am rejoiced to hear that Mr. Boardman has offered himself to supply
dear Colman's place. If actuated by motives of love to God, and concern
for precious souls, tell him he will never regret the sacrifice, but
will find those spiritual consolations which will more than compensate
him for every privation. I shall rejoice to afford him every assistance
in the acquisition of the language which my health will allow, though I
fear he will not be ready to sail so early as I hope to embark.

"This is the third day I have been writing this letter, on account of my
weakness. But I am gaining a little every day. Yesterday I had a little
female prayer-meeting in my chamber--trust the blessed Saviour was near
us. Oh it is good to get near to God, and feel whether in life or death,
we are His.

"Let us, my dear sister, so live, that our union to Christ may not only
be satisfactory to ourselves but to all around us. On earth we serve
God--in heaven enjoy him--is a motto I have long wished to adopt. When
in heaven we can do nothing towards saving immortal souls."

In a subsequent letter she mentions receiving a journal kept by her
husband, with the joyful intelligence of the accession of five more
converts to the little church there, three of whom were females, and
members of her Wednesday meeting. "They have," she says "set up of their
own accord a female prayer-meeting. Is not this encouraging?" Dr. Price
had been ordered to Ava on account of his medical skill, and Mr. Judson
was about to accompany him to make a further effort for toleration.

In March, Mrs. Judson went to Washington to superintend the printing of
her History of the Mission, and here she was detained contrary to her
wishes until the last of April. However, this detention gave her an
opportunity of meeting the Baptist General Convention which held its
session there at that time. A committee was appointed to confer with her
respecting the Burman Mission, and at her suggestion several important
measures were adopted.

When the printing of her work was completed, she presented the
copy-right to the convention. The work was favorably noticed in several
leading journals of the day, and has circulated extensively both in
Europe and this country. It was of great service not only to the cause
of the particular field of which it was the history, but to the cause of
missions generally, in awaking the public mind from that strange apathy
in regard to our Saviour's parting c