tedly that he almost mistook her for an
angel visitant from a better sphere, was sufficiently pleasant to form
the basis of a lasting friendship between them. Indeed there are many
testimonials to Mrs. Boardman's personal loveliness and grace of manner.
In Calcutta, where she resided nearly two years, she was regarded as a
"finished lady;" and in a well-written tribute to her memory, published
in the Mother's Journal, she is described as "of about middle stature,
agreeable in personal appearance, and winning in manners. The first
impression of an observer respecting her in her youth, would be of a
gentle, confiding, persuasive being, who would sweeten the cup of life
to those who drank it with her. But further acquaintance would develop
strength as well as loveliness of character. It would be seen that she
could do and endure, as well as love and please. Sweetness and strength,
gentleness and firmness, were in her character most happily blended.
Her mind was both poetical and practical. She had a refined taste, and a
love for the beautiful as well as the excellent." But all these fine
gifts and endowments were consecrated; the offering she had made on her
Saviour's altar was unreserved; nor do we find that she ever cast back
to the world where she might have shone so brilliantly, "one longing,
lingering look."

She is said by her fellow Missionaries to have made wonderful
proficiency in the Burman language, and indeed she translated into it
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. She loved the language much; and used to
read the Scriptures in it in preference to reading them in English. She
once said to Mrs. Mason, "I should be willing to learn Burmese, for the
sake of reading the Scriptures in that language."

The translation of the Scriptures into Burmese is a work for which
Burmah is indebted to Dr. Judson For many years this devoted servant of
Christ employed on this great work every moment he could spare from
pastoral labor; and there is something truly sublime in the record he
has left of the completion of it, in his Journal under date of Jan. 31,
1834: "Thanks be to god, I can now say, I have attained! I have
knelt down before him, with the last leaf in my hand, and imploring his
forgiveness for all the sins which have polluted my labors in this
department, and his aid in future efforts to remove the errors and
imperfections which necessarily cleave to the work, I have commended it
to his mercy and grace; I have dedicated