Memoir of Sarah B. Judson: Of the American Mission to BurmahT. Nelson, 1860 - 230 pages |
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Page 68 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ! It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. " My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled ; " Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where He was once a child.
Page 170 - I have ever known in my own long life, it could be said that none knew her but to love her, none named her but to praise.
Page 30 - Tig the voice of deep sorrow from India's shore, The flower of our churches is withered, is dead, The gem that shone brightly will sparkle no more, And the tears of the Christian profusely are shed. Two youths of Columbia, with hearts glowing warm, Embarked on the billows far distant to rove, To bear to the nations all wrapped in thick gloom, The lamp of the gospel, — the message of love.
Page 23 - Thy grace can send its breathings o'er . The spirit dark and lost before ; And, freshening all its depths, prepare For truth divine to enter there.
Page 101 - Lord's-day, and administer to you once more the Lord's Supper. But God is calling me away from you. I am about to die, and shall soon be inconceivably happy in heaven. When I am gone, remember what I have taught you ; and O, be careful to...
Page 169 - Advice has become one of our standard tracts ; and her hymns in Burmese, about twenty in number, are probably the best in our Chapel Hymn Book — a work which she was appointed by the mission to edit. Besides these works, she published four volumes of Scripture questions, which are in constant use in our Sabbath schools.
Page 218 - Can a mother forget ?" she replied ; and was unable to proceed. During her last days, she spent much time in praying for the early conversion of her children. May her living and her dying prayers draw down the blessing of God on their bereaved heads. On our passage homeward, as the strength of Mrs.
Page 43 - On our arrival at Ava, we had more difficulties to encounter, and such as we had never before experienced. We had no home, no house to shelter us from the burning sun by day and the cold dews at night. Dr. Price had kindly met us on the way, and urged our taking up our residence with him ; but his house was in such an unfinished state, and the walls so damp, (of brick, and just built,) that spending two or three hours threw me into a fever, and induced me to feel that it would be presumption...
Page 174 - Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose. But when the sun in all his state Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's morning gate And walked in Paradise.
Page 204 - This gave a fresh impetus to the spread of Christianity. The wild men and women, in their mountain homes, found a new employment ; and they entered upon it with enthusiastic avidity. They had never before supposed their language capable of being represented by signs, like other languages ; and they felt themselves, from being a tribe of crushed, down-trodden slaves, suddenly elevated into a nation, with every facility for possessing a* national literature. This had a tendency to check their roving...