She goes on to say that under these circumstances, she was strongly urged by Dr. Judson, a brother of her husband, who was then in Baltimore, to remove to the south, and take up her residence for the winter with him at his boarding-house.  She says that painful as it was to leave her dear family, yet as she knew that freedom from company and excitement, as well as a milder climate, were absolutely essential to her recovery, she was induced to go.  She adds that her health is so far re-established that she is able to give five hours a day to study and to the compilation of her History of the Burman Mission, a work she had very much at heart.

The next passage in the letter is of touching interest, as showing the meekness of the Christian spirit in receiving a rebuke, whether merited or not.

“Your kind hint relative to my being injured by the lavish attention of our dear friends in this country, has much endeared you to my heart.  I am well aware that human applause has a tendency to elate the soul, and render it less anxious about spiritual enjoyments, particularly if the individual is conscious of deserving it.  But I must say, that since my return to this country, I have often been affected to tears, in hearing the undeserved praises of my friends, feeling that I was far, very far from being what they imagined:  and that there are thousands of poor obscure Christians, whose excellences will never be known in this world, who are a thousand times more deserving of the tender regard of their fellow-Christians than I am.

“Yet I trust I am grateful to my Heavenly Father for inclining the hearts of his children to look on me with a friendly eye.  The retired life I now lead is much more congenial to my feelings, and much more favorable to religious enjoyment, than when I was kept in a continual bustle of company.  Yes, it is in retirement that our affections are raised to God, and our souls refreshed and quickened by the influences of the Holy Spirit.  If we would live near the threshold of Heaven, and daily take a glance at our promised inheritance we must avoid not only worldly, but religious dissipation.  Strange as it may seem, I do believe there is something like religious dissipation, in a Christian’s being so entirely engrossed in religious company, as to prevent his spiritual enjoyments.”

In Baltimore, through the influence of Dr. Judson, she had the best medical advice and attendance the city could give; and was put upon a course of mercury in order to produce salivation.  She denied herself to company, and thus secured time for writing, in which employment she was assisted by “a pious excellent young lady,” whom she engaged as a copyist.  Her correspondence was extensive, and occupied much of her time.  One interesting letter from England informed her that Mr. Butterworth had put at interest for her Burman school L100 sterling, and that a larger sum had been collected.  Her English physicians insisted that she could not live in India, and urged her and her husband to come to England, but her determination to return to Burmah was unalterable.