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. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...appeared, and folded her little hands on her cold breast. The next morning we made her last bed in the small inclosure that surrounds her mother's lonely grave. Together they rest in hope, under the hope tree (hopia), which stands at the head of the graves; and together, I trust, their spirits are rejoicing ...
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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. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...appeared, and folded her little hands on her cold breast. The next morning we made her last bed in the small inclosure that surrounds her mother's lonely grave. Together they rest in hope, under the hope tree (hopia), which stands at the head of the graves; and together, I trust, their spirits are rejoicing after a short separation of precisely six months. And. I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried; one in Rangoon and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, " Where my best friends, my kindred, dwell, Where God, my Saviour, reigns?" I remain, my dear mother, yours, A. Judson. The following letter to the sisters of his late wife, it will be seen, was written some time after the melancholy bereavements which occurred to Mr. Judson. It is, however, proper to insert it in this place: Maulmaiint, December 4, 1827. My Dear Sisters--It is a most affecting thought to me, that when you were expressing your feelings for my poor motherless Maria, and requesting that she might be sent home, that very day, perhaps hour, death was laying his stiffening hand on her little emaciated form, and turning a deaf, pitiless ear to her agonized father, and the yearning wishes of dear distant relatives Death mocks at us, and tramples our dearest hopes and our lives in the dust. Dreadful tyrant, offspring and ally of sin! But go on now and do thy worst. Thy time will come. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death! Yes, awful power, thou shalt devour thyself and die; and then my angelic Ann, and my meek, blue-eyed Roger, and my tender-hearted, affectionate, darling Maria, my venerable father, you, my dear sisters, that still remain, our still surviving...
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