or setting others 
 to read to them in the different languages called for. 
 Many are the Mohammedans who have entered there 
 for treatment with reluctance, from their contempt 
 and hate for the Christians, who have gone out with 
 greatly softened prejudices and a new and hopeful in- 
 terest in the Christian's Saviour. 
 
66 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 In January Mrs. Cochran had a stroke of paralysis, 
 and two months after she sweetly entered into rest. 
 
 Appropriate services were conducted in her memory 
 and many feeling addresses were made by leading- 
 men among the Nestorians, with whose school-day 
 life and early spiritual history Mrs. Cochran was 
 affectionately associated. When the remains were to 
 be borne from the college chapel to the conveyance 
 which was to carry them to the little missionary 
 cemetery at Seir, several of the old pastors and other 
 graduates of the school claimed the privilege of bear- 
 ing the casket themselves, as a parting, token of their 
 esteem and affection. It was such an honor as they 
 bestow on their bishops in the old church or on other 
 distinguished men in the nation. Long will the 
 memory of this devoted woman remain among the 
 people to whom she has ministered in the Saviour's 
 name ; and who can estimate the influence of her 
 shining character upon the generations to come, as 
 it diffuses itself downward from age to age? — B. 
 Labaree D.D.^ CImrch at Home and Abroad, June, 
 1893. 
 
 Mrs. Laura Condit. 
 
 Mrs. Condit, wife of Rev. Ira M. Condit, of the Mis- 
 sion in China, died December 5, 1866. She was 
 qualified for usefulness in a high degree and was 
 devoted to her Lord's work, so that her removal was 
 one of the mysteries of Providence. She was kept 
 in perfect peace in her last illness. — Aiuiual Report , 
 1867. 
 
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 Mrs. Hunter Corbett. 
 
 Mrs. Corbett, wife of Rev. Hunter Corbett, of 
 Chefoo, China, died March lo, 1873, after a pro- 
 tracted illness of nearly six months, in which she 
 had experienced great suffering, but had displayed a 
 rare patience inspired by the grace of God. Even 
 to the last she offered the fervent and effectual 
 prayer of the righteous for the Divine blessing upon 
 the mission work. 
 
 Miss C. B. Browning writes: " Last Sunday even- 
 ing, after a few hours of nervous restlessness, she 
 slept. We hoped she would awaken refreshed ; but 
 she slept on until nearly five o'clock Monday morn- 
 ing, when without a struggle or a groan she awoke in 
 heaven. She said to me only a day or two before : 
 ' How nice it would be just to go to sleep and wake 
 up at home safe on the other side.' She had her 
 wish, for so God took her home. Sunday evening 
 she said to her husband : ' I love you truly, but I 
 love Jesus more.' To the doctor she said, ' It is all 
 right'" — Annual Report^ 1874, and Record^ July, 
 1873- 
 
 Mrs. Hunter Corbett (2d), 
 
 Many hearts in all parts of the Presbyterian 
 Church will sympathize with the Rev. Hunter Cor- 
 bett, D.D., in the great loss to which he has been 
 called by the decease of his beloved wife and com- 
 panion in missionary labor. Mrs. Corbett was 
 attacked in the month of August (1888) with malarial 
 
63 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 fever, which continued its course persistently for 
 twenty-five days. She, however, rallied and had 
 been able to leave her bed with every prospect of 
 recovery. Accordingly on the morning of 3d of Octo- 
 ber Dr. Corbett started for the country for his autum- 
 nal tour among the churches, accompanied by Rev. 
 Thomas Marshall, of St. Louis, his convalescent wife 
 being left in the competent care of a trained nurse. 
 A relapse occurred soon after he left, and on the 7 th 
 of October, four days after his departure, Mrs. Corbett 
 was called to her rest. The bitter tidings were sent 
 to Dr. Corbett by a special messenger, who reached 
 him 150 miles in the interior. 
 
 The eulogium of Mrs. Corbett, like that of Dorcas 
 in the New Testament times, is written in the hearts 
 of the whole community. "It is touching," says a 
 recent letter, "to see the sorrow and tears of our 
 native Christians and school children. Not a few of 
 the heathen mothers in whose homes Mrs. Corbett had 
 visited or whom she had helped in sickness or poverty 
 have been deeply moved. Several inquired of one of 
 our elders if they would be allowed to show their sor- 
 row by going to her grave to weep and burn incense. 
 Her end was peace, all fear of death had passed 
 away." 
 
 One can well understand how the hearts of those 
 who know not the blessed life of the Resurrection or 
 the assurance, ' ' This day shalt thou be with me in 
 paradise," should wish to burn incense over such a 
 grave. There is something pathetic in the groping 
 of heathen minds and hearts which have been 
 touched by that which needs no translation into any 
 
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 language — the ministry of kindness and Christ-like 
 love — which speaks from heart to heart. This had 
 spoken out in Mrs. Corbett's missionary life even to 
 the heathen and they had felt its power. Not less 
 deep and heartfelt than this grief of heathen mothers 
 will, be that of all who knew Mrs. Corbett, whether 
 in the mission circle or among her acquaintances in 
 this country. — Church at Home and Abroad^ Janu- 
 ary, 1889. 
 
 Rev. Edward and Mrs. Alida Cornes. 
 
 Mr. Comes was a graduate of McCormick Semi- 
 nary, and with his wife arrived in Yokohama in June, 
 1868. The simultaneous death of both with their 
 eldest child on ist of August, 1870, is thus reported 
 by Dr. J. C. Hepburn : 
 
 ' ' The telegram will doubtless convey to you the 
 sad news of the death of our brother Cornes, his wife 
 and their eldest son, Edward. It occurred on the 
 afternoon of the ist of August. They had taken 
 passage in a small steamer — City of Ycdo — which plied 
 daily between this place and Yedo, and just as the 
 boat was leaving the wharf the boiler exploded, kill- 
 ing instantly our three friends. Their httle infant of 
 about three months old was asleep in the cabin, 
 lying on the transom, and escaped with only both 
 hands badly scalded. The infant is with us— we have 
 taken it as our own child if Mr. Cornes' friends in the 
 United States consent ; if not we shall send it to them 
 when it is large enough to go. Its hands are rapidly 
 improving and will heal without deformity I think." 
 
70 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Mr. Cornes was much liked in the Japanese school 
 where he was laboring and bade fair to be a very use- 
 ful man. The government officers connected with 
 the Board of Education have presented his estate — the 
 infant — with $800 as a tribute of their esteem for 
 him and sorrow at his loss. He had made very re- 
 spectable progress in the language and was looking 
 forward with much hope to being engaged more 
 directly at some day soon in his peculiar missionary 
 duties. He always regarded his connection with the 
 school merely as a temporary matter which he would 
 be glad to lay aside for the work of preaching the 
 Gospel. We mourn our loss and the loss of the mis- 
 sionary work in this country. — Record^ November, 
 1870. 
 
 Mr. M. S. Coulter. 
 
 Moses Stanley Coulter was born on the 30th of May, 
 1824, in Brooke county, Virginia. From this place 
 he removed, with his parents, to the State of Illinois, 
 where he afterwards resided. In the sixteenth year 
 of his age, he experienced, as he hoped, a change of 
 heart, and publicly professed his faith in Christ. 
 
 With a view to preparation for the work of the min- 
 istry, he entered Hanover College, Indiana, in May, 
 1844. He was here a diligent and successful student, 
 and stood high in point of scholarship, while his 
 Christian deportment and attention to his college 
 duties secured to him the esteem and affection of his 
 teachers and associates. He was graduated with his 
 class on the 19th July, 1848. 
 
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 About this time he was requested to take cliar^^e of 
 the printing press at Ningpo, and after careful con- 
 sideration of the question of duty, he accepted this 
 appointment. In February, 1849, he embarked for 
 China with his wife, a daughter of the Rev. Dr. 
 Crowe. They arrived at Ningpo on the 24th of 
 August. The Rev. Aug. W. Loomis, who for some 
 time had charge of the printing office, was just at this 
 time on the point of returning to the United States, 
 on account of the failure of his health. Mr. Coulter 
 was therefore called to enter immediately upon the 
 duties of this responsible situation. 
 
 Mr. Coulter, soon after his arrival, placed himself 
 under the care of the Presbytery of Ningpo, as a can- 
 didate, with a view to pursuing his studies preparatory 
 to the work of the ministry, to which he felt himself 
 called. At the same time he did not neglect the im- 
 portant work of learning the language in which he 
 hoped to preach. 
 
 Mr. Coulter, however, possessed other qualifications 
 which rendered him a most valuable member of the 
 mission. He possessed a sound and sober judgment, 
 but was ready cheerfully to yield to that of a majority 
 of his associates when it happened to differ from his 
 own. His modest and retiring disposition, his strong 
 attachment to his friends, his uniform gentleness and 
 kindness, endeared him to his associates, and, together 
 with his unostentatious devotion to the cause of 
 Christ, exerted a healthy influence in the circle of his 
 acquaintance. He secured, also, a large share in the 
 respect and affection of the Chinese with whom he 
 was in the habit of intercourse. 
 
72 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 When Mr. Coulter first arrived at Ningpo, his fine 
 manly form, and apparent strength of frame, seemed 
 to promise a long period of labor in the work upon 
 which he was entering. This hope, alas, was too 
 soon to be disappointed. He was repeatedly attacked 
 by disease attributable to the climate, recovering 
 health, and resuming his work, until in the latter 
 part of the summer of 1852, he was taken with sick- 
 ness, which eventually proved fatal. 
 
 On the night of Friday, the loth of December, a 
 change occurred, of which he was conscious, and 
 which he himself was the first to announce. On 
 Saturday, it was evident to all that the time of his 
 departure was at hand. Many friends called to bid 
 a last farewell. Occasionally his mind wandered, 
 and for a time, while in this half-unconscious state, 
 Satan seemed permitted to assail him. But his feet 
 were upon the rock, and the adversary, though per- 
 mitted to buffet, could not prevail against him. The 
 clouds passed away and he expressed his confidence 
 in the Saviour of sinners. 
 
 That was a gloomy day. In the morning an eclipse 
 of the sun, nearly total, darkened the heavens and 
 spread dismay among the heathen around who sought 
 by dismal sounds to avert the catastrophe they 
 dreaded. More sublime than the spectacle in the 
 heavens was that of the soul of our brother struggling 
 in the agonies of death, or rather triinnphing over 
 death, yielding to his grasp for a moment, but only to 
 mount up swiftly to those happy mansions which 
 death can never enter. As the sun soon again re- 
 sumed his wonted splendor, so it was felt, the soul 
 
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 then passing through the dark valley of the shadow 
 of death would soon be basking in the bright beams 
 of the Sun of Righteousness, never again to experience 
 the hidings of his face. At three o'clock on Sabbath 
 morning the 12th of December, 1852, his spirit took 
 its flight and passed, as we cannot doubt, to "brighter 
 worlds on high. " — J. C. L, 
 
 Mr. James Craig. 
 
 Mr. Craig joined the Lodiana Mission as teacher in 
 1838 and died August 16, 1845, in the forty-sixth 
 year of his age. He was a member of the Reformed 
 Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and was sent to 
 India by the Western Foreign Missionary Society. 
 In the Missionary Chronicle of February, 1846, there 
 is a warm tribute to his memory by Rev. James R. 
 Campbell, D, D. , who thus refers to his closing hours : 
 * ' About midnight he awoke out of a long sleep, and 
 supposing that his end was near, he formally in prayer 
 commended his wife and children to the Lord. About 
 four o'clock he was asked if Christ w^as precious now, 
 and never can we forget the expression of his counte- 
 nance and the heavenly joy that seemed to spread 
 over his face as an index of that ecstasy that filled his 
 enraptured soul. He then gave the last parting 
 grasp of the hand of Mrs. Craig, gradually lost all 
 consciousness of external things and sweetly and 
 calmly without a struggle took his departure for a 
 world of endless and unspeakable happiness. Mark 
 the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end 
 of that man is peace." — J. C. L. 
 
74 NECROLOGTCAL RECORD 
 
 Miss Margaret A. Craig. 
 
 The death of Miss Craig is reported from the 
 Lodiana Mission on the 15th of September, 1890. 
 She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Craig, 
 of Philadelphia, who were in India from 1838 to 1845, 
 he being a teacher, and where he died. Miss Craig 
 went to that country in 1870. Her illness was pro- 
 tracted and marked with great suffering calling forth 
 much sympathy. Rev. R. Morrison in writing of her 
 departure speaks warmly of her usefulness in her mis- 
 sionary life. — Church at Home and Abroad^ Decem- 
 ber, 1890. 
 
 Mrs. Ida D. Cranskaw. 
 
 Mrs. Cranshaw, of the Liberia Mission, was called 
 to her rest on the 29th of January, 1891. Though 
 not many years connected with the mission, yet her 
 consecration, efficiency and success in the school at 
 Warney, near Greenville, were remarkable, so that 
 her early death is a serious loss to our work, though 
 doubtless great gain to her. — Annual Report^ 1891. 
 
 Rev. J. Fisher Crossett. 
 
 The State Department at Washington has received 
 from the American legation at Pekin a report of the 
 death of this earnest and devoted man, who died 
 June 21, 1889, on board a steamer bound from 
 Shangh'ai to Tientsin. Mr. Crossett was for a number 
 of years a missionary of the Presbyterian Board, and 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 75 
 
 was looked upon by the Chinese with something 
 approaching- worship, owing- to his great simphcity 
 of character and his complete devotion to his work. 
 Faihng somewhat in health, he became the subject 
 of partial mental aberration, his mind taking the 
 direction of intense selt-exaction and a morbidly sen- 
 sitive conscience. He withdrew from the mission, 
 and was sent home with a hope of restoration to 
 health. His mental balance was partially restored, 
 but his great eccentricity rendered it necessary that 
 he should work upon his own lines and should reject 
 anything like regular support. He even went so far 
 as to restore to the Board considerable amounts of 
 what he had already received, which amounts, how- 
 ever, were handed over to his wife, who, left entirely 
 without support from him, was greatly in need of it. 
 The impossible conditions in which Mr. Crossett 
 lived rendered it absolutely necessary that he should 
 live alone, and many times he has been rescued by 
 brother missionaries from extreme suffering and pri- 
 vation. His influence over the Chinese would have 
 been great in any case as a simple result of his devo- 
 tion to their welfare ; but to the Oriental mind any- 
 thing that is morbid and savors of ascetic rigor comes 
 to be regarded as well-nigh superhuman, and elicits 
 a respect bordering on worship. 
 
 So far as we know, all the missionaries in Pekin, 
 whether of our own or other Boards, have sympa- 
 thized with Mr. Crossett in his work. While they 
 could not share his views or his methods, they have 
 held themselves ready at all times to aid him as far 
 as possible. All men who have known him, native 
 
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 or foreign, will mourn the loss of one of the noblest 
 and most self-sacrificing men of his time, and will 
 sympathize deeply with his wife, who while utterly 
 unable, after various attempts, to accompany her 
 husband in his peculiar work, has continually cher- 
 ished him in her heart and sustained him by her 
 earnest prayers. 
 
 We gladly append the tribute which our American 
 minister, Mr. Denby, has sent to the department at 
 Washington : 
 
 ''Mr. Crossett's life was devoted to doing good to 
 the poorest classes of Chinese. He had charge of a 
 winter refuge for the poor at Pekin during several 
 winters. He would go out on the streets the coldest 
 nights and pick up destitute beggars and convey 
 them to the refuge, where he provided them with 
 food. He also buried them at his own expense. He 
 visited all the prisons, and often procured the privi- 
 lege of removing the sick to his refuge. The officials 
 had implicit confidence in him, and allowed him to 
 visit at pleasure all the prisons and charitable institu- 
 tions. He was known by the Chinese as the "Chris- 
 tian Buddha." He was attached to no organization 
 of men. He was a missionary pure and simple, 
 devoted rather to charity than proselytism. He lit- 
 erally took Christ as his exemplar. He traveled all 
 over China and the East. He took no care for his 
 expenses. Food and lodging were voluntarily fur- 
 nished him. Inn-keepers would take no pay from 
 him, and private persons were glad to entertain him. 
 It must be said that his wants were few. He wore 
 the Chinese dress, had no regular meals, drank only 
 
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 water, and lived on fruit, with a little rice or millet. 
 He aimed at translating his ideal, Christ, into reality. 
 He wore long auburn hair, parted in the middle, so 
 as to resemble the pictures of Christ. Charitable 
 people furnished him money for his refuge, and he 
 never seemed to want for funds. He slept on a 
 board or on the floor. Even in his last hours, being 
 a deck passenger on the El Dorado^ he refused to be 
 transferred to the cabin, but the kindly captain, some 
 hours before he died, removed him to a berth, where 
 he died, still speaking of going to heaven, and 
 entreating the bystanders to love the Lord. 
 
 ''This man taught the pure love of God and good- 
 ness. He completely sacrificed himself for the good 
 of the poorest of the poor. He acted out his princi- 
 ples to the letter. He was as poor and lived as plainly 
 as the poorest of his patients. On charitable subjects 
 he wrote well. The ideal to him was practical. Let 
 this American then be enshrined in the annals of 
 men who loved their fellow-men." 
 
 [Mr. Crossett was one of my most beloved pupils 
 in Lane Seminary. He was a good man. — H.A.N.] 
 — ChiircJi at Home and Abroad^ October, 1889. 
 
 Rev. M. Simpson Culbertson, D.D. 
 
 Dr. Culbertson was a native of Chambersburgh, 
 Pennsylvania. He graduated at the Military Acad- 
 emy, West Point, where he stood high in character 
 and scholarship, and spent a short time as an officer 
 in the U. S. Army. Becoming an earnest follower 
 of Christ, he resigned his commission and pursued 
 
78 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 the usual course of study in the Theological Semi- 
 nary at Princeton. He went with his wife as a mis- 
 sionary to China, arriving in that country, October, 
 1844. With the exception of a visit to this country, 
 for his health, in 1856 and '57, he continued at his 
 missionary work in China until his death in 1862, in 
 the forty-fourth year of his age. 
 
 Dr. Culbertson was fitted by nature and by grace 
 to be a leader among men ; he would doubtless have 
 achieved distinction if he had continued in military 
 service, but he won a noble fame as a missionaiy, 
 and he never regretted his choice. He w^as held in 
 great respect and esteem by his missionary breth- 
 ren and by the church at home. His main work was 
 the translation of the Scriptures into Chinese, pur- 
 sued for several years in connection with other emi- 
 nent missionaries, but which he survived them to 
 complete. A w^ork from his pen, T]lc Religions of 
 North China, was published by Scribner and Co., 
 New York, during his visit to this country, and it is 
 understood that a biography of him is in preparation 
 for the press. One of his colleagues, the Rev. W. 
 A. P. Martin, D.D., at the request of the mission- 
 aries, preached a commemorative sermon at Shang- 
 hai, in August, 1862, the concluding paragraphs of 
 w^hich are here appended: 
 
 ^'Of the excellencies of his character I need offer 
 no delineation ; they are attested, with one voice, by 
 all the Protestant missionaries, of all ecclesiastical 
 connections, in this community. 'Our devoted 
 brother,' they say, in a paper, adopted a few days 
 after his death, 'was ''a man of meek and quiet 
 
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 Spirit," and remarkable for his singleness of aim and 
 straightforward energy and industry in his Master's 
 
 service He set before himself the highest 
 
 ends, and strove, both by preaching and example, to 
 glorify God in the salvation of his fellow-men. He 
 labored, in connection with the late Dr. Bridgeman, 
 for several years, with assiduity and perseverance, in 
 preparing a revised translation of the sacred Scrip- 
 tures in the Chinese language, a labor of love which 
 he regarded as the great work of his hfe, and it was 
 a source of great consolation to him, just before his 
 departure, that God had enabled him to complete it. 
 We recognize in these traits of character, and this 
 Christian life, the devoted missionary, whose example 
 is worthy of our imitation. 
 
 '^^ Resolved, therefore, That we will cherish with 
 affectionate remembrance the character and course 
 of our departed brother. ' 
 
 ''Happy the grave which is crowned with such a 
 tribute ! There is but one eulogium which a good 
 man may covet more earnestly, and that is the 
 'Well done, good and faithful,' pronounced by his 
 Lord and Saviour. This blissful welcome has no 
 doubt greeted those ears, which are now deaf to the 
 voice of human applause. 
 
 "There let us leave him, bending before the 
 throne of God, and drinking in the fullness of that 
 'eternal life,' the words of which he delighted in 
 dispensing to the perishing heathen." — -/. C. L. 
 
8o necrological record 
 
 Rev. Gerald F. Dale. 
 
 A dark shadow has fallen upon our Syria Mission 
 in the death of this beloved servant of God. We had 
 much to say, but have concluded to let those speak 
 who knew him best. The following affectionate and 
 discriminating tributes well express the estimate of 
 the officers and members of this Board as to the man 
 and his work, and also the deep sense of bereavement 
 which they feel. 
 
 Dr. H. H. Jessup, in a letter dated October 7, 1886, 
 says: 
 
 * ' The Lord has sorely smitten the Syria Mission 
 again, in the sudden death of Rev. Gerald F. Dale, 
 Jr. , who died in Zahleh yesterday morning, October 
 6, aged about forty years. His disease was so 
 mahgnant and swift that medical aid was of no avail. 
 His little daughter Carrie had been ill for weeks, and 
 her death was expected from day to day ; but no one 
 dreamed that the father, in the very prime and flower 
 of his strength, would fall before that little, frail, 
 emaciated child. 
 
 "On Sunday he preached twice in Arabic — in the 
 morning in Zahleh, and in the afternoon in Moallakah. 
 On Monday afternoon he went through the new 
 school building with his colleague, Mr. Greenlee, and 
 Mr. Jewett, an Oriental scholar from Harvard. Mr. 
 Greenlee called his attention to the swelling behind 
 his ear and on his neck, and suggested that he ought 
 not to be out in the air; but he replied that it was 
 only a trifling boil which would soon pass away. 
 Otherwise he seemed as well as usual. On Tuesday 
 
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 he felt somewhat weak, but his father-in-law, Dr. 
 Bliss, President of the college in Beirut, thought it 
 only the ordinary effects of a boil, and set out for 
 Beirut on horseback, as the college was to open in a 
 fortnight. In the afternoon Mr. Greenlee was with 
 him, and he talked cheerfully of the work in the 
 Zahleh station and its outstations ; but his weakness 
 increased so suddenly and rapidly that Mrs. Bliss au- 
 thorized the native physician, a college graduate, to 
 telegraph Dr. Post to come at once from Beirut. 
 Drs. Post and Bliss left Beirut at up. m. , and hastened 
 over Lebanon, reaching Zahleh about 5,30 a.m. ; but, 
 alas, they were one hour too late ! The fatal, mahg- 
 nant pustule had poisoned the blood, and dissolution 
 was inevitable. Mrs. Dale, who has an infant 
 daughter only three weeks old, was brought into the 
 room before his death, but he was almost unable to 
 speak from the swelling in his throat. In the fore- 
 noon a funeral service was held in the Zahleh Church, 
 conducted by Dr. Post and Mr. Greenlee, and at- 
 tended by a vast multitude of the people, who after- 
 ward accompanied the remains down the valley to 
 Moallakah, from which place Messrs. Greenlee and 
 Jewett took the precious casket in a caniage to the 
 Aaleie junction of the Damascus road. 
 
 " The funeral service was conducted in the Beirut' 
 Church, by Dr. Dennis and Mr. Greenlee in English, 
 and Rev. H. H. Jessup in Arabic. We entered the 
 American cemetery near the church by moonlight, 
 and lowered the casket to its resting-place near the 
 graves of Pliny Fisk, Eli Smith and Whiting, Wood, 
 Drs. Danforth and Calhoun, and many others whose 
 
82 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 names are known and loved here and in their native 
 land. A wreath of flowers, brought by the ladies of 
 the British Syrian school, was laid on the headstone. 
 ' ' We can hardly realize the greatness of our loss, 
 nor can we believe that he is gone. Dr. Charles 
 Hodge spoke thus of him to the officers of our Board 
 when he applied for appointment as a missionary: 
 * Mr. Dale is the model scholar, the model Christian, 
 and the model gentleman of Princeton Seminary.' 
 He has maintained this hi^rh character throusfhout. 
 He was a remarkable man. He at the same time 
 enforced your respect by his lofty motives and high 
 character, won your love by his gentle and winning 
 ways, and awakened your astonishment at his extra- 
 ordinary zeal and capacity for work. The first text 
 which flashed upon my mind when the sad telegram 
 reached us was : ' The zeal of thine house hath eaten 
 me up.' He was literally on fire with burning zeal. 
 That benighted region of the Bukah, from Mount 
 Hermon to Baalbec and Riblah, filled with besotted 
 Metawileh and ignorant nominal Christianas, he had 
 explored and awakened by his stirring activity and 
 burning words, until his name was a watchword on 
 every side. Corrupt government officials feared his 
 stern integrity, the poor and oppressed loved him, 
 and scores of young men and women whom he had 
 selected and put in the way of acquiring an education 
 looked upon him as a benefactor. He was singularly 
 devoted to his work. He could go into a Turkish 
 court and defend the rights of the persecuted, and 
 the corrupt officials would quail before him. And he 
 would take a little child by the hand, pat her on the 
 
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 head, ask her name, and win her little heart. He 
 was a fine preacher in Arabic, a true and trusty 
 friend, a loving and beloved brother, and had won 
 the confidence and esteem of the natives all over Syria 
 where he was known." 
 
 Rev. W. W. Eddy writes thus: 
 
 "I knew him as a loved and honored Christian 
 brother, a most untiring Christian worker, an enthu- 
 siastic missionary, having large faith in man and 
 large hopes in the results of labor; fertile in resources, 
 his energy branching out in various lines of effort; 
 genial in intercourse with all men, conciliatory in 
 manner, making friends and keeping them ; impress- 
 ing all with whom he came in contact with a convic- 
 tion of his sincerity and entire devotedness to the 
 cause of his Master. This reaper has retired at morn 
 with sheaves of fruits. The same voice that sum- 
 moned from Syria's plains Pliny Fisk at the age of 
 thirty-three, and has since called, in their early man- 
 hood, Mr. Wood and Dr. Danforth and William Cal- 
 houn and Miss Whittlesey and Mrs. Aiken, has 
 called Mr. Dale to join them before the throne." 
 
 Rev. Dr. James S. Dennis, at the funeral service 
 in Beirut, said: 
 
 " Dr. Dale was a strong and earnest missionary, and 
 he loved his field with a perfect passion. Through 
 summer heat and winter cold, in storm and tempest, 
 in rain and mud, in snow and sleet, in withering 
 sirocco as well as in the bright and glorious sunshine 
 of that fair garden of Coelo- Syria, he was in the 
 saddle visiting his parish and watching over his 
 spiritual charge. His fourteen years of missionary 
 
84 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 life had enough of spiritual fire and self-consuming" 
 zeal in them to answer for an ordinary life-time of 
 common service. 
 
 " Every promise of infinite love was his. His life 
 and his death have been in harmony with a divine 
 purpose. His body may have been smitten with a 
 mysterious disease, but his soul has escaped the 
 'snare of the fowler;' it has fled to the land of rest 
 and security where there is no ' terror by night, ' and 
 where no ' arrow flieth by day, ' 
 
 "When God's voice speaks it is for us to listen. 
 This startling call, this sudden summons, is the voice 
 of God. What does it say ? It spoke to him as a 
 pilgrim in the midst of life's pilgrimage, while the 
 sun was yet high in the heavens and his step was still 
 steady and true, as he pressed loyally onward towards 
 a seemingly distant goal. It bade him stop, for the 
 pilgrimage was ended. It bade him lay aside the 
 pilgrim's staff, cast off those soiled and earth-worn 
 garments, and prepare to enter the shining portals of 
 the pilgrim's home. 
 
 " It spoke to him as a soldier of the cross, with his 
 armor on, at his post of duty, in the forefront of the 
 field of conflict, with his sword girded upon his thigh 
 — rather his good blade drawn in the face of the foe, 
 and his heart aflame with zeal and courage and high 
 ambition. It bade him sheathe his sword, inigird it 
 from his thigh and lay it aside. It bade him put off 
 his armor and lay down every weapon and cease from 
 earthly strife. It bade him hasten from the ranks of 
 the church militant to the ranks of the church 
 triumphant. It proclaimed his promotion on the field 
 
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 of battle, and lo ! he was lost as in a chariot of fire — 
 translated to the land where the conflict is hushed 
 forever, and only songs of peace float over mountain 
 and vale. 
 
 " It spoke to him as an ambassador of Christ, ever 
 faithful and true to his Lord's commission, ever 
 pleading his Sovereign's claims, ever ready and 
 prompt in his Master's business, ever seeking first 
 the glory of his King and the triumph of his cause. 
 It recalled him from the distant sphere of service 
 where he had been beseeching men and praying 
 them in Christ's stead to be reconciled to God, and 
 bade him hasten to the royal presence and report in 
 person at the palace of the King. 
 
 '' It spoke to him as a preacher of the Gospel, and 
 bade him cry aloud once more for truth and righteous- 
 ness; another message for the souls of men, another 
 pleading appeal of ardent love, another clarion call of 
 faith and hope and high aspiration; then fold the 
 manuscript and close the Bible, and seal the lips, and 
 step down from the place of trust and power — the 
 pulpit of a living, evangelical Gospel — and appear 
 before the Saviour, whose loving message he had de- 
 livered so faithfully, and receive from him the great 
 and precious reward. 
 
 " It spoke to him as a husband, a father, a son and 
 a brother, and bade him say farewell to those dear 
 friends, and, leaving them in God's care, to await 
 them on another and a happier shore. Let us hope 
 that this divine voice, with its solemn message to 
 him, will speak in consolation and tenderness to the 
 stricken hearts so suddenly and crushingly bereaved." 
 
86 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Rev. George A. Ford writes: 
 
 " I am touched by the sorrowful exclamations of 
 our Syrian brethren. Even those who knew him but 
 slightly declare ' He was wonderful. Never have we 
 seen such untiring devotion and holy zeal as his.' 
 The Zahleh Station mourns him who was called of 
 God to be the chief instrument in founding it and in 
 developing it these fourteen years ; whose name had 
 become a ' household word ' throughout a large sec- 
 tion of country. The college mourns a missionary 
 who surpassed all his associates in unsparing devotion 
 to its interests, and in affectionate relations to its stu- 
 dent constituency. 
 
 ' ' The Mission mourns its most enthusiaatic and de- 
 voted member, whose zeal has passed into a proverb 
 among us. In our devotional meetings his words 
 were always aflame with holy fire, and his prayers 
 those of one eminently a ' man of God,' or to use his 
 own favorite expression, 'waiting upon God.' 
 
 '' But that which most impressed one in the char- 
 acter of Brother Dale was the Christianlike union of 
 dissimilar traits rarely to be seen together. He ex- 
 celled in both spirituality and practicability. He was 
 most serious yet most sanguine. He was no less re- 
 markable for gentleness than for energy, for superb 
 push than for superb patience, and for conspicuous 
 positiveness than for conspicuous modesty. His 
 severity was always kind and his friendliness always 
 dignified." — Foreign Missionary^ December, 1886. 
 
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 Mrs. Joshua A. Danforth. 
 
 Writing from Tungchow, China, of the death of 
 his wife, the Rev. J. A. Danforth gave the following 
 account. It no doubt describes correctly the worth 
 of this devoted missionary. "Shortly after reach- 
 ing hom.e she rapidly declined, until on the 13th inst. 
 (September, 1861), her twenty-third birthday, she 
 folded her hands and gently fell asleep in Jesus. So 
 calmly and peacefully did she pass away that we 
 could scarcely perceive when her freed spirit escaped 
 from its prison and sped away on angel's wings to 
 that better land where 
 
 "Sickness and sorrow, pain and death 
 Are felt and feared no more. 
 
 "Trtisting in the righteousness of Christ alone, a 
 more calm and peaceful death it has never been our 
 privilege to witness. Long and weary months had 
 she suffered and much of the time intensely, but not 
 a murmur escaped her lips. Resigned in all things 
 to the will of him who doeth all things well, she 
 patiently awaited the result, desiring to live only that 
 she might more worthily serve and honor him. But 
 now she enjoys a blessed release 
 
 ''She was ever a loving and faithful wife. Her 
 sound and mattire judgment, her strong common- 
 sense, her decision and energy in action, her refine- 
 ment and delicacy of sentiment, her high sense of 
 honor, her gentleness and serenity of temper — no 
 doubt the result of a very marked growth in grace 
 during the last few years — and the warmth and 
 strength of her attachments all combined to render 
 
88 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 her character one of the most perfect and complete 
 which this imperfect world affords." — J. C. L. 
 
 George B. Danforth, M.D. 
 
 " Early in this season of sickness the Syria Mis- 
 sion was called to mourn the loss of G. B. Danforth, 
 M.D., a faithful and beloved missionary at Tripoli. 
 Dr. Danforth had been engaged in the work about 
 three and a half years, during which time he had 
 won the esteem of the entire mission and of large 
 numbers of the natives in and around Tripoli. 
 While learning the language he had begun to be 
 eminently useful as a physician, thereby gaining 
 favor not only for himself and his work, but also for 
 the whole cause of the mission. His wife, though 
 left with the care of two young children, will remain 
 in Syria and engage in mission work." 
 
 Dr. Danforth died at Tripoli, July 7, 1875, of the 
 Syrian fever, in the twenty-ninth year of his age. — 
 Annual Report^ 1876. 
 
 Mrs. George B. Danforth. 
 
 On the 8th of January, 1881, Mrs. Emily Danforth, 
 after a brief, acute illness, was removed to another 
 world. She had suffered greatly from ill health for 
 some months, but had been supposed to be somewhat 
 improved. Mrs. Danforth was the oldest daughter 
 of the late Rev. Simeon H. Calhoun, and was born 
 on the mission held. With the exception of two or 
 
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 three years spent in this country, she had passed her 
 whole life in Syria. Her husband had died five 
 years before of cholera at the Tripoli station, leaving 
 her with two young children. Fortunately, in the 
 providence of God, she had for the last three years 
 enjoyed the assistance and tender care of her widowed 
 mother, by whom her burdens and infirmities were 
 greatly relieved. — Annual Report^ 1881. 
 
 Rev. Ishwari Das. 
 
 This lamented Hindu minister died at Futtehgurh, 
 May 2, 1867 (at the age probably of about forty). 
 He was so long connected with the mission, and for 
 so large a part of the time in positions of usefulness 
 and responsibility, and he always attended to his 
 duty with such quiet punctuality and faithfulness, 
 that it will be difficult, indeed, to find any one who 
 can fill his place. 
 
 In childhood, Ishwari Das was one of a number of 
 orphan children collected at Futtehpore by a pious 
 English physician. These children, when afterwards 
 handed over to the charge of Rev. Henry R. Wilson, 
 became the germ from which grew the Rakha Chris- 
 tian village at Futtehgurh. In youth, he was noted 
 for a steady disposition and a love for books. In the 
 study of the English language and literature he 
 made unusual proficiency. He could speak that lan- 
 guage as few Hindus can, with no perceptible 
 accent, and with great grammatical and idiomatical 
 
 purity At what time he was first savingly 
 
 impressed with the truths of Christianity is not 
 
90 Nl£CROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 known, nor is there any record of the time when he 
 joined the Lord's people by profession, but this was 
 most probably done in earl)^ life, for he was one of 
 the first three orphans admitted to the communion. 
 At an early age he became a teacher in the High 
 School of Furrukhabad, where he remained for some 
 time. 
 
 During the mutiny, the subject of this sketch, 
 with his wife and several small children, was exposed 
 for months to great hardships and dangers. When 
 the missionaries held their final interview with the 
 native Christians before entering on their ill-fated 
 journey to Cawnpore, some of the former proposed 
 that they should live and die with their people. But 
 it was generally held better for both parties that they 
 should separate, as it was probable that the latter, as 
 natives of the country, could hide in distant villages 
 and escape, whereas white faces would only endanger 
 them. 
 
 The former home of one of the Rakha Christians 
 w^as in a village a few miles from Futtehgurh. 
 Accordingly he and Ishwari Das, and one or two 
 others, with their families, fled to that place and 
 remained two or three weeks in concealment. When 
 news came that Dhokul Pershad and those with him 
 w^ho had not succeeded in escaping from Futtehgurh 
 had been cruelly slaughtered on the parade ground 
 there, the Zamindar who had been protecting them 
 sent to say that he had been at great pains to secure a 
 good name with the English, and that if, as he very 
 much feared would be the case, they should be mas- 
 sacred by some wandering band of rebels while nomi- 
 
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 nally under his protection, he would be held to strict 
 account. In short, though personally well aisposed, 
 he declined to risk anything on their behalf. 
 
 Leaving this village, they traveled on to the once 
 famous Hindu capital of Kanouge. After many 
 perils and mishaps .... they resolved on making 
 their way as best they might, on foot, to Cawnpore, 
 but intelligence reached them of the bloody massacre 
 of the English and their dear friends, the mission- 
 aries, at that place, and so their way seemed to be 
 hedged up. 
 
 Ishwari Das then said to his companions: *' Let us 
 return and deliver ourselves up to the Nawab of 
 Furrukhabad ; he will only slay us as he has slain our 
 brother Dhokul and the rest, but that is only five 
 minutes of suffering and then forever rest and peace. 
 Better dying than this death in life. " And so they 
 turned their sad footsteps once more towards their 
 desolated homes, hoping that, if not in life, at least 
 in the grave they might find rest. Wandering here 
 and there, suffered for a few days and then rudely 
 sent away, helped by some and threatened and 
 abused by others, they remained the sport of fortune 
 and the victims of suspense and hope deferred, until 
 at last news spread like wildfire through the land 
 
 that the. English had taken Cav/npore Lord 
 
 Clyde's force soon advanced to Futtehgurh, and 
 cleared away the rebels, defeating the Nawab's army. 
 This enabled the Christians to return and rebuild the 
 ruins of their once happy village. Here, even before 
 the country was safe for travel, they were visited by 
 our lamented brother, Fullerton, from the Agra 
 
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 Fort. No one who has read his description of that 
 meeting in the May number of the Foreign Mission- 
 ary^ for 1858, can soon forget that pathetic story. 
 (See Appendix.) 
 
 I have been told that, even in those disturbed 
 days, when they were surrounded by perils and pri- 
 vations, Ishwari Das was not idle, but that he pre- 
 pared a diglott manual of English and Urdu, with 
 reading exercises, and a concise grammar and vocab- 
 ulary, to enable persons of little leisure to obtain a 
 better acquaintance with the Urdu language. This 
 book was pubhshed and served a very useful purpose. 
 
 Unlike so many of the educated natives of Hindus- 
 tan, he greatly desired to be useful to his country- 
 men by introducing them to occidental science and 
 literature by means of translations and compilations. 
 In his later years he spent much time in preparing a 
 series of text-books, for our schools, in the Urdu 
 language, such as Outlines of History, Grammar, 
 Geography, etc. He published also a useful little 
 hand-book, giving the various forms in the conjuga- 
 tion of Hindustani verbs, with their English equiva- 
 lents. After his return from America he published 
 a small volume of his impressions and experiences 
 
 •in that land A much more important work 
 
 in the same language was his Domestic Manners and 
 Customs of the Hindoos, whose object was to show 
 to the English residents the habits and manner of 
 life and thought of the people among whom they 
 dwell. I know of no work which gives in so brief 
 space such accurate and extensive information on 
 this subject. A second edition of this work has 
 
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 lately been issued in Benares. He also took the 
 prize of $ioo, offered for the best essay on Female 
 Education in India. 
 
 Beside the smaller works above alluded to, this 
 lamented brother has left behind a legacy to the 
 native Church which will long cause his name to be 
 held in grateful remembrance. Some years ago, a 
 learned Bengal civilian offered a prize of $250 for 
 the best system of Theology, simple in style, and 
 suited in illustration to the Hindu mind. The prize 
 was given to Ishwari Das' Lectures on Theology^ 
 which are admirably adapted to their purpose — that 
 is, to the instruction in the faith of the unlearned. 
 The work has been published both in English and 
 Urdu. The English copy is a closely-printed i6mo 
 of over 400 pages. It will thus be seen that he was 
 an earnest and industrious as well as a scholarly man, 
 and accomplished much in spite of frequent ill-health 
 and weakness of the eyes, which much interfered 
 with his studies. After the mutiny he was engaged 
 for some time as head-master of the Furrukhabad 
 school, and afterwards of the school at Rakha. For 
 a year or two he also assisted the missionary by tak- 
 ing one of the Sabbath services, having to this end 
 been licensed by the Furrukhabad Presbytery. As a 
 preacher, he was simple, earnest and instructive, 
 though with no considerable graces of delivery. 
 
 At the close of 1865, the station of Futtehpore was 
 left vacant by the transfer of the missionary to Eta- 
 wah, and Ishwari Das was selected as the most 
 suitable of the native brethren to fill the place. 
 Accordingly a solemn ordination service was held in 
 
94 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 the presence of a large congregation, and he was 
 sent under bright auspices to his new field of labor. 
 His health, however, soon began to fail, and at the 
 end of a year he was sent back to Futtehgurh, in the 
 hope that his health might be sufficiently restored to 
 enable him to become the pastor of the Rakha 
 church. But this hope was never realized. A severe 
 attack of dyspepsia ended at last in inflammation of 
 the bowels, and he suffered months of agony, until 
 at last his Saviour gave him release. 
 
 During his long and painful illness this dear 
 brother was peculiarly blessed in being enabled to 
 show what religion can do for the Christian. Bear- 
 ing his sufferings with the utmost patience, looking 
 forward with confidence to the hope of a blessed 
 release, and bearing a constant and unwavering tes- 
 timony to the preciousness and sufficiency of the 
 Saviour, I trust many were enabled to say: " Let me 
 die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be 
 like his. " In many conversations with him the clear- 
 ness and simplicity of his faith were very evident. 
 ' ' I am a great sinner, but Christ, who died for me, is 
 a great Saviour; he has promised to save all who trust 
 in him, and he will not, cannot fail," seemed his sim- 
 ple creed. To those who visited him on his death- 
 bed, heathen and Christian, he spoke often and sol- 
 emnly of the duty of preparing to meet their God, so 
 that even unspiritual persons came away, saying-, 
 ''What a holy man is that!" He once spoke to me 
 very sadly of how few there were who seemed able to 
 enter into sympathy with him when he spoke of the 
 precious things of Christ. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 95 
 
 Speaking to him one day of the way by which 
 God had led him, lie replied, ' ' One verse expresses 
 it all — ' Surely goodness and mercy have followed me 
 all the days of my life.' " Such was what grace had 
 done for a man who, but for the Gospel, Avould prob- 
 ably have grown up a stupid, ignorant Hindu, bow- 
 ing, with clasped hands, before some hideous image 
 chiseled out of stone, wearing caste-marks of mud 
 and ashes plastered on his face and drinking tire 
 water in which his Brahmin teacher had washed his 
 feet. Is not this a victory ? Should not the people 
 of God desire more such victories ? Could they not 
 have such ? Here is a brand plucked from the burn- 
 ing — a valuable teacher, author, minister raised up ; 
 a happy Christian home and family altar established ; 
 a number of children trained up in Christian truth 
 and to bright promise of usefulness ; an eminent 
 example of Christian living and dying ; what is not 
 all this worth to the Church ? — Rev. IV. F. JoJiiison. 
 
 Mrs. G. L. Deffenbaugh. 
 
 Rev. G. L. Deffenbaugh, of the Nez Perces 
 Mission, has been called to mourn the death of his 
 wife, who died at Lewiston, Idaho, Janua,ry 3, 18S7. 
 Less than a year and a half ago she had been married 
 from her home in West Pennsylvania, and had seemed 
 to enter upon her missionary work in firm health and 
 cheerful spirits. She had won the esteem of all who 
 knew her, and had proved a worthy sympathizer and 
 helper of her husband in his remote station work at 
 Lapwai. A complication of ailments, culminating in 
 
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 quick consumption, closed her brief earthly service 
 and bore her to her eternal rest. — Church at Home 
 and Abroad. March, 1887. 
 
 Rev. Cornelius DeHeer and Mrs. DeHeer. 
 
 Mr. DeHeer entered upon mission work in Africa in 
 1855, and with the exception of furloughs for health 
 and rests continued in active service until Septem- 
 ber, 1888, when he withdrew on account of impaired 
 health, but with the earnest hope of being permitted 
 to return to his field. He labored first on the island of 
 Corisco, and afterwards at Benita on the mainland. 
 His superior natural gifts, indefatigable industry, 
 patient perseverance, remarkable common sense and, 
 above all, fervent piety and love for souls, made him a 
 model missionary and won for him the confidence and 
 affection of his fellow-laborers and of the natives. His 
 death (which occurred at Clifton Springs, N. Y., 
 October 20, 1889) has been a sore bereavement to the 
 mission, but his memory is fragrant, and the work he 
 accomplished for Christ will continue to tell as the 
 years go by. Mrs. DeHeer and Mrs. Reutlinger, who 
 accompanied Mr. DeHeer to this country, still remain, 
 but with the expectation of returning to Africa in the 
 near future. — Annual Report^ 1890. 
 
 Mrs. C. DeHeer. 
 
 Mr. DeHeer was twice married. His first wife, 
 who accompanied him to Africa, died of malignant 
 
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 fever at Corisco, April 2, 1857, leaving two daughters, 
 one of whom was adopted by Dr. J. Leighton Wilson, 
 and one by a lady of New York. The Annual Re- 
 port of 1858, referring to the death of Mrs. DeHeer, 
 says, '' Her end was calm and peaceful." 
 
 Rev. John M. Deputie. 
 
 " It is with great regret that we have to record the 
 death of Rev. John M. Deputie at his station near 
 Marshall, Liberia, July 29, 1877. This bereavement 
 was most unexpected. Mr. Deputie was ill but a 
 short time and was taken from his work as a faithful 
 servant of Christ in the midst of his days, being about 
 thirty-five years of age. His early death is a great 
 loss to the church in Liberia." — Record^ October, 
 1877. 
 
 Miss Susie Dewsnap. 
 
 Miss Dewsnap sailed for the Gaboon and Corisco 
 Mission in April, 1875. After a short visit home in 
 1879, she returned to the field and died soon after her 
 arrival, August 17, 1881, at Kangwe, on the Ogove, 
 Africa. She was a sincere follower of Christ, and her 
 last days were supported by his grace. — Record^ No- 
 vember, 1 88 1. 
 
 Rev. Darius L. Donnell. 
 
 Mr. Donnell, a graduate of Lincoln University, and 
 his wife embarked for Liberia in June, 1878. They 
 
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 went to a place on the Marfar river with a view to 
 forming a station among the Veys, but Mr. Donnell 
 was soon taken with illness, which continued until his 
 death, January 22, 1879. This early removal of one 
 who seemed to be remarkably well qualified for use- 
 fulness is greatly deplored. It confirms previous 
 lessons of experience, that in Western Africa, for 
 health, more depends on constitution, adaptation to 
 climate, etc., than on race or complexion. — Annual 
 Report^ 1879. 
 
 Rev. James Eden. 
 
 Mr. Eden was removed by death June i, 1847. 
 He was among the first emigrants to Liberia, was 
 pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Monrovia, was 
 much respected by his acquaintances while he lived, 
 and by them his memory will be long held in esteem. 
 — Anmial Report^ 1848. 
 
 Miss Margaret L. Ewalt. 
 
 Miss Ewalt, who joined the Kolhapur Mission in 
 1888, and was obliged to return home owing to serious 
 illness, died March 6, 1892, at her mother's home in 
 Hogestown, Pa. '' She was very dear to us," writes 
 one of her missionary associates. '' Quiet persever- 
 ance in duty was her characteristic." — Annual Re- 
 port^ 1892. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 99 
 
 Rev. George Henry Ferris. 
 
 In Indian Notes for April (which, by the way, is an 
 interesting little native paper) there is an account of 
 Mr. Ferris, who died at Poona, March 7, 1894, by 
 Emma Stewart. He was born at Hillsdale, Mich., 
 December, 1853, and was a graduate of Princeton 
 College and of Auburn Theological Seminary. He 
 offered himself to the Board of Foreign Missions of 
 the Presbyterian Church, and was appointed to Kolha- 
 pur, Western India, which he joined with his wife in 
 1879. Mrs. Ferris is supported by the Presbyterial 
 Society of New Castle Presbytery. His death oc- 
 curred suddenly after a. short illness, and away from 
 home, as he had gone to Bombay on business con- 
 nected with his office as treasurer of the mission 
 and, falling ill while there, was unable to go further 
 than Poona on his w^ay home. He was buried at 
 Kolhapur, in the Mission cemetery. 
 
 Mr. Ferris was such a useful and gifted man that 
 the mission work suffers a serious loss. His genial 
 manner, clear foresight, knowledge of the language 
 and commercial affairs of the country, made him a 
 valuable missionary. He also had a tender sympathy 
 for the poor and suffering, and longing that India 
 might seek Christ. In his dying moments his last 
 coherent sentence was, " O, if they would only seek 
 the truth, thousands would be saved." 
 
 Those who knew him have observed a spiritual 
 growth, a ripening, as it were, for heaven, of late 
 years. His little girl, Phoebe, is with her mother, 
 who will continue her work in India, as stated recently 
 
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 in the columns of this paper. There are three boys 
 in this country, and all must feel sympathy for this 
 stricken family, and will pray that they may be com- 
 forted. — The Presbyterian^ July 25, 1894. 
 
 Prof. W. W. Findley. 
 
 Professor Findley, appointed to the Bogota Mission, 
 was not permitted to reach his field, but died on the 
 2 1 St of August, 1889, at Sogarnoso, on the Magdalen 
 river, en ronte to Bogota. He was taken ill of yellow 
 fever, of which Miss Ramsay, an associate mission- 
 ary, had died a few days before at Barranquilla. 
 The symptoms were serious from the first, and the 
 disease developed rapidly. His fellow-travelers. 
 Rev. W. W. and Mrs. Caldwell, secured for him the 
 best available medical skill and bestowed tender and 
 faithful nursing, but were soon compelled to lay his 
 body to rest in the place where he died. Prof. Find- 
 ley had been appointed to open a school for boys at 
 Bogota on the basis of the highest testimonials as to 
 his Christian character, missionary spirit, intellectual 
 qualifications and experience as a teacher, mainly in 
 the Academy of South Salem, Ohio. After speaking 
 with some detail of his death, which was a signal 
 triumph of faith, Mr. Caldwell adds: '' In the death 
 of Prof. Findley we have lost not only a valued 
 helper but a very dear friend. He was talented, 
 pious and earnest. He seemed to be just the right 
 man for the work ; but God's ways are not our ways, 
 and we know that he makes no mistakes." — C/mrch 
 at Home and Abroad^ November, 1889. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. loi 
 
 Mrs. Mary Fleming. 
 
 Mrs. Fleming, wife of Rev. John Fleming, of the 
 Chippewa Mission, died in September, 1839, after a 
 brief but severe illness. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Fleming joined the Rev. Peter 
 Dougherty soon after he began his mission among 
 the Indians on Grand Traverse Bay. On the death 
 of his wife, who left an infant daughter, Mr. Flem- 
 ing's views of duty constrained him to withdraw 
 from the service of the Board. — Animal Report^ 1840. 
 
 Rev. Charles W. Forman, D.D. 
 
 The death of the Rev. Charles William Forman, 
 D.D., of our Lodiana Mission, which occurred at 
 Kasauli, India, August 27, 1894, removes one of the 
 most venerated and beloved missionaries connected 
 with the Board of Foreign Missions. Dr. Forman 
 was a native of Kentucky, a graduate of Princeton 
 Theological Seminary, and at the time of his appoint- 
 ment as missionary a member of the Ebenezer 
 Presbytery. He sailed for India, August u, 1847, 
 while our mission work in that vast empire w^as still 
 in its infancy. In 1846, at the close of the first Sikh 
 war, the mission had crossed the Sutlej and planted 
 a station at Jullundur within the Punjab (Country of 
 the Five Rivers). Soon after Dr. Forman's arrival 
 in India the annexation of the Punjab by the British 
 government, and the favor of the Board of Admin- 
 istration, which included the two Lawrences, Henry 
 and John, opened the way for the occupation of 
 
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 Lahore, the capital of the new province, and the 
 late Rev. John Newton, D.D., and Mr. Forman 
 were appointed to the station. It was in and from 
 this centre of influence that Dr. Forman did his 
 missionary work. That work was varied as neces- 
 sity or opportunity required. It consisted mainly, 
 perhaps, in the organizing and superintending of a 
 system of schools under mission control where the 
 Word of God was habitually taught and from which 
 thousands of young men have gone forth with at 
 least an mtellectual conviction as to the truth of 
 Christianity, while it is believed that not a few have 
 felt its regenerating power. But Dr. Forman was 
 also instant in season and out of season in preaching 
 the Gospel. In bazaar, church and lecture hall, to 
 the learned in the great educational centre of North 
 India, and also to the low castes in the villages, it 
 was his highest joy to preach the unsearchable 
 riches of Christ. A few weeks before his death, 
 when it became evident that he could no longer 
 hope to resume full work, in a letter to the Board 
 he expressed the desire and purpose of doing some- 
 thing in the wider distribution of the printed Gos- 
 pels and of his little book for Mohammedans, The 
 Christian Sword and SJiicld. 
 
 Dr. Forman was universally beloved. The devout- 
 ness of his spirit, the simplicity of his life, the 
 strength of his character, the broadness of his views 
 and sympathies, his indefatigable zeal, his grasp of 
 the situation in India, and above all his interest in 
 and affection for the native population of all classes, 
 won for him universal esteem. During the early 
 
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 part of his illness, when a rumor of his death was 
 circulated, a notoriously anti-Christian newspaper 
 published in Lahore devoted an editorial to the com- 
 mendation of his life and work, stating that '■^ no 
 foreigner had ever entered the Punjab who had done 
 so inncJi for the Punjab as Padri For man Sahib. " 
 
 Not least among his services to the Church and to 
 India was the giving of three sons and tv\^o daughters 
 to the missionary work, two of w^hom are connected 
 with the Lodiana Mission, and three with the Furruk- 
 habad Mission. The first Mrs. Forman was a 
 daughter of the late Rev. John Newton, D.D. It is 
 expected that the present Mrs. Forman, who with 
 two younger children survives her husband, will con- 
 tinue the work in India, to which she has given her 
 life and for which she has excellent qualifications. 
 
 The Church in the homeland knew little of Dr. 
 Forman from personal contact, as only three times 
 during his forty-seven years of service in India did 
 he visit the United States, and on two of these occa- 
 sions he remained but six months, being impatient 
 to return to his chosen work. But his name stands 
 for that which is noblest and best in Northern India, 
 and it will be gratefully remembered in connection 
 with the efforts of our Church to give the Gospel to 
 that distant land. — CJiurek at Home and Abroad^ 
 November, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret N. Forman. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Newton, wife of Rev. Charles W. 
 Forman, died at Lahore, India, May 12, 1878. 
 
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 Mrs. Forman had been a sufferer for many 
 months, but she bore all her trials with a noble 
 Christian faith. She was the eldest daughter of 
 Rev. John Newton, our oldest missionary in India, 
 and was permitted, with her husband, to spend most 
 of her life for the people among whom she was born. 
 Her death was peaceful and quiet, not a struggle 
 and apparently without pain. For a week before she 
 died they had great difficulty in conversing with her, 
 and most of the time towards the last she lay in a 
 sort of stupor. Mr. Forman writes that he said to 
 her a few days before she died: "Do you know the 
 doctor thinks you cannot live much longer ?" 
 *'Yes," she said, "papa has told me so." He adds, 
 " I don't think I had seen her face hght up with such 
 a smile for many days as it did when she said this. 
 She greatly dreaded living much longer and suffer- 
 ing more severe pain, but said she was wilhng to do so 
 if it were God's will. We cannot help rejoicing that 
 she is freed from her sufferings, but oh what a 
 vacancy it makes in our family circle. Her life was 
 very quiet and her faith was strong, and all who vis- 
 ited her sick-room felt strengthened." 
 
 It can be truly said of the departed that she was a 
 good wife, a good mother and a good missionary. 
 One of the great trials of her life was in parting 
 with her children. Most of them are at this time in 
 the United States receiving an education. — Foreign 
 Missionary^ August, 1878. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 10$ 
 
 Rev. John E. Freeman. 
 
 Mr. Freeman was a native of New Jersey, born in 
 the year 1809, and a graduate of the College and of 
 the Theological Seminary at Princeton. He arrived 
 in India with his wife in 1839, and was stationed at 
 Allahabad. In 1849, Mrs. Freeman was taken to 
 her rest. Next year he returned to this country on 
 a visit for his health, and in 185 1 he went back to 
 India, after having again entered into the marriage 
 relation. He was settled most of the time after his 
 return at Mynpurie, but removed to Futtehgurh in 
 1856, where he remained until the mutiny of the 
 Sepoys led to his violent death in 1857. He was a 
 practical, industrious, faithful missionary. No ex- 
 tended notice is here given, for the same reason as 
 already mentioned in the notice of the Rev. David 
 E. Campbell, supra (see Appendix). — J. C. L. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Ann Freeman. 
 
 Mrs. Freeman, wife of the Rev. John E. Freeman, 
 departed this life at Allahabad, Northern India, 
 August 8, 1849, in the thirty-fourth year of her age. 
 
 Mrs. Freeman was born in Newark, N. J., and 
 resided there up to the time of her entering upon 
 the life of a missionary. Her maiden name was 
 Mary Ann Beach, daughter of Isaac N. and Mary 
 Beach. It was her happiness to be found in the 
 line of covenant blessings, and to grow up amidst 
 such influences as a pious, well-regulated family sel- 
 dom fails to exert. Her profiting soon began to 
 
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 appear. Very early in life she exhibited a degree of 
 thoughtfulness, a self-control, and a general maturity 
 of character, much above what is common to chil- 
 dren of the same age. When about sixteen she 
 made a public profession of Christ's name. From 
 that time onward, her path was like the shining 
 light, shining more and more unto the perfect day. 
 
 In the year 1838, she accompanied her husband to 
 India. On the passage out she diligently employed 
 her time in such studies as might the better fit her for 
 her work; and in fifteen months after reaching the 
 station assigned them, she was able to render valu- 
 able assistance in teaching a school, both in the Urdu 
 and Hindi languages. She was very efficient as a 
 helper in every good work appertaining to her situa- 
 tion. 
 
 In such an hour as her friends thought not, the 
 Son of Man came to take her to himself. Ten years' 
 residence in the debilitating climate of India had 
 begun to weaken her strength in the way, and for 
 the last few months she had been quite feeble. Still 
 no one supposed that the sorrowful hour was so near 
 at hand. On the morning of the very day she died, 
 she rode several miles, came back cheerful and 
 happy, and retired to rest only a little before the 
 usual time. But her days were ended ; she was 
 taken suddenly, and left the world so calmly and 
 quietly, that those sitting by could scarcely believe 
 she was gone. 
 
 Her death occurred on the evening of the weekly 
 missionary meeting, and all were present to witness 
 this beloved sister's departure. It was a touching 
 
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 scene; a little group of Christian missionaries assem- 
 bled in a heathen land, to close the eyes of one with 
 whom they had often taken sweet counsel, and gone 
 to the house of God in company. No wonder if the 
 place became a Bochim. — Rev. J. L. Scott. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman. 
 
 Mrs. Freeman accompanied her husband, the Rev. 
 J. E. Freeman, to India on his return in 185 1. She 
 was one of the best missionaries, as might have been 
 expected from the views given by her friend and 
 pastor, the late Rev. N. Murray, D.D. : '' Mrs. Free- 
 man was connected with some of the best families 
 in New Jersey, and moved in the very best circles of 
 her native State. Agreeable in manners, social, 
 intelligent, warm-hearted, devotedly pious, strong in 
 her affections, and of firm health, she possessed 
 remarkable fitness for missionary life in India. The 
 climate seemed adapted to her constitution; and with 
 scarcely any interruption, she was able to prosecute 
 her great work until it was so mysteriously brought 
 to a close. No more beloved female missionary was 
 there on the Indian field." She was one of the vic- 
 tims of Sepoy cruelty at Cawnpore. The letter to 
 her sisters, written a short time before the mission- 
 ary company started from Futtehgurh on their sad 
 voyage, has brought tears to many eyes, and evi- 
 dences a spirit which would have been held in high 
 honor in any of the martyr ages of the Church. Let it 
 be borne in memory, to the praise of the great grace 
 that was given to this servant of Christ. — -/. C. L. 
 
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 The following- is the letter referred to, written 
 when the native soldiery at the station w^ere joining 
 in the rebellion: 
 
 *'Our little church and ourselves will be the first 
 attacked, but we are in God's hands and we know 
 that he reigns. We have no place to flee to for shelter 
 but under the covert of his wings and there we are 
 safe. Not but that he may suffer our bodies to be 
 slain ; and if he does we know that he has wise rea- 
 sons for it. I sometimes think our death may do 
 more good than we would do in all our lives; if so, 
 his will be done. Should I be called on to lay down 
 my life, do not grieve, dear sisters, that I came here, 
 for most joyfully will I die for him who laid down 
 his life for me." 
 
 Rev. John B. French. 
 
 Mr. French was a native of Georgetown, D. C., 
 and a graduate of Columbia College, D. C, and of 
 Princeton Theological Seminary. He went to Canton, 
 China, in 1846, and ranked among the foremost mis- 
 sionaries in that country. His health had been 
 seriously impaired for the last two years of his life, 
 and he was urged to make a visit to this country for 
 its recovery; but he was unwilling to leave his work. 
 Eventually his physician's advice became imperative 
 and he embarked with his family early in November, 
 but on the 30th of that month, 1858, he was called to 
 enter into his rest. He was an accomplished and de- 
 voted missionary; an eloquent preacher; a man 
 greatly esteemed by his brethren and deeply lamented 
 by all who knew him. — Annual Report^ 1859. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. i09 
 
 Rev. Robert S. Fullerton. 
 
 Mr. Fullerton was a native of Ohio, a graduate of 
 Athens College, Ohio, and of Allegheny Theological 
 Seminary, and for fifteen years a faithful missionary 
 in India. He died at Landour, October 4, 1865, in 
 the forty-fourth year of his age. He spent a short 
 time after his arrival in India at Futtehgurh and at 
 Mynpurie ; but within a year he was called to Agra, 
 to commence and carry on, in company with his wife, 
 two institutions, a male and a female school, for the 
 East India community. It was hoped that through 
 this instrumentality much would be done, and that 
 in a very direct way, for the advancement of the 
 cause of missions. Into this effort for the good of 
 India Mr. Fullerton threw himself with all his might, 
 and for a time he had the charge of both institutions, 
 until the arrival of the Rev. R. E. Williams relieved 
 him of the boys' department. About this time he 
 was also called to become pastor of the Presbyterian 
 Church at Agra, which charge he continued to hold, 
 as well as that of the female school, until the mutiny 
 broke out in 1857, scattering both of them, and break- 
 ing up our mission at Agra. 
 
 The girls' school, which Mr. Fullerton managed, in 
 connection with his wife, continued for five years, 
 and was very successful, both as a school and as a 
 means of doing good. It did much to elevate the 
 tone of Christian feeling in the East India community 
 of this part of the country, and many of the girls 
 who were educated there, we have reason to believe, 
 received impressions which will never fade away. As 
 
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 pastor of the church, Mr. FuUerton was most 
 laborious and successful. The church grew under 
 his care, and many were added to the number of its 
 members. 
 
 His labors at Agra had been mainly in English, 
 and he had, while there, but little opportunity of pre- 
 paring himself for preaching to the natives. This he 
 regretted, but circumstances beyond his control de- 
 cided his course. When he went to Futtehgurh, he 
 set himself with remarkable diligence to the work of 
 learning to write and preach in the native language ; 
 and in a short time he made so much progress that 
 he became a very acceptable preacher. It has often 
 been said in this country, that if a man does not 
 learn the language in the first two or three years of 
 his residence here, he will never learn it. As a 
 general rule, this is no doubt correct, but Mr. Fuller- 
 ton was a remarkable exception. His heart was 
 thoroughly in his work. He had a good ear for pick- 
 ing up native words and idioms, and he became 
 rapidly a fluent and effective speaker to the natives in 
 their own language. 
 
 As soon as circumstances would admit, Mr. Fuller- 
 ton recommenced the Furrukhabad High School, 
 which soon became as large and flourishing as it had 
 ever been before. He had also charge of a native 
 church in the city, numbering about twenty com- 
 municants, and besides he spent a good deal of time 
 in preaching in the bazars. Three years passed on 
 — his hands and heart being fully engaged. The 
 charge of the school, in which he taught a great deal, 
 was particularly laborious, and it was probably this 
 
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 labor, more than any other, which first began to break 
 him down. His health failed, and it became neces- 
 sary that he should either leave India, or take a place 
 where he could easily enjoy the benefit of the Hills. 
 The Dehra station, being at that time vacant, he was 
 called to it in the early part of 1864, and here he 
 labored until nearly the end of his course, taking as 
 little advantage of his proximity to the Hills as pos- 
 sible, and by far too little for the good of his health. 
 Here a malignant disease, probably brought on by 
 his previous debilitated state, seized upon him, and 
 in about three months he passed away from among us. 
 His piety was deep-seated, sincere, and founded 
 upon principle. Every one that knew him must have 
 felt that he was a man who both loved his fellow- 
 men and feared God. And it was a piety which sus- 
 tained him in the hour of trial. When it was de- 
 cided by the doctors that his disease was mortal, he 
 said that he had much wished to see his family settled 
 in America, and to look once more upon the face of 
 his beloved country, in whose calamities he had 
 deeply sympathized, but it was his first desire that 
 the will of the Lord should be done. It was also a 
 pleasant idea that his body should rest in the land 
 where his life-work had been accomplished, and in 
 some measure bear testimony to the truth which he 
 had proclaimed. In any event it zuas well, and he 
 was entirely resigned. He had not those ecstatic 
 feelings that some have spoken of, but he knev/ 
 whom he had believed, and was sure that he was 
 both able and willing to save him. Frequently, dur- 
 ing the course of his illness, and sometimes when he 
 
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 was suffering great pain, he said, "All is peace." 
 It was this abiding sense of safety, more than any- 
 thing else, though he was naturally brave, which 
 enabled him to lie down calmly, and submit to fright- 
 ful operations — passing off, as quietly as an infant, 
 into a sleep from which it was very doubtful whether 
 he would ever awaken in this world. After the last 
 operation was performed, when he evidently expected 
 a fatal termination, he called us to his bedside, and 
 said that he must speak now while he was able. He 
 wished to say that this was the happiest day of his 
 life. He had arrived at the land of Beulah. All was 
 bright and beautiful, and he had no fear for what 
 was beyond. He was as sure of the truth of the re- 
 ligion in which he believed as he was of his own ex- 
 istence, and he knew that Christ would save him. 
 
 One of the m.ost prominent traits in the character 
 of our departed brother was his geniality. I think 
 every one who knew him will bear witness that the 
 first thing in him which would strike an observer was 
 the tone of good feeling and joyousness which it was 
 his habit to throw over those with whom he had in- 
 tercourse. He was social in his nature — fond of 
 society, full of good humor and ready wit. It was 
 this which made him a cheerful and desirable com- 
 panion, and attached all hearts to him. In our 
 mission circle he was much beloved, and we all feel 
 that we have lost a very dear friend. 
 
 Though indifferent in trifling matters, and exercis- 
 ing much toleration for opinions in which he did not 
 agree, he was very firm in the maintenance of his 
 own principles, and in pursuing the course which he 
 
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 thought rig-ht. No matter how yielding or com- 
 plaisant he might be, touch him on any of the princi- 
 ples which he held sacred, and you found you had a 
 man to deal with who was as firm as a rock. His 
 firmness, however, was so mixed and tempered with 
 urbanity and toleration, that it never seriously 
 offended, much less was there occasion for permanent 
 alienation of feeling. 
 
 His nature being thus tempered by firmness and 
 urbanity, it need hardly be added that his treatment 
 of the natives of this country, and especially of the 
 native Christians, was very happy. While never 
 afraid to tell them their duty, he was more than is 
 usual respectful and courteous to them. This they 
 appreciated as something they do not always receive, 
 and as a consequence he was much beloved and re- 
 spected by them. 
 
 I have thus noted down one or two of the more 
 prominent traits in the character of our departed 
 brother, but if I were to attempt a full portraiture, I 
 should have to speak of the admirable manner in 
 which he fulfilled the duties of a husband and father, 
 of the wisdom and prudence which he brought with 
 him into our missionary consultations, of the discrimi- 
 nation by which he could detect those who were at- 
 tempting to deceive, of the forbearance which he 
 could exercise towards the erring, joined at the same 
 time with much painstaking for their restoration, 
 and in a word of his happy tact in dealing with men 
 generally. 
 
 We all feel that we have lost a much loved brother 
 in the Lord, a sincere friend, a valued missionary, a 
 
114 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 bulwark in the Church. May we, and you who read, 
 follow in the steps of those who have gone before, so 
 that at last we may be partakers of that eternal joy 
 upon which they have already entered 1 — Rev. J. L. 
 Scott. 
 
 Rev. S. R. Gayley. 
 
 Samuel R. Gayley was born at Magheracrigan, 
 near Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, in October, 
 1828. From his earliest childhood he believed him- 
 self to have been the subject of divine grace. He did 
 not himself know a time when he did not love the 
 Saviour. He w^as a child of the covenant, blessed 
 with that priceless benefit, a strictly rehgious training 
 by pious parents. And this training seems, without 
 any sudden or marked change at any one time, grad- 
 ually to have attained its highest object. His re- 
 ligious growth seems to have been precisely that 
 indicated by our Lord's beautiful figure, "first the 
 blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear." 
 
 In 1847 ^e came to the United States, graduated at 
 La Fayette College in 1853, and at Princeton Theo- 
 logical Seminary in 1856. In the Seminary, the re- 
 marks of Dr. Hodge at a conference decided him in 
 favor of a personal engagement as a foreign mis- 
 sionary, a work in which he had always been inter- 
 ested, and of which he had already thought much. 
 In the winter of 1854-5 he applied to the Board of 
 Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church for ap- 
 pointment as a missionary, designating Northern 
 China as the field of his choice. With his wife he ar- 
 rived at Shanghai, on the 7th of February, 1857. 
 
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 Mr. Gayley's labors in Shanghai were considerably 
 interrupted by local disturbances, by the approach o£ 
 the Tae Ping rebels, and especially towards the last 
 by sickness in his person and family. He succeeded 
 well in getting the dialect of the place, and was 
 preaching abundantly when an affection of the throat, 
 greatly aggravated by the dampness of the climate, 
 occurred, by which he was obliged very frequently 
 to desist from public preaching. The health of him- 
 self and family constrained him, in April, 1861, to 
 remove to Tungchow, in the province of Shantung, 
 a locality which from its high latitude, pure air and 
 sea breezes was thought likely to prove eminently 
 healthful. The change was decidedly beneficial both 
 to Mr. Gayley and his family. The people, more- 
 over, listened to the Gospel with marked attention, 
 and in the course of a few months several professed 
 their faith in Christ, amongst whom was Mr. Gayley's 
 teacher, a man of mind and character who gives 
 promise of great usefulness. 
 
 The winter and spring of 186 1-2 was a very happy 
 period in Mr. Gayley's missionary experience. He 
 made rapid progress in the Mandarin dialect, his 
 health was excellent, the progress of the Gospel was 
 encouraging. In connection with his colleagues, he 
 preached abundantly, distributing copies of the Scrip- 
 tures to the literary candidates who visited Tung- 
 chow, making tours frequently to the country round 
 about, laying plans for prospective effort, and look- 
 ing forward cheerfully and confidently, in view of 
 the healthfulness of the station, to a long life of labor 
 in that the chosen field where he delighted to think 
 
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 he would spend and be spent in the Master's service. 
 Alas! God had ordered all otherwise. 
 
 In July he was taken ill, of cholera; the usual 
 remedies failed to arrest the progress of the disease, 
 and it soon became evident that his life was near its 
 end. He had little pain and was able to converse 
 more or less freely for several hours. During this 
 time he gave precious testimony to the Gospel he 
 had preached. To Mrs. Gayley he said: " My dear, 
 we have been very happy together; God is about to 
 part us. Don't worry about the children. Commit 
 yourself to him that judgeth righteously." Again to 
 her, with inexpressible expression of surprise and 
 triumph, " Is this what they call death?" Mr. Mills, 
 his brother-in-law, said to him, "We prayed and 
 counseled together a great deal about coming to 
 China. When you came many of your friends 
 thought it a great sacrifice. Do you or have you at all 
 regretted it ?" "Never for an instant," was his de- 
 cided answer. To some of us who stood near him he 
 said, "Brethren, never be afraid of death." Mr. 
 Nevius said, "Is the old fear all removed?" Mrs. 
 Gayley said, "You never had any, had you ?" "Oh, 
 yes," he said, "I was afraid of death." Mr. Nevius 
 asked, ' ' What new views have you now ?" He said, 
 "It is not dying, it is not a cessation, it is just living 
 on. I have no language to express it." Mr. Nevius 
 said, "It is the expanding of spiritual into eternal 
 life ?" "Yes," he said eagerly, "it's just that," and 
 then, as seeing things unutterable, he said to the 
 brethren near, "I am wiser than you are to-day. 
 You do not know what is before you. I know what 
 
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 my work is." He died Tuesday, July 29, in the 
 thirty-fourth year of his age. 
 
 Those who knew him in the college and seminary, 
 it is confidently asserted, thought him capable of 
 the highest class of intellectual efforts. There was 
 a quiet strength, the result partially of severe and 
 long continued mental discipline, which could have 
 scarcely failed to make him distinguished. One of 
 the elements of his strength was his sound judgment, 
 in which his brethren could repose the utmost confi- 
 dence. To this there was allied, in an unusually 
 felicitous way, a gentleness and courtesy that made 
 him a singularly pleasing companion. He was a 
 thorough gentleman in the noblest and best sense of 
 the term. A noticeable feature in his character was 
 his modesty. He had a keen sense of the ludicrous, 
 and with his best friends and in his family was 
 merry and full of life. But his mirth was as pure 
 as the air of heaven. His self-control was perhaps 
 the characteristic which is most memorable. As a 
 friend he w^as almost inimitable. Symmetry is the 
 one word that expresses his character, as a man, a 
 scholar, a Christian and a missionary. If his life 
 had been spared, it is confidently believed, he would 
 have acted a distinguished part. He chose the posi- 
 tion of a missionary, and he did not regret the choice. 
 He labored not long in the Master's vineyard, long 
 enough however to behold with a keenness of delight, 
 abundantly compensating all the sacrifice, some 
 precious souls saved by his instrumentality from the 
 abominations of heathenism and fitted for everlasting 
 life and glory. If he left behind him few books or 
 
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 works, he leaves a surer legacy, the memory of a 
 singularly faultless character. He left to the Chinese 
 Christians, as they have some of them remarked — 
 better than books — a living representation, rarely and 
 beautifully complete, of the pure and peaceable re- 
 ligion of Jesus. — Rev. C. R. Mills. 
 
 Mrs. Joseph M. Goheen. 
 
 The removal to a better country of this young and 
 much esteemed missionary took place January 17, 
 1878, at Kolapoor, W. India. 
 
 She was married in 1875 to Rev. Joseph M. Goheen, 
 of the Presbytery of Huntingdon, and sailed with 
 him October 30 of the same year to Kolapoor. Soon 
 after her arrival in India, the disease of which she 
 died (the seeds of which she took with her) was de- 
 veloped. Though unable to do much mission work, 
 her heart was in it, and her life was not in vain. 
 Rev. J. J. Hull, in speaking of her departure, says: 
 '^ Her amiable disposition and sweet Christian spirit 
 greatly endeared her to us all, and with her cheerful 
 patience in prolonged suffering, and her unshaken 
 trust, have left a happy impression even here among 
 a people that know not as yet the source of her 
 strength. " In the early stages of her sickness her 
 mind would turn home and to the loved ones in the 
 United States, but at the last. Rev. J. P. Graham 
 writes, '* She had no desire to live, even to return to 
 America. Her thoughts were fixed on Christ, and 
 the friends who had gone before, and she longed to 
 go (as she herself would say), * not to her earthly, 
 
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 but to her heavenly home.' Never was any one 
 better prepared or more willing to go, but we shall 
 miss her so much ; she was so good and pure-minded, 
 no one could keep from loving her." — Foreign Mis- 
 sionary, April, 1878. 
 
 Rev. Goloknath. 
 
 The death of a veteran laborer in India deserves 
 mention — that of the Rev. Goloknath. the first con- 
 vert of our India Missions. He belonged to a Brah- 
 min family, was born in Bengal in 18 16, and was edu- 
 cated in the Free Church College in Calcutta imder 
 the care of Dr. Duff. The late Rev. John Newton, 
 D.D., had much to do with guiding this young in- 
 quirer into the light. He made a public profession 
 of his faith in 1835, and at once began to prepare for 
 the ministry. In 1847 he was ordained by the Lodi- 
 ana Presbytery and assigned to the Jalandhar station, 
 where he remained until his death, August i, 1891. 
 Mr. Goloknath, in addition to his labors as preacher 
 and teacher, wrote a nimiber of books and tracts in 
 the Urdu and Punjabi languages. The three best 
 known are TJie Destroyer of Pantheism^ The Whole 
 Duty of Man, and A Christian Inquirer. — Annual 
 Report, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. Goloknath. 
 
 The death of Mrs. Goloknath was mentioned at 
 length in the Punjab Mission Nezi'S for March (1892). 
 She was of Brahmin family in Cashmire, and her hus- 
 
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 band has been for about fifty years a member of the 
 Lodiana Mission, in which she herself was the first 
 woman convert. She has been styled ''A Mother to 
 the Native Church oi Jalandhur," and the non-Chris- 
 tian population has well often experienced her kind 
 help and sympathy. She was a sw^eet Christian in her 
 days of activity and bore her long illness with pa- 
 tience. Mrs. Goloknath was the mother of thirteen 
 children, of whom nine survive her, among them 
 the Kanwarani of Kaparthala and her sister, Mrs. 
 Chattergee, who visited America two years ago. 
 — Woman's Work for IVoman, June, 1892. 
 
 Rev. Adolphus Clemens Good, Ph.D. 
 
 The Board of Foreign Missions was greatly shocked 
 on December 21, by receiving a cable dispatch from 
 Batanga, West Africa, announcing the death of this 
 noble missionary, which occurred on December 13, 
 1894. The shock was all the greater because in his 
 very last letter to the Board Dr. Good had written from 
 Efulen, as follows: "Neither Mr. Kerr nor I have 
 ever had an hour's sickness here ; indeed the only de- 
 partures I ever had from perfect health have been due 
 to bad food eaten on journeys. I have never detected 
 the slightest signs of malaria." The brief dispatch 
 gave no hint as to the place or the cause of his 
 death. 
 
 Dr. Good was a child of the covenant, the son of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Abram Good, and was bom near Day- 
 ton, Armstrong count}^, Pa., December 19, 1856. 
 When but a lad he made a public confession of his 
 
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 faith in Glade Run Presbyterian Church. He 
 received his preparatory training in Glade Run 
 Academy from 1873 to 1876, was graduated from 
 Washington and Jefferson College in 1879, and from 
 the Western Theological Seminary in 1882. His 
 degree of Ph. D. was given by Washington and Jef- 
 ferson College in 1890. In June, 1882, he was 
 ordained by the Presbytery of Kittanning as an 
 evangelist, preparatory to sailing for Africa, having 
 been previously appointed a missionary by the Board 
 of Foreign Missions. He chose the Dark Continent 
 as his field of labor mainly because it was a hard field 
 and because few at that time were found willing to 
 enter it. He sailed for Africa September 18, 1882, and 
 on his arrival was assigned to Baraka Station, near the 
 mouth of the Gaboon river. Being a man of fine 
 linguistic ability, he soon mastered the Mpongwe lan- 
 guage, and ten months after landing preached his first 
 sermon in the native tongue. He was married June 
 21, 1883, to Miss Lydia B. Walker, a missionary in 
 connection with the mission, who, with a son ten 
 years of age, survives him. 
 
 In January, 1884, Dr. Good was transferred to the 
 work on the Ogowe river, begun some eight years 
 before, where his rare gifts for evangelizing and 
 organizing found ample scope. With a noble spirit 
 of self-sacrifice, which took no note of the severe 
 physical and mental strain involved, he threw him- 
 self into every part of the work with characteristic 
 energy. Itinerating along the river was his chief 
 delight, carrying the Gospel to those sitting in dark- 
 ness. In this work he was greatly blessed. For 
 
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 several years there was an almost continuous out- 
 pouring of the Spirit, and hundreds of converts from 
 heathenism were baptized. Largely through his 
 instrumentality the one church existing in 1884 mul- 
 tiplied to four before his final removal from that field 
 in 1893. During his last year or two on the Ogowe, 
 when burdened with the care of the widely scattered 
 churches, he also revised the entire New Testament in 
 Mpongwe, and the Hymn Book then in use, adding 
 quite a number of hymns to the latter. During this 
 period and also later. Dr. Good made some valuable 
 contributions to natural history, by sending many 
 choice specimens to Chancellor Holland of the 
 Western University of Pennsylvania. Concerning 
 this the Chancellor writes : 
 
 ' ' With the help of friends and natives, he made dur- 
 ing his stay on the African coast, at various times, 
 collections of the birds, animals, and especially of 
 the insects of the region, which have given him an 
 honored place among the missionary explorers of the 
 century. We are indebted to him for our first knowl- 
 edge of fully five hundred species of the beautiful 
 butterflies and moths of the Ogowe Valley and the 
 region known as Cameroons, in which he has latterly 
 been laboring. When the great collections he made 
 shall be finally studied out, and all the species deter- 
 mined and named, it is probable that he will be 
 found to have discovered fully a thousand species 
 new to science. This is better work than has been 
 done by any other explorer of African territory with- 
 out exception. I am familiar with everything that 
 has been written upon the natural history of Africa, 
 
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 and am certain that none on African soil has ever 
 shown such power ahke as a collector and investiga- 
 tor as my lamented friend." 
 
 Dr. Good also paid some attention to ethnolog-y 
 and the religious behefs of the tribes in West Africa, 
 sending from time to time valuable material on these 
 subjects. 
 
 In 1889, because of an attack of African fever 
 which almost proved fatal, Dr. Good was compelled 
 to return to the United States on furlough. He had 
 so recuperated during the voyage, however, that on 
 reaching the Mission Rooms he began at once to plan 
 for pressing the claim of Africa on the Church. 
 How grandly he did this, and with what telling effect, 
 in churches. Sabbath-schools, women's societies, 
 young people's societies, Presbyteries and General 
 Assembly, many still remember. It is not invidious 
 to say that few missionaries from any country have 
 so thrilled the Church and roused its missionary 
 enthusiasm. The Trinity Presbyterian Church, of 
 Montclair, N. J., was so captivated as to pledge itself 
 to pay, through the Board, Dr. Good's entire salary, 
 although the amount involved was far in excess of its 
 previous gifts. The pledge has been faithfully kept. 
 
 Early in 1892, Dr. Good rendered most valuable 
 service to the Board in Liberia. By special request 
 he visited our mission in that countr}^, with much 
 toil and no little risk to health, examining every 
 department of the work and rendering a full, clear 
 and discriminating report, accompanied by important 
 suggestions. 
 
 Meanwhile a crisis which had long been appre- 
 
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 hended to our work within French territory had 
 come. The Government, which had never looked 
 with favor on EngUsh-speaking Protestant missions, 
 insisted that the French language and that only 
 should be taught in our schools. It was evident that 
 to enforce that rule rigidly would be to break up our 
 work. The missionaries saw this, and none more 
 keenly or regretfully than Dr. Good. Much as he 
 loved the work on the Ogowe, he thought that to con- 
 tinue under such restrictions would be to court 
 trouble and invite defeat. At the urgent request of 
 the mission, the Board finally transferred the work on 
 the Ogowe to the Societe des Missions Evangeliques 
 of Paris. 
 
 In anticipation of such an outcome, Dr. Good had 
 for several years been thinking of the country behind 
 the coast belt at Batanga, lying within German terri- 
 tory, as a promising field for missionary effort. 
 While on a furlough in the United States, he had with 
 the aid of a German scholar read two volumes of 
 travel by a German explorer whom he had formerly 
 met in Africa, and who spoke enthusiastically of the 
 country in the interior, both as to its climate and its 
 people. On the basis of representations made by 
 Dr. Good and with the cordial approval of the mis- 
 sion, the Board on March 21, 1892, authorized the 
 mission to send him and another missionary to ex- 
 plore the region with a view to the opening of mission 
 w^ork. In communicating this action to the mission, 
 the secretary in charge urged the explorers to take 
 all possible precaution against undue exposure of 
 health or life. To this Dr. Good replied with char- 
 
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 acteristic singleness of aim : " The emergency against 
 which I sliall most carefully provide is failure.''' 
 How well he carried out this high purpose his succes- 
 sive journeys to the interior, as sketched by his own 
 pen in TJie CJmrcJi and Woman's Work bear- ample 
 testimony. Although it was the intention of the 
 Board and the mission that he should be accompa- 
 nied by a fellow-missionary on these journeys, vari- 
 ous things combined to make this impracticable. 
 
 Dr. Good made three distinct journeys into the 
 unexplored interior, with no companions save native 
 carriers, the first being preliminary and commencing 
 July 20, 1892. Although he made light of the dis- 
 comfort encountered and of the danger to which he 
 was exposed, no one can read his unvarnished narra- 
 tives of travel without being impressed with the 
 heroic spirit of the man. Think of marching day 
 after day along the beds and on the edge of streams, 
 sometimes through mud a foot deep, his clothing 
 constantly soaked with the dense foliage kept wet by 
 frequent tropical showers. But these were small 
 matters in his estimation compared with the joy of 
 being able to open a pathway for the Gospel to the 
 savage tribes of the interior. This joy increased as 
 the range of his vision widened and he found the 
 Bule people to belong to the great Fang family, and 
 to be widespread and quite accessible. 
 
 His first two journeys led to the selection of Efu- 
 len as the site of the first interior station, after it 
 had been visited by a committee of the mission. 
 Dr. Good's third journey of exploration, during 
 which he marched some four hundred miles, with 
 
126 KECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Efulen as a starting- point, was the most extensive 
 of the three. The outcome of this journey was the 
 selection by a committee of the mission of Ebolewo'e 
 as a second station. 
 
 According- to latest advices, he had planned still 
 another expedition for the closing- weeks of the year, 
 with a view to exploring the Bene country, hoping 
 to find an opening there for a third mission station. 
 But just here the curtain falls for the present. 
 Whether it was while carrying out this purpose of 
 seeking a wider door for the Gospel that the call to a 
 higher service met him cannot be known till letters 
 reach us. He was profoundly anxious to take advan- 
 tage of the privilege granted by the German Gov- 
 ernment of preempting as much of the interior as 
 the mission could occupy, especially where the tribes 
 spoke substantially the same language. 
 
 Dr. Good was well fitted by nature to be a mission- 
 ary explorer and pioneer, while at the same time he 
 was admirably equipped by training and grace. 
 Brave, wise, self-sacrificing and persevering, he laid 
 out his plans on a comprehensive scale in view of all 
 available light, and then pushed on with undaunted 
 courage to their realization. He was a man of strong 
 faith and felt that the Lord was with him. In his 
 last letter to his beloved wife he wrote: "In all the 
 years that are past of my life, the path has never 
 failed to open before me clearly and in good time." 
 The privations he endured were great, but his noble 
 nature coimted them small when compared with 
 those Mrs. Good had endured in consenting to return 
 to America alone in broken health, while he turned 
 
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 his face once more towards the interior. On July 29, 
 1894, he wrote her: "Kind words are coming in 
 from all sides, until I really, if I did not know better, 
 might be tempted to think that I was something 
 of a hero. I know two things, however; first, that 
 I am very far from being a hero ; and second, that if 
 there is any remarkable heroism being displayed it is 
 by you, for in this separation you are having deci- 
 dedly the worst of it." But he was a hero, never- 
 theless, his heroism being of that type so warmly 
 commended by Stanley in speaking of Mackay of 
 Uganda and his noble associates in missionary work. 
 He explored not for self-glory, but only that he might 
 give the Gospel to the perishing Bule. With only the 
 shelter of a rough bark house during the intervals of 
 his explorations, or of his journeys to the coast, he 
 gave himself to the study of the language through 
 w^hich the Gospel could be commtmicated to the peo- 
 ple. He hastened to prepare a Bule Primer, the hrst 
 book in the language, which is now passing through 
 the press in New York. Writing to Mrs. Good on 
 October 17, 1894, he says: "I fear miy plans are 
 badly made. I have determined to wait here until 
 the rains stop, which ought to be in about two or 
 three weeks; but now I learn when the rains have 
 ceased here they are heaviest in the interior; so I am 
 likely to have a bad time of it. But I can't put off 
 this trip, for I want to visit the Bene country before 
 I revise any of my translations. 
 
 " I have just two chapters more of Luke, and then 
 I am through with the Gospels, which is all I have 
 planned to translate at this time." Next day he 
 
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 wrote : * ' The carriers are to start to-morrow, so I 
 will close this now. To-morrow I hope to finish 
 Luke, and then I am going to stop literary work for 
 a couple of months. I am desperately tired of puz- 
 zling over how to say what there are often no words 
 to express, and I shall be glad to get on the road 
 again. " 
 
 He was pushing exploration and translation with 
 all his might, with the intention of rejoining his 
 family in America next spring, intending while 
 there to prosecute his literary work and see the Gos- 
 pels, and possibly other parts of the Scriptures, 
 through the press. But God had other plans. The 
 translator's pen has been laid down, the feet which 
 were shod with the preparation of the Gospel of 
 peace walk no longer in untrodden paths, the tongue 
 which plead so eloquently for Africa's redemption 
 lies silent in an African grave, but the missionary 
 explorer lives in the immediate presence of his Lord, 
 and will continue to live also in the work so nobly 
 done. 
 
 Dr. Good stood high in the estimation and affec- 
 tion of the Board of Foreign Missions, both as a 
 Christian brother and as a devoted and successful 
 missionary. While recognizing the divine wisdom 
 and love in the severe dispensation, it cannot but 
 express its deep sense of the loss which the Church 
 and the cause of Foreign Missions have sustained. 
 
 Dr. Good also enjoyed the confidence of his 
 brethren in the mission and gratefully appreciated 
 their support and earnest cooperation. His death to 
 them will be a personal bereavement, while its rela- 
 
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 tion to the work in the interior will appall them. 
 The cable dispatch which brought the sad tidings to 
 New York, contained also the pathetic appeal : 
 ^^ Scud ivorkcrs quickly.'' Who will respond by con- 
 secrating their lives to the Lord for Africa ? Who 
 will answer with means to send and support such 
 reinforcements ? — Rev. John Gillespie^ D. D. 
 
 Miss S. U. Goodrich. 
 
 It is not necessary to turn to the old biographies 
 for instances of moral and Christian heroism. Miss 
 Goodrich, who died on May 2, in this city, has been 
 known by a limited number of persons as the inde- 
 fatigable friend of the Chinese, and as a devoted mis- 
 sionary in their service. The year 1870 found her em- 
 ployed as a clerk at the Five Points House of Industry. 
 While thus engaged during the usual hours of the 
 day, she devoted her evenings to assisting Rev. 
 Arthur Folsom in a school which had been opened 
 for Chinamen. His work was suspended in the fol- 
 lowing autumn, as its growth had not realized ex- 
 pectations; but Miss Goodrich, unwilling to see the 
 evening school relinquished, carried it on for two 
 years without compensation. At the expiration of 
 that time, however, she went to her pastor, Rev. Dr. 
 Howard Crosby, for counsel, and was advised to re- 
 linquish her clerkship in the House of Industry, and 
 devote her whole time to the Chinese. Volunteers for 
 Sunday-school were soon obtained, and more or less 
 assistance was given her in the evening school. 
 
 In 1878 the school was removed to 119 White 
 
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 street, and a year after it was taken under the care 
 of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Miss 
 Goodrich still continuing in charge. Around this 
 nucleus of the evening school, Sunday-schools for 
 Chinamen were multiplied till over twenty are now 
 maintained in New York and Brooklyn. The pecu- 
 liar sympathy which was felt by Miss Goodrich for 
 the Chinese, and which was fully expressed not only 
 by her gentle voice, but by a face of rare benevo- 
 lence, constituted undoubtedly the chief element of 
 her power over them. In contrast with the heartless 
 and sometimes brutal treatment which these Mongo- 
 lians experience at the hands of the masses, this one 
 teacher appeared to them as an angel of mercy. 
 Her instructions were always directed towards defi- 
 nite spiritual ends. Often would she kneel with these 
 untutored men in prayer that they might be led of 
 the Spirit of God. 
 
 Though results that can be tabulated are not large, 
 yet scores of men, after more or less instruction, and 
 fortified with the deep impressions which her Chris- 
 tian character had made upon them, have scattered 
 to all parts of the earth as witnesses for her; and not 
 a few have cherished a hope in the salvation of Christ. 
 Many touching expressions of gratitude and love 
 came to her in her last Illness, and some of the most 
 impressive scenes to be witnessed in her sick-room 
 were those in which her devoted converts gathered 
 at her bedside to express their sympath}^, and upon 
 taking their leave bowed down and offered fervent 
 prayer in her behalf. In our last issue we alluded to 
 one of her pupils, who is now employed as a mis- 
 
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 sionary among his countrymen in the island of 
 Mauritius. His letter to Miss Goodrich was at the 
 same time published. — Foreign Missionary^ July, 
 1882. 
 
 Rev. Nicanor Gomez. 
 
 Among the '^ Letters from the Field " will be found 
 an account, given by Rev. J. M. Greene, of a furious 
 outbreak of mob violence against a Protestant service 
 at Alanwyo, Mexico. Two of our clergymen were 
 seriously injured. The following supplemental letter 
 records the martyr death of one of the two : 
 
 ''Mexico, November 5, 1884. 
 ' ' Our worst fears have been realized in the case of 
 our good brother. Rev. Nicanor Gomez. After lin- 
 gering a week in agony and delirium, he passed away 
 to join the noble army of the martyrs. His head was 
 fairly crushed by the terrible blows received from the 
 great stones hurled at him, so that nothing less than 
 a miracle could have effected his restoration. He 
 became delirious almost immediately, and so con- 
 tinued, with very brief intervals of semi-conscious- 
 ness, until the afternoon of last Sabbath, when his 
 spirit took its flight. His son, writing me under date 
 of yesterday, says: 'I write to inform you that on 
 the day of God (November 2), my father rested from 
 his bodily afflictions and pains, and passed to the bet- 
 ter life with the martyrs of Jesus. I ask you, in 
 my mother's behalf and that of our large family, that 
 our brethren of the capital may pray for us especially, 
 that God will comfort us and grant us the light of his 
 
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 Holy Spirit, in order that we may be faithful to his 
 will and providence even unto death.' A post- 
 mortem examination showed that his skull had been 
 fractured in various places, also that he had received 
 a fatal wound in the throat. The only wonder of his 
 physician was that he had lived so long after being 
 wounded. Thus has our work for Christ lost one 
 of its most faithful representatives. It is now about 
 fifteen years since Mr. Gomez, walking through the 
 plaza of Santiago on a market day, saw exposed 
 for sale some strange books which attracted his 
 curiosity. Drawing near and examining them, he 
 found them to be copies of the Scriptures, and de- 
 cided to buy one of the volumes. He took it home, 
 and in the evening, after the children had all 
 retired, he read from his new purchase to his wife. 
 This was repeated evening after evening, and the 
 more they read the more precious became the book 
 to them. To reading they added prayer, and then 
 they felt constrained to teach their children what to 
 them had proved the way of life. Not satisfied with 
 this, Mr. Gomez invited one after another of his neigh- 
 bors to come in and hear what he should read to him 
 from his new book. In this manner he very soon sur- 
 rounded himself with a little circle of truly Bible 
 Christians. The next step was to provide for the 
 assembling of themselves together for simple, united 
 worship, and this was effected through the kind offer 
 of Mr. Gomez to fit up the only comfortable room in 
 his humble dwelling as a chapel, and to move with 
 his family into some outbuildings which could not 
 even boast of a wall except on one side, the others 
 
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 being enclosed by a sort of picket fence. This offer 
 was made good, and for all these years that little 
 chapel has resounded Sabbath by Sabbath, and once 
 during the week, with the prayers and praises of 
 God's people, in number from twenty to fifty, the 
 services being conducted by Mr, Nicanor Gomez, or 
 by his son Nestor. For several years both of them 
 have been in the service of the mission, and the little 
 congregation at Capulhuac has long been reckoned 
 among our most faithful organizations. Our mar- 
 tyred brother was about sixty years of age. In early 
 life he was as noted for his devotion to the Romish 
 Church as he became afterward for his evangelical 
 zeal. Only a few weeks since Mr. Brown and myself 
 passed a Sabbath with him and administered the 
 Lord's Supper to his flock. Very precious to us now 
 is the remembrance of that visit, during which he 
 told us of his early and later life, and especially of his 
 experience at the confessional as having destroyed 
 his faith completely in the Romish Church. The old 
 man's eyes grew bright with unwonted fire, and moist 
 at the same time with tears, as he narrated to us the 
 way in which he had been led, and how mercifully 
 the Lord had permitted him to see his family of ten 
 children all in full sympathy with his Scriptural 
 views and worship. Among all our native brethren, 
 Don Nicanor was conspicuous for his humility, zeal, 
 courage, energy and self-sacrifice. Not satisfied 
 with the chapel at first prepared and devoted to 
 Gospel services, he had been at work for over a year 
 erecting, out of his scanty resources ($20 a month), 
 a more pretentious structure, which was nearly ready 
 
134 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 for dedication at his death. In all the region round 
 about Capulhuac, companies of simple Indians are 
 found in whose minds the truth of God has been 
 sown by the good old man whose death we now 
 deplore. Over a hundred and forty sincere mourn- 
 ers gathered at his funeral yesterday, even many 
 Romanists giving evidence of heartfelt sorrow at the 
 loss of so good a neighbor and so true a friend. But 
 'he, being dead, yet speaketh.' Having baptized 
 the soil of Almoloya with Christian blood, our breth- 
 ren are determined to win it for Christ. The most 
 palpable effect of all that has happened next to the 
 sense of personal bereavement is a renewed zeal for 
 the extension of the glorious Gospel." — Foreign 
 Missionary^ December, 1884. 
 
 Rev. Alexander J. Graham. 
 
 Mr. Graham received his collegiate and theological 
 education at Princeton, N. J., and acquitted himself 
 with high credit throughout. He was the son of 
 pious parents and many prayers. At about eighteen 
 years of age, while a student at college and in the 
 course of his usual meditations on retiring to rest, his 
 mind was opened to tJic goodness of God. He became 
 a follower of Christ, engaged himself on the Lord's 
 side and was thenceforth earnest in the Master's ser- 
 vice. 
 
 In September, 1849, an exigency at Spencer Acad- 
 emy among the Choctaw Indians calling for a laborer, 
 his name was mentioned with much confidence by 
 those equally acquainted with him and with the field. 
 
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 In accepting the appointment to this post he had to 
 sacrifice plans of Hfe cherished by himself and his 
 bereaved family, but he cheerfully went forth on the 
 self-denying work to which he was called. All bore 
 testimony to his abundant labors and to his signal 
 usefulness. His heart soon became bound up in the 
 forty Indian boys to whom he was teacher, protector, 
 guardian and friend. But secret disease was at work 
 
 upon him The physician advised his return 
 
 to the East for a surgical operation. It was the 
 sorest trial of his life, he said, to leave the Indian 
 boys even for a season. Yet with all his character- 
 istic resolution he set out on his journey of 2200 
 miles and pursued it amongst his increasing disabih- 
 ties, reaching home only to greet his friends again 
 and to depart this Life. His very incessant and in- 
 tense pains he bore without a murmur. As his 
 strength failed he was told by his physician that he 
 was almost gone. His devoted sister received the 
 word with less firmness than he. He begged her to 
 compose her feelings. ''It is all right, sister; let 
 God's w^ill be done." He was laboring a while to 
 recall a favorite hymn : 
 
 " Is God my friend ? Then welcome death." 
 So, devoutly and triumphantly, he departed, July 23, 
 1850, in the twenty-fifth year of his age. — The Pres- 
 byterian. 
 
 Rev. O. M. Green. 
 
 Rev. Oliver McClean Green was born at Dickinson, 
 Cumberland county, Pa., June 22, 1845; died at 
 
136 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Harrisburg-, Pa., November 17, 1882, aged thirty- 
 seven years, four months, and twenty-five days. He 
 was the youngest son of John T. Green, Esq. , a ruling 
 elder of the Dickinson Presbyterian Church. His 
 preparatory studies were prosecuted at Centreville, 
 Newville, and Chamber sburg. Pie entered Prince- 
 ton College in August, 1864, and graduated with the 
 second honors of his class in June, 1867. He entered 
 Princeton Seminary October, 1867, and remained till 
 January, 1869, when he had to return home on 
 account of impaired health. In September, 1869, 
 he resumed his studies, falling back one class ; 1870 
 and 187 1 he spent in Home Mission work at Olyphant 
 and Peckville, in Lackawanna Presbytery, where he 
 greatly endeared himself to the people. 
 
 Hoping to benefit his health by a winter in the 
 South, he entered Columbia Seminary, South Caro- 
 lina, in September, 187 1, and graduated there the 
 following May. He now fully decided to engage in 
 Foreign Mission work and offered himself to the 
 Board, but owing to financial embarrassment, the 
 Board could not send him. He then supplied the 
 Presbyterian Church of Alexandria, Va. , for one year 
 with great acceptance, the people becoming so much 
 attached to him, that they followed his whole future 
 course with great interest. 
 
 In 1873 he again offered himself to the Board, and 
 being accepted, was ordained by the Presbytery of 
 Carlisle in the Second Church of Carlisle in October. 
 He bade farewell to home and friends on the 15th of 
 October, and arrived in Japan, to which field he had 
 been commissioned, December i, 1873. 
 
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 He at once began the study of the difficult Japa- 
 nese language, and made such progress that in eleven 
 months he commenced preaching to the people. He 
 was Stated Clerk of Presbytery and acted as inter- 
 preter for both Japanese and Americans nearly all 
 the time he was in Japan. He made a number of 
 translations of small Christian commentaries and 
 tracts. Being one of our first missionaries to the 
 sunrise kingdom, he took an active part in the organ- 
 ization of " The Church of Jesus Christ in Japan," 
 which is the organization through which all the dif- 
 ferent Presbyterian Churches operate in Japan. At 
 first he was stationed at Yokohama, and afterward at 
 Tokio. His industry, fidelity and amiability greatly 
 endeared him to his co-laborers and the natives. 
 
 His incessant labors and a trying climate, however, 
 having impaired his naturally delicate constitution, 
 he contracted chronic rheumatism, which compelled 
 him to relinquish his work. He left Japan in July, 
 1880, and returned home in very feeble health. He 
 found the old homestead sadly changed by the 
 death of his mother, which occurred December 19, 
 1876. He visited among relatives and friends, but 
 was able to make but few public addresses. All 
 medical assistance proved of no avail, and after a 
 lingering sickness he passed to his reward November 
 17, 1882. His friends and his brethren, of Carlisle 
 Presbytery, laid his remains away tenderly by the 
 side of his mother, in old Dickinson churchyard, 
 which is thus consecrated by the dust of one of the 
 most amiable, gifted and devoted servants of Christ. 
 His memory is embalmed in the recollection of his 
 
138 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 friends, and the history of Christian missions in 
 Japan. — Rev. W. H. Logan, Foreign Missionary^ 
 January, 1883. 
 
 Miss Mary C. Greenleaf. 
 
 Miss Greenleaf was a daughter of Mr. Ebenezer 
 and Mrs. Jane Greenleaf, of Newburyport, Mass. , and 
 niece of the late Rev. Dr. Dana of the same city. 
 She was an admirable missionary am.ong- the Chicka- 
 saws, in the Indian Territory, where she died June 
 26, 1 85 7, in the fifty-third year of her age. Her 
 memoir, published by the Massachusetts Sabbath- 
 school Society, is an interesting book, describing a 
 beautiful life of piety and giving much information 
 concerning missionary work among the Indians. — 
 /. C L. 
 
 Rev. William Hall. 
 
 Mr. Hall, who died on the 29th of September, 1894, 
 was one of five Presbyterian ministers, most of whom 
 spent the greater part of their lives in missionary 
 work among the Indians of Western New York. 
 Jabez B. Hyde, Asher Wright, Asher Bliss, Anson 
 Gleason and William Hall, each in some respects a 
 remarkable character, wrought long and earnestly 
 for the welfare of the red man, and each left upon 
 the people among whom he lived a distinct impress 
 of himself. 
 
 The only one of these men at all distinguished as a 
 student was the venerated Dr. Asher Wriofht, who 
 
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 had a philosophical and penetrating intellect, and 
 whose laborious work of translation in the Seneca 
 tongue remains to-day as a monument to his industry 
 and devotion. 
 
 The subject of the present memoir, Mr. Hall, with 
 no early advantages of liberal education, found him- 
 self led by the hand of providence almost irresistibly, 
 at the very opening of his manhood, into the par- 
 ticular ministry in which he spent his days. 
 
 He was born September 20, 1808, and was one of 
 eleven children. He always ascribed the formation 
 of his mind to a godly mother, of whom he said, 
 " She never cooked on the Sabbath," and taught him 
 at her knee from about the only books accessible at 
 the time, the Bible, the New England Primer, and 
 the Shorter Catechism. He describes himself as 
 very early in life oppressed with the fear of divine 
 judgment. His brothers and sisters were soon gath- 
 ered into a Methodist ** class " formed in the neigh- 
 borhood. 
 
 One day while hoeing corn alone in the field, he 
 fell upon his face in a paroxysm of fear, and cried to 
 God for mercy; but the only peace he gained arose 
 from what he described as '' a bargain he made with 
 the Lord," that, in consideration of his reading the 
 Scriptures and praying to God three times a day, 
 and striving in all things to please him, the Lord 
 would " save his soul." But he soon discovered that 
 although he had thus been relieved of the awful fear 
 of judgment to come, he was becoming self-righteous. 
 He had not yet realized what it was to be new-born 
 and to live in the sweet peace of those who cast 
 
I40 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 themselves entirely into the keeping of Jesus and are 
 clothed in his righteousness. But he found that 
 peace eventually, and abode in it through the rest of 
 his days. 
 
 Mr. Hall's father could give him no better ad- 
 vantages for education than those of the district 
 school; but the boy's mind was alert, and at sixteen 
 he became himself a teacher, turned aside now and 
 then to more profitable employment, managed to 
 spend a few terms in an academy, and so ten years 
 passed away. 
 
 In one village where he taught he had a remark- 
 able experience. His deep religious convictions hav- 
 ing led him to gather some of his pupils about him, 
 after school hours, for prayer and religious conversa- 
 tion, the Romanists of the place arrayed themselves 
 against him, and one man, not a Romanist, fearing 
 that his daughters would be converted and join the 
 Presbyterian Church, aroused such opposition to him 
 as to procure the vote of a district meeting that he 
 should leave his place, and he did so. 
 
 This led to an invitation that he should go to Alle- 
 gheny and take employment as a catechist. To this 
 he acceded, married a lady in Silver Creek, started 
 at once for his new field, and began his work in the 
 shell of a one-story house built of rough boards and 
 timber. Here he fell at once under the potent influ- 
 ence of the missionaries, Wright and Bliss, who laid 
 hold of him and told him he must be a minister. He 
 was ordained by a council, and from that point went 
 steadily on through life at the arduous work to 
 which he felt sure that his Master had called him. 
 
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 Mr. Hall's career from the time he was ordained 
 was uneventful. He pursued the '^ noiseless tenor 
 of his way " in comparative obscurity, a quiet, modest 
 man, with a single aim, to point out to the Senecas 
 the path of peace, industry, virtue and religion, and 
 help them to walk in it. He was rarely seen at the 
 meetings of the Presbytery, but those who came to 
 know him ever remembered him as a wise, gentle 
 and amiable man. To him it would never be said 
 that he hid his Lord's talent in the earth. An over- 
 shadowing sense of responsibility never allowed him 
 to forget the command, '' Occupy till I come;" and 
 over all the Reservation the memory of William Hall 
 will ever be precious. — Rev. M. F. Trippe^ The Evan- 
 gelist. 
 
 Mrs. William Hall. 
 
 Mrs. Emeline Gaylard Hall, who died at West 
 Salamanca, February 17, 1882, in the seventy-fourth 
 year of her age, had been connected with the work 
 of the Seneca Mission over forty-seven years. In the 
 year 1834 she was married to the Rev. William Hall, 
 then a school-teacher at Silver Creek; and soon 
 afterwards they entered upon what proved to be their 
 life work among the Seneca Indians. Nearly the 
 whole period of labor was spent on the Allegheny 
 reservation. 
 
 Perhaps no form or department of missionary labor 
 involves greater self-denial than that which is de- 
 voted to the fragmentary tribes of our American 
 Indians. The romance of missions, the interest 
 
142 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 growing out of contact with strange civilizations and 
 interesting foreign countries, is all wanting when one 
 settles down upon a dull half -cultivated Indian reser- 
 vation, with scattered cabins, half-cleared lands and 
 poorly tilled fields, to live a life of sympathy and 
 helpfulness to the poor and neglected. The discour- 
 agements which attend mission work just beyond the 
 borders of our settlements, where the contact of vice 
 and the ravages of whisky constantly interpose their 
 influence, are perhaps greater than those encountered 
 anywhere else. There is wanting the sympathy of a 
 flock of our own people as in the Home Mission 
 work, and on the other hand the safe distance from 
 evil enjoyed in a secluded foreign field. 
 
 In the words of Rev. C. Burgess, who has pre- 
 pared a more extended obituary notice, ' ' The work 
 to which Mr. and Mrs. Hall gave themselves de- 
 manded a piety that had nerve and sinew, that was 
 true, deep, and sincere. And theirs was at an early 
 day tested severely, not only by various hindrances, 
 but by severe trials, in the destruction of their home 
 by fire and in the sickness and death which visited 
 the family circle. Under these circumstances the 
 symmetry and strength of Mrs. Hall's character be- 
 came more and more apparent as the years rolled 
 on." ''It was not fitful," says Mr. Burgess, "but 
 uniform. The light of her Christian example, shining 
 with great brightness through the whole sphere of her 
 acquaintance, was brightest and most radiant at 
 home. Her husband praiseth her, and her children 
 and grandchildren rise up and call her blessed." — 
 Foreign Missionary^ April, 18S2. 
 
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 Rev. William Hamilton. 
 
 Mr. Hamilton was a native of Western Pennsylva- 
 nia. He received his theological education in Alle- 
 gheny Seminary, was ordained by the Presbytery of 
 Northumberland in 1837, and immediately left as a 
 missionary of the Board to the Iowa Indians. He 
 continued in its service, laboring among this tribe 
 and the Omahas imtil the transfer of these Indian 
 missions to the Home Board in 18S9. He died on 
 the 17th of September, 1891, at Decatur, Neb., in his 
 eighty-first year. A brief memorial of this devoted 
 servant of Christ was written by the compiler of these 
 memoirs and is in his Hand-book and Incidents of 
 Foreign Missions in the Presbyterian Church. — IV. R. 
 
 Mrs. William Hamilton. 
 
 Mrs. Hamilton, who accompanied her husband on 
 his mission to the Iowa Indians in 1837, died on the 
 29th of April, 1868, at the Omaha Mission, to which 
 they had removed. ' ' When told that she could not 
 live " (after receiving a severe injury from the over- 
 turning of a carriage), Mr. Hamilton writes, "she 
 expressed entire resignation to the will of God; she 
 had no fear of death, and no doubt of her interest in 
 Christ. Thus she seems to have returned to the 
 work that she had consecrated her life to more than 
 thirty years ago, only to lay her body in the mission 
 graveyard. We received much sympathy from the 
 friends around us and also from the Indians. May 
 
144 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 this affliction be sanctified to us all is my earnest 
 prayer." — Record^ June, 1868. 
 
 Mrs. William B. Hamilton. 
 
 The sudden tidings of the death of Mrs. W. B. 
 Hamilton, at Chinanfoo, China, January 13, 1889, 
 have caused a severe shock not only at the Mission 
 House, but in a wide circle of friends of the deceased. 
 It seems but as yesterday that Mrs. Hamilton had 
 bidden adieu to a large circle of friends assembled in 
 Washington, Pa., and to the nearer home circle, and 
 gone forth with bright hopes as a missionary of the 
 Board to Chinanfoo. She had been supposed to be 
 in the enjoyment of a fair degree of health ; but 
 while on the Pacific her husband noticed with some 
 alarm the appearance of an ominous hectic flush 
 upon her cheek. Soon after her arrival in Chinanfoo 
 she suffered two or three slight hemorrhages and 
 from that time the progress of her disease, commonly 
 known as quick consumption, was exceedingly rapid. 
 Although called so soon to lay down her work, the 
 summons was obeyed without complaint. A sweet 
 and peaceful spirit of reconciliation and of unshaken 
 trust was given her even to the last. She had won 
 the affection of the mission, and in the hearts of 
 multitudes who knew her in her childhood and 
 youth her memory is dear. (Dr. Coltman, who 
 watched over her to the last, says, '* I have witnessed 
 many death-beds of Christians and others, but never 
 such a happy one as hers. Death was robbed of his 
 sting.") — CJiurcJi at Home and Abroad^ May, 1889. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. I45 
 
 Rev. Andrew P. Happer, D.D., M.D. 
 
 The name of Dr. Happer has been associated with 
 missions in China for the last fifty years. He was 
 born in Monongahela City, Pa., October 20, 18 18, 
 and died at Wooster, Ohio, October 27, 1894. The 
 treaty of Nanking, of August, 1842, which opened 
 five ports of China to commerce and the Gospel, gave 
 enhanced interest to the Presbyterian Board's mis- 
 sions in that empire and the next year special funds 
 were contributed for their enlargement. 
 
 Andrew Patton Happer, then a graduate of Jeffer- 
 son College, having completed his theological course 
 at Allegheny, was studying medicine in Philadelphia, 
 where he took the degree of M. D. in the University 
 of Pennsylvania. In 1844 he was ordained by the 
 Presbytery of Ohio, and on the 2 2d of June of that 
 year sailed from New York for Canton in company 
 with five other missionaries of the Board, who were 
 destined for more northern ports, and arrived at 
 Macao on the 2 2d of October. 
 
 As no house could be rented in Canton for the res- 
 idence of foreigners by reason of local prejudice, he 
 w^as compelled to remain at Macao over two years 
 ''without Christian society or sympathy or friend- 
 ship." Here he prosecuted the study of the Ian-- 
 guage and established a boarding school for Chinese 
 boys. Eleven of these were graduated from his 
 training school in Canton after eight years' Christian 
 instruction. 
 
 Late in the year 1846 he was joined by the Rev. 
 William and Mrs. Speer and Rev. John B. French, 
 
146 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 and a few months later the mission succeeded in 
 entering and establishing itself in Canton. But not 
 all. In April the remains of Mrs. Cornelia Speer 
 found a resting place in Macao beside those of Dr. 
 Robert Morrison. 
 
 On the nth of November, 1847, Dr. Happer mar- 
 ried Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Dyer Ball, of the 
 American Board, who became the mother of his four 
 daughters, who, under appointment of the Presbyte- 
 rian Board, were at times his co-laborers in the field ; 
 also of two sons, one of whom ministered to him in 
 his last hours. 
 
 The dispensary and practice of the physician 
 proved a wedge-like instrument for opening the way 
 for more direct mission work. "Patients come to 
 me," says he, "from all the surrounding country, as 
 well as from this great city. Some have come a dis- 
 tance of three, four and even five days' journe}^ to 
 seek here medical aid." Of the abundant labors of 
 Dr. Happer during the first ten years of his life in 
 China, his colleague. Dr. Kerr, near the end of that 
 period, thus writes: "The instruction and superin- 
 tendence of thirty boys in the boarding school and 
 as many in the day school, preaching every other 
 day and twice on the Sabbath, prescribing on every 
 weekday, for from fifty to one hundred and fifty 
 patients, impose on Dr. Happer labor for which 
 few men would be equal, but which his desire for the 
 welfare of this people has enabled him to perform 
 willingly and zealously." 
 
 Mrs. Happer's health gave way in 1854, so as to 
 make a change necessar}^, and as Dr. Kerr and Mr. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. I47 
 
 Preston had arrived to reinforce the mission, Dr. 
 Happer embarked with his family for the United 
 States in December of that year. His last mission- 
 ary act before leaving was the baptism of one whom 
 he calls "a son begotten and beloved in the Gospel 
 — the first fruits of my labors among the Chinese. 
 After ten years' waiting, this sheaf was gathered with 
 great joy." During a long detention for the same 
 cause that had brought him home, Canton had been 
 bombarded and captured by British and French war 
 ships — miles of houses had been destroyed, and 
 among them all the mission premises. 
 
 On Dr. Happer's return to the field in 1859, he 
 found the brethren, who before the conflict had 
 retreated to Macao, reestablished in Canton with 
 better accommodations than those destroyed, and 
 among a people whose haughtiness had been brought 
 down by the severe discipline they had undergone. 
 Medical and hospital practice was resumed, the dis- 
 banded training school reopened, and evangelistic 
 labors were more encouraging than before. 
 
 In 1862, the first Presbyterian church was organ- 
 ized with seven native members, and he became its 
 pastor and continued such until his direct mission 
 work was closed, gathering into that fold some five 
 hundred converts. He detached members as colo- 
 nies to form nine other churches, and the member- 
 ship last reported in them all is more than double 
 the number he had baptized. But no computation 
 can adequately state the widening influence through 
 church and school of a single missionary. His col- 
 leagues, as from time to time they joined him, were 
 
148 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 all helpers together in the Master's work and sharers 
 in its success. 
 
 His boarding or training school afforded him the 
 most favorable opportunity of securing evangelistic 
 results. He names the Epistle of Paul to the 
 Romans, with Hodge's notes as a text-book for drill- 
 ing his boys, and adds : ' ' The utter hopelessness of 
 their condition as sinners, and the heinousness of 
 their sins and the freeness and preciousness of the 
 Gospel were tenderly and earnestly pressed upon 
 their attention. " Such sowing produced fruitage, and 
 so he reports, in January, 1875, eighty-six baptisms in 
 the twenty-six preceding months. 
 
 In December, 1865, Mrs. Elizabeth Happer 
 departed this life in great peace and a suitable provi- 
 sion for his motherless children required that the 
 father should bring them to America. In October, 
 1869, he returned to China, having on the 6th of that 
 month married Miss A. L. Elliott, who for twenty 
 years had been a teacher in Western Pennsylvania. 
 Four years later he writes: *^ My wife is not, for the 
 Lord took her. She rejoiced that she was permitted 
 to come to China, and she saw here blessed results in 
 answer to her prayers. " Dr. Happer's third marriage 
 was on March 18, 1875, to Miss Hannah J. Shaw, a 
 member of the mission, who survives him. 
 
 It was not until after fourteen years of continuous 
 labor that he consented to another furlough, and the 
 year 1884 may be regarded as the closing one of his 
 missionary life. As a member of the Committee for 
 the Revision of the Culbertson & Bridgeman Ver- 
 sion of the Bible, and as a translator with others of 
 
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 the New Testament into the vernacular, he was 
 making good progress. But these, with his other 
 engagements, were making inroads upon his physical 
 strength, and having sought in vain restoration of 
 health in a visit to Japan, he was constrained to ask 
 leave of absence. He came home, but not to rest. 
 
 He had seen his training-school graduates scattered 
 among some of the cities of the empire, and exert- 
 ing there, as in their home, a leavening influence, 
 and his ideal in that line of work was a permanently- 
 endowed Chinese Christian College. To secure such 
 an endowment he came to New York, occupied a 
 room in the Mission House, and for several weeks 
 was engaged in correspondence for securing the 
 desired funds. Success crowned his efforts, and over 
 $100,000 were placed in the hands of trustees in New 
 York. The Chinese College was inaugurated on 
 paper and he was made the first President. Mrs. 
 Happer, who had rendered conspicuous and efficient 
 service in woman's mission circles during her sojourn 
 here and for whom there is now a wide sympathy in 
 her great affliction, went back with her husband 
 to China. For two years they labored together, 
 organizing and instructing — their chief hindrance 
 being the great difficulty of obtaining suitable build- 
 ings. Mrs. Happer's health now failed, compelling 
 her return home. Her husband followed a few 
 months later, mainly from the same cause, resigning 
 the Presidency of the college to its Board of Trus- 
 tees. They retired to their common home in West- 
 ern Pennsylvania, among kindred and the associa- 
 tions of their early days. Latterly they removed to 
 
150 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Wooster, whence the great soul of this busy man 
 entered into the joy of his Lord. " Until the last 
 his mind was keenly alive to the great world move- 
 ments which affected the work of missions and the 
 progress of Christ's kingdom." 
 
 The testimony of the Foreign Board on closing its 
 official relations to this pioneer brother, as expressed 
 in the Fifty-fourth Annual Report, may appropriately 
 close this memorial: "During all his missionary 
 career. Dr. Happer has been widely known for his 
 scholarly tendencies, by his broad views of the 
 whole missionary problem, his thorough knowledge 
 of China and its wants, his intelligent foresight 
 along all the lines of progress and his comprehensive 
 grasp of the whole missionary interest, and this not 
 only with respect to China, but the whole heathen 
 world. " — Williain Rankin. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Happer. 
 
 Mrs. Happer, wife of Rev. Andrew P. Happer, 
 D.D., was born in Florida, October 24, 1829. Her 
 father. Rev. Dyer Ball, M.D., went to China as a 
 missionary of the American Board in 1841 ; his 
 daughters, afterwards Mrs. Happer and Mrs. French, 
 acquired by this means an early acquaintance with 
 the Chinese people and their language. Of Mrs. 
 Happer's great worth in all the relations of life and 
 as a missionary, the Rev. C. F. Preston thus speaks, 
 paying a just and beautiful tribute to her memory, 
 writing at Canton, December 29, 1865: 
 
 "Mrs. Happer fell asleep in. Jesus this morning. 
 
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 suddenly. Although we have been expecting the 
 tidings many days, it came at last, as is often the 
 case, at an hour we did not look for it, and to herself 
 and family it was no less so. The prevailing feeling 
 is — she is at rest. It is well with her, but what a 
 loss have we a.11 sustained, her family, the mission, 
 the community, the Chinese children and the Chinese 
 women ! She had a most loving and fervent spirit, 
 engaged in the Master's service. She was earnest, 
 active, and laborious in the interest of her family, 
 and of the Chinese, with whom she had a large 
 acquaintance. Having learned the language in 
 youth, and being brought up among the Chinese, 
 she was well acquainted with customs and modes of 
 social intercourse. She was able also to sympathize 
 with the people and to gain their affections to a 
 remarkable degree. There was in her a happy com- 
 bination of qualities, by nature and by grace, fitting 
 her for the missionary work ; and although her health 
 was feeble, she gave herself no rest. She was 
 always intensely active in varied works of love. We 
 shall not see her like again. How mysterious that 
 she should be taken so early from her family and the 
 missionary work ! May God bless this most trying 
 dispensation! The funeral services are to be held 
 to-morrow, and I am to take charge of the services 
 in Chinese. I trust the influence of this sad bereave- 
 ment may be of lasting benefit to many." — Record^ 
 April, 1866. 
 
 A biographical sketch of this excellent Christian 
 woman may be found in the Foreign Missionary^ 
 August, 1866.—/. C. L. 
 
is? necrological record 
 
 Mrs. Andrew P, (Elliott) Harper. 
 
 Mrs. Happer accompanied her husband, Dr. Hap- 
 per, on his return to China in 1869, from a visit to 
 the United States. She died at Canton, October 10, 
 1873. Mr. Preston writes : " It is by no means unex- 
 pected. She has suffered much and is at rest. 
 Peacefully she passed away and we cannot mourn as 
 those without hope, for her trust was in her Saviour 
 and she has gone to him." — Foreign Missionary^ 
 December, 1873. 
 
 The Record^ of April, 1874, contains a brief memoir 
 of this devoted lady : "She rejoiced that she was 
 permitted to come to China, and she saw here blessed 
 results in answer to her prayers. In the precious 
 work of grace in our midst she was rejoiced by see- 
 ing those who had been the special subject of her 
 prayers converted to God. " 
 
 Mr. Simon Harrison. 
 
 Letters from Monrovia report, as we regret to 
 learn, the death of Mr. Harrison, on the 7th of 
 November, 1872, from dropsy, after long suffering 
 patiently borne. Mr. Harrison's name first appeared 
 in the Annual Reports of the Board in 1855 and 
 1856, when he was spoken of "as an aged colored 
 man and licentiate preacher who formerly lived in 
 the Choctaw nation as a slave, but was liberated a 
 few years since with a view to his going to Liberia 
 as a religious teacher." The excellent missionaries 
 to the Choctaws, Drs. Kingsbury and Byington, took 
 
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 a warm interest in his welfare as long as they lived, 
 and he has now no doubt rejoined them in the Savi- 
 our's presence. He was a sincere follower of Christ 
 and desirous of doing good among men. — Record^ 
 March, 1873. 
 
 Rev. Alexander Henry. 
 
 Rev. Alexander Henry, then a student in Danville 
 Theological Seminary, made application to the Exec- 
 utive Committee in December, i860, to be sent as a 
 missionary the following year. Owing to the civil 
 war, when Mr. Henry was ready to embark for his 
 field, the Committee were constrained to defer send- 
 ing him. This led him to take charge of a church in 
 Kentucky, where he labored until 1863, when he 
 sailed in August for India and arrived in January, 
 1864. He was stationed at Lodiana until 1867, when 
 he was transferred to Lahore, where he remained till 
 his death. 
 
 On Sabbath evening, August 15, 1869, he preached 
 in the chapel at Lahore with great fervor. Next 
 morning, not feeling well, he did not resume his 
 duties in the school. On the return of Rev. C. B. 
 Newton from the school he found him quite ill of 
 cholera. A physician was immediately called but all 
 his skill was in vain and before two o'clock on that day 
 he entered into rest. He was a noble worker, an 
 earnest Christian, and a self-denying man, and is 
 greatly mourned. He leaves a widow and six chil- 
 dren. One of his brethren writes: "What will be- 
 come of our poor mission if the Lord thus deals with 
 
154 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 US ? Oh, that he might raise others of a kindred 
 spirit with Brother Henry and send them to the 
 rescue!" — Foreign Missionary^ November, 1869. 
 
 John W. Heron, M.D. 
 
 The death of Dr. J. W. Heron, of Korea, of dys- 
 entery, August I, 1890, brings a serious shock to the 
 officers of the Board and to many friends. Dr. 
 Heron had long been conscious of overwork and of 
 a severe strain upon his strength, and was planning 
 to secure, if possible, a furlough as soon as some 
 one should be found to take his place. He was 
 appointed to the Korean Mission in 1885, and from 
 the first gave promise of medical skill and of a strong 
 and vigorous missionary work. He was the son of a 
 well-known pastor of the Presbyterian Church, and 
 leaves a mother whose strong faith and zeal conse- 
 crated him long ago to the mission work and who 
 but a short time before his death declared that he 
 was in just the place where she would have wished 
 him to have been. 
 
 For a time Dr. Heron was associated with Dr. H. 
 N. Allen in the charge of the government hospital 
 and other medical work in Seoul, and upon the 
 appointment of the latter by the king of Korea as 
 interpreter and adviser of the Korean legation, 
 which was sent to Washington in 18S7, Dr. Heron 
 took full charge of the work, and from that time on 
 had borne a heavy burden. He had won the confi- 
 dence of the foreign community to such an extent 
 that he had a large practice, the avails of which 
 
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 were handed over to the treasury of the mission. 
 He leaves a young- wife and two children to mourn 
 his loss, besides a mother, brother and sisters in this 
 country. He was ready to answer what he considered 
 a call of duty to go abroad in the service of Christ and 
 humanity. He has rendered a faithful stewardship, 
 and while still in his youth he has been called to lay 
 down his work and receive his reward. — Cluu^ch at 
 Home and Abroad^ September, 1890. 
 
 Note. — Dr. Heron was born in England, June 15, 
 1856. In 1870 the family settled in East Tennessee. 
 A touching memorial of him, by his associate mis- 
 sionar}^, Rev. D. L. Gifford, appears in October 
 CJmrcJi^ 1890. 
 
 Rev. Amos Herring. 
 
 ''We have to report with regret the death of the 
 Rev. Amos Herring, on the 14th of June, 1873, ^.t 
 Buchanan, Liberia, in the eightieth year of his age. 
 He was greatly respected as an exemplary, earnest, 
 useful minister of the Gospel." — Record^ October, 
 1873. 
 
 Mrs. Mary L. Herron. 
 
 "We learn with great regret that Mrs. Herron, 
 wife of Rev. David Herron, of Dehra, India, was 
 called from this life on the 25th of November, 1863. 
 Her removal is a great loss, not only to her immedi- 
 ate family but to the inissionary work in which she 
 was eminently devoted and useful. The Christian 
 
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 girls' school at Dehra is indebted to her chiefly for 
 its existence and success, and her influence was most 
 happily exerted in other ways for the benefit of 
 native women and their daughters. Mr. Herron and 
 his four children will receive the deep sympathy of 
 many Christian friends in this bereavement." — 
 Record^ March, 1864. 
 
 **Dear Mrs. Herron was a noble woman. She 
 was endowed with an excellent understanding by 
 nature, which she had taken great care to cultivate, 
 and this, blended with her piety and industry, rendered 
 
 her a most eflicient missionary She has fallen 
 
 at her post. Her remains rest upon the scene of her 
 labors — one of the most beautiful valleys in the world 
 [Valley of the Doon]. Her grave will be watched 
 over for long years to come by those for whose good 
 she labored, and when the last trump shall sound she 
 will rise with them to receive the plaudit, * Well done, 
 good and faithful servant.' " — Rev. R. S. Fullcrton. 
 
 Mrs. David Herron (2). 
 
 Mrs. David Herron sailed with her husband for 
 India on his return from a visit to this country in 
 January, 1868, and died at Dehra, January 13, 1874. 
 Though only a few years in that country, she became 
 identified with the female school at Dehra on her 
 arrival and was enabled to take much of the over- 
 sight upon herself. Many will feel her loss. '' You 
 will be grieved," writes one, ''to learn that Mrs. 
 Herron is with us no longer. She was taken with 
 inflammation of the bowels last Sabbath, January 11, 
 
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 and after great suffering passed peacefully away on 
 the morning of the 13th, to be forever with the Lord. 
 During all her dreadful agony she showed the most 
 wonderful patience. Early on Monday morning she 
 said, ' I have had a night of agony, but the Saviour 
 has been very near and very precious.' About an 
 hour before her death Miss Nelson repeated the 
 hymn, ' How Firm a Foundation,' for her, and after 
 each stanza she exclaimed, ' Oh, how full ! How 
 free ! How precious ! ' " — Foreign Missionary^ April, 
 1874. 
 
 Mary K. Hesser. 
 
 Miss Mary K. Hesser, of our Western Japan Mis- 
 sion, who had returned to the United States in the 
 spring for surgical treatment, died in the hospital at 
 Los Angeles, Cal., on September i, 1894. Two 
 years before Miss Hesser had passed successfully 
 through a severe crisis and was pronounced by her 
 physician able to resume her missionary work. 
 
 Scarcely had she entered upon it again, however, 
 when serious symptoms rapidly developed, and it 
 was decided that she must return without delay to 
 the United States for treatment. Up to within a few 
 hours of her death, an operation which had been per- 
 formed seemed entirely successful, but a sudden com- 
 plication arose which no human skill could control. 
 
 Miss Hesser went to Japan under commission of 
 the Board of Foreign Missions in 1882. The Rev. 
 Charles M. Fisher, for a number of years a member 
 of the same mission, writes : " Miss Hesser founded 
 
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 the Kanazawa Girls' School, and gave ten years of 
 most efficient service to it, making it one of the 
 strong missionary agencies on the west coast of 
 Japan. All who knew her admired her zeal and 
 devotion to her work and her wonderful tact in deal- 
 ing with the missionary problems in that work. She 
 very soon acquired a fluent use of the language, and, 
 outside of her school duties, did much in pointing 
 the Japanese women to Christ." It was the earnest 
 desire of Miss Hesser, and her constant prayer, that 
 she might be permitted to return to her "dear girls," 
 as she was wont to call her pupils. Her last words, 
 as she left the house of a friend to enter the hospital, 
 were, " I am in my Father's hands." To-day she is 
 in her Father's house, the service on earth ended, 
 that in heaven begun. — Church at Home and Abroad^ 
 November, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. J. T. Houston. 
 
 Rev. James T. Houston and wife sailed for Brazil 
 in November, 1874, and were stationed first at Bahia 
 and afterwards at Rio de Janeiro. 
 
 Returning home in 1880, with impaired health, 
 Mrs. Houston died at Pittsburgh, Pa., March 12, 
 1 88 1. She was an efficient worker, much beloved in 
 the mission circle as well as by numerous friends at 
 home ; and the highest eulogy which can be pro- 
 nounced upon her is that which our Saviour once 
 uttered when he said of a faithful one, '* She hath 
 done what she could." — Foreign Missionary^ May, 
 1881. 
 
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 Rev. James J. Hull. 
 
 Mr. Hull died at Suffolk, Va., March 8, 1881. He 
 was born in Columbiana county, O., a g-raduate of 
 the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny in 
 1872, and in October, the same year, went to Kolha- 
 pur, India, in company with his classmate. Rev. 
 Joseph P. Graham. A few years later he married 
 Annie, daughter of Rev. James V. McGinnis, of 
 Shade Gap, Pa. Mr. Hull was one of the ablest 
 and most devoted missionaries of our India missions. 
 He was characterized by fine intellectual qualities, 
 calm judgment, charitableness and prudence. 
 Though he was permitted to labor but little over six 
 years, he left a valuable impress upon the mission and 
 upon the native church. For many months he 
 struggled on manfully in his work in spite of the 
 insidious progress of disease. He seemed conscious 
 that his time was short and was only anxious to 
 accomplish as much as possible before being com- 
 pelled to lay down his armor. — Foreign Missionary^ 
 May, 1 88 1. 
 
 Rev. J. M. Ibanez. 
 
 Mr. Ibanez, who died in 1875, was a native Chilian, 
 partly educated in California, and for four years a 
 missionary of the Board at Santiago. He imited 
 with a Presbyterian church in California, and com- 
 menced studying in the hope of preaching the truth 
 to his countrymen in Chili, impaired health caused 
 him to desist, but, writes Dr. Trumbull, of Valparaiso, 
 
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 ''after returning hither he united with my church, 
 and later on resolved to make another attempt, com- 
 mencing his studies with me. After making good 
 progress in Greek and Hebrew he was examined and 
 ordained about four years since. His knowledge of 
 English and Spanish gave him a great advantage. 
 His style was vivid and polished. Some of his ser- 
 mons were published and attracted admiration with 
 some, as well as censure from others. We thought 
 he would wield an influence for great good. In fact 
 
 he had begun to do so We feel thrown back 
 
 on the Lord and can only act on his exhortation to 
 pray the Lord of the harvest that he may send forth 
 laborers into his harvest," — Annual Report^ 1876. 
 
 Rev. Samuel M. and Mrs. Irvin. 
 
 The death of Mrs. Irvin, July 21, 1886, and the 
 death of Rev. Samuel M. Irvin, Februar}^ 24, 1887, 
 both at their home, Highland, Kans., are among the 
 events of the mission year. In 1837 they went as 
 missionaries to the Iowa and Sac Indians, then wild 
 in the wilderness in what is now the northeastern 
 part of the State of Kansas. In 1864, the Indians 
 having removed from their former abode, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Irvin's connection with the Board was relin- 
 quished. It was renewed in 1880. In the meantime 
 Mr. Irvin was engaged in labors both for the white 
 people and the Indians. An academy was opened at 
 Highland, which is now known as Highland Uni- 
 versity, of which he may be considered one of the 
 earliest founders, and in which Indian youths were 
 
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 welcomed as scholars. The Indians had declined in 
 number partly from their removal, but some remnants 
 remained, and to these the latter years of Mr. Irvin's 
 life were chiefly devoted. The death of these excel- 
 lent laborers is a great loss to the Indians." — Animal 
 Report^ 1887. 
 
 Rev. R. D. Irwin. 
 
 Rev. R. D. Irwin, a graduate of McCormick Semi- 
 nary, was appointed to the Mexican Mission and 
 reached his field in August, 1887, but was prevented 
 almost from the first from engaging actively in the 
 missionary work by the illness of his wife. This 
 continued to be so serious that by leave of the Board 
 he left the field with the view of engaging in Home 
 Missionary work at El Paso, Texas. But almost im- 
 mediately after his arrival he was so seriously affected 
 with nervous prostration that he was obliged to set 
 out for his home in Minnesota, and while on his way 
 there he died at Jetmore, Kans. , February 9, 1888. 
 
 Mr. Irwin had received the very highest recom- 
 mendations from his instructors in the seminary, and 
 had won the confidence of his missionary associates 
 in a high degree. — Annual Report^ 1888. 
 
 ISSACHAR. 
 
 Saharanpur, April 20, 1858. 
 It is with sincere sorrow we record the death of 
 Issachar, one of the ablest native preachers I have 
 ever known. He was a man of humble birth, but of 
 
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 rare natural abilities. His memory was so retentive 
 that he seemed to have at perfect command all that 
 he had ever read or heard. Born and brought up a 
 Hindu, he had not only worshiped idols himself, but 
 he had instructed others to perform this degrading- 
 service, and had even aspired to be a priest and 
 leader to the low caste with which he mingled. His 
 mind was of too high an order to allow him to remain 
 on a level with the ignorant and degraded of his own 
 class. He labored from his earliest youth to become 
 acquainted with the tangled and mystical web, so 
 finely and elaborately spun out in the Hindu Shasters. 
 Convinced, at last, that these were but a confused 
 mass of contradictions and impurities, he was directed 
 to the more rational system of the Veds, and he soon 
 became a Vedantist, traveling over many parts of 
 Northern India and the Punjab, to learn from Pundits 
 and Fakeers as much of the system as possible ; but 
 still his logical mind was not satisfied with a system 
 in which he had detected so many contradictions. 
 His soul, longing for immortality — for something to 
 satisfy its inward cravings, and for light regarding 
 the way of salvation for a guilty sinner, had obtained 
 no peace. The more he read, or heard, or saw, of 
 Hinduism, the darker the clouds seemed to gather 
 around him. At last, about eight years ago, the 
 Sut milt narupun, or, an Inquiry Concerning the 
 True Religion, being a prize essay in Hindi, of about 
 300 pages, fell into his hands. He read it with 
 avidity and delight. It was just the book to suit his 
 case, and the blessed means of his conversion. Hav- 
 ing read it so often he had it almost by heart, and 
 
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 from it he drew the arguments which he wielded with 
 SO much power. After some time, he was baptized 
 by an Enghsh Episcopal missionary, and was never 
 after under censure for his moral conduct, though 
 dismissed some four years ago for a trifling fault. 
 Finding him at that time out of employment, and 
 anxious to be engaged in the instruction of his coun- 
 trymen, we took him on trial. It required but a 
 short time to convince us of the man's moral and in- 
 tellectual worth. For nearly four years he has 
 labored with us from day to day with the greatest 
 ability, and with general acceptance among the peo- 
 ple. No learned Pundit that we have met has been 
 able to stand before him in argument for a quarter of 
 an hour. He would soon let them know that he un- 
 derstood the ins and outs and strange tortuosities of 
 the shasters as well as themselves, and then they 
 would stand in mute astonishment, gazing on a man 
 with the ugliest face they had ever seen, but with the 
 best replenished mind they had ever encountered, a 
 man possessed of the greatest ability to employ what 
 that mind contained in refuting their high pre- 
 tensions, and exposing the gross absurdities and im- 
 pure morals of their sacred books. On these occa- 
 sions, he would quote largely, menioritei\ from the 
 Veds and Purans, giving slokas most appropriate to 
 the point in hand, and which his opponents could not 
 gainsay. Then closing up his arguments on that 
 side, he would open out the Gospel plan of salvation 
 with a clearness and fullness, backed with a "Thus 
 saith the Lord " from the sacred Scriptures, so as to 
 fix every eye upon him, and chain the audience at his 
 
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 will. Indeed, I have never seen any man anywhere 
 who had greater power over his hearers in this re- 
 spect. So long as he spoke, there were but few who 
 could leave the assembly, while many would gather 
 around to listen to an oratory and an utterance of 
 truth to which they had not been accustomed. 
 
 At the beginning of this month, he accompanied 
 me to the Hurdwar fair. Day by day he spoke with 
 his accustomed ability to large crowds of pilgrims. 
 On the morning of the 9th, about sunrise, he accom- 
 panied me to the bazar, and soon put to silence the 
 host of objectors that surrounded us ; nor did they 
 quit the ground, as might be supposed, when over- 
 whelmed by arguments they could not answer, but 
 remained attentive, often looking significantly at each 
 other, when their arguments were being swept away 
 like cobwebs ! [A few hours afterwards he was taken 
 to his rest, having been drowned while crossing the 
 river.] The labors of that morning to direct blind 
 idolaters to Christ met with a speedy reward. 
 
 Issachar was not only a man of superior talents and 
 acquirements, but he was a true Christian, in whom 
 were strikingly developed the graces of the Holy 
 Spirit. He was loved by all who knew him. Only a 
 few days before, he was received under the care of 
 Presbytery as a student of theology, and delivered an 
 excellent discourse in Hindi, as a specimen of im- 
 provement in that study, which he had been prosecut- 
 ing informally with the class for years past. He w^as, 
 during his short career, the means of leading soiils to 
 Christ. He has died in the prime of life, aged thirty- 
 three years. His removal from such a field of use- 
 
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 fulness, when so many laborers are required, and 
 when he was so well qualified for his work, is one of 
 those mysteries of divine Providence which we are 
 not permitted to solve. Doubtless all has been 
 ordered in infinite wisdom, and that ought to be to 
 us all perfectly satisfactory. — Rev. J . R. Carnpbell^ 
 D.D. 
 
 Mr. B. V. R. James. 
 
 Mr. James was born and educated as a teacher in 
 this country, was a missionary in Liberia for the long 
 period of thirty- two years, and died January 9, 1869. 
 He had been called to fill high stations of trust in the 
 government, and was held in great respect by all 
 classes of people, but his highest honor was that of 
 being an exemplary follower of Christ and a devoted 
 laborer in his service. — Annual Report^ 1869. 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca Jamieson. 
 
 Mrs. Jamieson, wife of the Rev. Jesse M. Jamieson, 
 was a daughter of Captain Thomas and Mrs. Town- 
 send, and was bom at Middleford, Del., January 26, 
 1 8 18. The death of her parents, while she was quite 
 young, placed her under the charge of kind and re- 
 ligious friends and led to her enjoying the advantage 
 of excellent boarding-schools. She became a com- 
 municant when she was fourteen, and her life of 
 piety, quickness of apprehension in her studies and 
 warmth of character, gave her a strong hold on the 
 respect and affection of her schoolmates, teachers 
 
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 and friends. It was then her great desire to be use- 
 ful. All these excellent traits found full develop- 
 ment in her missionary life. With her husband she 
 reached Calcutta in 1836. On the voyage a precious 
 revival of religion was enjoyed .... when the cap- 
 tain, first officer, and several sailors were led to ac- 
 cept of Christ as their Saviour; and Mrs. Jamieson's 
 gift of a Bible to the first officer seemed to be the 
 means of his conversion. 
 
 In India, her health was delicate; often she was 
 subject to severe illness, but she was ever diligent 
 and unwearied in the fulfillment of every Christian 
 duty. A short memoir, published in the Missionary 
 Chronicle of August, 1846, speaks of her as "a kind 
 and affectionate mother; no one ever felt the re- 
 sponsibility of bringing up children "in a heathen land 
 more than she did. Hence she scarcely ever suffered 
 her six little ones to be out of her sight with heathen 
 servants." It was a striking example of her benevo- 
 lence that she added to her own family a little girl, 
 whom she rescued from the worst influences, when 
 the child was neglected by her father. But with all 
 her fidelity in her own family, she found time to do 
 much for the heathen. She had applied herself on 
 first reaching India to the earnest study of the native 
 language, justly considering this the first and greatest 
 attainment of a foreign missionary. And afterwards, 
 while teaching about thirty Hindu girls in her school, 
 she acquired an extensive knowledge of the Hindi, so 
 that she could speak and write it with much readi- 
 ness. This was, no doubt, a principal means of her 
 gaining such great influence over the native women, 
 
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 and it prepared her also for usefulness through the 
 press. One of her little works was widely circulated, 
 but she did not live long enough to carry this method 
 of doing good to any great extent, 
 
 Mrs. Jamieson excelled in religious conversation 
 with natives of the country. ' ' She had an ease in 
 expression, and a tender, winning manner, which 
 never failed to attract the attention of the most list- 
 less, or to disarm the bitterest enemy of his opposi- 
 tion to the cross. She was emphatically the friend 
 of the poor. No beggar ever left her door without a 
 pittance of charity and a kind word, and to teach her 
 children to do likewise, she always, when convenient, 
 made them her almoners. Her favorite sentiment 
 w^as, ' Happiness is the essence of heaven, and if I 
 can but make one poor heathen child happy for half 
 an hour, I should not live in vain ; for every drop of 
 happiness we receive or communicate from the 
 troubled sea of time is an antepast of that holy 
 place.' " 
 
 The days of this devoted missionary were num- 
 bered September 2, 1845. Attacked by cholera, she 
 was found prepared for the time of her departure. 
 ," Although weak in body, her mind remained calm 
 and quite composed until a short time before her 
 death. She spent nearly the whole of Friday night 
 in conversing with her husband about the cause of 
 missions, the disposal of the dear children after her 
 death, and in giving messages for her friends. She 
 said she felt very unworthy of the honor of being a 
 missionary to the heathen, but hoped she had not 
 lived altogether in vain; and now on the brink of 
 
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 eternity she felt more and more the importance of 
 chastened and intelHgent views of the work. 
 
 ' ' On Monday, on being told it was very probable 
 she had but a few hours to live, she heard this with 
 the greatest composure, and simply said, ' Do you 
 think so, my dear? that is but a short time;' and 
 raising her hands offered up a short prayer. She 
 then desired all the children to be brought to her, 
 and telling them she was dying, embraced them one 
 by one, and gave them her last blessing. After this 
 she had the heathen servants collected, and address- 
 ing them distinctly by name, exhorted them to be- 
 lieve on Jesus and to prepare for death, as she had 
 often warned them. All wept, except the departing 
 believer : she was all calmness. After this sad fare- 
 well she asked her husband to read for her the fifth 
 chapter of second Corinthians and the second of 
 Ephesians, and to pray with her. She then repeated, 
 as she had strength, the beautiful hymns, commenc- 
 ing, 'Come, Holy Spirit, calm my mind;' 'Come, 
 Holy Spirit, come ;' ' There is a land of pure dehght,' 
 and the twenty-third Psalm. Shortly afterwards she 
 said to the doctor, ' I am dying fast, the conflict will 
 soon be over. I am going to a glorious world. 
 Blessed Jesus — no doubts.* She then fell into a 
 doze, and in about an hour, looking up, exclaimed, 
 * Many, many, all friends. ' Here her mind began to 
 wander, and she spoke very little more, except in 
 broken sentences, as 'Come quick, make haste.' 
 She, however, continued to recognize her husband 
 till within an hour or two of her death, when she be- 
 came apparently unconscious of earth, and gradually 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 169 
 
 sunk until the clock struck four on Tuesday morning, 
 September 4, when she gently breathed her last. 
 
 ' ' On the evening after her death, her remains were 
 deposited in the station burial-ground, there to await 
 the voice that wakes the dead. The solemn pro- 
 cession at her funeral was accompanied by a larger 
 company of respectable natives than was ever seen 
 at any European funeral in Sabathu before; and 
 many of them, to show their esteem for the deceased, 
 came forward and cast handfuls of earth into her 
 grave, and for several days after her burial many re- 
 sorted to the mission compound to show their grief 
 by loud lamentations. May she, though dead, yet 
 speak, and may the Gospel seed she sowed bring forth 
 an abundant harvest ! " — ■/. C. L. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza McL. Jamieson. 
 
 Mrs. Jamieson, second wife of the Rev. J. M. 
 Jamieson, died July 17, 1856, ''to the great grief of 
 her missionary associates, as well as of her own 
 family. She had long suffered from severe illness, 
 which she bore with Christian patience ; and her last 
 hours were full of peace." — Annual Report, 1S57. 
 
 Rev. Levi Janvier, D. D. 
 
 The subject of this brief memoir was born at Pitt's 
 Grove, in the State of New Jersey, on the 25th of 
 April, A.D. 1816. His early youth was spent in 
 study under the care of his father, who was pastor of 
 
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 the Presbyterian Church in that place. His early- 
 studies were chiefly devoted to the Latin and Greek 
 languages, and these studies soon developed a native 
 aptitude for acquiring language in general. At 
 Easton, where La Fayette College was then in its 
 infancy, he for some time, under the instructions of 
 the Rev. Dr. Junkin, attended to the mathematics, 
 and in that branch also his proficiency was no less re- 
 markable. From Easton he went to Lawrenceville, 
 and spent a few months in the school of the Rev. 
 Isaac V. Brown, and thence proceeded to Princeton 
 and entered the Junior class. During his brief term 
 there, he studied the French language in addition to 
 the regular course of his class. At the commence- 
 ment he pronounced the salutatory, and shared vvdth 
 two others the first honor of the class. There he be- 
 came a member of the Church of Christ, and felt 
 that the Gospel ministry was the vocation of his 
 choice. During his course in the seminary he sur- 
 veyed the vast extent of the missionary field, and 
 among the stations occupied by our Board of Mis- 
 sions, chose Lodiana as the place of his future labors. 
 Having obtained the sanction of the Board of Mis- 
 sions, he sailed, accompanied by his wife, in Septem- 
 ber, 1841, arriving at Calcutta, and proceeding up the 
 Ganges to Allahabad, where he remained several 
 weeks; and they reached their destination early in 
 the spring of 1842. Having commenced the study 
 of the Urdu tongue soon after leaving his native 
 shore, he at once commenced his labors among his 
 heathen neighbors in Lodiana. His time was divided 
 between preaching and translating. For some time 
 
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 he taught a school of Hindu youth, making the doc- 
 trines of the Gospel a constant portion of their stu- 
 dies. Throughout his whole course, his labors were 
 connected with the Press, to the last and closing 
 period of his work. 
 
 As soon as he had mastered the Punjabi language, 
 Mr. Janvier, with his cousin. Dr. Newton, of the 
 same mission, entered upon his greatest hterary 
 work, the formation of a dictionary of that language. 
 With great labor it was finally completed, and was 
 published by the Mission Press in 1854. A copy of 
 this work was transmitted by Dr. Janvier to his 
 father in 1856. It is a neat quarto of 438 pages, 
 finely printed and substantially bound, in the Gur- 
 mukhi character, and with three columns on each 
 page. Dr. Newton had previously composed and 
 published a grammar of the same tongue. 
 
 The lamented subject of this sketch was formed by 
 nature for action ; and when by grace his heart was 
 formed anew, his whole soul was filled with zeal to 
 promote the salvation of the heathen. 
 
 He met his death on the 24th of March, 1864, at a 
 mela, whither he had gone to preach and distribute 
 tracts. The meeting was closing, and the brethren, 
 having partaken of the Lord's Supper, were prepar- 
 ing to separate on the morrow. In the evening Dr. 
 Janvier was met by a fanatic Akali Sikh, and felled 
 to the ground with a club ! The murderer fled, but 
 was overtaken and secured. He was afterwards 
 tried in a criminal court, found guilty and hanged. 
 His victim languished, speechless and insensible, till 
 morning, when his spirit took its flight. The re- 
 
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 mains were laid, in the presence of a very large and 
 solemn assembly, by the side of several relatives, in 
 the burial ground of the Mission of Lodiana ; and his 
 excellent widow was left desolate, though sustained 
 by a strong faith and an unwavering assurance of the 
 blessedness of him whom for a season she had lost. — 
 Rev. George W. Janvier^ D.D. 
 
 Mrs. Janvier. 
 
 Mrs. Janvier was the wife of the Rev. Levi Janvier. 
 Of her early life nothing is known to the compiler 
 of these notices; but her lovely Christian character 
 as a missionary was well known. She died at Simla, 
 India, May 5, 1854. The Rev. A. Rudolph, long 
 associated with Mr. and Mrs. Janvier at the same 
 station, thus wrote of her last days on earth : 
 
 "While formerly her mind had been much be- 
 clouded by doubts and fears, the merciful Saviour 
 permitted her, the last day before her death, not only 
 to look with calmness and composure, but with com- 
 fort, at the prospect before her. She told her hus- 
 band that the Lord had brought her to Simla to die ; 
 thus evidently realizing the position she was in. 
 Again she said, ' Can it be that I am treading the 
 verge of Jordan ? ' When she was told that the Lord 
 had done all things well, she replied, ' Yes, and it 
 will be well. ' Many comforting passages of Scrip- 
 ture and parts of hymns occurred to her mind during 
 the day, such as, * I cast my sins on Jesus,' 'Jesus, 
 thy blood and righteousness, ' etc. , and she expressed 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 1 73 
 
 the hope that the Saviour had accepted her. This 
 was of course very comforting to our poor afflicted 
 brother, who had long been wishing and praying 
 that the Lord would make her more sensible of her 
 acceptance with him. She seemed to be conscious 
 almost to the last, having spoken quite distinctly 
 only a few minutes before her departure. 
 
 *' It would perhaps ill accord with her simplicity 
 of mind and unassuming character, if I were to say 
 much in praise of her many virtues, that won for her 
 so many friends. She was much beloved by those 
 who knew her, and her death will make many a 
 heart sad. Her naturally sweet and pleasant coun- 
 tenance had received a new impress by her long con- 
 tinued disease, which made her sometimes look sad, 
 but which nevertheless added new interest to her 
 appearance. She seemed to me a most patient suf- 
 ferer, that felt deeply her affliction, and yet knew 
 how to bear it with composure and submission " — 
 /. C. L. 
 
 Mrs. Mary R. Janvier. 
 
 Another faithful laborer in the mission field has 
 gone to her rest. The tidings of the death of Mrs. 
 Mary R. Janvier will bring sorrow to the hearts of 
 her many friends here as well as to those who were 
 associated with her in missionary work in India, 
 where for nearly twenty-four years she labored with 
 untiring zeal. 
 
 ''Several years ago Mrs. Janvier was attacked 
 with sudden and serious illness on the eve of her 
 
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 departure for Northern India to resume the work 
 so dear to her heart. After three years of patient 
 waiting this hope seemed about to be realized 
 when the Lord called her to rest from her labors. 
 
 "Quiet and unobtrusive in her bearing, none but 
 those who knew her best could fathom the depths of 
 love in her soul, or know the yearning of her heart 
 to tell to others the story of that love which had 
 made her own Christian life so rare and beautiful." 
 — Wo man's Work for Wo^/ian, February, 1884. 
 
 Mrs. Janvier was the widow first of Rev. Joseph 
 Porter, with whom she went to India in 1835, and 
 the second wife and widow of Rev, Levi Janvier, 
 both whose names appear in this Necrology. She 
 was also the mother of Rev. C. A. R. Janvier, now 
 of India. 
 
 Mrs. H. H. Jessup. 
 
 The sad news of the death of Mrs. Henry Harris 
 Jessup (at Beirut, April 4, 1882), has reached many 
 friends in America by cable. She had been ill for 
 nearly a month with an attack of pleurisy, but was 
 apparently in a hopeful state of convalescence, when 
 suddenly, without premonition and with no warning 
 signs of the swift approach of dissolution, a fatal inter- 
 nal hemorrhage drained her life-blood and she sank 
 quietly and painlessly into the sleep of death. Her 
 five httle children had said their prayers at her bed- 
 side, and had kissed her good night, and retired to 
 rest. It was a last and long good night, for before 
 the morning they v/ere motherless. I need not write 
 
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 of the deep affliction of her loving husband, nor of 
 the touching grief of her Httle ones, who have been 
 so m3'"steriously bereft of a most faithful and devoted 
 mother. The sympathy and sorrow of not only the 
 mission circle, but also the English and native Syrian 
 community, have been most heartfelt and profound. 
 Her funeral was attended by a large concourse of 
 natives and foreign residents, with every manifesta- 
 tion of tender regard for her memory and high 
 esteem for her many virtues. 
 
 Mrs. Jessup was a woman of singularly refined and 
 amiable and gentle disposition, and was gifted with 
 many of the graces which give to her sex the noble 
 position and the elevating social influence which 
 belong to Christian womanhood. She was a bright 
 example of that moral power which society every- 
 where recognizes as the divine right of womanly 
 purity and unaffected goodness. It was especially 
 her calling as the wife of an American missionary in 
 these Eastern lands, to live in the full view of the 
 resident and native society the life of a Christian 
 wife and mother, and at the same time to fill fittingly 
 and well the place which belonged to her in the 
 social sphere. It is not, however, upon society, or 
 even in the humbler walks of missionary life, that 
 she left her choicest and most lasting impress. Kind 
 and gracious as were her ways with the native S3'rian 
 community, many and precious as were her words of 
 counsel and sympathy, her deeds of love and charity, 
 yet her hoine-life was where she excelled and where 
 she has left an influence and an example of peculiar 
 and conspicuous beauty. As the companion of a man 
 
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 of many and varied missionary labors and responsibil- 
 ities, and as the mother of a bright and lovely group 
 of children, she moved in the home circle with the 
 beauty and dignity of true womanhood and the un- 
 approachable influence and the imperishable power 
 of Christian motherhood. It was here that the 
 "beauty of the Lord" which was upon her seemed 
 to shine with its brightest lustre. It is here that her 
 loss is recognized in its full extent, and in this con- 
 nection it seems to us all such a painful myster}^ 
 
 How quickly, sometimes, one single stroke of 
 Providence seems to change our life into an appar- 
 ently insoluble problem, and we can only put our 
 hand into that of the divine Guide and ask him to 
 lead us on towards the clearer light. — Rev. James S. 
 Dennis^ D.D. 
 
 Rev. Albert O. and Mrs. Amanda J. Johnson. 
 
 Mr. Johnson was born in Cadiz, O. , in 1833, grad- 
 uated at Jefferson College and Allegheny Theologi- 
 cal Seminary. His wife was a daughter of Rev. 
 Jonathan Gill, a much respected minister of the 
 Associate Presbyterian Church. They went to India 
 in 1855 and met with a violent death at Cawnpore 
 in 1857 (see Appendix, Narrative of Events at 
 Futtehgurh ; also Martyred Missionaries^ by J. J. 
 Walsh). There was the best reason for expecting 
 that both of these missionaries would have proved 
 most faithful and useful laborers if it had pleased 
 God to spare their lives. — -/. C. L. 
 
 In Mrs. Johnson's last letter she writes : * 'Although 
 
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 we be called upon to part with life for Christ and his 
 cause, may we not glorify him more by our death 
 than by our life ? . . . . We look upon each day 
 now as our last. But oh! how delightful are our 
 seasons of prayer, together imploring the care and 
 protection of that God who alone can save us ? " 
 
 Mrs. William F. Johnson. 
 
 The removal by death, August lo, 1888, of Mrs. 
 Johnson, wife of Rev. William F. Johnson, D.D., 
 was a great loss to this (Allahabad) station. With 
 her husband and children she was in this country on 
 a visit, expecting to return to India. Her missionary 
 life extended over twenty-eight years, but she was 
 still in full service, greatly useful, beloved and 
 lamented; but she is now "with Christ, which is far 
 better." — Animal Report, 1889. 
 
 Mrs. Samuel H. Kellogg. 
 
 Mrs. Kellogg died at Allahabad, India, March 4, 
 1876. 
 
 She was sick only about a week with what appeared 
 to be a malignant malarial fever. She met her end 
 in perfect consciousness, with perfect peace and trust 
 in Christ, unruffled by the faintest shadow of fear, 
 anxiety, or alarm. Almost her very last words were : 
 " Saved entirely, entirely through Christ. " She bade 
 her loved ones good-by, saying, "After awhile we 
 shall meet ao-ain." Her removal is a crreat loss to 
 
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 the mission as well as to her family. Her heart was 
 in the service of her Master. — Foreign Missionary^ 
 May, 1876. 
 
 Mrs. John G. Kerr. 
 
 Mrs. Kerr, wife of Dr. J. G. Kerr, of the Mission 
 in China, died August 24, 1S55. Her death was un- 
 expected, but she was found prepared for the coming 
 of her Lord. By this dispensation the Church and 
 the heathen have lost the services of a devoted 
 laborer; but as for God, his way is perfect, a consol- 
 ing truth which her bereaved parents have had in- 
 scribed on the tombstone of their beloved daughter. 
 — Annual Report^ 1856. 
 
 Mrs. John G. Kerr (2). 
 
 Mrs. John G. Kerr, of the Canton Mission, ''died 
 peacefully on the morning of April i, 1885," at Mary- 
 ville, Tenn. She returned from China with her hus- 
 band, last year, on account of his health, and since 
 Christmas she herself has been steadily wasting 
 away with disease. Her immediate departure had 
 not been anticipated until within a week of her death. 
 "She met her great change without a fear, having 
 her faith fixed firmly upon the rock Christ Jesus." 
 Such is the testimony given by one nearest and 
 dearest. 
 
 Mrs. Kerr longed to return to China; but it was 
 not the will of God. We remember her as a kind 
 and genial hostess at Canton, in the autumn of 1874, 
 
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 and we join with many others in mourning her loss, 
 and in sympathizing- with her bereaved husband. 
 She had been a support to him during his many 
 years of arduous service in the Canton hospital. 
 She was an affectionate mother and a kind friend of 
 all, and not less to the natives than those of her own 
 .race. Mrs. Kerr had the great happiness, ere she 
 died, of seeing her only son received into the Church 
 of Christ on profession of his faith. — Foreign Mis- 
 sionary, May, 1885. 
 
 Mrs. Dr. C. J. Laffin. 
 
 A cable dispatch brought to the Mission House the 
 sad intelligence of the death of Mrs, Dr. Laffin, of 
 Batanga, West Africa, on November 3, 1894. 
 
 The brief dispatch brought no intelligence as to 
 the cause of death. Letters received, dated Octo- 
 ber 3, told of the plans Dr. and Mrs. Laffin had of 
 spending two weeks among the Mabeyas, a work in 
 which both had become deeply interested. 
 
 The blow to the mission, and especially to the 
 bereaved husband, is a heavy one, as Mrs. Laffin was 
 in every respect a missionary thoroughly devoted to 
 her work and enjoying the confidence and affection 
 of the entire mission. Her journey to the interior, 
 made a few months before her death, elicited her 
 sympathy in behalf of the multitudes of women 
 who had never heard the Gospel, and she would 
 gladly, with her husband, have devoted the rest of 
 her life to working among them had it seemed best 
 to the mission. 
 
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 Mrs. Laffin was a resident of Binghamton, 
 N. Y., where her mother and brother still reside. 
 These loved ones and the sorrowing husband will 
 doubtless be remembered by many at the throne of 
 grace. — Church at Home and Abroad^ January, 1895. 
 
 Rev. Matthew and Mrs. Laird. 
 
 Mr. Laird, of Union county, Pa. , graduated at Jef- 
 ferson College, studied theology at Princeton, arrived 
 with his wife at Monrovia, December 31, 1833, in the 
 same ship with Mr. Cloud. They were faithful in 
 their kind attentions to him in his last sickness; were 
 then attacked by the same disease and followed their 
 beloved friend and colleague soon after his death to 
 the same rest and peace, Mrs. Laird departing this 
 life May 3, 1834, and Mr. Laird the next day. Mr. 
 Laird is remembered as a man of modest but genial 
 disposition, well-balanced mind, talents and scholar- 
 ship equal to those of most of his fellow-students, 
 and piety of evidently humble and earnest character. 
 Few men were better qualified to be practically use- 
 ful in missionary life. Mrs. Laird is spoken of in the 
 Annual Report of 1835 *' as a woman of no ordinary 
 faith and fortitude. " — J. C. L. 
 
 Mrs. J. H. Laughlin. 
 
 Deep affliction has fallen upon the North China 
 Mission. On the 29th of July last (1884), Mrs. J. H. 
 Laughlin was called away from earth after an illness 
 
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 of about three months. Mrs. Laughlin, with her 
 husband, had been in China nearly three years, and, 
 in connection with Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Mateer and 
 J. M. Matthewson, M.D., had established a new sta- 
 tion at Wei Hien, 250 miles in the interior from 
 Chefoo. The intelligence of her death will bring 
 inexpressible sorrow to the many friends of this 
 beloved young missionary. Her home had been for 
 several years at Cleveland, O., where her father, 
 Rev. William Johnson, is pastor of the People's 
 Tabernacle. Mrs. Laughlin added the charm of her 
 delightful singing to her father's evangelistic services. 
 The multitudes who worshiped there will never for- 
 get that sw^eet voice which sang the Gospel into so 
 many hearts, nor that beautiful young life, always 
 full of gladness, itself a constant witness for the 
 Saviour. All hearts will sympathize deeply with the 
 mourning household at Cleveland, and even more 
 deeply with the bereaved and lonely husband at his 
 far-off post in China. But to both these have been 
 given the strongest consolations. Mrs. Laughlin 
 had drawn to herself in a wonderful manner the 
 hearts of the Chinese around her. The servants of 
 her household could hardly enter her room without 
 tears. Mr. Laughlin writes: ''Some days before 
 the end she called in the native Christians and ex- 
 horted them to meet her in heaven, and on earth to 
 be not content with following Jesus at a distance. 
 The strong men wept profusely, and seemed more 
 impressed than I supposed Chinese could be. She 
 loved her home and work, but said it would be ' far 
 better to depart and be with Christ. ' The only inch- 
 
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 nation she had to stay sprang from her desire to con- 
 tinue the work for her beloved Master. When the 
 Chinese Christians expressed to her their sorrow that 
 they should lose her example and teaching, she 
 replied, ^I'm such a poor worker; but if you think 
 that I could help you by staying, you may ask God 
 to let me stay. ' And when the missionaries spoke of 
 the loss to the cause, she said to them, ' Then you 
 may pray now that, if it be best, my life may be 
 spared.' She herself offered a beautiful prayer to 
 that end, reiterating, however, again and again, in 
 her weak voice, ' But do thine own will, O Lord. 
 
 Her life was one of brightness, her presence 
 brought sunshine wherever she came. She was most 
 affectionate and ardent, blessed with exuberant 
 health and the happiest temperament, beloved by all, 
 and constantly writing home of the enjoyment which 
 her new life in China had brought her, and yet so clear 
 and assured was her expectation of heaven, and so 
 vivid her appreciation of its holy delights, that to ex- 
 change the brightest earthly home for these seemed to 
 her like welcoming the glorious daybreak after a 
 lovely dawn. — Foreign Missionary, November, 1884. 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Lester. 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Lester, one of our most valued and 
 beloved missionaries, has recently '' entered into 
 rest. " After only a week's illness, during which her 
 case received the best medical care and the loving 
 ministrations of friends, she passed away with serene 
 trust in the merits of her Saviour, July 30, 1884. 
 
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 About two years ago Mrs. Lester arrived in Chili 
 witli her husband, who was soon placed in charge of 
 the Protestant Chilian Church of Santiago. She 
 was young, well-educated and gifted with rare per- 
 sonal attractions in feature, voice, manner and spirit. 
 It w^as evident that she had given good heed to the 
 Saviour's words, "Abide in me, and I in you." She 
 at once began the study of the Spanish language, and 
 entered immediately into such missionary labors as 
 she could perform. In company with the widow of 
 a former missionary, she visited the homes of the 
 poor and sick belonging to her husband's congrega- 
 tion, taking with her such material comforts as she 
 could procure and the cheer which her presence 
 always imparted. One poor woman, who died 
 shortly after Mrs. Lester's arrival in the country, 
 remarked: "She cannot tell me in words just what 
 she v/ishes to say, but it does me good to look at her 
 sweet face and \.o feci her sympathy." The children 
 were drawn to her as if by some magnetic charm, 
 and through her kindly ways and enthusiasm, people 
 who had hitherto manifested no interest in the mis- 
 sion were led to become helpers by their gifts or per- 
 sonal labors. 
 
 Sadly will she be missed in that Chilian congrega- 
 tion. Deep is the sense of loss in that missionary 
 circle in Chili in which she was so appreciated and 
 beloved. Scores of friends there, as well as in this 
 country, mourn that they are to see her face no more 
 on earth, and heavy are the hearts of near relatives 
 who receive the sad news of her death. But, above 
 all, let the friends of missions remember in earnest 
 
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 prayer the one most stricken, the devoted husband 
 and missionary, in his bitter loneliness, with the little 
 babe the mother has left to comfort him. 
 
 The message that comes to the Church from her 
 short though shining missionary life is : ^' Help^ 
 help soon ^ that Chili may have the Gospel." — A. M. 
 Merwin. 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Lingle. 
 
 Rev. W. H. Lingle and wife arrived in Canton in 
 1S90, and two years later, on account of Mrs. Lin- 
 gle's health, were obliged to return to this country, 
 where she died after a lingering illness, November 
 5, 1893. She was a devoted wife and a faithful, 
 earnest missionary while life and health continued. 
 Yielding to the sure progress of an incurable dis- 
 ease, she received her summons in peaceful trust. 
 Mr. Lingle has returned to his field of labor at Lien 
 Chow. — Annual Report, 1894. 
 
 Rev. Kying Ling-yiu. 
 
 Our beloved brother and faithful fellow-laborer. 
 Rev. Kying Ling-yiu, died at Ningpo, China, on the 
 4th of August, 1866, at the age of thirty-one. 
 
 In 1845 Dr. McCartee was called to see a man about 
 two miles distant from Ningpo, who had received a 
 very severe wound and required constant attendance 
 for some months. The doctor there became ac- 
 quainted with a bright, frank, black-eyed boy, about 
 ten years of age, the nephew of the wounded man. 
 
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 Finding that his mother was a widow and poor, he 
 brought the boy to Ningpo. When he left the board- 
 ing-school, he at first took charge of a day-school, 
 tinder the care of Dr. McCartee. In the day-school 
 he proved a successful teacher; he was faithful to 
 the souls of his pupils, and his labors in this, his first 
 undertaking, were not without fruit. He remained 
 in charge of the day-school about a year, after which 
 he studied theology for some time under Mr. Rankin. 
 
 In 1859 he went with Mr. Nevius to Hangchow 
 
 Early in 1863 he was sent to Yu-yiao, a city about 
 forty miles up the river from Ningpo. He was 
 licensed and ordained to the full work of the Gospel 
 ministry in 1864, and became co-pastor with one of 
 the foreign brethren of the church in Yu-yiao. There 
 were only four professing Christians in that place, 
 and one of them was under suspension; but the 
 Master seemed to own the labors of his young ser- 
 vant there, almost from the very first day. At the 
 first communion held after his arrival in 1863, about 
 twenty persons made application for baptism, of 
 whom fifteen were baptized; and there has been no 
 time since then, when there have not been evidences 
 of God's favor resting upon the work at Yu-yiao. At 
 the last communion in May, 1866, nineteen made ap- 
 plication, of whom five were baptized. There are 
 now there about eighty communicants and twenty 
 inquirers; and there is scarcely a village or district 
 within ten miles of the city where the Gospel has not 
 been preached. 
 
 This is no small progress for the time in China — a 
 church of about a hundred members, hewn out of the 
 
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 solid rock of heathenism in about three years. Be- 
 sides, Mr. Kying- did a vast amount of sowing that is 
 to be gathered by other reapers. I am sure that, if 
 the man who did it could be consulted on the subject, 
 he would not say that it was because he was perfect ; 
 he had his faults as we all have ours, but he was united 
 to Jesus Christ by faith, and by both word and deed 
 showed that he desired to live only for Christ's glory 
 in the extension of the Gospel. He was zealous and 
 earnest in his Master's work; whether he met people 
 in a passenger boat, going into the country, or halt- 
 ing for a while in a rest-house, many of v/hich are 
 erected b}^ the roadside here, or in his own house or 
 in theirs, very few parted from him without having 
 heard something of the Gospel. He was not only 
 thus earnest himself in making known the Gospel, 
 but he had a happy faculty of employing all the 
 talent in the church for the same purpose. Thus, if 
 one of the church mem.bers was out of work for a 
 day, Mr. Kying w^ould say to him, "Come, let us 
 take a bundle of tracts and sfo to such a villaofe and 
 preach; or let us go and visit such a family or person, 
 and come home and have dinner with me. " He thus 
 trained his people in such a manner, that they re- 
 semble more what is said of the early disciples, who 
 • 'went everywhere preaching the word," than any 
 church with which I am acquainted, whether at home 
 or here As a pastor he had few superiors; he was 
 thoroughly acquainted with the state of his flock, 
 and sympathized with them in all their troubles, 
 whether spiritual or temporal. It was not fully known 
 till after his death how much he had helped the 
 
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 poor of his charge, out of his own limited salary of 
 $10.50 (ten dollars and a half) a month. He man- 
 aged, too, to know much about every inquirer be- 
 fore he or she made application for baptism. At a 
 communion season some time ago, when a young 
 man was examined for admission to the church, the 
 foreign member of the mission, who was Mr. Kying's 
 co-pastor, was pleased with the understanding and 
 answers of the lad, and thought that he ought to be 
 baptized. Mr. Kying replied that it was true that 
 the lad knew a great deal about the Gospel, but he 
 ivould tell lies; he was not baptized, and it was not 
 long after when he was detected in such a complica- 
 tion of lies and dishonesty, that he had to leave the 
 neighborhood, and he has not been heard of in it 
 since. Between the services on the Sabbath, he had 
 those who did not go home to dinner — and latterly 
 very few went home — divided into classes; he took 
 one class, his wife another, the more advanced mem- 
 bers of the church took others, and thus an excel- 
 lent effort was made to instruct the church mem- 
 bers in reading, singing, and Bible knowledge. 
 
 His powers as a preacher were of no ordinary 
 kind; and considering the scanty help in the way 
 of commentaries that our native brethren have to 
 the understanding of the Bible, his preaching was 
 eminently judicious. When he went out by the 
 wayside to preach, he generally took one of our 
 Lord's parables as the basis of his remarks, and in 
 listening to some of such discourses, it has often 
 been felt by his foreign brethren that such an 
 adaptation to the universal wants of man had never 
 
l88 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 before been seen in the parables. The writer will 
 not soon forget a sermon which he heard Mr. Kying 
 preach some time ago from the text, " Neither give 
 place to the devil." The truth was presented in such 
 a powerful, striking, original manner, so thoroughly 
 adapted to the audience, and was listened to with 
 such attention, that, speaking after the manner of 
 men, it was not at all strange that his preaching pro- 
 duced such results. — Rev. S. Dodd. 
 
 [Some extracts from the pen of the Rev. J. L. Ne- 
 vius may be added to Mr. Dodd's interesting sketch ;] 
 
 While a mere boy and still connected with the 
 boarding school, Mr. Kying expressed his wish and 
 determination to devote his life to the work of 
 preaching the Gospel to his countrymen. 
 
 Before this wish had been carried into effect, and 
 before the foreign missionaries were satisfied as to 
 his natural qualifications for the work of the ministry, 
 an effort was made by his uncle to induce him to 
 enter into business. His uncle was an opium mer- 
 chant of some wealth, and without children. He 
 proposed to Ling-yiu to enter his store with the 
 prospect of becoming a partner, promising to provide 
 for him a comfortable home, and to furnish him 
 money to assist in procuring him a wife of a respecta- 
 ble family. This prospect of wealth and worldly ease 
 and happiness seems to have been entirely powerless 
 to shake him in his resolution to devote himself to 
 Christ's work. He chose rather to teach a day school 
 with a salary of five dollars per month, and wait till 
 God should open the way for carrying out his cherished 
 purpose. 
 
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 In the year 1859, Ling-yiu accompanied me and my 
 wife in our attempt to establish a new station in the 
 city of Hangchau, about 120 miles in the interior, 
 and containing about one million of inhabitants. 
 Here he mingled with all classes of his countrymen 
 and derived important lessons of practical experience 
 which were of great use to him in after life. When 
 we were obliged to leave the city on account of the 
 disturbed relations of China with foreign nations in 
 connection with the last Chinese war, he remained 
 and carried on the work with great zeal and prudence, 
 until he was forced to leave by an incursion of the 
 Taiping rebels, who took and partially destroyed the 
 city. 
 
 As a preacher, his discourses were eminently Scrip- 
 tural. They were also characterized by originality 
 of thought and illustration, and an earnest and im- 
 pressive delivery. As a pastor he was minutely ac- 
 quainted with the character and circumstances of 
 each one of his people; was in perfect sympathy 
 with them, and kept a strict watch over them. Per- 
 haps his greatest gift as a minister was his power to 
 communicate to others his own zeal and enthusiasm, 
 and to set every member of the church at work. 
 
 In the latter part of June, 1866, his mother, and 
 his wife, a sweet Christian woman and an invaluable 
 helper in the missionary work, were taken from him 
 by death within the short space of three days. He 
 bowed submissively under the stroke, and supported 
 by faith and the sympathies of his people, was con- 
 tinuing his work without interruption. In a few 
 days he was brought low by the same disease. He 
 
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 was heard beseeching God for life, saying-, *' Isit not 
 enough?" He pleaded the wants of the Yu-yiao church 
 and of his country, and solemnly covenanted, should 
 God spare his life, to be more entirely consecrated to 
 his work. But his work was already done, and he 
 too entered into rest. Sad, sad indeed, to us, but 
 still sweet. They were pleasant in their lives, and in 
 death they were not divided. As "these come 
 from the land of Sinim," we can almost hear their 
 joyful welcome, " Well done, thou good and faithful 
 servant: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." — 
 /. C. Z. 
 
 Rev. John Lloyd. 
 
 Mr. Lloyd was an able, faithful and beloved mis- 
 sionary of the Board at Amoy, China. He was at- 
 tacked by typhus fever on the 2 2d of November, 
 184S, and on the 6th of December he finished his 
 earthly course. From remarks made at his funeral 
 by the Rev. W. J. Pohlman, a missionary of the 
 American Board, the following notice of Mr. Lloyd's 
 life, labors and character, is taken. 
 
 "The Rev. John Lloyd was born in Huntingdon 
 county. Pa., October i, 1813. The first fifteen years 
 of his life wxre spent at home, w^here he received a 
 strict religious training, and as good an education as 
 the district school afforded. From his sixteenth to 
 his twenty-first year, he acted as clerk in several es- 
 tablishments, and improved all his leisure hours in 
 acquiring knowledge, reading with aviditv such books 
 as came in his v/ay, especially those of a historical 
 
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 character. The pursuits of trade were not, however, 
 cong-enial to his mind, and he longed to go through a 
 course of study. He commenced his classical studies 
 at Jefferson College, in the spring of 1834. In the 
 second session of his collegiate course, there was a 
 powerful revival of religion at the institution, during 
 which he became a subject of renewing grace. He 
 made a public profession of religion in March, 1835. 
 He has often spoken of a favorite place for prayer by 
 the side of a fallen tree in a field, where he retired 
 for communion with his God, and enjoyed many 
 precious seasons of devotion. Between forty and 
 fifty persons made a profession of their faith in 
 Christ at the same time, one of whom was the Rev. 
 Walter M. Lowrie, with whom our departed friend 
 formed a most cordial and delightful intimacy, which 
 continued through life. 
 
 ''In September, 1839, Mr. Lloyd took his degree 
 of A.B., and the next year began his studies with a 
 clergyman, preparatory to entering the sacred minis- 
 try. In 1 84 1 he entered the Theological Seminary 
 at Princeton, N. J. In 1844 he was licensed by the 
 Presbytery of New York to preach the Gospel ; and on 
 June 22, of the same year, he left his native land as 
 a missionary to the Chinese, and reached Macao, 
 October 22. He there met Messrs. Hepburn, Lowrie 
 and Cole, of the same mission; after consultation 
 with these brethren, and those who accompanied 
 him, it was decided that he should proceed to Amoy 
 with Doctor Hepburn, where he arrived December 
 6, 1844. 
 
 " His course from that day to this is well known to 
 
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 US all. With earnest alacrity, he devoted his energy 
 and time to the acquisition of this difficult language; 
 and now, when he had nearly reached the goal he 
 aimed at, and was becoming fluent in speaking, it 
 pleased the Master to take him to himself : thus teach- 
 ing us, that however well qualified we may be to carry 
 forward the Lord's work, he can get along without 
 us, and find other agents to accomplish his purposes. 
 ' ' To the speaker, Mr. Lloyd was peculiarly dear as 
 a family friend, and an endeared associate nearly all 
 the time of his residence at Amoy. He was kind 
 and uniform in his affections, faithful in his friend- 
 ship and equable in his temperament; firmly con- 
 scientious in respect to duty, and stable in his per- 
 sonal religion. He was laborious in his efforts to 
 save the souls of the heathen ; vigorous, sound and 
 discriminating in his views of truth ; in short he may 
 be characterized as humble, methodical, persevering, 
 devoted and conscientious, a man much beloved, and 
 in whose heart grace reigned. He was permitted to 
 bear public testimony in favor of Christ among the 
 Chinese; for by applying himself almost exclusively 
 to the spoken language, he had made good progress, 
 and could communicate religious truth freely to the 
 people, with whom he was universally popular. Had 
 he lived longer, we had much to hope for from his 
 labors." — J. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Isidor Loewf.nthal. 
 
 Mr. Loewenthal was born A.D. 1827, in the city 
 of Posen, in Prussian Poland, of Jewish parents. 
 
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 He was the eldest of a family of eight children. His 
 father had at heart little regard for Judaism, but ob- 
 served, from custom, its principal rites and cere- 
 monies. His mother was a strict adherent to the 
 traditions of the Rabbis (oral law), and instructed 
 her children carefully in the tenets of the Jewish 
 faith, and in the principles of morality. 
 
 His parents bestowed upon him a liberal educa- 
 tion. At a very early age he was placed at a Jew- 
 ish school, where he acquired the rudiments of 
 science, learned to read the Hebrew text, and to re- 
 peat prayers he did not understand. At this period, 
 though but a child, he evinced that love of books and 
 thirst for knowledge which characterized his maturer 
 years. 
 
 From the first he made rapid progress in his stu- 
 dies, and gave evidence of more than ordinary talents. 
 After a few years he entered the gymnasium in his 
 native city, where he studied the higher branches of 
 a liberal education — the ancient classics, natural 
 science, metaphysics, mathematics to some extent, 
 music, Hebrew, and several of the languages of 
 modern Europe. At the age of seventeen he had 
 passed successfully through the course of study usually 
 taught in such institutions. After leaving the gymna- 
 sium he entered a mercantile house in Posen, as a 
 clerk. But merchandising was ill-suited to his tastes 
 which were for books. His hours of leisure from busi- 
 ness were devoted to his favorite pursuits. He had 
 a strong desire to enter one of the German Universi- 
 ties, and had made arrangements to do so, but was 
 prevented by the events that led to his emigration to 
 
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 the United States. He formed associations with edu- 
 cated young men of his own age, of Hberal political 
 sentiments, and became complicated in political dif- 
 ficulties, by being so rash as to publish in one of the 
 public journals a piece of poetry of his own compo- 
 sition, containing sentiments adverse to the govern- 
 ment. This brought him under the notice of the 
 police, and, being informed that he was in danger, 
 of arrest, he hastily fled from his home ; after many 
 difficulties, he reached Hamburg, where, after much 
 embarrassment, he procured a passport and took 
 passage on board of an English ship for New York, 
 arriving in the autumn of 1846. Here he was a 
 stranger in a strange land, possessed of but little 
 means and ignorant of the English language. He 
 made efforts to find some employment in New York, 
 but was unsuccessful. He then visited Philadelphia, 
 where he met with the same want of success. Leav- 
 ing Philadelphia, he went to the country and sought 
 employment from the farmers, offering his services 
 for what they chose to give him ; but he was again 
 doomed to disappointment. Being of diminutive 
 stature, and having no acquaintance with farm w^ork, 
 the farmers deemed him dear at any price. His funds 
 being now nearly exhausted, and every door of em- 
 ployment seemingly closed against him, he became 
 very despondent. But, feeling the pressure of neces- 
 sity to do something for a living, as the last resort 
 he invested the little money he had left in a small 
 basket and a few notions, and, w^ith this on his arm, 
 he started out to the country as a peddler. 
 
 In this capacity, on a cold day in November, 1846, 
 
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 he came to the house of the late Rev. S. M. Gayley, 
 near Wilmington, Del., drenched with rain and suf- 
 fering from the cold. He had disposed of some of 
 his wares, and was about to depart, when Mr. 
 Gayley, noticing that he was thinly clad, the evening 
 being intensely cold, gave him a cordial invitation to 
 spend the night with him, which he gladly accepted. 
 By conversation with him during the evening Mr. 
 Gayley discovered that his guest was a young man 
 of no ordinary talents, and had received an excellent 
 education; that he had an extensive and accurate 
 knowledge of the ancient classics, Hebrew, and 
 several of the modern languages. His sympathies 
 were at once drawn out towards him. He thought it 
 a pity that a young man of such talents and acquire- 
 ments should be engaged as a peddler, when he might 
 be more usefully employed. Mr. Gayley invited him 
 to remain at his house, while he would interest him- 
 self to secure him a situation as a teacher, which 
 invitation he accepted. 
 
 Mr. Gayley secured for him the positipn of teacher 
 of French and German in La Fayette College, where 
 Mr. Loewenthal entered upon his duties in the be- 
 ginning of January, 1847. 
 
 At this time he had but an imperfect knowledge of 
 the English language. With untiring industry he 
 addressed himself to its stud}^, and, at the close of 
 that session, he could both speak and write it with 
 classic purity. In a very short time, he acquired a 
 considerable knowledge of English literature. He 
 was a most indefatigable student; not only his hours 
 of leisure from college duties, but habitually ^ong 
 
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 hours in the night, and frequently whole nights, were 
 devoted to study. His usual time allotted for sleep 
 was four hours. Possessed of an iron will, whatever 
 he resolved to do was done if labor could accomplish 
 it. Gifted with a retentive memory he rarely forgot 
 anything he read. 
 
 During his stay at the house of Mr. Gayley he 
 never disclosed his lineage, nor did Mr. Gayley ever 
 suspect him of being a son of Abraham, until Mr. 
 Loewenthal, in a letter to him, some time afterwards, 
 informed him that he was a Jew. It was during his 
 residence there, that the veil was taken away from 
 his heart, that he received the first religious im- 
 pressions, and became convinced of the truth of 
 Christianity. In a letter to Mr. Gayley, in July, 
 1847, he informs him of his conversion to Chris- 
 tianity, and he gives a history of the means employed 
 by the Holy Spirit in bringing about this change. 
 He states : "It was by Providence I was sent to your 
 door. When I came to your house it was for worldly 
 gain ; little did I then think I was to receive there 
 what was infinitely better. It was at your house, by 
 your earnest prayers (at family worship) — to which I 
 first went half from curiosity, half from politeness 
 — by your humble supplications, that I was first 
 awakened to apprehend my danger, to consider I had 
 an immortal soul. I began to open the Bible. I was 
 astonished. I waited with eagerness, morning and 
 evening, for the summons to family worship, to hear 
 you pray. I was more and more convinced I was 
 on the wrong path." During the time he was at 
 college, Mr. Gayley corresponded regularly with him, 
 
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 and, although ignorant of what was passing in his 
 mind, gave him religious counsel. These kind words, 
 Mr. Loewenthal states in the above letter, were most 
 seasonable — were specially adapted to his case. In 
 the following autumn, during the vacation of the 
 college, he made a public profession of his faith in 
 Christ as the true Messiah, was baptized by Mr. 
 Gayley, his father in the Gospel, and received into 
 membership of the Rockland Presbyterian Church, 
 to which Mr. Gayley then ministered. Mr. Loewen- 
 thal entered the Senior class of La Fayette College 
 in the fall of 1847, a-^^^ graduated with honor. After 
 his graduation, he acted as tutor in the college for 
 some timp, and afterwards as a teacher of languages 
 in a school of high order at Mount Holly, devotmg 
 his leisure hours to philological studies, in which he 
 made rapid progress. 
 
 In the fall of 1852 he resigned his situation at Mount 
 Holly, and repaired to Princeton. Theological stu- 
 dies were much to his taste. There he took a high 
 stand. His public exercises were far above medioc- 
 rity, and augured his future eminence. Whilst 
 there he still pursued his philological studies during 
 his leisure hours, and was a contributor to the Biblical 
 Repertory. His able articles published in that quar- 
 terly established his reputation as a writer. The 
 Society of Inquiry of the Seminary selected him as 
 their essayist, to read the essay at their annual meet- 
 ing at the commencement at which his class was 
 graduated. His subject was, " India as a Field of 
 Missions." It was a masterly production, evincing 
 great ability and learning. For some time after his 
 
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 graduation at the seminary, he acted as tutor in 
 Nassau Hall, which position he filled with marked 
 ability. 
 
 At this time his thoughts were turned to India as 
 the field of his future labors, and he received an ap- 
 pointment to the new mission to the Afghans. His 
 eminent linguistic talents and acquirements remark- 
 ably fitted him for that post. He was licensed in 
 1856, by the Presbytery of New York, and in August 
 of that year he sailed for India. When he arrived, 
 late in the autumn, at once he went to Peshawar, the 
 mission station, and immediately entered with ardor 
 upon his duties. He soon mastered the difficult lan- 
 guage of the Afghans, the Pushto. He, acquired 
 with great rapidity the different languages and dia- 
 lects of that part of India; and as soon as able to 
 speak intelligibly the languages of the people, he dili- 
 gently engaged in the active duties of preaching. 
 Although his missionary life was only seven brief 
 years, yet he had translated and published the whole 
 of the New Testament in Pushto, had nearly com- 
 pleted a dictionary of that language, and he could 
 preach with facility in Pushto, Persian, Cashmeri, 
 Hindustani and Arabic. It is doubtful whether many 
 foreigners in India had a better knowledge of Asiatic 
 literature, or a fuller acquaintance with the manners 
 and customs of the natives, and with Oriental politics, 
 than he. He had a thorough knowledge of the re- 
 ligious systems of the people; and as a disputant with 
 Mohammedans and other religionists he was a mas- 
 ter. He enjoyed the friendship of some of the first 
 men in both the civil and military service in India; 
 
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 and he had made a valuable collection of manuscripts 
 and rare books. The amount of intellectual labor he 
 accomplished was remarkable. Besides his linguistic 
 labors, he was actively engaged in preaching daily in 
 the bazar, and undertook frequent itinerancies into 
 the neighboring districts; he conducted a large cor- 
 respondence, and w^as a contributor to British and 
 American quarterlies. 
 
 At the early age of thirty-eight, in 1864, he came 
 to his death by violence at the hand of his own watch- 
 man, who it is said mistook him, walking in his gar- 
 den at night, for a robber, and fired at him, the ball 
 penetrating his forehead. He fell senseless and soon 
 expired. 
 
 Mr. Loewenthal was under the usual stature, yet 
 in that small, fragile casket was contained the jewel 
 of a mighty intellect. His natural talents were of 
 the first order, and were assiduously cultivated by 
 study. He possessed genius in the truest sense. 
 His mind was characterized by great versatility, he 
 having what v/as exceedingly rare, a seemingly equal 
 aptitude for all branches of study. He excelled in 
 whatever he undertook. He was an accomplished 
 musician, mathematician, metaphysician, and pre- 
 eminently a linguist ; and he stood in the first rank as 
 a philologist. His learning was solid and various. 
 He was a writer of great elegance and power. His 
 style was perspicuous, chaste, classic, vigorous and 
 ornate. In the social circle he was a charming com- 
 panion ; he possessed a mind thoroughly cultivated, 
 and richly stored with knowledge, and genial humor 
 with fine conversational powers. As a Christian, he 
 
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 was sincere, humble, devout and zealous. He was, 
 in a word, a man of God. Sad was his death, and 
 irreparable his loss to the cause of missions. The 
 memory of his many virtues is embalmed in the heart 
 of the Church of which he was an ornament. — Rev. 
 S. A. Gay ley. 
 
 Mrs. H. E. Loomis. 
 
 Mrs. Loomis, wife of the Rev. Charles L. Loomis, 
 M.D., died at Corisco, Africa, August 20, 1861. The 
 Rev. W. Clemens, writing soon afterwards, spoke in 
 high terms of her Christian excellence : 
 
 '' She whose death is here noticed, freely made a 
 sacrifice of all for a missionary life, to toil for the 
 redemption of Africa. She decided for a home 
 among the heathen, and to die for Christ, knowing 
 that she had ' in heaven a better and an enduring 
 substance. ' 
 
 ''On the 2ist of January, i860, she arrived at Cor- 
 isco, in company with her husband. On the 9th of 
 May of the same year, after having passed their ac- 
 climation, they entered on their work permanently, 
 by being appointed to the charge of the station at 
 Evangasimba. Here she labored patiently among a 
 strange people, v/ho could not appreciate the sacrifices 
 of the servant of Christ. Her feeble health was, 
 doubtless, her greatest trial. Seldom has any one 
 been so severely afilicted with repeated attacks of fever 
 as fell to her lot. Naturally robust, and of a strong 
 constitution, she felt these attacks more severely. 
 There were no less than eighteen, two of which were 
 
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 of a malignant type. She was no doubt made more 
 familiar with death by being laid aside for a time. 
 
 " Though very weak in body, her faith was strong 
 in Christ. On being interrogated whether she could 
 trust in the merits of the Saviour, she promptly re- 
 plied, ' Yes. ' As there was much doubt in our minds 
 whether she would recover, she was asked if she 
 could realize that the will of God was good, whether 
 she should recover or should die. The same prompt- 
 ness answered in the affirmative. It was evident she 
 had been thinking of death, and preparing for the re- 
 sult of her sickness. Her friends will be gratified to 
 know that she was free from pain. She said she 
 knew she had some fever, but no pain. On another 
 occasion, she remarked, that she had felt all the 
 
 bitterness of death, and yet it was not bitter 
 
 It becoming more evident that she could not live, she 
 was asked if she had any word for friends in America. 
 She answered, that she had desired to see them, 
 and especially her mother, once more, but it was im- 
 material now ; they would all soon follow her. She 
 never regretted coming to Africa. 
 
 • ' She so far revived as to communicate v/ith her 
 husband. By request he sang part of the hymn, 
 'There is rest for the weary.' Her soul could sing, 
 though her lips could not. She united by humming 
 the chorus, ' There is rest for the weary, there is rest 
 for you. ' In this peaceful state of mind she left us 
 on the morning of the 20th of August, at four o'clock, 
 to rest from her labors on the other side of Jordan, 
 which she had almost reached while conversing with 
 us. We bade her adieu with the benediction of the 
 
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 Spirit — * Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord 
 from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may 
 rest from tlieir labors; and their works do follow 
 them. ' 
 
 '' She now rests sweetly in the graveyard at Evang- 
 asimba, beneath a tree whose branches overshadow 
 similar forms, who died in the same faith. " — J. C L. 
 
 Rev. a. W. Loomis, D.D. 
 
 We are called upon to record the unexpected death 
 on July 26, 1 89 1, after a very brief illness, of Rev. 
 Augustus W. Loomis, D.D., of San Francisco, Cal. 
 He first went as a missionary to China in 1844, and 
 was there until 1S50. In 1852 he began mission work 
 among the Creek Indians and Vv^as with them about a 
 year. In 1859 he was called to take charge of the 
 Chinese work in California, in which department of 
 Christian missions he spent the remainder of his 
 life. Dr. Loomis published several important works 
 in connection with Chinese missions, and his whole 
 work is of the highest value. He was a man of great 
 intellectual attainments and it will be difficult to sup- 
 ply his place in our missionary force. — ChurcJi at 
 Home and Abroad^ September, 1891. 
 
 The Foreign Missionary of November, 1884, sent 
 its congratulations "across the continent to Dr. 
 Loomis on the completion of twenty-five years of 
 labor among the Chinese in California. No wonder 
 that his last annivcisary, September 15, was a /oyful 
 day. We see it all — the tasteful decorations, the 
 
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 flags and wreaths and flowers, and best of all the 
 Christian Chinese gathered to give thanks to their 
 faithful pastor and to the Saviour who had sent him, 
 and cheered him through the early years of neglect 
 and discouragement and enabled him, despite all the 
 abuse, which they have encountered, to gather nearly 
 two hundred Chinese converts into the Church and 
 to fix the truth of Christ in the hearts of hundreds 
 more. " 
 
 Mrs. Mary Ann Loomis. 
 
 Died in Cazenovia, N. Y., December 12, 1866, Mrs. 
 Mary Ann Luce, wife of Rev. A. W. Loomis, of San 
 Francisco, Cal. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Loomis went out to China in 1844, 
 under the direction of the Presbyterian Board of Mis- 
 sions. After laboring there six years they were com- 
 pelled to return to this country on account of ill 
 health. Partially recovered, they undertook the same 
 service among the missions of the Board in the Indian 
 Territory, which they were compelled to abandon 
 for the same cause. Then, after laboring some years 
 in the home missionary work in Illinois, they were 
 sent to reside at San Francisco to labor among the 
 Chinese on the Pacific coast. Here they lived and 
 labored six years or more. Last spring Mrs. Loomis' 
 ill health again made a change necessary, and they 
 came East, hoping that rest and a few months' resi- 
 dence in a different climate would restore her wonted 
 vigor. But the Lord had ordered otherwise. She 
 was past recovery, and continued to fail gradually, 
 
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 and rapidly at the last, till her death. Her many 
 friends in China, California and the other States, will 
 be glad to know that her death was fully in accord- 
 ance with her faithful, devout, quiet and self-sacrific- 
 ing life. 
 
 Mrs. Loomis was born in Winfield, N. Y. , in 
 1815. She early made a profession of religion. 
 There was nothing striking about her death to note 
 except that when past the power of utterance she 
 turned her eyes towards her husband, as if to arrest 
 his attention, and then looking away fixedly in another 
 direction, an expression of great satisfaction spread 
 over her countenance, as if she already beheld * ' the 
 King in his beauty " and so fell asleep. — Rev. H. 
 Kendall, D.D. 
 
 Mrs. Olivia Loughridge. 
 
 Mrs. Loughridge, wife of Rev. Robert M. Lough- 
 ridge, of the Creek Mission, died September 17, 
 1845. *' The call from her heavenly Father found 
 her in her Saviour's vineyard engaged in labors of 
 love and mercy." — Annual Report, 1846. 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Loughridge. 
 
 Mrs. Loughridge, second wife of Mr. Loughridge, 
 died January 25, 1850, at Tallahassee, in the Creek 
 Nation. She was the daughter of Joseph Avery, 
 of Conway, Mass., born December 13, 1819. She 
 spent four years in the Cherokee Nation, laboring 
 assiduously^ as long as her health permitted, as a 
 
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 teacher of the mission school at Park Hill. Return- 
 ing to her father's house she was married to Mr. 
 Loughridge, of the Creek Mission, on 4th Decem- 
 ber, 1846, and resumed her missionary labors. 
 *'■ Her eminent qualifications for the work made her 
 loss in the present circumstances of the mission to be 
 severely felt. Whilst we mourn for her removal in 
 the prime of life from a sphere of so much useful- 
 ness, we bless God that she was permitted to do so 
 much for the best interests of the Indian children 
 and youth for whom she labored and for whom she 
 prayed." — Annual Report^ 1S50, and Record^ July, 
 1850. 
 
 Mrs, Louisa A. Lowrie. 
 
 Mrs. Lowrie, wife of Rev. John C. Lowrie, was a 
 daughter of the Hon. Thomas Wilson and Mary, his 
 wife, of Morgantown, Va., and sister of the Hon. 
 Edgar C. Wilson, of the same place, in whose family 
 she had her home after the death of her father and 
 mother. She departed this life in Calcutta, Novem- 
 ber 21, 1833, in the twenty-fourth year of her age. 
 Her last hours were full of peace. A memoir was 
 prepared by her former pastor. Rev. A. G. Fairchild, 
 D.D., of which editions were printed in Pittsburgh, 
 Philadelphia and London. — •/. C. L. 
 
 Rev. John C. Lowrie and William Reed, and their 
 wives, the first missionaries from the Western For- 
 eign Missionary Society, embarked for India in the 
 ship Star, on 30th May, 1833, and arrived at 
 Madeira on the 24th of June following. The tern- 
 
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 porary abode of the missionaries at that fertile and 
 lovely spot in the ocean, tended not only to mitigate 
 the fatigues of a long sea voyage but somewhat to 
 recruit the strength of Mrs. Lowrie, whose health 
 had begun to be so far impaired during the last few 
 weeks of her residence in this country as to threaten 
 a permanent pulmonary affection. The voyage was 
 resumed on the 15th of July, and the Star arrived 
 in the port of Calcutta on the 15th of October. The 
 change of air incident to her passage into the south- 
 ern hemisphere and severe gales in doubling the 
 Cape of Good Hope appeared to confirm all the fears 
 which had been entertained as to the character of 
 Mrs. Lowrie's illness, and from that period she began 
 gradually to waste away, so that before the arrival 
 of the Star in port all hopes of her recovery were 
 blasted. 
 
 The mission was immediately received into the 
 family of Rev. William H. Pearce, and in the midst 
 of their assiduous attentions Mrs. Lowrie lingered 
 until the 21st of November, when she expired, and 
 her mortal remains were borne to the house appointed 
 for all living. 
 
 Her desires to devote herself to the spiritual good 
 of the heathen were fervent, and her qualifications 
 for the station were to human view uncommon, but 
 God for whose glory she left her native land and bore 
 her feeble, exhausted frame half round the globe, 
 was pleased, doubtless for wise reasons, to disappoint 
 her earthly hopes and to require her earthly associates 
 a few short weeks after their arrival to consign her to 
 the dust, there to proclaim, as she sleeps in Jesus on 
 
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 India's distant shores, the compassion of American 
 Christians for its miUions of degraded idolators ; 
 and to invite others from her native land to come 
 and prosecute the noble undertaking- in which she 
 fell— Rev. E. P. Swift, D.D. 
 
 Rev. Walter M. Lowrie. 
 
 Mr. Walter M. Lowrie, the third son of the Hon. 
 Walter Lowrie, and Amelia his wife, was born in 
 Butler, Pa., February i8, 1819. He pursued his 
 studies at Jefferson College, graduating with the first 
 honor, and at Princeton Theological Seminary. He 
 went to China as a missionary in 1842. The Memoir 
 of his Life, published by the Messrs. Carter, New 
 York, and the Board of Publication, Philadelphia, 
 may be referred to for much general information 
 concerning the early history of the missions of the 
 Board in China, and for particular information con- 
 cerning Mr. Lowrie's work as a missionary, and his 
 death by the hand of Chinese pirates, August 1 8, 1 847. 
 
 One of his associates in the mission, himself one of 
 the ablest and most devoted of the servants of Christ 
 who have gone to China, thus wrote of him : 
 
 "The deceased was in no ordinary measure en- 
 deared to his fellow-men. He was a man of eminent 
 talents and an accomplished scholar, an able minister 
 of the Gospel, and a faithful and devoted mission- 
 ary."—/. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Reuben Lowrie. 
 
 Mr. Reuben Lowrie was born of the same parents, 
 in Butler, November 24, 1827. He had looked for- 
 
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 ward to being associated with his brother, Walter, in 
 the work of missions. After his brother's death, he 
 felt it to be his duty to go out in order to take his 
 place, as far as practicable. After graduating at 
 the University of New York, and finishing the usual 
 course of theological study at Princeton, he spent 
 some time at teaching, with a view to his more com- 
 plete preparation for the expected work of his life, 
 and he gave a few months to the assistance of the 
 brethren in one of the southwestern Indian missions. 
 In 1854, he went with his wife to China, and on 
 April 26, i860, he entered into rest. He had been 
 advised to seek renewed health by a visit to his 
 native country, and this measure might have proved 
 successful ; but his reply to his friends was that he 
 would not leave China until he had ' ' looked death 
 in the face." It was then too late. 
 
 The R-ev. Dr. Culbertson, with whom he was asso- 
 ciated for several years at Shanghai, thus wrote of 
 him the day after his death : 
 
 ''His end was peace. He had a long and very 
 trying struggle for life, and was anxious to live, but 
 there has been no quarreling with the will of God. 
 He did not cling to life for the sake of life. There 
 was no hankering after this world. It was not even 
 anxiety for his family that caused him most grief. 
 It was the giving up of his chosen work, as a mission- 
 ary of Christ, that distressed him. The sting of 
 death was taken away. He had no fear as to the 
 future, but the agony of giving up this work, of 
 leaving undone the task he had marked out for him- 
 self, of leaving the heathen for whose salvation he 
 
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 had so earnestly labored, without seeing them 
 brought to Christ, this seemed like piercing his 
 vitals with a sword. Yet no murmur ever escaped 
 his lips. In all his sickness, though often suffering 
 from great nervousness, he uttered no complaint. 
 Though sometimes despairing of life, he had no 
 desire but that the will of God should be done. A 
 few weeks since he told me that he would not be sur- 
 prised to find himself suddenly brought to death's 
 door, and about that time, in writing a note, told 
 me he was ' resting in the arms of infinite sufficiency. ' 
 Lately, however, he has expressed himself to some 
 of the other brethren as being in darkness — not 
 that he was in doubt as to his spiritual state, but that 
 he did not enjoy the light of God's countenance as 
 he wished. This, however, passed away, and the 
 day before his death he seemed to rejoice in God 
 though he could say but little. 
 
 ''We all feel his loss very deeply, and our mission- 
 ary brethren, of all denominations, mourn our be- 
 reavement as a heavy loss to the missionary cause. 
 He was loved, tenderly loved, by all his brethren, 
 and all feel that it will be long before his place in our 
 circle can be supplied." 
 
 At a meeting of the Shanghai Missionary Confer- 
 ence, held at the church mission school-house, on 
 Monday evening, the 21st of May, 1S60 — the Rev. 
 E. C. Bridgman, D.D., President, in the chair: 
 
 "The Rev. John vS. Burdon, of the EngHsh 
 Church Missionary Society, called the attention of 
 the Conference to the solemn event that had hap- 
 pened since their last meeting — the death of the 
 
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 Rev. Reuben Lowrie — and proposed the following- 
 Minute in reference to it: 
 
 "That this Conference, having heard with heart- 
 felt sorrow of the recent removal, by death, of the 
 Rev. Reuben Lowrie, Missionary of the American 
 Presbyterian Board to Shanghai, and member of 
 the Shanghai Missionary Conference, record their 
 sense of the loss that the cause of Christ in China 
 has thereby sustained. 
 
 " Mr. Lowrie, just as he was entering on the use- 
 ful career which seemed before him, was called to 
 his rest on the 26th of April, i860, after a residence 
 of only five and a half years in China. His deep, 
 earnest piety, his sound scholarship, his experience 
 of missionary work among the Choctaw Indians 
 before coming to China, and his unwavering devoted- 
 ness to the early-formed purpose of his life, even 
 amid the ravages of disease — peculiarly fitted him 
 for the work of a Chinese missionary. But ' the 
 Lord had need of him. ; ' and while we bow in sub- 
 mission to the divine appointment, we would desire 
 to express our deepest sympathy with the widow and 
 famiily of our beloved brother, thus so sorely be- 
 reaved; and pray that they may be enabled, in this 
 their hour of need, to realize the full blessing of sanc- 
 tified affliction. 
 
 " This resolution was seconded by the Rev. W. G. 
 E. Cunningham, of the American Southern Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Mission; and, after a few appropriate 
 remarks by the President, was passed unanimously. 
 
 " In order further to manifest our sympathy with 
 the family of Mr. Lowrie both in China and America, 
 
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 it was proposed by the Rev. Cleveland Keith, of 
 the American Episcopal Church, and seconded by 
 the Rev, J. L. Holmes, of the American Southern 
 Baptist Church, and unanimously agreed to: 
 
 ''That the Acting Secretary for the evening be 
 requested to write, in the name of this Conference, 
 letters of condolence to the widow and the father of 
 the late Rev. Reuben Lowrie, enclosing the resolution 
 just passed for their acceptance, as a slight token of 
 respect and love for the departed, and sympathy with 
 the bereaved." 
 
 Rev. James L. Mackey. 
 
 Mr. Mackey was born in Lancaster county, Pa. 
 He was trained by pious parents, and exhibited 
 through life the benefits of that training in an early 
 surrender of his heart to Jesus, and an entire conse- 
 cration of his life to him, in the work of the Christian 
 ministry. He passed, with a brave heart, through 
 the trials and struggles common to young candidates 
 seeking a preparation for that office. He spent some 
 3^ears in teaching in Strasburg, New London, and 
 elsewhere, and on completing his studies, offered 
 himself to our Board to be one of two to go to Africa, 
 and there, under the burning equator, on the Island 
 of Corisco, to found a new mission, and thus to re- 
 spond to the call of Ethiopia, stretching out her hands 
 unto God. The better to fit himself for this work, he 
 devoted some time to the study of medicine — the 
 knowledge of which often proved of great service to 
 
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 himself, to the mission, to the natives, and to sick 
 seamen and strangers cast upon his care. 
 
 This is not the place to detail the many and varied 
 trials and dangers through which he was called to 
 pass during the fifteen years of his sojourn in that 
 dark land — literally, as with Paul, the perils of waters, 
 the perils of robbers, the perils by the heathen, in 
 the wilderness, in the sea, among false brethren ; the 
 weariness and painfulness, the watchings, the hunger 
 and thirst, the heat and sickness, and, besides all 
 these, that which came upon him daily, the care of 
 all the churches and the schools, and the manage- 
 ment of the mission. Those were gloomy days when, 
 so soon, he was bereft by death of his beloved part- 
 ner; and when his associates, Brother Simpson and 
 his wife, sunk, with the vessel in which they sailed, 
 into the deep Atlantic, and left him alone with Jesus 
 to bear the burden and heat of the day. 
 
 But brighter days came and God smiled upon his 
 work. Other laborers arrived, the mission prospered, 
 and this man of God was spared to see such changes 
 as gladdened his heart. A debilitating climate, how- 
 ever, did its work, gradually tmdermining his once 
 vigorous health, and after different visits to his native 
 land, with the hope of regaining it, two years ago he 
 crossed the Atlantic for the eighth and the last time, 
 a broken-down missionary, leaving his heart in 
 Africa, and ever yearning to return to the people and 
 the brethren, and the work he loved so well. After 
 a half year's rest, his energetic mind, too active for 
 its frail body, refused to be idle. He thought he 
 could still do something for his fellow-men, and for 
 
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 his Master, and so he took charge of the New London 
 Academy, and returned to his early employment of 
 teaching. In this work he continued until the close 
 of life, dragging his weary frame along to the school 
 when many would have taken to their bed. 
 
 His end was very calm and peaceful. His opinion 
 of himself was truly humble; but his confidence in 
 Jesus was entire. No cloud came between him and 
 his Saviour. He died at New London, Pa. , April 30, 
 1867, in the forty-eighth year of his age, beloved by 
 all who had known him, and lamented by the Church 
 which he had so faithfully served. His body was 
 borne to the grave by a large number of Christian 
 ministers and others, whilst his soul had gone up 
 higher to meet his Lord, and to wear the missionary's, 
 if not the martyr's, crown. He leaves behind him a 
 mother, brothers, sisters, and a bereaved widow, who 
 shared with him, for many years, the toils, the perils 
 and the joys of a missionary's life. — Rev. Robert P. 
 Die Bois. 
 
 Mrs. James L. Mackey. 
 
 Mrs. Macke)^, wife of Rev. James L. Mackey, of 
 the Corisco Mission, died March 11, 1850. Her 
 disease was of an apoplectic nature, and as her hus- 
 band writes, "not occasioned by her coming to 
 Africa." He adds: ''A few days before her de- 
 parture we talked of the subject of death and of our 
 hopes of eternal life through our Saviour. She ex- 
 pressed to me her willingness to depart whenever her 
 divine Master should call her. Her affection was set 
 
214 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 on things above. She wished to Hve only for the 
 honor and glory of God ; but he who doeth all things 
 well hath called her to a higher sphere." — Record^ 
 August, 1850. 
 
 Mrs. Robert M. Mateer. 
 
 Died at Wei Hien, China, in April, 1886, Mrs. 
 Robert M. Mateer, nee Archibald. Mrs. Mateer had 
 been but five years on the mission field. She had 
 expected to devote her life to the mission work among 
 the Laos; but being called to share the labors of 
 Rev. Robert M. Mateer, she cast in her lot with great 
 heartiness and a missionary spirit among the people 
 of Central Shantung. No biography could be more 
 comprehensive or touching than the following refer- 
 ence from Mrs. C. W. Mateer, dated April 17: ''You 
 will hear through this mail the sad event at Wei 
 Hien. But for my illness I should now be there. 
 God gave me this sister when he took Mrs. Capp from 
 me to her heavenly rest, and she has been very, very 
 dear to me. I have known self-devotion and untiring 
 zeal, but I have nowhere else seen such untiring self- 
 forgetfulness as in Mrs. Robert M. Mateer." 
 
 A stricken husband and a little daughter are left 
 to mourn her loss, and many friends in this country, 
 as well as the entire mission, will sympathize with 
 their grief. — Foreign Missionary^ J^ily, 1886. 
 
 Miss Sue L. McBeth. 
 
 On Friday, May 26, 1893, Miss McBeth, the senior 
 missionary among the Nez Perces, died at Mt. Idaho. 
 
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 She was a woman of apostolic zeal, and has left 
 her own imperishable monument in the renewed 
 lives of the majority of the Indian ministers and a 
 very large number of the men and women of this 
 reservation. She had the personal instruction of 
 all the ministers among this people for twenty years 
 past. A due notice of her labors would make a 
 volume. But her departure leaves a vacancy that 
 will be exceedingly difficult to fill. Her sister, Miss 
 Kate McBeth, is well qualified by her intimate knowl- 
 edge of the people and their language to carry on her 
 work. — The CJiurcJi at Home and Abroad^ J^l7> 1^93- 
 
 Rev. William E. McChestney. 
 
 On November i, 1869, Rev. William E. McChest- 
 ney sailed with his wife and other missionaries from 
 New York to Canton, China, where they arrived in 
 January, 1870. Mr. McChestney was a graduate of 
 the college and seminary at Princeton, and a member 
 of the Presbytery of Monmouth. He united with the 
 church during his college course in 1864. On his ar- 
 rival at Canton he gave himself to a diligent study of 
 the language, and was able to speak to the people, in 
 their own tongue, the wonderful words of God. 
 
 On the 9th of July, 1872, while on a visit to one of 
 the outstations with the Rev. Mr. Noyes, and while 
 sitting in their boat, a stray shot from a pirate vessel 
 struck him in the head, after which he never spoke. 
 "The following day, "writes Dr. Happer, ''asthesun 
 set behind the western hills, we committed his mortal 
 
2l6 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 remains to the faithful tomb to await the resurrection. 
 Thus suddenl}^ has death seized one of our number 
 from our side. One evening he is preaching to a 
 crowd of villagers, and on the next evening his body 
 
 lies in the silent grave Our brother had 
 
 grown in grace and spirituality of mind and of heart, 
 and we had fondly hoped it was in preparation for use- 
 fulness among this people. But in the providence of 
 God it appears to have been with reference to his 
 early removal to the service of the sanctuary above. " 
 — Foreign Missionary^ October, 1872. 
 
 Rev. Jasper S. McIlvaine. 
 
 On the 2d of February, 1881, the Shantung Mission 
 was called to mourn the loss of Rev. Jasper S. 
 McIlvaine, of the Chenanfoo station. Mr. McIlvaine 
 had been connected with the mission about eleven 
 years, and had distinguished himself not only by his 
 scholarship, but by his self-denial and consecration to 
 his work. He had been the pioneer missionary in 
 the interior station of Chenanfoo, having gone thither 
 in 187 1, attended only by a native helper. When 
 others had joined him at that station he extended 
 his labors into places still further from the coast, 
 and had succeeded in creating an interest in the 
 truth, over an extended district in Central China. 
 Mr. McIlvaine shared in the personal distribution of 
 funds contributed for the sufferers by famine in the 
 years 1878 and 1879. One of his last acts was to pur- 
 chase with private funds a chapel in Chenanfoo for the 
 
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 use of the mission (costing $5000), wishing, as he ex- 
 pressed it, "to set up a beacon light for the whole 
 province on the great thoroughfare of the capital." 
 
 Mr. Mcllvaine was a native of New Jei'sey, born 
 in 1844, and received his education at Princeton. 
 His colleague, Dr. S. A. Hunter, writes: "He has 
 had no equal in North China in many respects since 
 the days of William Burns. Holy, consecrated and 
 self-denying-, he thought only of the Lord Jesus and 
 
 his work His end was peaceful and calm. 
 
 His soul rested on the promises. Much of his time 
 was spent in prayer. When his voice failed he 
 wrote with a pencil, ' Lord Jesus, come quickly. 
 Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.' " 
 
 He was ill just a week. His disease was pneu- 
 monia, contracted during a preaching tour. He said 
 during his illness: " All the way back from Peking I 
 had such glorious visions of what God was going to 
 do for his Church in China. But now I shall never 
 see them accomplished." — Foreign Missionary^ May, 
 1881. 
 
 Miss Mary H. McKean. 
 
 Miss McKean, a member of the church of Wash- 
 ington, Pa. , and one of the most thoroughly tried and 
 valued teachers of the Creek Mission, died January 
 21, 1861. " She had been connected with the mission 
 between three and four years, during which she not 
 only gave the Strongest proofs of her fidelity to the 
 cause to which she had devoted her life, but won the 
 esteem and affection both of her associates and the 
 
2l8 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 children under her care She gave the most 
 
 satisfactory evidence that she was prepared to die. " 
 — Annual Report^ 1861. 
 
 The Rev. William J. McKee. 
 
 The Rev. William J. McKee, for sixteen years a 
 missionary in connection with our Board of Foreign 
 Missions, died at Socorro, New Mexico, July 21, 1894. 
 Mr. McKee was a native of Harrisville, Pa., a gradu- 
 ate of Knox College, 111., and of the Auburn Theo- 
 logical Seminary. He had been ordained by the 
 Presbytery of Butler, but was connected with that of 
 Cayuga when commissioned by the Board to the 
 Central China Mission. He sailed for his field of 
 labor November 16, 1878, and with the exception of 
 a furlough home in 1886-7, continued at his post until 
 failing health compelled him to return to the United 
 States about a year ago. He went with his famil)^ 
 first to Colorado, and afterwards to New Mexico, in 
 the hope of regaining his health, but the disease 
 which had fastened itself upon him was too deeply 
 seated to yield either to climate or to medical treat- 
 ment. Mr. McKee was a man of noble Christian 
 character and high missionary purpose. His great- 
 est ambition was to win souls. He had the affection 
 and confidence of his missionary brethren and was 
 greatly beloved by the native Christians, not only in 
 Ningpo, which was his station, but also in the out- 
 stations where he delighted to preach the gospel. 
 His death, like his life, was beautiful. The dear one 
 who has shared the joys and the labors of his mis- 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 219 
 
 sionary life, writes : ' ' So long- as there seemed to be 
 any ground of hope for his recovery, he kept up his 
 spirits and conscientiously did everything that he 
 thought would tend to hasten recovery; and yet he 
 not infrequently said that ' to depart and be with Christ 
 is far better.* Ever since I have known him, the 
 thought of being with Christ has been to him the hap- 
 piest thought of heaven, and it was the thought that 
 cheered him when he knew he could not live." — N. 
 Y. Evangelist, September 6, 1894. 
 
 Rev. Charles B. MacLaren. 
 
 This esteemed young brother, a graduate of the 
 Union Theological Seminary of the Class of 1882, 
 had just entered upon what promised to be a life of 
 eminent usefulness in Siam, when an early summons 
 came to him to enter the world of light. He died 
 at Bangkok, March 4, 1883. It is the same mysterious 
 dispensation that has so often tried the faith of mis- 
 sionaries and the friends of missions, and which ren- 
 ders it hard at first to realize that the dispenser of all 
 good is more deeply interested in the success of his 
 kingdom than its most earnest supporters can possi- 
 bly be. But God has so often brought light out of 
 darkness under such circumstances; so often made 
 the death of a sainted and devoted missionary more 
 influential for good than his life and labors could 
 have been, that it behooves us simply to go forward, 
 with no abatement of our trust. Not only will the 
 mantle of young MacLaren fall upon another, but we 
 believe that the entire mission, brought thus face to 
 
220 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 face with the issues of eternity, will be "lifted up," 
 as our dying friend expressed it, to a higher devotion 
 and a grander success. Mr. MacLaren was a native 
 of Nova Scotia, who came to the Union Seminary to 
 complete his theological education. He was a full 
 sharer in the deep missionary interest which charac- 
 terized his class, which led an unusual number to de- 
 vote themselves to the foreign field. We remember 
 him, from all our interviews previous to his appoint- 
 ment, as a young man of gentle and winning man- 
 ners, and seemingly imbued with the genuine spirit 
 of the Master, His smiling face was a benediction, 
 and his whole manner and bearing at once told, as 
 such manners always do, upon the heathen of Bang- 
 kok, both of high rank and of low. Mr. MacLaren 
 leaves a young and devoted wife, who, in the midst 
 of her early grief, promptly indicates her desire to 
 find solace in remaining on the field, and carrying 
 forward the work which she had hoped to share with 
 a loving husband. — Foreign Missionary^ June, 1883. 
 
 Rev. Gilbert McMaster. 
 
 Rev. Gilbert McMaster, a faithful native preacher 
 of the Presbytery of Lodiana, died at his station, 
 Saharanpur, India, in 1888. "He had spent twenty 
 years in the ministry and some years previously as a 
 catechist and licentiate preacher, when he was called 
 from his labors here to his rest in heaven. It will be 
 difficult to fill his place in Saharanpur." — Anmial 
 Report, 1889. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 221 
 
 Mrs. Theodore M. McNair. 
 
 Annette Gregory, wire of Rev. Theodore M. McNair, 
 missionary of our church at Tokio, Japan, died Feb- 
 ruary II, 1887, in her twenty-ninth year, after more 
 than a year's continued illness. She went with her 
 husband to that field of labor in December, 1883, and 
 for a time it seemed as if she would be able to bear 
 the work. In January, 1886, she was prostrated by 
 typhoid fever, which after running an almost un- 
 precedented course resulted in her death. She has 
 left the best of all records, her work for Christ well 
 done, and her burden of suffering well and cheerfully 
 borne. Mrs. McNair was a daughter of Henry D. 
 Gregory, Vice-President of Girard College, Philadel- 
 phia. Her mother has been long anci well known in 
 both the foreign and home mission work of the church. 
 Her bereaved family circle have the heartfelt sym- 
 pathies of the Church and of the Board. — Church at 
 Home and Abroad^ May, 1887. 
 
 Rev. George McQueen. 
 
 Mr. McQueen was a native of Schenectady, N. Y., 
 a graduate of Union College and of Princeton Theo- 
 logical Seminary, and a truly devoted and efficient 
 missionary in Western Africa. He went to Corisco 
 in 1852. He entered immediately upon the work 
 of the mission at Corisco, organizing a school of 
 native children, preaching by the aid of an interpreter 
 immediately upon his arrival, and devoting himself 
 
222 XECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 with irresistible energy to the work which his hands 
 found to do. 
 
 On the 26th July, 1S55, he was united in mar- 
 riage to Miss Georgiana M. Bliss, of Longmeadow, 
 Mass., formerly a much respected and loved teacher 
 in Schenectady, who, with the true spirit of mis- 
 sionary consecration, went out to meet him on the 
 field, and to share his self-denying labor. After re- 
 maining at Corisco more than a year and a half, the 
 failing health of Mrs. McQueen rendered necessary a 
 return to America, where they arrived in July, 1857. 
 Thus, by the ordering of a kind Providence, the 
 friends of Mr. and Mrs. McQueen were permitted to 
 meet them, and to look upon his face for the last time 
 on earth. June 7, 1858, they sailed upon their return 
 voyage, reaching their field of labor in health and 
 safety, and the first letters received by their friends 
 in America were filled with hope and promise. A 
 spirit of religious inquiry seemed to pervade all who 
 had come within the influence of the school, and the 
 most encouraging prospects appeared to open be- 
 fore the mission. 
 
 Soon afterwards, Mr. McQueen was attacked by 
 the fever of the coast, in so severe a degree as to defy 
 all remedies. His mind was kept in peace. To his 
 weeping wife he said : * ' Remember who has promised 
 to be the husband of the widow and the father 
 of the fatherless." When she asked, ''What word 
 would you have our infant boy in America remember 
 from you ?" he answered, *' We have given him to 
 God. If it pleases him to spare his life, I would have 
 him to be a minister of the gospel, to stand in my 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 223 
 
 place, that I may have a name in God's house. " He 
 then calmly informed his wife of the arrangements 
 he had made for her future comfort and that of their 
 child, and commended them to God in a most fervent 
 petition. He sent messages to friends at home by 
 name, saying that he should meet them again soon, 
 for he was going home, and praying earnestly that 
 his own family might have grace to bow submissively 
 to this dispensation of the Father of all. Being asked 
 as to the prospect before him, he said: *' My hope is 
 not so bright as I could wish, but comfortable. I 
 know that my Redeemer liveth. " He sent for one 
 of the native boys and gave him a message for the 
 other boys of the school. It was this: " I came from 
 America to tell you of these things of God. I have 
 lived as a light among you. You must tell your 
 people these things, and live as lights among them. 
 You must make the salvation of your souls the one 
 great thing." To the principal chief in his district he 
 said, ' ' Remember the words I have told you — I am 
 going home." 
 
 Mr. Mackey, one of his colleagues, read to him, 
 at his request, a few verses of the 14th chapter of 
 John. At the end of the third verse he interrupted 
 the reading, saying, ' ' That is enough. We have the 
 promise." On Friday afternoon, March 25, 1859, he 
 fell asleep quietly, and a pleasant smile foreshadowed 
 the blessed rest upon which he had entered. He 
 was in the thirty-second year of his age. — Schenectady 
 Reflector. 
 
224 necrological record 
 
 Rev. Robert McMullin and Mrs. Sarah C. 
 
 MCMULLIN. 
 
 Mr. McMullin was bom in Philadelphia in 1831, was 
 graduated at Pennsylvania University and Princeton 
 Theological Seminary, and went to India with his 
 wife, arriving at Calcutta in January, 1857, a few 
 months before the mutiny of the Sepoys filled that 
 country with distress. Both Mr. and Mrs. McMullin 
 enjoyed the heritage of birth in our best families, and 
 of connection with many others of like culture. They 
 had had therefore every advantage of education and 
 religious training, and, inspired by sincere devoted- 
 ness to Christ, they went forth to the work of mis- 
 sions enjoying the sympathy of many friends, who 
 not unreasonably formed high expectations of their 
 usefulness. Their days in India, like those of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Johnson, were but few, and ended in sor- 
 rowful times, yet who shall say that they lived and 
 died in vain ? Rather, who can doubt that the exam- 
 ple of these four families of our missionary brethren, 
 passing through the fire of heathen rage to the crown 
 of life, has not had a blessed influence on the piety of 
 the Church at home, like that of the martyrdom of 
 Stephen on the first disciples of Christ ? The letters 
 of Mrs. McMullin, formerly Miss Pierson, of Paterson, 
 N. J., like those of Mrs. Freeman, can never be for- 
 gotten by those who have read them. See notices 
 above of Messrs. Campbell, Freeman and Johnson, 
 also Mr. Fullerton's letters in the Appendix and the 
 Annual Report of 1858. — J. C. L. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 225 
 
 Mrs. Peter Menkel. 
 
 The death of Mrs. Peter Menkel, wife of the cap- 
 tain of the Nassau^ which occurred at Benito, June 
 i3> 1S93, cast quite a shadow over the Gaboon and 
 Corisco Mission, as she had not only endeared herself 
 to the missionaries, but had rendered valuable ser- 
 vices at Benito. Mrs. Menkel accompanied her hus- 
 band on his return to Africa after a visit to this coun- 
 try in 1890. — Annual Report^ 1894. 
 
 Mrs. Charles R. Mills. 
 
 On February 3, 1874, Mrs. Charles R. Mills, of 
 Tungchow, China, died of pleurisy after an illness of 
 a week's duration. Mr. and Mrs. Mills embarked for 
 Shang-hai October 14, 1856, where they arrived Feb- 
 ruary 7, 1857. Mrs. Mills had been among the most 
 robust of the female missionaries in China, and 
 seemed to give promise of a long career of useful- 
 ness. She had been sanctified by affliction, and her 
 influence seemed too valuable to be lost by the mis- 
 sion ; but the inscrutable wisdom of God has called 
 her to her reward, leaving a family of little children 
 in a strange land without a mother's care, yet faith 
 was triumphant and her end was peace. — Foreign 
 Missionary^ June, 1874. 
 
 Mrs. F. V. Mills. 
 
 Rev. Frank V. Mills and wife went to China in 
 1882, and were stationed at Hano^chow. Their work 
 
226 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 was interrupted by Mrs. Mills' failure of health after 
 eight years' faithful service, during- which they were 
 bereaved of both their children. They returned 
 home on a furlough in 1890, and Mrs. Mills died at her 
 home in Windsor, Conn., February 16, 1891. — An- 
 nual Report^ 1 89 1. 
 
 Revs. John A. Mitchell and R. W. Orr. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell was appointed as a missionary to 
 China before that country was open to the residence 
 of foreigners. He and his colleague, the Rev. Robert 
 W. Orr, took up their abode, therefore, at Singa- 
 pore, where a considerable emigrant Chinese popu- 
 lation was within reach of missionary efforts. In that 
 city Mr. Mitchell, who was threatened with pulmonary 
 disease when he left this country, departed this life 
 October 2, 1838, in the thirty-third year of his age. 
 He was a native of Tennessee. He is spoken of as 
 ''well qualified for his work, and his heart was wholly 
 devoted to it. Thus possessing talents and grace, 
 and being in the prime of his days, with a vast field 
 of useful labor before him, he gave great promise of 
 usefulness; but his sun went down at noon, and the 
 church was again taught its dependence on God." 
 
 His colleague gave the following interesting ac- 
 count of his last illness and his happy religious ex- 
 perience : ' ' The grave had no terrors for him. At 
 all times he scx^med to have a calm and firm trust in 
 God, a willingness to leave his soul in the hands of 
 his vSaviour. But he often rose far above this, and 
 
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 had the most joyful and blessed anticipations of the 
 rest which remaineth to the people of God, and ardent 
 longings to depart and be with Christ. Indeed, he 
 told me that he had never enjoyed so much happiness, 
 in the same length of time, as he had during this 
 sickness. He often spoke with lively gratitude of the 
 exceeding kindness of the Lord in providing for all 
 his wants, and giving him grace to bear every trial 
 with cheerfulness. He had the habit of referring 
 everything to the providence of God, so that if any- 
 thing turned out differently from what he expected 
 or wished, he was ready to say, ' This is the will of 
 my heavenly Father, and he knows exactly what is 
 best for me. ' When conversing with the people of 
 God, or with others, he loved to bear his testimony 
 to the goodness and faithfulness of the Lord. It was 
 the impression made on all who saw him, that his 
 spirit was ripe for heaven. I have never known a 
 person of more clear and undoubted piety. 
 
 " In the last few days of his life there was nothing 
 in his experience extraordinary or triumphant; yet 
 there was what is more desirable — a firm and intelli- 
 gent reliance on the atoning blood of Christ, as the 
 only remedy of the sinner. ' Mark the perfect man, 
 and behold the upright : for the end of that man is 
 peace. ' 
 
 '' He often spoke of his strong desire to preach the 
 gospel among the heathen, but generally concluded 
 by remarking that the Lord could accomplish all his 
 purposes of love without him, and that he had work 
 for him to do in another and more glorious state of 
 existence." 
 
228 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 These obituary notices are restricted to missionaries 
 who died in the service of the Board. Otherwise the 
 name of the Rev. Robert W. Orr would occupy a 
 prominent place among them. His health giving 
 way, he was constrained to withdraw from the foreign 
 field ; he engaged in the work of the ministry in this 
 country, and was a professor in Jefferson College, in 
 which he had been graduated with the highest honor 
 of his class. He was an able, devoted and respected 
 missionary and minister, and died a few years after 
 his return from the East. — J. C. L. 
 
 Rev. William T. Morrison. 
 
 Rev. W. A. R Martin, D.D., of Peking, pays the 
 following tribute to his friend, and for a short time 
 his associate in the field, who died December lo, 1869 : 
 
 '* Ten days ago we were startled by the announce- 
 ment, ' Morrison is dead. ' The most of us had not 
 even heard of his illness; and the melancholy tidings 
 awakened in our midst such emotions as result from 
 the combination of a sudden surprise with a great 
 sorrow. 
 
 ' ' Never robust, his health had been seemingly good 
 since his arrival in the North ; and when early in the 
 present month he was confined to his room by an at- 
 tack of rheumatic pains, none of his friends felt any 
 alarm. He was himself utterly unconscious of dan- 
 ger, conversed cheerfully in the intervals of pain on 
 the afternoon of the loth, and in the evening, ex- 
 periencing temporary relief, informed his wife that 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 229 
 
 it would not be necessary to trouble the doctor that 
 night. 
 
 ' ' About 9 p. M. he groaned heavily and muttered, 
 as though not well awake and yet suffering from a 
 paroxysm of uncommon sharpness. Relapsing into 
 quiet, he was carefully covered ; and his wife, fearful 
 of disturbing the repose which he so much needed, 
 refrained from speaking to him through the hours of 
 the night. He remained perfectly quiet; and it was 
 not until late in the morning that she essayed to 
 arouse him, when, to her horror, she grasped the icy 
 hand of a corpse. 
 
 *'His spirit had taken its flight after the brief 
 struggle of the previous evening; and 2^ post-mortem 
 examination revealed the fact — till then unsuspected 
 — that he had been suffering from disease of the 
 heart. Such, to human view, was the untimely fate 
 of one whose future was full of promise. Still young, 
 and newly entered on this post of the great field, we 
 anticipated for him a long life, rich in productive 
 labors. But God's thoughts are not as ours ! 
 
 " Endowed with a vigorous, logical and systematic 
 mind, Mr. Morrison had enjoyed the advantage of 
 thorough discipline in one of the best of our American 
 colleges. He entered the field furnished with no 
 common preparation ; and gave abundant proof of his 
 qualifications, in faithful and not fruitless labors both 
 in the south and north of China. 
 
 '' When a man consecrates such a mind and such a 
 heart to the work of evangelizing the nations, the 
 work itself is one of self-denial, and it matters little 
 what worldly advantages he may have left behind in 
 
230 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 order to enter upon it. When, however, the mission- 
 ary has also turned his back on wealth and luxury, the 
 evidences of his sincerity and elevation are such as 
 the world will more readily appreciate. 
 
 ' ' Mr. Morrison was reared amidst the affluence and 
 temptations of our commercial metropolis. His 
 father a merchant (now retired), and his other rela- 
 tives in prosperous business, he had before his eyes 
 the dazzling allurements of earthly gain. But like 
 one of old, what things were gain to him he counted 
 loss for Christ. No trace of repining at his lot, or 
 regret for what to others might have seemed an im- 
 prudent choice, ever disturbed the serenity of his 
 mind. 
 
 * ' Nor was it only on his first embarkation in the mis- 
 sionary work that he was called to answer the heart- 
 searching question : ' Lovest thou me more than 
 these ?' Worn with labor in an unhealthy climate, he 
 was compelled to return to his native country in such 
 a state of bodily weakness, that on reaching the 
 American coast he was unable to stand erect. His 
 recovery was slow, but with returning health, his 
 heart turned with an irresistible longing towards his 
 far-off field. The solicitations of friends, and the 
 prospect of ease and comfort in ministerial life at 
 home, conspired in vain to detain him. Before his 
 health was fully established he set out a second time 
 for China, coming in this instance to the more salu- 
 brious regions of the North. Here he labored but 
 little more than a year, when he was called to his rest. 
 
 '' Left alone in charge of his station, he addressed 
 himself to his work with such earnestness as greatly 
 
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 to impress both foreigners and natives. He was un- 
 commonly careful and conscientious in preparation 
 for his pulpit duties. Instead of satisfying himself 
 with the reflection that to a heathen audience he 
 might say anything that came uppermost in his mind, 
 he was accustomed to prepare his discourses for the 
 handful of poor people who frequented his chapel, 
 with as much patient assiduity as if they had been 
 intended for the elite of New York City. 
 
 '' Having to contend with the difficulties of a new 
 dialect, he wrote his sermons out carefully with the 
 aid of a Chinese teacher; and only a few weeks be- 
 fore his death I heard him deliver one on the ' Love 
 of God in Christ,' which, for richness and felicity of 
 illustration, I have rarely heard equaled in the lan- 
 guage of this people. 
 
 " His prayers, whether in Chinese or English, were 
 remarkable for their fervor. And even in saying a 
 grace at meat, his heart would overflow in gratitude 
 and praise for those spiritual mercies, which to him 
 were ever present as a conscious living reality. 
 
 *' During the last year of his life he was observed 
 to be growing in grace in a very marked degree. 
 Instrumentally, this resulted in part from his sense 
 of responsibility in entering a new field with a new 
 lease of life, and partly from a conscientious sancti- 
 fication of the Sabbath-day, reacting in the sanctifica- 
 tion of his own soul. On that day he refused to feed 
 on any other fare than the hidden manna — feasting 
 with delight on the pure word of God, and rejecting 
 the miscellaneous matter offered as Sunday diet by 
 even religious newspapers. 
 
232 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 "When called to cease from his labors, Mr. Mor- 
 rison was thirty-four years of age, having labored 
 four years at Ningpo, and a year and a half at Peking. 
 Who can tell how much of the success at the former 
 station was due to his godly example and earnest as- 
 siduity in the instruction of the native pastors ? At 
 the latter station we are unable to point to such visi- 
 ble fruits; but we cannot refrain from thinking how 
 much he might have accomplished if his life had been 
 spared. May those who remain belike-minded!" — 
 Foreign Missionary^ May, 1870. 
 
 Rev. John H. Morrison, D.D. 
 
 Tidings have been received of the decease of this 
 veteran missionary, who died at Dehra, India, on the 
 1 6th of September, 1881. Dr. Morrison entered the 
 missionar}^ work in India in the year 1838, and thus 
 was entitled to a place among the oldest missionaries 
 of the Board. He was characterized by great earnest- 
 ness and boldness in the presentation of truth. He 
 never shrank from danger, or failed to declare the 
 whole counsel of God, though often his audience was 
 exasperated to bitterness by paid agents of the Brah- 
 mans or the Mohammedan imaums. On account of 
 his fearlessness he was known in mission circles as 
 the " Lion of the Punjaub." And 3"et no man was 
 more affable or more friendly than Dr. Morrison, 
 none more genial in personal intercourse or more de- 
 voted to his work. The Christian Church will re- 
 member Dr. Morrison as the man who after the ereat 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 233 
 
 Sepoy rebellion of 1857 moved the Lodiana Mission 
 to call upon all Christendom to observe an annual 
 week of prayer for the conversion of the world. (In 
 1863 he was Moderator of the General Assembly at 
 Peoria, Ills.) He leaves a wife and several children, 
 of whom a son and a daughter are engaged in the work 
 of the Lodiana Mission. For the last four years 
 most of his time has been spent at Dehra, where such 
 light labor as he was able to assume was still carried 
 on. The announcement of his death is not only 
 sudden, but unexpected, as he had apparently good 
 prospects of continued health, though advanced in 
 years, until he was struck by the terrible but fatal 
 cholera. His dying words were: "It is perfect 
 peace — I know whom I have believed." 
 
 (Dr. Morrison was born in Orange county, N. Y., 
 Jime 29, 1806.) — Foreign Missionary^ December, 
 1881. 
 
 Mrs. Anna M. Morrison, 
 
 The wife of the Rev. John H. Morrison, was a daugh- 
 ter of Dr. E. D. Ward, of Bloomfield, N. J. Soon 
 after arriving at Calcutta, she was attacked by cholera, 
 and called to the heavenly rest, April 27, 1838, just as 
 she was entering on the scene of earnestly desired 
 work for Christ among the Hindus. The following 
 accounts of the last illness and the devoted piety of 
 Mrs. Morrison are taken from a letter written at the 
 time by her bereaved husband : 
 
 "The perfect calmness and composure with which 
 she faced the king of terrors in one of his most 
 
234 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 frightful forms, would have led an observer to the con- 
 clusion that stupefying drugs, or the hand of death, 
 had deprived her of bodily or mental feeling, had it 
 not been for the violent paroxysms of agony she suf- 
 fered, and the clearness and intelligence with which 
 she spoke to those around her. Her greatest solici- 
 tude appeared to be lest she should, by complaining, 
 dishonor him who had died for her salvation. Once, 
 when a most violent spasm suddenly seized her, and 
 threw her into almost insupportable agony, she did 
 cry out, * O Lord, relieve me from this dreadful suf- 
 fering;' but immediately checking herself, she added, 
 ' if consistent with thy holy will. Not my will but 
 thine be done. ' And then she reproached herself at 
 having uttered a complaint, saying, ' Oh, do not let 
 me complain so. He has never called me to suffer 
 more than he has enabled me to bear, and I know he 
 will support me now.' From the first she said she 
 did not think she would recover; but appeared not to 
 suffer even the slightest agitation in the near prospect 
 of death. On the contrary, she remarked to one 
 standing by her bedside, ' The fear of death used to 
 trouble me so as to make me doubt whether I was a 
 child of God; but now it has no terrors; there is not 
 a cloud; all is bright and clear.' When it became 
 very evident that she could not last much longer, and 
 the physician gave up all hopes, I asked her if she 
 was ready to receive the message to go home; she 
 calmly replied, * Yes. ' I then told her the opinion of 
 the physician, and asked her how she felt in the near 
 prospect of death ; she simply replied, ' Happy. ' Soon 
 after, observing that she was fast sinking, I asked 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 235 
 
 her, ' How does the prospect now appear ?' She said, 
 'Glorious,' and spoke no more until she joined in the 
 song of the redeemed ones around the heavenly 
 throne — ' Unto him that loved us, and washed us 
 from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us 
 kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be 
 glory and dominion forever and ever.' " 
 
 A memoir of Mrs. Morrison was prepared by the 
 Rev. E. J. Richards, and published by M. W. Dodd, 
 New York.—/. C. L. 
 
 Mrs. Isabella Morrison. 
 
 Mrs. Morrison, second wife of the Rev. J. H. Mor- 
 rison, died February 14, 1843. " To her we trust the 
 promise was fulfilled, ' Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord.' " — Ammal Report^ 1844. 
 
 Mrs. Anna Morrison. 
 
 Mrs. Morrison, third wife of the Rev. J. H. Mor- 
 rison, died December 29, i860. "Her mind was 
 graciously kept in peace, and she departed this life in 
 the hope of a joyful immortality." — Annual Report, 
 1861. 
 
 Mrs. John H. Morrison. 
 
 Mrs. Morrison, widow of the late John H. Morri- 
 son, D.D., died at Sabathu, India, September 4, 
 1888. "She was strong and earnest in spirit and 
 
236 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 abundant in labors for the truth." — Annual Report^ 
 1889. 
 
 Mrs. Susan Dutcher Morrison. 
 
 Miss Susan Dutcher, in a month after her marriage 
 to Mr. Morrison, connected with the Choctaw Mis- 
 sion, was removed by deatli in January, 185 1. For 
 several years she had been an efficient teacher in this 
 mission. She was greatly beloved by the scholars in 
 the primary department of the school. — Annual Re- 
 port^ 1 85 1. 
 
 Mrs. W. J. P. Morrison, 
 
 The death of Mrs. W. J. P. Morrison was the afflic- 
 tive event of the year 1888. She died of cholera 
 August 19, at Murree, a sanatorium near Rawal 
 Pindi (India). Mr. Morrison and his family were 
 spending a year at Rawal Pindi for reasons of health. 
 Mrs. Morrison was a daughter of Rev. R. Thackwell, 
 of Dehra, and was born in India, so that two families 
 and especially her own young children, mourn over 
 her early departure, but they sorrow not as those who 
 have no hope 
 
 Mrs. Morrison's whole life had in one way or 
 another been identified with the work of missions. 
 In every capacity she had endeared herself to the 
 missionary circle, and though called to her reward 
 while still in her youth, the savor of a godly influence 
 is bequeathed to the mission circle and to the native 
 church. — A iiinial Report^ 1 889. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 237 
 
 Rev. Joseph H. Myers. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph H. Myers, of Lodiana, India, has 
 laid down his Hfe in the field of his choice. (He died 
 November 19, 1869.) His was a short career — only- 
 four and a half years at the work, but they were years 
 of endeavor in teaching youth, guiding inquirers, pro- 
 claiming the gospel, preparing tracts and doing other 
 service for the salvation of the heathen, and for 
 stirring up the church at home. He wrote many 
 letters to Sabbath-schools, and was anxious to bring 
 the young into working sympathy with the cause of 
 missions. He was a choice Christian and a noble 
 missionary. Too soon for the work, but not for him- 
 self, has he fallen. His life is not thrown away. It 
 will yet bear fruit, and India will gather it, and the 
 church at home will feel its power. — Foreign Mis- 
 sionary^ February, 1870. 
 
 Rev. Dr. S. H. Kellogg, an intimate friend and 
 classmate of Mr. Myers, writes, from India: "His 
 letters were always fragrant with Christ, full of love 
 to God a.nd man; but this had been growing much of 
 late — so much that my wife had remarked that the 
 Lord must be preparing Mr. Myers for some very 
 
 special experience of sorrow or labor, and Dr. 
 
 made the same remark to me two weeks ago. In a late 
 letter — one of the last — Brother Myers wrote : ' I 
 cannot sufficiently praise the Lord for his goodness 
 to me in spiritual and temporal things.' Again he 
 breaks out: ' O for more spirituality! O, to be full of 
 the Holy Ghost.' 
 
238 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 " But our own loss and dear Mrs. Myers', who can 
 measure it ? She is a woman of like spirit, and I 
 doubt not she is sustained, but it is a very heavy loss ; 
 a very heavy loss to their two little ones that they 
 will not even have the memory of such a father." — 
 Record^ February, 1870. 
 
 Mrs. Myers continued at her post six years after 
 the death of her husband, when it became necessary 
 to return with her two sons to America. She died at 
 Wooster, O., September 6, 1888, shortly after the 
 death of the elder of these sons. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Latta Nassau. 
 
 It is with great regret that we have to record the 
 death of Mrs. Nassau, wife of Rev. R. H. Nassau, 
 M. D. , near Benita, Corisco Mission, on the loth of Sep- 
 tember, 1870, of African fever. As Miss Mary C. Latta, 
 she went to Africa as a teacher in i860, arriving at 
 Corisco in November. She was married to Dr. 
 Nassau in 1862. Her missionary course has been 
 one of singular devotedness and usefulness. A more 
 lovely and happy Christian woman we have seldom 
 known. We mourn over our loss, but for her to de- 
 part and be with Christ is surely far better. Great 
 sympathy will be felt for her bereaved husband and 
 sister-in-law and for her two children. — Record^ Ja-n- 
 uary, 187 1. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 239 
 
 Mrs. Mary Brewster Nassau. 
 
 Died, at Talaguga, Africa, August 6, 1884, Mary 
 Brewster, daughter of the late Rev. Julius Foster, 
 and wife of Rev. R. H. Nassau, M.D. 
 
 The death of Mrs. Nassau has filled with peculiar 
 grief the hearts of many friends of missions. It 
 seems but yesterday that she sailed for Africa, with 
 the well-considered expectation of sharing with her 
 newly-married husband the hardships and privations 
 of a pioneer work far up the Ogovee. Mary Brewster 
 Foster had consecrated herself to the mission work, 
 with the expectation of going, as a single lady, to 
 Persia; but, yielding to an attachment which was 
 subsequently formed for Dr. R. H. Nassau, and, 
 feeling that she would still be in the line of her cher- 
 ished object, she accepted his invitation to return 
 with him to his field of peculiar hardship in Central 
 Africa, where they arrived in December, 1881. Be- 
 fore sailing, she had deeply impressed the Christian 
 women of her own presbytery and synod with the 
 intelligence and depth of her missionary spirit. 
 
 She had been deeply beloved as a teacher before 
 her consecration to the mission work, and she left no 
 doubt in the mind of any that in whatever field her 
 lot should be cast, she would prove a most successful 
 laborer in the cause of Christ. At Talaguga, in a 
 rude abode which her husband built mostly with his 
 own hands, surrounded by savages still living in the 
 wildness of nature, and for whom eveiy thing re- 
 mained to be done, she prosecuted her work not only 
 with cheerfulness, but with real joy. Her death, 
 
240 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 though sudden, had not been wholly unanticipated as 
 a possible event, but the circumstances of it were 
 peculiarly sad. In her last hours no physician in 
 regular practice attended her, and no white woman 
 was at hand to render assistance in the tender assidui- 
 ties which were needed under such trying circum- 
 stances. Her heart-broken husband was compelled 
 to direct everything, even the preparation of the cofifin 
 and the grave. 
 
 She has passed to her reward as a real martyr to 
 the cause of the gospel in Africa. Another of those 
 significant graves which now surround the coast of 
 that dark land has been made ; another outpost of the 
 picket line has been consecrated. Why has this one 
 woman been called to give so much, even her life, 
 while many hesitate to recognize any claim of the 
 Master for the heathen that are perishing ? — Foreign 
 Missionary^ December, 1884. 
 
 Rev. John L. Nevius, D.D. 
 
 Dr. Nevius was born in Ovid, N. Y., March 4, 
 1829. He was graduated from Union College and 
 from Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1853 he 
 was married to Miss Helen Coan, also of Ovid, N. Y., 
 and with her he sailed in the same year from Boston 
 for China, as a missionary of the Presbyterian Board. 
 His first years of labor were spent in the Central 
 China Mission and at the Ningpo and Hangchow sta- 
 tions. In 1 86 1 he visited Chef 00 on a tour of inspec- 
 tion, and he must be regarded as one of the founders 
 of the Shantung Mission. 
 
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 My acquaintance with John L. Nevius began in the 
 Theological Seminary at Princeton. He had already 
 resolved upon the missionary work, but he put on no 
 airs of martyrdom in consequence of his purpose. 
 There was no brighter or more sunny spirit in the 
 halls or on the campus ; there was no more consistent 
 and earnest Christian in our whole circle. He was 
 full of life and vigor, physically, socially, intellectually 
 and spirituall}^ The same communicable magnetism 
 extended over everything that he attempted, whether 
 in athletics and the hilarity of our recreations, in the 
 hard, close work of the recitation room, or in the 
 earnest prayer and spiritual quickening of the re- 
 ligious conference. The prophecy of a devoted and 
 successful missionary life was clearly stamped upon 
 his joyous and breezy, yet thoroughly consistent, stu- 
 dent-life in the seminary. 
 
 When Dr. and Mrs. Nevius sailed for China, ocean 
 voyaging was no holiday affair. They went on board 
 a sailing ship at Boston, and for weary months, with 
 poor accommodations and poor fare, they were tossed 
 upon the pathless sea. But they were well mated in 
 their heroic spirit as well as in oneness of soul and of 
 consecrated purpose. Both had decidedly intellectual 
 tastes and abilities; both made valuable contributions 
 to the permanent literature of missions, and yet there' 
 never was any shrinking from the plodding, hard 
 work of the missionary life. 
 
 There are several salient points of interest and of 
 high example in the life of Dr. Nevius. Among 
 them may be mentioned his thorough and abiding 
 consecration to the work of his divine Master. I knew 
 
242 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 him in his youth, and had also frequent and pro- 
 tracted interviews during- his last visit at home in 
 1891-1S92, and I could discover no abatement in the 
 thoroughness of his great purpose or in the spiritual 
 tone of his life. Another element which he exempli- 
 fied in high degree was the inanlhicss which all 
 Christian service, and especially that of the mis- 
 sionary, demands. He was a prince among men. Of 
 only medium stature, but solid and substantial in ap- 
 pearance, with a face at once strong, and yet full of 
 benevolence and of joyousness, he inspired respect 
 with all classes. He left no criticism on the lips of 
 officers or fellow-passengers on his ocean voyages, 
 but always left the steamer with the warm friendship 
 of every class, even the sailors. He had that rare 
 tact which captivated everybody, and thus he always 
 scored a victory for the truth and the cause which he 
 represented. Dr. Nevius possessed that generosity 
 of spirit which won the affection of all fellow-mis- 
 sionaries. This was shown in the great Missionary 
 Conference in Shanghai in 1890, at which, out of 
 about four hundred, representing all missions in the 
 Chinese empire, he was chosen as one of two coor- 
 dinate presidents to conduct the sessions, extending 
 through many days. Dr. and Mrs. Nevius owned 
 their own home in Chefoo, where their doors of hos- 
 pitality were always open, and the fact that mission- 
 aries of many societies availed themselves of that 
 hospitality was an index of the warm esteem in which 
 their host and hostess were held. 
 
 Dr. Nevius presented a high example to all other 
 missionaries in the assiduity and success w^ith which 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 243 
 
 he conquered the native language. No mere smat- 
 tering could satisfy his purpose. I well remember a 
 triumph which was given to him at Chefoo, in the 
 autumn of 1874, when I happened to be on a visit to 
 the Shantung Mission. An English court was in 
 session for the trial of an Englishman who had mur- 
 ,dered a Chinaman. The one-sided and unjust man- 
 agement of similar cases by the English courts, always 
 discriminating against the native in the favor of 
 their own race, had created a widespread indignation 
 among natives of Chefoo and the surrounding coun- 
 try, and it was necessary to secure the most accurate 
 interpretation of testimony from Chinese sources. 
 The court had its experts and the Custom Service 
 also proffered its best interpreters. But at last these 
 were set aside, and the court requested Dr. Nevius 
 to act. He gave the blunt and fearless testimony of 
 some of the large and stalwart Chinese peasants with 
 a literalness that made the English judges wince. It 
 required no little moral courage, in the presence of 
 the stately wigs and ermine and the gathering of the 
 proud-spirited Englishmen, to give literally the testi- 
 mony which showed the intense Chinese indignation 
 towards the arrogance and injustice of an alien Brit- 
 ish court; but this was done, and with an accuracy 
 which none dared to question. As a vindication of 
 the thorough scholarship of one of our ablest mis- 
 sionaries the whole scene was one of triumph. 
 
 Dr. Nevius always manifested a deep synipatJiy for 
 the people among whom he labored. No man ever 
 won the hearts of the natives of all grades more fully 
 than he. His whole life was a rebuke to those who 
 
244 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 never quite succeed in coming- down from the stilts 
 of a higher cultus into a heartfelt and assuring sym- 
 pathy with the inferior race among whom they labor. 
 He not only had a warm place in the hearts of all 
 native Christians, but he also had the respect of the 
 heathen wherever he was known. 
 
 A dozen years ago a famine swept over portions of 
 the Shantung Province, carrying off two or three 
 millions of people. Generous amounts were contrib- 
 uted for the relief of the thousands of sufferers, by 
 Christians and philanthropists in this country, also by 
 foreign and native merchants in the Chinese ports. 
 But the men who were to actually venture into the 
 desolated districts where famine and pestilence went 
 hand in hand, and where life was endangered by the 
 uncontrollable hunger and misery of the starving, were 
 found only among the missionaries, and in this work 
 Dr. Nevius had a large part. Taking with him a large 
 amount of money, in Chinese cash, altogether amount- 
 ing to one or two wagon loads, he rented a small 
 house in the very midst of the worst suffering and 
 danger. Protected only by the care of his heavenly 
 Father and the respect of the people, "he spent some 
 weeks in such moderate and yet adequate distribution 
 as preserved some thousands of people from perish- 
 ing, until a new crop of grain could be gathered. 
 His work was thoroughly S3^stematized, and such was 
 the respect accorded him that no act of violence or of 
 theft was committed. A grand object-lesson setting 
 forth the benevolence of the Christian faith was pre- 
 sented to the people, and after the famine was over 
 Dr. Nevius followed up the good impressions with 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 245 
 
 evangelistic labors, and the result was seen in some 
 three or four hundred, converts gathered to the fold 
 of Christ. 
 
 He took a large part in what is known as the 
 itinerating zvork of the Shantung Mission. He would 
 have had better reason than most men for remaining 
 at home, owing to the delicacy and repeated illnesses 
 of his wife, but it was the joint wish of the two that 
 his work should not be restricted on that account. 
 Again and again, with a large wheelbarrow of his 
 own invention, packed and balanced with his needed 
 supply of books and personal comforts, and propelled 
 by a mule ahead and a trusty Chinaman behind, he 
 traversed wide districts of the Shantung Province, 
 visiting, like Paul, the churches which he had planted, 
 comforting the saints, and inviting all men to the 
 blessed way of life. All over the Province he was 
 known and loved. 
 
 Dr. Nevius had a deep sympathy for the poverty 
 of the people. He never lost sight of the fact that 
 the mission work is a spiritual and not a humanitarian 
 enterprise, and yet with admirable poise of judgment 
 he showed, as did his divine Master, an interest in 
 the wants and woes of the people. Many portions 
 of Shantung are more or less barren; the lines 
 of agriculture are exceedingly restricted. He had 
 learned that most of the fruits that are produced 
 in the United vStates, but of which there were com- 
 paratively few in China, might be successfully raised 
 in the Shantung Province, to the infinite relief of the 
 poor people. He therefore had planted in his own 
 grounds improved fruit trees, from which scions 
 
246 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 could be taken for ingrafting- the poor specimens of 
 pears and apples known in Shantung. He also sent 
 out through the surrounding region an offer to supply 
 these scions gratis to all who would pledge them- 
 selves to extend the same privilege to others. This, 
 together with his encouragement in the planting of 
 seeds for the production of thousands of trees, has 
 raised up a promising industry in Shantung. 
 
 But the time had come for the Master to call this 
 noble and devoted missionary to his rest. He had 
 reached the age of sixty-four. The robust health 
 which he had enjoyed for most of his life had begun 
 to flag. Even before his return last year from his 
 visit to America he showed signs of failure. Still he 
 kept up his work. On the 19th of October (1893), 
 while he was engaged in completing his arrange- 
 ments for attendance on the mission meeting at Wei 
 Hien, two hundred miles distant, he suddenly fell to 
 the floor and expired, without a struggle and appa- 
 rently without a pang. So sudden was his translation 
 to the rest above, that his friends who quickly gath- 
 ered about him could only say that "He was not; 
 for God took him." He has left a stricken wife to 
 whom he was all that a husband could be, and he 
 has been called away from a mission of which he had 
 been a pioneer and a counselor for more than thirty 
 years. The Presbyterian Board and the whole 
 church to which he belonged have met an irrep- 
 arable loss. — F. F. Ellinwood, D.D. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 247 
 
 Rev. John Newton, D.D. 
 
 The past year has brought a great loss, not only to 
 our Lodiana Mission, but to all Northern India. On 
 the 2d of July, 1891, Rev. John Newton, D.D., 
 our senior missionary in India, after fifty-six years of 
 devoted service, entered into the rest of heaven. An 
 old man at the time of his death, his long life in- 
 cluded, with the exception of one year, the whole 
 period of missionary effort by our Church. Rev. Wil- 
 liam Reed and Rev. John C. Lowrie, D.D., our ven- 
 erable Secretary, were his only predecessors there. 
 
 Dr. Newton went to India in 1835, arriving at Cal- 
 cutta in June of that year, accompanied by Rev. 
 James Wilson and his wife. Setting out from Cal- 
 cutta in a native boat on the Ganges they began their 
 long journey of 1200 miles to their chosen field. 
 Three months later they arrived at Cawnpore, where 
 they exchanged their boat for a smaller one in which 
 they sailed as far as Futtehgurh. At this point they 
 left the river and proceeded further by palanquin 
 drawn by oxen. At last, after a journey of five and 
 a half months from Calcutta — a journey now accom- 
 plished by railroad in fifty-four hours — they reached 
 their destination, Lodiana, a populous town, important 
 as a centre of influence for the Punjab. This densely 
 peopled region, containing over twenty- two millions 
 of Hindus and Mohammedans, had at the time when 
 Mr. Newton entered on his work there, only one mis- 
 sionary, Rev. John C. Lowrie, who had preceded 
 Dr. Newton by one year. Mr. Lowrie was soon ob- 
 liged by failing health to leave the field, and thus 
 
248 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 almost at once Dr. Newton had thrown upon him the 
 duties and responsibilities of leadership in this new 
 and important mission. These duties and responsi- 
 bilities during fifty-six years of faith and devoted 
 service, he discharged with rare wisdom and steady 
 zeal. 
 
 His labors were most various. Always foremost 
 with him was the direct preaching of the word and 
 that hand-to-hand effort by conversation with in- 
 dividuals which he felt to be one of the missionary's 
 most effective methods. He was a powerful and at- 
 tractive preacher, both in English and in the ver- 
 naculars. The Scriptures were his constant and ab- 
 sorbing study. Thoroughly versed in them, he un- 
 folded their truths with great patience and tact, 
 melting down opposition and indifference by a gentle, 
 vital warmth. Certain occasions in particular are 
 recalled by those who knew him, when the spiritual 
 power of his personality was especially felt. Rev. 
 Mr. Clark, of the Church Missionary Society, speaks 
 of the solemn effect produced upon his mind at the 
 Lahore Conference in 1865 by the reading of a part 
 of the first chapter of Acts, by Dr. Newton. He 
 says, " The impression made by his merely reading 
 a few verses has not been effaced by almost thirty 
 years." Dr. Lucas writes; "One night in the 
 Lodiana church, when called on to close the service 
 with prayer, he poured out his soul in a prayer I 
 shall never forget, a prayer that seemed more 
 nearly to ' take hold of God ' than any I have ever 
 heard, a real wrestling of soul in which one could 
 feel the soul travailing in pain, a prayer which told 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 249 
 
 US again that we had mdeed in our midst a prince 
 with God." 
 
 Dr. Newton took with him when he first went to 
 India an old-fashioned wooden printing press, which 
 he set up in a little house secured for the purpose, 
 and thus laid the foundation for that publishing 
 establishment which during the next fifty years was 
 destined to issue about tivo hundred and sixty-seven 
 million pages in ten different languages. In this 
 literary work Dr. Newton throughout his missionary 
 career was eminent. The Punjabi language is in- 
 debted to him for the foundations of its religious 
 literature. Besides the translation of the New Testa- 
 ment into Punjabi and numerous tracts in that lan- 
 guage, his literary labors, with those of his associate, 
 Rev. L. Janvier, included a Punjabi grammar and 
 dictionary, a commentary on Ephesians in Urdu and 
 important tracts in both Urdu and Hindi. 
 
 But notwithstanding Dr. Newton's invaluable ser- 
 vices in the line of direct missionary work, all who 
 knew him agreed in prizing most highly his lovely 
 character and deep piety. His sound practical judg- 
 ment was much relied on by all, and perhaps none of 
 his efforts for the Punjab have borne greater fruit 
 than those wise counsels so gladly sought by many 
 younger missionaries. He had a rare catholicity, 
 showing a sincere and loving sympathy with all forms 
 of Christian work. It was by his invitation that the 
 Church Missionary Society came to the Punjab in 
 1850, and it was largely due to his influence that such 
 warm fraternal relations were maintained for forty 
 years between the American missionaries and those 
 
250 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 of the Church of England. It is an English church- 
 man who says of him that he was " one of the holiest 
 men and one of the most lovable and best beloved 
 men that the Punjab has ever seen." His prayers 
 are particularly mentioned by this Episcopal brother 
 also, who describes them as marked by ''a sim- 
 plicity, a tenderness, a loving confidence, a reverence 
 and a reality felt by all who heard them." 
 
 From the Lodiana Mission, of which Dr. Newton 
 was the senior missionary, was issued in 1858 that 
 call to the observance of the week of prayer which 
 has since become so widespread and so fixed a custom 
 throughout the Christian world. This circumstance 
 is but another illustration of the prayerfulness charac- 
 teristic of Dr. Newton, of its influence on his asso- 
 ciates and through them on distant lands and unnum- 
 bered souls. Dr. Lucas writes: "In answer to 
 prayer, God gave him back all his children to labor 
 with him in India. He said once that it was his 
 mother's prayers that brought him to India. 
 Blessed mother that ! How little she thought as she 
 knelt day after day and gave her beloved son to go 
 far from her home and preach Christ, that she was 
 beginning the work in North India which her grand- 
 children and great-grandchildren are now carrying 
 on!" — ChurcJi at Home and Abroad^ April, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Newton. 
 
 Mrs. Newton, wife of Rev. John Newton, of the 
 mission in India, died September 2, 1857. The 
 character, example and influence of this excellent 
 
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 Christian woman for a period of twenty-three years 
 in missionary Hfe were all of the happiest kind, and 
 awaken deep regret for her removal; but she has 
 entered into the joy of the Lord. Her last end was 
 eminently peaceful. — Ainmal Report^ 1858. 
 
 Mrs. Newton was the mother of six missionaries in 
 India, four sons and two daughters, and one grand-' 
 daughter was also a missionary. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Newton. 
 
 Mrs. Newton, the second wife of Dr. John Newton, 
 to whom she was united in 1866, was an English 
 lady, and on the death of her husband, the state of 
 her health not permitting her longer residence in 
 India, returned to her friends in England, where she 
 died December 4, 1893, in the seventieth year of her 
 age. — Annual Report^ 1892 and 1894. 
 
 Rev. John Newton, Jr., M.D. 
 
 Tidings have been received from North India of 
 the death of this "beloved physician," whose dis- 
 tinction it is that he gave his whole life and soul to 
 the physical and spiritual healing of the most un- 
 fortunate of all men, the "loathsome" lepers. He 
 died July 29, 1880, at Sabathu, of cancer in the 
 stomach, after a period of great suffering. He was 
 the eldest of the four missionary sons of Rev. John 
 Newton, D. D., and brother of Mrs. Forman, who died 
 
252 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 at Lahore about a year ago. He leaves a wife and 
 children. Dr. Newton was an earnest preacher as 
 well as a physician, and excelled as a writer. Though 
 of scholarly turn, he was much engaged in itinera- 
 tion, bazaar preaching, and labor among the soldiers 
 of the local garrison, while perhaps his most re- 
 sponsible charge was that of a leper asylum having 
 eighty-nine inmates. A missionary associate says of 
 him, "No love in this dark world has ever seemed 
 to me so much like the Saviour's as that of Dr. New- 
 ton for his lepers. " 
 
 A correspondent of one of the Indian newspapers 
 has published the following brief tribute, which is all 
 the more valuable as coming from an outside observer 
 of this mission work : 
 
 " For a long time, I do not know how long, he has 
 been suffering and struggling with a disease which 
 he supposed to be consumption, I believe, but which 
 very recently proved to be cancer in the stomach. 
 When he wrote his last letter to the Pioneer about 
 the Sabathu Leper Asylum, he was on his way to 
 Kogthur, beyond Simla, seeking rest and change of 
 air. About a week before his death he returned to 
 Sabathu dying, and suffering indescribable agonies, 
 from which he was mercifully released in less time 
 than was expected. He was a true missionary, obey- 
 ing, in the letter and in the spirit, the original com- 
 mand given to the first missionaries, not only to 
 * preach, saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand,' 
 but to 'heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,' etc. He 
 did heal the sick, and he did cleanse the lepers, as far 
 as medical skill and sanitary science empowered him. 
 
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 He preached the true gospel of faith and works, 
 which the ' poor Indian whose untutored mind ' can- 
 not always take in, found very intelligible. Like 
 Chaucer's Parson, 
 
 " 'Cristes lore, and his Apostles twelve, 
 
 He taught, and first he fohved it himselve.' 
 
 The funeral, which took place yesterday evening, 
 was numerously attended by Europeans and natives. 
 Soldiers, who loved and respected him, carried the 
 coffin from the house to the grave in the old cemetery, 
 where his mother and a young child lie side by side, 
 and where there was happily room for another grave, 
 though the cemetery has long been closed for 
 funerals. The Rev. John Newton, D.D., the aged 
 father of the deceased, who has been nearly fifty years 
 a missionary in India, read a part of the lesson used by 
 the Church of England, and added some words of his 
 own to those of St. Paul, concluding with an extem- 
 pore address. A hymn was sung by the soldiers 
 present, from Moody and Sankey's collection, No. 
 104, * Home at last, thy labor done, ' the words and 
 tune of which are extremely sweet and touching." — 
 Foreign Missionary^ October, 1880. 
 
 Mrs. Cynthia C. Noyes. 
 
 Mrs. Noyes was born at Jackson, O., December 12, 
 1844, was educated at Hayesville in the same State, 
 and sailed for China with her husband, Rev. H. V. 
 Noyes, February 3, 1866. She was attacked with 
 
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 heinorrhaf:^e of the lungs July 4, of the same year, 
 and from this attack she never rallied. 
 
 On Thursday, August 8, she " fell asleep in Jesus." 
 No words could express more appropriately her quiet 
 and peaceful departure. The Lord was very gracious 
 to her and granted her abundantly his comforting 
 and sustaining grace. From witnessing his great 
 goodness to her through all these months of suffering 
 and from my own experience of supporting grace, I 
 shall carry with me, in all the future, a deeper im- 
 pression than I ever had before of the sustaining 
 power of the gospel in time of affliction, and of its 
 unspeakable value to perishing sinners. 
 
 From the very first of her sickness, death in itself 
 had never seemed to her as a thing to be dreaded. 
 She thought of it as going to heaven, and this ap- 
 peared, as she often expressed it, " ver}^ sweet" 
 rather than painful. She had seen a much loved 
 sister die in great peace, a year before she left her 
 home, and never since had death seemed forbidding. 
 She felt that it was painful to part with her friends, 
 and especially the companion of her life ; it was a very 
 keen disappointment not to be permitted to teach 
 '' the heathen children," which for many years had 
 seemed to be almost the one desire of her heart, but 
 when God appointed that she should part with those 
 dear to her, that she should suffer rather than do his 
 will, to the best of my recollection I never heard any- 
 thing like a murmur escape her lips, nor do I think 
 there was such a feeling in her heart ; but often, oh. 
 how often have I heard her say, " It is all right ! Of 
 course it is all right!" 
 
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 I do not remember that she was ever but once 
 greatly troubled with reference to her acceptance 
 with God. It was last January, while she was feeling 
 quite strong, and a short time before she became so 
 much worse. One Sabbath I had noticed all day that 
 something was troubling her, and just at night she 
 came to me, and with intense earnestness said : " Oh, 
 Henry, do you suppose it can be that I am not a 
 Christian ?" and then burst into tears. This depres- 
 sion soon passed awa}^, and from that time until the 
 day of her death she seemed to have a sweet assur- 
 ance that all was well, and this arising from a sim- 
 ple, child-like trust in the Saviour of sinners. She 
 once said to me: "It seems so clear to me — I can 
 feel it, that nothing can wash away my sins but 
 Jesus' blood. I have been sick a long time, and it 
 ought to make me a great deal better; there are a 
 great many things that ought to make me better, but 
 they seem to do no good; there is nothing that can 
 wash away my sins but Jesus' blood." 
 
 Toward the close of life the calm assurance of ac- 
 ceptance ripened into a longing, earnest "desire to 
 depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better." 
 Two days before she died I asked her how she felt, 
 and she replied: "Yesterday I felt a little gloomy, 
 but to-day everything seems bright. It seems as 
 though I could hardly wait." The next evening she 
 spoke of her own accord, and said in reference to her 
 approaching end: ."If it was not wrong to be im- 
 patient, it does seem as though I could hardly wait. " 
 She had only to wait a few short hours. On the 
 morning of the day she died, at worship I was about 
 
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 to lead in prayer without reading the Scriptures, as I 
 thoug-ht she would be able to listen to only a very 
 short service, when she spoke and said, "Won't you 
 repeat the 23d psalm?" I did so, and then remarked 
 — "The 4th verse I have often heard quoted, 'the 
 dark valley of the shadow of death,' but the word 
 dark is not in the verse in the Bible." vShe spoke 
 very quickly and earnestly, and said, " No, it isn't a 
 dark valley; it's a very bright valley." Well could 
 she say so, for she was already in the valley, and the 
 light from beyond the river was already shining 
 brightly upon her path. — Rev. H. V. Noyes. 
 
 Rev. Gopeenath Nundy. 
 
 This Hindu minister and missionary was born in 
 Calcutta, about the year 1807, of respectable parents 
 belonging to the Kayath caste. At an early age he 
 received at home instruction in Bengalee, his ver- 
 nacular language, and afterwards he learned English. 
 
 Exposed at this time to influences tending to skep- 
 ticism as to the truth of any religion, he was led 
 to believe in Christianity, and to trust in Christ as his 
 Saviour, under the instruction of the Rev. Dr. Duff, 
 and in 1832 he was admitted by him into the visible 
 church of Christ by the rite of baptism. In the year 
 1833, (jopeenath accompanied Archdeacon Corrie, 
 afterwards bishop of Madras, to the northwest, and 
 took charge of an English school at Futtehpore. 
 
 During the years 1837, 1838, a fearful famine pre- 
 vailed in the northwest provinces of India, and a large 
 number of orphans were collected by Dr. Madden. 
 
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 Gopeenath was very active in procuring orphan chil- 
 dren, and afterwards diligent in training them for 
 future usefulness. Dr. Madden transferred a num- 
 ber of these orphan children to the care of the Rev. 
 Henry R. Wilson, of our mission, at Futtehgurh, and 
 Gopeenath accompanied them, and was employed by 
 the mission as an assistant. His services at this 
 time were invaluable to the mission, not only in con- 
 sequence of his previous employment and training, 
 but also as he was enabled to act as interpreter to 
 Mr. Wilson in preaching and distributing books 
 among the natives. 
 
 In 1844 he was ordained to the holy ministry. He 
 was afterwards stationed in the cantonment of Futteh- 
 gurh, where he opened a school for boys, and also 
 established a flourishing school for girls, which is still 
 in existence. The superintendence of these schools, 
 with almost daily preaching, gave him constant em- 
 ployment, and made his labors very useful. 
 
 Futtehpore having become vacant, he was trans- 
 ferred to that station in 1853, where he remained 
 until his death. Gopeenath never was so happy, 
 nor developed his character so fully, as when placed 
 in charge of this station at Futtehpore. He was 
 abundant in labors, and established schools for boys 
 and girls in the city and the jail, besides giving in- 
 struction for a time to fifty Patwarees, or village 
 record keepers. In June of 1857, his labors were in- 
 terrupted by the mutiny, and he was obliged to fly to 
 Allahabad. What he suffered during the mutiny is 
 known to the religious public. In that trying period, 
 according to the statement which he has published, 
 
258 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 he evinced a spirit not unlike that which animated 
 the martyrs and confessors of the primitive Christians. 
 
 He submitted to a surgical operation forjiernia, in 
 March, which afforded but a bare possibility of relief. 
 Prayer was proposed, when he said — "I am not 
 afraid to die; I can trust that Jesus whom I have so 
 often preached to others." The operation proved 
 fatal, and Gopeenath expired early on the morning 
 of the 14th of March, 1861. His friend, the native 
 minister in Calcutta, thus speaks of his character : 
 
 '' In his person Gopeenath was tall, and had a com- 
 manding appearance, and his complexion inclined to 
 fair. Though, owing to circumstances, his English 
 education, when judged by the standard of the present 
 day, was somewhat deficient, he had fine parts. His 
 acquaintance with the Urdu language, in which he 
 usually preached, though not critical, was intimate, 
 and amply served all the purposes of his vocation. 
 He had great energy and decision of character. As 
 a man, he was pleasing in his manners, amiable in 
 disposition, cheerful in society, hospitable and benevo- 
 lent. As a Christian, he was sincerely pious, fervent 
 in spirit, full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. As a 
 missionary, he was in labors most abundant, feeding 
 his flock diligently, preaching in season and out of 
 season, full of zeal for promoting the honor of his 
 divine Master. Failings he had — and what man has 
 not his peculiar failings ? — but these failings leaned 
 to virtue's side. He was truly one of the excellent 
 of the earth. Let our countrymen note the fact 
 that it was only Christianity that made Gopeenath 
 what he was." 
 
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 To this let me add, that he possessed the esteem 
 and respect of all the Europeans at Futtehpore. 
 They all united in saying that he was a good nian^ 
 and abundant in labors of love. They attended his 
 funeral, and accompanied his corpse to the burial 
 ground. A funeral sermon was preached by the 
 Rev. J. J. Walsh, from the text, "He, being dead, 
 yet speaketh," and remarks by the Rev. W. F. John- 
 son were made at the grave. — Rev. J. J. WalsJi. 
 
 Mr. John F. Odell. 
 
 Mr. Odell was a native of New York. His short 
 but interesting religious and missionary life is shown 
 by the following notices of him, which are taken from 
 the Annual Reports of the Board. 
 
 In the Report of 1864: "A valuable assistant has 
 been added to the staff of laborers at Bangkok, at the 
 request of the missionaries — Mr. John F. Odell. He 
 is a young man from New York, who went to Siam 
 on secular business, and there became a member of 
 the church, under the ministry of the brethren. 
 Good hopes are entertained of his being a useful mis- 
 sionary. " 
 
 In 1865: "The last Annual Report mentioned the 
 appointment of Mr. John F. Odell, then in Siam, as 
 an assistant missionary. His health was delicate, 
 and eventually it vv^as considered best for him to re- 
 turn to this country, but he was called to depart this 
 life on the voyage, on the 26th of August. He was 
 a young man of much promise, and his early removal 
 
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 is deeply regretted by his brethren. He was kept 
 in peace to the last, and was supported by a good 
 hope of eternal life. As showing his disinterested- 
 ness, it should be stated that when he applied for an 
 appointment to missionary service, it was arranged 
 agreeably to his request that no expense should be 
 incurred by the mission on his behalf unless his health 
 should be so restored as to enable him to fulfill all the 
 duties of the desired post of labor. "^/. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Thomas S. Ogden. 
 
 Mr. Ogden was a native of New Jersey, but he pur- 
 sued his collegiate studies at the University of 
 Michigan, and spent the usual course of study 
 at Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1857, with 
 his wife he went to Corisco as a missionary. He 
 entered at once on active service in the instruction of 
 the Benga boys, and afterwards he engaged zealously 
 in the usual routine of missionary work, and soon 
 showed that he was an energetic laborer — indeed one 
 who would become marked for a high degree of 
 efficiency. Repeated attacks of sickness, however, 
 had caused apprehension that he could not long con- 
 tinue in these labors, and at one time the mission 
 had given their approval to his making a visit to his 
 native country for his health. He did not embrace 
 the opportunity of returning, and when another attack 
 of fever occurred it proved fatal. He died on the 
 12th of May, 1 86 1, greatly lamented by the natives, 
 as well as by his brethren and the church at home. 
 
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 Dr. Loomis, one of his colleagues, wrote of his last 
 illness as follows : 
 
 '' He seemed conscious of his approaching end be- 
 fore any one else. He said his mind was at peace, 
 but he thought he should never recover. Just be- 
 fore his death, he was asked if he found comfort in 
 trusting in Christ in a dying hour ? He seemed sur- 
 prised at the question, then replied with emphasis: 
 ' Yes ; in whom else can we trust but in Christ alone ? ' 
 
 ''From his first arrival in Corisco, he omitted no 
 opportunity for preaching to pass unimproved — in the 
 churches, in the towns, by the wayside, often at 
 Ilobi, he urged assemblies and individuals to repent- 
 ance. At his death, he was pastor of the church 
 and superintendent of the Sabbath-school at Evanga- 
 simba. 
 
 ''To rear up an efficient native ministry, and to 
 give to them the word of God in their own native lan- 
 guage, were the objects which called forth his most 
 earnest efforts. He cheerfully struggled on against 
 a hostile climate, happy both to toil and to suffer in 
 God's work. He continued these labors when he 
 should have been confined to his sick-bed. He fell, 
 as he believed, at the post of duty, with the harness on. 
 His dying words were, ' Who will go ? Can you go ? 
 Who will go to preach on the mainland ?' " — -/. C. L. 
 
 Rev. James H. Orbison. 
 
 Rev. James H. Orbison and his family arrived from 
 India, March 24, 1869. He was apparently in good 
 health and expected in due time to return to India, 
 
262 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 after making arrangements for the education of his 
 children. On the 19th of April he was removed by 
 death at Bellefonte, Pa., after a short illness. His 
 mind was kept in great peace, and we cannot doubt 
 that his death was his entrance into the heavenly 
 rest. Mr. Orbison first went to India in 1850. On a 
 visit to this country in 1858 he was again married. 
 He leaves a wife and four children, for whom tender 
 sympathy will be felt in their great bereavement. 
 The removal of a devoted missionary in the midst of 
 his days is one of the mysteries of Providence. — 
 Record^ June, 1869. 
 
 Mrs. Agnes Campbell Orbison. 
 
 '•'■ Mrs. Orbison, wife of Rev. James H. Orbison, 
 died at sea on the 20th of May, 1855, in the twenty- 
 sixth year of her age, and was buried in the Bay of 
 Bengal. Her tomb is the deep — her home is heaven. 
 Her example and works remain for earth. I would 
 like much to visit sympathizing parents and friends 
 at home, but now is the time for work, and I hasten 
 back to my station." Such is the message sent by 
 the afflicted husband who accompanied the deceased 
 on a voyage for health from Calcutta to Penang. 
 "During the voyage she suffered much, but did not 
 
 complain; she never did Her spirit rose 
 
 superior to disease, and her pale countenance beamed 
 like an angel's. " — Record, October, 1855. 
 
 Mrs. Orbison was the daughter of a Scotch family 
 (Kay), and was married in India in September, 1853. 
 
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 Rev. Joseph Owen, D. D. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Owen, D.D., of Allahabad, India, 
 died December 4, 1870, at Edinburgh, Scotland. 
 
 Dr. Owen sailed from this country August 5, 1840, 
 for India, and spent nearly the whole of his ministerial 
 life in the foreign field, and most of his time at his 
 station at Allahabad His labors, like those of most 
 evangelists on the heathen ground, were of a varied 
 character — preaching, teaching, translating and re- 
 vising former translations of the Scriptures, and pre- 
 paring commentaries on different books of the Bible. 
 Dr. Owen took high rank as a scholar and was an in- 
 defatigable worker as a missionary. (He completed for 
 the Bible Society a second revision and edition of 
 the Old Testament in Hindi, also for the American 
 Tract Society a commentary on Isaiah in the Urdu 
 language. ) 
 
 Dr. Owen remained in India for more than twenty- 
 eight years, when feeling the need of some respite 
 from toil he left his station in 1869, expecting after 
 spending a few months more in Scotland, to visit this 
 country and then to return to India. Some three 
 months before his death he was attacked with dys- 
 entery, from which he never recovered. To his 
 friends at home he sent this message: "Tell them 
 that I have never for a moment regretted that I went 
 as a missionary. I only regret that I was not more 
 faithful. " And to the native Christians at Allahabad 
 he sent his dying request, urging them to be firm in 
 the faith always abounding in the work of the Lord. 
 
 Dr. Owen w^as the oldest missionary that had died 
 
264 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 in the service of the board. He leaves a widow and 
 an infant child, also a son by his former marriage. — 
 Foreign Missionary^ February, 187 1. 
 
 Mrs. Augusta M. Owen. 
 
 Mrs. Owen, wife of the Rev. Joseph Owen, of the 
 mission in India, died December 13, 1864. She was 
 sustained by the presence and grace of the Saviour 
 even to the last, ending her life in great peace. She 
 enjoyed the respect and warm regard of her friends 
 and missionary associates, and it was no doubt gain 
 for her to die. — Annnal Report^ 1865. 
 
 Rev. George Paull. 
 
 Mr. Paull died at Evangasimba, Corisco, May 14, 
 1865. He was taken sick with African fever at his 
 station at Benita, returned to Corisco where he could 
 have medical treatment, and died after three weeks' 
 illness. Mr. Paull was the son of Joseph and Eliza 
 L. Paull, born at Connellsville, Pa., February 3, 
 1837. He graduated at Jefferson College in 1858. 
 In the spring of the year there was a revival in the 
 college, and he was one of the subjects of it. Several 
 years before he had been deeply exercised on the 
 subject of his soul's salvation; but it was not until 
 this time that he felt it his duty to make a public pro- 
 fession of his faith in Christ, and in April he united 
 with the church at Connellsville. In 1859 he entered 
 the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, finish- 
 
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 ing his course in the seminary in 1862, He then 
 supplied the church of Tyrone, near his father's, for 
 several months; but his convictions of duty to his 
 divine Master led him to consecrate himself to the 
 foreign missionary work. He accordingly offered 
 himself to this service, and was appointed to the 
 Corisco Mission. In the meantime, before his pre- 
 parations were made to go to Africa, he spent six or 
 seven months preaching to the church in Morrison, 
 Ills. There his ministry was greatly blessed. Even 
 in the short time which he stayed the church was 
 much increased in numbers and strength, and every 
 inducement was made by the congregation to retain 
 him as their pastor; and it was with many tears on 
 their part, and much feeling on his, that he separated 
 himself from them to enter upon the laborious and 
 perilous work to which he had devoted his life. 
 
 Mr. Paull was ordained an evangelist at Connells- 
 ville by the Presbytery of Redstone, in September, 
 1863. In November he left his father's house and 
 soon after sailed for his chosen field of labor. In 
 consequence of the war then raging in our country, 
 but few vessels from the United States were going 
 out to Africa ; he was therefore under the necessity 
 of going by way of England. He was detained there 
 for some time waiting for a vessel, and during his 
 short stay in Glasgow, he preached in several of the 
 churches there with great acceptance, and made 
 many friends by whom his memory is affectionately 
 cherished. 
 
 Mr. Paull reached Corisco early in May, 1864, and 
 almost immediately entered upon his missionary 
 
266 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 work. He was appointed by the mission to take 
 charge of the station at Evangasimba, the work of 
 which station is laborious and attended with much 
 responsibility; few men could be found who would 
 have conducted its work with more discretion and 
 good judgment. He was, however, assisted in the 
 work of the station by Mrs. Mackey, who remained 
 during her husband's absence. Immediately after 
 Mr. Mackey's return, in December, he expressed a 
 desire to go to the mainland to enter upon the work 
 of building up a new station. He had made several 
 trips to the mainland outstations, and knew well the 
 kind of work that would devolve upon him there. 
 He was not unapprised of the danger to which he 
 would be exposed in undertaking such a work alone ; 
 but his faith was strong and his zeal ardent, and he 
 urged upon the mission to give him an appointment 
 to Benita, a point on the continent about fifty miles 
 north of Corisco. 
 
 He went to this new station in January, 1865, and 
 entered upon his work with the assistance of several 
 of the native Christians from Corisco. From the 
 very commencement his work there was attended 
 with the deepest interest. Though he had not 
 gained command of the language, so as to preach 
 without an interpreter, multitudes were deeply in- 
 terested; numbers asked to be taught how to pray to 
 the true God, and how to seek the way of eternal 
 life ; and in a very short time some professed to have 
 found the Saviour. His labors of preaching, teach- 
 ing and instructing inquirers, together with the super- 
 intendence of building his house, multiplied on his 
 
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 hands, and proved too great even for his strong 
 physical powers. He was taken down with illness, 
 and God saw tit to remove him in the very commence- 
 ment of his labors, when, in our judgment, only the 
 dawn of his usefulness in Africa was opening before 
 him. God sees not as man sees; we bow in humble 
 submission to his will ; clouds and darkness are round 
 about him, but justice and judgment are the habita- 
 tion of his throne. 
 
 Mr. Paull was a man who sought to consecrate all 
 
 his powers to the service of his divine Master 
 
 An intimate friend and classmate of his in the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, writes of him : "I have read of the 
 heavenly-mindedness of Edwards and Payson and 
 Martyn and Brainerd, and of the singleness of their 
 devotion to the cause of God; but I never witnessed 
 a living illustration of such exalted attainments in the 
 divine life, until it was my privilege to be the hourly 
 companion and friend of George Paull." One of his 
 last intelligent utterances on his death-bed was, ' ' Oh, 
 for more consecration to the cause of Christ ! I wish 
 only to cast myself at his feet, and feel that he is my 
 all." For him to live was Christ, and he could say, 
 in the words of the apostle, to die is gain. 
 
 In his social character, Mr. Paull was amiable and 
 pleasant ; he made friends wherever he went ; the love 
 of Christ was so shed abroad in his heart, that it 
 affected his whole character, and no one could spend 
 a day in his company' without feeling that he was a 
 consistent and holy man. His attachment to his 
 friends was most ardent, and he commended the 
 Gospel by his unblamable life, and his cordial and 
 
268 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 affectionate manner towards all with whom he became 
 acquainted. 
 
 As a preacher, he was clear, instructive and con- 
 vincing, at times eloquent and powerful. Of strong 
 physical powers, a vigorous and well-cultivated mind, 
 and good common sense, he would have been an ac- 
 ceptable and instructive preacher in the most culti- 
 vated community; but with all his powers of mind 
 and body and large heart, he chose to devote himself 
 to the degraded heathen in Africa. God accepted 
 the sacrifice, blessed his labors in his brief work, and 
 called him to his reward. — Rev. J. L. Mackcy. 
 
 To the foregoing obituary may be fitly added the 
 Minute adopted by the Presbytery of Redstone con- 
 cerning Mr. Paull: 
 
 " Whereas.^ It has pleased Almighty God, in his 
 inscrutable providence, to remove by death from the 
 Foreign Mission field, a young brother greatly be- 
 loved,, and who had shown himself eminently fitted, 
 by nature and grace, for the great work to which God 
 and the Church had called him ; and whereas he was 
 born and reared among us, and by this Presbytery 
 set apart to the work of the ministry in a foreign mis- 
 sionary field ; and whereas his self-consuming, untir- 
 ing devotion to the Master's cause, not only reflected 
 great honor upon the Gospel of God, but also on this 
 body, by whom he was given to the foreign service 
 of the Church; therefore, 
 
 '^Resolved, I. That while, as a Presbytery, we 
 record with gratitude to God the gift of one to the 
 Church specially qualified for the great work to which 
 he had consecrated his life, we would, at the same 
 
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 time, bow with profound submission to the very mys- 
 terious behest which summoned him so soon and so 
 suddenly from the service and labors of the Church 
 militant to the higher and holier service of the Church 
 triumphant. 
 
 ''^ Resolved^ 2. That in the life and labors of our de- 
 parted brother we recognize a spirit akin to that of a 
 Brainerd, an Eliot, a Schwartz, akin to the spirit of 
 him who said : ^ The zeal of thine house hath eaten 
 me up ' — a zeal for the salvation of bleeding Africa, 
 which prematurely and almost literally consumed the 
 vessel in which it burned — a love for the souls of 
 men and the glory of God which many waters could 
 not quench — which quailed at no sacrifice, however 
 great, and which could say with the great apostle 
 missionary to the Gentiles, ' Neither count I my life 
 dear unto myself so that I might finish my course 
 with joy and the ministry which I have received of 
 the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of 
 God.' 
 
 ^^ Resolved^ 3. That while Presbytery would bewail 
 the loss to benighted Africa of so burning and shin- 
 ing a light whose inchoate and earliest labors on the 
 mainland were signalized with remarkable and im- 
 mediate success in the conversion of souls, we would 
 also record our unfeigned condolence and sympathy 
 with the bereaved parents and other friends in the 
 early demise of such a relative and son ; divinely as- 
 sured that however great thci?' loss, to him it was unut- 
 terable gain." — ■/. C. L. 
 
270 necrological record 
 
 Mrs. F. B. Perry. 
 
 Mrs. Perry, wife of the Rev. Frank B. Perry, died 
 at Monrovia, Liberia, in January, 1889. She was a 
 woman of good education and of earnest spirit and 
 was devoted to the spiritual elevation of her race. — 
 Annual Report^ 1889. 
 
 Rev. Stanley K. Phraner.* 
 
 Stanley Ketchum Phraner was born May 26, i860, 
 at Sing Sing, N. Y., where his father. Rev. Dr. 
 Wilson Phraner, so widely known throughout our 
 Church, was settled. After leaving Williams College 
 he spent about ten years in the West, leading an out- 
 door life, and acquiring that knowledge of men and 
 of business affairs which was so useful to him in after- 
 years. 
 
 In 1887 he came to New Rochelle, connecting him- 
 self with the First Presbyterian Church. Active in 
 its Young People's Society and the Sunday-school, he 
 found a field of special usefulness among the soldiers 
 at the United States Recruiting Depot on Davids' 
 Island. There he reorganized a mission which had 
 been discontinued for several years. He established 
 it upon a permanent basis, and his devoted efforts 
 will long be remembered by those whom he bene- 
 fited. His bright, cheery Christian faith and zeal 
 won him many friends. 
 
 Led by the Spirit of God to give himself to the 
 
 *iV. Y. EvaiiiTclist. hiserted while these Memoirs were pass- 
 ing through the Press. 
 
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 Gospel ministry, lie entered Princeton Theological 
 Seminary, from which he graduated in 1890. While 
 there he consecrated himself to the work of Foreign 
 Missions. Having been assigned by the Board to the 
 Laos field, he was, on July 24 of the same year, 1890, 
 ordained at New Rochelle by the Presbytery of 
 Westchester. At the close of the service the Young 
 People's Society of Christian Endeavor, of which he 
 was still a member, tendered a public reception to 
 him and his bride, for he had recently been married 
 to Miss Elizabeth Pennell, of Omaha, Neb. 
 
 After a long and trying journey he reached his 
 field at Cheung Mai, where he was soon called to 
 mourn the loss of his wife. Prostrated with grief 
 and with greatly impaired health he yet gave himself 
 with unstinted zeal to the work of the mission. He 
 soon acquired the native language, and found great 
 pleasure and abundant success in work among the 
 native churches, and in itinerating tours around the 
 country. He developed great aptitude for the varied 
 work of a missionary, and seemed particularly adapted 
 for work in his chosen field. After a brave fight 
 against disease for the past year, he was, by order of 
 the physicians of the mission, reluctantly constrained 
 to turn his face homeward for rest and medical treat- 
 ment. In the meantime he married Miss Eliza P. 
 Westervelt, who went from this country to Laos as a 
 missionary in 1884. A despatch from her, dated at 
 Singapore, announces the death of Mr. Phraner 
 January 15, 1895. His journey has ended unex- 
 pectedly, and he has been received into the rest 
 which remaineth for the people of God. His wife 
 
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 and two children have the tenderest sympathy of all 
 their friends, and his death will be deeply mourned 
 by many, both here and in his chosen field. His 
 brief but devoted life as a missionary is a rich legacy 
 to the Church at large, and should inspire some of 
 her sons to take up the work he has been compelled 
 to lay down. — Rev. W. B. Waller. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Pennell Phraner. 
 
 Rev. and Mrs. Stanley K. Phraner arrived at 
 Cheung Mai, Laos, in December, 1890, but we are 
 compelled in sorrow to write that Mrs. Phraner, 
 whose health was much impaired during the long 
 journey from America to Laos, grew still more feeble 
 after reaching her field, and on February 12, 1891, 
 she passed from earth to heaven. The deepest sym- 
 pathy is felt by his missionary brethren and by all 
 the members of the Board for Mr. Phraner, thus be- 
 reaved at the very threshold of his missionary life. — 
 Annual Report^ 1891. 
 
 Rev. Edgar McDill Pinkerton. 
 
 Rev. E. M. Pinkerton and wife arrived in Bahia, 
 Brazil, in 1891, and on February 23, 1892, he died a 
 victim to yellow fever after three days' illness. Mr. 
 Pinkerton leaves a young wife who had shared his 
 labors for about eight months, and who was herself 
 suffering from malarial fever at the time of her hus- 
 band's death. But to her, God seems to fulfill his 
 
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 promise of needed grace, overwhelming as is her 
 loss. 
 
 Mr. Pinkerton was a graduate of the University of 
 Wooster in 1888, and of Lane Seminary in 189 1. Of 
 his qualifications for his chosen work the officers of 
 those institutions bore ample testimony. He sailed 
 in July, 1 89 1, for Brazil, the field which he had 
 asked of the Board might be his sphere of labor, and 
 to which he felt called of God. There is much com- 
 fort in the thought that he was in just the w^ork and 
 in just the place which he had desired to be. He was 
 happy in his work, but God has seen fit to take him. 
 Let us pray that even his death may be instrumental 
 in advancing the cause which was so dear to his 
 heart. — The Church at Home and Abroad^ May, 1892. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Porter. 
 
 Mr. Porter was bom in Derby Plains, in the State 
 of Ohio, January 5, 1808. In his sixteenth year, while 
 living with his eldest brother, as he humbly trusted, 
 his conversion to God took place. Three years after- 
 wards he became a communicant in the church, and 
 entered on studies with a view to the ministry. He 
 also engaged actively in efforts to do good, establish- 
 ing a Sabbath-school; and before he graduated at 
 Oxford, he had been led to form the purpose of 
 being a missionary. With his wife he embarked 
 for India in 1835, and reached Lodiana, December, 
 1836. 
 
 In October, 1837, he was ordained to the gospel 
 ministry, by the Lodiana Presbytery. In 1842 his 
 
274 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 wife was taken to her rest. With the exception of 
 the two years he was absent on a visit to his native 
 land in 1848 and 1849, Lodiana was the scene of his 
 labors from the time of his arrival. While at home Mr. 
 Porter was united in marriage to Miss Mary Parvin, 
 daughter of the late Rev. Theophilus Parvin. She 
 survived him, and after some years became the wife 
 of the Rev. Levi Janvier, D.D. 
 
 For several years before his death, Mr. Porter had 
 charge of the Lodiana Mission press, and was inde- 
 fatigable in his labors to make it efficient. He also 
 had charge of all the mission buildings, and seemed 
 to take pleasure in relieving his brethren of the 
 secular affairs of the station. This he did the more 
 cheerfully, as for several years an affection of the 
 throat, which finally undermined his constitution, 
 prevented him from doing much in the way of direct 
 preaching. He was well acquainted with the Hin- 
 dustani and Punjabi languages, and, when his health 
 permitted, was an acceptable and affectionate 
 preacher in these dialects. Plis last work on earth 
 was correcting the final proof sheets of a Punjabi 
 dictionary, on which he and two of his brethren had 
 long labored. This labor he continued until the day 
 before his death, or until his hand refused to perform 
 what his heart desired. 
 
 In his intercourse with the natives, whether Chris- 
 tian or heathen, our departed brother was ever kind 
 and considerate; but no one felt more deeply when 
 his kindness was repaid with ingratitude. He was 
 ever ready to give advice and aid to those who re- 
 quested his assistance. He was highly esteemed by 
 
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 his brethren, and all who knew him, for his kindness 
 of heart and work's sake. His mind was more ac- 
 curate and practical than brilliant or imaginative. 
 In speaking- or writing, his sole aim was to make a 
 tnie impression, and his sincerity seldom failed to 
 carry conviction to his audience and readers. His 
 memory was remarkably retentive as to facts and 
 dates. His judgment was sound, and his opinions 
 on all subjects within the range of his information 
 were ever valuable. He did not exercise himself in 
 things too high for him. Like Paul, he determined 
 to know nothing save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 
 On this his heart was fixed. One of the most con- 
 spicuous traits in his character was perseverance. By 
 this he accomplished much in his missionary career. 
 On the day previous to his death, he had the orphan 
 girls called in, and as they gathered around his couch, 
 he spoke to them of the importance of listening to the 
 preached word, remembering that it was from God, 
 and was able to make them wise unto salvation. With 
 deep feeling, he urged upon them the importance of 
 preparation for death, so that when they should be 
 in his situation they would not fear. They wept with 
 him; but whether any lasting impression was made 
 the future must show. The morning of his death his 
 mind wandered much ; still, on being asked if Jesus 
 was precious, he replied, in Hindustani, ''There is 
 none beside," and in his wandering he seemed to 
 mistake the door where the bright morning light was 
 shining, for the entrance into heaven. But soon the 
 last tones of his voice died away on our ears, and he 
 sank like a weary child to rest. Jesus, no doubt, was 
 
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 with him, and the dark valley of the shadow of death 
 was lightened by his smiles. The river of death 
 seemed very narrow, for there was scarce a sigh or a 
 groan to tell when it was passed. 
 
 He died on the morning of the 21st of November, 
 1853, in the forty-sixth year of his age. Had he been 
 permitted to choose the place, and time, and circum- 
 stances of his death, he would, in all probability, 
 have chosen them just as they occurred. He breathed 
 his last in Lodiana, at the time of the annual meeting 
 of the mission, and in the presence of eight of his 
 missionary brethren. At their next session, the fol- 
 lowing minute was adopted : 
 
 " Whereas^ Since our last session it has pleased the 
 Lord to remove our dear brother and fellow-mis- 
 sionary, the Rev. Joseph Porter, from the labors of 
 earth to the fruition of heaven, 
 
 ^^ Resolved, That this meeting, humbly acquiescing 
 in the afflictive providence, and deeply sympathizing 
 with the widow and children of our deceased brother 
 cordially record on our minutes our high sense of his 
 sterling qualities as a man, a husband and father, of 
 his humble evangelical piety, and of his faithfulness 
 as a missionary of the cross, who, after seventeen 
 years of devoted labor at this station, has died at his 
 post respected and lamented by all who knew him. " — 
 Rev. J, M. Jamie son ^ D.D. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet J. Porter, 
 
 The wife of the Rev. Joseph Porter, died at Lodiana, 
 India, March 10, 1842. She was a native of Indiana, 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 277 
 
 it is believed, and she arrived in India with her hus- 
 band in 1836. The Rev. John Newton, in sending 
 an account of her death to the Mission House, said: 
 *' Sorrow has filled our hearts. "We have this day 
 committed to the tomb the mortal remains of a be- 
 loved missionary sister. Mrs. Porter has finished 
 her earthly course, and is now, we feel assured, 
 where pain is not experienced, and sympathy is not 
 needed. The redemption for which she long prayed, 
 and which she continued to expect, through the 
 precious blood of Christ, is now completed ; save only 
 that her body, which was sown in corruption, is yet 
 to be raised in incorruption and glory. But notwith- 
 standing this comforting reflection, we cannot but 
 mourn that we have been deprived of the society of 
 one to whom we all felt much attached, and who, 
 if her life had been spared, might, at least, have ex- 
 emplified the excellency of Christianity, by patient 
 suffering." — -/. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Charles F. Preston. 
 
 A great and, humanly speaking, an irreparable 
 loss has fallen upon our mission in Canton. Charles 
 F. Preston, who died July 17, 1S77, had preached the 
 gospel to the Chinese for more than twenty years, 
 and was justly regarded as the most fluent of all 
 foreigners in the use of the difficult Chinese language. 
 With the exception of the time occupied in one visit 
 to this country, he has held a daily service for many 
 years, in which he generally addressed from four 
 hundred to eight hundred people. Though an un- 
 
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 impassioned speaker in his native tongue, he was 
 always enkindled to an unusual degree when address- 
 ing his Chinese audiences, and succeeded beyond 
 most preachers in w^inning attention. His chapel in 
 Treasury Street was like an eddy in a great perennial 
 stream. It drew from the thousands of passers-by 
 many each day who had never before heard of Cal- 
 vary. Coming, it may be, from distant interior prov- 
 inces, they saw this earnest foreigner, and before him 
 an attentive body of listeners, and turned aside to see 
 and hear. It was not the usual theatrical performance 
 of the temples, as they soon learned, nor any specu- 
 lation of a zealous vender of earthly wares; but, 
 strangely enough to them, it was the message of a 
 disinterested man, who had crossed the ocean to tell 
 them of God's great love to men, of a Redeemer 
 dying upon the cross for their salvation. Many, filled 
 with wonder, came again and again. Some found 
 the way of life speedily, but many more went away 
 pondering the word in their hearts. Such is the 
 blessed seed- sowing which Mr. Preston has left in the 
 hands of the Lord, Vv^hose word, like the rain and the 
 snow, never returns unto him void, but which sooner 
 or later shall accomplish that which he pleases and 
 prosper in the thing whereto he sent it. His death, 
 though not without forewarning, took all by surprise. 
 He had felt anxious for many months to be trans- 
 ferred to the California field, principally for the edu- 
 cation of his children. This had not been acceded to 
 by the Board for various reasons. More recently ill- 
 health had increased his desire, and as soon as there 
 seemed to be a prospect of danger on that account he 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 279 
 
 was advised by a letter from the office at New York 
 to return home whenever health should demand it, 
 irrespective of the question of a transfer to California. 
 But the case was too urgent for correspondence; he 
 should have left, merely by consent of the mission, 
 as soon as serious danger threatened. This is accord- 
 ing to the usage of the Board; but Mr. Preston, in 
 his great faithfulness, resolved, like the lam.ented 
 Reuben Lowrie and Henry V. Rankin, not to take 
 any step which might seem like a desertion of his 
 post; and, like them, he may be said to have sacri- 
 ficed his Hfe to his high conscientious principle. No 
 one in Canton understood the great risk which he was 
 incurring, and he himself, though depressed and ap- 
 prehensive, failed to realize that there was immediate 
 danger. A letter reporting a recommendation of the 
 mission for leave of absence was written by his own 
 hand, with the expectation that a response from the 
 Board two months later might be in time. But even 
 before his letter was posted, the end came; and the 
 very same mail brought the recommendation and the 
 tidings of death. 
 
 He had set out for Swatow for a change of air, but 
 on reaching Hong-Kong he was too weak to proceed 
 and sank rapidly toward his unexpected rest. Thus 
 suddenly did the summons of the Master come, and 
 doubtless with plaudits of "Well done, good and faith- 
 ful servant!" The loss to the mission is sorely felt. 
 Many foreign residents of Canton, in various spheres, 
 share in the common sorrow. The natives who have 
 known him, whether as a missionary or merely as a 
 citizen and neighbor, also feel the loss of a good man. 
 
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 It was mj^ privilege to know Mr. Preston well as a 
 contemporary in Princeton Theological Seminar}^, 
 where the cheering ring of his cordial words and 
 hearty laughter seem to echo even now whenever I 
 revisit those sacred halls. There was a high degree 
 of missionary interest in the seminary at that time 
 (1S53-4), and among those of Mr. Preston's con- 
 temporaries who went to the foreign field were Rev. 
 John L. Nevius, D. D., now of Chefoo; Rev. Messrs. 
 Clemens and Williams, who went to West Africa; 
 Rev. Robert McMullen, the martyr of Cawnpore; 
 the gifted Rev. Isador Lowenthal, who was shot at 
 Peshawur, near the Afghan border, and Rev. A. B. 
 Morse, who went to Siam, but was soon compelled 
 to return on account of ill-health. Of all these only 
 Dr. Nevius and Mr. Morse now survive. 
 
 A marked characteristic of Mr. Preston at that 
 time was his constant cheerfulness. He regarded 
 his consecration to the mission work as no dreary 
 sacrifice. None were called upon to waste their pity 
 upon him on account of his high resolve. He had 
 ''never thought of anything else," he constantly 
 averred. He could not remember the time when 
 he was not a Christian, or when he was not a mis- 
 sionary. This was always the simple history of his 
 consecration. He had been given to the Lord by his 
 parents from his birth, and God's covenant had in 
 his case been verified from the first. The outlook 
 was bright and cheering to his mind ; for the great 
 errand of carrying the gospel to the dark-minded 
 heathen was, in his view, the very highest object of 
 human aspiration. 
 
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 On visiting him in Canton three years ago, I found 
 him bright and cheery as ever. Surrounded by his 
 family, he seemed the happiest of husbands and 
 fathers, and he made others happy about him. 
 Every morning at ten or eleven o'clock he was sure 
 to be found at his chapel, and every afternoon he met 
 liis Chinese teacher, endeavoring to the last to perfect 
 himself in the language, that he might more and 
 more effectively proclaim the gospel to the perishing. 
 
 He had a large acquaintance among the foreigners 
 in Canton, and was even exceptionally popular 
 among those of every nation. His cheerful home 
 was a favorite resort in the evenings for some of the 
 young men connected with the mercantile establish- 
 ments or with the United States Consulate. 
 
 Mr. Preston is very widely lamented by Americans 
 and others up and down the China coast, and by 
 many in this country. The whole church and the 
 thousands of the heathen to whom he preached have 
 suffered a heavy loss. 
 
 A secular paper in Canton says of the deceased : 
 
 ''We regret to have to record the death here of the 
 Rev. C. F. Preston, of Canton, who may be said to 
 have died with his harness on, after hard service in 
 the missionar}^ field extending over about twenty 
 years. Mr. Preston was a member of the American 
 Presbyterian Board of Missions, and his labors have 
 been principally confined to the city of Canton, 
 where he has preached daily for very many years. 
 He was admittedly one of the best Chinese speakers 
 in the south of China, and was well known as a most 
 conscientious and hard-working missionary. As a 
 
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 manly, genial and open-hearted Christian gentleman, 
 he was respected and loved by all who knew him, 
 and his loss will be greatly felt by a large circle of 
 friends, not only in Canton, but in other ports in 
 China." 
 
 The following is from a letter just received from 
 the Hon. S. Wells Williams. No man knew Mr. 
 Preston more thoroughly than he : 
 
 " New Haven, September ii, 1877. 
 
 * ' My Dear : — How sad the breach made in the 
 
 mission at Canton by the death of dear Preston! 
 How large the vacancy made in their ranks by his 
 departure you can understand and lament better than 
 I can ; but I can and do mourn the loss of one of the 
 best workers ever sent out by the church to do its 
 duty among the heathen, and one of the dearest 
 friends I ever had among those workers. His name 
 will be remembered among the Cantonese, and his 
 record found in the hidden book which God is daily 
 making up of the work done in his behalf and from 
 love to his cause — the book where the record is full 
 and impartial. 
 
 *' Mr. Preston gave himself to preaching, and dur- 
 ing his life at Canton made known the truth to as 
 many people, probably, as any man who ever lived 
 there; I should say to more. I hope Mr. Henry will 
 be able to take up the same good work, and make the 
 chapel in the city where Preston labored a centre of 
 light and influence for good." 
 
 Mr. Preston has left a wife and six children. The 
 mother and daughters will return to this country, 
 
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 where his only son has been pursuing his studies for 
 four or five years. 
 
 They will receive the sympathy of many hearts on 
 both sides of the ocean. — Rev. F. F. Fllimvood^ D.D. 
 
 Rev. James M. Priest. 
 
 The cause of Christ in Liberia has to mourn over 
 the death of the Rev. James M. Priest, who died 
 May 17, 1883, after forty years of exemplary Chris- 
 tian life and steady labors in the same station, Sinoe. 
 — Annual Report^ 1S84. 
 
 Mr. James R. Priest. 
 
 It is with regret we learn the death of Mr. James 
 R. Priest at Sinoe, Liberia, December 19, 1880. Mr. 
 Priest was a teacher appointed two years ago and 
 much was expected from his piety, talents and educa- 
 tion. Sincere sympathy is felt for his wife and aged 
 father, Rev. James M. Priest, now a second time be- 
 reaved, his wife having died a few months ago. — 
 Record^ March, iSSi. 
 
 Rev. John W. Quarterman 
 
 Mr. Quarterman was a native of Georgia, a 
 graduate of Columbia, S. C, Theological Seminary, 
 and for twelve years a faithful missionary in China. 
 He died October 13, 1857 in the thirty-sixth year of 
 
284 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 his age. He was an humble, faithful and godly 
 laborer, one who sought not the praise of men and 
 who abounded in every good work. In his will he 
 left his property to the mission. The loss of such a 
 man in the prime of life is a great bereavement ; but 
 his work on earth is done and he has been called to 
 receive his reward. — Annual Report^ 1858. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth P. Ramsay 
 
 Mrs. Ramsay, wife of Rev. James B. Ramsay, of 
 the Choctaw Mission, died at Spencer Academy, July 
 17, 1849. Mrs. Ramsay was born in the city of New 
 York, of pious parents, and became a subject of 
 grace under the ministry of Rev. D. R. Downer. 
 In 1846 she was married to Mr. Ramsay, who had 
 been appointed superintendent of Spencer Academy. 
 In April of that year Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay set out 
 from New York to enter upon their new duties. 
 " The influence of this lady upon the young men and 
 youth in the academy was most salutary; and her 
 kind and self-denying labors will be long remembered. " 
 A few hours before her death, to the question put by 
 her husband, ' 'Do you regret coming to the Choctaws?" 
 she replied emphatically, " No." She was perfectly 
 sensible of her danger; talked freely upon the sub- 
 ject; felt, if possible, more deeply than ever the in- 
 dwelling corruption of her heart, and trembled in 
 view of it, but was enabled to realize the preciousness 
 of her Saviour, and to feel that he was all in all. — 
 Record^ July, 1850. 
 
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 Miss Audie C. Ramsay. 
 
 God has accepted the offering of one of our young 
 workers and, at the very threshold of her labors, 
 taken herself instead of the work she meant to do for 
 him : but it is mournful tidings to the Mission House, 
 and will be a heavy blow to many near, personal 
 friends, that Miss Addie Ramsay has died from yel- 
 low fever, at Barranquilla, Colombia, August 19, 
 1889, six days after landing there. She sailed with 
 her party from New York, August i, and was seasick 
 most of the way. Their vessel touched at Port-au- 
 Prince, Hayti, where she went ashore and, it is sup- 
 posed, came in contact with yellow fever which de- 
 veloped immediately upon reaching Barranquilla. 
 Much sympathy will be felt for her sister, Mrs. Can- 
 dor, who with open arms was awaiting her coming, 
 and for her parents who have been for more than 
 thirty years missionaries to the Indians. 
 
 Miss Ramsay has been herself a teacher, for several 
 years past, in a school for Seminoles, at Wewoka, 
 Indian Territory, and started for South America 
 with high aims and in a spirit of hearty consecration. 
 — Woman's Wo?' k for Wojnan^ October, 1889. 
 
 Mrs. Jane M. Ramsay. 
 
 Died of consumption, May 30, 1853, at the resi- 
 dence of her father-in-law, Robert Ramsay, Peach 
 Bottom, Pa., Jane Martha, wife of Rev. J. Ross Ram- 
 say, of the Creek Mission. She was born May 29, 
 1822, and was the youngest daughter of John and 
 
286 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Jane Livingston. In infancy Martha was dedicated 
 to God in baptism, and as she grew up was carefully 
 taught his fear. Under the various means of Chris- 
 tian culture her mind became early stored with use- 
 ful knowledge, the most salutary and comforting to 
 her in after-life. 
 
 Possessing naturally an active mind and having op- 
 portunities of education, which she eagerly embraced 
 and improved, she became qualified at an early age 
 for teaching-, in which she enofaofed until her mar- 
 riage and entrance upon missionary work. With her 
 husband she reached the Creek Mission in 1849, and 
 soon entered with alacrity upon the duties of direct- 
 ing the household affairs of the mission school, in- 
 structing the Indian girls in the useful arts of domes- 
 tic life and preparing suitable clothing for the boys. 
 Her chief aim was to advance their moral and religious 
 culture, in which she had great success; and at the 
 same time won the esteem and affection of the mis- 
 sionaries and children. During the first winter she 
 spent at Kowetah, she conducted unaided the re- 
 ligious instruction of many boys at the mission, and 
 often expressed herself delighted with the work. 
 But it was not her Master's will to permit her thus to 
 labor long. 
 
 In a little more than one year after she entered 
 upon the mission, she became a victim of chills and 
 fever. Neither relaxation nor medical skill could 
 arrest the malady. Symptoms of consumption soon 
 made their appearance. Still, loth to quit the field 
 of labor, for nearly two years she bore patiently 
 these sufferings. It at length became apparent to 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 287 
 
 herself and all her associates, that it was her duty to 
 return home, and try the effects of a more salubrious 
 climate. This she did, after having spent almost 
 three years in the missionary field, two of which were 
 to her years of almost constant suffering; in which 
 time also she was called to mourn the loss of her first 
 born. She returned to her friends, only to spend a 
 short season with them, suffer a few more months of 
 affliction, and then die. She had honored the Lord 
 by the life she had lived; it was his purpose she 
 should glorify him by the death she should die. Her 
 death was full of hope and joyful anticipation of 
 heaven. She w^as assured of her acceptance with 
 God, had no dread of his wrath, no dismay at the 
 approach of " the king of terrors." Triumphant ex- 
 pressions fell from her lips. ' ' Sweet Jesus ! Precious 
 Saviour, cornel I shall soon be at home! Is this 
 dying ? Weep not ! Farewell !" And then on the con- 
 fines of eternity, as if already catching a glimpse of 
 the beatific vision of God, she exclaimed, "Holy! 
 holy!" and her happy spirit gently passed away. 
 
 " Yet shall we weep ; for oft and well 
 Remembrance shall her story tell, 
 Affection of her virtues speak, 
 With beaming eye and burning cheek ; 
 Each action, word, and look recall, 
 The last the loveliest of all, 
 When on the lap of Death she lay, 
 Serenely smiled her soul away, 
 And left surviving Friendship's breast 
 Warm with the sunset of her rest." 
 
 — Rev. T. M. Crawford. 
 
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 Rev. Henry V. Rankin. 
 
 Henry V. Rankin, son of William and Abigail 
 (Ogden) Rankin, was born in Newark, N. J., vSep- 
 tember ii, 1825. 
 
 In the autumn of 1840 he entered the sophomore 
 class of Princeton College, where he was graduated 
 in 1843. Commencing his college life at the age of 
 fifteen in the exuberance of a social nature that found 
 full scope among his new companions, his first year 
 at Princeton gave no promise of the good fruits sub- 
 sequently produced in his earnest and active life. 
 Yet even during this period the influences of an early 
 religious training, deepened by the death of a younger 
 sister, which had occurred two years before, served to 
 restrain him from yielding to many temptations 
 which beset him. 
 
 Early in his second college year a sermon preached 
 in the chapel by the late Prof. Dod was blessed to 
 his thorough awakening, yet he abode for many 
 weeks in darkness before receiving in faith the Lord 
 Jesus Christ as his only and all-sufficient Saviour. 
 During this time, with characteristic frankness, he 
 freely opened his whole heart to those from whom he 
 thought he could obtain spiritual guidance. The 
 Christian counsel thus sought was cheerfully given, 
 and to some of the faculty and students of Nassau 
 Hall Mr. Rankin felt deeply indebted, throughout 
 his whole life, for the sympathy and aid imparted by 
 them in these days of his distress. The light and joy 
 of faith were at length given by the Holy Spirit, and 
 remained within him until the day he fell asleep in 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 289 
 
 Jesus. In the newness of his spiritual life, our young 
 brother resolved to serve God who had graciously re- 
 vealed his Son to him, by becoming a missionary to 
 the heathen. He pondered, upon his knees, the 
 questions suggested to his mind respecting his call 
 and adaptedness to this work, and his purpose was 
 fixed to preach to those who had not heard it, that 
 gospel whose power and preciousness he now so 
 fully experienced. His determination having been 
 made, he immediately communicated it to his parents 
 and family friends, and received in return their sad 
 but unmurmuring assent. He was now in the junior 
 class of college and in the seventeenth year of his 
 life, yet the youthful impulse of his heart to carry to 
 some heathen people the unsearchable riches of 
 Christ never lost its power over him. During his 
 student life a wide circle of loving friends endeared 
 his native land to his affectionate heart, and after his 
 licensure to preach, attractive fields of labor were 
 opened near his home, yet there was no faltering in 
 his purpose. In the spring of 1842 he united with 
 the First Presbyterian Church, in Newark, of which 
 his parents were members. After his graduation at 
 Princeton in 1843, ^^^- Rankin studied for a year at 
 Pittsfield, Mass. , and Cincinnati, O. , with reference to 
 the special work to which he was called. A second 
 year was passed by him in the Theological Seminary at 
 Auburn, after which he returned to Princeton, and 
 pursuing the course of theological study in the semi- 
 nary there became an alumnus of that school of the 
 prophets in the summer of 1847. Having placed 
 himself under the care of the Presbytery of Eliza- 
 
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 bethtown, lie was licensed to preach by them at their 
 stated meeting in October, 1846, and preached as he 
 had opportunity until he had completed his course at 
 the seminary. 
 
 Soon after leaving Princeton, Mr. Rankin accepted 
 an invitation to supply the pulpit of the First Presby- 
 terian Church in Rochester for six months, and re- 
 mained there, useful and beloved in his public and 
 private ministrations, until May, 1848. Thence he 
 went to St. Louis upon the invitation of the Second 
 Church of that city, then under the pastoral care of 
 William S. Potts, D.D. The Sabbath-school of this 
 church, with a missionary zeal worthy of imitation, 
 several years before this time had assumed the entire 
 support of the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie, whose useful 
 labors in China were so suddenly terminated by his 
 death at the hands of pirates in August, 1847. In- 
 telligence of this sad event had reached the young 
 people in Dr. Potts' Church, and they chose Mr, 
 Rankin to take the place of their martyred missionary 
 called thus to a higher service. He went therefore 
 to see them face to face, and his visit was productive 
 of a mutual interest and correspondence which ceased 
 not till the close of his life. Hitherto he had no 
 choice as to the particular field wherein he should 
 labor, but now, out of these youthful lips, a definite 
 providential call came, which led him to regard 
 China as his future home. He returned from St. 
 Louis to his father's house in Newark, and in the First 
 Church of that city, where he had made his first pub- 
 lic profession of faith, he was ordained by the Pres- 
 bytery of Elizabethtown on the i8th of July, 1S48. 
 
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 Upon this occasion, after a sermon by the Rev. 
 James W. Alexander, D.D., the ordination prayer 
 was offered by Dr. David Magie, and the charge to 
 the missionary given by his brother, Rev. Edward E. 
 Rankin. 
 
 On the 20th of July, two days after his ordination, 
 Mr. Rankin was married, in the Second Church of 
 Brooklyn, by Dr. Jonathan Greenleaf, to Mary 
 Greenleaf Knight, daughter of Mr. Franklin Knight, 
 and niece of the officiating minister. A brother of 
 Mrs. Rankin is a clergyman of the Protestant Epis- 
 copal Church in New Jersey. One of her sisters 
 subsequently married the Rev. William W. Scudder, 
 of the Arcot Mission, of the Reformed Dutch Church 
 in India, from whence her loving spirit ascended to 
 the Saviour on the 14th of September, 1855. Another 
 is the wife of Dr. D. B. McCartee, of the Ningpo 
 Mission, in China, under the Presbyterian Board, and 
 had the sad satisfaction of ministering by the dying 
 bed of her beloved brother. Mr. and Mrs. Rankin 
 sailed from New York in company of a few other 
 missionaries on the 7 th of October, 1848, and reached 
 Ningpo early in the ensuing year. 
 
 They found a large and open field, upon the culti- 
 vation of which they entered at once. Within 
 the city walls was a population of three hundred 
 thousand souls; in the villages pressing closely upon 
 it were tens of thousands more, and other populous 
 cities were within reach of their influence and labors. 
 The mission of Ningpo had been commenced about 
 four years before, and some progress had already 
 been made in the several works of preaching, teach- 
 
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 ing, printing and visitation. In schools of Christian 
 instruction the efforts of both were early enlisted, and 
 from them the first fruits of a spiritual harvest were 
 gathered. Near to the dwellings of the missionaries 
 on the river side the schoolhouse and chapel stood, 
 fountains of saving truth unto some who were gath- 
 ered through the labors of that little band, who had 
 come at the call of the Spirit and the Bride to impart 
 instructions to those that were perishing. In the 
 heart of that great city other places were found where 
 the same work could be carried on. The leaves of 
 the tree of life were distributed from the printing 
 press, which daily received attention in its mechanical 
 work and in providing words of truth written in a 
 language to which such words were new. Apostolic 
 journeys were made from the central station into the 
 regions beyond, and from time to time new churches 
 were gathered. Men born in China and educated in 
 all its idolatry, through the blessing of God upon 
 these labors, became disciples of Christ. Elders 
 were chosen to rule in these newly organized churches ; 
 a few, thoroughly instructed by the missionaries in 
 Christian doctrine, have been licensed to preach the 
 gospel, and after probation ordained as pastors. 
 When, near the close of his active ministry, Mr. Ran- 
 kin looked back to the state of things existing when 
 he commenced his labors, he found abundant occasion 
 for praise to the Lord of the harvest who had not 
 permitted his servants to labor in vain. He recalled 
 the time of feeble beginnings, the day of small things, 
 when a few children were gathered in the schools 
 and a small number of hearers came to the chapel 
 
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 service ; through fifteen years of toil in the strength 
 of his manhood, he and his fellow-workers had wept 
 and prayed amidst many discouragements, yet the 
 work had still gone on. One and another had been 
 stricken down with sickness and left for a season, or 
 forever, the scenes consecrated by the presence of 
 God's Spirit. In early manhood Mr. Rankin became 
 the senior missionary of the Presbyterian Board at 
 Ningpo, but the line of heavenly hght was shining 
 broader and brighter over the dark-minded people 
 among whom he and his companions had been hold- 
 ing forth the word of life. 
 
 In the year 1856, Mr. Rankin was constrained by 
 the failure of his wife's health to visit the United 
 States. His own strength then seemed unimpaired 
 by the constant drain upon his energies in the multi- 
 form duties of his station. On the day he landed 
 with his family in New York, which was the Sabbath, 
 he preached for his brother, a pastor in that city, be- 
 ginning thus a series of labors which was continued 
 in different portions of the country so long as he re- 
 mained. Visiting almost every State in the Union, 
 in addition to pulpit preaching, he sought opportuni- 
 ties in seminaries, colleges and schools, to present to 
 the youth of the land the claims of the foreign mis- 
 sionary work. When the object of this home visit 
 had been obtained, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin again 
 turned their faces with gladness towards the land of 
 their adoption, the place of their chosen labor. Ar- 
 riving in China, where the grave of their first born 
 had been made, they were called to the severe trial 
 of laying two more of their children in the dust. 
 
294 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Amidst scenes thus hallowed by toils and tears, the 
 parents, with three of their offspring still spared to 
 them, entered anew upon their duties and continued 
 them until i860, when it became evident that the life 
 of Mrs. Rankin depended upon her return to America. 
 After painful and prayerful deliberation, he decided 
 that, for a season, he must be separated from a wife 
 and children whom he dearly loved. He felt that 
 the work in China was too pressing and the laborers 
 too few to permit him to bear them company. For 
 two years he bore the burden and heat of each day 
 alone, yet sustained by the presence of that Lord in 
 whom he trusted, and cheered by the constant work 
 he was doing for him. 
 
 During this period the storm of civil war was rag- 
 ing in China. As the rebel army swept over large 
 portions of the empire, the city of Ningpo became in 
 its turn an object of their attack. When the hosts 
 of the Taiping leader approached the walls, the 
 missionaries, knowing the hostility of these people 
 to all idolatry, hoped to find favor from them for 
 the Christian community in the city and suburban 
 villages. Two of their number, of whom Mr. Ran- 
 kin was one, went forth from the gate and sought 
 an interview with the commander-in-chief. From 
 him they obtained the promise of immunity from 
 death and pillage for all the Christian Chinese. 
 ' ' The angel of the Lord was round about them 
 that feared him and deUvered them." When the 
 city was captured, the idol temples were destroyed 
 and many of the people perished by the sword, but 
 the native believers in Jesus were kept from all 
 
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 harm. Amid these anxieties and labors the year 
 186 1 was closed. 
 
 In the autumn of the next year, Mrs. Rankin re- 
 turned to find her husband greatly broken down in 
 health. His naturally vigorous constitution was 
 giving way under the pressure of continued w^ork in 
 the unwholesome climate of Ningpo. He went, in 
 September, to Shanghai, that he might meet and 
 v.^elcome his wife and two youngest children. In 
 December they returned to Ningpo, where, although 
 suffering much, he continued his labors until late in 
 April, 1863. On the 20th of that month he wrote 
 thus to the Senior Secretary of the Board: " I wrote 
 you on the eve of departing for Shantung, where my 
 failing health admonishes me to seek a change before 
 the weather completely prostrates me. As you will 
 have learned before this, I began to be troubled 
 towards the close of the summer with diarrhoea and 
 dyspepsia, which were increased during my stay at 
 Shanghai. These were followed by a severe abscess, 
 which, on account of my feeble health, cannot yet be 
 operated upon, and which has been very trouble- 
 some. I have also suffered from a heavy cough, 
 which left me for a couple of months but has again 
 returned. 
 
 " I am greatly reduced in flesh and at times exceed- 
 ingly weak, though for days together I seem to im- 
 prove in all respects. I have preached occasionally 
 during the winter and tried to do some other mis- 
 sionary work, but it has been done truly in great 
 weakness, and I almost feel that I am a cumberer of 
 the ground. Dr. John Parker, who is now our mis- 
 
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 sion physician and a very sensible as also a truly 
 pious man, advises me to go home, and the brethren 
 of our mission, feeling that Shantung is a forlorn 
 hope, have urged the same upon me ; yet, after much 
 prayer and thought, it appears to me that my duty is 
 rather to avail myself of an opportunity now offering 
 for Chefoo, where Dr. McCartee has encouraged me 
 to go, and pass the summer at Tungchow. The 
 climate of Shantung has been so much extolled for 
 invalids that it would hardly be just to the Board and 
 the church to turn one's back on China without first 
 trying it ; and the circumstances are so favorable in 
 that I can obtain perfect rest at the house of our dear 
 friends, Mr. and Mrs. Nevius, and have the attend- 
 ance of our valued physician. If the experiment 
 proves favorable in my case, it may be tried with 
 increased confidence by others. Going home in this 
 critical period in our country's history is not only a 
 matter of risk, but also it would be discouraging to 
 the church, especially so soon after the arrival of my 
 family. Moreover, the laborers are now so few that 
 none of us can be spared if it is possible for us to live 
 here. 
 
 "An admirable opportunity lately occurred from 
 Shanghai, for Japan and California, but though ad- 
 vised to take it by my best friends, I did not have the 
 heart to turn my back on China. It may be that 
 God will yet permit me to labor for him a few 3^ears 
 more in this field ; but, if not, his will be done. My 
 wife and children and our associates are all well. I 
 feel that the work here is under the management of 
 wise and able men, and that they are all far better 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 297 
 
 examples to the flock than I have been. In reviewing 
 my missionary career for the fourteen years and more 
 since I reached China, there is much to sadden me; 
 for I fear I have been rather a busy than a faithful 
 laborer. Oh ! were it not for the blood of Christ to 
 wash away all our delinquencies and sins, life would 
 be worse than a blank." 
 
 Mr. Rankin reached Tungchow in May, and, sur- 
 rounded by loving friends, lingered in the house of 
 his pilgrimage until July 2, when he fell asleep in 
 Jesus and his spirit departed for the better country. 
 One of his latest letters was addressed to a secretary 
 of the American Tract Society. It enclosed a dona- 
 tion for the objects of that institution, in the benefi- 
 cent effects of whose work at home and abroad he 
 expressed a deep interest; the letter closes with these 
 words: " It has been a blessed privilege to be a mis- 
 sionary to this benighted yet most interesting people 
 for so long a time, and I only wonder that so few 
 are disposed to fill up our rapidly diminishing ranks." 
 
 The last days of our brother were days of peace ; 
 knowing that the time of his departure drew nigh, he 
 resigned himself cheerfully to the will of God. 
 
 He had been since his conversion a constant and 
 diligent student of the Scripture, and its power to com- 
 fort him was manifest as his flesh was faihng. A 
 friend was quoting by his bedside the passage: '' All 
 things shall work together for good," when he cor- 
 rected him, expressing at the same time his own 
 present confidence of faith. ^'No! not shall," said 
 he, ''but all things work, are working now, for 
 good." 
 
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 On the morning of July 2, 1863, he was lying- feebly 
 but tranquilly, speaking to the dear friends about 
 him. His last message had been sent to his eldest 
 child, a son at school in the United States. A note 
 full of filial and brotherly affection had been sent to 
 one of his sisters at home. His farewell words were 
 spoken calmly to the beloved wife and two little 
 daughters, who were with him in his chamber of 
 sickness. With the exception of a brief period of 
 aberration, his intellect was clear to the last. To his 
 dear friends, Dr. and Mrs. McCartee, and Mr. and 
 Mrs. Nevius, and to a native Christian, who were at- 
 tending him, he expressed his abiding interest in 
 their common work and his unfaltering trust in the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. As the sun reached its meridian, 
 his blessed spirit ascended to behold the vSun of 
 righteousness. The legacy of Jesus was received by 
 him in all its fullness — peace here, glory beyond. 
 After nearly thirty-eight years of life upon earth, 
 more than half of which were full of usefulness, he 
 fell asleep. 
 
 Within the soil of that empire, for whose people he 
 had given his strength that he might win some of 
 them to Christ, his body rests. 
 
 The voyager in the northern Chinese seas, as he ap- 
 proaches the province of Shantung, may see upon 
 the hill that overlooks the city of Tungchow, among 
 other stones there set up, one of pure w^hite marble. 
 Beneath it is all that was mortal of Henry V. 
 Rankin. 
 
 There, by loving friends, who mourned not as those 
 without hope, was his body laid to await the da}^ of 
 
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 resurrection. But this marble monument is not his 
 best or most lasting memorial. 
 
 He is remembered by many in his native land as an 
 unwavering- friend, a Christian scholar, a devoted fol- 
 lower of Jesus, and an eloquent preacher of the gos- 
 pel. His frank and generous spirit and his guileless 
 life have left their fragrance in many homes, and his 
 works have followed him to the mansions of his 
 Father's house above. 
 
 In the schools and chapel of Ningpo, the place of 
 his missionary labors, his memorial abides in souls 
 once benighted by heathenism, now rejoicing in the 
 light of gospel truth. His remains are still speaking 
 their instructive doctrine. His pure and prayerful 
 life still abides an eloquent example. 
 
 From select portions of God's Holy Book, which he 
 translated and published, the words of life shall long 
 enter into heathen dwellings. The sweet hymns 
 composed by him shall long continue to ascend from 
 lips that have learned to sing in the language of China 
 the praises of Emanuel. 
 
 These are his best memorials and they can never 
 be forgotten. Before the throne of God some are 
 now standing, and others shall be gathered who have 
 been instructed by our departed brother in the v/ay 
 of salvation. As they cast their crowns before the 
 Lamb, they will ever praise him through whose grace 
 this faithful teacher was sent to tell them the glad 
 tidings of the love of that Saviour whose cross he so 
 earnestly preached. — Rev. E. E. Rankin ^ D.D.^ 1864. 
 
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 Rev. William Reed. 
 
 Mr. Reed was one of the first two missionaries ap- 
 pointed to the foreign field. His early years, of 
 which little is known to the writer of this notice, 
 were spent in Mifflin county, Pa. He was graduated 
 at Jefferson College, pursued his theological studies 
 at Allegheny, was appointed as a missionary early in 
 January, 1832, spent several months after his licensure 
 to preach the gospel in efforts to awaken among the 
 churches an interest in the cause of missions, em- 
 barked for India with his wife in May, 1833, and ar- 
 rived at Calcutta in October, 1S33. He and his col- 
 league spent the next nine months in that city and 
 its vicinity, learning the language of the Hindus. 
 During this period Mr. Reed's health began to give 
 way. Symptoms of pulmonary disease gradually be- 
 came so marked that his medical advisers recom- 
 mended his return to his native country, their opinion 
 and his own concurring in the hope of his life being 
 thereby prolonged for several years, if his health 
 should not be completely restored. Accordingly he 
 and his wife embarked for Philadelphia in July, but 
 his health rapidly declined, and on the 12th of August, 
 1834, he entered into rest, in the thirty-second year 
 of his age. His remains were committed to the sea, 
 near one of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of 
 Bengal. Mrs. Reed and her little son reached the 
 end of the voyage in December; both are still living, 
 and are held in high esteem as active members of 
 the church, she having again entered into married 
 life. Mr. Reed was a man of excellent mind, respect- 
 
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 able scholarship, blameless character and sincere 
 piety. These gifts and spiritual grace, united to the 
 best habits of industry and much of energy, led the 
 church to form the hope of his being very useful in 
 the service of Christ among the heathen. It was not 
 unreasonable to expect that in a long life such a man 
 would do great good. Nor can it be questioned that 
 even the short course allotted to him was spent in 
 the best way ; his life and his example were known to 
 a large number of Christian friends; his being one of 
 the first missionaries of a new and distinctively 
 ecclesiastical organization, was itself a fact of much 
 moment at the time and worthy of remembrance. 
 But in reference to him, as also to many others, the 
 church must recognize the will of the Lord as the 
 highest reason to account for all the mysteries of 
 Providence. "As for God, his way is perfect." — 
 /. C. L. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth (Grahai^i) Reid. 
 
 Mrs. Reid, wife of Rev. Alexander Reid, of the 
 Choctaw Mission, died June 4, 1854. She reached 
 that mission under appointment of the Board in 
 September, 1850, and was united in marriage to Mr. 
 Reid the same month. Her parents were of Newark, 
 N. J., and she was the sister of Rev. Alexander J. 
 Graham, of the same mission, who died July 23, 1850, 
 about two months before she joined it. 
 
 Her end was happy and peaceful, but her loss 
 was most sensibly felt, not only by her sorrowing 
 husband and the mission family, but by the pupils of 
 
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 Spencer Academy, to whose welfare and happiness 
 she had assiduously devoted all her energies during- 
 the four years of her connection with the mission. — 
 Annual Report^ 1S55. 
 
 Rev. Solomon Reutlinger. 
 
 In April, 1865, Rev. S. Reutlinger, then laboring 
 in Wisconsin, wrote to the Ex. Committee offering 
 himself as a missionary. He was born near Zurich, 
 Switzerland, in 1838, and studied for a missionary at 
 the Basel Mission House. When his course was com- 
 pleted the Basel Society were unable to send him to 
 Africa, for the want of funds. He came to this coun- 
 try and was pastor for a time of the German Reformed 
 Church at Ashford, Wis. There he wrote, '*I can- 
 not be at peace; the call to the foreign field seems 
 clearer than ever, although I have tried to persuade 
 myself that I am here at my post of duty." In har- 
 mony with his wishes and with the demands of the 
 work he was appointed in 1866 to Corisco, to which 
 country he sailed the same year, and in January, 1867, 
 landed on the island of Corisco. With energy and 
 zeal he devoted himself to this work and has labored 
 efficiently both on the island and on the mainland to 
 win souls to Jesus. On the 9th of June he started 
 from Benita to go into the interior, and to a point 
 never yet reached by a white man. On the road he 
 was attacked with erysipelas in the head and face. 
 It was some days before this was known at Benita, 
 when Dr. Nassau started to his relief. The disease 
 during this time was unchecked by medicine. He 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 303 
 
 was brought back to his station at Benita, but all the 
 remedies tried to conquer the disease proved unavail- 
 ing, and he sank to rest on the morning of July 17, 
 1869. He was for most of the time unconscious of 
 his real condition. ''Our brother's integrity," says 
 Dr. Nassau, " and conscientiousness while living left 
 with us the testimony of a heart at peace with God." 
 His widow hopes to remain at her post and continue 
 her work among the women at Benita. — Foreign Mis- 
 sionary^ November, 1869. 
 
 Mrs. Reutlinger, who went with him to Africa, is 
 still there in the service of the Board. 
 
 Rev. Ellsworth G. Ritchie. 
 
 Sad intelligence has been received from the Shan- 
 tung Mission of the death of Rev. Ellsworth G. 
 Ritchie, who died on the 12th of September, 1890, at 
 Tungchow, from an attack of dysentery. 
 
 He had been ill about two v/eeks, and confidently 
 expected to recover until the very last, but, upon 
 being informed by his physician that he had but a 
 very short time to live, he answered immediately, " I 
 am not afraid to die," and expressed even joy at the 
 thought of being so soon in heaven. During his re- 
 maining five hours of consciousness he seemed only 
 concerned with completing arrangements for his de- 
 parture and the sending of affectionate messages to 
 his friends. 
 
 Mr. Ritchie leaves a young wife who had shared 
 his labors for only about a year, but to whom God 
 
304 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 seems to fulfill his promise of needed 
 is her overwhelming loss. The mission and the 
 Board share the sense of loss. Hopes are disap- 
 pointed, and the force of the mission is seriously im- 
 paired. 
 
 Mr. Ritchie had been selected to fill an important 
 position in the Tungchow College, a sphere for which 
 he was thought to be particularly fitted. 
 
 He was the son of Rev. A. Ritchie, of Cincinnati, 
 who had carefully watched over his early training 
 and had hoped that he might fill some post in the 
 church at home ; yet he had cheerfully given him up, 
 in view of his strong desire to preach the gospel to 
 the heathen. In his application to the Board for ap- 
 pointment, made many months ago, Mr. Ritchie 
 says, * ' I find in my diary of about five years ago a 
 prayer that I might some day become a foreign mis- 
 sionary." This desire and prayer had only gained 
 strength during his course of education and was ful- 
 filled in his appointment to north China. The field, 
 also, which he had hoped might be the sphere of his 
 labor was the one to which he was sent. There is 
 comfort in the thought that he was in just the service 
 and in just the place in which he had desired to be. 
 God had granted him his wish, and he was happy in 
 feeling that his own choice was in accordance with 
 the will of God. 
 
 Of his qualifications for the work. Dr. Herrick 
 Johnson, as one of his instructors, wrote many 
 months ago: "Here is a choice soul of excellent cul- 
 ture, refinement and genial courtesy, with good gifts 
 of mind and heart. He stands well as a student, is 
 
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 genuinely and heartily consecrated, has a fine public 
 address and will win his way anywhere." 
 
 That this high estimate w^as sustained in the good 
 opinion of his fellow-missionaries is sufficiently at- 
 tested by the fact that they had selected him to fill so 
 important a position. 
 
 The impressive fact is borne in upon us once more 
 that no one seems necessary for God's work in 
 evangelizing the world. Rich gifts of mind and 
 heart are required, and as we may believe are most 
 acceptable to the Master, but again and again we are 
 reminded that our reliance is not on human but on 
 divine power. — CJiurcJi at Home ajid Abroad^ Decem- 
 ber, 1890. 
 
 Rev. William S. Robertson. 
 
 The following simple but not less eloquent obituary 
 notice of the late Rev. W. S. R^obertson, written by 
 the esteemed native judge, L. C. Ferryman, has been 
 translated from The Indian Journal :'^ 
 
 " The teacher, Mr. Robertson, late superintendent 
 of the TuUahassee school, departed from this world 
 on the 26th of June, 1881. It is now about the 
 thirty-third year since he came into this country. 
 When he came here, although a young man, he had 
 finished his education, and brought his diploma with 
 him ; and he entered upon the work of teaching chil- 
 dren. When fully settled in this, having procured a 
 wife and brought her with him, they went on helping 
 
 * Mr. Robertson's conneclion with the Creek Mission began 
 in 1850. 
 
306 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 each other with the one object of being a light to the 
 children of the Muskokees until the war came. The 
 school being discontinued, they moved north and 
 taught the Indians that live north, until, when peace 
 was made, they returned again to the Muskokees. 
 
 '^ He then entered upon his former work, and con- 
 tinued to make that his sole object until he finished 
 his time upon earth. A man of such learning as he 
 it may be that we shall never have a.gain, and it may 
 be that we shall never see again a man of sucii 
 righteousness. It may be that there is not another 
 white man such a friend to the Indians as was he. 
 
 "The nation intrusting large sums of money to his 
 hands every year, asking of him no written security, 
 but relying fully on his integrity, he continued his 
 care until death came to him. And it is probable no 
 one can say that he ever wasted anything, no one 
 that he ever deceived him. And there is no one that 
 says he ever meddled with our politics. But the 
 Muskokees say he was a very righteous man, and the 
 light of his work will continue as long as the Musko- 
 kees exist. 
 
 " We may well grieve over the loss of our teacher, 
 and sympathize with the family he has left in their 
 grief." — Foreign Missionary^ October, iSSi. 
 
 Mrs. a. Rudolph. 
 
 Mrs. Rudolph, wife of Rev. Adolph Rudolph, of 
 the Lodiana Mission, India, died September 8, 1849. 
 She was a woman of great excellence of character 
 and her missionary labors in the charge of the Girls' 
 
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 Orphan Asylum were incessant and invaluable. Her 
 removal is greatly lamented by her associates in the 
 mission, but their loss is doubtless her gain. — Annual 
 Report^ 1850. 
 
 Rev. Mr. and Mrs. A. Rudolph. 
 
 Mrs. Rudolph, the second wife of Rev. A. Rudolph, 
 went to India in 1851, and died at Sabathu April 10, 
 1884. For more than thirty-two years she shared the 
 mission work with her husbaftd, and her removal was 
 a sore trial to this aged disciple. They were both 
 highly esteemed for their great fidelity to their work. 
 
 Mr. Rudolph's health failing he left India for Ger- 
 many, his native country, not long after his bereave- 
 ment. There he gained such benefit that with the 
 best medical encouragement he set out on his return 
 to his chosen work; but he was taken with such 
 serious illness on the way that he was compelled to 
 relinquish the hope of further labor as a missionary. 
 His last days were spent with his son, a minister in 
 Germany, he being sustained by a blessed hope 
 through divine grace. — Annual Report^ 1885 and 
 1888. 
 
 Rev. Robert W. Sawyer. 
 
 Mr. Sawyer was a native of New York, pursued his 
 course of collegiate and theological study at Prince- 
 ton, N. J., went with his wife as a missionary to 
 Western Africa in 1841, and died at Settra Kroo, 
 December i, 1843. His death is thus referred to in 
 
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 the Missionary Chronicle of May, 1844: ''We mourn 
 over the death of this excellent brother. The church 
 has no servant more devoted than he was, and none 
 more worthy of respect and confidence." 
 
 Mrs. Sawyer, with great devotedness, continued at 
 the station alone for some time. She was married in 
 December, 1844, to the Rev. James M. Connelly, 
 who had joined the mission in that year. At the end 
 of 1849, after much faithful labor among* the Kroo 
 people, considerations of health required their return 
 to this country, — /. C. L. 
 
 Rev. James L. Scott. 
 
 We learn with much regret the death of Rev. 
 James L. Scott, at Dehra, January 2, 1880, in the 
 sixty-seventh year of his age. He was a missionary 
 in India from 1839 to 1867, when he returned to this 
 country on account of his health. He was reap- 
 pointed in 1877 with the expectation of useful service 
 in preparing a commentary on the Psalms in Hin- 
 dustani, and also to be employed in work connected 
 with the Woodstock School of which Mrs. Scott is 
 principal. But he was not permitted to continue long 
 in his chosen work. He was highly esteemed by his 
 brethren as a man of excellent qualifications for mis- 
 sionary labors and one who was always found faith- 
 ful. We doubt not he has entered into the heavenly 
 rest. Sincere sympathy will be felt for his wife and 
 children, — Record, April, 1880, 
 
 ** Mr. Scott was patient, conscientious and faithful 
 
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 in the discharge of all his duties, the same earnest, 
 cheerful worker whether presiding over the Christian 
 village of Rakha with its many perplexing cares, en- 
 gaged in literary labor, or preaching the gospel in the 
 district." — India Missions Scmi-Ccntennial^ 1884. 
 
 Mrs. Christiana M. Scott. 
 
 Mrs. Scott was the only daughter of the late Rev. 
 W. F. Houston, of Columbia, Pa. Having lost her 
 mother when very young, she was trained up princi- 
 pally by her father, and at the age of about fifteen 
 she publicly gave herself to the Saviour, and soon 
 became an active member of the church in her native 
 place. Her hand and heart were ready for every 
 work of love and benevolence. She established an 
 infant-school, and conducted it herself, until her 
 health constrained her, reluctantly, to give up the 
 work. She also superintended a large Sabbath- 
 school of colored people, and labored successfully in 
 endeavoring to raise this neglected people from their 
 degraded condition. She was an active member of a 
 female association for promoting the cause of mis- 
 sions, and not only labored diligently for the interests 
 of the society, but having considered the subject of 
 going in person to labor for the heathen, she in the 
 most solemn manner dedicated herself to the Lord in 
 this blessed work. Not many months had elapsed 
 after this vow was made and recorded in her private 
 journals, before the Lord brought her faith and prin- 
 ciples to the test, by providentially, and quite unex- 
 pectedly to her, opening up a way for her to go in 
 
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 person ; and feeling assured that his hand was lead- 
 ing her, she pledged herself to go. In the following 
 year her father was taken from her; but with his 
 last parting breath he again consecrated her to the 
 work of the Lord among the heathen; in 1838 she 
 was married to the Rev. James L. Scott, who was 
 on the eve of sailing as a missionary for northern 
 India. 
 
 In August, 1839, she and her husband arrived in 
 Futtehgurh, and joined Mr. and Mrs. Wilson in their 
 labors. Mrs. Scott was soon actively engaged with 
 Mrs. Wilson in the female department of the orphan 
 asylum ; and a few months after this, when Mrs. Wil- 
 son's health rendered it necessary for her to spend a 
 season in the hills, Mrs. Scott took the entire charge 
 of the female department of the school, and con- 
 ducted it for nearly twelve months with great energy 
 and success. When her connection with the school 
 ceased, she gave more of her time to the language, 
 and translated a small volume into Hindustani, which 
 was published. 
 
 After remaining at this station for about two years, 
 when Mrs. Wilson's health again failed, and rendered 
 it necessary for her to return to America, Mr. and 
 Mrs. Scott were called to take the entire charge of 
 the asylum at Futtehgurh. Here she commenced 
 once more with her usual energy to instruct the girls 
 in English and Hindustani, to superintend their work, 
 and to labor with her own hands ; and her exertions 
 were so great that one short year had not elapsed be- 
 fore these, in connection with other causes, had laid 
 the foundation of fatal disease. 
 
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 When her physician advised her to spend a season 
 in the hills, knowing how much her husband was re- 
 quired at his post, she resolved to go alone, and tak- 
 ing her infant son, she traveled by ''dak" a distance 
 of about five hundred miles, in ten nights, with none 
 but the heathen around her. When her physicians 
 advised her to return to America, she again proposed 
 and finally determined to go alone, because she felt 
 that the Lord required the sacrifice at her hand. In 
 a letter from Simla, she says to Mr. Scott, "If my 
 health should remain as good as it now is, and there 
 should be no prospect of my being taken off rapidly, 
 would you not consent to send the children and my- 
 self, and you remain another year ?" 
 
 After a due consideration of the subject, she re- 
 solved to make the sacrifice, and leaving her husband 
 and darling boy she set out with her two little girls 
 for America. Mr. Scott accompanied her part of the 
 way to Calcutta, and when separating from him she 
 said, " I trust we shall meet again here below, and if 
 not it will all be ordered aright by our covenant- 
 keeping God." Mr. and Mrs. Freeman accompanied 
 her as far as Calcutta, and enjoyed many precious 
 seasons of prayer and Christian fellowship with her. 
 Mr. Freeman, in a letter to Mr. Scott, says: "Your 
 dear wife never appeared so lovely, happy and 
 heavenly, as during our journey together, and this 
 very heavenly happiness made me feel sad that you 
 are not with her to enjoy it. Many were the happy 
 hours we spent together, and I only regret I was so 
 unfit for such hours. Even the dear little children 
 felt a tenderness and solemnity quite unusual, and 
 
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 talked with their dear mother of God and heaven ; 
 and their little eyes were filled with tears as they rose 
 from worshiping God." 
 
 In due time they reached Calcutta, and all things 
 w^ere ready for her final separation from her mission- 
 ary friends. With her two little girls, Mr. and Mrs. 
 Freeman's little daughter, and a daughter of an Eng- 
 lish officer under her charge, and herself and charge 
 all under the care of a pious friend, they went on 
 board the vessel which was to have borne them across 
 the ocean; and as Mrs. Freeman approached to take 
 one more fond embrace of her little girl, and bid a 
 long farewell to her feeble protector, knowing a 
 mother's anxious heart, Mrs. Scott pressed her hand 
 and said, "Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the 
 Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." "This," 
 said she, " has ever been my motto, and I have never 
 trusted in vain." Having thus parted with her 
 friends, she set out for her native land by way of 
 England. For the first week she enjoyed her usual 
 health, but from that time her strength began to fail, 
 and by the time she reached the Cape of Good Hope 
 she was so far reduced that she gave up all hope of 
 ever returning to India. At the Cape she took fresh 
 cold which brought back all the worst symptoms of 
 her disease. On the loth of April, 1848, she was 
 confined to her cabin and rapidly sank till the i6th, 
 when she breathed her last at the age of thirty-six. 
 
 A few kind friends whom the Lord had gathered 
 around her did all that could be done; and the 
 same calm, trusting spirit which had marked her in 
 life sustained her in death. When asked if she was 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 313 
 
 happy, she answered: "Very happy in Jesus." 
 Pointing- upward, she said: " He is there," and lay- 
 ing her hand on her breast, she said: " He is here." 
 The pious officer who had taken her under his pro- 
 tection very kindly promised her that if she should 
 be taken away he would conduct her little charge to 
 her friends in America — a promise which he did not 
 fail to make good. — Rev. IV. H. McAidcy. 
 
 Mrs. James L. Scott (2). 
 
 The death of Mrs. J. L. Scott, which occurred on 
 June 2, 1892, at Mussoorie, a mile or two from "Wood- 
 stock" on the lower range of the Himalayas, casts a 
 shadow over many hearts both in India and America. 
 Mrs. Scott reached India with her husband on his re- 
 turn from a furlough in 1853 and settled first in Agra, 
 where the Board was then seeking to establish a 
 permanent station. A few months ago, as one of the 
 Secretaries of the Board stood with her and some 
 friends on Lai Tiba — some 7500 feet above sea-level 
 — surveying the snow-clad mountains a hundred 
 miles and more away, Mrs. Scott pointed to a house 
 on the hillside across a ravine where .she and her 
 children with another missionary's family spent many 
 anxious v/eeks during the mutiny, while their hus- 
 bands were shut up in Agra Fort. The agony of 
 those wrecks no tongue can tell. The health of ]Mr. 
 Scott failing, he and his family returned to the 
 United States in 1867, when Mrs. Scott opened a 
 boarding school where her Mount Holyoke training 
 
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 stood her in good stead, and where she became more 
 thoroughly equipped for the work to which she gave 
 the later years of her life — the headship of Wood- 
 stock School. With this work in view, she re- 
 turned to India in 1877, and succeeded by the bless- 
 ing of God in building up an institution second to 
 none of the kind in the Empire, commatiding the 
 confidence of missionaries of every denomination, of 
 European residents and of the government. The 
 Rev. Reese Thackwell, of Dehra, writes: "Her 
 tact and energy and unquestionable ability made the 
 school what it is. " 
 
 With this estimate of her work all familiar with 
 the facts most cordially agree. To all the ordinary 
 graces of a well-cultured mind Mrs. Scott added 
 superior organizing ability and rare business qualifi- 
 cations. But above all she was a missionary, and 
 brought to the discharge of all her duties love for the 
 souls of those committed to her care, and love for 
 India for whose salvation she had given her life. 
 
 For a year or two past Mrs. Scott had felt that the 
 continuous strain and the increasing infirmities of 
 advancing years required her to relax her hold, and 
 to seek rest and change in the home land. After 
 much patient cind anxious search a successor had 
 been appointed, but Mrs. Scott was not permitted to 
 welcome her. She sleeps beside her husband in the 
 beautiful little cemetery at Dehra under the shadows 
 of the Himalayas. Laid to rest in heathen India, 
 she will rise from the dust in Christian India. 
 Blessed Hope! — - CJiurcJi at Home and Abroad, Sep- 
 tember, 1S92. 
 
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 ''The reaper has been entering many missionary 
 homes and has gathered Httle children like buds of 
 spring, but Mrs. Scott is taken a shock of corn fully 
 ripe." — VVomait's Work for Woman, August, 1892. 
 
 Rev. David Scott. 
 
 God sometimes appalls his church by sudden dis- 
 pensations which shake to the centre our weak faith; 
 and were we not sure that he will take care of his 
 own honor, and vindicate it in his own time, we 
 might well give up in despair. 
 
 It is no new thing in the history of the church to 
 find men, after long preparation, and with peculiar 
 adaptation to the work, called to lay aside their 
 armor at the very moment they are ready to enter the 
 battle. 
 
 There is no human explanation of these strange 
 facts. According to the conclusions of reason, such 
 facts are altogether evil. No light shines in the 
 darkness. God, by his own act, seems to have given 
 a fatal blow to his own cause. But Revelation gives 
 us another view of these mysterious providences, 
 which, while failing to solve the problems, yet gives 
 us faith to believe that they can be solved, and will 
 be solved, in the future. 
 
 No part of the church has been more severely 
 smitten in this way than the foreign field. Lowrie 
 and Culbertson and Rankin in China, and those mar- 
 tyrs of the India rebellion, and many others who now 
 shine as stars, were called away from their work at 
 the most critical and inopportune time, according to 
 
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 human judgrnent. And the same thing- will happen 
 again and again. 
 
 One great lesson that God intends to teach is, that 
 the world is not to be subdued by many nor by few, 
 nor by human power or wisdom, even when put in 
 operation by his church. Gideon's army was reduced 
 to a minim.um before it was ready, according to God's 
 plan, to go forth to conquer. 
 
 These afflictive strokes are rebukes to the church 
 as it stands and counts its scores of missionaries 
 among the millions of heathendom, and cries out 
 with failing faith, ''What are these among so 
 many ?" But the grand results of missionary labor 
 will not be witnessed in their fullness until the church 
 comes up to that high experience of faith and believes 
 with Joshua that ''one man of you shall chase a thou- 
 sand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth 
 for you, as he hath promised you." 
 
 But another lesson which this event is intended to 
 teach, and one more cheering to the church and 
 afflicted friends, is, that the preparations of an intel- 
 lectual and spiritual kind made by God's servants in 
 this life are not destroyed by death. There is another 
 world and another sphere of labor, where all the toil- 
 some preparation for active service here finds room 
 for indefinite expansion and exercise. We misjudge 
 the divine providence when we consider the work of 
 one of God's children as prematurely brought to an 
 end by death. ' ' Blessed are the dead which die in 
 the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that 
 they may rest from their labors; and their works do 
 follow them." 
 
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 We arc not permitted to look into that realm of 
 ceaseless activity and joy, but we know that our 
 brother who has gone from us will find ample oppor- 
 tunity to use the power that he acquired here, in a de- 
 gree which he could never have put forth in this life. 
 Take this, then, as a grand consolation in the midst of 
 this mysterious providence which so sorely tries our 
 faith and startles the church. The field wliich David 
 Scott entered in Persia, and which he was permitted 
 to occupy for such a brief period, may suffer for a 
 time; his family and friends may be heart-broken 
 under the affliction; but oh, the grandeur of those 
 immeasurable fields to which his talents and his ac- 
 quirements and his labors have been transferred! 
 Let us endure our present weight of sorrow, seeing 
 him who is invisible, and let us listen to the voice of 
 our Master as he softens this bereavement by saying 
 to each one of us, "What I do thou knowest not 
 now, but thou shalt know hereafter. " As our brother 
 knows now, and as we shall know if we are saved. 
 
 David Scott, Jr., was the son of David and Mary 
 Baxter Scott — worthy members of the Fifteenth 
 Street Presbyterian Church. David became a mem- 
 ber of the Sabbath-school in 1863 or 1864. On the 
 9th of June, 1865, he made a profession of his faith 
 and united with the Fifteenth Street Church. Soon 
 after, he expressed to his pastor his earnest desire to 
 become a minister of the gospel. At this time he 
 was a clerk in the office of the Manhattan Gas Com- 
 pany, receiving a salary of $900 a year. His pastor 
 at first discouraged him from seeking the ministry, on 
 account of his entire want of education and because 
 
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 he was at an age which would render it difficult for 
 him to make up his deficiencies. Nothing more was 
 said of the matter until a year had elapsed, when 
 David again approached his pastor, stating that his 
 mind was irrevocably made up to be a minister if it 
 was possible. He said that during the past year he 
 had been attending the night schools at Cooper 
 Union, and had made great advances in his studies. 
 His pastor could no longer oppose w^hat seemed to be 
 a call of God. He was immediately sent to the High 
 School at Lawrenceville, N. J., and through the 
 liberality of the Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D.D. , the 
 principal of the school, his expenses were merely 
 nominal. At the end of two years he was prepared 
 for college. Dr. Hamill, writing to his pastor at this 
 time, says: " I will take as many young men of the 
 same kind, on the same terms, as you choose to send 
 me. David has been a blessing to the school." 
 
 In the fall of 1870 he entered the Freshman Class 
 at Princeton College, where he remained four years, 
 being graduated with high honors, and taking the clas- 
 sical scholarship of the year. This involved his spend- 
 ing a year in classical studies either in this country or 
 in Europe. Entering the Theological Seminary at 
 Princeton immediately after his graduation, he re- 
 mained a year, and then proceeded to Germany 
 where he spent the next year at the University of 
 Leipsic, according to the terms of his scholarship. 
 Here, while pursuing his classical studies, he gave all 
 his spare time to the study of the Oriental languages, 
 having already determined to give his life to foreign 
 missionary work in the East. 
 
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 Returning to Princeton in 1876, he was appointed 
 a tutor in the college, prosecuting at the same time 
 his theological studies in the seminary. Having 
 finished his course in Princeton, he offered himself 
 to the Board of Foreign Missions, and was accepted 
 and appointed to the mission at Teheran, Persia, 
 with the understanding that, while engaging in 
 ordinary missionary work, he was to give himself 
 more particularly to the production of a Christian 
 literature. In a letter written to his pastor at this 
 time, he says: " It has been a subject of much prayer 
 w^ith me that the Board would be guided in their de- 
 cision as to where they should send me. I felt that I 
 could not decide the question for myself, but was 
 willing to go where I could be most useful. I look, 
 then, upon this decision of the Board as an answer 
 to prayer." Mr. Scott was ordained by the Pres- 
 bytery of New York on the 24th of June, 1877,. and, 
 having been united in marriage to a young lady of 
 this city, he, with his wife, set sail for his far-off field 
 of labor in September. 
 
 After a most arduous journey, made more difficult 
 by the approaching war between Russia and Turkey, 
 he arrived at Teheran in November and entered at 
 once upon the study of the Persian and the Turkish 
 languages, acting on the Sabbath as chaplain to the 
 English residents at the capital. In the spring of 
 1878, his wife, having given birth to a son, was at- 
 tacked by a dangerous and most painful sickness, 
 which threatened her life if she remained in Persia. 
 By the advice of the English and French physicians 
 in the city, as well as of his brethren of the mission, 
 
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 he determined to bring his suffering wife home, and, 
 after a winter's journey of ahiiost inconceivable trial, 
 he arrived safely in New York in March. Soon after 
 his arrival he called upon his pastor, who congratu- 
 lated him on his manifestly robust health. But God's 
 ways are not as our ways, for on the 2d of April, 
 1879, instead of the suffering and delicate wife, the 
 strong man after a brief illness was suddenly called 
 to his reward. He had been permitted in infinite 
 mercy to bring his wife and child from among 
 strangers and heathen, and deposit them safely in the 
 bosom of sympathizing friends before he was called 
 to his higher work. 
 
 One of the most striking traits in Mr. Scott's char- 
 acter was his persevering industry. When once his 
 mind was made up that he must serve his Master in 
 the ministry, nothing could stand in his way. Re- 
 linquishing a position with a respectable salary, with 
 an early promise of increase, he entered upon his 
 long course of preparation, relying for support upon 
 that God whose service he had espoused. Without 
 any brilliancy of parts, but with an indomitable 
 spirit, he mastered all the subjects which he under- 
 took, and came out of the college and seminary a 
 finished scholar. 
 
 Perhaps this trait led him to that extreme devotion 
 to his work which in a measure induced his early death. 
 From the time that he entered the night school at 
 Cooper Union to the hour of his leaving Persia, he 
 never knew what relaxation was; and his vacations 
 at Princeton were spent as a clerk in one of our pub- 
 lic institutions, in order that he might lighten the 
 
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 burden of those who were responsible for his sup- 
 port. 
 
 Mr. Scott's piety was unobtrusive, but deep and 
 growing. His one great object in life was to devote 
 all his acquirements and his very life, if necessary, to 
 the advancement of his Master's kingdom on the 
 earth. This, I may say, was the master passion of 
 his life from his very boyhood. I think that he had 
 many of the characteristics of his Scotch ancestors, 
 and I believe that he would have gone to the stake, 
 if called to do so, as quietly as he went to his books. 
 Mr. Scott never talked much about his feelings, but 
 a great deal about his work. The simplicity that 
 was in Christ Jesus clarified his entire life. Through- 
 out the whole of his college career he was a bright 
 example to his fellow-students, who honored him be- 
 cause he was so humble, so consistent, so gentle, so 
 unassuming. 
 
 Faithful, pure, modest, earnest David Scott. He 
 has gone quickly to his reward. 
 
 Those who knew him best were looking forward to 
 great results from his missionary work, but God has 
 shattered our hopes and thwarted our plans, teaching 
 us not to depend on human power or human wisdom. 
 —Rev, S. D. Alexander^ D.D. 
 
 Mrs. Emeline M. Seeley. 
 
 Mrs. Seeley, wife of Rev. A. H. Seeley, was born 
 in Charlton, N. Y., on the 9th of November, 1821; 
 her maiden name was Emeline Marvin, and she had 
 the inestimable advantage of being born of pious 
 
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 parents, who early dedicated her to the Saviour. 
 Little is known of her childhood and j^outh, but she 
 was early instructed in the Scriptures, and taught to 
 feel her obligations to God, both by precept and ex- 
 ample. It is not known precisely when she indulged 
 a hope in Christ; it is supposed that she made a pub- 
 lic profession of religion at an early age. From the 
 time she united with the church, she was engaged in 
 doing good as she had opportunity, and took an 
 active part in the Sabbath-school and female prayer- 
 meeting connected with the village church. 
 
 In July, 1847, with her husband she arrived at 
 Futtehgurh, their missionary station in India. Here 
 for nearly six years she lived the life of the righteous. 
 From the weakness of her eyes, a naturally delicate 
 constitution, the cares of an increasing family and 
 other causes, she was not permitted to engage in 
 much active work ; but still she was exerting a most 
 happy influence for the good of her fellow-beings. 
 This influence arising out of the harmonious blend- 
 ing of the Christian graces, as manifested in her 
 daily walk, though silent and unostentatious, was not 
 the less beneficial and powerful. Her heart was in 
 the work, to which she had so early dedicated her- 
 self, and for whose accomplishment she had severed 
 herself from the society of friends and the endear- 
 ments of home. She gave to it her prayers and 
 counsels, and always manifested great reluctance to 
 leave the field, even when the state of her husband's 
 health seemed to point out the possibility of such an 
 event. She had, only a few days before her death, 
 expressed to one of her missionary sisters the strong 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSiONS. 323 
 
 desire she had to live and die amidst the scene of her 
 labors. The writer of this recalls with much pleas- 
 ure the delight she manifested on her return a few 
 weeks ago from a visit at Yakiitganj, where nearly a 
 hundred Hindus were assembled to hear the word of 
 God. She spoke of the interesting services with so 
 much feeling, and seemed so much encouraged with 
 the manner in which the word was received, as to 
 show how much her heart was interested in the suc- 
 cess of our operations for establishing the Redeemer's 
 kingdom here in India. 
 
 Her last illness was sudden and short, but it found 
 her prepared for death. It was a solemn moment, and 
 amidst weeping and sorrow we rose from our knees, 
 to witness her departure to a better and happier 
 world. Passages of Scripture and portions of hymns 
 were repeated to her, which seemed to give her much 
 enjoyment. Once she said, with deep emphasis, 
 ^' Jesus died for me !'' And then again, '' Oh, these 
 wicked hearts!" and still more frequently would she 
 exclaim, "Come, Lord Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus!" 
 She sent messages to her dear friends at home, and 
 particularly to a beloved brother, towards whom her 
 heart seemed to yearn much. She had in a few 
 short hours all the bitterness of parting with her 
 loved ones, and to realize the momentous truth that 
 she was to stand before the judgment seat of Christ, 
 and yet she had no fears. Under such circumstances, 
 we were rejoiced to see her mind so calm, and her 
 faith so triumphant. Every thing was done that 
 could be done for her comfort, and the doctor was in 
 constant attendance on her to the moment of her 
 
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 departure, but all was without avail. The hand of 
 death was upon her, and a little after eight o'clock 
 P.M., on the 9th of May, 1853, she breathed her last, 
 and passed from earth to her Saviour's arms. On 
 Sunday evening, the loth, her remains were carried 
 to our little church, and I preached to a large and 
 sorrowing congregation, from the sweet and consol- 
 ing words, '' Blessed are the dead which die in the 
 Lord. " From the church we carried her to our small 
 burial ground, now nearly half filled with the graves 
 of our native Christians and our own sweet little 
 ones. She is the first of our little band who has been 
 honored with a burial there. How pleasant is the 
 thought that she will rise at the resurrection, sur- 
 rounded by those she loved, and for whose good she 
 left her native land, and endured the bitter pang of 
 parting with friends and relatives. 
 
 We have lost the society of a valued friend and 
 laborer. For nearly six years we were privileged to 
 enjoy her presence, and be cheered by her counsels 
 and prayers. But we sorrow not as those without 
 hope. '' If ye loved me," said Jesus to his despond- 
 ing disciples, "ye would rejoice, because I said, I go 
 unto the Father;" so should we rejoice when those 
 whom Jesus loves are called away from earth, for 
 they go unto the Father. They are gone, but not 
 lost — gone to a better and happier world, where 
 Jesus reigns, and sorrow never enters. 
 
 **She is not dead, the child of our affection, 
 But gone unto that school 
 Where she no longer needs our poor protection, 
 And Christ himself doth rule. 
 
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 * In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, 
 
 By guardian angels led, 
 Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, 
 She lives, whom we call dead. 
 
 "We will be patient, and assuage the feeling 
 We may not wholly stay, 
 By silence sanctifying, not concealing, 
 The grief that must have way." 
 
 —Rev. J, J. Walsh. 
 
 Miss Sara C. Seward, M.D. 
 
 Dr. Seward was a native of the State of New York, 
 the daughter of the late George W. Seward, youngest 
 brother of the distinguished Secretary of State, 
 William H. Seward. She studied medicine in Phila- 
 delphia, and in 187 1 went to Allahabad, India, as a 
 medical missionary under the Woman's Union Mis- 
 sionary Society of this country. In 1873, she trans- 
 ferred her connection to the Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions of the Presbyterian Church, but without change 
 of field. Through the divine blessing on her skill 
 and energy, and in the midst of many discourage- 
 ments, a successful dispensary work was built up, 
 which in August last v/as transferred to a plain but 
 commodious structure erected for the purpose on a 
 well-chosen site in the heart of the city. While 
 enthusiastic in her profession, Dr. Seward made the 
 missionary idea prominent in her medical work. 
 Writing some time before her death she said: "It 
 has always been the custom each morning on assem- 
 bling to read and talk with the women, using either 
 
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 the Bible or some simple book, striving to impart 
 truth in a plain, direct way." The spiritual results 
 of that useful life so suddenly cut off, eternity alone 
 will reveal. Dr. Seward died of cholera at Allahabad, 
 June 12, 1 89 1. — TJie Church at Home and Abroad, 
 August, 189 1. 
 
 Rev. Samuel M. Sharpe. 
 
 Mr. Sharpe was a native of Steubenville, O., and a 
 graduate of Jefferson College and of the Allegheny 
 Theological Seminary. Accompanied by his wife, a 
 daughter of the Rev. J. M. Jamieson, D.D., he went 
 to the United States of Colombia as a missionary in 
 1858. He had made excellent progress in learning 
 the Spanish language, and had just preached his first 
 extempore sermon in it w4th much acceptance, when 
 he was taken with a fever, which in a few days ended 
 a life of excellent promise, on the 30th of October, 
 i860. The Rev. W. E. McLaren, his colleague, 
 wrote of his last days as follows: 
 
 " Mourning, as we did, over the physical pains of 
 his dying bed, we could not but rejoice to witness the 
 triumph of faith in his last hours. When he began 
 to realize that there was but little hope of his re- 
 covery, with a radiant face, he said, ' I know whom 
 I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to 
 keep that which I have committed imto him against 
 that day.' During the most of his sickness his mind 
 wandered, but even then prayer was the language of 
 his lips. In his more lucid moments he gave pre- 
 cious evidence that he, like the Psalmist, feared no 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 327 
 
 evil; for the Lord was with him: his rod and his 
 staff they comforted him. The day before his death 
 he called all the household to his bedside, bidding 
 farewell, in a most affectionate manner, to his wife, 
 his friends and the servants. For each one he had a 
 word of Christian exhortation or warning. A num- 
 ber of young men, who have been under religious 
 instruction in connection with the mission, were 
 present at this time, and seemed deeply impressed as 
 their dying instructor proclaimed to them, for the 
 last time, the precious truths of the gospel. His last 
 words to them were, ' Soi mui feliz ' (I am very 
 happy). 
 
 "How inscrutable is the providence which has 
 taken our brother from us just at this time ! We can 
 only say, *It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth 
 him good.' " — J. C. L. 
 
 Rev. James M. Shaw. 
 
 Mr. Shaw died at Tungchow, China, June ii, 1876, 
 He sailed from San Francisco, September i, 1874, and 
 gave promise of being an earnest and successful mis- 
 sionary. Li March last (1876) he set out with others 
 on a missionary tour, but when some 200 miles from 
 home he was obliged to return on account of sickness^ 
 from which he never recovered. Physicians could 
 give him no relief. His sufferings were great, but in 
 all he felt the gracious presence of his Saviour, and 
 had an abiding and joyful trust in him. He leaves a 
 wife and little one to mourn his loss. He was the 
 son of Rev. James Shaw, D.D., of Ohio, who died 
 
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 since his son sailed for his work in China. — Foreign 
 Missionary^ September, 1876. 
 
 Rev. Candaur J. Silliman. 
 
 Mr. Silliman, a native of Alabama and a graduate 
 of Columbia, S. C. , Theological Seminary, spent a 
 few months among the Choctaws as a missionary in 
 1856. His health was feeble, and proving to be in- 
 adequate to the work he started on his return to his 
 friends at home, but was taken to his rest on the 
 journey. The committee expressed their sorrow " on 
 account of the early removal of one who promised to 
 be so useful in the sphere of duty assigned to him by 
 Providence." — Annual Report^ 1857. 
 
 Rev. Ashbel G. Simonton. 
 
 Mr. Simonton was born in West Hanover, Pa., 
 January 20, 1833. He was the son of a respected 
 physician of that place, and a nephew of the Rev. 
 William D. Snodgrass, D.D. His early studies were 
 pursued in his native town and afterwards in Harris- 
 burg, to which place his family removed after his 
 father's death in 1846. He w^as graduated at Prince- 
 ton College in 1852; and after spending two years as 
 a teacher in Mississippi, he entered the Theological 
 Seminary, at Princeton, in 1855. During the first 
 session, he was led by a sermon of the Rev. Charles 
 Hodge, D.D., to consider the subject of foreign 
 missions. " I then resolved," he wrote, "to examine 
 
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 the question seriously and prayerfully, and to suffer 
 nothing to interfere with its decision." As the re- 
 sult of this examination, his purpose was formed to 
 devote his life to the service of Christ amongst the 
 unevangelized, a purpose in which he never wavered. 
 In his application for an appointment as a missionary 
 he expressed his Vv^illingness to go to any field of 
 labor, though his thoughts had been somewhat 
 specially turned to Brazil. The Executive Committee 
 had been for some time considering the subject of 
 forming a mission in that country, and they were 
 glad to appoint Mr. Simon ton as the first missionary. 
 The work contemplated, in a Roman Catholic coun- 
 try, where public services of Protestant w^orship for 
 the benefit of the natives had as yet been conducted 
 only in a very limited way, was regarded as one of 
 peculiar delicacy, and also as one of no little diffi- 
 culty; maturity of character, superior talents and 
 scholarship, good address, and complete devotedness 
 of heart and life to the Saviour and his cause, were 
 indispensable qualifications in the pioneer of the mis- 
 sion; and these were happily combined in Mr. 
 Simonton. 
 
 Arriving at Rio de Janeiro in August, 1859, he first 
 engaged in perfecting his acquaintance with the 
 Portuguese language, in the meantime conducting 
 religious services in English for the benefit of our 
 cotmtrymen and others resident in that city. These 
 services were highly valued, for Mr. Simonton's ser- 
 mons were of marked ability and deep interest; but 
 he turned from engagements of this kind to his main 
 work, that of making the gospel known to the 
 
330 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Brazilians. He soon became an effective preacher in 
 their language, and his ministry was remarkably 
 blest in the conversion of souls. A church was or- 
 ganized in Rio de Janeiro in 1862, and additions were 
 made to its communion at almost every time of ad- 
 ministering the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; in 
 nearly all cases, these converts had been previously 
 connected with the corrupt church of Rome or under 
 its influence. Besides his work in the pulpit, he em- 
 ployed the press as an important auxiliary. He trans- 
 lated the Shorter Catechism and other works into 
 Portuguese, a language peculiarly destitute of 
 evangelical reading. An expository work from his 
 pen, on a part of the Scriptures, was in hand, and it 
 is hoped that it will be found ready for publication. 
 A monthly journal, the luiprcnsa Evangelica, was 
 published by him and sustained chiefly by his articles, 
 which were often of rare value, and which attracted 
 the attention of readers amongst nearly all the edu- 
 cated classes of the country. His attention was 
 directed, moreover, and with special interest, to the 
 training of native young men of promise for the work 
 of evangelization; three of these young men were 
 under his instruction and that of the other missiona- 
 ries. He had been joined in his missionary work by 
 several colleagues, with whom his relations were 
 most pleasant, and who were accustomed to look to 
 him as their leader, not merely because he had been 
 longest in the country, but also on account of his ex- 
 cellent qualifications for usefulness in their common 
 work. 
 
 During a visit to this country in 1862-3, he was 
 
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 married to Miss Helen Murdock. She was endowed 
 with such gifts and grace as secured for her the 
 warmest esteem of Christian friends, and gave the 
 promise of no ordinary degree of useful influence in 
 the service of Christ. Her early removal was de- 
 plored by many, and was felt by her husband to be 
 the greatest loss; yet it was no doubt a part of his 
 preparation for serving the Lord in a higher degree, 
 both on earth and in heaven. 
 
 Mr. Simonton's general health was uniformly good, 
 but he probably overtasked his strength in his various 
 labors, and when he was taken with a fever in 
 November, 1867, his constitution did not recover 
 from the attack. He had gone to Sao Paulo, on a 
 visit to his colleague and brother-in-law, the Rev. 
 A. L. Blackford, in the hope of becoming free 
 from symptoms of disease; and there he was minis- 
 tered to with the utmost affection, and enjoyed also 
 the best medical aid; but his illness could not be 
 arrested, and he departed this life December 9, 
 1867, supported to the last by a good hope through 
 grace. 
 
 Our departed brother occupied a large place in the 
 affections of his brethren, and in the respect of the 
 American residents in Brazil. One of his colleagues 
 thus referred to him: " He was looked upon by all 
 the members of the mission as our leader and chief 
 stay, as he had been our pioneer. We took no im- 
 portant step, save from absolute necessity, without 
 first hearing his counsels. The most talented, most 
 learned, and best informed of our members; master 
 of the language, and possessing in an unusual degree 
 
332 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 tact and prudence for planning- and executing, we 
 have no one left to fill his place." 
 
 The esteem of his countrymen and of many 
 Brazilians found expression, when the sad news of 
 his death was received in Rio de Janeiro, in resolu- 
 tions drawn up by the United States Consul and 
 adopted at a meeting held in the Consulate : 
 
 " Whereas, It hath pleased divine Providence to 
 remove from us by death our highly esteemed and 
 beloved friend. Rev. A. G. Simonton, in the midst of 
 his usefulness and in the full vigor of early manhood; 
 therefore, 
 
 '■^Resolved, That in the death of our lamented 
 friend, we feel, each of us, that we have experienced 
 a great personal bereavement; and we desire to 
 gather about his grave with those who were united to 
 him by ties of kindred blood, and mingle our tears 
 with theirs. 
 
 ' ' Resolved, That having been intimately acquainted 
 with Mr. Simonton for several years past, we found 
 in him a man of rare intellectual and moral endow- 
 ments; a Christian, whose sense of duty for himself 
 was joined with a large spirit of tolerance toward 
 others — a moralist, whose irreproachable purity of 
 life found nothing uncongenial in innocent enjoy- 
 ment — a gentleman whose manliness was kind, whose 
 frankness was delicate, and whose o^^tspoken convic- 
 tions never gave offense, and were received with re- 
 spect, if they were not adopted. As a neighbor, he 
 took the most friendly interest in whatever concerned 
 the welfare of others, and long shall we miss his 
 cheerful greeting at our places of business, and the 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 333 
 
 added charm which his genial presence never failed 
 to lend to the domestic circle. He was gentle and 
 easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, 
 without partiality, without hypocrisy. 
 
 ' ' Resolved^ That we respectfully tender our sincere 
 sympathy to the afflicted relatives of the deceased in 
 this country and in the United States, and to his be- 
 reaved associates in this empire ; and we promise to 
 unite with them in keeping alive in our hearts the 
 memory of our excellent friend, and in humbly en- 
 deavoring to imitate the virtues which adorned his 
 character." 
 
 The early removal of such a laborer is one of the 
 mysteries of divine Providence. It is indeed no un- 
 usual event; the missionary records of our church 
 bear witness to similar examples in other countries. 
 Doubtless, there are wise and gracious reasons for 
 these bereavements. If they lead the church to feel 
 more deeply its dependence on the blessing of God in 
 the work of missions, and if they lead the associates 
 of our departed friends to engage with renewed earn- 
 estness, faith and hope in the work of the Lord, these 
 afflicting events will not have been in vain ; as for the 
 departed, they are with the Saviour, "which is far 
 better."—/. C. Z. 
 
 Mrs. Simonton. 
 
 " Died, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 27, 1864, 
 after a very brief illness, Helen (Murdoch) Simonton, 
 wife of the Rev. A. G. Simonton." Mrs. Simonton 
 had not been quite one year in the missionary field, 
 
334 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 for the service of which she seemed to have eminent 
 qualifications. Born of Christian parents, who dedi- 
 cated her to God in baptism, she gave early indica- 
 tions of great sweetness of disposition and tenderness 
 of conscience, with decided talent. Enjoying the 
 best opportunities of education, her character was 
 very favorably developed under judicious culture. 
 Soon after leaving school she made a public pro- 
 fession of religion in the First Presbyterian Church 
 in Baltimore, Md. ; and from that time became a de- 
 cided and consistent Christian, taking an active part 
 in every means of getting and doing good, in the 
 Sabbath-schools, tract visitation, and every work and 
 labor of love opened to Christians in that city. 
 
 In May, 1863, she was married to Mr. Simonton, 
 who had been recalled to this country by the illness 
 of an aged parent. With him she left the endear- 
 ments of her happy home, to serve her beloved Mas- 
 ter as a missionary in Brazil. Having an excellent, 
 well- cultivated mind, a sound judgment, a very 
 tender, loving heart, with simple faith, deep humility 
 and unselfish zeal, she was eminently adapted to be 
 an invaluable help-meet in the missionary field. Her 
 extreme modesty made her seem at first retiring and 
 too diffident; yet it lent a delicate refinement to her 
 mxanners, and gave her unusual facility in winning 
 the confidence and affection of all with whom she had 
 intercourse. 
 
 Having made rapid progress in the language for 
 which her previous training had prepared her, she 
 was becoming qualified for great usefulness in a most 
 inviting field when she was called suddenly away, 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 335 
 
 leaving an infant daughter. The summons, however, 
 found her not unprepared. She calmly said, " I am 
 ready to go; Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Such 
 removals may seem to us a dark mystery, but God's 
 ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our 
 thoughts. Having accepted that unreserved conse- 
 cration as she laid herself on the altar of missionary 
 service, her Saviour was pleased to say, "Come, ye 
 blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared 
 for you;" and the missionary field became the step- 
 ping stone to the higher employments and felicities 
 of the heavenly service. — TJic Presbyterian. 
 
 Rev. George W. Simpson. 
 
 There are few chapters in the book of divine Provi- 
 dence in which mystery is not somewhere written. 
 God's ways are in the seas, his paths in the great 
 waters, and his footsteps are not known. These 
 truths are brought forcibly to our minds by the 
 startling intelligence which has lately reached us of 
 the sudden and tragic death of two of our beloved 
 missionaries to the western coast of Africa, the Rev. 
 George W. Simpson and his youthful wife. Whilst 
 making a short sail for the benefit of their health, in 
 a British brig, the vessel was suddenly overturned by 
 one of those violent tornadoes which so fearfully pre- 
 vail in southern latitudes. Our beloved friends, 
 together with all others on board the ill-fated vessel, 
 a Krooman only excepted, found a winding-sheet in 
 the waves, and sunk to rise no more till the sea shall 
 give up its dead. 
 
336 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Mr. Simpson was the son of pious parents, who 
 consecrated him in his infancy to the service of his 
 Saviour. His mother was truly an " Israehte in- 
 deed," a woman whose praises dwelt on the lips of 
 many of God's children, and who ^'did what she 
 could " for the glory of God. The mantle of the 
 parents fell upon the child. In early life he learned 
 to cherish the deepest reverence for our holy religion, 
 and ere youth had given place to manhood, he was 
 found among the ranks of the open and active fol- 
 lowers of the Lamb. He engaged for a season in 
 teaching, that he might thereby acquire the means of 
 prosecuting his studies preparatory to entering on the 
 work of the ministry. He passed through his col- 
 legiate course in Easton College, and shortly after its 
 completion he entered the seminary at Princeton. 
 There it was that his mind became deeply imbued 
 with the spirit of missions. It was under the train- 
 ing of those venerated men who have so long taught 
 in that school of the prophets, that the claims of the 
 heathen came up vividly before his mind. He felt 
 indeed that " the field was the world," and the ques- 
 tion pressed itself on his heart whether it might not 
 be his duty to labor in some of its far-off moral 
 wastes. And the more he pondered on the subject, 
 the more fully did the conviction fasten itself upon 
 him that he was called of God to tell the untaught 
 heathen the way of life. It is a sacrifice which none 
 can fully understand but those who have made it, to 
 break away from kindred, friends and native land, 
 and live and die among a people who, as a mass, are 
 strangers to God, and whose every taste and sym- 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 337 
 
 pathy is foreign to your own. But our brother re- 
 solved to make it, for the glory of God and the good 
 of souls. He might have labored in God's vineyard 
 at home with great acceptance, and have filled one of 
 our best pulpits, but *'he conferred not with flesh 
 and blood. " He sought not '* the praise of men, but 
 of God." He wished to do his duty, whatever of 
 ease and worldly comfort the performance might 
 cost him. The task which lay heaviest upon him, 
 preparatory to his great undertaking, was to com- 
 municate his views to his mother, and gain her free 
 consent to a final separation. He was the Benjamin 
 of his family, and his parents' idol so far as they had 
 an idol upon earth. He feared therefore to unfold 
 to them the working of his mind. He did it first by 
 letter, and afterwards unbosomed his every thought 
 and feeling on the subject. With tears he told his 
 mother that without her consent he could not enter 
 on his work. She gave it — gave it, though it cost 
 her sleepless nights and bitter tears. Who was she, 
 she felt, that she should lift up her voice or hand 
 against the bidding of the Lord ? 
 
 When all matters were arranged for his final de- 
 parture, and he only awaited the sailing of the vessel 
 to carry him off to his heathen home, Mr. Simpson 
 spent the season that was left him in his native land 
 in visiting the churches and kindling up in the hearts 
 of the people a deeper interest in the cause of mis- 
 sions. - It was surprising to all who heard him, to ob- 
 serve the amount of knowledge he had acquired 
 respecting the religion, and customs, and peculiarities 
 of the African people, among whom he was destined 
 
338 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 to labor. He spake like a missionary who had been 
 long in the field, rather than as one who was just 
 entering" on his work. 
 
 I need not speak of their labors in Africa. They 
 are before the church, spread out on the pages of the 
 Record. Their work is done, and they " are not, for 
 God took them." They have performed the duty 
 assigned them in the King's service, and have been 
 called away seemingly before their time, "to be 
 crowned in the King's presence. " — Rev. W. W. Latta., 
 1851. 
 
 Mrs. Simpson. 
 
 Mrs. Simpson, wife of the Rev. George W. Simp- 
 son, was the child of pious parents, her father an 
 elder in the church of Fagg's Manor, Pa. Her early 
 training was of a carefully religious character. The 
 Bible and the Catechism were her earliest books of 
 study. Thence she learned those great principles 
 which laid the foundation for that maturity of Chris- 
 tian character to which she afterwards attained. 
 Amiable and pleasant in private life, a regular and 
 interested attendant on public worship, yet delaying 
 to make a profession of her faith in Christ, she ex- 
 cited much anxiety for her spiritual welfare ; but on 
 the 12th of April, 1844, she was admitted to the com- 
 munion of the church. Thenceforward she aimed 
 to be wholly a Christian. The Bible class and the 
 Sabbath-school were both highly prized by her; the 
 one affording herself instruction, the other a field of 
 usefulness to others. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 339 
 
 About this time the subject of missions cng-aged 
 her attention, and she felt a desire to labor among 
 the heathen, and especially in Africa. vShe lost much 
 of her relish for ordinary duties and labors, and though 
 always doing cheerfully and industriously what was 
 necessary, often said in playfulness, " I would rather 
 be teaching the negroes in Africa." 
 
 When the proposal was made to her to go to Africa, 
 she felt it to be an opening in the providence of God 
 to gratify a long-cherished desire, and took the sub- 
 ject into very serious and prayerful consideration. 
 She did not arrive at a final conclusion without many 
 anxieties, misgivings and fears. Her wide circle of 
 friends were nearly all opposed to her going, regard- 
 ing missions to Africa by white people as a forlorn 
 hope. Her parents, too, withheld a consent, without 
 which she felt that she could not go. In her es- 
 timation filial duty required obedience even in this 
 matter. When, however, she obtained what she 
 desired in this respect, she cheerfully consented to 
 go, and immediately began to prepare for her de- 
 parture. 
 
 She went not rashly. She counted the cost, and 
 felt that if the Lord should call for her death in that 
 field she was willing to meet it. The struggle be- 
 tween duty and affection was severe and constant; 
 and yet there was no disposition to withdraw the 
 pledge she had given to labor for the Saviour in Africa. 
 She looked forward to the time of their embarkation 
 with a calmness which astonished all who knew her. 
 
 The parting scene was mingled with tears and 
 smiles, but borne by her with a grace and sweetness 
 
340 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 of character which greatly alleviated the sorrow felt 
 by her family and friends in bidding her adieu. 
 
 Her own feelings are well expressed in a letter re- 
 ceived on the eve of her sailing, being sent back by 
 the pilot. Speaking of the missionary meeting in 
 Dr. Phillips' church, she says, "They sang the hymn 
 in which is ' Yet with determined courage go,' " and 
 then adds, "These lines have been running in my 
 head all morning, and I heard Mrs. L. hum them 
 once or twice. Oh, must I see you no more? Have 
 I parted from you all forever on earth? I cannot bear 
 the thought. But I shall meet you often at the throne 
 of grace. I feel that you will pray for me. Pray 
 that I may not be suffered to bring reproach on this 
 blessed cause. And yet I fear you will forget me. 
 But you won't forget our mission.. Though zve all be 
 sivallozvcd in the dccp^ don't forget to pray for Africa. 
 I love you all more than ever; each one comes up to 
 mind separately; and my heart bleeds to leave you. 
 But I go willingly; I trust the love of Christ — the 
 boat is leaving." While on her voyage she wrote to 
 her mother, " I could be quite happy sometimes, 
 could I feel certain you are. I wish, mother, you 
 had told me you felt very willing to have me come. 
 You are satisfied now, doubtless. I wish you could 
 feel it a privilege to be thus permitted to give a 
 daughter to so glorious a work." 
 
 Her last letter to her mother was full of considera- 
 tions tending to comfort and strengthen her, and as 
 it were, prepare her for the trial awaiting her in the 
 sudden loss of her children in Africa. " I trust, dear 
 mother, you do not feel unduly anxious about us. 
 
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 Earth is pleasant, oh ! how pleasant ; still we cannot 
 enjoy the happiness here, which in heavenly mansions 
 awaits those who love God. We know this, although 
 we cannot understand it. Then why are we loth to 
 make so blessed an exchange, or to have our beloved 
 ones make it ? You must not be anxious for my 
 safety. We have your God in Africa. His care is as 
 constant here as in Pennsylvania. The death of 
 Christ is as meritorious here, and the Holy Spirit's 
 influence as free and as powerful; the Christian's 
 hope as firm, and I can humbly say, * I know that my 
 Redeemer liveth. ' When in a fever lately, I felt it 
 an unspeakable comfort to know that I had not my 
 peace to make with God. I hope we shall all meet 
 as a family in heaven. Pray for us, but don't be 
 anxious. " 
 
 In April following, 185 1, she was asleep with her 
 husband in an ocean grave ! How sad, how mysterious 
 such an event ! Yet the Lord has done it. It was in 
 her heart to do something for Africa, but the Master 
 had a short work for her. Being dead she yet speaks, 
 and the Lord may make her death even more effective 
 than her life. — Rev. Alfred Hamilton^ D.D. 
 
 Miss Jennie M. Small. 
 
 Miss Small was from Denver, Colo., and joined the 
 Siam Mission in 1885, where she did excellent work 
 for Christ. She died of cholera at Petchaburee, June 
 5, 1 89 1. In the light of her early departure, the fol- 
 lowing paragraph from her letter of application to the 
 Board has a deep significance: '' I have counted well 
 
342 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 the cost of missionary service and am quite willing to 
 endure all for the sake of him who has done so much 
 for me." 
 
 She was taken ill Tuesday evening and from the 
 first anticipated death. Wednesday night she bade 
 farewell to the school-girls, telling them, in Siamese, 
 that Jesus had called her and that she had great joy 
 in going, and charging them to meet her in heaven. 
 Her sufferings were intense, and she begged Dr. 
 Thompson, who had hastened up from Ratburee and 
 was beside her for twenty-seven hours, not to prolong 
 her life. She said the Lord saw Petchaburee needed 
 a missionary's grave and she was willing it should be 
 hers. It was made in the churchyard and, on June 6, 
 her body was laid there " with the usual Christian 
 ceremonies, accompanied by much weeping on the 
 part of the girls and Christian women who stood by." 
 Mr. McClure writes: "In life Miss Small had not 
 been very free in expressing her religious feeling, but 
 in death her faith shone forth sublimely — not a shadow 
 of hesitation, but every evidence of joy at the pros- 
 pect before her." Miss Cooper writes, how "unob- 
 trusive " she was in making her work public, how 
 "faithful to duty no matter how much was put upon 
 her slight frame," and the "pleasant companion" 
 she was, "whom one could not but love from the 
 firsthand-clasp." — Woman's Work for Woman, Sep- 
 tember, 1891. 
 
 Rev. H. H. Spaulding. 
 
 Last Monday, August 3, 1874, our beloved Father 
 Spaulding fell asleep in Jesus. For some months 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 343 
 
 past he has been slowly failing. A few weeks ago he 
 came to us from Kamia — making in two days the long 
 hard journey of sixty miles in a common farm wagon. 
 We hoped that the change and the constant medical 
 attention he could receive here would avail to raise 
 him up again. But his days were numbered. An 
 old man and full of days, he is now gathered to his 
 fathers. 
 
 Rev. H. H. Spaulding ^vas born in 1804 in the State 
 of New York ; was graduated from Western Reserve 
 College ; studied theology at Lane Seminary, and, in 
 1836, was by the A. B. C. F. M. appointed missionary 
 to the Nez Perces Indians. In company with Dr. and 
 Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Spaulding — the first white 
 women to cross the continent — he came to this field of 
 toil. In November, 1847, occurred the ever-memor- 
 able Whitman massacre. Mr. Spaulding, who was in 
 the vicinity of the massacre, had a very narrow escape 
 for life. The murderers were on his track. Hiding by 
 day, he, night after night, barefooted, made his way 
 over sharp rocks and stinging thorns until, almost 
 dead, he reached a place of safety. Then with his 
 family he left the field for a time. In 1862 he re- 
 entered it, remaining, however, only a few years. In 
 187 1, he again resumed the work under appointment 
 from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, 
 continuing until now called to his rest. 
 
 Although his work has been thus interrupted by 
 long intervals of absence, it is v/onderful how much 
 chiefly by his instrumentality has been accomplished 
 for this people. From savagehood they have been 
 raised to a good degree of civiliz^ation. From know- 
 
344 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 ing nothing of the gospel, a very large proportion of 
 the tribe have become its professed followers. No 
 man of his church — perhaps no man living — has in 
 the last three years baptized and received into the 
 church of God so many converts as Father Spaulding. 
 Of the Nez Perces and Spokans over 900 have in that 
 time by him been added to the church. He has pre- 
 pared and given to this people a translation of the 
 Gospel of Matthew and a small collection of Nez 
 Perces hymns. He had also far advanced a transla- 
 tion of the Acts of the Apostles. Such works will 
 follow him even while he sleeps in death. 
 
 Conscious up to the last hour, he looked forward to 
 death with fortitude and hope. The last words I 
 heard him utter were, '' Precious Jesus, Jesus only." 
 Thus peacefully and apparently without pain he passed 
 through death to life. — Rev. George Aiiisley. 
 
 Mrs. Cornelia Speer. 
 
 Mrs. Speer, wife of Rev. William Speer, D.D., was 
 theeldestdaughter of A. Brackinridge, Esq., of Pitts- 
 burg, Pa. Brought up in worldly ease and wealth in 
 the midst of a large circle of warmly attached friends, 
 she had the fairest prospects of happiness. These 
 were not clouded, but greatly extended and brightened 
 by her being enabled to devote herself witliout 
 reserve to the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the advance- 
 ment of his cause among the heathen. Her course, 
 however, was short; yet it was long enough to evince 
 the sincerity of her religious profession, the depth of 
 her love to the missionary cause, and the power of 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 345 
 
 our Saviour's grace to comfort and bless his chosen 
 disciple. 
 
 The party of missionaries with whom Mrs. Speer 
 went to China, sailed from New York on the 20th of 
 July, 1846. On the loth of September following;, she 
 was 'attacked with a slight hemorrhage from the 
 lungs, which was renewed afterwards, but the prog- 
 ress of the disease was slow; and on her arrival at 
 Macao, on the 26th of December, hopes were still en- 
 tertained of her recovery. ' ' The question of a return 
 to the United States," says Mr. Speer, from whose 
 narrative this memoir is taken, " soon came up, and 
 met with an immediate and firm negative from her, 
 chiefly on the ground of our solemn vows to God, 
 and entire consecration of ourselves to the missionary 
 
 cause. 
 
 *'0n Sabbath, 7 th of March, we celebrated the 
 sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Mrs. Speer joined 
 us, though carried into the room, and forced to recline 
 upon a sofa during its administration. She ex- 
 perienced very strongly the sense of Christ's gracious 
 presence. It was the ' last Supper ' to her. Hence- 
 forth she drank not with us of ' the fruit of the vine.* 
 Now, we trust, she ' drinks it new with Christ in the 
 Father's kingdom. ' To her last hour she enjoyed, in 
 a remarkable manner, the distinct sense of God's 
 sustaining hand beneath her. Shortly after this com- 
 munion she informed me that on one afternoon, as 
 she meditated, the realization of God's presence in 
 the room, the glory and the majesty and the bright- 
 ness of the King of kings, the Father of lights, yet 
 arrayed in robes of unspeakable love and pity, was so 
 
346 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 vivid as to be overpowering. Her soul seemed to be 
 swallowed up and absorbed. It was more than 
 nature could bear, not an ecstasy, but an oppressive 
 * weight of glory,' of almighty love, and infinite holi- 
 ness and majesty. She was compelled to turn away 
 her mind lest she should sink down. " 
 
 Henceforth her disease made rapid progress, though 
 its symptoms '^ alternated, for several days at a time, 
 with periods of brightness and comparative health 
 and strength. On pleasant afternoons she rode out 
 in a sedan chair on the Praya Grande in sight of the 
 sea, or upon the Campo, without the city, along paths 
 shaded with the bamboo, the plantain and the 
 papaya; and often came back much refreshed. It 
 was remarked by her, that the days when she was 
 most ill and debilitated were those in which she had 
 the most rich spiritual enjoyment." 
 
 "She had committed herself to the missionary 
 work with deliberation, numbering her days and 
 counting the cost. There was no romance in her 
 calculations when she forsook all that she had for 
 Christ. Six weeks after the birth of her little daugh- 
 ter she writes to a relative :. 
 
 " * I am very weak and frail yet, only able to walk 
 about the house. This will astonish you, as you may 
 call to mind how rapidly I used to skip to town and 
 back again.* Those days are over, and God has seen 
 fit to cast me down. It may be that my strength will 
 be recovered in a few weeks; but there is some rea- 
 son to fear that it will not. I feel content to have it 
 
 *Her father's residence, Linwood, is a mile and a half from 
 the city of Pittsburgh. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 347 
 
 either way. I am still tnisting in God^ and have 
 found no reason yet for distrust.' 
 
 *' On Tuesday, April 13, Mrs. Speer suffered greatly 
 from palpitation of the heart, which almost deprived 
 her of breath, sometimes for fifteen minutes at once. 
 In the evening she spoke strongly of her anticipations 
 of joy on the judgment day. She imagined the 
 anxiety of those who should meet its awful trial. ' I 
 often think how we will stretcJi out our hands toward 
 Jesus on that day,' said she: ^ how glad w^e will be 
 when we are placed on his right hand. God will 
 then be the great object of our love; still we will love 
 each other, too, and that with a pure and holy love.' " 
 
 In this sweet trust in the Saviour she was kept 
 until the hour of her departure, on the 24th of April, 
 1847. "It was just half-past five o'clock. As the 
 evening sun threw his declining rays upon the scene 
 of woe, oh, how vivid and consoling was the thought 
 that she, much loved and departing, was at the 
 instant entering those regions of glorious splendor 
 and of bliss, where, in the sunshine of the presence 
 of the Father of lights, there is no night forever. 
 
 "The universal expression was, ' How peaceful!' 
 Every heart seemed to feel that her ' last end was 
 peace.' I have never known such an illustration of 
 Mrs. Barbauld's hymn, which she had loved to sing 
 on earth: 
 
 *' So fades a summer cloud away ; 
 
 So sinks the gale when storms are o'er ; 
 So gently shuts the ej'e of day ; 
 So dies a wave along the shore.' 
 
 " On the Sabbath evening, at the same hour of the 
 
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 day, we laid her in the dust in that green and quiet 
 spot of the cemetery belonging to the East India 
 Company, where lie in sacred repose the remains of 
 the revered Morrison, and his noble wife Mary, and 
 their son John, and those of the Rev. Samuel Dyer. 
 What a bright and happy company shall rise thence 
 on the morning of the resurrection!" — J. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Oliver P. Stark. 
 
 We learn with great regret of the departure from 
 this life of the Rev. Oliver P. Stark, Superintendent 
 of Spencer Academy, Choctaw Mission. He died at 
 Spencer, April 4, 1884, in the sixty-first year of his 
 age, after an illness of some weeks. His departure 
 is a great loss to the Indians and to his family and 
 friends; but for himself it was, no doubt, gain to die. 
 He was connected with the Choctaw nation as a 
 teacher from 1846 to 1849, ^"^^ again as an ordained 
 missionary from 1859 to 1861. The war broke up the 
 missionary work, and he became a minister to a church 
 in Texas, but in 1882 the way was opened for his re- 
 turn to his work for the Choctaws, who warmly wel- 
 comed their former friend. His usefulness seemed 
 to be greater than ever. But his work here is ended. 
 Such is the will of the Lord, and the church can only 
 say: Thy will be done. — Record^ May, 1884. 
 
 Mrs. Hattie L. Stocking. 
 
 Rev. William R. Stocking and wife sailed for 
 Persia in 1871, and within a year of their arrival Mrs. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 349 
 
 Stocking was removed by death. She had accom- 
 panied her husband on a missionary tour in Koordis- 
 tan, expecting to be absent from Oroomiah for some 
 weeks. They were both taken with severe illness, 
 which brought Mr. Stocking to the verge of the 
 grave and removed his wife to a better world, at 
 Hassan, on the 2 2d of September, 1872. We mourn 
 over her departure. She was a lovely Christian 
 woman and one fitted to be very useful as a mis- 
 sionary. But the Lord's ways are right, gracious, 
 loving, best. — Record^ February, 1873. 
 
 For details of Mrs. Stocking's sickness, death and 
 burial, see Foreign Missionary^ February, 1873. 
 
 Mrs. Catharine M. Templeton. 
 
 Mrs. Templeton, wife of Rev. W. H. Templeton, 
 of the Creek Mission, died July 3, 1857. She had 
 been connected with the mission more than five years, 
 and had always discharged her duties with marked 
 efficiency. The testimony of her associates is that 
 she died as she had lived, trusting in the Lord Jesus. 
 
 -Anmcal Report, 1858. 
 
 Mrs. R. a. Thackwell. 
 
 Our dear sister, Mrs. Thackwell, wife of Rev. 
 Reese A. Thackwell, was removed from our midst 
 on Sabbath, i6th February (1873), shortly after mid- 
 night. She bore her suffering and pain, which were 
 
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 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 agonizing in the extreme at times, with Christian 
 patience and fortitude; and was enabled amid all 
 her sufferings to glorify her God and Saviour. When 
 asked by a friend on the Sabbath evening before her 
 death what she thought in view of the great change, 
 she said, " I am not afraid to die, for all my trust is in 
 Jesus. I would like to feel the presence of my Saviour 
 very near me," Later in the evening she became 
 better, and we all lay down to take a little rest ; but only 
 to be aroused a little after midnight by the cry, ''Be- 
 hold, the Bridegroom cometh. " When we all gathered 
 around her bedside she was unable to speak, and her 
 happy spirit soon passed away to the brighter and 
 better world to live and reign with Christ in endless 
 day. We weep for ourselves, not for her, for the 
 pain and suffering are all over. She sleeps in Jesus. 
 Although my acquaintance with our dear sister was 
 short, yet I can truly say she was a noble, high- 
 souled, imselfish woman, and an humble, faithful and 
 devoted Christian. For her to live was Christ, and to 
 die was gain. She was a powerful example of the 
 truth of Christianity.— 7^^^^^ A. P. Kelso. 
 
 Rev. William M. Thomson, D.D. 
 
 The Rev. William M. Thomson, D.D., whose death 
 occurred April 8, 1894, at Denver, Colo., in the eighty- 
 ninth year of his age, was born at Springdale, O. , 
 December 31, 1806. He was graduated from Miami 
 University in 1826, and entered Princeton Theological 
 Seminary in 1829, but left in 1831 before graduation, 
 and went to Syria as a missionary of the American 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 35 1 
 
 Board in 1832, arriving at Beirut February 24, 1833. 
 He was actively connected with mission work in Syria 
 for a period of forty-three years, until 1876, when he 
 left Syria and after a sojourn in Scotland returned to 
 the United States. Until 1870 he was connected 
 with the American Board. At that time, however, 
 the Syria Mission was transferred to the care of the 
 Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and since 
 that date Dr. Thomson's official connection has been 
 with the latter Board, until his final retirement in 
 1876. Since his return he published, in 1880-86, the 
 enlarged edition of The Land and the Book, a 
 work which has been of great value and service to all 
 lovers of the Bible, and v/ith which his name will 
 always be identified. Dr. Thomson received from 
 Wabash College, in 1858, the honorary degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity, and was also a fellow of the Royal 
 Asiatic Society, and of the Royal Geological Society. 
 
 His father. Rev. John Thomson, and also his 
 m.other, were of Scotch-Irish descent, and removed 
 to Ohio from Kentucky when Cincinnati was only a 
 fort. Both his parents were strong characters, and 
 had clear convictions upon all religious as well as 
 moral and political questions. This may be inferred 
 from the fact that even at that early date they left 
 their Kentucky home and settled in Ohio on account 
 of their strong anti-slavery feeling. 
 
 Dr. Thomson married Miss Eliza Nelson Hanna, 
 of New York, before his departure for Syria. Mrs. 
 Thomson died in 1834. He subsequently married 
 Mrs. Abbott, the widow of a former English Consul 
 in Syria, who also died a few years before Dr. Thom- 
 
352 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 son finally left Syria. The circumstances of the 
 death of his first wife were tragical. It happened 
 that soon after his arrival in Beirut he went, in 1834, 
 to Jerusalem. It was at the time of the disturbances 
 incident to a rebellion against the iron rule of 
 Mohammed Ali. Dr. Thomson had occasion to leave 
 Jerusalem for a short journey. During his absence 
 he was arrested and imprisoned by Ibrahim Pasha, 
 who could not be made to understand the function of 
 a missionary, but took him for a spy. While Dr. 
 Thomson was thus detained, Ibrahim Pasha marched 
 upon Jerusalem, and, taking advantage of an earth- 
 quake, assaulted the city and captured it. Mrs. 
 Thomson, with her infant in her arms (now the well- 
 known Dr. William H. Thomson, of New York), 
 took refuge in a vault. A falling stone nearly 
 crushed the babe. Mrs. Thomson, who was writing 
 a letter to her husband at the time, in her agitation 
 overturned the inkstand and deluged her paper with 
 ink. She soon after became delirious, and was found 
 in this state by Dr. Thomson on his return to Jeru- 
 salem. She died while still dehrious, and was buried 
 at Jerusalem. 
 
 Dr. Thomson returned to Beirut, where he resided 
 during most of his missionary life in Syria. He par- 
 ticipated in many stirring scenes during the civil 
 wars of 1841, 1845 ^nd i860. In the war of 1S45, 
 through his personal influence and courage, the 
 village of Abeih, filled with refugees, was saved from 
 a massacre. Dr. Thomson was himself shot at while 
 carrying a flag of truce. In the disturbances of i860 
 he cooperated with Lord Dufferin, representing the 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 353 
 
 Allied Powers, in adjusting the difficulties of that 
 delicate situation. He acted as Chairman of the Re- 
 lief Committee organized to meet the emergency. 
 He was a tower of strength to the mission amidst the 
 many difficulties and perils of the early heroic period 
 of missionary effort in Syria. He was a man of large 
 and statesmanlike views, calm judgment, undaunted 
 courage, great practical wisdom, and an efficient or- 
 ganizer. He held a position of commanding influence 
 among natives of all classes. His opinion was sought 
 by those in authority, and many times he was 
 secretly consulted by the leading men of various sects, 
 with entire confidence in his honor and wisdom. One 
 of the leading peculiarities of his missionary life was 
 his kindly spirit toward the natives, and his success 
 in adapting himself to the life of the country, and in 
 winning the affection and confidence of the people. 
 Syria is a field in which pioneer work has always 
 been attended with peculiar difficulties. Dr. Thom- 
 son at different times opened and established sta- 
 tions at new points with remarkable success. His 
 counsels in the mission were of great value, and car- 
 ried with them the weight of his strong personality. 
 
 In his private life he w^as a man of genial and 
 lovely qualities. His missionary aims were large and 
 comprehensive, his devotion to duty untiring, and 
 his religious views were characterized by strength of 
 conviction, liberality, and the best of common sense. 
 For many years he preached continuously at Beirut 
 both in Arabic and English. He was the con- 
 temporary and intimate associate of that noble band 
 of early Syrian missionaries, including such men as 
 
354 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Bird, Whiting-, De Forest, Ford,. Eli Smith, Simeon 
 Calhoun and Cornelius Van Dyck. He took a promi- 
 nent part in organizing the great educational work of 
 Syria, as represented chiefly at the present time by 
 the Syrian Protestant College and the fine institutions 
 for the education of girls. 
 
 He is known, however, in this country, and even 
 throughout the -world, as an author rather than as a 
 missionary. His monumental work. The Land and 
 the Book, was first published by Harper & Brothers 
 in 1858. At that time there was no international 
 copyright. The book was republished in England, 
 and had there, as here, a phenomenal sale. It was 
 stated before the Commission of the British Parlia- 
 ment on international copyright, that its circulation in 
 Great Britain had been larger than any other 
 American publication. Uncle Tom's Cabin alone ex- 
 cepted. It has reappeared in numerous editions on 
 both sides of the Atlantic. The large, thoroughly re- 
 vised and rewritten edition in three volumes was pub- 
 lished here, and in England, in 1880-86, under the pro- 
 visions of an international copyright. It is charac- 
 terized by a peculiar charm of style, and a freshness 
 and vividness which gives it special value as a com- 
 mentary upon the Scriptures. The reader feels as if 
 he were coming into living contact with the scenes 
 and incidents of the Bible, presented w4th a fidelity 
 and insight which were realistic. His later edition 
 of the book was written with care, in the light of 
 modern discoveries, and illustrated by photographs 
 reproduced under the personal supervision of the 
 author. Dr. Thomson was also a contributor to many 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 355 
 
 periodicals in the same line of vivid and luminous 
 illustration of the Bible. A series of articles, entitled 
 "The Physical Basis of our Spiritual Language," 
 published in the BibliotJicca Sacra^ reveals the 
 peculiar genius of the author in photographing not 
 only the physical background, but the spiritual sig- 
 nificance of Scripture language. 
 
 Such a life has been of inestimable value not only 
 to missions, but to the cause of popular Biblical in- 
 struction. It is a worthy example of the varied and 
 unique service often rendered by missionaries, the 
 true significance and power of which are not always 
 recognized. — Rev. James S. Dennis^ D.D. 
 
 Mrs. William M. Thomson. 
 
 Mrs. Thomson, wife of Rev. William M. Thomson, 
 D.D., died April 29, 1873. '' She has been longer in 
 Syria," writes Rev. S. H. Calhoun, "than any other 
 member of our mission. She was greatly beloved by 
 all who knew her, both foreign and native. I have 
 been acquainted with her for thirty-four years, and 
 have found no one who combined more excellencies 
 of character than she did and all sanctified by divine 
 grace." — Record^ J^^ly? 1873. 
 
 Rev. David Trumbull, D.D. 
 
 On February i, 1889, at Valparaiso, Chili, died one 
 of the true nobility among men. He lacked but a 
 few months of the allotted threescore years and ten, 
 
356 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 and over all his years had lain the glow of a sunny, 
 large-hearted and truly Christ-like spirit. No man 
 who knew Dr. Trumbull personally, and had had 
 opportunity to test and measure the depth and 
 generosity of his friendship, will speak of him in the 
 mere set phrases of ordinary regret. Wherever he 
 was known he was loved. Though he was endowed 
 with those qualities which would have made him a 
 shining light among his contemporaries at home, he 
 early laid his plans for a more self-denying work, in 
 some respects a lonely and isolated work, on the west 
 coast of South America, because he felt that morally 
 and spiritually that long coast-line was without one 
 beacon of evangelical light. And it may well be 
 said of him that he was for many, many years a 
 pharos^ uplifted in the surrounding night of papal 
 superstition and sending forth his light near and afar. 
 Referring to his choice, he wrote in March, 1845: 
 
 " It seems as if a field is open there, and in some 
 respects as though I am fitted to enter and till it and 
 scatter in the seed, waiting patiently for God to give 
 the increase." 
 
 On the voyage out in the ship Mississippi he 
 preached regularly on the Sabbath, and accomplished 
 much good for passengers and crew. The indiffer- 
 ence of his fellow-voyagers to religion, instead of 
 driving him in upon himself in timid silence, only led 
 him to pray the more earnestly that he might have 
 ''utterance" and fidelity. 
 
 He was not a man to be despised or disliked even 
 by the irreligious. His ever-beaming face, his warm 
 and cordial address, were a passport to all hearts. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 357 
 
 One of his prayers, as he thought, possibly, with some 
 misgivings of his receding home, was, ' ' May God 
 assist me to a pure purpose of being his, and of sin- 
 cerely asking where I can do the most good, and of 
 going freely." As the voyage drew to a close, he re- 
 corded the prayer, " Now nearing my field, may I be 
 aided to be faithful, remembering that I am to give 
 account." 
 
 He had gone out in response to an appeal presented 
 by the Foreign Evangelical Society in behalf of the 
 west coast of South America. Stepping ashore on 
 Christmas day, 1845, a young man of twenty-six 
 years of age, he at once laid his plans for work. He 
 was not long in winning the confidence and sincere 
 friendship of prominent business men in Valparaiso; 
 and while his heart longed especially for the be- 
 nighted native population, he at length drew around 
 him men of means and of clear appreciation, with 
 whose aid he founded a church for the foreign popu- 
 lation. His first service was held in the house 
 of an English merchant, Mr. Sewell. He found an 
 Anglican consular chaplain already in the city, be- 
 tween whom and himself a warm friendship sprang 
 up. After he had preached for some years on board 
 vessels and in small chapels fitted up on shore, the 
 Union Church was dedicated in 1855. having cost 
 $16,000. In 1864 the "Hall" was added at a cost 
 of §13,000. The present church edifice, in which he 
 was long engaged as pastor, was built in 1869. The 
 old church, having been used for a time by a German 
 colony, was afterwards purchased, during the mis- 
 sionary service of Rev. A. M. Merwin, by the mis- 
 
35^ NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 sion, and the Chilian Evang-elical Church now 
 occupies the place. 
 
 Dr. Trumbull labored for several years in coopera- 
 tion with the American and Foreign Christian Union, 
 and in later years with the Presbyterian Board. 
 Though not drawing support from the Board, he was 
 an honorary and voting member of the mission and 
 a valuable adviser and helper. From an early day 
 he gave much attention to the spread of Christian 
 literature and the advancement of education. He 
 provided for a time copies of the Scriptures for dis- 
 tribution, but in 1 86 1, by the help of Mr. Alexander 
 Balfour and others, he founded the Valparaiso Bible 
 Society, which has put in circulation in Chili nearly 
 sixty thousand copies of the Scriptures, and more 
 than double that number of other religious books. 
 His broad and genial spirit was illustrated by the fact 
 that he united with a Roman Catholic prelate in 
 soliciting subscriptions to publish a Nev/ Testament 
 ** which the archbishop would approve." Many 
 copies of this issue have been used. Yet, while 
 friendly to all, he did not fail to drive home upon the 
 Roman Catholic Church of Chili a constant succession 
 of such telling truths as were calculated to dissipate 
 the darkness that had so long lain upon the land. 
 
 Dr. Trumbull had taken a deep interest through 
 all the years of his residence in Valparaiso in every- 
 thing that concerned the material improvement of 
 Chili. His pen was ever ready to advocate wise 
 public measures and to advance reforms, and his per- 
 sonal influence with men in high authority became at 
 length phenomenal. He always displayed a peculiar 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 359 
 
 tact that rendered his counsels acceptable and safe. 
 More than once was he consulted by those high in 
 authority, and his judgment was honored. 
 
 Speaking of his death, El Mcrciirio^ a secular paper 
 of Valparaiso, in its issue of February 2, said: 
 
 "Valparaiso owed him much, and she always felt 
 honored in claiming him, first, as the most worthy 
 and best known of her foreign residents, and, sec- 
 ondly, as a fellow-countryman ; nay, even more, as a 
 true brother, as he proved by his love to humanity, 
 and especially by the love and interest which he felt 
 in all that pertained to the material and moral ad- 
 vancement of this country. 
 
 "We can understand the grief that will come to- 
 day to those w^ho more directly received the benefits 
 of his teaching, his intelligence, his vast experience, 
 his counsels and comforts which he extended to seek- 
 ing souls. Nevertheless, to us it seems as though 
 his loss affects us all equally, since, as we have 
 already said, the worthy and beloved Dr. Trumbull 
 was a living example of virtue, and since to his ex- 
 alted spirit it seemed as though all in his sphere 
 were brothers, whatever might be their nationalit}^, 
 their social position or religious beliefs. Such was 
 the man whom we have just lost, and for whom the 
 Mcrcurio ever had the respect, appreciation and 
 esteem which our society, with just reason, vouch- 
 safed him." 
 
 I cannot close this brief sketch without laying 
 upon the tomb of David Trumbull my personal 
 tribute of esteem and of real affection. On two 
 occasions while he was visiting the United States I 
 
360 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 had opportunity to know him even better than I had 
 been enabled to do by years of friendly correspond- 
 ence. It was something additional to see him, to 
 feel the warm grasp of his hand, and to hear the 
 bright sallies of pleasantry and humor which came 
 forth from his ever-glowing cheerfulness. It lighted 
 his beaming face, even though at that time he knew 
 that he was a victim of a fatal disease. By the 
 skill of a loving son, who was his physician, that dis- 
 ease, angina pectoris^ was held in check for several 
 years, but it claimed its victim at the last. 
 
 Great family afflictions, in the loss of dear children 
 who had attained to manhood and womanhood, had 
 fallen upon our dear brother, but they had not shaken 
 his confidence in God nor blinded the vision with 
 which he beheld the glories that are to come. — F. F. 
 Ellinzuood, D.D. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Lenington Waddell. 
 
 The death of Mrs. Waddell, wife of the Rev. W. 
 A. Waddell, which occurred on November i, 1893, 
 removed from the Brazil Mission one of the most suc- 
 cessful workers and wisest counselors. Lifelong 
 acquaintance with the field gave her rare insight into 
 Brazilian character and the perplexing questions of 
 the work. A judgment ripened by communion with 
 Christ enabled her to discern between the essential 
 and the tmessential, while her deep consecration in- 
 spired every act of her life and was a constant means 
 of grace to all who knew her. — Annual Report^ 1894. 
 
of the board of foreign missions. 361 
 
 Miss Emma Walsh. 
 
 Miss Emma was the second daughter of Rev. J. J. 
 Walsh, of Allahabad, and joined her father as an 
 assistant missionary in November, 1868. Though 
 born in India, she had been in this country for some 
 years, receiving her education. She united with the 
 church at Newburg, N. Y., where she resided until 
 she left with her mother and sister for India. As 
 soon as she was able she gathered a cla-ss of girls 
 to v/hom she taught the Bible. Preparations v/ere 
 made for an enlargement of the work, and she was 
 ready to move into her schoolroom, when the mes- 
 senger came. She had not been well for a few days, 
 but there was nothing in her case to excite alarm until 
 a few hours before her departure from earth. At noon 
 of August 15, 1869, a high fever set in, when she 
 became delirious and at six that evening she died. — 
 Foreign Missionary^ November, 1869. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Warren, D.D. 
 
 Rev. J. S. Woodside, who was with him, writes: 
 ''His end was most peaceful. He had suffered 
 greatly for about seven weeks, but it pleased the Lord 
 to give him relief from extreme bodily pain for the 
 last two or three days before his decease. His fune- 
 ral was largely attended by all classes of people. 
 Officers and men of all ranks were there." Dr. 
 Warren had suffered for some time from pericarditis. 
 In the last note received from him he says, " If this 
 should be my last letter to you, let me express my 
 
362 NECROLOCICAL RECORD 
 
 ardent wishes for the prosperity of the Board of 
 Missions. I am very ill now; but our King will do 
 all things well." 
 
 When he returned to India (in 1872) it was with 
 the expectation of dying in the harness and in that 
 country. He has had his wish. He was a valued 
 missionary, a good counselor, a warm-hearted friend 
 and greatly beloved by his associates and the people 
 among whom he labored. He leaves a widow in 
 India and two children in this country. Dr. Warren 
 went to India in 1839 and returned home in 1855. 
 Went again in 1872 and died March 7, 1877. — 
 Foreign Missionary^ May, 1877. 
 
 Before leaving the mission, in 1855, he published 
 an affecting and beautiful memoir of Jatni, a mem- 
 ber of the church at Allahabad : 
 
 "She was the daughter of a Brahman, but she 
 becam a child of God. In all the relations and 
 events of life, her deportment was exemplary. And 
 when called at length to pass over Jordan, she was 
 supported by a good hope through grace. Dr. War- 
 ren, with tender caution, had apprised her of the 
 probable termination of her disease; and he adds: 
 ' I was delighted to find that she had thought of it, 
 and had come to feel willing that God should do with 
 her, as to life, just as he pleased. I questioned her 
 closely, and set death and the judgment before her 
 plainly; but her nerves were firm, her eye clear, and 
 her voice calm and steady: " I know Christ, and can 
 fully and completely trust him in all things. He 
 keeps my mind in perfect peace." I saw her often, 
 and found her the same.' She was enabled to resign 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 363 
 
 herself, her husband and her child to the care of her 
 Father in heaven, and at the early age of twenty-two, 
 she departed joyfully to be with Christ." 
 
 Rev. W. J. White, D.D. 
 
 On Monday afternoon, July 27 (1S91), at Elmira, 
 N. Y., Rev. and Mrs. Wellington J. White, their 
 three children, Lilian C, Mabel G. and Mary M., 
 aged respectively nine, seven and two 5^ears, with 
 Hattie Hastings, aged twelve, a daughter of a friend, 
 and Susie McCarthy, a nurse-girl of thirteen, were 
 together in a covered carriage, taking a drive. 
 While crossing the Erie Railroad track, the carriage 
 was struck by an express train which was moving at 
 the rate of about thirty or thirty-five miles an hour. 
 
 The persons in the carriage were thrown in various 
 directions. Some against a standing freight train, 
 and some were caught by the cow-catcher of the 
 engine. Mr. White, his daughter Lilian, Hattie 
 Hastings and Susie McCarthy were instantly killed; 
 Mrs. White and little Mary were seriously injured, 
 while Mabel escaped with only a few bruises. 
 
 As we go to press, we learn that there is good 
 hope of the recovery of little Mary. The case of 
 Mrs. White is more serious. The physicians in 
 charge have hopes for her recovery, yet her life 
 hangs as by a thread. 
 
 Mr. White was a member of the Canton Mission 
 since 1881. He was especially engaged in itinerary 
 work, operating from Macao as a centre. His fur- 
 lough had almost expired, and he and Mrs. White 
 
364 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 were looking forward eagerly to their return in Sep- 
 tember. Their passage had been already engaged. 
 
 During their visit to the United States, Mr. and 
 Mrs. White had been very active in attending meet- 
 ings of synods, presbyteries, missionary societies and 
 bands, and had made many valued acquaintances and 
 friends. Although in this country for rest and recu- 
 peration, they seemed to rest most while on the wing, 
 and to recuperate best while at work. 
 
 Mr. White had mastered the Cantonese dialect, 
 and was eminently fitted for his special work. His 
 sudden death and the death of his little daughter 
 will cause great sorrow in all missionary circles, as well 
 as among his many relatives and friends. He will 
 be sadly missed in the great mission field and work. 
 — Church at Home and Abroad^ September, 1891. 
 
 Rev. Albert Whiting. 
 
 Mr. Whiting, of Ningpo Mission, China, died at 
 Tai Yuen, April 25, 1878. During the famine which 
 prevailed in the northern provinces, large amounts of 
 money were contributed by foreigners for the relief 
 of the sufferers, and generally the missionaries and 
 their native Christian converts were depended upon 
 for the self-denying work of distribution. For this 
 service, which taxed one's utmost strength and en- 
 dangered life by contact with prevailing disease, Mr. 
 Whiting volunteered early in the spring. 
 
 His journal of travel as he passed into the interior 
 by highways lined with the bodies of the dead and 
 the dying, shows what must have been the strain 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 365 
 
 brought upon him, and renders it less surprising- that 
 within two or three weeks he was prostrated with an 
 attack of deadly typhoid. He died without experi- 
 enced medical care and with few comforts about him, 
 though receiving the careful attentions of a traveling 
 companion. Mr. Whiting assumed his share of the 
 sacrifice and risk with calm fortitude, well knowing 
 how much was at stake and holding himself ready to 
 meet the divine will. — Annual Report^ 1879- 
 
 Mr. Whiting was a graduate of Princeton Theolo- 
 gical Seminary, and sailed for China in the summer 
 of 1874, and established with Rev. Charles Leaman 
 the mission at Nanking. One of his traveling com- 
 panions on his sorrowful journey writes to Mrs. Whit- 
 ing : '■ ' On our voyage from Shanghai to Tientsing, Mr. 
 Whiting conducted a little service which we held 
 together in his cabin on Sunday, and he spoke of 
 heaven, urging the more frequent consideration of 
 our Father's house on high. Illustration after illus- 
 tration he gave us as though the subject had laid fast 
 hold of his own mind ; and it even led me to ask him 
 if he had any presentiment of death in connection 
 
 with this work, but he replied that he had not 
 
 Now and then he alluded, without any appearance of 
 boastfulness, to the great sacrifice which it had cost 
 him to come because of his family ties; and yet he 
 would add that for the sake of exhibiting in practical 
 life the teachings of our holy religion and attesting 
 the common brotherhood of man he was glad to 
 come." — Foreign Missionary^ August, 1878, and Sep- 
 tember, 1879. 
 
 The following extract from a missionary letter 
 
366 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 published in the Missionary Record of the Presbyte- 
 rian Church of England, will be read with interest 
 by all friends of missions. Would that it might also 
 reach the skeptical and indifferent. The Mr. Richard 
 mentioned is a devoted missionary of the English 
 Baptist Society, and shared with Mr, Whiting in his 
 self-denying labors. 
 
 Recently a man came to the capital of the vShan-si 
 province, to ascertain Mr. Richard's name, that it 
 might be put up in the temple of his village, for 
 worship. 
 
 ''A touching incident of Chinese appreciation has 
 recently occurred in connection with the interment 
 of the body of the Rev. Albert Whiting. Mr. V/hit- 
 ing, of the American Presbyterian Mission, fell a vic- 
 tim to famine fever a few days after his arrival at 
 Tai-yuen-fu, the capital of Shan-si. His body was 
 enclosed in a strong coffin until his wife and friends 
 should be communicated with, and their desires ascer- 
 tained as to its disposal. Their message was that he 
 should be buried where he fell. Mr. Richard accord- 
 ingly sought to purchase a piece of ground for the 
 grave. Before the purchase was completed, he com- 
 municated with the governor of the province, as for- 
 eigners have no legal right to hold land in the inte- 
 rior. The first answer was an order for 400 taels 
 (about ^130) on the public treasury. The order was 
 accompanied with an intimation that as Mi\ Whiting 
 had died in the service of the suffering Chinese, the 
 least that the province could do to show its gratitude 
 was to bear the expense of sending home his body 
 to America. The governor, of course, thought that 
 
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 what is SO dear to a Chinaman — namely, to be buried 
 beside his ancestors — must be equally dear to a for- 
 eigner. On Mr. Richard explaining the Christian 
 feeling in this matter, and the express desire of Mr. 
 Whiting's friends that he should be buried at Tai- 
 yuen-fu, the governor insisted that in that case all 
 expenses connected with the purchase of the land 
 should be borne by the treasury. 
 
 *' At the funeral twelve Chinese carried the coffin 
 to the grave. A short service was held there, and at 
 its close one of the Chinese came forward, saying to 
 the foreign missionaries present : ' Since you have 
 shown your respect to Mr. Whiting, who has lost his 
 life in seeking our good, let us also pay our respect.' 
 Mr. James adds : ' Before we had time to stop him, 
 he had suited the action to the word, and was down 
 on his knees before the grave; the others would 
 have done the same had we not restrained them, and 
 more fully explained our meaning.' " 
 
 Oh, when will Americans begin to realize that the 
 Chinese are one of the noblest races on the globe ! — 
 — Foreign Missionary ^KwgM'-.'i^ 1S78, and September, 
 1879. 
 
 Mrs. James Williams. 
 
 Mrs. Williams, wife of Mr. James Williams, of the 
 Indian Orphan Institute, Kansas, died May 28, 1863, 
 sincerely lamented by those who knew her worth. 
 She was supported to the last by a good hope through 
 grace. — Annual Report^ 1864. 
 
368 necrological record 
 
 Mrs. Sarah W. Williams — Rev. Edwin T. 
 Williams. 
 
 Mrs. Williams, wife of the Rev. Edwin T. Williams, 
 was a native of South Carolina. At an early age she 
 professed her faith in Christ, and through grace was 
 enabled to adorn that profession by a beautiful and 
 consistent life. She consented to engage in mis- 
 sionary work, in full view of its trials and with every- 
 thing that could have made a residence in her native 
 land joyous and attractive; a sense of her unworthi- 
 ness to serve her Redeemer in such a holy work was 
 her chief discouragement. She left this country 
 with her husband in the fall of 1853, but she was not 
 permitted to remain long at Corisco. The seeds of 
 consumption, sown before she left her native land, de- 
 veloped so rapidly in disease on the voyage and after 
 her arrival that in about three months it was deemed 
 expedient that she should return to this country. 
 She lingered here in feebleness until June 12, 1855, 
 when she died, in the twenty-sixth year of her age. 
 Her last days were remarkably supported by divine 
 grace; and her last hours deeply impressed the weep- 
 ing friends around her dying bed with the conviction 
 that she was already seeing her Saviour. ^' Wearing 
 still a smile of heavenly radiance^ her gentle, happy 
 spirit entered into rest." — Presbyterian. 
 
 Mr. Williams afterwards returned to Africa as a 
 missionary in Liberia. His health having suffered 
 from fever of the coast, he visited this country, hop- 
 ing to be able to go back to the work which he pre- 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 369 
 
 ferred to any other; but before he was able to return 
 to it, and while still connected with the Board as one 
 of its missionaries, the rebellion was begun and it 
 arrested his plans. He then took charge of a church 
 in Florida, and his relations to the Board were 
 virtually, though not formally, dissolved. He was 
 called to his rest in 1S65. He was a man of singularly 
 amiable character and of sincere and devoted piety. 
 As a missionary he was held in the warmest esteem 
 by his associates and by all who knew him. He was 
 a native of Georgia, a graduate of Nassau Hall and 
 of the Theological Seminary, Princeton. In the 
 thirty-ninth year of his age he entered into the joy of 
 his Lord. — J. C. L. 
 
 Rev. Thomas S. Williamson, M.D. 
 
 Seldom do we meet with a nobler record of Chris- 
 tian fidelity and real heroism than that afforded by 
 the life and labors of this veteran apostle to the Da- 
 kotas. The missionary career of Dr. Williamson, 
 which closed at St. Peter's, Minn., on the 24th of June, 
 1879, was remarkable alike in its inception and in its 
 completion. He died at nearly eighty years of age, 
 and at a time when an important work in the trans- 
 lation of the word of God into the Dakota language, in 
 which he had been associated with his worthy friend, 
 Dr. Riggs, had just been consummated. He had never 
 had a doubt of his call to his particular work; he had 
 been preserved amid many hardships and privations 
 and imminent perils, and he had exceeded his most 
 
370 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 sanguine expectations in the fruits bestowed upon 
 his labors. He had seen the salvation of the Lord, 
 and his dying testimony showed that he received the 
 last summons in peace. 
 
 Thomas vS. Williamson was born in March, iSoo, in 
 Fair Forest, Union District, S. C. He inherited a 
 noble and conscientious spirit from his father, Rev. 
 William Williamson, who, in 1805, removed from 
 South Carolina into Adams county, O., for the pur- 
 pose of manumitting his slaves. By thus migrating 
 to a State in which he could do justice to his bond- 
 men, the elder Williamson anticipated the final and 
 complete overthrow of slavery by sixty years ; and 
 by his prophetic act of commiseration toward the 
 oppressed of one race he doubtless helped to lay 
 the foundations of that sympathy which led his son 
 to espouse the cause of another injured race years 
 later. 
 
 Young Williamson was graduated at Jefferson Col- 
 lege in 181 7, and at Yale Medical School in 1824. Set- 
 tling as a physician in Ripley, O. , he had acquired a 
 large and lucrative practice, when his mind became 
 deeply impressed with the destitution of the Indians. 
 There has been no time in the entire history of 
 American aggression upon these people when their 
 condition might not have appealed with special em- 
 phasis to the S3'mpathies of a Christian physician. 
 vSince they experienced the contact of the white set- 
 tlers, many diseases of infection have been added to 
 those wdiich they formerly suffered. And other mal- 
 adies arising from the exposure incident to their 
 enforced removals, and from the process of acclima- 
 
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 tion, as well as those following in the wake of famine, 
 have preyed upon the wasting tribes. The precari- 
 ous and irregular provisions of our Government have 
 proved but an inadequate substitute for the abundant 
 supplies of food which were once afforded them by 
 their ample hunting-grounds. Strength has failed 
 .them, and generation after generation they have 
 gradually approached extinction. 
 
 The heart of the young physician at Riple}^ was 
 keenly alive to this sad spectacle, while at the same 
 time he was moved by their spiritual destitution. He 
 had experienced the converting grace of God while 
 in college, and he now longed to become a physician 
 both for the souls and for the bodies of these neg- 
 lected children of the forest. 
 
 His young wife was also in full sympathy with 
 him. The question of offering themselves as mis- 
 sionaries was discussed and prayed over ; and at 
 length, solely on account of their young children, it 
 was decided in the negative. But God, whose provi- 
 dences are often shrouded in mystery, took the chil- 
 dren to himself. When in January, 1833, ^^^ l3,st 
 two died within a few days of each other. Dr. William- 
 son "arose as if God's voice were sounding in his 
 ears," and began his preparations for missionary 
 work among the Indians. He scarcely needed to 
 consult the opinions of human counselors, so clear 
 were his convictions of duty. 
 
 While none are to wait till they receive precisely 
 the same kind of message from God's Spirit as he 
 did; while the methods and the processes of convic- 
 tion differ both in kind and degree ; and while many 
 
372 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 of the noblest and most successful missionaries have 
 at first lacked such clear indications — yet it is always 
 tmdoubtedly an element of moral power to feel as- 
 sured that one's stewardship is from his divine Mas- 
 ter. In this case this assurance proved a steady 
 support in many an hour of danger. Dr. Williamson 
 left his medical practice and spent a year in Lane 
 Theological Seminary, after which (in 1834) he made 
 a preliminary tour of observation among the Sioux 
 on the Upper Mississippi. During the same year two 
 brothers of the name of Pond be^an to labor amonof 
 the Sioux as self-supported missionaries. Dr. William- 
 son removed his family to his chosen field in 1S35. 
 The St. Peter's Tribune states that : 
 
 "He was accompanied by his wife and infant 
 daughter, by his wife's sister. Miss Mary Poage, 
 afterwards Mrs. Gideon H. Pond, and by Mr. Alex- 
 ander G. Huggins and family. He stopped a few 
 weeks at Fort Snelling, where, June 12, 1835, he 
 presided at the organization of the first Protestant 
 church in Minnesota, consisting of twenty-two white 
 members. 
 
 '^ Soon after, they proceeded to Lac qui-Parle. 
 Until they reached Traverse des Sioux, then a trading 
 post held by Mr. Le Blancs, the families, goods and 
 wagons were transported on a Mackinac boat, Mr. 
 Huggins accompanying them. In this company were 
 the first white women who ever ascended the Min- 
 nesota. The doctor, with the assistance of a boy, 
 came with the two horses through the trackless woods, 
 camping with those on the boat whenever possible. 
 From Traverse they at once proceeded by wagon to 
 Lac-qui-Parle. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 373 
 
 ''Here he established a permanent mission station 
 and preached to the Indians through Mr. Joseph 
 Renville, the trader there, who proved an earnest, 
 efficient helper. As Mr. Renville spoke French, but 
 not English, the doctor was compelled to acquire a 
 thorough knowledge of French as a stepping-stone to 
 a knowledge of Dakota." 
 
 From 1835 till the reunion of the Presbyterian 
 church, and the consequent transfer of a part of the 
 Dakota mission. Dr. Williamson labored under the 
 care of the American Board. He has since been 
 supported by the Presbyterian Board, and on one or 
 two occasions has attended the General Assembly as 
 a commissioner from the Dakota Presbytery. 
 
 The writer of this sketch remembers the deep and 
 agreeable impression made upon his mind upon meet- 
 ing the doctor four or five years ago, at the Synod of 
 Minnesota, with seventeen Indians, ministers and 
 elders of the mission churches. Some of those men, 
 now preachers of the gospel, had passed over that same 
 ground (Minneapolis) on the war-path with more of 
 feathers and savage accoutrements than of clothing, 
 and possibly with a cluster of scalps at the belt as 
 trophies of their prowess. To see such men entering 
 into all the blessings of Christian fellowship, and 
 counseling together for the advancement of Christ's 
 kingdom, enables one to realize that, of a truth, 
 "God is no respecter of persons; but that in every 
 nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteous- 
 ness is accepted with him." 
 
 The space allotted to this hasty sketch precludes 
 many a reference which might properly be made to 
 
374 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 various experiences in the life of Dr. Williamson, 
 which have been full of thrilling romance and of a 
 moral heroism seldom equaled. It is to be hoped 
 that some pen of leisure may yet trace more fully the 
 outlines of his instructive life. His hair-breadth 
 escapes '' in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in 
 perils of robbers, in perils by the heathen, in perils 
 in the wilderness, in weariness and painfulness, in 
 watchings often, in hunger and thirst," were only 
 second to those of the first great Apostle to the Gen- 
 tiles. 
 
 In the various wars between Indian tribes, as well 
 as in struggles between the Indians and the forces of 
 the United States, Dr. Williamson and his family 
 were often placed in imminent danger. More than 
 once camps of hostile Sioux were pitched in plain 
 sight of his house. Sometimes he used precautions 
 for the safety of his family, while he remained at his 
 post; at other times he had to commit himself and 
 those dear to him to God's protection, when human 
 resources seemed utterly at an end. At one time an 
 uplifted dagger was averted from him by the hand of 
 a friend; at another, an Indian who had come to his 
 house, with a concealed weapon, for the purpose of 
 killing him, was overcome by the kindness with 
 which his hunger was appeased. The man after- 
 wards became a convert. In the difficulties which 
 occurred between the Dakotas and the Government, 
 between 1862 and 1865, Dr. Williamson shared in all 
 the dangers and anxieties to which the missionaries 
 and the Christian Indians were exposed. At the 
 time of the outbreak he, with other missionaries, 
 
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 were warned and saved only by the kindness and 
 help of friendly Indians. While he did not justify 
 the atrocities which the enraged tribes committed 
 upon the white settlements, yet he exerted himself 
 to prevent those summary acts of vengeance which 
 were likely to be put forth by the stronger party at 
 such a time. Over a hundred had been condemned 
 to be hung, some after a hasty trial and upon a mere 
 shadow of evidence. 
 
 In all the trying experiences of this uprising, Dr. 
 Williamson never lost confidence in his native con- 
 verts. He maintained, against the prevailing senti- 
 ment in Minnesota, that all the Christian Indians had 
 proved faithful to the whites, even at the risk of their 
 own lives, and that they had saved more whites from 
 death than they themselves numbered. 
 
 On this point a Minnesota paper, named above, 
 makes this frank acknowledgment: 
 
 '' His belief that no member of the Presbyterian 
 churches, and scarcely any who had ever regularly 
 attended religious services, had taken part in the 
 massacres, though contrary to the general belief, has 
 been fully confirmed by the most thorough investi- 
 gation." 
 
 He used every exertion to temper the action not 
 only of the local authorities, but also of the U, S. 
 Government. 
 
 He expended $130 of his own funds in efforts on be- 
 half of the Dakotas at Washington, and was crowned 
 with success. Their sentence was commuted to a 
 removal to the upper waters of the Missouri. 
 
 When the Indians learned what their noble mis- 
 
376 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 sionary friend had expended on their account, they 
 resolved to refund it ; and although they had no other 
 means open to them than that of making bows and 
 arrows and other trifles, they actually earned and 
 paid over $80. 
 
 Their hearts were touched by kindness, and many 
 of them by the Spirit of God. The following picture 
 of the scene of their embarkation for the Upper Mis- 
 souri is quoted from a contemporary number of the 
 Missionary Herald: 
 
 "As darkness shut in the skies, the Indians looked 
 out upon their native hills, as they said, for the last 
 time. We were hardly under way, however, when, 
 from all the different parts of the boat where the 
 Indians were collected, we heard hymns of praise 
 ascending to Jehovah, not loud, but soft and sweet, 
 like the gentle murmuring of waters. Then one of 
 them led in prayer, after which another hymn was 
 sung; and so they continued till all were composed, 
 and drawing their blankets over them, each fell 
 asleep. The next morning before sunrise they were 
 again at their devotions. So they continued, evening 
 and morning, and these services were commenced 
 without any suggestion from us." 
 
 Although Dr. Williamson had met with many dis- 
 couragements and reverses; although in 1852 he had 
 seen his work broken up and his people forcibly re- 
 moved to Yellow Medicine ; although in another dec- 
 ade the outbreak of the hostile Sioux, exasperated 
 by further aggressions, had led as we have seen to 
 another sad interruption of the work; yet the laborer 
 was not without his reward. He lived to see ten 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 377 
 
 ordained native preachers engaged in their work, and 
 an aggregate church membership of 800. 
 
 And amid all the difficulties of laborious frontier 
 life he held no mean rank as a scholar. Besides his 
 knowledge of the French and the Dakota languages, 
 he kept up his study of the Hebrew and the Greek, 
 and prepared some papers on the ethnology of the 
 aborigines of this country. 
 
 As he had presided at the organization of the first 
 church in Minnesota, so at the organization of the 
 Synod of Minnesota in 1858, at St. Paul, he was 
 called to preach the sermon. Taking his text from 
 Deut. 8: 2, "And thou shalt remember all the way 
 which the Lord thy God led thee," he gave an 
 interesting, and in some respects thrilling, history of 
 the early missionary work among the Indians of the 
 Northwest. After dwelling upon many scenes of 
 trial and danger, and of want bordering sometimes 
 on starvation, he recounted the divine goodness to 
 him and to his associates in the following words of 
 triumphant faith : 
 
 " However weak and unfaithful we have been, we 
 must testify that the Lord who sent us has faithfully 
 fulfilled to us all his promises. When he has caused 
 us to pass through the waters, he has been with us, 
 and the rivers, though deep, have not overflowed us; 
 and when the flaming prairie has threatened to con- 
 sume us, we have walked through the fire and have 
 not been burnt. 
 
 " AVhen we have called upon him in the day of 
 trouble, he has ever shown himself a God who hears 
 and answers prayer. 
 
378 NECROLOGICAL RFXORD 
 
 "When assailed by deadly weapons, a hand not 
 ours has arrested or turned aside the knife or arrow 
 intended to reach our vitals, and we have been kept 
 from violence, and enabled to return good for evil. 
 Further, when all about us have been alarmed, he 
 has fulfilled the promise, ' Thou shalt not be afraid 
 for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that fiieth 
 by day;' and when our neighbors have been unable 
 to sleep protected by a guard of armed men, we have 
 slept soundly, guarded only by the Shepherd of 
 Israel." — Foreign Missionary^ August, 1879. 
 
 Mrs. Maria Wilson. 
 
 Mrs. Wilson was born January 21, 1832, in Starke 
 county, O. In her twelfth year, her parents re- 
 moved to Shelby county, to a farm near Sidney, in 
 the Presbyterian church of which village her father 
 was made a ruling elder. His death, in August, 
 1850, appears to have been blessed to her, and in 
 November of that year she made a public profession 
 of religion. She was educated in part at the Oxford 
 Female College, where she was graduated with honor 
 to herself in the summer of 1856. 
 
 Early in her Christian course, her heart became in- 
 terested in the sad condition of the heathen; and 
 when the Rev. Jonathan Wilson, who had consecrated 
 himself to the mission work, invited her to become 
 his companion and helper, with no hesitation but 
 such as arose from her sense of her tmfitness, she 
 consented; and soon afterwards, she cheerfully bid a 
 farewell that she felt would be a last one to friends 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 379 
 
 and home, to a widowed mother, and all, to go forth 
 with him to labor among the heathen of Siam. 
 
 She reached her appointed post, and we are all wit- 
 nesses how faithfully here she did what she could, 
 and how she endeared herself as a beloved sister to 
 all her associates, by her uniform cheerfulness and 
 sweetness of demeanor, her blamelessness of life, her 
 wise discretion, her interest in the spiritual good of 
 the heathen around her, and her faithfulness in all 
 the relations of life. A little daughter was given her 
 to nestle in her arms awhile. Before a twelvemonth 
 had passed, her little " Hattie " drooped and pined 
 away, and, only eight short weeks before herself, 
 died. A sad trial, this, to a young mother, herself 
 prostrate most of the time on a bed of sickness, and 
 unable to minister to her suffering child ; but it was 
 borne with sweet submission, and doubtless was 
 sanctified to her better fitness for that world she was 
 so soon herself to enter, where God is seen to be all 
 in all, and his will, whatever it be, is adored. Hence- 
 forth, an uncomplaining acquiescence in all that 
 might be ordered for her, gave new beauty to the life 
 of one who had ever been characterized by a calm, 
 straightforward pursuance of the path of duty. 
 
 When it became evident that she would be taken 
 away from us, she was the first to speak of it. She 
 said to Mrs. House, who was sitting with her, "It 
 will be but a little while." "Dear sister," replied 
 Mrs. House, "are you willing it should be but a 
 little while ?" She answered, " Yes — any time — any 
 time," and then proceeded to speak with great com- 
 posure of her death and burial. Once, when she 
 
380 NECROT-OGICAL RECORD 
 
 vSupposcd she had but a few hours to live, she whis- 
 pered to her husband, "I am ^oing to Jesus;" a 
 heavenly smile lighting up her countenance with an 
 expression he can never forget. One Sabbath, when 
 we all thought she could not survive through the day, 
 I asked her if she had any last message for me to 
 give the Siamese, who would soon be assembled for 
 the morning preaching service. Pausing a few 
 minutes, she said, "Tell them I am waiting to go 
 home. I hope I shall meet them all in heaven. Tell 
 them the Siamese religion will not do for a dying 
 bed. Let them seek the Lord while he may be 
 found, and not put it off to their dying hour." To a 
 friend who offered to sit up with her on the morrow, 
 she said, *' I hope before that to be where there will 
 be no need of watchers." .... A turn of distress 
 ensuing, her husband bowed his head and prayed, 
 ''Lord Jesus, come quickly," when she raised her 
 trembling arms and made an effort to clasp her hands 
 as if in prayer and said, " Come — come — come," and 
 then seemed to be beckoning till her hands dropped 
 exhausted, and we thought her last words had been 
 spoken. But soon she raised her arms again, and 
 beckoning as before, said with a voice, the strength 
 of which surprised us all, '' They've come; heaven — 
 sweet music — angels — Hattie — glorified." She spoke 
 not again. Her breathing gradually became more 
 and more gentle, till at 3 a.m., July 10, i860, it ceased 
 and thus she sweetly fell asleep. 
 
 Rev. D. B. Bradley, M.D., conducted the funeral 
 services, basing his remarks upon the text, " Jesus 
 Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever," 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 381 
 
 which on one occasion she had so impressively quoted. 
 The children of the school were assembled and many- 
 natives, so a part of Dr. Bradley's address was in 
 Siamese. The English and United States consuls and 
 the foreign residents of Bangkok generally manifested 
 their respect for the deceased and their sympathy 
 with the bereaved husband by their presence on the 
 occasion, and in their boats in long procession fol- 
 lowed her remains to the Protestant cemetery, where 
 we laid her down to rest beside her little one, and 
 near other sainted dead in " sure and certain hope " 
 of a joyful resurrection. — Rev. S. R. House ^ M.D. 
 
 Mrs. Jonathan Wilson (2). 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson arrived in Bangkok, Siam, on 
 his return from a visit to this country in July, 1866, 
 and the next year they followed the Rev. Mr. 
 McGilvary to Chieng Mai, to establish a mission 
 among the Laos. Mrs. Wilson's health failing after 
 ten years' service, they were obliged to return to 
 America, and Mrs. Wilson with their three children 
 found a home in Oxford, O., while her husband, with 
 a rare spirit of self-sacrifice, returned alone to pursue 
 his labors among the far-off Laos. Her health had 
 long been feeble, and she died on the 5th of March, 
 1885, from an attack of apoplexy. Kind friends at 
 Oxford have undertaken to care for the children until 
 the wishes and plans of their father may be known. 
 What sacrifices are these which our missionaries 
 endure for the sake of Christ and of the heathen 
 
382 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 whom they have learned to love ! What are our gifts 
 throughout the church-at-large in comparison with 
 the separation from each other which this husband 
 and wife endured for seven years, that he might still 
 labor on in behalf of the unhappy tribes to whom we 
 are all *' debtors" as much as he? — Foreign Mis- 
 sionary^ May, 1885. 
 
 Miss Mary Nevius Wilson. 
 
 The life and death of this faithful zenana mis- 
 sionary demands more than a passing word. Miss 
 Wilson, who was the sister of Mr. John M. Wilson, 
 ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at Ovid, 
 N. Y., was one of the pioneers of the zenana mission 
 movement in India. She sailed from Boston on the 
 6th of July, 1868, and, after spending some months in 
 Calcutta, was placed in charge of a branch mission at 
 Allahabad, where she was joined in 187 1 by Miss S. 
 C. Seward, M. D. In 1873 they were both trans- 
 ferred from the Woman's Union Missionary Society 
 to the Jumna Mission of the Presbyterian Board. 
 
 From early youth Miss Wilson had desired to be a 
 missionary, and to this work she felt specially called. 
 Tourists from this country, among whom were Drs. 
 Prime and Field, have spoken in high terms of Miss 
 Wilson's work in the zenanas of Allahabad; and the 
 earnest enthusiasm of educated natives has been 
 aroused by the manifest usefulness of her career. 
 
 Sir William Muir, late Lieutenant Governor of the 
 Northwest Provinces, showed her marked tokens of 
 his appreciation. Miss Wilson's work was almost 
 
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 entirely that of visitation, an emplo3mient which 
 greatly taxed her physical powers. That her attain- 
 ments and qualifications weie good is attested by the 
 fact that a Hindu gentleman (a judge in one of the 
 courts) took pains to say to her, not long since, how 
 pleased he was to hear her use the Bengali language 
 with so perfect a pronunciation that he would have 
 thought her one of his own people had he not known 
 who it was. Her w^ork, which was constantly increas- 
 ing and of great interest, wore upon her; but she 
 could not bear to leave it so long as there were none 
 to take her place. 
 
 In a recent letter to her friends she thus expressed 
 her fears at the risk which she was running: "The 
 hot winds are beginning to blow. I never had so 
 much dread of the hot months as I feel this year; and 
 I am not sure that it was wise for me to stay in the 
 plains just now; but I could not bear to leave my 
 women ; and no one is being sent out to fill up our 
 diminished ranks. One after another goes, but no 
 one comes." 
 
 The fears thus expressed were realized sooner than 
 she had anticipated. A sense of weariness gradually 
 developed into the deadly typhus, and some special 
 symptoms which appeared heralded her speedy de- 
 parture, which occurred on 24th May, 1879. 
 
 A recent letter from Miss Seward says of her: 
 '' The expressions of regret and condolence for Miss 
 Wilson have been very general and sincere. I don't 
 think there has ever been a missionary in Allahabad 
 who was more thoroughly esteemed and admired. 
 At a funeral service for a member of his own church, 
 
384 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 a few days after her death, the Enghsh chaplain 
 spoke of her as one whose Hfe had always seemed 
 to him that of a saint. I was not present, but friends 
 have told me that while he spoke of her the tears 
 stole down his face. It has been too hot to visit the 
 zenanas, but those of her women whom I have seen, 
 burst into tears at the mention of her name." 
 
 The writer of this brief sketch cannot forbear to 
 add his own testimony of her great worth. In the 
 winter of 1874 and '75, when he and his wife visited 
 Allahabad, they were the recipients of peculiar kind- 
 ness from Miss Wilson, not only while enjoying her 
 hospitality, but upon a journey which they made to a 
 mission meeting at Saharanpur. Their ignorance of 
 what was requisite to comfort on such a journey, was 
 fully compensated by the considerateness and quiet 
 preparations of Miss Wilson, who seemed to think 
 less of herself than of others. The image of her 
 kindly face, and the echoes of her gentle words, will 
 never be forgotten. We remember also the hiorh 
 consideration in which she appeared to be held by 
 the cultivated natives in Allahabad, upon some of 
 whom we had the pleasure of calling with her. 
 
 Miss Wilson stands as a fair representative of that 
 modern form of usefulness known as zenana work. 
 Would that thousands of our American women, 
 equally cultivated, equally genial, sensible, well- 
 balanced, faithful and devoted, might carry the light 
 of sympathy and love, even the love of Christ, the 
 only Saviour, into the dark homes of benighted India. 
 — Foreign Missionary^ September, 1879. 
 
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 Rev. Thomas Wilson. 
 
 Mr. Wilson, of the mission in Liberia, died Sep- 
 tember 3, 1846. His death is a great loss to the 
 church and to Africa. His experience (as a colored 
 man especially) and knowledge, his industry and per- 
 severance, fitted him for usefulness in this important 
 sphere of duty. — Annual Report^ 1847. 
 
 Rev. James Wilson. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was born and brought up in Western 
 Pennsylvania, and was a graduate of Jefferson 
 College and Allegheny Seminary. He arrived in 
 India with his wife and with Rev. John Newton and 
 his wife in 1835. He returned to this country with 
 his family in 185 1. He expected to go back to his 
 chosen field, but was providentially led to remain in 
 his native land and continued in the work of the 
 ministry till he died February 13, 1884, at Tyler, 
 Tex., while on a visit to one of his sons, in the eighty- 
 second year of his age. He was greatly respected 
 and beloved as a missionary. He was thoughtful, 
 forecasting, laborious, self-den5dng, truly consecrated. 
 As he was much above the ordinary grade of intellect 
 and of unusual insight as to Hindu character and 
 life, his leaving the work in which he delighted was 
 a real sorrow to himself and a serious loss to the 
 mission. His last illness was of but a week's con- 
 tinuance, and his departure from this life was emi- 
 nently peaceful. It was touching to see the bent of 
 his mind in these last days. '' India was the one 
 
386 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 place to which his thoughts unconsciously turned, 
 and in the delirium of fever, or even when free from 
 fever, he was conversing with the Moolas or Muftis, 
 or affectionately inquiring about * the native breth- 
 ren. ' " Mrs. Wilson survives him at an advanced age, 
 and four sons, two of whom are respected ministers 
 of the Southern Presbyterian Church. — Record^ April, 
 
 Mrs. James Wilson. 
 
 Mrs. Wilson died October 29, 1886. One of her 
 sons sent from McConnellsville, S. C. , the following 
 touching note : i 
 
 '*On the 29th of last month (October, 1886) our 
 dear mother, your old friend and the wife of your 
 fellow-missionary in India, died. On her death-bed 
 she directed a ten-dollar bill, to be found in her Bible, 
 to be sent to the Assembly's Board of Foreign Missions, 
 expressing herself as feeling under many obligations 
 to that Board for kindness received at their hands. 
 The gift is a small one, but yet large in the circum- 
 stances. It is the offering of a widow who spent 
 seventeen of the best years of her life as a foreign 
 missionary, and is simply her dying effort to further 
 the cause she loved so well. Her death, like her 
 life, was brave, calm and trustful, and undimmed by 
 even a momentary obscuration of faith." — Record^ 
 December, 1886. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 387 
 
 Rev. Frank A. Wood. 
 
 The following extract of a letter dated July 21, 
 1878, from Rev. J. S. Dennis, pays a just and heart- 
 felt tribute to a noble fellow-missionary : 
 
 "The brethren of our mission are engaged in a sad 
 duty to-day. As I write, the funeral services of Rev. 
 Mr. Wood are being conducted in Beirut. He died 
 in Aleih yesterday, July 20, at 4 p.m. His sickness 
 has been a painful one, and it is now nearly two 
 months since he became ill. Early in his illness he 
 was brought to Beirut that he might receive more 
 prompt and constant medical attendance than was 
 possible at his home on Mt. Lebanon. His disease 
 has baffled the most watchful attention and skillful 
 efforts of Dr. Post, who, with Dr. Van Dyck in con- 
 sultation, has been unremitting in his kind services. 
 Less than a week ago (July 16) he was brought to 
 this mountain village, which can be reached by the 
 carriage road, in the hope that the mountain air 
 might prove some benefit. His wife had prepared a 
 quiet home for him here and awaited his arrival ; but, 
 alas ! she could simply minister to him in his dying 
 hours. No mortal skill could stay the dread ravages 
 of his disease, whose fatal progress was attended by 
 great distress and suffering. He gave a clear and 
 cheerful testimony of the sustaining grace of God and 
 of his faith and hope in Christ which failed him not 
 in his hour of trial. His patience and cheerfulness, 
 and his consecration to his work, are a lesson to us 
 all. It is now seven years since he came to Syria. 
 During his residence of a year or two at Sidon, he 
 
388 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 acquired the language with facility and with scholarly 
 accuracy, and began his active missionary life upon 
 his subsequent removal to Zahleh. He labored be- 
 tween two and three years at the latter place, and 
 then removed to Abeih to take charge of the Abeih 
 Academy, the position which Mr. Calhoun had filled 
 so ably and faithfully during his long life in Syria. 
 To this work he gave himself with all his energy, 
 perseverance and consecration. He loved teaching, 
 and his superior attainments in the natural sciences 
 and excellent command of the language gave him 
 special qualifications to instruct. His care for the 
 spiritual welfare of his students was a marked feature 
 in his usefulness. Interesting religious awakenings 
 occurred among the students under his charge, and 
 numbers were converted through his personal agency. 
 His missionary work was to him no burden to be 
 wearily borne, but it was his life's joy and ambition. 
 Physically, he was the strongest and most buoyant of 
 our mission band. The distress and weakness and 
 pain of his last sickness were new experiences to 
 him, as he had hardly seen a sick day in his life. 
 
 *' His daily prayer was for patience and grace to 
 bear, and how well he succeeded in controlling the 
 restlessness of a strong man in his first and most try- 
 ing illness, may be inferred from a remark of good 
 sister Sophie of the German Hospital, who nursed 
 him in Beirut. She said, ' He is too patient to live. ' " 
 
 The following minute was passed by the Syrian 
 Mission, August 14: 
 
 ''We are a sorely stricken mission. Again has the 
 Lord laid upon us his afflictive hand and taken away 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 389 
 
 one of the strongest, youngest and most useful of our 
 number. 
 
 *' Rev. Frank A. Wood slept in Jesus on the 20th of 
 last July, 1878, taken away at the early age of thirty- 
 three, after less than seven years spent in the mission 
 field. He had, to an unusual degree, won the re- 
 spect, esteem and affection of all who came in con- 
 tact with him. While he ' rests from his labors, his 
 works' emphatically 'do follow' him. He was emi- 
 nently fitted for labor in the missionary field. To 
 fine natural abilities and large acquirements, were 
 added remarkable amiability and most earnest piety. 
 In the performance of his duties he was unwearied, 
 persevering, hopeful. He united in an unusual de- 
 gree faith, prayer and the most assiduous use of 
 means. 
 
 ' ' The affection of the people for him was striking, 
 especially that of the pupils of the Abeih Academy, 
 of v\rhich he was for three years the principal. The 
 sorrow occasioned by his death is widespread and 
 sincere. 
 
 *' By the mission his loss is most keenly felt. We 
 are, indeed, called upon to ' humble ourselves under 
 the mighty hand of God.' 
 
 ' ' To the bereaved widow we would express the 
 deepest and tenderest sympathy, and commend her 
 to the only true source of comfort, praying that the 
 Lord may graciously sustain her with his everlasting 
 arms, and supply her from his infinite fullness. " — 
 Foreign Missionary^ October, 1878. 
 
390 necrological record 
 
 Miss Jennie Woodside. 
 
 The sorrowful event of the mission year, 1886-7, 
 at Futtehgurh, India, was the death of Miss Wood- 
 side, February 3, 1887, daughter of Rev. John S. 
 Woodside, a lady of singular devotedness, of supe- 
 rior qualifications for her work as a missionary, and 
 held in the highest esteem by all the members of our 
 missions and others. Her closing hours were, in har- 
 mony with her beautiful life, full of peace. — Annual 
 Report, 1887. 
 
 Mrs. John S. Woodside. 
 
 The death of Mrs. Woodside withdraws from ser- 
 vice here to her rest in heaven one of the best Chris- 
 tian women — one long respected and esteemed as a 
 faithful and devoted missionary. She died in London 
 at the house of a married daughter, where she had 
 gone for her health not long after she had heard of 
 the death of her missionary daughter, Jennie, in 
 India. Her husband had joined her some weeks 
 before she died. Mr. Woodside then, after a short 
 visit to this country, returned to his former station, 
 doubly bereaved, but with renewed consecration to 
 his work. — Anmial Report^ 1888, 
 
 Rev. Asher Wright. 
 
 The God of missions has visited us with a very 
 great affliction in the death of our most esteemed 
 brother, the Rev. Asher Wright. He was born in 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 39I 
 
 Hanover, N. H., September 7, 1803, and ''born 
 again " at the age of sixteen years. 
 
 Graduating from Andover in 183 1, he gave him- 
 self to the Lord for labor among the heathen. The 
 American Board were then desirous of increasing 
 the number of their laborers among the American 
 Indians, but young graduates were slow in consent- 
 ing to bury their talents by living and dying with 
 races that were so evidently doomed to speedy and 
 utter extinction. Many would not indulge the 
 thought of laboring with any people through whose 
 posterity they could not hope to transmit their influ- 
 ence for good to all coming time. But Mr. Wright, 
 with as glorious a future before him as any one, if he 
 would only invite it, with talents capable of being 
 cultivated to a very high degree, said, '' Here am I; 
 send me." He was not ignorant of his powers; he 
 knew that, with the continued blessing of God, he 
 was capable of becoming a luminary among orientals, 
 or even among the metropolitans of his native 
 country. Yet, such was his pity for the poor Indians 
 — such his humility — his micekness — his benevolence 
 — his unselfishness — his condescension to people of 
 low degree — his willingness, yea, his determination 
 to ''take the lowest room," and appear as the least 
 of all the apostles, that he accepted an appointment 
 to this mission and identified himself with one of the 
 most hated people of the earth. His divine Master 
 was taunted with being a "friend of sinners," and 
 gloried in it. Like him, Mr. Wright was jeeringly 
 called a "friend of Indians," and gloried in it. He 
 was, however, a man of so much good-will to every- 
 
392 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 body, as to avoid personal insult, or so repel attacks 
 as to render them harmless. Everybody loved him, 
 even those who abused him. He occupied the hum- 
 ble sphere which he accepted in his youth, for more 
 than forty-three years — yea, he occupied it until the 
 Master came and bade him " come up higher," which 
 occurred Tuesday, April 13, 1875. 
 
 Mr. Wright was the only male missionary who 
 ever acquired anything like a satisfactory knowledge 
 of Seneca. He labored long to bring forth a Seneca 
 hymn-book, and a translation of the gospels, that 
 would be approved by future educated generations. 
 The hymn-book has been in use for considerable 
 time, but his gospels had just been introduced, and 
 he was arranging to have the people taught to read, 
 and to have readers employed to go from house to 
 house, when the angel of death arrived. He obeyed 
 the call, willingly, no doubt, though leaving unfin- 
 ished his translation of the Acts of the Apostles, upon 
 which he had spent much of his waning strength. 
 Possibly, Mrs. Wright, who is supposed to have even 
 a better knowledge of the Seneca language than her 
 husband had, will finish it, thus "supplying his lack 
 of service." Mr. Wright's last work was to go to 
 Albany in behalf of the asylum, a home for the 
 orphan and destitute children of the Indians upon 
 the New York Reservations. After leaving the cars 
 on his return from Albany, he was so sick as to re- 
 quire the support of two loving friends — one on each 
 side with arms around him, thus sustaining and 
 steadying him in his carriage, until he reached his 
 room, where he was to lie down to die. After his 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 393 
 
 arrival at his home he lived several days, but most 
 of the time it was with great difficulty that he re- 
 tained his breath. Toward the last, his mind seemed 
 to wander all the time. Thinking that the cloud 
 upon his intellect might be owing to a certain medi- 
 cine which he was taking, Mrs. Wright, not being 
 willing that he should thus die, withheld it, but to 
 no effect — hence the sentences that fell from his 
 lips were seemingly incoherent, yet some of them 
 are precious in the memory of surviving friends. 
 One was, "They don't sing enough, they don't 
 sing enough." Another was, "You have a crown — 
 don't let it get tarnished." Pursuant to his request, 
 Mr. Wright was buried among the graves of his 
 Indian brethren who went before him to glory. He 
 was the oldest man and the oldest missionary among 
 us, having labored here more than forty-three years 
 — always seeing something noble in the Red-man, 
 while others could see nothing but treachery and 
 meanness. May the afflicted and bereaved widow be 
 sustained and comforted by the sympathy and prayers 
 of the friends of missions everywhere, and may God 
 assure her that when her earthly house of this taber- 
 nacle is dissolved she has a building of God, a house 
 not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. — Rev. 
 W. Hall. 
 
 Mrs. Asher Wright. 
 
 Mrs. Wright, who had been connected with the 
 Seneca Mission fifty-three years, died January 21, 
 1886. Since the death of her husband, which oc- 
 
396 NECROLOGICAL RECOIIU 
 
 against which the medical skill available could not 
 provide set in, and on June i, Mrs. Wright breathed 
 her last. By means of the prompt and efficient ser- 
 vices of the Hon. Mr. Pratt, the United States 
 minister to Persia, and Colonel Stewart, the English 
 consul at Tabriz, the murderer was arrested and im- 
 prisoned at Tabriz, 
 
 The following tribute is from the pen of Rev. B. 
 Labaree, D. D. , of our Western Persia mission : 
 
 ' ' The death of Mrs. Wright, of Salmas, has given 
 us a terrible shock, one we shall not soon recover 
 from. Under any circumstances her loss would have 
 filled us with sorrow; but the terrible crime by which 
 her life has been sacrificed has intensified our grief 
 immeasurably. 
 
 " Mrs. Wright was the daughter of Kasha Oshana 
 and Sawa ; the former for many years a preacher in 
 Koordistan, or a highly esteemed teacher in our col- 
 lege, while Sawa was one of the first of Miss Fiske's 
 pupils, and has ever been one of our most devoted 
 and beloved Christian sisters. Shushan, as we used 
 to call her by her sweet Syriac name, spent much of 
 her early life in the wild mountains of Koordistan, 
 where she breathed in the free mountain air and the 
 spirit of self-reliance and independence so charac- 
 teristic of the mountain Nestorians; an independence, 
 however, in her case, that through wise parental 
 training and the influence of divine grace was brought 
 under excellent control. I shall never forget a jour- 
 ney I made with her family and a large party of mis- 
 sionaries and native preachers through the mountains 
 towards Oroomiah. She was then almost woman 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 397 
 
 grown, as full of life and grace as a bird, fearless and 
 active and self-helpful over those terrible roads, and 
 in the midst of dangers from robbers, Christian and 
 Koordish. When our camp was assailed by our own 
 Nestorian muleteers and our equipage seized with 
 the most angry demonstrations of fire-arms, Shushan 
 flew swiftly up the mountain side after them, threw 
 herself upon them, and as others of our party joined 
 in the efforts to calm the turbulent fellows, she 
 quietly wrested one and another's gun from his hand 
 and brought it to the camp. We learned to admire 
 her bravery and tact on this tour as we never could 
 have done in her home or her school. 
 
 " Mrs. Wright had been in our female seminary 
 from time to time, and showed peculiar aptitude for 
 acquiring learning and culture. Later on she became 
 a teacher in an orphanage conducted by some Eng- 
 lish ladies here, and later still v/as an assistant to the 
 mission girls' school in Tabriz. She everywhere won 
 in an exceptional degree the love and confidence of 
 those with whom she was associated. We rejoiced in 
 her as one of the choicest fruits of divine training 
 through mission teaching. She reflected new interest 
 upon her people. 
 
 "In the year 1885 she was married to Rev. J. N. 
 Wright, of Ohio, his second wife, and settled with 
 him in Salmas, taking a personal share in the mis- 
 sionary work from the outset. In the year 1888 she 
 accompanied her husband to America, and only re- 
 turned last fall. All who have known her since her 
 return testify to her growing interest and activity in 
 the Master's cause. As far as the care of her little 
 
398 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 family would permit, she was assiduous in holding 
 meetings for the women, visiting in their families, 
 teaching a Bible class on the Sabbath, etc. The 
 native pastor of the Oolah church is warm in his 
 commendation of her helpful influence the past 
 months. 
 
 " In Mrs. Wright's illness, in consequence of this 
 most wanton, unprovoked assault upon her life, she 
 showed a wonderful degree of fortitude and patience, 
 and at the same time a most sweet and forgiving 
 spirit in regard to her assailant. ' If I die,' she re- 
 marked one day, ' I shall go to heaven ; but if he 
 dies his soul is lost forever. ' Her Christian character 
 shone out brightly to the last. We can well believe 
 that her remark to Mrs. Shedd, who visited her on her 
 way through Salmas, was true : ' All is light about 
 me.'" — The CJmrch at Home and Abroad^ October, 
 1890. 
 
 Rev. John Newton Young, 
 
 ''Young, dead, small-pox," was the brief but 
 startling cable dispatch which announced to us the 
 death of the Rev. John Newton Young, Jr., of our 
 Peking Mission. The sad event occurred February 
 18, 1893. Mr. Young was a graduate of Park Col- 
 lege and of Princeton Theological Seminary. He 
 entered upon his missionary work in the autumn 
 of 1 89 1, full of hope and giving large promise of 
 effective service for Christ. His death will be deeply 
 mourned by the mission, not only because a brother 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 399 
 
 beloved has been taken, but because it leaves the 
 mission, already sorely depleted in its force, sadly 
 crippled. Who of the sons of Park College, or of 
 Princeton Seminary, will take the place of their fallen 
 brother ? — Church at Home and Abroad^ April, 1893. 
 
 Rev. G. W. Coan, D.D.* 
 
 The Rev. George Whitfield Coan, D.D., of the 
 mission to Persia, died at his home in Wooster, O. , 
 December 21, 1879. Dr. Coan joined the Nestorian 
 Mission in 1849. At that time it was composed of 
 Drs. Perkins and Wright (M.D.), and Messrs. Stock- 
 ing, Stoddard, Cochrane and Breath, with their 
 wives, and Misses Fiske and Rice, in charge of the 
 female seminary. All of these brethren and Miss 
 Fiske have preceded him by several years into the 
 rest and rewards of heaven. 
 
 At that time, also, the influence of the memorable 
 revival that visited Oroomiah in 1846 had spread into 
 the lower and eastern districts of the Koordish moun- 
 tains. Almost immediately on his arrival Mr. Coan 
 engaged in tours into the mountain regions of Koor- 
 distan, and in 185 1 he and Mrs. Coan, in company 
 with Mr. Rhea, who arrived in Persia in 1850, pro- 
 ceeded to Menrikau, a miserable little village in 
 Gawar, there to spend the winter, in the midst of 
 discomforts which cannot be described, nor even 
 imagined. In the wretchedness and filth of the 
 native houses, the roughness and ignorance of most 
 
 ■^ Omitted in the alphabetical order. 
 
400 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 of the inhabitants — especially the women — the low, 
 ding-y, smoke-stained walls of mud, the scanty light, 
 buried for months beneath the heavy mountain snows 
 and cut off from all communication with their asso- 
 ciates in Persia, they labored with content and true 
 devotion. 
 
 Dr. Coan's work was not in education, nor in trans- 
 lating, but in what might be called field work. He 
 labored among the churches where his memory is 
 fresh in many minds and hearts. He was emphatic- 
 ally a man among men. With a large field, embrac- 
 ing many villages widely scattered, and having at 
 different times the oversight of many helpers and the 
 care of many churches; making frequent and long, 
 and often dangerous tours in the mountains of Koor- 
 distan and beyond, as well as upon the plains of 
 Persia, he was everywhere and always the laborious, 
 indefatigable, earnest bishop of the infant churches 
 and the preacher of the word. 
 
 And for this work he had special qualifications. 
 Of fluent and even rapid utterance, and with a more 
 than usually correct knowledge and use of the S3^riac 
 language, he was an impressive and often eloquent 
 speaker. In sympathizing with pastors and people 
 in their burdens from poverty and the manifold op- 
 pressions and extortions to which they were subject, 
 his tenderness of heart was conspicuous. Having 
 been associated with him in some of his tours, I re- 
 member well his earnest and often impassioned utter- 
 ances, his solemn warnings and tender appeals, his 
 skillful questionings and fatherly counsels. Without 
 the special tastes and, perhaps, also without the 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 40I 
 
 Special aptitudes of the student and scholar, he was 
 eminently the "Soldier of the Cross," brave yet 
 tender. For years he bore the burden of physical 
 infirmity, as well as the heat of the day and the strife. 
 No man will ever know how much of pain, distress 
 and weariness he mastered and kept under, in order 
 that he might accomplish the ministry which he had 
 received of the Lord Jesus. In 1862 he was com- 
 pelled to seek rest by returning- to his native country, 
 and again in 1875. Yet since his return he has ac- 
 complished, through sheer force of resolute will and 
 devotion to the cause to which he had given his life, 
 an amount of labor that would have severely taxed 
 the soundest mind in the soundest body. In some- 
 thing like two years he traveled, in visiting the 
 churches, chiefly in the West, more than 25,000 
 miles, and spoke on an average, in behalf of missions, 
 more than fourteen times a week. No wonder that 
 he was compelled at last to find, in death, the rest he 
 needed, but found it impossible to take in life. 
 
 Many hearts will feel the wound, and many tears 
 will fall, in the villages of the plain of Oroomiah and 
 the valleys of Koordistan, when it is known in those 
 far-off regions that Coan Sahib has passed away. 
 
 "Servant of God, well done ! 
 Rest from thy loved employ : 
 The battle fought, the victory won, 
 Enter thy Master's joy. ' ' 
 
 —Rev, Henry M. Cobb, D.D. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 Mr. Fullerton's Narrative of Events at 
 futtehgurh. 
 
 Destruction of Mission Property at Mynpurie and 
 FuttengurJi — Distress of the Native Christians^ 
 and their Steadfastness in the Faith — The 
 Voyage, Capture and Death of the FiitteJigiirh 
 Missionaries. 
 
 Hardly ever have we read a more affecting Pxarra- 
 tive than is contained in the three following- letters. 
 We lay them before our readers without any com- 
 ments on them, which indeed would be out of place. 
 We trust they will be read by every member of our 
 church, and they will surely awaken mingled and 
 deep emotions of sorrow and of thanksgiving. — Fditor 
 F. M. 
 
 FuTTEHGURH, January i8, 1858. 
 
 My Dear : Before this reaches you, you will 
 
 have heard of the reoccupation of this place by the 
 English. A feeble effort was made by the Nawab at 
 Bhuda-gunj, some miles from this, to stay their 
 triumphant progress, but the bridge across the Kala 
 Nadi, which he had partly destroyed, was soon re- 
 paired by the troops of Sir Colin Campbell. The 
 
404 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 Nawab was driven from his position with the loss of 
 his guns, his troops were thoroughly disorganized, 
 and many of them were slain in the rout which 
 ensued. 
 
 On reaching the city the Nawab set fire to his palace, 
 and then fled across the Ganges, and soon after, the 
 English took possession of the station. 
 
 With the army a number of our native Christians, 
 who had found their way to Cawnpore, returned; and 
 as they found that there was no one here to take an 
 interest in them, they wrote to Agra asking one of us 
 to come over, intimating at the same time that a large 
 amount of mission property might be recovered if one 
 of us would come over at once. On the receipt of 
 this letter, it was decided that I should come ; but how 
 to get here was the question. The road between 
 Agra and this place was not considered safe, and we 
 could hear of no escort coming this way. While dis- 
 cussing this matter, we heard that our old friend Mr. 
 Raikes had been invited to join the camp of the com- 
 mander-in-chief, as civil commissioner. On hearing 
 that I wished to come to Futtehgurh, he offered me 
 a seat in his private carriage ; thus adding to the long 
 list of obligations under which he has laid me since I 
 came to India. We left Agra on the 15th inst., with 
 an escort of four Sikh horsemen well armed. These 
 were changed at the police stations along the road. 
 We reached Mynpurie a little after dark of the same 
 day, where we put up with Mr. Boldero, the magis- 
 trate and collector of the district (and a member of 
 our church in Agra). We found the joint magistrate, 
 Mr. Chaise, and him living together in a house much 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 405 
 
 the worse for the recent outbreak. There was not a 
 door or window in it; and half of the building had 
 no other roof than the blue vault of heaven, studded 
 with brilliant stars, which poured a flood of light 
 upon us from a cloudless sky. When I arose in the 
 morning I found that we were in an intrenched posi- 
 tion, where half a dozen Englishmen held the district 
 and governed it by means of native officials, long 
 after surrounding districts had become scenes of 
 anarchy and confusion; but the place at length be- 
 came too hot for them, and they had to take refuge 
 in the fort at Agra. Bad as the magistrate's house 
 is, it is the best in the place; the rest are so badly 
 injured that it will be difficult if not impossible to re- 
 pair them. 
 
 At an early hour I started in search of Hulas Roy, 
 one of our catechists, and the head master of the city 
 school. The road which I took led me through the 
 Mission Compound. This was my first home in 
 India, and a happy one it was. I approached it, as I 
 have always done when I have returned to it, with 
 feelings of much interest; but alas! how changed. 
 The roof of half of the rooms has fallen in, and the 
 timbers sustaining the remainder in the other rooms 
 have been so weakened by fire that some of them will 
 probably have to be taken down ; the walls are black, 
 and some of them are almost ready to fall; the 
 grounds about the buildings have become a jungle, 
 and the whole place wears a most desolate appear- 
 ance. The little church is still standing; but nothing 
 but the shell remains. The schoolhouse near the 
 city is in a pretty good state of repair. The reason 
 
4o6 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 of this is, that the Rajah seized it for himself, making 
 it his office. Here he transacted the most of his 
 business during the rebellion. 
 
 After a short search, I found Hulas in Deopura, 
 occupying a miserable hovel. He and his wife and 
 child barely escaped death from the hands of the 
 sepoys. They are very poor, having been robbed 
 three times during the summer. All that they saved 
 was a few books which they buried in the ground, 
 and which I found him drying upon a charpoy, or 
 bedstead, the only article of furniture I saw in the 
 house. 
 
 Having assured him that the long and gloomy night 
 of terror, which for months past has hung over us, was 
 drawing to a close, and that the dawn of a brighter 
 day was probably near at hand ; and having promised 
 to see him on my return from Futtehgurh, I retraced 
 my steps and reached Mr. Boldero's by ten o'clock — 
 the time we had determined to resume our journey. 
 
 As the country between Mynpurie and this place 
 was still unsettled, we increased our guard to twenty- 
 five men before starting, a precaution that was thought 
 necessary to secure our safety. At Bewar we found 
 the horses of Mr. Boldero and Mr. Chaise awaiting 
 our arrival, having been sent out during the night ; 
 leaving our carriage to follow us, we mounted them 
 and a ride of a few hours brought us to Futtehgurh. 
 
 We found the country under a much better state of 
 cultivation than we had anticipated, but evidences of 
 the outbreak were everywhere visible, in roofless 
 villages, ruined dak bungalows, police stations and 
 milestones, and in the extreme poverty of the people. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 407 
 
 During the reign of anarchy one village has plundered 
 and burned another, until they are nearly all ruined. 
 I did not see a woman or a child in Mynpurie, Bho- 
 gaon, or Bewar, Hulas Roy's wife and child excepted. 
 All had fled to distant villages. 
 
 On reaching Futtehgurh, I made my way at once 
 to Rukha, expecting to find it unoccupied save by our 
 native Christians, but what was my astonishment to 
 find it the headquarters of the commander-in-chief. 
 Ten thousand British soldiers, and almost as many 
 camp followers, are encamped in and about the 
 premises. Their canvas houses stretch far away to 
 the south and west, covering all the land belonging 
 to the mission and filling the large mango groves be- 
 yond our little burial ground. Every place swarms 
 with oxen, buffaloes, horses, camels and elephants; 
 while artillery wagons, baggage wagons and private 
 conveyances in vast numbers are found wherever 
 there is room for them to stand. 
 
 My first business was to look for our native Chris- 
 tians, but a glance at the state of the mission premises 
 said to me louder than words could speak, ''they 
 can't be here." 
 
 There is not a roof, a door, or a window, or even a 
 piece of wood as large as a walking stick in the place. 
 The bungalows occupied by the missionaries, the old 
 church, the orphanage, the tent manufactory and the 
 Christian village have been involved in one common 
 ruin. Some of the walls of these buildings have 
 fallen down, filling the rooms with heaps of rubbish ; 
 others are leaning and ready to fall; and still others 
 are so cracked and broken that they will probably 
 
4o8 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 have to come down before they can be repaired. The 
 walls and steeple of the new church are still standing; 
 but its roof has been destroyed, and its timbers and 
 everything movable taken away. 
 
 The first place I entered was the bungalow re- 
 cently occupied by the Freemans. Here the Walshes 
 and the Seelys welcomed us to their field of labor 
 seven years ago, and here two years ago we met 
 nearly all the brethren of our mission. Every room 
 had its associations, and the contrast between the 
 past and the present filled my soul with sadness. I 
 passed on into the orphanage, at the back part of the 
 house. Here we had often seen Mrs. Walsh at her 
 labors; and here the Master said to dear Mrs. 
 Freeman, 
 
 "Servant of God, well done ; 
 Rest from thy blest employ." 
 
 The place was filled with oxen ; I looked at it but for 
 a moment and then turned away. I next directed 
 my steps to the bungalow in which the McMullins 
 lived at the time of the outbreak. Here we had lived 
 three months, awaiting our baggage on our first 
 arrival in the country. Here the Campbells lived 
 after us; and here I saw them surrounded by their 
 three beautiful children two years ago. The walls of 
 their drawing room sheltered now an elephant from the 
 cold west wind, and other parts of the building were 
 occupied as a stable for oxen. I went to the little 
 church in which our first annual meeting was held, 
 during my last visit to the station ; and where only 
 two short years ago I spent one of the most delightful 
 
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 communion Sabbaths it has ever been my lot to 
 enjoy. But where are my fellow-communicants who 
 sat down with me then at the table of our Lord ? The 
 Freemans, the Campbells and the Johnsons ? Our 
 other missionary brethren? The young- convert who 
 that day renounced the religion of the false prophet, 
 and who with tears of penitence cast in his lot with 
 the people of God ? Poor Babar Khan ! who wept 
 for joy over a brother who " was lost and is found" ? 
 and poor Dhokal ? The large number of native 
 brethren who partook with us of the feast which was 
 spread before us ? 
 
 " All are scattered now and fled, 
 Some are living and some are dead ; 
 And when, I ask, with throbs of pain, 
 When shall these all meet again ?' ' 
 
 The roofless buildings and the blackened walls 
 around me reply, ''Never, until ye eat bread in 
 your Father's house above." 
 
 As I could not find the living, I paid a visit to the 
 home of the dead. A short walk brought me to our 
 little mission graveyard. Here lie the remains of 
 dear Mrs. Seely, v/hom all loved who knew her. As 
 I approached her grave, the recollections of the past 
 were so vivid, that I felt that she must rise and meet 
 me, with one of the smiles of welcome with which 
 she was ever wont to meet her friends; and although 
 the feeling was not realized, I could not help saying 
 to myself, *'She is not dead, but sleepeth." Here, 
 too, the hand of the destroyer has been busy; her 
 grave remains untouched, but the tomb over it has 
 been broken to pieces and carried away. 
 
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 When I remembered that it was for these rebels 
 that she gave up the endearments of home, and 
 severed the ties that bound her to the country that 
 gave her birth, to Hve, to labor and to die in a strange 
 land, a feeling of resentment against them for their 
 ingratitude momentarily took possession of my 
 breast; but the prayer of Christ, who came to his 
 own and they received him not, but on the contrary, 
 platted a crown of thorns and placed it upon his 
 head, scourged him, and led him away to be crucified, 
 came to my recollection; and I knew if her body 
 could burst from the cerements of the tomb, her meek 
 and gentle spirit would lead her to say, " Father, 
 forgive them; for they know not what they do." 
 The gate of the graveyard has been carried away, 
 and the most of the tombs destroyed, and the place, 
 like every other about the premises, filled with oxen. 
 I returned at dark to the place where I had left my 
 horse, not knowing where I was to pass the night. 
 
 A pious captain, by the name of , a grandson of 
 
 Mrs. , the friend of Cowper, heard that there 
 
 was a missionary in camp, and sent for me. I dined 
 with him, and spent the evening with him. At a 
 late hour, having procured a charpoy from the good 
 captain's Christian clerk, I wrapped my resai, or 
 quilt, about me, and laid me down, thinking of the 
 137th Psalm: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we 
 sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." 
 Alas! how changed and sad our mission is now. 
 But how impotent is the rage of our enemies; they 
 may triumph for a season, burn our churches, kill 
 our missionaries, and scatter our people, but they 
 
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 cannot prevail against the cause of Christ. We are 
 weak, but our Master is strong; this is a thought 
 with which the Psalmist was wont to comfort himself 
 under trouble. 
 
 * ' My days are like a shadow that declineth ; and I 
 am withered like grass. But thou, O Lord, vShalt 
 endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all 
 generations. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon 
 Zion : for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is 
 come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, 
 and favor the dust thereof. So the heathen shall 
 fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the 
 earth thy glory." 
 
 In my next letter, I will tell you something about 
 our native Christians. 
 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 R. S. FULLERTON. 
 
 FuTTEHGURH, January 25, 1858. 
 
 My Dear : I promised in my last letter to tell 
 
 you in this something about our native Christians. 
 This promise I now proceed to fulfill. 
 
 I reached the station on Saturday evening, but I 
 did not succeed in finding our poor native brethren 
 imtil late in the evening of the next day. I at length 
 found them in the cantonment bazar, in a building 
 with a courtyard in the centre. 
 
 As soon as it was known that I had arrived, men, 
 women and children gathered around me. We met 
 in silence, neither they nor I could for a time trust 
 our voices to speak, for fear we should break down. 
 
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 When I remembered that it was for these rebels 
 that she gave up the endearments of home, and 
 severed the ties that bound her to the country that 
 gave her birth, to hve, to labor and to die in a strange 
 land, a feeling of resentment against them for their 
 ingratitude momentarily took possession of my 
 breast; but the prayer of Christ, who came to his 
 own and they received him not, but on the contrary, 
 platted a crown of thorns and placed it upon his 
 head, scourged him, and led him away to be crucified, 
 came to my recollection; and I knew if her body 
 could burst from the cerements of the tomb, her meek 
 and gentle spirit would lead her to say, " Father, 
 forgive them; for they know not what they do." 
 The gate of the graveyard has been carried away, 
 and the most of the tombs destroyed, and the place, 
 like every other about the premises, filled with oxen. 
 I returned at dark to the place where I had left my 
 horse, not knowing where I was to pass the night. 
 
 A pious captain, by the name of , a grandson of 
 
 Mrs. , the friend of Cowper, heard that there 
 
 was a missionary in camp, and sent for me. I dined 
 with him, and spent the evening with him. At a 
 late hour, having procured a charpoy from the good 
 captain's Christian clerk, I wrapped my resaz, or 
 quilt, about me, and laid me down, thinking of the 
 137th Psalm: ''By the rivers of Babylon, there we 
 sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." 
 Alas! how changed and sad our mission is now. 
 But how impotent is the rage of our enemies; they 
 may triumph for a season, burn our churches, kill 
 our missionaries, and scatter our people, but they 
 
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 cannot prevail against the cause of Christ. We are 
 weak, but our Master is strong; this is a thought 
 with which the Psahnist was Vv^ont to comfort himself 
 under trouble. 
 
 ' ' My days are like a shadow that declineth ; and I 
 am withered like grass. But thou, O Lord, shalt 
 endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all 
 generations. Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon 
 Zion : for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is 
 come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, 
 and favor the dust thereof. So the heathen shall 
 fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the 
 earth thy glory." 
 
 In my next letter, I will tell you something about 
 our native Christians. 
 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 R. S. FULLERTON. 
 
 FuTTEHGURH, January 25, 1858. 
 
 My Dear : I promised in my last letter to tell 
 
 you in this something about our native Christians. 
 This promise I now proceed to fulfill. 
 
 I reached the station on Saturday evening, but I 
 did not succeed in finding our poor native brethren 
 imtil late in the evening of the next day. I at length 
 found them in the cantonment bazar, in a building 
 with a courtyard in the centre. 
 
 As soon as it was known that I had arrived, men, 
 women and children gathered around me. We met 
 in silence, neither they nor I could for a time trust 
 our voices to speak, for fear we should break down. 
 
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 They are the children of the mission, and in Rukha 
 they had found a happy home. In the midst of their 
 prosperity, and at a time they least expected it, the 
 storm arose, which has swept with such pitiless fury 
 over these provinces, desolating many of its fairest 
 fields, and fiUing many of its homes with unutterable 
 woe. It seized them and scattered them like the 
 leaves of the forest. For seven or eight months they 
 were driven by it wherever it listed. I saw its effect 
 upon them, in their miserable clothing, and in their 
 emaciated appearance, but I shall not attempt to de- 
 scribe what my feelings were. They no doubt 
 thought of their murdered teachers and brethren, 
 whose faces they will see no more ; of their wander- 
 ings and their sufferings since they were driven from 
 the station; and their feelings at their return were 
 probably not unlike those which heave the breast of 
 the survivors of a shipwreck on escaping from the 
 horrors of a water}^ grave. When I could control my 
 feehngs, I asked for a Bible and a hymn book. We 
 then sang the 23d Psalm, and read the 103d, and 
 then kneeling down upon the bare ground of the 
 courtyard, we lifted our hearts in prayer to God, 
 thanking him for his many mercies to us during the 
 terrible months (which seem like so many years) 
 which have intervened since these calamities over- 
 took us, and for permitting so many of us to return 
 to our homes in peace. The absent ones were re- 
 membered, and we did not forget to pray that those 
 evils may be overruled for good to ourselves, to the 
 heathen and to the church. When we arose, each 
 had his tale of sorrow and of sufferino- to relate. The 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 413 
 
 missionaries left the station on the 4th of June, but the 
 native Christians remained until the 19th. During 
 this time they were exposed to the greatest dangers. 
 The native regiment had mutinied on the 4th, seized 
 the treasury, and carried it to the parade ground, 
 and placed their own guard over it. The brave old 
 colonel (Col. Smith) remained with them, trying to 
 bring them back to their allegiance; and up to the 
 19th, showed much interest in the villagers of Rukha. 
 He gave them arms, and told them to defend them- 
 selves, if molested, until he could come to their 
 rescue. His entrenchment was a mile distant. Three 
 times they were attacked by large bodies of men, but 
 were as often delivered out of their hands by the 
 kind-hearted old colonel. On the i8th, two mutinous 
 regiments came to the station, and then the work of 
 plunder and destruction commenced. As soon as the 
 property was removed, the buildings were fired, and 
 soon the station was a heap of smouldering ruins. 
 Rukha stands a little out of the station, and hence 
 escaped until the next morning; by this time the 
 villagers in the neighborhood had risen, and they 
 now surrounded the place in great numbers, not for 
 the purpose of killing its occupants, but for the pur- 
 pose of plundering it. They went systematically to 
 work; they first plundered the church, then the 
 houses of the missionaries, then the tent manufac- 
 tory, and last of all the native Christians. They 
 began about eight o'clock, and by noon their work 
 was done, and the premises were left in the state 
 which I described in my last letter. 
 
 While all this was occurring at Rukha, a similar 
 
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 work was going on at Bharpur. This is where 
 Brother Campbell and Brother Johnson together with 
 a number of native brethren lived. And I will here 
 say, that I may not have to refer to it again, that the 
 condition of the premises at this place differs in no 
 respect from those of Rukha. But to return to 
 Rukha, after the native Christians had been robbed 
 of everything but what they had on and the few 
 valuables they had about their persons, they scattered, 
 some going to one village and some to another, but 
 still remaining within a short distance of their old 
 homes. For a few days they felt comparatively 
 secure, as they had now little to lose but their lives, 
 and as thej^ had escaped with these on the 19th, they 
 hoped they would not be disturbed in future. But 
 the Nawab issued an order that they should be seized 
 and killed, at the same time offering a reward for 
 their heads. 
 
 On hearing this they fled in all directions; some, 
 after many hair-breadth escapes, reached Cawnpore, 
 just after it had been retaken by Gen. Havelock, 
 where the Rev. Mr. Gregson, of the Baptist Mission, 
 rendered them every assistance in his power. By the 
 time they reached that place they had scarcely a rag 
 to cover their nakedness, having been stripped of 
 everything by the way. But all who set out for 
 Cawnpore were not so fortunate as to reach it. A 
 number of little children, unable to endure the priva- 
 tions and hardships of the journey, died. A mother, 
 too, the wife of an esteemed catechist, John F. Hous- 
 ton, fell sick, and by some means became separated 
 from the rest of the company. She had with her an 
 
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 unweaned child. When they were next seen they 
 were lying side by side in a poor hovel at the edge of 
 a village. Both were dead ! There was no one near 
 to administer to the wants of that dying mother. 
 She needed no one to smooth her pillow, for her only 
 bed was the hard ground. There was no one there 
 to give her a cup of cold water, or to direct her 
 thoughts above ; none to quiet her child or to give it 
 food; and none when the breath left their bodies to 
 carry them to .the grave. For several days they were 
 left lying where they died. They were Christians. 
 The proud Moslem would not touch them, because 
 their faith differed from his own, and the Hindu 
 would not do it for fear of losing caste. At last, 
 when they could remain no longer in the village, 
 some sweepers came, carried them out and threw 
 them into a neighboring stream. 
 
 But did I say that this mother and her child were 
 alone? No, they were not alone ! //t^ was with them 
 who says, " Zt*, I am zvitJi you ahvay^ " and the angels 
 were with them, who bore Lazarus from his wretched- 
 ness on earth to a place in Abraham's bosom.. Their 
 afflictions were but for a moment ; they now enjoy an 
 "exceeding and an eternal weight of glory." Let 
 me die among cold and heartless strangers, destitute, 
 afflicted and far from human sympathy ; let the cold 
 ground be my dying bed, and the turbid stream my 
 last resting place, but " let me die the death of the 
 righteous, and let my last end be like his." 
 
 Those of our native Christians who did not make 
 for Cawnpore, fled to distant villages. Some found a 
 friendly shelter under the roof of the Zamindars, where 
 
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 they earned a livelihood for themselves and families 
 for seven months, by working" in the fields for about 
 three cents a day. Others were less fortunate, they 
 entered villages which were hostile to them, and had 
 to flee from place to place, each day expecting that it 
 would be their last. They were stripped of their cloth- 
 ing and were sometimes whole days without food. 
 Sometimes they had nothing to eat but a little meal 
 mixed with water, and at others they lived upon the 
 ears of corn which they plucked from the fields. 
 
 But the case of the six blind orphan girls, poor 
 blind Lulloo and Kurga, the leper, is the one which 
 has excited my commiseration most. Here were 
 seven persons without eyes, and one who is most 
 helpless, who were driven from their homes at the 
 beginning of the rainy season. Such persons would 
 not want in any village at home, but it is not so here. 
 Hindus turn away even from Hindus who are afflicted 
 in this way, because they look upon their sufferings 
 as the just retribution of heaven upon them for their 
 sins in a former birth. What, then, could these poor 
 Christians expect from them ? They, no doubt, ex- 
 pected but little, and it was but little they received. 
 They were sometimes days and nights without a 
 shelter, and had it not been that he who hears the 
 young ravens when they cry sheltered them and pro- 
 vided for them, they must have perished. 
 
 I was here several days before I found out where 
 they were. Having then learned that they were in a 
 village some distance from the place where I am 
 stopping, I rode out to see them. They were living 
 in a miserable shed ; all were present but one. Their 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 417 
 
 poverty surpassed anything- I ever saw before. All 
 they possessed in the world would not have sold for 
 twenty-five cents in the streets of New York. They 
 were overjoyed when they heard my voice. At one 
 time they no doubt felt that their friends and teachers 
 had all been killed, and that they would never meet 
 any of us again, and hence we need not wonder at 
 their joy. I found poor LuUoo lying on the ground, 
 sick of a fever, and with nothing but a few rags to 
 cover him. I asked him if he had found Christ precious 
 during the long months of suffering through which 
 he had passed. His reply w^as, "Oh, yes! in dukh 
 (pain) and in sukh (ease), he is ever the same." As 
 I was returning, I met poor blind Susan, who I had 
 heard was in search of me. A little boy was leading 
 her. I asked her who she was. Her reply was, " I 
 am a poor blind girl; I have been looking for my 
 padri, but I can't find him. " When she learned who I 
 was, her lips trembled with emotion, while she 
 thanked me for coming to see them. " Oh, sir," she 
 said, " it is very kind of you to come so far to look 
 after poor blind people like us." Poor girl, she little 
 knew what a privilege I felt it to be. And who would 
 not esteem it a privilege, seeing that our blessed 
 Redeemer has said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it 
 unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have 
 done it unto me"? 
 
 Oh ! who, under these circumstances, would lose an 
 opportunity to administer to the wants of the lowly ? 
 And who would not serve a Master who thus highly 
 esteems the services of those who make them the 
 objects of their care? 
 
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 Dhokal and his family were killed in this station 
 by the order of the Nawab. Twenty-nine Christians 
 were killed at the same time. I heard in Agra that 
 twenty-one of these belonged to Rukha, but this 
 has not been corroborated here. We have not yet 
 learned, with a few exceptions, who they were. 
 There are nearly a hundred native Christians, includ- 
 ing young and old, here now. Through the kindness 
 of Major Conran, to whom our Afghan mission is so 
 much indebted, Dr. Farquhar, C. S. ; W. H. Lowe, 
 C. S. ; C. Raikes, C. S. ; Lieutenant Harrington and 
 a few other friends, they have all been placed out of 
 the reach of immediate want, and will now, I hope, 
 be able to earn a livelihood for themselves. 
 
 I am glad that I am able to say, in conclusion, that 
 although some of them were seized and threatened 
 with death if they refused to become Mohammedans, 
 I have not heard of a single case of apostasy among 
 them. But I must close. 
 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 R. S. FULLERTON. 
 
 FuTTEHGURH, January 30, 1858. 
 
 My Dear : You have already heard from us at 
 
 different times all we know about the fate of our dear 
 missionary brethren who labored here, and I know 
 not that I can give you any additional information 
 upon the subject. Still, you will, no doubt, feel in- 
 terested in hearing what eye-witnesses of what befell 
 them have to say with regard to it. 
 
 I have heard many stories respecting their end, 
 many of which were conflicting, but, by taking the 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 419 
 
 parties relating them one by one and privately ex- 
 amining them, I think that I have arrived at the 
 truth. 
 
 The native brethren say that for nearly three weeks 
 before the troops at the station mutinied, the mis- 
 sionaries and themselves were in the greatest state of 
 alarm. Mr. Campbell and Mr. Johnson, with their 
 families, came in from Bharpur; the former stayed 
 with the Freemans, the latter with the McMuUins. 
 They had but little fear that their own regiment, the 
 loth N. I., would mutiny, because it was one that 
 had greatly distinguished itself for its fidelity in the 
 last Burmah war, but large bodies of mutinous troops 
 were daily passing near the station and they did not 
 know what moment they might be attacked by them. 
 In consequence of this, they patroled the mission 
 premises every night, and had their horses harnessed, 
 so that they might fly at a moment's warning. 
 
 On the morning of June 3, the regiment at the 
 station showed signs of an intention to mutiny, and 
 that night the European officers slept in the lines 
 with the sepoys. Col. Smith made every exertion to 
 keep them from throwing off their allegiance, and in 
 this he would have succeeded if it had not been for 
 the fact that half of the regiment was composed of 
 new recruits. The old soldiers were disposed to re- 
 main true to their colors, but the recruits wished at 
 once to join the rebels. The next morning they 
 seized the treasury and carried it to the parade 
 ground, and were in an open state of mutiny. The 
 brave old colonel, however, still remained with them, 
 trying to bring them back to their allegiance. In 
 
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 this he so far succeeded that they promised, and 
 sealed it with a most solemn oath, that if the past 
 were forgiven they would remain true to him — a 
 promise and an oath which they most shamefully 
 broke a few days afterwards. 
 
 On the 3d, when the disturbance in the regiment 
 commenced, the European residents nearly all made 
 arrangements to leave the station, by boats, for 
 Cawnpore. Some spent the night on board and 
 others remained in bungalows on the bank of the 
 river. Our missionaries went to the house of Mr. 
 McLain, an indigo planter, living near the river. In 
 the night, brother Campbell returned, and walked for 
 several hours in the garden with the native brethren, 
 advising them and trying to strengthen their faith. 
 He told them he had little hope himself of escaping, 
 but that he felt less concern about himself than he 
 did for them. They speak of his return and the ad- 
 vice he gave them, with much gratitude. 
 
 On the morning of the 4th, when the residents of 
 the station heard that the regiment had seized the 
 treasury, they fled to their boats and dropped down 
 the river. There were four boats; our brethren were 
 in that of Mr. McLain, who seems to have shown 
 them the greatest kindness. 
 
 When they reached Rawal Gunje, eight miles from 
 Futtehgurh, the villagers came out with clubs in- 
 tending to plunder them, but when they saw that the 
 party was armed they did not attempt it. At Singi- 
 rampore they were fired on by a large number of 
 matchlock men. Their fire was returned, and they, 
 too, made off. The party then, for mutual protec- 
 
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 tion, all got into one boat, leaving their baggage in 
 the other three. The latter were soon plundered. 
 
 They met with no further interruption until they 
 reached Quasampore, a Mohammedan village. Here 
 they were again fired on, and one of the party was 
 v/ounded severely in the thigh. The fire was re- 
 turned, and eight of the villagers were killed. This 
 gave them a check, but still they followed them for 
 nearly an hour. On the evening of the third day 
 after leaving Futtehgurh, they went ashore to cook a 
 little food. Here they fell into the hands of a power- 
 ful Zamindar, who asked them whence they came 
 and whither they v/ere going. On hearing their 
 reply, he told them that they were now at his mercy. 
 They offered him a thousand rupees if he would let 
 them off and help them to get down to Cawnpore; 
 promising to pay five hundred down and the other 
 five hundred on their reaching the end of their 
 journey. These conditions were accepted, the money 
 was collected and paid. The treacherous Zamindar 
 then said, ''I will give you five men here and the 
 rest at a village a short distance lower down the 
 river." Of the five men, only one went on board, 
 and the rest managed to run away, and this was all 
 the assistance they received from him. 
 
 The party after this floated down with the current 
 for two days and nights, without stopping and with- 
 out meeting with any further interruption during that 
 time. 
 
 On the evening of the fifth day after leaving Fut- 
 tehgurh, they reached an island five miles below 
 Bithoor, the residence of the bloody Nana Sahib, and 
 
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 as many above Cawnpore. Here they tied their boat 
 to the shore, and hired a man to carry a note to Sir 
 Hugh Wheeler, who was at this time besieged by the 
 rebels under the Nana Sahib. The object of the 
 party was to get an escort so that they might get into 
 the trenches; but the man whom they sent never re- 
 turned. For three days they remained at the island 
 trying to communicate with Sir Hugh, but all their 
 efforts failed. 
 
 During^ all this time the roar of artillery was dis- 
 tinctly heard, and the fugitives were placed in a most 
 tr3'-ing position. Below them was a bridge of boats, 
 so that it was impossible for them to get down the 
 river, and above them the whole country was swarm- 
 ing with enemies, so that it was impossible to return. 
 
 On the fourth day they saw some sepoys crossing 
 the bridge, but they thought little of it, supposing 
 that they were going to Lucknow. But they soon 
 learned their mistake, for the sepoys very soon after 
 crossing opened fire on them from a cornfield on the 
 Oude side. The first cannon ball struck within a 
 foot of the boat, the second killed a child, and the 
 third killed a lady and a native nurse. The whole 
 party then left the boat and concealed themselves 
 among the long grass on the island. Here they re- 
 mained for a little while, and then sought the protec- 
 tion of a few sissoo trees which were at some distance, 
 as they found the heat of the sim very great. Under 
 their shadow they found a well and some native huts. 
 They asked the owner for water, but he would 
 neither draw it for them nor allow them to draw it 
 for themselves. When one of the three native Chris- 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 423 
 
 tian young- men who were with them saw this, he 
 went to the river and brought water for them until 
 all were satisfied. 
 
 The party consisted of 126 persons. One of the 
 missionaries now arose and said, * ' Our last day has in 
 all probability come; Ictus, therefore, commend our 
 souls to God in prayer." Br. Freeman read a portion 
 of vScripture, and made a few remarks. They then 
 sang a hymn and all kneeled down, and Br. F. led 
 them in prayer. Another hymn was then sung, and 
 Br. Campbell made some remarks and led in prayer. 
 The party then held a short consultation among 
 themselves, after which those who had arms took 
 them and threw them into the river. An hour or 
 two after this, a party of sepoys appeared on the right 
 bank, procured a boat and crossed over, and made 
 them prisoners. When they reached the main land, 
 some of the party told the sepoys that the most of 
 them were not connected with government in any 
 way; that they were merchants, indigo planters, 
 teachers, missionaries, etc., who, since they had been 
 in the country, had pursued peaceful callings, and 
 that they should not therefore molest them. A few 
 of the sepoys said that this was true, and were dis- 
 posed to let them go ; but others said, * ' No, away with 
 them to the Nana Sahib, and let them be killed, that 
 the seed of the foreigners may not remain in the 
 country." The latter party prevailed, and proceeded 
 to bind their prisoners together two and two. Where 
 they were husband and wife, they were allowed to be 
 tied t02fether, the left hand of the husband beinof tied 
 to the right hand of his wife. The Campbells were 
 
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 thus tied; Br. Campbell carried Willey in his arms, a 
 friend carrying Fanny for him. None of the other 
 missionaries had any children in this country. When 
 they were about to set out for Cawnpore, Mr. McLain 
 offered the sepoys $150,000, if they would let them 
 go ; but they said, " It is blood we want, not money. " 
 Before they set out, the missionaries found an oppor- 
 tunity to tell the three native Christian men to make 
 their escape, as they would surely be put to death if 
 it should be found out that they were Christians. 
 Mrs. Freeman's last words to them were, "Give 
 Prem our salam, and tell him that our end has 
 come." There was still a little Christian nurse, Mar- 
 garet, who remained with them, and to whom I am 
 indebted for an account of the march to Cawnpore. 
 
 The party set out about five o'clock in the evening. 
 They had eaten but little for several days, and their 
 anxiety and their fasting had rendered them very 
 weak. This was especially the case with some of the 
 ladies. Half way between the river and Cawnpore 
 some of the part}^ gave out. A halt was called ; the 
 sepoys formed a ring around the prisoners, and here 
 they remained all night. A water carrier gave them 
 water, but nothing was offered them to eat. Mar- 
 garet says that none but the little children slept, that 
 all seemed to be engaged in meditation and prayer. 
 The march was resumed at an early hour in the 
 morning, and they had not gone far until they met 
 three carriages which the Nana Sahib sent out for the 
 ladies, who were unable to walk further. When they 
 reached the station it was still very early, and they 
 were shut up in a house, the native servants who had 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 425 
 
 accompanied them excepted. Upon the latter bemg 
 told that they must leave the station at once or be put 
 to death, they fled. Here Margaret's account of them 
 ends; but little remains to be told. At seven a.m. of 
 the same day, which could not have been more than 
 an hour after their arrival, they were all taken out to 
 the parade ground and shot, without reference to 
 age, condition, or sex. In the case of those who were 
 only wounded, they were at once dispatched with the 
 sword. 
 
 I had this from an eye-witness, a servant of the 
 Maharajah Dhalip Sing, who accompanied Mr. 
 Elliott, the agent of the Maharajah, to the station. 
 After the servants were ordered off, he withdrew, dis- 
 guised himself, and mingled with the throng who 
 witnessed the death of the party, that he might see 
 what became of his master. Beyond being made 
 prisoners, marched into the station on foot, and put 
 to death, they were not called on to suffer any indig- 
 nities. They were bound, but it was with a small 
 cord, and it was done in such a manner as not to give 
 them pain. 
 
 God in mercy seems to have restrained the Nana 
 Sahib and his followers in the case of this party, 
 though they, had previously been guilty of the most 
 shocking barbarities towards the residents of the sta- 
 tion, and though they were afterwards guilty of com- 
 mitting outrages upon the unfortunate victims who 
 fell into their hands, which render Cawnpore a name 
 of terror to all who hear it. But though our dear 
 brethren were spared what others suffered, who can 
 estimate what they suffered before leaving Futteh- 
 
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 gurh, by the way, on the island, below Bithoor, and on 
 the sad march into Cawnpore ? But their sufferings are 
 at an end. What is so dark to us is light to them. 
 While we mourn they rejoice. We are still pilgrims 
 and strangers in the earth, and know not what toils 
 and trials await us; but their pilgrimage is ended, 
 their toils and trials past, and they now enjoy the rest 
 that remaineth to the people of God. May their 
 faith and hope and zeal be ours, and like them may 
 we be found following where the Master leads, un- 
 concerned about the toils and roughness of the way; 
 so that we, too, may "finish our course with joy." 
 You may perhaps think that this account of the last 
 days of our much lamented brethren is unnecessarily 
 minute. But I have thought that anything concern- 
 ing them would not only be of interest to you, and to 
 their many relatives and friends in America, who be- 
 wail their loss, but to the church whose servants they 
 were. 
 
 One question, and I am done. Who is to take 
 their place? Eight laborers have fallen. Who will 
 occupy their field ? Ask the theological students of 
 America this, and remind them that " He that reapeth 
 receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal. " 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 R. S. FULLERTON. 
 
 Rev. David Irving, D.D. 
 
 We record with tender emotions the death of our 
 esteemed and beloved associate. Rev. David Irving, 
 D. D., which occurred at his home, in Orange, N. J., 
 
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 October 12, 1885, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. 
 During his attendance upon tlie Council at Belfast, 
 last year, he met with an accident from which he 
 never fully recovered, but which weakened and in the 
 end paralyzed his entire system and closed his useful 
 life. 
 
 The services at his funeral and burial were con- 
 ducted by Dr. Wells, President of the Board; Dr. 
 John Hall, his companion at the Belfast Council; 
 Dr. Yeomans, pastor of Orange Central Church, 
 where his family worship; Dr. Hickok, pastor of 
 Brick Church, Orange; Dr. Paxton, of Princeton, 
 and Dr. Arthur Mitchell, Associate Secretary. The 
 members of the Board attended the funeral as 
 mourners. 
 
 The memorial sketches, so truthful and appropriate, 
 spoken at the funeral, will doubtless be gathered in a 
 family volume, and be a precious memento also to 
 many outside the family circle. 
 
 Dr. Irving was born at Annandale, Dumfriesshire, 
 Scotland, August 31, 182 1. He pursued his classical 
 education in Scotland, and, coming to America, 
 was graduated at the Theological Seminary at 
 Princeton. 
 
 In 1846 he went to India as a missionary of this 
 Board, and was stationed at Futtehgurh, but after 
 three years' service was obliged to return home in 
 consequence of the failing health of Mrs. Irving. He 
 then became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at 
 North Salem, N. Y., where he remained five years, 
 when he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian 
 Church at Morristown, N. J. During these pastorates 
 
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 he took a lively interest in the work of the Foreign 
 Board, was frequently at the Mission House for de- 
 tailed information, and raised greatly the standard of 
 beneficence among the people by exciting their 
 special interest in foreign missions. While laboring, 
 with great acceptance, at Morristown, a call was ex- 
 tended to him to become Secretary of this Board, as 
 the associate of Walter Lowrie and Dr. John C. 
 Lowrie. This was by unanimous vote of the Execu- 
 tive Committee at its meeting, April 17, 1865, and 
 was ratified at the annual meeting of the Board in 
 May following. 
 
 It is interesting to recall the names of the Execu- 
 tive Committee who selected Dr. Irving from among 
 the prominent men of the church for this important 
 office. The members present at the meeting were 
 Drs. John M. Krebs, Nathan L. Rice, John D. Wells, 
 Charles K. Imbrie, Messrs. James Lenox, Robert L. 
 Stuart, Robert Carter, Lebbeus B. Ward and J. 
 Talbot Olyphant, and ex-officio Walter Lowrie, Dr. 
 John C. Lowrie and William Rankin. 
 
 Though dwelling among a united and loving peo- 
 ple, and enjoying one of the most desirable parishes 
 in the country, yet his love for the work to which he 
 had early consecrated his life led him to accept this 
 trying and responsible position to which he was now 
 called. During his twenty years of service, Dr. 
 Irving performed an amount of labor which only a 
 strong physical constitution could have undergone, 
 and which the volumes of official correspondence on 
 our shelves, the carefully prepared papers on mission 
 subjects, the annual reports, and the Foreign Mis- 
 
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 sionary^ of which for most of the time he was sole 
 editor, are the evidence. 
 
 Dr. Irving's experience as a missionary, added to 
 his thorough knowledge of the work of our own and 
 kindred societies, and his wide acquaintance with the 
 churches, gave to his judgment on all questions 
 brought before the Board a commanding influence. 
 His official correspondence was characterized by 
 clearness of conviction and expression, tempered 
 with tender sympathy. He loved the brethren and 
 loved the cause in which they together labored, and 
 would cheerfully have exchanged places with any of 
 them had Providence so ordered. 
 
 No one could work by the side of Dr. Irving with- 
 out loving him. No one applied to him in times of 
 trial and perplexity without finding a sympathetic 
 brother and wise counselor. We present (in the 
 November, 1885, Foreign Missionary) a pleasing 
 likeness of our deceased Secretary, which will be 
 valued by hundreds of its readers. But our friend is 
 not in the picture; the genial face that smiled so 
 kindly in his daily greeting is wanting. We laid 
 carefully his remains in Greenwood Cemetery; but 
 Dr. Irving is not there. He has gone to be with his 
 loving Lord and Saviour. His works do follow him. 
 — Foreign Missionary^ November, 1885. W. R. 
 
 Hon. Walter Lowrie. 
 
 The beloved man whose name stands at the head 
 of this sketch was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 
 December 10, 1784. In the year 1792 his parents 
 
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 came to this country, and, after a short sojourn in 
 Huntingdon county, settled in Butler county, Pa. 
 Bringing with them their knowledge and love of the 
 truth, their family altar, instruction and discipline, 
 and their thorough Presbyterianism, they helped to 
 give tone and character to the civil and religious in- 
 stitutions of that part of their adopted State. Western 
 Pennsylvania remains to this day a stronghold of 
 Presbyterianism. 
 
 Walter felt the quiet and powerful influence of 
 home culture. Most of his early secular instruction 
 was received from the lips of his parents. By them, 
 too, he was made acquainted with the truths of God's 
 word and the standards of our church. In return 
 for this Christian nurture, he gave himself, till early 
 manhood, to the toil of a farmer under his father's 
 direction, learning some great practical lessons, 
 which he turned to excellent account at later periods 
 of his life. 
 
 After his conversion, which occurred when he was 
 eighteen years old, he entered upon a course of 
 study, with the ministry in view. Under the instruc- 
 tion of the Rev. John McPherrin, he pursued the 
 Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages with great dili- 
 gence and success. Inured to toil from boyhood, 
 having good health, a strong body, and a mind of 
 fine texture and firm grasp, he made light of difficul- 
 ties that comparatively few would have overcome. 
 He was borne forward, too, by a fervent desire to 
 preach the gospel. It became clear, however, after 
 a while, that God was preparing him for a different 
 work. Barriers were thrown and kept in his way. 
 
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 until, with no change in his high estimate of the 
 sacred office to which he had aspired, and hoping to 
 resume his studies, he laid them aside and entered 
 upon the duties of secular life. 
 
 In i8ii he was elected to the Senate of Pennsyl- 
 vania, and after serving the State seven years in 
 this office, he was sent to the Senate of the United 
 States. 
 
 At the expiration of his term of service, in 1824, he 
 was made Secretary of the Senate, and held the office 
 twelve years. Owing to the peculiarly delicate nature 
 of this office, and the responsibility connected with 
 it, it did not change incumbents with successive ad- 
 ministrations. Mr. Lowrie's predecessor enjoyed its 
 honors and emoluments for life, and he might have 
 done the same. Indeed he was earnestly solicited by 
 members of the Senate, without reference to party 
 distinctions, to retain the office. But his purpose was 
 taken and nothing could move him. A call louder 
 than that of his peers in the state had come to him 
 — the call, he believed, of the Head of the church, to 
 take charge of the foreign missionary work, to which, 
 as a denomination, we were then setting our hand. 
 
 He was elected Corresponding Secretary of the 
 Western Foreign Missionary Society in 1836. This 
 office he accepted, passing under the care of the 
 General Assembly, when the Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions was constituted in 1837. He continued in the 
 faithful discharge of its varied duties, until, disabled 
 by the infirmities of old age, he laid it down in 1868. 
 He had not drawn his salary for several 3xars be- 
 fore that date, and would not retain even the office, 
 
432 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 after he felt himself no longer able to discharge its 
 duties. 
 
 Mr. Lowrie's public life as a statesman can be re- 
 viewed only in an extended memoir, which I hope we 
 shall have in due season ; still I cannot pass it with- 
 out two or three suggestive statements. 
 
 It covered a period of twenty-five years, from 1811 
 to 1836. He was twenty-seven years old when he 
 entered the Senate of Pennsylvania, and fifty-two 
 when he left the Senate of the United States. For a 
 quarter of a century, therefore, he was the associate 
 of public men, the peer of great men — and was recog- 
 nized by them and his constituents as himself a great 
 man. Dr. Paxton, in his funeral address, published 
 in the Foreign Missionary last month, tells us that 
 "Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Randolph, Benton and 
 many others scarcely less illustrious, were members 
 of the Senate" at that time, and adds: "Among 
 these distinguished Senators, Walter Lowrie occupied 
 a position of honorable prominence. His great in- 
 tegrity won their confidence, whilst his peculiar 
 sagacity and practical judgment led them to seek his 
 advice, and rely upon his opinions. I am informed 
 by one who was present at that time, that he was re- 
 garded by the Senators who knew him best, as an 
 authority upon all questions of political history and 
 constitutional law." 
 
 Mr. Lowrie's Christian character was tried, and at 
 last purified and ennobled, while he remained in con- 
 tact with influences that prove fatal to so many pub- 
 lic men professing godliness. He impressed himself 
 strongly upon other Christian men, and even upon 
 
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 those in high places who were not religious. But he 
 escaped the perils of his position only through the 
 constant and powerful influence of his home, the 
 communion of saints, and the grace of God shed on 
 him abundantly through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 
 It should be stated, too, that during the eighteen 
 years of his connection with the Senate of the United 
 States, he was receiving' a special providential train- 
 ing for the work to which God was about to call him. 
 One might as well deny a plan of God in the case of 
 Moses as of Mr. Lowrie. The Jewish lawgiver was 
 forty years in the family and court of Pharaoh, forty 
 in the land of Midian, and forty at the head of the 
 tribes; the last third of his life embracing the years 
 and the work for which the other two-thirds were a 
 constant preparation. A similar division exists in 
 the fewer years of Mr. Lowrie's life ; and I have no 
 doubt that all the years prior to his connection vv^ith 
 the Senate of his own State, and all that he spent in 
 discharging the duties of a statesman, were in fact, 
 and were meant to be, preparatory, in many ways, 
 to his great work in connection with the cause of 
 missions. 
 
 It is certain that our work among the Indian tribes, 
 encompassed with so many difficulties, and requiring 
 correspondence and personal influence with the De- 
 partment of Indian Affairs at Washington, could not 
 have been successfully carried forward, without a 
 very' intimate knowledge of at least that department 
 of the government. It was not in vain, therefore, 
 that Mr. Lowrie, while in the vSenate, w^as a mcml^er 
 of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and profoundly 
 
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 interested in the fate and the evangcHzation of the 
 tribes. 
 
 So, too, he cooperated with good men at Washing- 
 ton in the management of the American Colonization 
 Society, and let his large Christian sympathies flow 
 out toward the black man in this country, and on the 
 continent of Africa. 
 
 With India he was brought into living connection, 
 while still Secretary of the Senate, by the departure 
 of his eldest son, the Rev. John C. Lowrie, to the 
 northern provinces of that vast country. 
 
 By a strange providence he was led to give his 
 heart to the Chinese people, before God called him 
 to give two of his sons, the Rev. Walter M. Lowrie 
 and the Rev. Reuben Lowrie, as missionaries to the 
 same people : the first to meet the death of a martyr, 
 and the second to sink under the climate and his 
 severe labors. Of these two sons it may be said with 
 perfect truth, that they were among the ablest and 
 most consecrated men ever sent by the church to the 
 foreign field. 
 
 For sometime, I do not know how long, Mr. 
 Lowrie pursued the study of the Chinese language, 
 rising two hours earlier than usual, not to interfere 
 with his duties as Secretary of the Senate. In this 
 way he prepared himself in some measure, before he 
 knew the plan of God for his future life, for the work 
 of founding and conducting missions, at the very 
 heart of the pagan world. 
 
 It is but little that can be said in this sketch of Mr. 
 Lowrie's work as Corresponding Secretary of the 
 Board of Foreign Missions. The acceptance of the 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 435 
 
 office involved great self-denial and many sacrifices; 
 and this was the charm by which the office secured 
 its incumbent. So he himself declared. For a lucra- 
 tive office, he chose one that never supported his 
 family. He abandoned a beautiful home with ample 
 grounds, for a dwelling- in the city and the confine- 
 ment of an office. At the age of fifty-two he relin- 
 quished a post of honor, with the duties of which he 
 had become perfectly familiar, and which were com- 
 paratively easy, to put his hand to a work which no 
 one understood, which one of the strongest men in 
 our church, to whom its oversight was offered, de- 
 clined to undertake, and in doing which, for more 
 than thirty years, Mr. Lowrie found no rest from toil 
 and care and responsibility. It was work in the 
 office; in the market place; at the seat of govern- 
 ment; in the church; and among our Indian tribes. 
 He had valuable counselors and willing hands to 
 help him, but it was his habit to think of everything. 
 He was immensely and minutely practical, and even 
 when office duties had become so heavy that help 
 was necessary, and his own natural strength was 
 somewhat abated, he held his mind in contact with 
 all questions of policy, and most of the plans and 
 estimates for prosecuting and enlarging the work. 
 
 Few persons, probably, can appreciate the delicacy, 
 the difficulty, and the importance of the work done 
 in the office by a Corresponding Secretary of the 
 Board of Foreign Missions. He is in contact with 
 the missionaries and the heathen, on the one hand; 
 and on the other, with the kindred of the missionaries, 
 with many pastors and churches, with the entire 
 
436 NECRO LOGICAL RECORD 
 
 church for which he acts, and with missionary 
 societies of other branches of the Christian church. 
 He is cut off from the intimate and endeared relation- 
 ships to families and churches, that pastors enjoy. 
 He is the servant of all men. He is liable to frequent 
 interruptions, and he has no prospect of reward, till 
 his work ceases, and he enters into rest. 
 
 Mr. Lowrie was preeminently qualified for hard 
 work at the table, and among the details of office 
 work. His mind was calm and judicial. It had pos- 
 session of great principles, discovered by broad in- 
 quiry and the patient study of particulars relating to 
 his work, or found clearly revealed in the word of 
 God. For this reason his letters to missionaries and 
 missions, on matters of vital importance, were often 
 so direct and simple, as to have the appearance — at 
 least to those not familiar with the full details of the 
 matters under consideration — of being common- 
 place. Just as the ablest sermons, that treat of diffi- 
 cult subjects with seeming ease, are thought to be 
 wanting in depth and power, by those who do not 
 know at what a cost of labor such results are reached. 
 
 The same habits of mind revealed themselves in 
 the deliberations of the Executive Committee and the 
 Board. Quietly and earnestly, but in few words, and 
 with great decision, Mr. Lowrie expressed his 
 opinions. He was not afraid to be in a minority and 
 even alone, because his convictions were so strong. 
 And rarely did he fail to fasten his own convictions 
 upon other minds. 
 
 I have alluded to his work in the market place. 
 For a number of years supplies of food and clothing, 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 437 
 
 with household utensils and farming implements, 
 were forwarded from New York, and other cities, to 
 our Indian missions in the West and Southwest. 
 This imposed an immense amount of labor on the 
 office of our Board in Centre street; and in this labor 
 Mr. Lowrie bore his part. He reckoned nothing 
 little, or beneath his personal attention and toil, that 
 could minister to the welfare of the missionaries and 
 those under their care, or in any way help the cause 
 of Christ. 
 
 His visits to Washington, on business connected 
 with the missions among the Indians, if not frequent 
 from year to year, were, in the aggregate, very 
 numerous. They always taxed his strength severely, 
 and often called into requisition all the experience 
 and influence he had acquired during his long and 
 intimate association with the Government. 
 
 The labors of Mr. Lowrie, in the church, for many 
 years, were very arduous and effective. He called 
 upon people at their houses, to secure contributions 
 for various purposes connected with the work of 
 missions. He attended monthly concerts, visited 
 theological seminaries, presbyteries and synods, 
 and went to the General Assembly, always bearing 
 on his heart the great cause of foreign missions. 
 Many will remember his tender and persuasive ad- 
 dresses. Perfectly familiar with all the details of the 
 work, the wants of the heathen, the feeble responses 
 of the church to calls for men and money to evangelize 
 the world, and knowing well the ability of the church 
 to do all that the providence of God required, and the 
 claims of Jesus upon his blood-bought people, he 
 
430 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 made his statements and appeals, with such force and 
 melting tenderness, as to call forth many tears, and 
 produce deep and lasting impressions. The saving 
 of a little child from heathenism; the conversion of 
 an Indian, African, Hindu, or Chinaman; the estab- 
 lishment of a new mission, or the enlarging of an old 
 one, was, in his view, a matter of vast moment and 
 sacred interest. He wondered that Christian men 
 especially, and pastors of churches, could disparage 
 the missionary papers, that were constantly reporting 
 such things. With great simplicity, and often in 
 tears, he related incidents connected with the progress 
 of missions, and relied upon them to impress others 
 as they did himself. 
 
 The visits of Mr. Lowrie to the Indian tribes in 
 our country were among the most arduous and im- 
 portant of all his official labors. It was the writer's 
 privilege to accompany him in the spring of 1847 to 
 vSpencer Academy, then a flourishing school, under 
 the care of our Board, among the Choctaw Indians, 
 about ten miles from the Red River, and a hundred 
 and twenty-five southwest from Fort Smith in 
 Arkansas. By day and night for two months, in all 
 sorts of conveyances and apartments, I held de- 
 lightful fellowship with him as a son with a father. 
 He was then sixty-three years old. ' From pretty full 
 notes of travel taken at the time, it would be easy to 
 give a very definite idea of the hardships he endured, 
 the labor he performed, and the varied interests he 
 sought to promote. He never spared himself. From 
 the 29th day of March to the 21st of April, with few 
 interruptions, we were making our way by rail, by 
 
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 stage and by steamer to Fort Smith at the head of navi- 
 gation on the Arkansas River. 
 
 Under date of Saturday, April 3, while we were at 
 Cincinnati, I find this record, which gives a hint, at 
 least, in regard to one object of his visit: "Accom- 
 panied Mr. T and Mr. Lowrie to various places, 
 
 the shops of artisans of different kinds. Mr. Lowrie 
 is looking at grist mills, corn shellers, steam engines 
 and a carding, spinning and weaving machine, with 
 the view of purchasing some or all of them for use 
 among the Indians." 
 
 On the 2ist of April, we took horse at Fort vSmith, 
 and passing immediately into the Indian Territory, 
 pursued our solitary way toward Spencer Academy. 
 The path led us across beautiful rolling prairies, over 
 rugged hills, and through bridgeless streams. At 
 night we slept in Indian houses, and partook of their 
 coarse but plentiful fare. Our midday lunch, con- 
 sisting generally of a little bacon and some corn 
 dodgers, was eaten beside a cool spring, or clear 
 brook, where we tethered our horses, and rested 
 awhile, enjoying the perfect solitude, and holding 
 Christian communion never to be forgotten. Mr. 
 Lowrie's whole being was open to impressions from 
 nature. He was perfectly at home among the lilies 
 of the field, the trees of the forest, the running 
 streams, and the everlasting hills. He knew the 
 names of most of the birds, and was delighted when 
 once we came suddenly upon some deer feeding in an 
 oak grove. He noticed every change in soil and in 
 geological formations, and would readily dismount to 
 secure a new fossil. He was quick to perceive the 
 
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 points of beauty in a landscape, and the glories of the 
 sky. Often his heart was too full for silence, and 
 burst out in words of sacred song, or Scripture, 
 and in ascriptions of praise. But nothing stirred 
 him so deeply as living contact with the Indians 
 themselves, many of whom we saw in making our 
 horseback journey through their country. His heart 
 was melted to tenderness for them. At Spencer 
 Academy he was employed almost without rest from 
 Saturday, the day of our arrival, until Thursday fol- 
 lowing, in arranging family matters; projecting im- 
 provements on the buildings and the farm ; revising 
 accounts; hearing the recitations of the scholars; 
 conducting and enjoying religious worship on the 
 vSabbath ; and conferring with the chiefs and leading 
 men of the Choctaw Nation. 
 
 I should be glad, if the space devoted to this 
 sketch would allow me, to give an account of the last 
 two nights of our return journey, for the purpose of 
 showing to what discomforts and perils Mr. Lowrie 
 willingly submitted in the prosecution of his great 
 work. He endured hardness as a good soldier of 
 Jesus Christ. From thirty to fifty miles in the saddle, 
 several days in succession, will try the strength of 
 men who have not reached their sixty-third birthday. 
 
 At Fort Smith, on Monday, May 3, 1847, Mr. 
 Lowrie and myself parted company; he to pursue his 
 lonely way to the Creek, Iowa, and Omaha Missions, 
 and I to return home. I conclude this notice of the 
 journey, by a short extract from my journal. 
 
 '' This morning Mr. Lowrie took an early start on 
 his long and solitary horseback journey. The Rev. 
 
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 Mr. Marshal (from Van Buren) and myself accom- 
 panied him to the flat boat, and saw him safely over 
 the Arkansas river, and mounted on his 'Charley.' 
 He waved his hat, and passed on to do his important 
 work, cheerfully sustaining many privations and 
 hardships. He goes first to the Creek Mission, thence 
 across the country to Independence on the Missouri 
 river, and thence, by water, if possible (but if not, on 
 horseback), to Council Bluffs and the Iowa and Omaha 
 missions." 
 
 This was only one of several visits made by Mr. 
 Lowrie to the Indian missions. The result of his 
 personal agency in behalf of the tribes under our care, 
 and the abundance of his labors, with the greatness 
 of his perils and hardships, can never be known till 
 the Master himself reveals them, as fruits of his love 
 and devotion. 
 
 I think of Mr. Lowrie habitually, as one to whom 
 the sacred description of Stephen, the first Chris- 
 tian martyr, applies without any qualification or 
 abatement — "A man full of faith and of the Holy 
 Ghost. " It pleased God to give him a large nature, 
 and a peculiar providential training for the work he 
 loved so well. But in addition to this, by early re- 
 vealing to him the plague of his heart, and placing 
 him in circumstances where his own strength was 
 felt to be perfect weakness as a defense against 
 worldly influences, he led him to ask until he ob- 
 tained, in large measure, that most precious gift, 
 " Faith, the substance of things hoped for, the evi- 
 dence of things not seen, " The infinite objects of 
 the Christian hope were as real to him as the ground 
 
442 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 on which he walked. The unseen things of the 
 kingdom of heaven had a demonstrated existence to 
 his soul, that made them vastly more precious and 
 influential than all the objects of sense. This was in 
 part the secret of his superiority to the world, and the 
 consecration of himself, his children, and his pos- 
 sessions, to Christ and his cause. 
 
 But it is not without design that Stephen is de- 
 scribed as a man "full of the Holy Ghost," as well 
 as of faith ; and this part of the description has its 
 equal meaning in reference to Mr. Lowrie. His 
 thoughts, affections, and purposes were controlled by 
 the Holy Ghost. He was a living temple of the living 
 God. A person of the Godhead occupied his whole 
 spirit and soul and body, and moved him by the Hol}^ 
 Scriptures, by the precious ordinances of God's house, 
 by sacred providences and by his own still small voice, 
 as clear sometimes to the consecrated soul as the 
 human voice to the ear, to keep back nothing from 
 his Redeemer and Master, to spend and be spent for 
 him; to forsake all that he had, and not to count his 
 life dear imto him, that he might win and glorify 
 Christ. He called him his Master. He delighted in 
 his service. It was perfect liberty to him to have 
 every thought brought into captivity to the obedience 
 of Christ. No doubt he had his faults, but I do not 
 know what they were, unless we must reckon it a 
 fault to be blunt and outspoken against evil, to de- 
 nounce selfishness that sacrifices the precious interests 
 of Christ's cause to personal ease and emolument, 
 and to hate falsehood and pretense. 
 
 It was Mr. Lowrie's faith, wrought and maintained 
 
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 by the Holy Ghost, that gave to the prophecies and 
 promises of Scripture, relating to the spread and 
 triumph of the gospel in the whole world, so much 
 power over his heart and life. Really believing that 
 as many as sin without law, shall also perish without 
 law, he believed that in the last days the mountain 
 of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of ^ 
 the mountains, and exalted above the hills, and all 
 nations shall flow unto it-:— that Jesus Christ is a light 
 to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of Israel ; that 
 there is no other name under heaven given among 
 men whereby we must be saved; that for this reason 
 he must be preached among all nations, and the 
 presence and power of his Spirit invoked in behalf 
 of all, till the wilderness and solitary places of the 
 earth rejoice and blossom as the rose. 
 
 In this faith he lived and died, leaving to the church 
 a legacy of toil and consecration and prayer, which 
 she may well prize. 
 
 Happy in his second marriage as in his first, blessed 
 in his children and children's children, and also in his 
 work, he came to the grave in a full age, like as a 
 shock of corn cometh in in his season. Carlyle cele- 
 brates ''The sumless worth of a man," and Bayne 
 in his Christian Lifc\ with more Christian views, 
 dwells upon the theme. Surely none but God can 
 make such a man, as we know Mr. Lowrie was and 
 is, and to him let all the glory be given. His face 
 was the index of his character, the mirror of his 
 soul; and as we recall it now, or gaze upon its 
 most faithful representation in Ritchie's engraving, 
 we can only be thankful that we knew and loved 
 
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 him — and that now he rests from his labors, and his 
 works do follow him. — Rev. John D. Wells, D.D. 
 
 Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D.D. 
 
 My pen refuses to write the '' late'' Dr. Mitchell. 
 He is not a Jias-been but an is — a living power. 
 *' Write a memorial," they ask of me. But the 
 memorial is written in the characters of men all over 
 the country. Words will die on the air and fade on 
 the page, but impression of character is perennial. I 
 feel him in my own make-up. I see him in the 
 church of Jesus Christ. He put a salutary some- 
 thing into his friends and the church-at-large that 
 will never know oblivion or decay. " Blessed are 
 the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: 
 Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their 
 labors; and their works do follow them." If one 
 man can know another, I knew Dr. Mitchell. We 
 summered and wintered together, journeyed and 
 camped together, even to sleeping in a haymow, 
 studied and counseled and prayed and planned for 
 the church, and played together for our personal re- 
 freshment. I just asked my wife what I should say 
 about him, and received reply, "You cannot say 
 anything too good." And yet, once, when I was 
 complaining of a toothache, he responded, "I wish 
 my Christian character were as sound as my teeth. " 
 As to Christian character he demanded thoroughness 
 of himself, and as to outward manifestation he knew 
 no fear but that of doing wrong or failing to do 
 right. Once in Chicago, when a daily paper sug- 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 44.5 
 
 gested ''frightening the minister " out of his efforts 
 at a certain reform, Dr. R. W. Patterson remarked 
 to me, " They'll have a good time of it frightening 
 Dr. Mitchell off." The fact is that, a bright boy and 
 forward yonth in scholarship, being graduated from 
 Williams College at the age of eighteen years, from the 
 time of his conversion, which occurred in college, he 
 was a consecrated man. Whatever he felt to stand in 
 the way of carrying out, to the letter, the spirit of 
 complete consecration to the cause of his Lord, must 
 be set aside. In that spirit he withdrew, after his 
 conversion, from the secret (Greek letter) society, of 
 which he had been an enthusiastic member. The tie 
 was ''artificial," he said, and weakened the broader 
 one of humanity. Such membership, he felt, limited 
 his personal religious influence over college as a 
 whole by making a few his special friends. No 
 barrier should be allowed which threatened to hinder 
 him while his soul was saying with St. Paul, 
 " From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear 
 in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. " Christo et 
 ecclesicE seemed written on his very heart. In all the 
 intimacy of personal friendship for more than thirty 
 years, I never heard one sentiment or knew one act 
 that contravened that idea. Careful first of all to be 
 faithful to his Lord, he knew how to be fair to his 
 fellows and just between those who differed. As 
 moderator of the Presbytery of Chicago through the 
 exciting trial of Prof. Swing, he won the approval of 
 all parties alike for the justness of his presiding. 
 Once, when he was purchasing a piece of property of 
 me, he said: " Don't be particular to bargain closely; 
 
446 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 the money is all the Lord's anyhow, and it doesn't 
 matter what Christian hands hold it," and so paid 
 me more than I had asked. 
 
 But his career was one of progress and culmina- 
 tion. Leaving- college a mere boy, he went directly 
 to Lafayette College as instructor, but thence, by a 
 sudden opening, on a protracted tour, covering two 
 years, through Europe, Egypt and Palestine. Enter- 
 ing Union Theological Seminary, New York, where 
 I was in his class from 1856 to 1859, he was graduated 
 at the age of twenty-four, and immediately accepted 
 a call to Richmond, Va. He took with him, the fol- 
 lowing October, as a bride, to share his work. Miss 
 Harriet E. Post, daughter of the distinguished Alfred 
 Post, M.D., of New York. 
 
 The opening of the war, in 1861, threw Dr. 
 Mitchell into a ''strait betwixt two;" for he had 
 come to have much sympathy with the South. But 
 the issue, made as it was, compelled him to hold with 
 the section of his birth, at Hudson, N.Y. Sending 
 his family North, he was obliged to make his way 
 through the lines, by night — an escape not without 
 peril — and leaving his valuable library and all house- 
 hold goods to confiscation. Soon called to Morris- 
 town, where his father, one of the most dignified and 
 lovely of Quaker gentlemen, lived, he carried forward 
 a most prosperous work in the South Presbyterian 
 Church until 1868, when he was called to the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Chicago. 
 
 At Morristown his missionary zeal, kindled out of 
 the fire of his conversion, glowed and flamed and 
 heated others, attracting popular attention. I being 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 447 
 
 then in Orange, our former acquaintance became an 
 intimacy. Our conferences upon church hfe and 
 work were frequent ; and our vacations, often passed 
 together, were scarcely restful, because one theme 
 was ever uppermost. As we rode, on horseback, 
 from Portland, Me., through the White Mountains 
 and across the Green to Troy, his heart, though full 
 of merriment, was eager for the letter-receiving point 
 ahead, where he was to hear the result of a foreign 
 missionary movement which he had left incomplete 
 when starting. His twelve years' pastorate in Chicago 
 was distinguished by his constant and successful 
 efforts to see the Chicago churches inoculated with 
 zeal for missions. Often pressing that subject with 
 more persistency than was acceptable to his people, 
 there was yet a result in a lire kindled that has gone 
 on burning and heating and fusing those churches to 
 the present moment. While there, he was solicited 
 to accept a secretaryship in the Foreign Board ; but 
 his love for the pastorate and his belief that in that 
 moneyed and Christian centre he was doing more for 
 the supreme cause (as he always esteemed missions) 
 than he could out of the pastorate, held him to his 
 position. About this time he visited Williams College 
 under solicitation to take a professorship there. 
 He spent a Sabbath and preached, and after his ser- 
 mon President Hopkins took him by the hand and re- 
 marked, " One who can preach like that should not 
 leave the pastorate. Stay where you are." 
 
 Later, called to the First Presbyterian Church, 
 Cleveland, O. , the same zeal for missions vivified his 
 pastoral work. Again called, after a brief pastorate 
 
448 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 there, to the office of the Foreig-n Board of Missions, 
 he felt more than formerly impressed with a possible 
 duty in that direction. 
 
 I recall vividly the letter that came to me express- 
 ing" his soul agitation as to duty, and seeking advice. 
 I have never regretted my reply, "Whatever you 
 weigh as a pastor, I think you never weigh quite so 
 much as when pleading for foreign missions." That 
 cause fired and fused his whole soul. To that he was 
 wholly consecrated. He once said tome, "A man 
 is good for nothing but to be used up;" and so 
 literally the zeal of his Father's house ate him up. I 
 have no doubt, as he had none, that he might have 
 lived longer by turning from the Secretaryship to a 
 pastorate. " You don't know anything about work 
 in the pastorate," he lately said to me, "in com- 
 parison with that of the vSecretary's office. " It is not 
 two years since he wrote me a burning letter saying, 
 "Get me a little pastorate. I shall die here before 
 my time." His letter was so hot in earnest, that I 
 went immediately to the task; but just as my ball 
 was starting, there came a telegram saying: " Stay 
 that move, I must remain here, if I die." And so he 
 has done. No, "die "is not the word — not dead. 
 Planted himself, were better putting. He lives a 
 pulsing power through all the church. 
 
 I do not believe any of his fellow Secretaries will 
 turn a green eye upon me, or call my judgment in 
 question if I say that, as a platform speaker upon 
 foreign missions he has had no superior in the history 
 of the Board during this generation. His pastoral 
 preaching was the gospel of Christ. Sometimes 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 449 
 
 stern, I have heard it called ''strait-laced," by the 
 easy-going. But his standard, if higher than the 
 average communicant was ready to accept, was not 
 higher than he set for his own spiritual measurement. 
 He was in himself a good illustration of the fact that 
 meekness is not weakness. The lamb and the lion 
 are rarely so well combined as in his make-up of 
 Christian manhood. Then he was such a dear friend ; 
 a true friend ; a timely friend ; a friend to appreciate 
 the best in one who was not, for the moment, at his 
 best, but even making a mistake. Life is too far 
 along for another to take his place in my heart. No 
 one will take his place in the church. That is not 
 wanted. But there is now room and demand for 
 another to come to the front, to take things where 
 he has left them, fill another place and carry them on, 
 on, to better and best in final victory for Christ. The 
 cause of missions is the child he has left for loving 
 friends to foster, pouring their love upon it. So we 
 shall create, in an enlightened heathendom, a memorial 
 that he will look down upon, and strike anew his harp 
 in praise of God ** who so loved the world." — Rev. J. 
 H. Taylor^ D,D.^ in Church at Home and Abroad^ 
 June, 1893. 
 
 Rev. Elisha P. Swift, D.D. 
 
 The death of Dr. Swift (April 3, 1865) removed 
 one of the great and good from the church and the 
 world, whose character we can well admire and whose 
 memory will be fondly cherished. He was born in 
 Williamstown, Mass., August 12, 1792. His parents 
 
450 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 were Rev. Seth and Lucy Swift. His mother was a 
 direct descendant of the famous Puritan missionary, 
 Rev. John EUot. 
 
 In July, 1813, he made a profession of religion at 
 Stockbridge, Mass. , and was graduated at Williams 
 College in the same year. He completed his theo- 
 logical course at Princeton in 1 8 1 6. Very soon after his 
 connection with the church he seems to have taken a 
 very active part in the movements then in progress 
 in regard to the foreign missionary work. We have 
 seen a report made by him to the Youths' Missionary 
 Society of Western New York previous to his ordina- 
 tion to the full work of the ministry. At length he 
 dedicated himself to the Lord's work in the foreign 
 field. In a paper discovered since his death, but writ- 
 ten just previous to the completion of his course in 
 the theological seminary, he gives expression to the 
 great anxiety felt in view of acting as an ambassador 
 for Jesus, and especially in prospect of going to East- 
 ern Asia to make known the glorious gospel of the 
 blessed God. 
 
 On September 3, 18 17, he along with three others 
 was ordained a foreign missionary. The sermon on 
 that occasion was preached by Rev. Lyman Beecher, 
 D.D. From November, 181 7, to March, 18 18, he 
 was engaged in a missionary agency collecting funds 
 and awakening the people to the claims of this great 
 enterprise, through Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and 
 Virginia, imder direction of the American Board, the 
 Rev. Dr. Worcester being at that time its Secretary. 
 The reason he did not go abroad as was expected 
 seems to have been the serious and long-continued 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 45 1 
 
 illness of his wife's mother. But the missionary 
 spirit never forsook him ; and it appeared afterwards 
 that the descendant of John Eliot was kept at home 
 that he might impart to the church something of the 
 fire that burned within himself. He began his labors 
 in Dover, Del., October, 1818. In the following 
 . year he received an invitation to become pastor of the 
 second church of Pittsburgh, which he accepted, and 
 was installed November 5, 18 19. 
 
 He was among the very first to advocate the estab- 
 lishment of the Western Foreign Missionary Society 
 by the Synod of Pittsburgh, from which sprang the 
 Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian 
 Church. That he might devote himself to this new 
 enterprise, he consented to the separation of himself 
 from a people to whom he was tenderly attached, and 
 who loved him much in return. He entered on his 
 labors as Secretary of the Western Foreign Missionary 
 Society March i, 1833. Into this work he threw all 
 the mighty energies of his great soul, and gave it an 
 impulse which was soon felt throughout the entire 
 Presbyterian church in this country — among the 
 Indians in the West, on the shores of Africa and on 
 the plains of India. While the Presbyterian church 
 lasts, as long as the history of foreign missions re- 
 mains, the name of Elisha P. Swift will be remembered. 
 He was at all times ready to advocate with wonderful 
 power every good cause, but the very mention of 
 foreign missions fired his soul with quenchless ardor 
 and made his voice the sound of a trumpet calling to 
 conflict and victory. 
 
 On the 9th of October, 1835, he was installed pastor 
 
452 NECROLOGICAL REuORD 
 
 of the First Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, in 
 which service he continued until the day of his death, 
 April 3, 1865, in the seventy-third year of his age. 
 (He continued to discharge the office of Secretary 
 until 1836, when his successor, Hon. Walter Lowrie, 
 was appointed.) — Pittsburgh Banner^ April 12, 1865. 
 
 Rev. John Leighton Wilson, D.D. 
 
 The venerable Secretary Emeritus, Rev. J. Leigh- 
 ton Wilson, D.D., died at his home, near Mayesville, 
 S.C, on the 13th of July, 1886. 
 
 His death, says one who waited by him, was em- 
 blematic of his life — calm, peaceful, beautiful. 
 
 We are indebted to the pen of another for a sketch 
 of Dr. Wilson's life and character. He was born in 
 Sumter County, S. C, March 25, 1809. He was 
 graduated at Union College, N. Y., in 1829, and 
 taught school one year at Hadnel's Point, near Char- 
 leston, S. C. In 1833 he was graduated at the Theo- 
 logical Seminary, Columbia, S. C. , being a member 
 of the first class of that institution, and the same 
 year was ordained by Harmony Presbytery as a mis- 
 sionary to Africa. During the summer of 1833 he 
 studied Arabic at Andover Seminary, Mass. , and in 
 the fall he sailed from Baltimore, Md. , on a voyage 
 of exploration to Western Africa, returning the fol- 
 lowing spring. As the result of his exploration, he 
 decided on Cape Palmas, Western Africa, as the most 
 promising place to begin his missionary work. In 
 May, 1834, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane 
 Elizabeth Bayard, of Savannah, Ga. In 1834, Mr. 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 453 
 
 and Mrs. Wilson sailed for Cape Palmas, where they 
 arrived at the close of the year. They remained at 
 the Cape seven years. During these years a church 
 of forty members was organized, more than a hundred 
 and eighty youths were educated, the Grebo language 
 was reduced to writing, a grammar and dictionary of 
 the language was published, the Gospels of Matthew 
 and John were translated, and, with six or eight 
 other small volumes, published in the native lan- 
 guage. In 1842 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson removed to the 
 Gaboon River, 1200 miles south of Cape Palmas, and 
 commenced a new mission among the Mpongwe 
 people. Here, again, the language was reduced to 
 writing for the first time. A grammar, a vocabulary, 
 portions of the Bible and a number of small volumes 
 were published in the native language. In the spring 
 of 1853, owing to the failure of Mr. Wilson's health, 
 he and his wife returned to America. In the autumn 
 of 1853 he entered the office of the Presbyterian 
 Board of Foreign Missions, in New York, and con- 
 tinued to serve as Secretary until the breaking out of 
 the civil war, when he returned to his home in the 
 South. At the organization of the Southern Presby- 
 terian Church, Dr. Wilson was appointed Secretary 
 of Foreign Missions. This office he continued to 
 hold until 1885, when the General Assembly, in view 
 of his declining health, relieved him of the active 
 duties of the office and elected him Secretary 
 Emeritus. During seven years of his active service 
 in the office, the home mission work was combined 
 with that of foreign missions, Dr. Wilson sharing in 
 the care of both. 
 
454 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 In 1854 Dr. Wilson published a volume of five 
 hundred pages on " Western Africa, its History, Con- 
 dition and Prospects." Dr. Livingstone pronounced 
 this the best volume on that part of Africa ever pub- 
 lished. 
 
 In 1852 a strong effort was made in the British 
 Parliament to withdraw the British squadron from 
 the coast of Africa, under the impression that the 
 foreign slave trade could not be broken up. Dr. 
 Wilson wrote a pamphlet showing that the impression 
 was erroneous, and indicating what was wanting to 
 make the effort to suppress the slave trade successful. 
 The pamphlet fell into the hands of Lord Palmerston, 
 and was, by his order, published in the United Service 
 Journal^ and afterward in the ''Blue Book" of Par- 
 liament. An edition of 10,000 copies was circulated 
 throughout the kingdom. Lord Palmerston informed 
 Dr. Wilson that this pamphlet put an end to all 
 opposition to the continuance of the squadron; and 
 in less than five years the trade itself was brought to 
 an end. 
 
 During his residence in New York, Dr. Wilson 
 acted as editor of the Foreign Department of the 
 Home and Foreign Record. In our own church he 
 began The Missionary^ of which he continued to be 
 editor till recently. He published more than thirty 
 articles in the Southern Presbyterian Review and in 
 other literary and scientific reviews. While in 
 Africa Dr. Wilson procured and sent to the Boston 
 Society of Natural History the first specimen of the 
 gorilla known in modern times. 
 
 The commanding presence of Dr. Wilson and his 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 455 
 
 affable and courteous address will be remembered by 
 many in the church. His features indicated physical 
 and intellectual strength. His varied information 
 made him the attractive centre of the social circle. 
 He was just in judgment, w4se in council, practical 
 in methods. His public life covered more than fifty 
 years. These fifty years have recorded wonderful 
 progress in the foreign mission work. They con- 
 stitute a great missionary age in the history of the 
 church. Among the great workers in this branch of 
 Christian service Dr. Wilson has stood with the first. 
 By the grace of God he has served his generation 
 nobly, received the loving veneration of the people 
 among whom he lived, and will long be remembered 
 among us as a prince and a great man. — The Mis- 
 sionary^ August, 1 886. 
 
 As THIS volume of sketches opened with an Intro- 
 duction by the compiler to the year 1868, and whose 
 initials, J. C. L., are affixed to many of them both 
 before and after that date, these appendices may 
 appropriately close with Dr. Lowrie's letter of resig- 
 nation as Corresponding Secretary, and the action of 
 the Board thereon, together with the just and touch- 
 ing editorial preface to their publication in the CJiurch 
 at Home and Abroad for April, 1891. 
 
 His associate in official duties for thirty-eight years 
 adopts the words of that preface as an expression 
 of his own appreciation, reverence and affection. — 
 W. R. 
 
456 necrological record 
 
 Dr. Lowrie's Resignation. 
 
 Reverently and affectionately do we give this fore- 
 most place in our pages to the following official cor- 
 respondence. Reverently, affectionately and thank- 
 fully will it be read in every land in which the 
 church of Christ is fulfilling her great commission to 
 disciple all nations. Thankfully will myriads of 
 Christian people (thousands of whom are converts 
 from idolatry), recognize the kindness of God in pre- 
 serving to such advanced age the mental and bodily 
 powers so long ago devoted to him in the freshness 
 and vigor of youth — powers inherited from an honored 
 father who had so signally served the church in the 
 same department of labor. Affectionately will the 
 whole church approve the considerate action of their 
 Board in desiring Dr. Lowrie, exempt from all burden 
 of labor, to continue his presence and counsels in the 
 Mission House, and with no diminution of provision 
 for his comfort. Reverently will the thoughts of 
 God's people in many lands go often to that room ; 
 and the sun never sets upon the sanctuaries, family 
 altars and closets in which Dr. Lowrie will be prayer- 
 fully mentioned. • 
 
 "At a regular meeting of the Board of Foreign 
 Missions, held February i6, 1891, the following letter 
 of resignation was presented from the Rev. John C. 
 Lowrie, D.D., senior Secretary of the Board: 
 
 " 'New York, February 16, 1S91. 
 *''To THE Members of the Board of Foreign 
 Missions: 
 *' ''Dear Brethren : — The subject of my official con- 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 457 
 
 nection with the Board has for several years been 
 often in my thoughts and prayers, with the impression 
 that it should come to an end. I have, however, 
 heretofore left it in abe3^ance, or rather to the action 
 of the Board itself. But lately I have concluded to 
 resign the office of a Corresponding Secretary, and I 
 now write to send in this decision, to take effect at 
 your convenience. This is the result of further 
 study of the orderings of Providence. It accords 
 also with the views which I held and expressed in the 
 Board when I accepted its appointment to a full sec- 
 retaryship many years ago. 
 
 '''I may add a few lines to say that, although I 
 never sought this office, and was greatly in doubt as 
 to accepting it, and though my work in it has been 
 marked by far too many imperfections, yet I have 
 been very grateful to God and to his people for having 
 been permitted to spend so many uninterrupted years 
 in this cause — since June, 1832, to the present time. 
 But this change is indeed to be a sorrowful event. 
 Yet it seems to be so ordered; and good is the will 
 of the Lord. 
 
 " * I am glad to close this letter with no doubt as to 
 the final and great success of the foreign missions of 
 our beloved church. As church work, these missions 
 rest on the doctrines, order and evangelistic agencies 
 of our Christian people, as witnesses unto Christ our 
 ascended Lord. He will assuredly give to them his 
 blessing. 
 
 *' 'With grateful acknowledgments of the uniform 
 kindness I have always received from the members 
 of the Board and from my colleagues, in our common 
 
458 NECROLOGICAL RECORD 
 
 labors for our Saviour, and with earnest wishes for 
 every blessing- from on high to abide with this sacred 
 cause, I am, dear brethren, 
 
 * * * Yours sincerely, 
 (Signed) John C. Lowrie.* 
 
 ''After tender expressions of affection for Dr. 
 Lowrie and appreciation of his long service as mis- 
 sionary in India, and subsequently as agent of the 
 Board in the United States, Assistant Secretary and 
 Secretary, the following paper, presented by Rev. 
 William M. Paxton, D.D., was adopted: 
 
 '' A communication from the Rev. John C. Lowrie, 
 D.D., was received, expressing his conviction that 
 owing to advancing age and providential circum- 
 stances, he feels constrained to tender his resignation 
 of the official position as Secretary of this Board, 
 which he has held for more than half a century. 
 
 "The Board has listened to this communication 
 with saddening thoughts and many tender emotions 
 at the idea of separating from one who has been 
 endeared to us by so many years of official inter- 
 course, and of affectionate fraternal communion. It 
 gives us much pleasure to record our high apprecia- 
 tion of the ability, fidelity, diligence and conscien- 
 tiousness with which he has served this Board, and 
 the general cause of missions. We recognize with 
 thankfulness his careful study of all practical ques- 
 tions, his wise direction in matters of administration, 
 his kindly and brotherly spirit in the discussion of 
 vexed questions, and the assistance which his diligent 
 attention and wise superintendence have given to us 
 
OF THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 459 
 
 through SO many years of missionary work. We 
 could not in justice to our own feelings accept his 
 resignation without adding this expression of our 
 high veneration for his personal worth, and our deep 
 regret that the time has come when he feels it neces- 
 sary to retire from the active duties of his office. 
 
 ** Therefore^ be it Resolved: — 
 
 '' I. That the resignation of Rev. John C. Lowrie, 
 D. D. , as Secretary of this Board of Foreign Missions 
 be accepted to take effect at the close of the present 
 fiscal year; in the meantime that he be requested to 
 prepare the annual report of the missions with which 
 he has the correspondence, and that he transfer said 
 correspondence to his colleagues at his convenience, 
 and thereafter continue in such form of service as his 
 health and convenience will permit, and as may be 
 deemed helpful to the interests of the Board. 
 
 *' 2. Resolved^ That he be requested to accept the 
 position of Emeritus Secretary; that his salary be 
 continued as heretofore ; that the room which he has 
 occupied in this building shall remain for his occu- 
 pancy; that while relieved from the active conduct 
 of the mission and attendance at the Council, he be 
 requested to still occupy his seat in the Board and 
 favor us with his experience and advice. 
 
 " 3. Resolved^ That a committee of four members 
 of this Board be appointed to convey this action to 
 Dr. Lowrie, and consult with him as to whether the 
 Board can do anything further to meet his wishes 
 and render his position agreeable and useful." — 
 CJiurcJi at Home and Abroad^ April, 1891. 
 
SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 
 
 Africa. 
 
 DIED. PAGE, 
 
 Alward, Rev. Jonathan April 21,1841 16 
 
 Amos. Rev. James R 1864 16 
 
 Barr, Rev. Joseph W Oct. 26, 1832 18 
 
 Bockhn, Rev. Edward Sept. 28, 1868 22 
 
 Brier, Rev. B. B May 14, 1890 22 
 
 Bushnell. Rev. Albert Dec. 2, 1879 28 
 
 Canfield, Rev. Owen K May 7, 1842 50 
 
 Clemens, Rev. William June 24, 1862 55 
 
 Cloud, Rev. John April 1834 57 
 
 Cranshaw, Mrs. Ida D Jan. 29, 1891 74 
 
 DeHeer, Rev. Cornelius Oct. 20,1889 96 
 
 DeHeer, Mrs. Cornelius April 7, 1857 96 
 
 Deputie, Rev. John M July 29, 1887 97 
 
 Dewsnap, Miss Susie Aug. 17, 1881 97 
 
 Donnell, Rev. D. L Jan. 22, 1879 97 
 
 Eden, Rev. James June 1,1847 98 
 
 Good, Rev. AdolphusC Dec. 13,1894 120 
 
 Harrison, Simon Nov. 7, 1872 152 
 
 Herring, Rev. Amos June 14, 1873 155 
 
 James, B. V. R Jan. 9, 1869 165 
 
 Laffin, Mrs. Dr. C. F Nov. 3, 1894 179 
 
 Laird, Rev. Matthew Mar. 4, 1834 180 
 
 Laird, Mrs. Matthew Mar. 3, 1834 180 
 
 Loomis, Mrs. H. E Aug. 20,1861 200 
 
 Mackey, Rev. James L April 30, 1867 211 
 
 Mackey, Mrs. James L Mar. 11, 1850 213 
 
 McQueen, Rev. George Mar. 25, 1859 221 
 
 Menkel, Mrs. Peter . .June 13,1893 225 
 
 461 
 
462 SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 
 
 DIED. PAGE. 
 
 Miller, Rev. Armistead Jan. 18, 1865 16 
 
 Nassau, Mrs. Mary Latta Sept. 10, 1870 238 
 
 Nassau, Mrs. Mary Brewster Aug. 6,1884 239 
 
 Ogden, Rev. Thomas S May 12, 1861 260 
 
 PauU, Rev. George May 14. 1865 264 
 
 Perry, Mrs. F. J Jan. 7, 1889 270 
 
 Priest, Rev. James M May 17,1883 283 
 
 Priest, James R Dec. 19, 1880 283 
 
 Reutlinger, Rev. Solomon July 17, 1869 303 
 
 Sawyer, Rev. Robert W Dec. i, 1843 307 
 
 Simpson, Rev. George W April 1861 335 
 
 Simpson, Mrs. George W April 1861 338 
 
 Williams, Mrs. Sarah W June 12,1855 368 
 
 Williams, Rev. Edwin T 1865 368 
 
 Wilson, Rev. Thomas Sept. 3,1846 385 
 
 American Indians. 
 
 Ainsley, Mrs. Mary I Feb. 14, 1861 15 
 
 Barber, Miss Sarah P Oct. 10, 1859 17 
 
 Deffenbaugh, Mrs. George L Jan. 3,1887 95 
 
 Fleming, Mrs. Mary May 1839 loi 
 
 Graham, Rev. Alexander J July 23, 1850 134 
 
 Greenleaf, Miss Mary C June 26, 1857 138 
 
 Hall, Rev. William Sept. 29, 1894 138 
 
 Hall, Mrs. William Feb. 17, 1882 141 
 
 Hamilton, Rev. William Sept. 17, 1891 143 
 
 Hamilton, Mrs. William April 29, 1868 143 
 
 Irvin, Rev. Samuel M Feb. 24, 1887 160 
 
 Irvin, Mrs. Samuel M July 21,1886 160 
 
 Loughridge, Mrs. Olivia Sept. 17, 1845 204 
 
 Loughridge, Mrs. Mfiry A Jan. 25, 1850 204 
 
 McBeth, Miss Sue L May 26, 1893 214. 
 
 McKean, Miss M.iry H Jan. 21, 1861 217 
 
 Ramsay, Mrs. Elizabeth P July 17, 1849 284 
 
 Ramsay, Mrs. Jane M May 30, 1853 285 
 
 Reid, Mrs. Elizabeth Graham June 4, 1854 301 
 
 Robertson, Rev. William S June 26,1881 305 
 
 Silliman, Rev. C. J 1857 328 
 
 Spaulding. Rev. H. H Aug. 3, 1874 342 
 
 Stark, Rev. Oliver P April 4, 1884 348 
 
SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 46J 
 
 DIED, PAGE. 
 
 Templeton, Mrs. Catharine M July 3, 1857 349 
 
 Williams, Mrs. James May 28, 1863 367 
 
 Williamson, Rev. Thomas S .......... .June 24, 1879 3^9 
 
 Wright, Rev. Asher April 13, 1875 390 
 
 Wright, Mrs. Asher Jan. 21, 1886 393 
 
 Brazil. 
 
 Blackford, Rev, A. L May 14, 1890 21 
 
 Carrington, Mrs. W. A Dec, 26, 1891 54 
 
 Houston, Mrs. J. T Mar. 12,1881 158 
 
 Pinkerton, Rev, Edgar M. Dill Feb. 23, 1892 272 
 
 Simonton, Rev, Ashbel G Dec, 9, 1867 328 
 
 Simonton, Mrs. Helen June 27, 1864 333 
 
 Waddell, Mrs. Mary L Nov. i, 1893 360 
 
 Chili. 
 
 Ibanez, Rev. J. M 1875 ^59 
 
 Lester, Mrs. W. H July 30, 1884 182 
 
 Trumbull, Rev. David Feb. i, 1889 355 
 
 China. 
 
 Abbey, Rev. Robert E Oct. 9, 1890 11 
 
 Ah Yiung Dec. 25, 1866 12 
 
 Butler, Rev. John Oct. 12, 1885 31 
 
 Byers, Rev. John May 7, 1853 33 
 
 Capp, Rev, Edward P Oct, 26, 1873 51 
 
 Capp, Mrs. Edward P Feb. 15, 1882 52 
 
 Condit, Mrs. Laura Dec. 5, 1866 66 
 
 Corbett, Mrs. Hunter (i) Mar. 10, 1873 67 
 
 Corbett, Mrs. Hunter (2) , Oct. 7, 1888 67 
 
 Coulter, Moses S Dec. 12,1852 70 
 
 Crossett, Rev. J. Fisher June 21, 1889 74 
 
 Culbertson, Rev. M, S Aug. 28, 1862 tj 
 
 Danforth, Mrs, Joshua A Sept, 13,1861 87 
 
 French, Rev. John B Nov. 30, 1858 108 
 
 Gayley, Rev. Samuel R July 29,1862 114 
 
 Hamilton, Mrs, William B Jan. 13, 1889 144 
 
 Happer, Rev. Andrew P . . . Oct. 27, 1894 ^45 
 
 Happer, Mrs. Elizabeth B Dec. 29, 1865 150 
 
464 SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 
 
 DIED. PAGH. 
 
 Happer, Mrs. A. P. (Elliott). . . Oct. 10, 1873 152 
 
 Kerr, Mrs. John G. (i) Aug. 24, 1855 178 
 
 Kerr, Mrs. John G. (2) April 1,1885 178 
 
 Laughlin, Mrs. J. H July 29, 1884 180 
 
 Ling Yien, Rev. Kying Aug. 4,1866 184 
 
 Lingle, Mrs. W. H Nov. 5, 1893 184 
 
 Lowrie, Rev. Walter M Aug. 18, 1847 207 
 
 Lowrie, Rev. Reuben April 26, i860 207 
 
 Mateer, Mrs. Robert M April 1886 214 
 
 McChestney, Rev. William E July 9, 1872 215 
 
 Mcllvaine, Rev. Jasper S Feb. 2, 1881 216 
 
 McKee, Rev. William J July 21, 1894 218 
 
 Mills, Mrs. Charles R Feb. 3, 1874 225 
 
 Mills, Mrs. F. V Feb. 16, 1891 225 
 
 Mitchell, Rev. John A Oct. 2,1838 226 
 
 Morrison, Rev. William T Dec. 10, 1869 228 
 
 Nevius, Rev. John L Oct. 19, 1893 240 
 
 Noyes, Mrs. Cynthia C Aug. 8, 1866 253 
 
 Orr, Rev. Robert W Mar. 30,1857 226 
 
 Preston, Rev. Charles F July 17,1877 277 
 
 Quarterman, Rev. John W . . Oct. 13, 1857 283 
 
 Rankin, Rev. Henry V July 2, 1863 288 
 
 Ritchie, Rev. Ellsworth Sept. 12. 1890 303 
 
 Shaw, Rev. James M June 11,1876 327 
 
 Speer, Mrs. Cornelia April 24, 1847 344 
 
 White, Rev. Wellington J July 27,1891 363 
 
 Whiting. Rev. Albert April 25, 1874 3^4 
 
 Young, Rev. John N Feb. 18,1893 398 
 
 Chinese in United States. 
 
 Baskin, Miss Mary M May 30,1892 18 
 
 Goodrich, Miss S.U May 2.1882 129 
 
 Loomis, Rev. A. W July 26, 1891 202 
 
 Loomis, Mrs. Mary Ann Dec. 12, 1866 203 
 
 Columbia. 
 
 Findley, Prof, W. W Aug. 21, 1889 100 
 
 Ramsay, Miss Addie E Aug. 19,1889 285 
 
 Sharpe, Rev. Samuel M Oct. 30, i860 326 
 
SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 465 
 
 India. 
 
 DIED. PAGE. 
 
 Beatty, Miss Catharine L Dec. 24, 1870 20 
 
 Calderwood, Rev. William May 22, 1889 36 
 
 Calderwood. Mrs. Elizabeth G Aug. 15, 1859 37 
 
 Caldwell, Rev. Joseph Jane 3, 1877 38 
 
 Caldwell, Mrs. Joseph Nov. 8, 1839 38 
 
 Campbell, Rev. James R Sept. 18, 1862 46 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. James R Mar. 19, 1874 48 
 
 Campbell, Rev. David E June 13, 1857 48 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. Mary J June 13.1857 49 
 
 Carleton, Mrs. M. B Nov. 11, 1881 53 
 
 Craig, James Aug. 16,1845 73 
 
 Craig, Miss Margaret A Sept. 15,1890 74 
 
 Das, Rev. Iswardi May 2, 1867 89 
 
 Ewalt, Miss Margaret E Mar. 2, 1892 98 
 
 Ferris, Rev. George H Mar. 7, 1894 99 
 
 Forman, Rev. Charles W Aug. 27, 1894 loi 
 
 Forman, Miss Margaret Newton May 12, 1878 103 
 
 Freeman, Rev. John E June 13, 1857 105 
 
 Freeman, Mrs. Mary Ann Aug. 8,1849 105 
 
 Freeman, Mrs. Elizabeth June 13, 1857 107 
 
 Fullerton, Rev. Robert S . Oct. 4,1865 109 
 
 Goheen, Mrs. Joseph M Jan. 17,1878 118 
 
 Goloknath, Rev Aug. i, 1891 119 
 
 Goloknath, Mrs Mar. 1892 119 
 
 Henry, Rev. Alexander Aug. 16, 1869 153 
 
 Herron, Mrs. Mary L Dec, 2, 1863 155 
 
 Herron, Mrs. David (2) Nov. 25, 1863 156 
 
 Hull, Rev. James J Jan. 13,1874 159 
 
 Issachar, Rev April 9, 1858 i6r 
 
 Jamieson, Mrs. Rebecca Sept. 2, 1845 165 
 
 Jamieson, Mrs. Ehza M July 17,1856 169 
 
 Janvier, Rev. Levi Mar. 24, 1864 169 
 
 Janvier, Mrs. Levi May 5, 1854 172 
 
 Janvier, Mrs. Mary R Jan. 13, 1884 173 
 
 Johnson, Rev. A. O June 13,1857 176 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. A. O June 13, 1857 176 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. William F Aug. 10, 1888 177 
 
 Kellos:g, Mrs. Samuel H Mar. 4, 1876 177 
 
 Loewenthal, Rev. Isidor April 27, 1864 192 
 
466 
 
 SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 
 
 Lowrie, Mrs. Louisa A 
 McMaster, Rev. Gilbert 
 McMullin, Rev. Robert 
 McMullin, Mrs. Robert 
 Morrison, Rev. John H 
 Morrison, Mrs. Anna M 
 Morrison, Mrs. Isabella 
 Morrison, Mrs. Anna . 
 Morrison, Mrs. John H 
 Morrison, Mrs, Susan Dutcher 
 Morrison, Mrs. W.J. P 
 Myers, Rev. Joseph H 
 Newton, Rev. John . . 
 Newton, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Newton, Mrs. Eliza . . 
 Newton, Rev. John, Jr., M 
 Nundy, Rev. Gopenath 
 Orbison, Rev. James H 
 Orbison, Mrs. Agnes C 
 Owen, Rev. Joseph . . 
 
 Owen, Mrs 
 
 Porter, Rev. Joseph . . 
 Porter, Mrs. Harriet J . 
 Reed, Rev. William . . 
 Rudolph, Mrs. Adolph 
 Rudolph, Rev Adolph . 
 Rudolph, Mrs. A. (2) . 
 Scott, Rev. James L . 
 Scott, Mrs. Christiana M 
 Scott, Mrs. James L. (2) 
 Seeley, Mrs. Emeline M 
 Seward, Miss Sara C 
 Thackwell, Mrs. Reese A 
 Walsh. Miss Emma . . 
 Warren, Rev. Joseph . 
 Wilson, Miss Mary N . 
 Wilson, Rev. James. , 
 Wilson, Mrs. James. . 
 Woodside, Miss Jennie 
 Woodside, Mrs. John S 
 
 
 DIED. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 21, 
 
 1833 
 
 205 
 
 
 
 1888 
 
 220 
 
 June 
 
 13. 
 
 1857 
 
 224 
 
 June 
 
 13. 
 
 1857 
 
 224 
 
 Sept. 
 
 16, 
 
 1881 
 
 232 
 
 April 
 
 27. 
 
 1838 
 
 233 
 
 Feb. 
 
 14. 
 
 1843 
 
 235 
 
 Dec. 
 
 29. 
 
 i860 
 
 235 
 
 Sept. 
 
 4. 
 
 1888 
 
 235 
 
 Jan. 
 
 
 1851 
 
 236 
 
 Aug. 
 
 19. 
 
 1888 
 
 236 
 
 Nov, 
 
 19. 
 
 1869 
 
 237 
 
 July 
 
 2, 
 
 1891 
 
 247 
 
 Sept. 
 
 2, 
 
 1857 
 
 250 
 
 Dec. 
 
 4. 
 
 1893 
 
 251 
 
 July 
 
 29. 
 
 1880 
 
 251 
 
 Mar. 
 
 14. 
 
 1861 
 
 256 
 
 April 
 
 19. 
 
 1869 
 
 261 
 
 May 
 
 20, 
 
 1855 
 
 262 
 
 Dec. 
 
 4. 
 
 1870 
 
 263 
 
 Dec. 
 
 13 
 
 1864 
 
 264 
 
 Nov. 
 
 21, 
 
 1853 
 
 273 
 
 Mar. 
 
 10, 
 
 1842 
 
 276 
 
 Aug. 
 
 12, 
 
 1834 
 
 300 
 
 Sept. 
 
 8. 
 
 1849 
 
 306 
 
 
 
 1888 
 
 307 
 
 April 
 
 10, 
 
 1884 
 
 307 
 
 Jan. 
 
 2, 
 
 1880 
 
 308 
 
 April 
 
 16, 
 
 1848 
 
 309 
 
 June 
 
 2, 
 
 1892 
 
 313 
 
 May 
 
 9. 
 
 1853 
 
 321 
 
 June 
 
 12, 
 
 1891 
 
 32s 
 
 Feb. 
 
 16, 
 
 1873 
 
 349 
 
 Aug. 
 
 15. 
 
 1869 
 
 36 1 
 
 Mar. 
 
 7. 
 
 1877 
 
 361 
 
 May 
 
 24. 
 
 1879 
 
 382 
 
 Feb. 
 
 13. 
 
 1884 
 
 385 
 
 Oct. 
 
 29. 
 
 1886 
 
 386 
 
 Feb. 
 
 3. 
 
 1887 
 
 390 
 
 
 
 1887 
 
 390 
 
SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 467 
 
 Japan and Korea. 
 
 DIED. PAGE. 
 
 Ballah, Mrs. John C Jan. 13, 1884 16 
 
 Bryan, Mrs. Arthur B May lo, 1891 25 
 
 Cornes, Rev. Edward Aug. i, 1870 69 
 
 Comes, Mrs. Edward Aug. i, 1870 69 
 
 Green, Rev. O. M Nov. 17, 1882 135 
 
 Hesser, Miss Mary K Sept. i, 1894 157 
 
 McNair, Mrs. T. M Feb. 11, 1887 221 
 
 Heron, John W., M.D. (Korea) Aug. 1,1890 154 
 
 Mexico. 
 
 Beall, Mrs. Jennie A April 22, 1885 20 
 
 Gomez, Rev. Necanor Nov. 2, 1884 131 
 
 Irwin, Rev. R. D Feb. 9, 1888 161 
 
 Persia. 
 
 Coan, Rev. George W., D.D Dec. 21, 1879 400 
 
 Cochran, Rev. Joseph G Nov. 2, 1871 58 
 
 Cochran, Mrs. D. P Mar. 9, 1893 63 
 
 Scott, Rev. David April 2, 1879 3^5 
 
 Stocking, Mrs. William R Sept, 22, 1872 348 
 
 Wright, Mrs. John N Feb. 5, 1879 394 
 
 Wright, Mrs. John N. (Shushan) June 1,1890 395 
 
 SiAM AND Laos. 
 
 Briggs, Mrs. W. A Mar. 22, 1891 25 
 
 Bush, Mrs. Stephen July 23, 1861 28 
 
 Campbell, Miss Mary M Feb. 8, 188 r 50 
 
 Cary, Mrs. A. M Jan. 17, 1887 55 
 
 MacLaren, Rev. Charles B Mar. 4, 1883 219 
 
 Odell, Mr. John F Aug. 26, 1865 259 
 
 Phraner, Rev. Stanley K Jan. 15, 1895 270 
 
 Phraner, Mrs. Elizabeth Pennell Feb. 12, 1891 272 
 
 Small, Miss Jennie M June 5,1891 341 
 
 Wilson, Mrs. Maria July 10. i860 378 
 
 Wilson, Mrs. Jonathan (2) Mar. 5, 1885 381 
 
 Syria. 
 
 Calhoun, Rev. Simeon H Dec. 14, 1876 39 
 
 Calhoun, Rev. Charles W., M.D June 22,1883 44 
 
405 SUMMARY BY MISSIONS. 
 
 DIED. PAGB. 
 
 Dale, Rev. Gefald F Oct. 6, 1886 80 
 
 Danforth, Rev. George B July 7, 1875 88 
 
 Danforth, Mrs. Emily Jan. 8, 1881 88 
 
 Jessup, Mrs. H. H April 4, 1882 174 
 
 Thomson, Rev. William M April 8, 1894 350 
 
 Thomson, Mrs. William M April 29, 1873 355 
 
 Wood, Rev. Frank A July 20, 1878 387 
 
 Appendix. 
 
 Rev. George W. Coan, D.D., (omitted in its order) . Dec. 21, 1879 400 
 
 Corresponding Secretaries. 
 
 Rev. Elisha P. Swift, D.D April 3, 1865 449 
 
 Hon. Walter Lowrie Dec. 14, 1868 429 
 
 Rev. J. Leighton Wilson, D.D July 13,1886 452 
 
 Rev. David Irving, D.D Oct. 12, 1885 425 
 
 Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D.D April 24, 1893 444 
 
 Sepoy Massacre of Missionaries in 1857 403 
 
 Resignation of Dr. John C. Lowrie, Secretary , , , 455 
 
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