American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . ched the closing scene with solemn reverence; andwhen the dying saint had breathed his last, they stole softlyaway, leaving the neglected meal upon the board grave was the ocean; his fitting monument, said his K 246 ^^^- ADONIRAM JUDSON bereaved widow, for, like its blue waves, which visit everycoast, his love went forth to the ends of the earth, and em-braced the whole family of man. The Closing Scenes inDr. Judsons life, written by that widow, furnish a beautifultestimonial to the strength and fervor
American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . ched the closing scene with solemn reverence; andwhen the dying saint had breathed his last, they stole softlyaway, leaving the neglected meal upon the board grave was the ocean; his fitting monument, said his K 246 ^^^- ADONIRAM JUDSON bereaved widow, for, like its blue waves, which visit everycoast, his love went forth to the ends of the earth, and em-braced the whole family of man. The Closing Scenes inDr. Judsons life, written by that widow, furnish a beautifultestimonial to the strength and fervor of his piety, and leavethe gratifying assurance of his ripe preparation for the presenceof his Lord. He died lamented by the Christian world. Hisbereaved wife turned her sorrowful footsteps toward her nativeland, and here gathering the children of her husband underher wing, one of them her own, and familiar to the readers ofpoetry as her End, she lives to illustrate the graces of intel-lectual and Christian culture, and the undying strength ofconjugal and maternal GROVER S. COMSTOCK. Fac Simile extract from Letter to his Sister, dated Ramree, January 19th, 1841
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