r oars beating the waves at measured intervals, as a
sort of funeral knell--The earth received her dust, and her bereaved
husband continued his sad voyage towards his native land, again a
widowed mourner.

PART III.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

OF MRS. EMILY C. JUDSON.

THIRD WIFE OF

REV. ADONIRAM JUDSON, D.D.

REMARKS ON HER GENIUS.--HER EARLY
LIFE.--CONVERSION.--EMPLOYMENTS.--TALES AND POEMS.--ACQUAINTANCE WITH
DR. JUDSON.--MARRIAGE.--VOYAGE TO INDIA.--BIOGRAPHY OF MRS. S.B.
JUDSON.--POEM WRITTEN OFF ST. HELENA.--POEM ON THE BIRTH OF AN
INFANT.--LINES ADDRESSED TO A BEREAVED FRIEND.--LETTER TO HER
CHILDREN.--"PRAYER FOR DEAR PAPA."--POEM ADDRESSED TO HER MOTHER.--HER
ACCOUNT OF DR. JUDSON'S LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH.

Our labor of sketching the lives of the _three_ distinguished women who
were permitted to share the happiness and lighten the cares of one of
the most worthy and venerated of missionaries, now brings us on delicate
ground. The last wife of Dr. Judson, happily for her numerous friends
and for his and her children, survives him. Long may she be spared to
train those children in the ways of lofty piety, to gladden the wide
circle of friends and relatives now anxiously expecting her return to
her native land, and to gratify the admirers of her genius with the
graceful and eloquent effusions of her pen. Graceful and eloquent they
have always been, but of late--touched by a coal from that altar on
which she has laid her best sacrifice, _herself_--they have gained a
higher and purer flow, awakened by a holier inspiration. The world
admired the brilliancy of "Fanny Forrester." Christians _love_ the
exalted tenderness, the sanctified enthusiasm of Emily C. Judson.

Much as it would gratify us, and her friends to give an extended account
of her life, delicacy forbids us to do more than merely to sketch those
features in it, which are already the property of much of the reading
public. Our outline will necessarily be meagre, but we will enrich it by
several of her poems written in India, hitherto scarce published except
in perishable newspapers and periodicals. We might indeed make it more
interesting by incidents and anecdotes, drawn from those of her early
associates who love to dwell on the rich promise of her childhood and
youth; but by doing so, we should incur the risk of intruding on the
sacredness of the family circle; and we forbear.

She was born in Eaton, a town near the centre of th