s overgrown with wild creepers and pole-flowers, and on the other
by large fruit-trees. While going and returning, I find it sweet and
profitable to think on the shortness of time, the vanity of this
delusive world,--and oh I have had some precious views of that world
where the weary are at rest; and where sin, that enemy of God, and now
constant disturber of my peace, will no more afflict me."

In another letter of a later date, she describes herself as sitting at
her table in a back porch, from which she can see her "dear husband," in
a room before her, teaching nine little heathen boys; while in one of
the long verandahs on each side of the house, the native Christians are
holding a prayer-meeting in their own language, and in the other, a
Chinese convert is urging three or four of his deluded countrymen to
turn from their stupid superstitions to the service of Jehovah.

She mentions also the baptism of a _Karen_, (the name of a tribe in
Burmah,) "a _poor man_, who had been converted while in the service of
Mr. Judson;" little knowing the importance of the fact thus recorded.
This "poor man," in fact formerly a slave, and whom the writer of an
article in a former number of the _Quarterly Review_ would have sneered
at as he did at the "fisherman," the _wonderful trophy of divine grace_,
mentioned in Mrs. Judson's history of the mission, was the famous
Ko-thay-byu, whose life has been written by Mr. Mason, and who, by his
zeal and success in missionary labor, obtained the name of "the Karen
Apostle." He was the first to introduce to the notice of the
missionaries, the tribe to which he belonged, a people so remarkable,
that we are unwilling, even in our brief sketch, to pass them over
without notice.

The Karens, according to a writer in the _North American Review_, are a
savage and ignorant race of men, (their _name_ in the Burman language
signifying _wild men_,) scattered in vast numbers over the wilds of
Farther India, and inhabiting almost inaccessible tracts, among the
mountains and forests. Their peculiar physiognomy, strange traditions,
and some of their customs have led to the opinion that they were of
Hebrew origin, though some think they are of the Caucasian variety of
the human species. They differ much from the Burmans, by whom they are
heavily taxed and grievously oppressed, and in every way treated as
inferiors.[9] "Their traditions have been preserved, like the poems of
Ossian, by fond memories delight