her eastern voyage, Mrs. Harriet Newell. Of
less mental and physical vigor than Mrs. Judson, this amiable and ardent
Christian had gladly relinquished all other objects in life, for that of
sharing the privations and soothing the cares of a husband to whom she
was tenderly attached, in his labors among the heathen. But this
privilege was denied her; she was not even permitted to reach a scene of
missionary labor. Her heart-broken husband was compelled to bury her in
a far distant isle of the ocean, and finish his short earthly course
alone. But he lived to see the grave of that young martyr missionary
visited by many pilgrim feet, and her name embalmed in many admiring
hearts.

How keenly Mrs. Judson felt her loss, may be learned from a letter
written from the Isle of France, whither she and her husband went on
being driven from Calcutta:--"Have at last arrived in port; but oh, what
news, what distressing news! Harriet is dead. Harriet, my dear friend,
my earliest associate in the mission, is no more. Oh death, could not
this wide world afford thee victims enough, but thou must enter the
family of a solitary few whose comfort and happiness depended so much on
the society of each other? Could not this infant mission be shielded
from thy shafts!" "But be still, my heart, and know that God has done
it. Just and true are thy ways, oh thou King of saints!"

Another heavy trial, was the separation of herself and husband from the
church in which they were both educated, from the missionary association
on which they depended for support, and from the sympathies of those
Christians in their native land who had hitherto given them the most
cordial encouragement in their enterprise. This separation was in
consequence of a change in their sentiments in regard to baptism. So
liberal has the church become at this day, that all now look upon this
change as having decidedly advanced the cause of missions by enlisting a
large and respectable body of Christians in this country, not hitherto
engaged in it. But in 1813, a step like this on the part of
beneficiaries of the Board, could not but be regarded with much disfavor
and prejudice, render those who had taken it highly unpopular, and even
subject their motives to unworthy imputations. Whatever may be thought
of the soundness of their new views, therefore, there is not the shadow
of a reason to doubt their conscientiousness in adopting them. That they
did it in the face of every world