Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ng students thoughts andpurposes toward the mission field. He was married in 1864 in Montrose,Pa., to Miss Antoinette W. Hartwell. Asnavigation was much disturbed by the CivilWar then in progress the young couple weredelayed for some time in embarking fortheir mission field in India. At last theytook passage on a merchant vessel bearing acargo of ice from Boston to Ceylon, fondlyhoping to reach that land in a hundred on the third day out, they were struckby a cyclone, in which their Christian cap-tain was washed overboard, and the ship
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . ng students thoughts andpurposes toward the mission field. He was married in 1864 in Montrose,Pa., to Miss Antoinette W. Hartwell. Asnavigation was much disturbed by the CivilWar then in progress the young couple weredelayed for some time in embarking fortheir mission field in India. At last theytook passage on a merchant vessel bearing acargo of ice from Boston to Ceylon, fondlyhoping to reach that land in a hundred on the third day out, they were struckby a cyclone, in which their Christian cap-tain was washed overboard, and the shipwas barely saved from foundering. Thecaptains death placed the first mate incharge, and he proved to be one of the mostignorant men ever placed in charge of avessel for go long a voyage. His ignorancewas equaled by his wickedness and brutal-ity. Very soon after the storm a plot waslaid by the crew to get rid of this incompe-tent and brutal commander. It was soondiscovered, however, and suppressed, andas a last resort the new captain, finding out. Rev. S. H. Kellogg, , accidentally that Dr. Kellogg had studiednavigation, asked him to take the matesplace in directing the vessel. Thus withina week after leaving Boston, the youngmissionary found himself with the nauticallibrary and instruments of the late captainplaced at his disposal, and took the necessarydaily observations and acted as navigatoruntil they reached Ceylon—not in a hun-dred, but in a hundred and forty-eight daysfrom Boston. For although they made theCape of Good Hope in fifty-eight days, thecaptain, being totally ignorant of the lawsof the monsoons beyond that point, and yetoverruling Dr. Kelloggs urgent advice,took a different course, which cost a needlessdelay. On reaching India with his wife and hisfellow-missionary, the lamented Rev. , in 1865, he was stationed for somemonths alone in the Barhpur Mission incharge of all the work. It was hard atfirst, he says, but had the good result ofbringi
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