nister
a rebuke sufficiently severe to awaken shame and penitence; and to those
who may unwarily have been led to form unfavorable opinions respecting
Mrs. Judson, we cannot doubt that these letters will afford welcome
evidence of her modest and amiable disposition, consistent and exemplary
demeanor, ardent piety, and steady, irrepressible devotion to the
interests of the mission."

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The person and manners of Mrs. Judson at this time, were, according to
the testimony of some who well recollect her, engaging and attractive in
no common degree. Her sweet and ready smile, her dark expressive eye,
the animation and sprightliness of her conversation, and her refined
taste and manners, made her a favorite in all circles. Her dress, for
which she was indebted to the liberality of British friends, was more
rich and showy than she would have chosen for herself, and as has been
said, excited unkind remarks from some who did not care to investigate
her reasons for wearing it. Elegant as it was said to be, it was
certainly far better she should wear it, even at the risk of seeming
inconsistency, than to put her friends to the expense of other and
plainer clothing.

As to the imputation that she preferred the eclat of life in a southern
city, to the retirement of her New England home,--it is sufficient to
answer, that a constitution relaxed and enfeebled by ten years'
residence in a tropical climate, was ill-fitted to bear the rigors of a
New England winter, and as her whole object in her visit, was the
restoration of her health, she conceived it her duty to choose such a
place of sojourn as should seem most favorable to it.

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After a stay of six weeks with her parents in Bradford, Mrs. J. found it
necessary to seek a milder climate, and was advised to try that of
Baltimore. She had a pleasant journey to that city, stopping one day
with friends in New York, and arrived there on the 5th of December. From
her letters written about this time we proceed to give some extracts.

"My journey to this place was pleasant, though fatiguing. I passed one
night only in New York, and spent a most pleasant evening in the society
of a large party of good people who were collected for the purpose of
prayer. Many fervent petitions were presented in behalf of the
perishing Burmans, and the little church established in that country. It
was an evening to me full of