American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . was left undone; no pains spared that could serve his all day through the jungles and marshes of Borneo,night found him at his translations. Even while a fatal dis-ease was fast advancing, a moment of relief was given to thestudy of some of the modern languages. His Dyak vocabu-lary, his translations, and the large mass of MSS. he has leftbehind, attest his toil. Had he lived, he would have completedan important work on the Economy of Missions, the mate-rials for which he has left behind. His piety wa
American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . was left undone; no pains spared that could serve his all day through the jungles and marshes of Borneo,night found him at his translations. Even while a fatal dis-ease was fast advancing, a moment of relief was given to thestudy of some of the modern languages. His Dyak vocabu-lary, his translations, and the large mass of MSS. he has leftbehind, attest his toil. Had he lived, he would have completedan important work on the Economy of Missions, the mate-rials for which he has left behind. His piety was deep, ardent, sincere, as his life has shown,and his record attests. Often was he made to drink of the cupof affliction, but trials only brought him closer to his God. Hewas emphatically a man of prayer. Besides his ordinary de-votions, he frequently set apart days and special hours for com-munion with G-od. For benighted Borneo often he prayed upto the latest hour of his life. May the Lord yet answer thosecries of faith, now that he has taken to himself the HENRY LYMAN. Fac Simile extract from Letter to his Mother, dated Padang, West Coast ofSumatra, May 3d, 1834. /^ ^-^^tr-O J^^^^-^ OyV^^^^^ j-^
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