American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . er. But our thoughts were not Grods thoughts. Hehad other designs, and called her to engage, I doubt not, in ahigher sphere of employment and usefulness. The mission 182 MRS. SARAH DAVIS COMSTOCK. here is greatly weakened. But Grod hath done it, and all hedoes is right. Her amiable character, her devoted attachment to the causeof missions, her rare decision, her conscientious regard to duty,her ardent faith, her pure and enduring love, render her amodel w^orthy of admiration and imitation. May the Head ofthe Church
American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches . er. But our thoughts were not Grods thoughts. Hehad other designs, and called her to engage, I doubt not, in ahigher sphere of employment and usefulness. The mission 182 MRS. SARAH DAVIS COMSTOCK. here is greatly weakened. But Grod hath done it, and all hedoes is right. Her amiable character, her devoted attachment to the causeof missions, her rare decision, her conscientious regard to duty,her ardent faith, her pure and enduring love, render her amodel w^orthy of admiration and imitation. May the Head ofthe Church raise up hundreds to live as she lived, to love asshe loved, to trust as she trusted, to be honored as she hasbeen and will be honored, to labor as she labored, to glorifyG-od as she glorified him. If life be not in length of days, In silvered locks and furrowed brow,But living to the Saviors praise,How few have lived so long as thou. Though earth may boast one gem the less. May not even heaven the richer be 1And myriads on thy footsteps press, To share thy blessd HARRIET L. WINSLOW. Fac Simile from Letter to her Brother, dated Oodooville, June 25th, 1828. MRS. HARRIET L. WINSLOW, AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. BY REV. WILLIAM A. HALLOCK, , New York. Harriet WADSWORTH LATHROP, eldest daughterof Charles Lathrop, Esq., and Joanna Leffingwell, was born inNorwich, Connecticut, April 9th, 1796. Her paternal grand-mother was Abigail Huntington, her maternal grandmotherElizabeth Coit. She married the Rev. Miron Winslow, Jan-uary 11th, 1819, and on the 8th of June following sailed fromBoston for Ceylon, in company with the Rev. Messrs. Scudder,Spaulding, Woodward, and their wives, in the brig Indus, Cap-tain Wills. Having labored thirteen years in Jaffna, Ceylon,she died suddenly, January 14th, 1833, at the age of thirty-seven. Her three youngest sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hutch-ings, Mrs. Charlotte H. Cherry, and Mrs. Harriet Joanna Per-ry, follo
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