This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...CHAPTER V. CA WNPORE. 1809-11. AT Cawnpore he was welcomed most cordially by Captain Sherwood and his wife, a lady whose literary works are well known, and whose pen was always employed in advancing that sacred cause for which Martyn lived and laboured and was ready to die. Mrs. Sherwood thus writes of his arrival at ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...CHAPTER V. CA WNPORE. 1809-11. AT Cawnpore he was welcomed most cordially by Captain Sherwood and his wife, a lady whose literary works are well known, and whose pen was always employed in advancing that sacred cause for which Martyn lived and laboured and was ready to die. Mrs. Sherwood thus writes of his arrival at this new station: "The month of April in the upper provinces of Hindustan is one of the most dreadful months for travelling throughout the year; indeed, no European at that time can remove from place to place, but at the hazard of j his life. But Mr. Martyn had that anxiety to be at the work which his Heavenly Father had given him to do, that notwithstanding the violent heat, he travelled from Chunar to Cawnpore, the space of about four hundred miles. At that time, I well remember, the air was as hot and dry as that which I have sometimes felt near the mouth of a large oven. No friendly cloud or verdant carpet of grass to relieve the eye from the strong glare of the rays of the sury pouring on the sandy plains of the Ganges. Thus Mr. Martyn travelled, journeying night and day, and arrived at Cawnpore in such a state that he 06 fainted away as soon as he entered the house. When we charged him with the rashness of hazarding in this manner his life, he always pleaded his anxiety to get to the great work. He remained with us ten days, suffering at times considerably from fever and pain in his chest." We find him, shortly after his arrival at Cawnpore, preaching to a thousand soldiers drawn up in a hollow square, when the heat was so great, although the sun had not risen, that many actually dropped down, unable to support it. His health suffered, as it could not fail of doing from ministrations carried on under such circumstances in such a...
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