Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . s work in the remote Orient was now done, and heturned his face homeward. His letters date from theArabian Sea, on February 10, 1870 ; Gulf of Aden, onFebruary 20; Red Sea, February 23 ; and Cairo, March appointed duties yet embraced a visit to Bulgaria,Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden,and he was further deputed as delegate to the BritishWesleyan Conference, and to visit the Irish had time to go to the Holy Land, and his soul longedto behold with his eyes the places made sacred by theearthl
Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . s work in the remote Orient was now done, and heturned his face homeward. His letters date from theArabian Sea, on February 10, 1870 ; Gulf of Aden, onFebruary 20; Red Sea, February 23 ; and Cairo, March appointed duties yet embraced a visit to Bulgaria,Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden,and he was further deputed as delegate to the BritishWesleyan Conference, and to visit the Irish had time to go to the Holy Land, and his soul longedto behold with his eyes the places made sacred by theearthly presence of his adored Master. He accordinglytook passage from Alexandria to Joppa, and passedthrough Jerusalem on to Beyroot. He arrived thereApril 4, and two days afterward suddenly fell into thehands of death through disease of the heart, expiring inthe arms of Rev. Henry Bannister, D. D., whom he hadprovidentially met at Jerusalem, and who became hiscompanion to Beyroot. Thus suddenly were the desiresof his soul more abundantly gratified, for he passed from. ,,.11^ M Bishop Kingsleys Monument The Bishops and Missiojis. 65 just beholding the place where Jesus was to beholdhim as he is. The kindness of the Presbyterian missionaries in thishour of our grief will ever be remembered with gratitudeby the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Bishops bodyrests in the Prussian Cemetery, and friends in this coun-try have erected on the spot an appropriate granite may perish, but old Lebanon, with his hoaryhead, will stand till the end of time, Gods sentinel overthis precious dust. The letters cf Bishop Kingsley to periodicals andfriends were subsequently gathered into two volumes,entitled, * Round the World. They abound in inter-esting information and practical suggestions, which every-where evince the Bishops unswerving faith in the finaltriumph of Christs kingdom in the earth. The General Conference of 1872 repeated its rec-ommendation to the Bishops to visit the foreign
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