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you to heaven.' He then addressed Mr. Mason, as follows:--'Brother,
I am heartily rejoiced, and bless God that you have arrived, and
especially am I gratified, that you are so much interested for the
poor Karens. You will, I am assured, watch over them, and take care
of them; and if some of them turn back, you will still care for
them. As to my dear wife and child, I know you will do all in your
power to make them comfortable. Mrs. B. will probably spend the
ensuing rains in Tavoy. She will be happy with you and Mrs. Mason;
that is, as happy as she can be in her state of loneliness. She
will mourn for me, and a widow's state is desolate and sorrowful at
best. But God will he infinitely better to her, than I have ever
been.' On the same day, he wished me to read some hymns on
affliction, sickness, death, &c. I took Wesley's Hymn Book, the
only one we had with us, and read several, among others, the one
beginning 'Ah, lovely appearance of death.'

"On Wednesday evening, thirty-four persons were baptized. Mr.
Boardman was carried to the waterside, though so weak that he could
hardly breathe without the continual use of the fan and the
smelling-bottle. The joyful sight was almost too much for his
feeble frame. When we reached the chapel, he said he would like to
sit up and take tea with us. We placed his cot near the table, and
having bolstered him up, we took tea together. He asked the
blessing, and did it with his right hand upraised, and in a tone
that struck me to the heart. It was the same tremulous, yet urgent,
and I had almost said, unearthly voice, with which my aged
grandfather used to pray. We now began to notice that brightening
of the mental faculties, which I had heard spoken of, in persons
near their end.

"After tea was removed, all the disciples present, about fifty in
number, gathered around him, and he addressed them for a few
moments in language like the following:--'I did hope to stay with
you till after 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
persevere unto the end, that when you die, we may meet one another
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