ell me of any?"

And truly, from this time no other word would so well express his state
of feeling, as that one of his own choosing--_peace_. He had no
particular exercises afterwards, but remained calm and serene, speaking
of himself daily as a great sinner, who had been overwhelmed with
benefits, and declaring, that he had never in all his life before, had
such delightful views of the unfathomable love and infinite
condescension of the Saviour, as were now daily opening before him. "Oh,
the love of Christ! the love of Christ!" he would suddenly exclaim,
while his eye kindled, and the tears chased each other down his cheeks,
"we cannot understand it now--but what a beautiful study for eternity!"

After our return from Mergui, the doctor advised a still farther trial
of the effects of sea air and sea-bathing, and we accordingly proceeded
to Amherst, where we remained nearly a month. This to me was the darkest
period of his illness--no medical adviser, no friend at hand, and he
daily growing weaker and weaker. He began to totter in walking, clinging
to the furniture and walls, when he thought he was unobserved (for he
was not willing to acknowledge the extent of his debility), and his wan
face was of a ghastly paleness. His sufferings too were sometimes
fearfully intense, so that in spite of his habitual self-control, his
groans would fill the house. At other times a kind of lethargy seemed to
steal over him, and he would sleep almost incessantly for twenty-four
hours, seeming annoyed if he were aroused or disturbed. Yet there were
portions of the time, when he was comparatively comfortable, and
conversed intelligently; but his mind seemed to revert to former scenes,
and he tried to amuse me with stories of his boyhood--his college
days--his imprisonment in France, and his early missionary life. He had
a great deal also to say on his favorite theme. "The love of Christ:"
but his strength was too much impaired for any continuous mental effort.
Even a short prayer made audibly, exhausted him to such a degree that
he was obliged to discontinue the practice.

At length I wrote to Maulmain, giving some expression of my anxieties
and misgivings, and our kind missionary friends, who had from the first
evinced all the tender interest and watchful sympathy of the nearest
kindred immediately sent for us--the doctor advising a sea-voyage. But
as there was no vessel in the harbor bound for a port sufficiently
distant, we thought