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 in the presence of God, never more to part.  Listen to the word of the new teacher and the teacheress as you have done to mine.  The teacheress will be very much distressed.  Strive to lighten her burdens, and comfort her by your good conduct.  Do not neglect prayer.  The eternal God, to whom you pray, is unchangeable.  Earthly teachers sicken and die, but God remains forever the same.  Love Jesus Christ with all your hearts, and you will be forever safe.’  This address I gathered from the Karens, as I was absent preparing his things for the night.  Having rested a few minutes, he offered a short prayer, and then with Mr. Mason’s assistance, distributed tracts and portions of Scripture to them all.  Early the next morning we left for home, accompanied by nearly all the males and some of the females, the remainder returning to their homes in the wilderness.  Mr. Boardman was free from pain during the day, and there was no unfavorable change, except that his mouth grew sore.  But at four o’clock in the afternoon, we were overtaken by a violent shower of rain accompanied by lightning and thunder.  There was no house in sight, and we were obliged to remain in the open air, exposed to the merciless