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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30026 ***
+
+MISSIONARY ANNALS.
+(A SERIES.)
+
+
+
+
+A STORY OF ONE SHORT LIFE, 1783 to 1818.
+
+
+BY
+ELISABETH G. STRYKER.
+
+
+
+
+CHICAGO:
+WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST,
+Room 48, McCormick Block.
+
+
+
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1888,
+BY WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+                                                             PAGE
+   I. ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION . . . . . . . . . .  7
+
+  II. COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST
+      IN FOREIGN MISSIONS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+
+ III. OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
+
+  IV. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL . . . . 20
+
+   V. MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD . . . . . . . . . . 22
+
+  VI. AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES  . . . . . . . 25
+
+ VII. MILLS' SECOND TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
+
+VIII. THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN
+      MISSIONARY SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
+
+  IX. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT,
+      VISITS AFRICA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
+
+   X. THE LAST JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
+
+
+
+
+As I write, I have in my mind a row of intelligent boyish faces.
+Manly souls look through bright eyes. My heart responds to the beats
+of affection beneath jacket and cut-away.
+
+I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly
+graces are dawning. I feel the warmth of pure young hearts beginning
+to swell with generous desires.
+
+These are my real friends. Beyond them I see rows and rows of boys
+and girls whose sympathies and interest I would gladly claim.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+Those among us interested in the young people, the boys and girls of
+our Churches, somewhat realize the lack of material wherewith to
+stimulate and nourish these young workers. The apiarist studies the
+nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers
+that "the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference" in
+the bees. We have long watched our boys and girls, and either we do
+not care what they yield, or we are dull not to notice that what
+surrounds them and enters into their minds, is surely deciding their
+natures. White clover honey can only be made from white clover
+blossoms. What they read and what they may be induced to read
+concerns us as mission workers. Individual tastes make many by-paths
+in the field of literature, but the girls all enjoy the windings of
+romance, and the boys delight in the highway of adventure. "But,"
+they say or think, "Missions, their history and progress are so
+stupid, they have no decent heroes and heroines. We like Robinson
+Crusoe, and Little Women, and the Arabian Nights!" But do we not know
+that the stories of the lives of some of our missionaries, well told,
+may stand side by side, upon the book-shelves and in the hearts of
+our young people, with the pages of De Foe and Louise Alcott? Many a
+boy and girl, charmed by the life and fortune of some unreal, and
+oftentimes unworthy, hero, has attempted to make copy in his or her
+own life. Missionary lives are not lacking in the spirit, adventure
+and romance which are so fascinating. With these ideals in their
+minds, may we not expect followers of the Judsons, the Moffats, the
+Fiskes and the Rankins?
+
+The writer, who has humbly undertaken to re-tell an old tale, is
+neither a De Foe nor an Alcott. She finds she can borrow neither of
+their pens. Her own, conscious of its inexperience, finds its only
+relief in the fact that the story is its own strength.
+
+
+
+
+SAMUEL J. MILLS.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION.
+
+
+Our country is quietly enjoying the benefits of a great activity.
+Foreign Missions are still feeling a noble impulse, and the origin of
+this force was, under God, in the heart and brain of Samuel J. Mills.
+
+It is a name known to us, but a history almost forgotten. Only upon
+the shelves of some antiquarian, or in the undisturbed library of
+some old homestead can a volume be found bearing the title "Mills'
+Memoirs." Take it down, blow the dust from the leaves yellow with
+sixty-seven years, and you will find the narrative related in the
+stately, old-time style, and somewhat laudatory and expansive.
+
+He had no son, as Adoniram Judson had, gladly to record the details
+of his busy life. The writer was Dr. Gardiner Spring, who laments
+having failed in the attempt to obtain what appeared to him to be
+important information. We are thankful to him for gathering even
+these rare fragments.
+
+From a sketch of Salmon Giddings, the Damon Memorial, a letter from a
+relative of Mills, and the life of Henry Obookiah have come a few
+incidents and facts, but mainly in the record of Dr. Spring have we
+found our Story of One Short Life. Such hid treasure should find the
+light, even though quarried by unskillful hands.
+
+Biographies are apt to seem discouraging, in the beginning; the
+attention being riveted upon the supposed hero, meets with a shock in
+finding it has been following the history of his great-grandfather.
+The scattered energies are then directed upon the grandfather, only
+to meet with a second delay. Again recovering, and following the
+father's fortunes, the son, the subject of the work, is at last
+introduced.
+
+The great-grandfather of our hero must be brought in just long enough
+to answer one question. He was once asked, "How did you educate four
+sons at Yale College, and give each a profession?" His reply was,
+"Almighty God did it, with the help of my wife." The grandfather (of
+our hero) was drowned while some of his children were still young.
+His widow, committing their babes to the God of the fatherless,
+especially offered for His service, a son named Samuel John. He
+became a minister, and for many years was settled in Torringford,
+Connecticut. He was eminent for his ability and character. Mrs. Stowe
+said of him--"He was one ingrain New Englander. Of all the marvels
+that astonished my childhood, there is none I remember to this day
+with so much interest as Father Mills." This was the name by which he
+was extensively known. His wife was a woman exemplary and devout.
+
+Being assured that the three preceding generations were
+commandment-keeping, we shall see how the Lord showed mercy unto the
+fourth. Almighty God and a true mother secure for many a man's sons,
+not only education, but large efficiency and honor.
+
+The seventh child, born April 21st, 1783, in this Torringford home,
+was a son, named after his father, Samuel John. The child grew to be
+a mighty instrument in God's hand, which He in His wisdom selected,
+knowing the fineness of the material with which he dealt. That we too
+may know something of the tempering of the steel, we are permitted a
+reverent glance into that pious mother's bosom. Before the birthday
+came she continually dedicated the little life beneath her heart to
+the God who is pleased to accept such gifts. During all his childhood
+he received the most careful Christian training. Nourished in such a
+home-garden, and shined on by such mother-light, we cannot wonder
+that the child grew toward the Sun, and that the roots of religious
+character struck deep and spread wide.
+
+When but a little child he showed an unusual concern of conscience.
+At fifteen the town in which he lived was greatly aroused and
+revived. His friends and acquaintances received the blessing, and he
+was deeply interested, but the revival passed, leaving him with a
+bitter, rebellious feeling in his heart.
+
+About this time, one fine cold winter morning, a merry sleigh load
+drove from his father's house. He, with his brothers, sisters and
+cousins, about eighteen in all, went to spend a few days with his
+uncle in West Hartford. Samuel had recently come into the possession
+of a fine farm. He was gay and ambitious. His companions fearing his
+good fortune might make him feel a "little too high minded," sought
+to tease him. The evening before their return, after eating nuts and
+apples, they agreed to have a little singing. They struck up "Hark,
+from the Tombs a Doleful Sound," to the tune, Bangor. They sang it
+slowly and solemnly, now and then casting at him glances from their
+mischievous eyes. He sat a silent listener, while their song, sung in
+fun, made an earnest impression of which he could not rid himself.
+
+Soon after his farm was sold, and at eighteen he determined to go to
+Litchfield and study in the Academy. As he was leaving home, his
+mother's anxious heart could not let him go without enquiring for his
+soul's health. Other mothers know the pain she suffered, when he told
+her "for two years I have been sorry God ever made me." She replied
+to him as her wise heart prompted her, and sent him on his way. She
+went where all mothers of boys must so often go, to her knees, alone
+with God.
+
+He had not gone far on his journey when he met a Friend. It was the
+Good Shepherd, whom that mother's urgent prayer had sent searching
+for the wanderer. It was as if he had met Christ in his path. He
+looked up at the great trees and down at the blossoms, and in
+everything saw God. He became so impressed with the perfections of
+the Holy One he had so long resisted, that he lost sight of himself.
+He sat down in the woods to wonder and to pray. It was not until some
+time after that he realized any change in himself, and not until he
+returned from Litchfield did his father perceive it. His conversion
+was thorough. Not only was he turned about,--his face God-ward
+instead of self-ward,--but he was impelled toward "those sitting in
+darkness." In his childhood, from his mother's lips, he often heard
+stories from the lives of Brainerd, Eliot, and other missionaries. He
+heard her prayers for them and their great undertakings. Once he
+heard her say, "I have consecrated this child to the service of God
+as a missionary." Now it was his joy to follow those noble examples,
+and to fulfill his part in the plans of God and his mother for him.
+His parents approved of his determination, though the thought of
+separation tore their hearts. His mother said to him, "I cannot bear
+to part from you, my son." When he reminded her of her vow, she burst
+into tears, and never after made complaint. To his father he said
+that he could "not conceive of any course of life in which to pass
+the rest of his days, that would prove so pleasant, as to go and
+communicate the gospel of salvation to the poor heathen."
+
+This desire to spread the Gospel grew to be a sublime purpose, and
+from it he never wavered. He set about his plannings, with this
+supreme end in view. Thanking God for his own salvation, he laid his
+life in God's hand, imploring Him to use it for those who had as yet
+no knowledge of that mercy. The Lord took him from the plough, as he
+did Elisha. He left the field for the college.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN
+MISSIONS.
+
+
+He entered Williams College in the spring of 1806. During his first
+visit home in June, he connected himself with his father's church. A
+college course means to some young men four years of frolic, or
+worse. To others it is an opportunity to cram knowledge, that shall
+by-and-by astound the round world and they that dwell therein. To
+one, at least, it was the time for choosing "smooth stones" for his
+combat with the giant adversary, whom he was brave enough to meet
+alone, if need be, "in the name of the Lord of Hosts."
+
+As a scholar he was not brilliant, but as a Christian he was "a
+bright and shining light." To serve God was the highest aim of his
+life. First of all, he served Him upon his knees. He used to pray
+often and earnestly, alone and with others. He pursued his studies
+for the after use he might make of them, not for his own
+accomplishment. As he visited his friends in their rooms, and walked
+with them through the groves, the subject dearest to his heart was
+oftenest the theme of his conversation. To one friend he said:
+"Though you and I are very little beings, we must not rest satisfied
+till we have made our influence extend to the remotest corner of this
+ruined world."
+
+His life was so consistent, his disposition so sweet, his manners so
+winning that every one was his friend. Those who had been unfaithful
+to their vows were reproved, and those opposed to religion were
+induced to follow his example. During his first year there was a
+revival, which seemed to come in answer to his earnest prayers. Many
+of his comrades became Christians, and so earnestly that they laid
+aside or sanctified their old ambitions, and prepared to spread
+through the earth the fire kindled by this devoted youth.
+
+A mission band of boys were examined as to their knowledge of Samuel
+Mills. "Where was he born?" asked the leader. "Under a haystack!"
+replied a small boy. Had the question been, Where was the American
+Board of Foreign Missions born? the answer would not have been so far
+from the way. Its baptismal naming came some years later, but under a
+stack of hay in a meadow, near Williams College, it was born, nursed
+and prayed over.
+
+About fourteen years earlier foreign missionary organization had
+begun across the Atlantic. On this side, the attention of Christians
+had been occupied with their new homes and the needs of the destitute
+near at hand. There were societies of domestic missions; but no
+scheme to touch hands God-blessed with hands idol-cursed, had ever
+been devised before the Lord of both put it into the heart of Mills.
+"God called him out of the midst of the bush." The bush was this
+haystack, but the place became "holy ground." The Lord said: "I have
+surely seen the affliction of my people, and have heard their cry."
+"Come now, therefore, and I will send thee."
+
+This commission filled his soul. He gathered a few of his friends in
+a grove, to tell them his convictions and his hopes. What was his
+surprise and joy to find that the "Angel of the Lord" had appeared to
+them also. A sudden thunder storm came upon them here, but his
+retreat, his place of safety, was near by. He led them under the
+haystack, and there they talked together, and with God. And there
+they continued to meet through two seasons, and finally formed
+themselves into the first Foreign Missionary Society of this
+continent. Its object was "to effect in the persons of its members a
+mission to the heathen."
+
+From the spot where the haystack once stood, now rises a marble
+shaft, bearing aloft a globe, underneath which is inscribed:
+
+               "THE FIELD IS THE WORLD."
+
+  "The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions, 1806."
+
+                  SAMUEL J. MILLS,
+                  JAMES RICHARDS,
+                  FRANCIS L. ROBBINS,
+                  HARVEY LOOMIS,
+                  BYRAM GREEN.
+
+At every commencement, the college president leads to this monument a
+procession of alumni, students, and guests. Prayer is offered that
+the spirit of missions may still prevail at Williams, and that the
+traditions of the past may be maintained.
+
+In these years public opinion was decidedly opposed to the enterprise
+of these young men. Even good men thought their zeal extravagant and
+expected it soon to subside. In order to arouse sympathy and a right
+sentiment, they devised various means. They discussed their projects
+with Christian people. They distributed missionary sermons. A list
+was made of the names of distinguished ministers, to whom these young
+men made frequent visits, urging their suit. Among them, the first to
+take fire, was Dr. Worcester. With one of them, Dr. Griffin, Mills
+asked to be permitted to study theology. Said the Doctor: "I had
+always refused such applications, but from the love I bore to him, I
+agreed to criticise one sermon a week. After that exercise he would
+commonly sit and draw letters very moderately and cautiously from his
+pocket, reading passages to me on some benevolent project. At length
+I perceived that _studying divinity_ with me had been quite a
+secondary object, that his chief object was to get me engaged to
+execute his plans. As soon as I discovered that, I told him to bring
+out his letters and all his plans, without reserve."
+
+Mills became convinced that they could not expect help from the
+Churches unless the number was increased of young men ready to devote
+their lives to this cause. He and his friends then separated for the
+purpose of establishing societies in other colleges. Mills went to
+Yale, hoping there to find kindred spirits. This was not the case,
+but God had sent him for another purpose, and that to know Obookiah,
+a heathen boy from the Sandwich Islands. This acquaintance greatly
+increased his zeal.
+
+Sometimes a little seed, wafted by the wind, is borne far from its
+mother plant to take root in a foreign soil: but its fruit may be
+returned whence it came. This little lonely heathen child, blown by
+seemingly cruel and adverse winds, was tossed upon our Christian
+shores by the good hand of God. The ship which brought him touched
+other and idolatrous lands, but he was not to put his feet down till
+they could be planted in the right place.
+
+That his life touched Mills' life, both being quickened, is perhaps
+reason enough for giving here a portion of Obookiah's history and
+that of his native land, if there were not another reason, and that
+the opportunity, here afforded, of following a stream of influence to
+its sea.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA.
+
+
+Henry Obookiah was born in Hawaii, about the year 1792. When about
+twelve years old, two parties contending for dominion, disturbed the
+peace of the island. He alone survived the persecution of his family.
+He was captured and carried home by the man who killed his parents,
+but finally made his way to an uncle. Though he was well treated, he
+suffered from loneliness. He said of himself, "When I was at play
+with other children, after we had made an end of playing, they return
+to their parents: but I was returned into tears, for I have no home,
+neither father nor mother. Poor boy am I."
+
+He determined to go to some other country, and forget his sorrow. The
+captain of an American vessel showed him kindness, and consented to
+take him on board. He brought him to America, and took him to his own
+home in New Haven. Henry was a clumsy, stupid-looking boy at this
+time, his appearance not revealing the undeveloped depths of his
+nature. He made the acquaintance of some of the students at Yale
+College, and of the Rev. E. W. Dwight. These friends becoming
+interested in his welfare, offered to teach him. He accepted their
+aid with avidity, and made wonderful progress, at the same time
+becoming more and more lovable and attractive.
+
+A fun-loving disposition soon showed itself. He had great difficulty
+in pronouncing the letter _r_, giving it the sound of _l_. Every day
+his teacher tried to help him, saying, "try, Obookiah, it is _very
+easy_." This seemed to amuse the boy greatly, though as yet he could
+not express himself in English. Some time after, when he could speak
+more readily, he was describing to his teacher some of the customs of
+his native land. Clasping his hands together, and adjusting his
+thumbs, he formed a cup which he raised to his lips to show how his
+countrymen drank from a spring. His instructor tried to do the same,
+but before he could reach his mouth with his hands the cup would be
+inverted so that the contents, had there been any, would have been
+spilled. Obookiah laughed heartily and said, "_try_, Mr.
+Dwight, it is _very easy_!"
+
+One day he mimicked the gait of some of his friends so cleverly, that
+there was no mistaking whom he intended to personate. His teacher
+then mocked his own awkward style, when he exclaimed several times:
+"me walk so?" Being assured that it was true, he rolled upon the
+floor until his mirth exhausted his strength.
+
+After being instructed about the true God, idol worship seemed to him
+ridiculous. He said, "Hawaii gods! They _wood_,--_burn_. Me go home,
+put 'em in a fire, burn 'em up. They no _see_, no _hear_, _no_
+anything." Then added, "We make _them_. Our God," looking up, "He
+make us."
+
+After Mr. Mills arrived in New Haven he became a friend of Mr.
+Dwight's, and being often in his room, occasionally heard this boy
+recite. He became greatly attached to him, and began to cherish a
+plan for his future. He wanted to see Obookiah a Christian, educated,
+and then a missionary to his native land.
+
+One evening Mr. Mills had not been long in Mr. Dwight's room, when
+Obookiah came in with a very gloomy face. He said he had no place to
+live; Mr. ---- didn't want him any more, and Miss ---- had threatened
+to take away his new clothes. Mr. Mills told him he would take him to
+his own home, and that he had clothes enough for both. This cheered
+the poor, disconsolate fellow, who soon went with Mr. Mills to
+Torringford, and was placed under the "care of those whose
+benevolence was without a bond or check, or a limit to confine it."
+Here he spent a part of the year 1810, and was treated wisely and
+affectionately. Mrs. Mills taught him the Catechism, and her son
+Jeremiah assisted him in his studies. At different times, and
+frequently, their house was his home.
+
+He became gentle and refined in his manner, a Bible-loving, earnest,
+prayerful Christian. His friends who had been so careful in the
+training of his mind and heart, had not neglected his hands. He was
+taught much that was useful and practical, particularly in farming.
+He surprised all by the quickness and eagerness with which he
+learned. He was both inquisitive and acquisitive to a remarkable
+degree. He persisted in knowing and getting, that he might impart
+what he had gained to his own countrymen. To return to them for their
+enlightenment, was his consuming desire.
+
+He visited many families, and many of the churches of New England,
+always creating a deep interest in his mission. Many people who had
+affirmed that the heathen could never be reclaimed from their low
+estate, were forced to change their opinions after seeing and knowing
+Obookiah, and were inspired to pray and give for his and other
+unevangelized races.
+
+The presence of Obookiah in this country, as well as of other heathen
+youth, together with the desire to educate some of our own Indians,
+led to the formation of the Foreign Mission School, at Cornwall,
+Mass. This school was under the care of the American Board ten years.
+Its pupils were from many different nations. In 1826 it was
+discontinued, for by this time the missions were able to educate the
+young at their several stations.
+
+Obookiah was pursuing his studies here, when, in the beginning of the
+year 1818, he was stricken with typhus fever, and suffered several
+weeks. On the 17th of February, 1818, he shook hands with all his
+companions present, and with perfect composure addressed to them the
+parting salutation of his native language, "Alloah ò e"--"my love be
+with you."
+
+Mrs. Stone, in whose house he died, and who cared for him with
+Christian kindness during his sickness, said, "This had been one of
+the happiest and most profitable periods of her life; that she had
+been more than rewarded for her cares and watchings by day and night,
+in being permitted to witness his excellent example, and to hear his
+godly conversation."
+
+Almost immediately after his death, missionaries, inspired by his
+life, hastened to accomplish his cherished purpose, the establishment
+of a mission in the Sandwich Islands. Mills was far from home, but
+returning at the time, not knowing Obookiah had died, he said to a
+friend, "If it please God that I may arrive safely, I think that I
+shall take Obookiah and go to the Sandwich Islands and there I will
+end my life."
+
+From that day to this, missionaries and missions, schools, churches
+and Christians have multiplied, till all those islands name the name
+of Christ.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+THE SANDWICH ISLES WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.
+
+  "Surely the isles shall wait for me."
+
+
+The missionaries found upon these islands naked savages, without
+books, education, or courts of justice. The people were slaves,
+governed arbitrarily by chiefs. It was a nation of debauchees,
+thieves and drunkards. There were no marriage laws. Two-thirds of the
+children born were destroyed. If an infant was ailing or troublesome,
+the mother scooped a hole in the ground, covered the child with earth
+and trampled out its life. The aged and infirm were taken to the brow
+of a precipice and pushed over. The sick were removed to such a
+distance that their groans could not annoy, and left to die. The
+insane were stoned to death.
+
+God opened the way for the missionaries by a revolution which did
+away with idolatry, but did nothing for the uplifting of society.
+Some of the noblest specimens of our American manhood have devoted
+their lives to these desolate, far-away creatures. The mention of one
+will suffice as a sample of the salt that purified those bitter and
+filthy waters.
+
+When he stepped on shore at Hilo, in 1832, it was to stay till his
+work was finished--and he lived beyond the three score and ten. Such
+a life is a rebuke to the restlessness of many modern workers. For
+forty-two years he labored patiently in pressing himself and what he
+knew upon Hawaiian youth--nearly a thousand in all--many of whom are
+now pastors, leading lawyers, men of affairs, missionaries to
+Micronesia, and the men who stand for righteousness in the native
+churches. Great events and advances in science were exciting his
+native land, but he worked on, struggling for things unseen and
+eternal. Amid uninspiring surroundings, and performing many menial
+duties, he led a high spiritual and intellectual life, not seeking
+honor, but service--thereby gaining honor, and the "rest that
+remaineth."
+
+As for the results of such consecration, wisdom and work, the facts
+are a marvel in history. Any prophecy in regard to them would have
+been thought a wild dream. These islanders have taken their place
+among the Christian nations. Marriage is considered honorable, the
+family established, as well as schools, churches and a government,
+whose constitution ordains that "no law shall be enacted at variance
+with the word of the Lord Jehovah, or with the general spirit of His
+word."
+
+In proportion to the population, there are more readers than in
+Boston. The proportion of true Christians is as great as anywhere in
+Christendom. They are decently clad, their homes are comfortable,
+even sometimes going so far as to possess a melodeon and a
+sewing-machine! They have progressed in agriculture, commerce, the
+industries, literature and the arts. It is a regenerated nation.
+
+The American Board has erased this mission from its list and
+transferred all responsibility to the Hawaiian Evangelical
+Association.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD.
+
+
+From Yale College, Mills went to Andover to study theology. Soon
+after entering, his dear mother died. His grief was passionate. He
+mourned for the loss of her face, her voice, her prayers, but not as
+one "without hope."
+
+At Andover he met some of his former friends, and found new ones
+whose hearts the Lord had stirred--Newell, Judson, Nott, Hall, Mills!
+Names to shout at the sleeping saints of this our day! Lives to
+uphold to the view of our self-pleasing generation! These men
+organized a second missionary society, similar to the one at
+Williams. They met to pray and plan. Their prayers were answered and
+their plans resulted in the formation of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
+
+If the objections made to their plans were here rehearsed, the
+arguments would sound very familiar; they are the same, in spite of
+their repeated death-blows, that array themselves against the plan of
+missions to-day. The assailants of this cause are not students of
+history. There is no such thing as opposition, or even indifference,
+to Christian missions, unless there is ignorance behind it.
+
+These young men succeeded in gaining the sympathy and alliance of
+some of the prominent pastors, and the professors in the seminary. To
+the annual meeting of the General Association of Massachusetts, at
+Bradford, June 27, 1810, they presented the following paper:
+
+  The undersigned, members of the Divinity College, respectfully
+  request the attention of their Reverend Fathers, convened in the
+  General Association at Bradford, to the following statement and
+  inquiries:
+
+  They beg leave to state, that their minds have been long impressed
+  with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to
+  the heathen; that the impressions on their minds have induced a
+  serious, and they trust a prayerful, consideration of the subject
+  in its various attitudes, particularly in relation to the probable
+  success and the difficulties attending such an attempt; and that
+  after examining all the information which they can obtain, they
+  consider themselves as devoted to this work for life, whenever God
+  in his providence shall open the way.
+
+  They now offer the following inquiries, on which they solicit the
+  opinion and advice of the association. Whether, with their present
+  views and feelings, they ought to renounce the object of missions,
+  as visionary and impracticable; if not, whether they ought to
+  direct their attention to the Eastern or Western world? Whether
+  they may expect patronage and support from a missionary society in
+  this country, or must commit themselves to the direction of a
+  European society; and what preparatory measures they ought to take
+  previous to actual engagement?
+
+  The undersigned, feeling their youth and inexperience, look up to
+  their fathers in the church and respectfully solicit their advice,
+  direction and prayers.
+
+                                           ADONIRAM JUDSON JR.
+                                           SAMUEL NOTT JR.
+                                           SAMUEL J. MILLS.
+                                           SAMUEL NEWELL.
+
+The names of Rice and Richards were struck off "for fear of alarming
+the Association with too large a number."
+
+This paper was referred to a special committee, who indorsed the
+sentiment and submitted a plan to the association, which was carried
+into effect by the appointment of a Board of Commissioners for
+Foreign Missions.
+
+After much exertion and inquiry at home, Judson was sent to England
+to learn if help could be expected from the London Missionary
+Society. He found that society willing to take the young men under
+its care and support, but not ready to assist the new Board.
+
+The American society soon received aid within its own boundaries,
+which was a far better beginning than to be dependent upon outside
+resources. Mrs. Mary Norris, the wife of one of the founders of
+Andover Seminary, bequeathed thirty thousand dollars to the Board.
+God's Spirit generally revived the churches, opening the eyes and
+hearts of His people, their purses as well, though not many of the
+latter were well filled in those days.
+
+God only has a full record of the anxious courage and faith which was
+exercised by the supporters, managers, and appointees of the Board
+during those first struggling years. Under the care of this board
+Mills and his friends placed themselves, and by it most of them were
+sent out in the year 1812.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+
+From the first throb of his Christian life, the heart of Mills beat
+like a soldier's. He called out the recruits, captained the forces,
+and died in service--a hero! In his student days he had a compelling
+influence upon his classmates, and even then showed signs of
+generalship in his faculty of organizing. The establishment of the
+Foreign Mission School was largely consequent upon his suggestions;
+in the formation of the American Board he was one of the foremost
+personal instruments.
+
+Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn
+schemes began their struggling claim for his attention. The world
+with all its lands stretching their help-beckoning fingers, was
+persuading him. Over the home land, his and ours, he turned his
+penetrating glance. He saw occasion for vast concern, and here was
+his first response. To go first, opening the way for others through
+the tangled wilderness, was his design, his master-plot. That "divine
+ferment" at Williams College worked the good of home, as well as of
+foreign, missions.
+
+Having chosen a companion-spy, the Rev. John Schermerhorn, soon after
+his graduation in 1812, he went to view a goodly land, which he
+desired to have the people of God go up and possess. This tour was
+undertaken under the patronage of the Connecticut and Massachusetts
+Home Missionary Societies. Heretofore these societies had prayed and
+wept over young missionaries sent to the uncivilized wilds of Western
+New York! The plan of Mills and Schermerhorn was to travel through
+the wide territory lying between the great lakes and the Gulf of
+Mexico, to learn the moral condition of the inhabitants, and scatter
+what good they might.
+
+The map of this region, as published in Morse's school atlas of 1823,
+is curiously different from the maps of the present day. The state
+and territorial lines have been altered, those green, pink, and
+yellow blanks have become densely freckled and wrinkled, by the dots
+of cities and towns, and by the complicated tracery of railroads.
+
+These travelers did not telegraph their intended arrival, nor sleep
+and dine their way to their journey's end, on the "Flyer," and then
+rest in some palatial hotel at last. Each mounted his horse, taking
+with them by way of baggage all that was necessary for the
+trip,--tent, provisions, clothing and Bibles. They plodded through
+miry swamps, they climbed up and down almost perpendicular ledges,
+and cut their way through canebrakes with a hatchet. When they had
+creeks to cross they swam their horses. At night they camped, often
+in the rain and sometimes without food. More than once they were
+serenaded by Indian war-whoops and the howling wolves. Stopping at
+town or settlement they were made cordially at home in hut and cabin.
+In some places they perceived bright prospects, the germs of future
+cities, and were often urgently besought to stay and preach the
+gospel permanently.
+
+They found everywhere the Sabbath profaned, only a few good people in
+any one place, and Bibles rare possessions. In some places the people
+were longing for the Gospel. In all the leading towns they formed
+Bible societies, and everywhere preached and distributed Bibles,
+which were gladly received.
+
+From Nashville they went down the Cumberland and Mississippi with
+General Jackson and fifteen hundred volunteers. In New Orleans they
+gained the consent of Bishop DeBury to distribute the Scriptures in
+French to the French Romanists, who made up three-fourths of the
+population of the state. They found no Protestant church in the city.
+They here organized a Bible society, and remained several weeks to
+preach and to hold prayer-meetings.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+MILLS' SECOND TOUR.
+
+
+In the year 1814 Mr. Mills having obtained the assistance of some of
+the eastern Bible societies, and having chosen as companion the Rev.
+Daniel Smith, started on another tour through the South and West.
+They went laden with Bibles and the prayers of Christian friends.
+They went through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
+In all these states they found the people "exceedingly destitute of
+religious privileges," and a "lamentable want of Bibles and
+missionaries." They found "American families who never saw a Bible,
+or heard of Jesus Christ." There was only one minister to ten
+thousand people if equally placed; but there were districts
+containing from twenty to fifty thousand "without a preacher." These
+men were light-bringers to this "valley of the shadow of death," as
+Mills called it. They found English soldiers, French Romanists,
+colored slaves, our own dear countrymen, greedy for the bread of
+life.
+
+They traveled more than six thousand miles; they passed through a
+variety of climates; they endured "perils in the city, perils of the
+wilderness, perils on the rivers and on the sea," that they might
+cast that bread upon the waters which you and I are finding after
+many days.
+
+Mills arrived for the second time in New Orleans, soon after the
+celebrated battle of January 8, 1815, and cheered many hearts by his
+coming. He visited the soldiers in prison, the sick and wounded in
+the hospitals; kneeling on the bare floor where they lay, he prayed
+and talked with them, sang for them, and gave them Bibles; he
+preached in camp. The Philadelphia society had given him a quantity
+of French Bibles. The people were clamorous for them. They thronged
+the distributor's door, and remained even after the notice had been
+given that no more could be had until the following day. They came
+sometimes from great distances. In one week a thousand copies were
+given away. In one instance a Romish priest assisted in this work.
+The bishop acknowledged the deplorable state of the people, and
+preferred their having the Protestant version to none at all.
+
+When these adventurers in Christ's kingdom visited St. Louis, they
+found it a place of two thousand inhabitants,--"a tumble-down French
+village,--built mainly of wooden slabs and poles set vertically, and
+well daubed with mortar mixed with straw, though there were many log
+houses." In a school-room they delivered the first Presbyterian or
+Congregational sermons ever preached on the west side of the
+Mississippi. They were gratefully received, and had crowded
+audiences. The people would gladly have supported either one could he
+have stayed.
+
+But the immediate duty of these explorers for souls was to return to
+the churches which had sent them out, to report what they had
+discovered, and to beg that men be sent to these waste places which
+were waiting to be made to blossom. All New England was roused to
+effort by their appeal, and the next year ten or twelve men responded
+to the summons.
+
+In 1848 the word "gold" was whispered in California and heard all
+over the world. The gold-hunters pressed forward from every corner of
+the earth. It was not thought a hard thing to turn one's back on
+home, friends and country, for the sake of gold, though that
+glittering promise was, to most of those who searched, like the bag
+at the end of the rainbow, and all the riches of this world "make
+themselves wings." "The promises of God are sure," and the riches
+which He bestows are everlasting; and yet to the call, gold and
+glory, young men answer by the thousand, while to the cry, Christ and
+a crown, they respond by the dozen! "Choose ye this day whom ye will
+serve."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+
+During these two missionary journeys the heart of our apostle was
+swelling with the woes of the sin-bound, and his brain contriving for
+their release. Upon his return he settled in New York state, and
+spent two busy years in working out his purposes. While waiting for
+their maturity he was most of the time in the large cities,
+particularly New York. Here he spent what might have been leisure, in
+visiting the poor in the neglected districts. He also wrote many
+letters; and in the churches, and everywhere, and upon everybody,
+urged attention to the world's great needs, and their great duties.
+As the result of this planning, waiting and working, he was permitted
+to see formed the American Bible Society, and the United Foreign
+Missionary Society. On the subject of city evangelization, he
+advanced ideas which we at this striving time might well study.
+
+The entire destitution of religious privileges which Mills had
+witnessed in the West and South, and the great desire of the people
+for the word of God, with their inability to supply themselves, made
+him eager for the formation of a National Bible Society, which should
+be large enough and strong enough to supply such great want. He had
+some hope of having the matter brought out at the general assembly of
+the Presbyterian church; but it was thought best to have it come
+about through the existing Bible societies, rather than have it bear
+the features of any denomination.
+
+The matter was kept constantly before influential people by this
+indefatigable man, and at last on the 8th of May, 1816, delegates
+from the different Bible societies of the United States convened in
+New York city, and resolved unanimously "to establish, without delay,
+a General Bible Institution, for the circulation of the Holy
+Scriptures, without note or comment." Before closing their sessions a
+constitution was adopted, managers elected, and an address issued to
+the people of the United States, informing them of the project, and
+inviting their sympathy and coöperation in this benevolent scheme.
+
+This was a great day to Mills, and those who saw him, sitting apart,
+watching with intense eagerness the deliberations of the convention,
+long remembered his delighted face. But how must the resources and
+usefulness of this society have exceeded even his fond hopes!
+
+As its first depository, it shared the office room of its agent. From
+time to time it was forced to move to larger quarters, until the year
+1853, when it located permanently, in its well-known building, The
+Bible House, on Astor Place, New York city. This edifice is of brick,
+six stories high, and occupies a solid block. In its first year, the
+society received $37,779, and issued 6,410 volumes; in its seventieth
+year (1886) its receipts were $523,910, and it issued 1,437,440
+volumes. In the Bible House, the working force--manufacturing and
+executive--numbers about 250. The auxiliaries which directly and
+indirectly center in this society, number about 7,000.
+
+From this great tree and its many branches, the leaves have been sent
+for the healing of nations. There are now but few countries where
+there are any impediments to the free circulation of the Scriptures.
+In our own land the society has afforded relief to its feeble
+auxiliaries, has supplied destitute Sabbath-schools, has endeavored
+to place the Bible in the common schools, to distribute it among
+soldiers and seamen, to furnish hotels, steamboats, railroads, and
+humane and criminal institutions. By it, the Bible has been
+circulated among immigrants, the destitute poor, the freedmen, the
+Chinese, and (in the Douay version) among Romanists. At four
+different periods the society has made exploration among the states
+and territories, to search and supply the destitute. Proportionately
+the number of families without the word of God is much smaller now
+than when the society was organized, notwithstanding the enormous
+growths in population.
+
+The society has attempted to send the Bible to all the inhabitants of
+the earth, accessible to its agents. It has established depots in
+almost every place where the American churches have missions. It
+circulates the Scriptures in more than eighty different languages and
+dialects. In 1856, in compliance with a special request, and by means
+of a special gift, the Society's Imperial Quarto English Bible, bound
+with extraordinary care, enclosed in a rosewood case, and accompanied
+by a courteous letter, was sent to each of the reigning monarchs and
+other chief magistrates of the world.
+
+Before the art of printing, the Bible was the most expensive book in
+the world. So late as the American Revolution, in its cheapest
+edition a volume could not be purchased for less than two dollars.
+This society now furnishes a copy of the entire book for twenty-five
+cents. It has made the Bible the cheapest book in the world.
+
+Mills, anxious to see every wheel set in motion for the advancement
+of Christ's kingdom, was restless because of the inaction of the
+Presbyterian church in the cause of Foreign Missions; again by his
+personal influence upon prominent men, another plan was matured. A
+committee was appointed by the General Assembly to confer with
+committees from the Dutch and Scotch churches, and a new society was
+formed, called the United Foreign Missionary Society. After a few
+years of efficient service this society was merged with the American
+Board, yielding to it its name and affairs.
+
+While so busy with these schemes just referred to, Mr. Mills was
+collecting all possible information in regard to South America. He
+desired to have the way opened for a mission in that country, and was
+willing to go himself to make the needed investigations. But it was
+seven years later when the American Board sent the first men to that
+field.
+
+In spite of these great enterprises, which must have been so
+absorbing of time and energy, this busy man found opportunity and
+strength to search out the squalid back streets of New York, and to
+go from house to house of its wretched inhabitants, giving sympathy,
+speaking words of Christian love and instruction, and where they
+would receive them leaving the word of God and good books.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS
+AFRICA.
+
+
+Abraham Lincoln, when a young man, made a journey into the South. Of
+all the impressions which those new scenes made upon him, the one
+deepest and strongest was that of slavery. It filled him with
+loathing, but kindled a zeal which never slumbered, until it cost his
+priceless life.
+
+It was such a spark which became a fire in the breast of Mills. What
+he saw and what he heard, during those southern tours, made him a
+willing martyr for the sake of Africa's sons and daughters. Their
+degradation made him ready to endure all things if only he could
+pierce the black cloud overshading them. His first effort resulted in
+a school, called the African School, for training young colored men
+to teach and preach to their own race. He then lent essential aid in
+the formation of the American Colonization Society.
+
+This society was composed of noble-minded men whose pitying attention
+was fastened upon the bondage, afflictions and heathenism of their
+black brothers, in this so called free land.
+
+Their aim was to furnish a refuge, in their own country, for those
+who were emancipated here, and it was their hope that such a scheme
+would do much toward the abolition of slavery.
+
+Their first effort was the collection of information: first, in
+regard to the condition of the slave here, that they might enlist
+general sympathy in their work. In a letter written by Mr. Mills
+about this matter, he said: "State facts. Facts will always produce
+an effect, at least on pious minds. You can easily possess yourself
+of facts, the bare recital of which will make the heart bleed." From
+the extensive observations he had made in the South, and by having
+the subject so long in his mind, he was very ready to "state facts,"
+and did so in every time and place. The information needed, in the
+second place, by the society was in regard to a suitable location for
+the colony, and the methods which would be required to obtain it. Mr.
+Mills was made their agent.
+
+He chose as a colleague, to share his responsibility, the Rev. Mr.
+Burgess. After some months of preparation they left America, planning
+to visit England first for information and assistance and then
+Africa, for the accomplishment of their errand.
+
+His father says of the "good-bye" which he bade him, at the time,
+that "he enjoyed peculiar peace of mind, committing himself entirely
+to the guidance and protection of the Almighty." He, who had endured
+so many hardships for Christ's sake, knew in whom he trusted.
+
+After about two weeks' sailing, they encountered a fearful storm and
+had need of all their faith. The wind blew furiously for thirty-six
+hours. The captain ordered the masts cut away and the decks cleared.
+He remained on deck, calmly giving orders, until they were driven
+almost upon a ledge of rocks. Despairing of any safety in the ship,
+he abandoned her, taking his children with him in a small boat. Some
+of those left on board the ship, in their agony of peril, were in the
+cabin, beseeching the mercy of Him who rules the violent sea. Others
+were on deck, where Mr. Burgess, praying aloud, commended their souls
+to God.
+
+All unexpectedly, a counter current bore them into deeper water, past
+the rocks. All exclaimed, "It is the work of God!" A gloomy night
+they spent tossing on the sea, but in the morning quiet came. The
+mate assumed control, and by using what crippled forces they could
+command, they found their way to a harbor of France.
+
+From there they proceeded to London. They were cordially received by
+a number of distinguished men and officials. Among them Mr.
+Wilberforce and Mr. Zachary Macauly, the former governor of Sierra
+Leone, who introduced them to the Duke of Gloucester. They met
+everywhere with Christian sympathy, and the kindest offers of
+service. Having obtained letters to the governors of colonies in
+Africa, they left England for the west coast, February 3, 1818.
+
+This voyage was a pleasant one, and brought them in about thirty days
+to the mouth of the Gambia. They anchored near the village of St.
+Mary's, and went to inspect this and other settlements. They made the
+acquaintance of the governors and the Europeans, everywhere gathering
+useful and pertinent facts.
+
+They proceeded south, visiting towns and villages, and calling upon
+the kings and head men. On these occasions they were received in the
+"palaver house," by the chiefs arranged in true African style,
+regardless of taste. One was described as wearing "a silver-laced
+coat, a superb three-cornered hat, blue-bafta trousers, considerably
+the worse for wear, and no stockings or shoes." The insignia of
+royalty were a silver-headed cane in one hand, a horse-tail in the
+other. Before the palaver could go on, the hosts must receive
+presents, and as their guests had oftenest been slave traders, rum
+and tobacco had become essentials.
+
+By means of interpreters they made known their friendly feelings, and
+that they had come from America. "That wise and good men had agreed
+to help the black people who wished to come to this country; that the
+design was a good one, and would promote the best interests of the
+black people both in America and Africa; that if they would sell or
+give tracts of their unimproved lands, the people who came would
+introduce more knowledge of the arts and agriculture, would buy such
+things as they had to sell, and would sell to them such things as
+they wanted;" that the children were to be educated; that they had
+come as messengers of peace and good tidings, bringing no weapons in
+their hands--that they did not desire war.
+
+They found that African kings knew the art of being slothful in
+business. They seemed to have no idea of dispatch, but would talk for
+hours without coming to the point. In general their reception was
+cordial, and, in some instances, more than that. Land was offered
+them in five different places. Their greatest obstacle was the
+unsavory reputation of the white men who had preceded them,--the
+slave-traders and merchants,--men who had been gross, violent and
+rapacious. One of the natives who saw Mr. Mills and Mr. Burgess in
+prayer, said he "never knew before that white men prayed!"
+
+They found that the natives would not be unwilling to give up their
+superstitions, and were gratified at the prospect of education for
+their children; that they would be glad to have God's word, and the
+pure religion it teaches. One old man with white hair and beard,
+wished for this good time to come at once; he wanted to know more
+about God's book before he died.
+
+The observations and inquiries which had been so conscientiously made
+by the agents, enabled them to report to their society that the
+project was both practicable and expedient. After due consideration
+of the instructions and recommendations of experienced foreigners,
+and the details of exploration, which this report furnished them, the
+society thought it most wise to proceed with the undertaking.
+
+After seeking needed individual and governmental aid, and perfecting
+so far as possible the organization, the first colony was sent to
+Africa in 1820. They endured the discouraging vicissitudes which are
+generally incident to new settlements, and in a few years success
+seemed certain.
+
+In 1847 LIBERIA became an established free republic. The constitution
+is modeled upon our own.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE LAST JOURNEY--BRIG "SUCCESS," FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1818.
+
+
+"We have taken an affectionate leave of the clergymen, the civil
+officers, and the colonists of Sierra Leone. We are embarked for the
+United States, by way of England; and the continent of Africa recedes
+from our view."
+
+This is the last entry in Mills' journal. Three months had been spent
+in Africa; months of unsparing toil, under a scorching sun, amid
+depressing pagan scenes. But the undertaking had been reasonably
+successful, and tired bodies had been upheld by grateful hearts.
+
+On shipboard once more, with faces turned homeward, opportunity came
+for fatigue to assert itself. The strength of Mills, never great at
+the best, began to fail. A deep spirituality, which had possessed him
+through all the journey, grew stronger and stronger. And as they were
+wafted, day by day, nearer home, it became evident that his spirit,
+too, was nearing its desired haven. Fever burned his body; but at
+last eternal health claimed his soul. Under a glowing sunset, he was
+buried, to wait until the sea surrenders its dead.
+
+The one great desire of his life, "to sit in some quiet corner and
+teach the perishing," was unfulfilled; but God through him had sent,
+and yet sends, many teachers to many far corners.
+
+Thirty-five years, only, of mortal life was allotted him in which to
+accomplish so much; yet it was time enough,--not because of his
+uncommon gifts, but because he knew the secret of well doing. He did
+not attempt to be the origin--the source, but gloried in being the
+channel through which God poured His great thoughts. No time was lost
+by obstructions; the dredge that kept the channel free was
+prayer--private, social, public, constant prayer, not for himself,
+but for God's glory.
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<h2>MISSIONARY ANNALS.</h2>
+<center><small>(A SERIES.)</small></center>
+<br>
+<hr width="150" align="center">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h4>A STORY OF</h4>
+<h1>ONE SHORT LIFE,</h1>
+<h4>1783 to 1818.</h4>
+<br>
+<hr width="150" align="center">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center><small>BY</small></center>
+<h4>ELISABETH G. STRYKER.</h4>
+<br>
+<hr width="150" align="center">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center>CHICAGO:</center>
+<center><small>W<small>OMAN'S</small> P<small>RESBYTERIAN</small> B<small>OARD OF</small> F<small>OREIGN</small>
+M<small>ISSIONS OF THE</small> N<small>ORTHWEST</small>,<br>
+Room 48, McCormick Block.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center>C<small>OPYRIGHT</small>, 1888,<br><br>
+<small>BY<br><br>
+W<small>OMAN'S</small> P<small>RESBYTERIAN</small> B<small>OARD OF</small> M<small>ISSIONS<br>
+OF THE</small> N<small>ORTHWEST</small>.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CONTENTS.</h3>
+<hr width="75" align="center">
+<br>
+<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" summary="table of contents">
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap1">I.</a></td>
+		<td><small>ANCESTRY&mdash;BIRTH&mdash;BOYHOOD&mdash;CONVERSION.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap2">II.</a></td>
+		<td><small>COLLEGE&mdash;THE HAYSTACK&mdash;EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN MISSIONS.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap3">III.</a></td>
+		<td><small>OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII&mdash;IN AMERICA.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap4">IV.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE SANDWICH ISLANDS WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap5">V.</a></td>
+		<td><small>MILLS AT ANDOVER&mdash;THE AMERICAN BOARD.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap6">VI.</a></td>
+		<td><small>AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap7">VII.</a></td>
+		<td><small>MILLS' SECOND TOUR.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap8">VIII.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY&mdash;THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap9">IX.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY&mdash;MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS AFRICA.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap10">X.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE LAST JOURNEY.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+</table>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>As I write, I have in my mind a row of intelligent boyish faces.
+Manly souls look through bright eyes. My heart responds to the beats
+of affection beneath jacket and cut-away.</p>
+
+<p>I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly
+graces are dawning. I feel the warmth of pure young hearts beginning
+to swell with generous desires.</p>
+
+<p>These are my real friends. Beyond them I see rows and rows of boys
+and girls whose sympathies and interest I would gladly claim.</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>PREFACE.</h3>
+<hr width="75" align="center">
+<br>
+<p>Those among us interested in the young people, the boys and girls of
+our Churches, somewhat realize the lack of material wherewith to
+stimulate and nourish these young workers. The apiarist studies the
+nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers
+that "the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference" in
+the bees. We have long watched our boys and girls, and either we do
+not care what they yield, or we are dull not to notice that what
+surrounds them and enters into their minds, is surely deciding their
+natures. White clover honey can only be made from white clover
+blossoms. What they read and what they may be induced to read
+concerns us as mission workers. Individual tastes make many by-paths
+in the field of literature, but the girls all enjoy the windings of
+romance, and the boys delight in the highway of adventure. "But,"
+they say or think, "Missions, their history and progress are so
+stupid, they have no decent heroes and heroines. We like Robinson
+Crusoe, and Little Women, and the Arabian Nights!" But do we not know
+that the stories of the lives of some of our missionaries, well told,
+may stand side by side, upon the book-shelves and in the hearts of
+our young people, with the pages of De Foe and Louise Alcott? Many a
+boy and girl, charmed by the life and fortune of some unreal, and
+oftentimes unworthy, hero, has attempted to make copy in his or her
+own life. Missionary lives are not lacking in the spirit, adventure
+and romance which are so fascinating. With these ideals in their
+minds, may we not expect followers of the Judsons, the Moffats, the
+Fiskes and the Rankins?</p>
+
+<p>The writer, who has humbly undertaken to re-tell an old tale, is
+neither a De Foe nor an Alcott. She finds she can borrow neither of
+their pens. Her own, conscious of its inexperience, finds its only
+relief in the fact that the story is its own strength.</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h1>SAMUEL J. MILLS.</h1>
+<br><a name="chap1"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER I.</h3>
+
+<center><small>ANCESTRY&mdash;BIRTH&mdash;BOYHOOD&mdash;CONVERSION.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>Our country is quietly enjoying the benefits of a great activity.
+Foreign Missions are still feeling a noble impulse, and the origin of
+this force was, under God, in the heart and brain of Samuel J. Mills.</p>
+
+<p>It is a name known to us, but a history almost forgotten. Only upon
+the shelves of some antiquarian, or in the undisturbed library of
+some old homestead can a volume be found bearing the title "Mills'
+Memoirs." Take it down, blow the dust from the leaves yellow with
+sixty-seven years, and you will find the narrative related in the
+stately, old-time style, and somewhat laudatory and expansive.</p>
+
+<p>He had no son, as Adoniram Judson had, gladly to record the details
+of his busy life. The writer was Dr. Gardiner Spring, who laments
+having failed in the attempt to obtain what appeared to him to be
+important information. We are thankful to him for gathering even
+these rare fragments.</p>
+
+<p>From a sketch of Salmon Giddings, the Damon Memorial, a letter from a
+relative of Mills, and the life of Henry Obookiah have come a few
+incidents and facts, but mainly in the record of Dr. Spring have we
+found our Story of One Short Life. Such hid treasure should find the
+light, even though quarried by unskillful hands.</p>
+
+<p>Biographies are apt to seem discouraging, in the beginning; the
+attention being riveted upon the supposed hero, meets with a shock in
+finding it has been following the history of his great-grandfather.
+The scattered energies are then directed upon the grandfather, only
+to meet with a second delay. Again recovering, and following the
+father's fortunes, the son, the subject of the work, is at last
+introduced.</p>
+
+<p>The great-grandfather of our hero must be brought in just long enough
+to answer one question. He was once asked, "How did you educate four
+sons at Yale College, and give each a profession?" His reply was,
+"Almighty God did it, with the help of my wife." The grandfather (of
+our hero) was drowned while some of his children were still young.
+His widow, committing their babes to the God of the fatherless,
+especially offered for His service, a son named Samuel John. He
+became a minister, and for many years was settled in Torringford,
+Connecticut. He was eminent for his ability and character. Mrs. Stowe
+said of him&mdash;"He was one ingrain New Englander. Of all the marvels
+that astonished my childhood, there is none I remember to this day
+with so much interest as Father Mills." This was the name by which he
+was extensively known. His wife was a woman exemplary and devout.</p>
+
+<p>Being assured that the three preceding generations were
+commandment-keeping, we shall see how the Lord showed mercy unto the
+fourth. Almighty God and a true mother secure for many a man's sons,
+not only education, but large efficiency and honor.</p>
+
+<p>The seventh child, born April 21st, 1783, in this Torringford home,
+was a son, named after his father, Samuel John. The child grew to be
+a mighty instrument in God's hand, which He in His wisdom selected,
+knowing the fineness of the material with which he dealt. That we too
+may know something of the tempering of the steel, we are permitted a
+reverent glance into that pious mother's bosom. Before the birthday
+came she continually dedicated the little life beneath her heart to
+the God who is pleased to accept such gifts. During all his childhood
+he received the most careful Christian training. Nourished in such a
+home-garden, and shined on by such mother-light, we cannot wonder
+that the child grew toward the Sun, and that the roots of religious
+character struck deep and spread wide.</p>
+
+<p>When but a little child he showed an unusual concern of conscience.
+At fifteen the town in which he lived was greatly aroused and
+revived. His friends and acquaintances received the blessing, and he
+was deeply interested, but the revival passed, leaving him with a
+bitter, rebellious feeling in his heart.</p>
+
+<p>About this time, one fine cold winter morning, a merry sleigh load
+drove from his father's house. He, with his brothers, sisters and
+cousins, about eighteen in all, went to spend a few days with his
+uncle in West Hartford. Samuel had recently come into the possession
+of a fine farm. He was gay and ambitious. His companions fearing his
+good fortune might make him feel a "little too high minded," sought
+to tease him. The evening before their return, after eating nuts and
+apples, they agreed to have a little singing. They struck up "Hark,
+from the Tombs a Doleful Sound," to the tune, Bangor. They sang it
+slowly and solemnly, now and then casting at him glances from their
+mischievous eyes. He sat a silent listener, while their song, sung in
+fun, made an earnest impression of which he could not rid himself.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after his farm was sold, and at eighteen he determined to go to
+Litchfield and study in the Academy. As he was leaving home, his
+mother's anxious heart could not let him go without enquiring for his
+soul's health. Other mothers know the pain she suffered, when he told
+her "for two years I have been sorry God ever made me." She replied
+to him as her wise heart prompted her, and sent him on his way. She
+went where all mothers of boys must so often go, to her knees, alone
+with God.</p>
+
+<p>He had not gone far on his journey when he met a Friend. It was the
+Good Shepherd, whom that mother's urgent prayer had sent searching
+for the wanderer. It was as if he had met Christ in his path. He
+looked up at the great trees and down at the blossoms, and in
+everything saw God. He became so impressed with the perfections of
+the Holy One he had so long resisted, that he lost sight of himself.
+He sat down in the woods to wonder and to pray. It was not until some
+time after that he realized any change in himself, and not until he
+returned from Litchfield did his father perceive it. His conversion
+was thorough. Not only was he turned about,&mdash;his face God-ward
+instead of self-ward,&mdash;but he was impelled toward "those sitting in
+darkness." In his childhood, from his mother's lips, he often heard
+stories from the lives of Brainerd, Eliot, and other missionaries. He
+heard her prayers for them and their great undertakings. Once he
+heard her say, "I have consecrated this child to the service of God
+as a missionary." Now it was his joy to follow those noble examples,
+and to fulfill his part in the plans of God and his mother for him.
+His parents approved of his determination, though the thought of
+separation tore their hearts. His mother said to him, "I cannot bear
+to part from you, my son." When he reminded her of her vow, she burst
+into tears, and never after made complaint. To his father he said
+that he could "not conceive of any course of life in which to pass
+the rest of his days, that would prove so pleasant, as to go and
+communicate the gospel of salvation to the poor heathen."</p>
+
+<p>This desire to spread the Gospel grew to be a sublime purpose, and
+from it he never wavered. He set about his plannings, with this
+supreme end in view. Thanking God for his own salvation, he laid his
+life in God's hand, imploring Him to use it for those who had as yet
+no knowledge of that mercy. The Lord took him from the plough, as he
+did Elisha. He left the field for the college.</p>
+<br><a name="chap2"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER II.</h3>
+
+<center><small>COLLEGE&mdash;THE HAYSTACK&mdash;EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN
+MISSIONS.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>He entered Williams College in the spring of 1806. During his first
+visit home in June, he connected himself with his father's church. A
+college course means to some young men four years of frolic, or
+worse. To others it is an opportunity to cram knowledge, that shall
+by-and-by astound the round world and they that dwell therein. To
+one, at least, it was the time for choosing "smooth stones" for his
+combat with the giant adversary, whom he was brave enough to meet
+alone, if need be, "in the name of the Lord of Hosts."</p>
+
+<p>As a scholar he was not brilliant, but as a Christian he was "a
+bright and shining light." To serve God was the highest aim of his
+life. First of all, he served Him upon his knees. He used to pray
+often and earnestly, alone and with others. He pursued his studies
+for the after use he might make of them, not for his own
+accomplishment. As he visited his friends in their rooms, and walked
+with them through the groves, the subject dearest to his heart was
+oftenest the theme of his conversation. To one friend he said:
+"Though you and I are very little beings, we must not rest satisfied
+till we have made our influence extend to the remotest corner of this
+ruined world."</p>
+
+<p>His life was so consistent, his disposition so sweet, his manners so
+winning that every one was his friend. Those who had been unfaithful
+to their vows were reproved, and those opposed to religion were
+induced to follow his example. During his first year there was a
+revival, which seemed to come in answer to his earnest prayers. Many
+of his comrades became Christians, and so earnestly that they laid
+aside or sanctified their old ambitions, and prepared to spread
+through the earth the fire kindled by this devoted youth.</p>
+
+<p>A mission band of boys were examined as to their knowledge of Samuel
+Mills. "Where was he born?" asked the leader. "Under a haystack!"
+replied a small boy. Had the question been, Where was the American
+Board of Foreign Missions born? the answer would not have been so far
+from the way. Its baptismal naming came some years later, but under a
+stack of hay in a meadow, near Williams College, it was born, nursed
+and prayed over.</p>
+
+<p>About fourteen years earlier foreign missionary organization had
+begun across the Atlantic. On this side, the attention of Christians
+had been occupied with their new homes and the needs of the destitute
+near at hand. There were societies of domestic missions; but no
+scheme to touch hands God-blessed with hands idol-cursed, had ever
+been devised before the Lord of both put it into the heart of Mills.
+"God called him out of the midst of the bush." The bush was this
+haystack, but the place became "holy ground." The Lord said: "I have
+surely seen the affliction of my people, and have heard their cry."
+"Come now, therefore, and I will send thee."</p>
+
+<p>This commission filled his soul. He gathered a few of his friends in
+a grove, to tell them his convictions and his hopes. What was his
+surprise and joy to find that the "Angel of the Lord" had appeared to
+them also. A sudden thunder storm came upon them here, but his
+retreat, his place of safety, was near by. He led them under the
+haystack, and there they talked together, and with God. And there
+they continued to meet through two seasons, and finally formed
+themselves into the first Foreign Missionary Society of this
+continent. Its object was "to effect in the persons of its members a
+mission to the heathen."</p>
+
+<p>From the spot where the haystack once stood, now rises a marble
+shaft, bearing aloft a globe, underneath which is inscribed:</p>
+
+<center>"T<small>HE</small> F<small>IELD IS THE</small> W<small>ORLD</small>."</center><br>
+<center>"The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions, 1806."</center><br>
+
+<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="list1">
+	<tr><td>S<small>AMUEL</small> J. M<small>ILLS</small>,<br>
+		J<small>AMES</small> R<small>ICHARDS</small>,<br>
+		F<small>RANCIS</small> L. R<small>OBBINS</small>,<br>
+		H<small>ARVEY</small> L<small>OOMIS</small>,<br>
+		B<small>YRAM</small> G<small>REEN</small>.</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>At every commencement, the college president leads to this monument a
+procession of alumni, students, and guests. Prayer is offered that
+the spirit of missions may still prevail at Williams, and that the
+traditions of the past may be maintained.</p>
+
+<p>In these years public opinion was decidedly opposed to the enterprise
+of these young men. Even good men thought their zeal extravagant and
+expected it soon to subside. In order to arouse sympathy and a right
+sentiment, they devised various means. They discussed their projects
+with Christian people. They distributed missionary sermons. A list
+was made of the names of distinguished ministers, to whom these young
+men made frequent visits, urging their suit. Among them, the first to
+take fire, was Dr. Worcester. With one of them, Dr. Griffin, Mills
+asked to be permitted to study theology. Said the Doctor: "I had
+always refused such applications, but from the love I bore to him, I
+agreed to criticise one sermon a week. After that exercise he would
+commonly sit and draw letters very moderately and cautiously from his
+pocket, reading passages to me on some benevolent project. At length
+I perceived that <i>studying divinity</i> with me had been quite a
+secondary object, that his chief object was to get me engaged to
+execute his plans. As soon as I discovered that, I told him to bring
+out his letters and all his plans, without reserve."</p>
+
+<p>Mills became convinced that they could not expect help from the
+Churches unless the number was increased of young men ready to devote
+their lives to this cause. He and his friends then separated for the
+purpose of establishing societies in other colleges. Mills went to
+Yale, hoping there to find kindred spirits. This was not the case,
+but God had sent him for another purpose, and that to know Obookiah,
+a heathen boy from the Sandwich Islands. This acquaintance greatly
+increased his zeal.</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes a little seed, wafted by the wind, is borne far from its
+mother plant to take root in a foreign soil: but its fruit may be
+returned whence it came. This little lonely heathen child, blown by
+seemingly cruel and adverse winds, was tossed upon our Christian
+shores by the good hand of God. The ship which brought him touched
+other and idolatrous lands, but he was not to put his feet down till
+they could be planted in the right place.</p>
+
+<p>That his life touched Mills' life, both being quickened, is perhaps
+reason enough for giving here a portion of Obookiah's history and
+that of his native land, if there were not another reason, and that
+the opportunity, here afforded, of following a stream of influence to
+its sea.</p>
+<br><a name="chap3"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER III.</h3>
+
+<center><small>OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII&mdash;IN AMERICA.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>Henry Obookiah was born in Hawaii, about the year 1792. When about
+twelve years old, two parties contending for dominion, disturbed the
+peace of the island. He alone survived the persecution of his family.
+He was captured and carried home by the man who killed his parents,
+but finally made his way to an uncle. Though he was well treated, he
+suffered from loneliness. He said of himself, "When I was at play
+with other children, after we had made an end of playing, they return
+to their parents: but I was returned into tears, for I have no home,
+neither father nor mother. Poor boy am I."</p>
+
+<p>He determined to go to some other country, and forget his sorrow. The
+captain of an American vessel showed him kindness, and consented to
+take him on board. He brought him to America, and took him to his own
+home in New Haven. Henry was a clumsy, stupid-looking boy at this
+time, his appearance not revealing the undeveloped depths of his
+nature. He made the acquaintance of some of the students at Yale
+College, and of the Rev. E. W. Dwight. These friends becoming
+interested in his welfare, offered to teach him. He accepted their
+aid with avidity, and made wonderful progress, at the same time
+becoming more and more lovable and attractive.</p>
+
+<p>A fun-loving disposition soon showed itself. He had great difficulty
+in pronouncing the letter <i>r</i>, giving it the sound of <i>l</i>. Every day
+his teacher tried to help him, saying, "try, Obookiah, it is <i>very
+easy</i>." This seemed to amuse the boy greatly, though as yet he could
+not express himself in English. Some time after, when he could speak
+more readily, he was describing to his teacher some of the customs of
+his native land. Clasping his hands together, and adjusting his
+thumbs, he formed a cup which he raised to his lips to show how his
+countrymen drank from a spring. His instructor tried to do the same,
+but before he could reach his mouth with his hands the cup would be
+inverted so that the contents, had there been any, would have been
+spilled. Obookiah laughed heartily and said, "<i>try</i>, Mr.
+Dwight, it is <i>very easy!</i>"</p>
+
+<p>One day he mimicked the gait of some of his friends so cleverly, that
+there was no mistaking whom he intended to personate. His teacher
+then mocked his own awkward style, when he exclaimed several times:
+"me walk so?" Being assured that it was true, he rolled upon the
+floor until his mirth exhausted his strength.</p>
+
+<p>After being instructed about the true God, idol worship seemed to him
+ridiculous. He said, "Hawaii gods! They <i>wood</i>,&mdash;<i>burn</i>. Me go home,
+put 'em in a fire, burn 'em up. They no <i>see</i>, no <i>hear</i>, <i>no</i>
+anything." Then added, "We make <i>them</i>. Our God," looking up, "He
+make us."</p>
+
+<p>After Mr. Mills arrived in New Haven he became a friend of Mr.
+Dwight's, and being often in his room, occasionally heard this boy
+recite. He became greatly attached to him, and began to cherish a
+plan for his future. He wanted to see Obookiah a Christian, educated,
+and then a missionary to his native land.</p>
+
+<p>One evening Mr. Mills had not been long in Mr. Dwight's room, when
+Obookiah came in with a very gloomy face. He said he had no place to
+live; Mr. &mdash;&mdash; didn't want him any more, and Miss &mdash;&mdash; had threatened
+to take away his new clothes. Mr. Mills told him he would take him to
+his own home, and that he had clothes enough for both. This cheered
+the poor, disconsolate fellow, who soon went with Mr. Mills to
+Torringford, and was placed under the "care of those whose
+benevolence was without a bond or check, or a limit to confine it."
+Here he spent a part of the year 1810, and was treated wisely and
+affectionately. Mrs. Mills taught him the Catechism, and her son
+Jeremiah assisted him in his studies. At different times, and
+frequently, their house was his home.</p>
+
+<p>He became gentle and refined in his manner, a Bible-loving, earnest,
+prayerful Christian. His friends who had been so careful in the
+training of his mind and heart, had not neglected his hands. He was
+taught much that was useful and practical, particularly in farming.
+He surprised all by the quickness and eagerness with which he
+learned. He was both inquisitive and acquisitive to a remarkable
+degree. He persisted in knowing and getting, that he might impart
+what he had gained to his own countrymen. To return to them for their
+enlightenment, was his consuming desire.</p>
+
+<p>He visited many families, and many of the churches of New England,
+always creating a deep interest in his mission. Many people who had
+affirmed that the heathen could never be reclaimed from their low
+estate, were forced to change their opinions after seeing and knowing
+Obookiah, and were inspired to pray and give for his and other
+unevangelized races.</p>
+
+<p>The presence of Obookiah in this country, as well as of other heathen
+youth, together with the desire to educate some of our own Indians,
+led to the formation of the Foreign Mission School, at Cornwall,
+Mass. This school was under the care of the American Board ten years.
+Its pupils were from many different nations. In 1826 it was
+discontinued, for by this time the missions were able to educate the
+young at their several stations.</p>
+
+<p>Obookiah was pursuing his studies here, when, in the beginning of the
+year 1818, he was stricken with typhus fever, and suffered several
+weeks. On the 17th of February, 1818, he shook hands with all his
+companions present, and with perfect composure addressed to them the
+parting salutation of his native language, "Alloah ò e"&mdash;"my love be
+with you."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Stone, in whose house he died, and who cared for him with
+Christian kindness during his sickness, said, "This had been one of
+the happiest and most profitable periods of her life; that she had
+been more than rewarded for her cares and watchings by day and night,
+in being permitted to witness his excellent example, and to hear his
+godly conversation."</p>
+
+<p>Almost immediately after his death, missionaries, inspired by his
+life, hastened to accomplish his cherished purpose, the establishment
+of a mission in the Sandwich Islands. Mills was far from home, but
+returning at the time, not knowing Obookiah had died, he said to a
+friend, "If it please God that I may arrive safely, I think that I
+shall take Obookiah and go to the Sandwich Islands and there I will
+end my life."</p>
+
+<p>From that day to this, missionaries and missions, schools, churches
+and Christians have multiplied, till all those islands name the name
+of Christ.</p>
+<br><a name="chap4"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE SANDWICH ISLES WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.</small></center>
+<br>
+<center><small>"Surely the isles shall wait for me."</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<p>The missionaries found upon these islands naked savages, without
+books, education, or courts of justice. The people were slaves,
+governed arbitrarily by chiefs. It was a nation of debauchees,
+thieves and drunkards. There were no marriage laws. Two-thirds of the
+children born were destroyed. If an infant was ailing or troublesome,
+the mother scooped a hole in the ground, covered the child with earth
+and trampled out its life. The aged and infirm were taken to the brow
+of a precipice and pushed over. The sick were removed to such a
+distance that their groans could not annoy, and left to die. The
+insane were stoned to death.</p>
+
+<p>God opened the way for the missionaries by a revolution which did
+away with idolatry, but did nothing for the uplifting of society.
+Some of the noblest specimens of our American manhood have devoted
+their lives to these desolate, far-away creatures. The mention of one
+will suffice as a sample of the salt that purified those bitter and
+filthy waters.</p>
+
+<p>When he stepped on shore at Hilo, in 1832, it was to stay till his
+work was finished&mdash;and he lived beyond the three score and ten. Such
+a life is a rebuke to the restlessness of many modern workers. For
+forty-two years he labored patiently in pressing himself and what he
+knew upon Hawaiian youth&mdash;nearly a thousand in all&mdash;many of whom are
+now pastors, leading lawyers, men of affairs, missionaries to
+Micronesia, and the men who stand for righteousness in the native
+churches. Great events and advances in science were exciting his
+native land, but he worked on, struggling for things unseen and
+eternal. Amid uninspiring surroundings, and performing many menial
+duties, he led a high spiritual and intellectual life, not seeking
+honor, but service&mdash;thereby gaining honor, and the "rest that
+remaineth."</p>
+
+<p>As for the results of such consecration, wisdom and work, the facts
+are a marvel in history. Any prophecy in regard to them would have
+been thought a wild dream. These islanders have taken their place
+among the Christian nations. Marriage is considered honorable, the
+family established, as well as schools, churches and a government,
+whose constitution ordains that "no law shall be enacted at variance
+with the word of the Lord Jehovah, or with the general spirit of His
+word."</p>
+
+<p>In proportion to the population, there are more readers than in
+Boston. The proportion of true Christians is as great as anywhere in
+Christendom. They are decently clad, their homes are comfortable,
+even sometimes going so far as to possess a melodeon and a
+sewing-machine! They have progressed in agriculture, commerce, the
+industries, literature and the arts. It is a regenerated nation.</p>
+
+<p>The American Board has erased this mission from its list and
+transferred all responsibility to the Hawaiian Evangelical
+Association.</p>
+<br><a name="chap5"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER V.</h3>
+
+<center><small>MILLS AT ANDOVER&mdash;THE AMERICAN BOARD.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>From Yale College, Mills went to Andover to study theology. Soon
+after entering, his dear mother died. His grief was passionate. He
+mourned for the loss of her face, her voice, her prayers, but not as
+one "without hope."</p>
+
+<p>At Andover he met some of his former friends, and found new ones
+whose hearts the Lord had stirred&mdash;Newell, Judson, Nott, Hall, Mills!
+Names to shout at the sleeping saints of this our day! Lives to
+uphold to the view of our self-pleasing generation! These men
+organized a second missionary society, similar to the one at
+Williams. They met to pray and plan. Their prayers were answered and
+their plans resulted in the formation of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions.</p>
+
+<p>If the objections made to their plans were here rehearsed, the
+arguments would sound very familiar; they are the same, in spite of
+their repeated death-blows, that array themselves against the plan of
+missions to-day. The assailants of this cause are not students of
+history. There is no such thing as opposition, or even indifference,
+to Christian missions, unless there is ignorance behind it.</p>
+
+<p>These young men succeeded in gaining the sympathy and alliance of
+some of the prominent pastors, and the professors in the seminary. To
+the annual meeting of the General Association of Massachusetts, at
+Bradford, June 27, 1810, they presented the following paper:</p>
+
+<blockquote><small>The undersigned, members of the Divinity College, respectfully
+request the attention of their Reverend Fathers, convened in the
+General Association at Bradford, to the following statement and
+inquiries:</small></blockquote>
+
+<blockquote><small>They beg leave to state, that their minds have been long impressed
+with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to
+the heathen; that the impressions on their minds have induced a
+serious, and they trust a prayerful, consideration of the subject
+in its various attitudes, particularly in relation to the probable
+success and the difficulties attending such an attempt; and that
+after examining all the information which they can obtain, they
+consider themselves as devoted to this work for life, whenever God
+in his providence shall open the way.</small></blockquote>
+
+<blockquote><small>They now offer the following inquiries, on which they solicit the
+opinion and advice of the association. Whether, with their present
+views and feelings, they ought to renounce the object of missions,
+as visionary and impracticable; if not, whether they ought to
+direct their attention to the Eastern or Western world? Whether
+they may expect patronage and support from a missionary society in
+this country, or must commit themselves to the direction of a
+European society; and what preparatory measures they ought to take
+previous to actual engagement?</small></blockquote>
+
+<blockquote><small>The undersigned, feeling their youth and inexperience, look up to
+their fathers in the church and respectfully solicit their advice,
+direction and prayers.</small></blockquote>
+
+<div align="right"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="list2">
+	<tr><td><small>A<small>DONIRAM</small> J<small>UDSON</small> J<small>R</small>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
+	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
+	S<small>AMUEL</small> N<small>OTT</small> J<small>R</small>.<br>
+	S<small>AMUEL</small> J. M<small>ILLS</small>.<br>
+	S<small>AMUEL</small> N<small>EWELL</small>.</small></td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+<p>The names of Rice and Richards were struck off "for fear of alarming
+the Association with too large a number."</p>
+
+<p>This paper was referred to a special committee, who indorsed the
+sentiment and submitted a plan to the association, which was carried
+into effect by the appointment of a Board of Commissioners for
+Foreign Missions.</p>
+
+<p>After much exertion and inquiry at home, Judson was sent to England
+to learn if help could be expected from the London Missionary
+Society. He found that society willing to take the young men under
+its care and support, but not ready to assist the new Board.</p>
+
+<p>The American society soon received aid within its own boundaries,
+which was a far better beginning than to be dependent upon outside
+resources. Mrs. Mary Norris, the wife of one of the founders of
+Andover Seminary, bequeathed thirty thousand dollars to the Board.
+God's Spirit generally revived the churches, opening the eyes and
+hearts of His people, their purses as well, though not many of the
+latter were well filled in those days.</p>
+
+<p>God only has a full record of the anxious courage and faith which was
+exercised by the supporters, managers, and appointees of the Board
+during those first struggling years. Under the care of this board
+Mills and his friends placed themselves, and by it most of them were
+sent out in the year 1812.</p>
+<br><a name="chap6"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3>
+
+<center><small>AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>From the first throb of his Christian life, the heart of Mills beat
+like a soldier's. He called out the recruits, captained the forces,
+and died in service&mdash;a hero! In his student days he had a compelling
+influence upon his classmates, and even then showed signs of
+generalship in his faculty of organizing. The establishment of the
+Foreign Mission School was largely consequent upon his suggestions;
+in the formation of the American Board he was one of the foremost
+personal instruments.</p>
+
+<p>Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn
+schemes began their struggling claim for his attention. The world
+with all its lands stretching their help-beckoning fingers, was
+persuading him. Over the home land, his and ours, he turned his
+penetrating glance. He saw occasion for vast concern, and here was
+his first response. To go first, opening the way for others through
+the tangled wilderness, was his design, his master-plot. That "divine
+ferment" at Williams College worked the good of home, as well as of
+foreign, missions.</p>
+
+<p>Having chosen a companion-spy, the Rev. John Schermerhorn, soon after
+his graduation in 1812, he went to view a goodly land, which he
+desired to have the people of God go up and possess. This tour was
+undertaken under the patronage of the Connecticut and Massachusetts
+Home Missionary Societies. Heretofore these societies had prayed and
+wept over young missionaries sent to the uncivilized wilds of Western
+New York! The plan of Mills and Schermerhorn was to travel through
+the wide territory lying between the great lakes and the Gulf of
+Mexico, to learn the moral condition of the inhabitants, and scatter
+what good they might.</p>
+
+<p>The map of this region, as published in Morse's school atlas of 1823,
+is curiously different from the maps of the present day. The state
+and territorial lines have been altered, those green, pink, and
+yellow blanks have become densely freckled and wrinkled, by the dots
+of cities and towns, and by the complicated tracery of railroads.</p>
+
+<p>These travelers did not telegraph their intended arrival, nor sleep
+and dine their way to their journey's end, on the "Flyer," and then
+rest in some palatial hotel at last. Each mounted his horse, taking
+with them by way of baggage all that was necessary for the
+trip,&mdash;tent, provisions, clothing and Bibles. They plodded through
+miry swamps, they climbed up and down almost perpendicular ledges,
+and cut their way through canebrakes with a hatchet. When they had
+creeks to cross they swam their horses. At night they camped, often
+in the rain and sometimes without food. More than once they were
+serenaded by Indian war-whoops and the howling wolves. Stopping at
+town or settlement they were made cordially at home in hut and cabin.
+In some places they perceived bright prospects, the germs of future
+cities, and were often urgently besought to stay and preach the
+gospel permanently.</p>
+
+<p>They found everywhere the Sabbath profaned, only a few good people in
+any one place, and Bibles rare possessions. In some places the people
+were longing for the Gospel. In all the leading towns they formed
+Bible societies, and everywhere preached and distributed Bibles,
+which were gladly received.</p>
+
+<p>From Nashville they went down the Cumberland and Mississippi with
+General Jackson and fifteen hundred volunteers. In New Orleans they
+gained the consent of Bishop DeBury to distribute the Scriptures in
+French to the French Romanists, who made up three-fourths of the
+population of the state. They found no Protestant church in the city.
+They here organized a Bible society, and remained several weeks to
+preach and to hold prayer-meetings.</p>
+<br><a name="chap7"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3>
+
+<center><small>MILLS' SECOND TOUR.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>In the year 1814 Mr. Mills having obtained the assistance of some of
+the eastern Bible societies, and having chosen as companion the Rev.
+Daniel Smith, started on another tour through the South and West.
+They went laden with Bibles and the prayers of Christian friends.
+They went through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
+In all these states they found the people "exceedingly destitute of
+religious privileges," and a "lamentable want of Bibles and
+missionaries." They found "American families who never saw a Bible,
+or heard of Jesus Christ." There was only one minister to ten
+thousand people if equally placed; but there were districts
+containing from twenty to fifty thousand "without a preacher." These
+men were light-bringers to this "valley of the shadow of death," as
+Mills called it. They found English soldiers, French Romanists,
+colored slaves, our own dear countrymen, greedy for the bread of
+life.</p>
+
+<p>They traveled more than six thousand miles; they passed through a
+variety of climates; they endured "perils in the city, perils of the
+wilderness, perils on the rivers and on the sea," that they might
+cast that bread upon the waters which you and I are finding after
+many days.</p>
+
+<p>Mills arrived for the second time in New Orleans, soon after the
+celebrated battle of January 8, 1815, and cheered many hearts by his
+coming. He visited the soldiers in prison, the sick and wounded in
+the hospitals; kneeling on the bare floor where they lay, he prayed
+and talked with them, sang for them, and gave them Bibles; he
+preached in camp. The Philadelphia society had given him a quantity
+of French Bibles. The people were clamorous for them. They thronged
+the distributor's door, and remained even after the notice had been
+given that no more could be had until the following day. They came
+sometimes from great distances. In one week a thousand copies were
+given away. In one instance a Romish priest assisted in this work.
+The bishop acknowledged the deplorable state of the people, and
+preferred their having the Protestant version to none at all.</p>
+
+<p>When these adventurers in Christ's kingdom visited St.
+Louis, they found it a place of two thousand inhabitants,&mdash;"a
+tumble-down French village,&mdash;built mainly of wooden slabs and poles
+set vertically, and well daubed with mortar mixed with straw, though
+there were many log houses." In a school-room they delivered the
+first Presbyterian or Congregational sermons ever preached on the
+west side of the Mississippi. They were gratefully received, and had
+crowded audiences. The people would gladly have supported either one
+could he have stayed.</p>
+
+<p>But the immediate duty of these explorers for souls was to return to
+the churches which had sent them out, to report what they had
+discovered, and to beg that men be sent to these waste places which
+were waiting to be made to blossom. All New England was roused to
+effort by their appeal, and the next year ten or twelve men responded
+to the summons.</p>
+
+<p>In 1848 the word "gold" was whispered in California and heard all
+over the world. The gold-hunters pressed forward from every corner of
+the earth. It was not thought a hard thing to turn one's back on
+home, friends and country, for the sake of gold, though that
+glittering promise was, to most of those who searched, like the bag
+at the end of the rainbow, and all the riches of this world "make
+themselves wings." "The promises of God are sure," and the riches
+which He bestows are everlasting; and yet to the call, gold and
+glory, young men answer by the thousand, while to the cry, Christ and
+a crown, they respond by the dozen! "Choose ye this day whom ye will
+serve."</p>
+<br><a name="chap8"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY&mdash;THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>During these two missionary journeys the heart of our apostle was
+swelling with the woes of the sin-bound, and his brain contriving for
+their release. Upon his return he settled in New York state, and
+spent two busy years in working out his purposes. While waiting for
+their maturity he was most of the time in the large cities,
+particularly New York. Here he spent what might have been leisure, in
+visiting the poor in the neglected districts. He also wrote many
+letters; and in the churches, and everywhere, and upon everybody,
+urged attention to the world's great needs, and their great duties.
+As the result of this planning, waiting and working, he was permitted
+to see formed the American Bible Society, and the United Foreign
+Missionary Society. On the subject of city evangelization, he
+advanced ideas which we at this striving time might well study.</p>
+
+<p>The entire destitution of religious privileges which Mills had
+witnessed in the West and South, and the great desire of the people
+for the word of God, with their inability to supply themselves, made
+him eager for the formation of a National Bible Society, which should
+be large enough and strong enough to supply such great want. He had
+some hope of having the matter brought out at the general assembly of
+the Presbyterian church; but it was thought best to have it come
+about through the existing Bible societies, rather than have it bear
+the features of any denomination.</p>
+
+<p>The matter was kept constantly before influential people by this
+indefatigable man, and at last on the 8th of May, 1816, delegates
+from the different Bible societies of the United States convened in
+New York city, and resolved unanimously "to establish, without delay,
+a General Bible Institution, for the circulation of the Holy
+Scriptures, without note or comment." Before closing their sessions a
+constitution was adopted, managers elected, and an address issued to
+the people of the United States, informing them of the project, and
+inviting their sympathy and coöperation in this benevolent scheme.</p>
+
+<p>This was a great day to Mills, and those who saw him, sitting apart,
+watching with intense eagerness the deliberations of the convention,
+long remembered his delighted face. But how must the resources and
+usefulness of this society have exceeded even his fond hopes!</p>
+
+<p>As its first depository, it shared the office room of its agent. From
+time to time it was forced to move to larger quarters, until the year
+1853, when it located permanently, in its well-known building, The
+Bible House, on Astor Place, New York city. This edifice is of brick,
+six stories high, and occupies a solid block. In its first year, the
+society received $37,779, and issued 6,410 volumes; in its seventieth
+year (1886) its receipts were $523,910, and it issued 1,437,440
+volumes. In the Bible House, the working force&mdash;manufacturing and
+executive&mdash;numbers about 250. The auxiliaries which directly and
+indirectly center in this society, number about 7,000.</p>
+
+<p>From this great tree and its many branches, the leaves have been sent
+for the healing of nations. There are now but few countries where
+there are any impediments to the free circulation of the Scriptures.
+In our own land the society has afforded relief to its feeble
+auxiliaries, has supplied destitute Sabbath-schools, has endeavored
+to place the Bible in the common schools, to distribute it among
+soldiers and seamen, to furnish hotels, steamboats, railroads, and
+humane and criminal institutions. By it, the Bible has been
+circulated among immigrants, the destitute poor, the freedmen, the
+Chinese, and (in the Douay version) among Romanists. At four
+different periods the society has made exploration among the states
+and territories, to search and supply the destitute. Proportionately
+the number of families without the word of God is much smaller now
+than when the society was organized, notwithstanding the enormous
+growths in population.</p>
+
+<p>The society has attempted to send the Bible to all the inhabitants of
+the earth, accessible to its agents. It has established depots in
+almost every place where the American churches have missions. It
+circulates the Scriptures in more than eighty different languages and
+dialects. In 1856, in compliance with a special request, and by means
+of a special gift, the Society's Imperial Quarto English Bible, bound
+with extraordinary care, enclosed in a rosewood case, and accompanied
+by a courteous letter, was sent to each of the reigning monarchs and
+other chief magistrates of the world.</p>
+
+<p>Before the art of printing, the Bible was the most expensive book in
+the world. So late as the American Revolution, in its cheapest
+edition a volume could not be purchased for less than two dollars.
+This society now furnishes a copy of the entire book for twenty-five
+cents. It has made the Bible the cheapest book in the world.</p>
+
+<p>Mills, anxious to see every wheel set in motion for the advancement
+of Christ's kingdom, was restless because of the inaction of the
+Presbyterian church in the cause of Foreign Missions; again by his
+personal influence upon prominent men, another plan was matured. A
+committee was appointed by the General Assembly to confer with
+committees from the Dutch and Scotch churches, and a new society was
+formed, called the United Foreign Missionary Society. After a few
+years of efficient service this society was merged with the American
+Board, yielding to it its name and affairs.</p>
+
+<p>While so busy with these schemes just referred to, Mr. Mills was
+collecting all possible information in regard to South America. He
+desired to have the way opened for a mission in that country, and was
+willing to go himself to make the needed investigations. But it was
+seven years later when the American Board sent the first men to that
+field.</p>
+
+<p>In spite of these great enterprises, which must have been so
+absorbing of time and energy, this busy man found opportunity and
+strength to search out the squalid back streets of New York, and to
+go from house to house of its wretched inhabitants, giving sympathy,
+speaking words of Christian love and instruction, and where they
+would receive them leaving the word of God and good books.</p>
+<br><a name="chap9"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY&mdash;MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS
+AFRICA.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>Abraham Lincoln, when a young man, made a journey into the South. Of
+all the impressions which those new scenes made upon him, the one
+deepest and strongest was that of slavery. It filled him with
+loathing, but kindled a zeal which never slumbered, until it cost his
+priceless life.</p>
+
+<p>It was such a spark which became a fire in the breast of Mills. What
+he saw and what he heard, during those southern tours, made him a
+willing martyr for the sake of Africa's sons and daughters. Their
+degradation made him ready to endure all things if only he could
+pierce the black cloud overshading them. His first effort resulted in
+a school, called the African School, for training young colored men
+to teach and preach to their own race. He then lent essential aid in
+the formation of the American Colonization Society.</p>
+
+<p>This society was composed of noble-minded men whose pitying attention
+was fastened upon the bondage, afflictions and heathenism of their
+black brothers, in this so called free land.</p>
+
+<p>Their aim was to furnish a refuge, in their own country, for those
+who were emancipated here, and it was their hope that such a scheme
+would do much toward the abolition of slavery.</p>
+
+<p>Their first effort was the collection of information: first, in
+regard to the condition of the slave here, that they might enlist
+general sympathy in their work. In a letter written by Mr. Mills
+about this matter, he said: "State facts. Facts will always produce
+an effect, at least on pious minds. You can easily possess yourself
+of facts, the bare recital of which will make the heart bleed." From
+the extensive observations he had made in the South, and by having
+the subject so long in his mind, he was very ready to "state facts,"
+and did so in every time and place. The information needed, in the
+second place, by the society was in regard to a suitable location for
+the colony, and the methods which would be required to obtain it. Mr.
+Mills was made their agent.</p>
+
+<p>He chose as a colleague, to share his responsibility, the Rev. Mr.
+Burgess. After some months of preparation they left America, planning
+to visit England first for information and assistance and then
+Africa, for the accomplishment of their errand.</p>
+
+<p>His father says of the "good-bye" which he bade him, at the time,
+that "he enjoyed peculiar peace of mind, committing himself entirely
+to the guidance and protection of the Almighty." He, who had endured
+so many hardships for Christ's sake, knew in whom he trusted.</p>
+
+<p>After about two weeks' sailing, they encountered a fearful storm and
+had need of all their faith. The wind blew furiously for thirty-six
+hours. The captain ordered the masts cut away and the decks cleared.
+He remained on deck, calmly giving orders, until they were driven
+almost upon a ledge of rocks. Despairing of any safety in the ship,
+he abandoned her, taking his children with him in a small boat. Some
+of those left on board the ship, in their agony of peril, were in the
+cabin, beseeching the mercy of Him who rules the violent sea. Others
+were on deck, where Mr. Burgess, praying aloud, commended their souls
+to God.</p>
+
+<p>All unexpectedly, a counter current bore them into deeper water, past
+the rocks. All exclaimed, "It is the work of God!" A gloomy night
+they spent tossing on the sea, but in the morning quiet came. The
+mate assumed control, and by using what crippled forces they could
+command, they found their way to a harbor of France.</p>
+
+<p>From there they proceeded to London. They were cordially received by
+a number of distinguished men and officials. Among them Mr.
+Wilberforce and Mr. Zachary Macauly, the former governor of Sierra
+Leone, who introduced them to the Duke of Gloucester. They met
+everywhere with Christian sympathy, and the kindest offers of
+service. Having obtained letters to the governors of colonies in
+Africa, they left England for the west coast, February 3, 1818.</p>
+
+<p>This voyage was a pleasant one, and brought them in about thirty days
+to the mouth of the Gambia. They anchored near the village of St.
+Mary's, and went to inspect this and other settlements. They made the
+acquaintance of the governors and the Europeans, everywhere gathering
+useful and pertinent facts.</p>
+
+<p>They proceeded south, visiting towns and villages, and calling upon
+the kings and head men. On these occasions they were received in the
+"palaver house," by the chiefs arranged in true African style,
+regardless of taste. One was described as wearing "a silver-laced
+coat, a superb three-cornered hat, blue-bafta trousers, considerably
+the worse for wear, and no stockings or shoes." The insignia of
+royalty were a silver-headed cane in one hand, a horse-tail in the
+other. Before the palaver could go on, the hosts must receive
+presents, and as their guests had oftenest been slave traders, rum
+and tobacco had become essentials.</p>
+
+<p>By means of interpreters they made known their friendly feelings, and
+that they had come from America. "That wise and good men had agreed
+to help the black people who wished to come to this country; that the
+design was a good one, and would promote the best interests of the
+black people both in America and Africa; that if they would sell or
+give tracts of their unimproved lands, the people who came would
+introduce more knowledge of the arts and agriculture, would buy such
+things as they had to sell, and would sell to them such things as
+they wanted;" that the children were to be educated; that they had
+come as messengers of peace and good tidings, bringing no weapons in
+their hands&mdash;that they did not desire war.</p>
+
+<p>They found that African kings knew the art of being slothful in
+business. They seemed to have no idea of dispatch, but would talk for
+hours without coming to the point. In general their reception was
+cordial, and, in some instances, more than that. Land was offered
+them in five different places. Their greatest obstacle was the
+unsavory reputation of the white men who had preceded them,&mdash;the
+slave-traders and merchants,&mdash;men who had been gross, violent and
+rapacious. One of the natives who saw Mr. Mills and Mr. Burgess in
+prayer, said he "never knew before that white men prayed!"</p>
+
+<p>They found that the natives would not be unwilling to give up their
+superstitions, and were gratified at the prospect of education for
+their children; that they would be glad to have God's word, and the
+pure religion it teaches. One old man with white hair and beard,
+wished for this good time to come at once; he wanted to know more
+about God's book before he died.</p>
+
+<p>The observations and inquiries which had been so conscientiously made
+by the agents, enabled them to report to their society that the
+project was both practicable and expedient. After due consideration
+of the instructions and recommendations of experienced foreigners,
+and the details of exploration, which this report furnished them, the
+society thought it most wise to proceed with the undertaking.</p>
+
+<p>After seeking needed individual and governmental aid, and perfecting
+so far as possible the organization, the first colony was sent to
+Africa in 1820. They endured the discouraging vicissitudes which are
+generally incident to new settlements, and in a few years success
+seemed certain.</p>
+
+<p>In 1847 L<small>IBERIA</small> became an established free republic. The constitution
+is modeled upon our own.</p>
+<br><a name="chap10"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER X.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE LAST JOURNEY&mdash;BRIG "SUCCESS," FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1818.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>"We have taken an affectionate leave of the clergymen, the civil
+officers, and the colonists of Sierra Leone. We are embarked for the
+United States, by way of England; and the continent of Africa recedes
+from our view."</p>
+
+<p>This is the last entry in Mills' journal. Three months had been spent
+in Africa; months of unsparing toil, under a scorching sun, amid
+depressing pagan scenes. But the undertaking had been reasonably
+successful, and tired bodies had been upheld by grateful hearts.</p>
+
+<p>On shipboard once more, with faces turned homeward, opportunity came
+for fatigue to assert itself. The strength of Mills, never great at
+the best, began to fail. A deep spirituality, which had possessed him
+through all the journey, grew stronger and stronger. And as they were
+wafted, day by day, nearer home, it became evident that his spirit,
+too, was nearing its desired haven. Fever burned his body; but at
+last eternal health claimed his soul. Under a glowing sunset, he was
+buried, to wait until the sea surrenders its dead.</p>
+
+<p>The one great desire of his life, "to sit in some quiet corner and
+teach the perishing," was unfulfilled; but God through him had sent,
+and yet sends, many teachers to many far corners.</p>
+
+<p>Thirty-five years, only, of mortal life was allotted him in which to
+accomplish so much; yet it was time enough,&mdash;not because of his
+uncommon gifts, but because he knew the secret of well doing. He did
+not attempt to be the origin&mdash;the source, but gloried in being the
+channel through which God poured His great thoughts. No time was lost
+by obstructions; the dredge that kept the channel free was
+prayer&mdash;private, social, public, constant prayer, not for himself,
+but for God's glory.</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center><small>THE END.</small></center>
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+Title: A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
+       [Samuel John Mills]
+
+Author: Elisabeth G. Stryker
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+MISSIONARY ANNALS.
+(A SERIES.)
+
+
+
+
+A STORY OF ONE SHORT LIFE, 1783 to 1818.
+
+
+BY
+ELISABETH G. STRYKER.
+
+
+
+
+CHICAGO:
+WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST,
+Room 48, McCormick Block.
+
+
+
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1888,
+BY WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+                                                             PAGE
+   I. ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION . . . . . . . . . .  7
+
+  II. COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST
+      IN FOREIGN MISSIONS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+
+ III. OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
+
+  IV. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL . . . . 20
+
+   V. MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD . . . . . . . . . . 22
+
+  VI. AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES  . . . . . . . 25
+
+ VII. MILLS' SECOND TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
+
+VIII. THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN
+      MISSIONARY SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
+
+  IX. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT,
+      VISITS AFRICA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
+
+   X. THE LAST JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
+
+
+
+
+As I write, I have in my mind a row of intelligent boyish faces.
+Manly souls look through bright eyes. My heart responds to the beats
+of affection beneath jacket and cut-away.
+
+I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly
+graces are dawning. I feel the warmth of pure young hearts beginning
+to swell with generous desires.
+
+These are my real friends. Beyond them I see rows and rows of boys
+and girls whose sympathies and interest I would gladly claim.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+Those among us interested in the young people, the boys and girls of
+our Churches, somewhat realize the lack of material wherewith to
+stimulate and nourish these young workers. The apiarist studies the
+nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers
+that "the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference" in
+the bees. We have long watched our boys and girls, and either we do
+not care what they yield, or we are dull not to notice that what
+surrounds them and enters into their minds, is surely deciding their
+natures. White clover honey can only be made from white clover
+blossoms. What they read and what they may be induced to read
+concerns us as mission workers. Individual tastes make many by-paths
+in the field of literature, but the girls all enjoy the windings of
+romance, and the boys delight in the highway of adventure. "But,"
+they say or think, "Missions, their history and progress are so
+stupid, they have no decent heroes and heroines. We like Robinson
+Crusoe, and Little Women, and the Arabian Nights!" But do we not know
+that the stories of the lives of some of our missionaries, well told,
+may stand side by side, upon the book-shelves and in the hearts of
+our young people, with the pages of De Foe and Louise Alcott? Many a
+boy and girl, charmed by the life and fortune of some unreal, and
+oftentimes unworthy, hero, has attempted to make copy in his or her
+own life. Missionary lives are not lacking in the spirit, adventure
+and romance which are so fascinating. With these ideals in their
+minds, may we not expect followers of the Judsons, the Moffats, the
+Fiskes and the Rankins?
+
+The writer, who has humbly undertaken to re-tell an old tale, is
+neither a De Foe nor an Alcott. She finds she can borrow neither of
+their pens. Her own, conscious of its inexperience, finds its only
+relief in the fact that the story is its own strength.
+
+
+
+
+SAMUEL J. MILLS.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION.
+
+
+Our country is quietly enjoying the benefits of a great activity.
+Foreign Missions are still feeling a noble impulse, and the origin of
+this force was, under God, in the heart and brain of Samuel J. Mills.
+
+It is a name known to us, but a history almost forgotten. Only upon
+the shelves of some antiquarian, or in the undisturbed library of
+some old homestead can a volume be found bearing the title "Mills'
+Memoirs." Take it down, blow the dust from the leaves yellow with
+sixty-seven years, and you will find the narrative related in the
+stately, old-time style, and somewhat laudatory and expansive.
+
+He had no son, as Adoniram Judson had, gladly to record the details
+of his busy life. The writer was Dr. Gardiner Spring, who laments
+having failed in the attempt to obtain what appeared to him to be
+important information. We are thankful to him for gathering even
+these rare fragments.
+
+From a sketch of Salmon Giddings, the Damon Memorial, a letter from a
+relative of Mills, and the life of Henry Obookiah have come a few
+incidents and facts, but mainly in the record of Dr. Spring have we
+found our Story of One Short Life. Such hid treasure should find the
+light, even though quarried by unskillful hands.
+
+Biographies are apt to seem discouraging, in the beginning; the
+attention being riveted upon the supposed hero, meets with a shock in
+finding it has been following the history of his great-grandfather.
+The scattered energies are then directed upon the grandfather, only
+to meet with a second delay. Again recovering, and following the
+father's fortunes, the son, the subject of the work, is at last
+introduced.
+
+The great-grandfather of our hero must be brought in just long enough
+to answer one question. He was once asked, "How did you educate four
+sons at Yale College, and give each a profession?" His reply was,
+"Almighty God did it, with the help of my wife." The grandfather (of
+our hero) was drowned while some of his children were still young.
+His widow, committing their babes to the God of the fatherless,
+especially offered for His service, a son named Samuel John. He
+became a minister, and for many years was settled in Torringford,
+Connecticut. He was eminent for his ability and character. Mrs. Stowe
+said of him--"He was one ingrain New Englander. Of all the marvels
+that astonished my childhood, there is none I remember to this day
+with so much interest as Father Mills." This was the name by which he
+was extensively known. His wife was a woman exemplary and devout.
+
+Being assured that the three preceding generations were
+commandment-keeping, we shall see how the Lord showed mercy unto the
+fourth. Almighty God and a true mother secure for many a man's sons,
+not only education, but large efficiency and honor.
+
+The seventh child, born April 21st, 1783, in this Torringford home,
+was a son, named after his father, Samuel John. The child grew to be
+a mighty instrument in God's hand, which He in His wisdom selected,
+knowing the fineness of the material with which he dealt. That we too
+may know something of the tempering of the steel, we are permitted a
+reverent glance into that pious mother's bosom. Before the birthday
+came she continually dedicated the little life beneath her heart to
+the God who is pleased to accept such gifts. During all his childhood
+he received the most careful Christian training. Nourished in such a
+home-garden, and shined on by such mother-light, we cannot wonder
+that the child grew toward the Sun, and that the roots of religious
+character struck deep and spread wide.
+
+When but a little child he showed an unusual concern of conscience.
+At fifteen the town in which he lived was greatly aroused and
+revived. His friends and acquaintances received the blessing, and he
+was deeply interested, but the revival passed, leaving him with a
+bitter, rebellious feeling in his heart.
+
+About this time, one fine cold winter morning, a merry sleigh load
+drove from his father's house. He, with his brothers, sisters and
+cousins, about eighteen in all, went to spend a few days with his
+uncle in West Hartford. Samuel had recently come into the possession
+of a fine farm. He was gay and ambitious. His companions fearing his
+good fortune might make him feel a "little too high minded," sought
+to tease him. The evening before their return, after eating nuts and
+apples, they agreed to have a little singing. They struck up "Hark,
+from the Tombs a Doleful Sound," to the tune, Bangor. They sang it
+slowly and solemnly, now and then casting at him glances from their
+mischievous eyes. He sat a silent listener, while their song, sung in
+fun, made an earnest impression of which he could not rid himself.
+
+Soon after his farm was sold, and at eighteen he determined to go to
+Litchfield and study in the Academy. As he was leaving home, his
+mother's anxious heart could not let him go without enquiring for his
+soul's health. Other mothers know the pain she suffered, when he told
+her "for two years I have been sorry God ever made me." She replied
+to him as her wise heart prompted her, and sent him on his way. She
+went where all mothers of boys must so often go, to her knees, alone
+with God.
+
+He had not gone far on his journey when he met a Friend. It was the
+Good Shepherd, whom that mother's urgent prayer had sent searching
+for the wanderer. It was as if he had met Christ in his path. He
+looked up at the great trees and down at the blossoms, and in
+everything saw God. He became so impressed with the perfections of
+the Holy One he had so long resisted, that he lost sight of himself.
+He sat down in the woods to wonder and to pray. It was not until some
+time after that he realized any change in himself, and not until he
+returned from Litchfield did his father perceive it. His conversion
+was thorough. Not only was he turned about,--his face God-ward
+instead of self-ward,--but he was impelled toward "those sitting in
+darkness." In his childhood, from his mother's lips, he often heard
+stories from the lives of Brainerd, Eliot, and other missionaries. He
+heard her prayers for them and their great undertakings. Once he
+heard her say, "I have consecrated this child to the service of God
+as a missionary." Now it was his joy to follow those noble examples,
+and to fulfill his part in the plans of God and his mother for him.
+His parents approved of his determination, though the thought of
+separation tore their hearts. His mother said to him, "I cannot bear
+to part from you, my son." When he reminded her of her vow, she burst
+into tears, and never after made complaint. To his father he said
+that he could "not conceive of any course of life in which to pass
+the rest of his days, that would prove so pleasant, as to go and
+communicate the gospel of salvation to the poor heathen."
+
+This desire to spread the Gospel grew to be a sublime purpose, and
+from it he never wavered. He set about his plannings, with this
+supreme end in view. Thanking God for his own salvation, he laid his
+life in God's hand, imploring Him to use it for those who had as yet
+no knowledge of that mercy. The Lord took him from the plough, as he
+did Elisha. He left the field for the college.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN
+MISSIONS.
+
+
+He entered Williams College in the spring of 1806. During his first
+visit home in June, he connected himself with his father's church. A
+college course means to some young men four years of frolic, or
+worse. To others it is an opportunity to cram knowledge, that shall
+by-and-by astound the round world and they that dwell therein. To
+one, at least, it was the time for choosing "smooth stones" for his
+combat with the giant adversary, whom he was brave enough to meet
+alone, if need be, "in the name of the Lord of Hosts."
+
+As a scholar he was not brilliant, but as a Christian he was "a
+bright and shining light." To serve God was the highest aim of his
+life. First of all, he served Him upon his knees. He used to pray
+often and earnestly, alone and with others. He pursued his studies
+for the after use he might make of them, not for his own
+accomplishment. As he visited his friends in their rooms, and walked
+with them through the groves, the subject dearest to his heart was
+oftenest the theme of his conversation. To one friend he said:
+"Though you and I are very little beings, we must not rest satisfied
+till we have made our influence extend to the remotest corner of this
+ruined world."
+
+His life was so consistent, his disposition so sweet, his manners so
+winning that every one was his friend. Those who had been unfaithful
+to their vows were reproved, and those opposed to religion were
+induced to follow his example. During his first year there was a
+revival, which seemed to come in answer to his earnest prayers. Many
+of his comrades became Christians, and so earnestly that they laid
+aside or sanctified their old ambitions, and prepared to spread
+through the earth the fire kindled by this devoted youth.
+
+A mission band of boys were examined as to their knowledge of Samuel
+Mills. "Where was he born?" asked the leader. "Under a haystack!"
+replied a small boy. Had the question been, Where was the American
+Board of Foreign Missions born? the answer would not have been so far
+from the way. Its baptismal naming came some years later, but under a
+stack of hay in a meadow, near Williams College, it was born, nursed
+and prayed over.
+
+About fourteen years earlier foreign missionary organization had
+begun across the Atlantic. On this side, the attention of Christians
+had been occupied with their new homes and the needs of the destitute
+near at hand. There were societies of domestic missions; but no
+scheme to touch hands God-blessed with hands idol-cursed, had ever
+been devised before the Lord of both put it into the heart of Mills.
+"God called him out of the midst of the bush." The bush was this
+haystack, but the place became "holy ground." The Lord said: "I have
+surely seen the affliction of my people, and have heard their cry."
+"Come now, therefore, and I will send thee."
+
+This commission filled his soul. He gathered a few of his friends in
+a grove, to tell them his convictions and his hopes. What was his
+surprise and joy to find that the "Angel of the Lord" had appeared to
+them also. A sudden thunder storm came upon them here, but his
+retreat, his place of safety, was near by. He led them under the
+haystack, and there they talked together, and with God. And there
+they continued to meet through two seasons, and finally formed
+themselves into the first Foreign Missionary Society of this
+continent. Its object was "to effect in the persons of its members a
+mission to the heathen."
+
+From the spot where the haystack once stood, now rises a marble
+shaft, bearing aloft a globe, underneath which is inscribed:
+
+               "THE FIELD IS THE WORLD."
+
+  "The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions, 1806."
+
+                  SAMUEL J. MILLS,
+                  JAMES RICHARDS,
+                  FRANCIS L. ROBBINS,
+                  HARVEY LOOMIS,
+                  BYRAM GREEN.
+
+At every commencement, the college president leads to this monument a
+procession of alumni, students, and guests. Prayer is offered that
+the spirit of missions may still prevail at Williams, and that the
+traditions of the past may be maintained.
+
+In these years public opinion was decidedly opposed to the enterprise
+of these young men. Even good men thought their zeal extravagant and
+expected it soon to subside. In order to arouse sympathy and a right
+sentiment, they devised various means. They discussed their projects
+with Christian people. They distributed missionary sermons. A list
+was made of the names of distinguished ministers, to whom these young
+men made frequent visits, urging their suit. Among them, the first to
+take fire, was Dr. Worcester. With one of them, Dr. Griffin, Mills
+asked to be permitted to study theology. Said the Doctor: "I had
+always refused such applications, but from the love I bore to him, I
+agreed to criticise one sermon a week. After that exercise he would
+commonly sit and draw letters very moderately and cautiously from his
+pocket, reading passages to me on some benevolent project. At length
+I perceived that _studying divinity_ with me had been quite a
+secondary object, that his chief object was to get me engaged to
+execute his plans. As soon as I discovered that, I told him to bring
+out his letters and all his plans, without reserve."
+
+Mills became convinced that they could not expect help from the
+Churches unless the number was increased of young men ready to devote
+their lives to this cause. He and his friends then separated for the
+purpose of establishing societies in other colleges. Mills went to
+Yale, hoping there to find kindred spirits. This was not the case,
+but God had sent him for another purpose, and that to know Obookiah,
+a heathen boy from the Sandwich Islands. This acquaintance greatly
+increased his zeal.
+
+Sometimes a little seed, wafted by the wind, is borne far from its
+mother plant to take root in a foreign soil: but its fruit may be
+returned whence it came. This little lonely heathen child, blown by
+seemingly cruel and adverse winds, was tossed upon our Christian
+shores by the good hand of God. The ship which brought him touched
+other and idolatrous lands, but he was not to put his feet down till
+they could be planted in the right place.
+
+That his life touched Mills' life, both being quickened, is perhaps
+reason enough for giving here a portion of Obookiah's history and
+that of his native land, if there were not another reason, and that
+the opportunity, here afforded, of following a stream of influence to
+its sea.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA.
+
+
+Henry Obookiah was born in Hawaii, about the year 1792. When about
+twelve years old, two parties contending for dominion, disturbed the
+peace of the island. He alone survived the persecution of his family.
+He was captured and carried home by the man who killed his parents,
+but finally made his way to an uncle. Though he was well treated, he
+suffered from loneliness. He said of himself, "When I was at play
+with other children, after we had made an end of playing, they return
+to their parents: but I was returned into tears, for I have no home,
+neither father nor mother. Poor boy am I."
+
+He determined to go to some other country, and forget his sorrow. The
+captain of an American vessel showed him kindness, and consented to
+take him on board. He brought him to America, and took him to his own
+home in New Haven. Henry was a clumsy, stupid-looking boy at this
+time, his appearance not revealing the undeveloped depths of his
+nature. He made the acquaintance of some of the students at Yale
+College, and of the Rev. E. W. Dwight. These friends becoming
+interested in his welfare, offered to teach him. He accepted their
+aid with avidity, and made wonderful progress, at the same time
+becoming more and more lovable and attractive.
+
+A fun-loving disposition soon showed itself. He had great difficulty
+in pronouncing the letter _r_, giving it the sound of _l_. Every day
+his teacher tried to help him, saying, "try, Obookiah, it is _very
+easy_." This seemed to amuse the boy greatly, though as yet he could
+not express himself in English. Some time after, when he could speak
+more readily, he was describing to his teacher some of the customs of
+his native land. Clasping his hands together, and adjusting his
+thumbs, he formed a cup which he raised to his lips to show how his
+countrymen drank from a spring. His instructor tried to do the same,
+but before he could reach his mouth with his hands the cup would be
+inverted so that the contents, had there been any, would have been
+spilled. Obookiah laughed heartily and said, "_try_, Mr.
+Dwight, it is _very easy_!"
+
+One day he mimicked the gait of some of his friends so cleverly, that
+there was no mistaking whom he intended to personate. His teacher
+then mocked his own awkward style, when he exclaimed several times:
+"me walk so?" Being assured that it was true, he rolled upon the
+floor until his mirth exhausted his strength.
+
+After being instructed about the true God, idol worship seemed to him
+ridiculous. He said, "Hawaii gods! They _wood_,--_burn_. Me go home,
+put 'em in a fire, burn 'em up. They no _see_, no _hear_, _no_
+anything." Then added, "We make _them_. Our God," looking up, "He
+make us."
+
+After Mr. Mills arrived in New Haven he became a friend of Mr.
+Dwight's, and being often in his room, occasionally heard this boy
+recite. He became greatly attached to him, and began to cherish a
+plan for his future. He wanted to see Obookiah a Christian, educated,
+and then a missionary to his native land.
+
+One evening Mr. Mills had not been long in Mr. Dwight's room, when
+Obookiah came in with a very gloomy face. He said he had no place to
+live; Mr. ---- didn't want him any more, and Miss ---- had threatened
+to take away his new clothes. Mr. Mills told him he would take him to
+his own home, and that he had clothes enough for both. This cheered
+the poor, disconsolate fellow, who soon went with Mr. Mills to
+Torringford, and was placed under the "care of those whose
+benevolence was without a bond or check, or a limit to confine it."
+Here he spent a part of the year 1810, and was treated wisely and
+affectionately. Mrs. Mills taught him the Catechism, and her son
+Jeremiah assisted him in his studies. At different times, and
+frequently, their house was his home.
+
+He became gentle and refined in his manner, a Bible-loving, earnest,
+prayerful Christian. His friends who had been so careful in the
+training of his mind and heart, had not neglected his hands. He was
+taught much that was useful and practical, particularly in farming.
+He surprised all by the quickness and eagerness with which he
+learned. He was both inquisitive and acquisitive to a remarkable
+degree. He persisted in knowing and getting, that he might impart
+what he had gained to his own countrymen. To return to them for their
+enlightenment, was his consuming desire.
+
+He visited many families, and many of the churches of New England,
+always creating a deep interest in his mission. Many people who had
+affirmed that the heathen could never be reclaimed from their low
+estate, were forced to change their opinions after seeing and knowing
+Obookiah, and were inspired to pray and give for his and other
+unevangelized races.
+
+The presence of Obookiah in this country, as well as of other heathen
+youth, together with the desire to educate some of our own Indians,
+led to the formation of the Foreign Mission School, at Cornwall,
+Mass. This school was under the care of the American Board ten years.
+Its pupils were from many different nations. In 1826 it was
+discontinued, for by this time the missions were able to educate the
+young at their several stations.
+
+Obookiah was pursuing his studies here, when, in the beginning of the
+year 1818, he was stricken with typhus fever, and suffered several
+weeks. On the 17th of February, 1818, he shook hands with all his
+companions present, and with perfect composure addressed to them the
+parting salutation of his native language, "Alloah ò e"--"my love be
+with you."
+
+Mrs. Stone, in whose house he died, and who cared for him with
+Christian kindness during his sickness, said, "This had been one of
+the happiest and most profitable periods of her life; that she had
+been more than rewarded for her cares and watchings by day and night,
+in being permitted to witness his excellent example, and to hear his
+godly conversation."
+
+Almost immediately after his death, missionaries, inspired by his
+life, hastened to accomplish his cherished purpose, the establishment
+of a mission in the Sandwich Islands. Mills was far from home, but
+returning at the time, not knowing Obookiah had died, he said to a
+friend, "If it please God that I may arrive safely, I think that I
+shall take Obookiah and go to the Sandwich Islands and there I will
+end my life."
+
+From that day to this, missionaries and missions, schools, churches
+and Christians have multiplied, till all those islands name the name
+of Christ.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+THE SANDWICH ISLES WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.
+
+  "Surely the isles shall wait for me."
+
+
+The missionaries found upon these islands naked savages, without
+books, education, or courts of justice. The people were slaves,
+governed arbitrarily by chiefs. It was a nation of debauchees,
+thieves and drunkards. There were no marriage laws. Two-thirds of the
+children born were destroyed. If an infant was ailing or troublesome,
+the mother scooped a hole in the ground, covered the child with earth
+and trampled out its life. The aged and infirm were taken to the brow
+of a precipice and pushed over. The sick were removed to such a
+distance that their groans could not annoy, and left to die. The
+insane were stoned to death.
+
+God opened the way for the missionaries by a revolution which did
+away with idolatry, but did nothing for the uplifting of society.
+Some of the noblest specimens of our American manhood have devoted
+their lives to these desolate, far-away creatures. The mention of one
+will suffice as a sample of the salt that purified those bitter and
+filthy waters.
+
+When he stepped on shore at Hilo, in 1832, it was to stay till his
+work was finished--and he lived beyond the three score and ten. Such
+a life is a rebuke to the restlessness of many modern workers. For
+forty-two years he labored patiently in pressing himself and what he
+knew upon Hawaiian youth--nearly a thousand in all--many of whom are
+now pastors, leading lawyers, men of affairs, missionaries to
+Micronesia, and the men who stand for righteousness in the native
+churches. Great events and advances in science were exciting his
+native land, but he worked on, struggling for things unseen and
+eternal. Amid uninspiring surroundings, and performing many menial
+duties, he led a high spiritual and intellectual life, not seeking
+honor, but service--thereby gaining honor, and the "rest that
+remaineth."
+
+As for the results of such consecration, wisdom and work, the facts
+are a marvel in history. Any prophecy in regard to them would have
+been thought a wild dream. These islanders have taken their place
+among the Christian nations. Marriage is considered honorable, the
+family established, as well as schools, churches and a government,
+whose constitution ordains that "no law shall be enacted at variance
+with the word of the Lord Jehovah, or with the general spirit of His
+word."
+
+In proportion to the population, there are more readers than in
+Boston. The proportion of true Christians is as great as anywhere in
+Christendom. They are decently clad, their homes are comfortable,
+even sometimes going so far as to possess a melodeon and a
+sewing-machine! They have progressed in agriculture, commerce, the
+industries, literature and the arts. It is a regenerated nation.
+
+The American Board has erased this mission from its list and
+transferred all responsibility to the Hawaiian Evangelical
+Association.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD.
+
+
+From Yale College, Mills went to Andover to study theology. Soon
+after entering, his dear mother died. His grief was passionate. He
+mourned for the loss of her face, her voice, her prayers, but not as
+one "without hope."
+
+At Andover he met some of his former friends, and found new ones
+whose hearts the Lord had stirred--Newell, Judson, Nott, Hall, Mills!
+Names to shout at the sleeping saints of this our day! Lives to
+uphold to the view of our self-pleasing generation! These men
+organized a second missionary society, similar to the one at
+Williams. They met to pray and plan. Their prayers were answered and
+their plans resulted in the formation of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
+
+If the objections made to their plans were here rehearsed, the
+arguments would sound very familiar; they are the same, in spite of
+their repeated death-blows, that array themselves against the plan of
+missions to-day. The assailants of this cause are not students of
+history. There is no such thing as opposition, or even indifference,
+to Christian missions, unless there is ignorance behind it.
+
+These young men succeeded in gaining the sympathy and alliance of
+some of the prominent pastors, and the professors in the seminary. To
+the annual meeting of the General Association of Massachusetts, at
+Bradford, June 27, 1810, they presented the following paper:
+
+  The undersigned, members of the Divinity College, respectfully
+  request the attention of their Reverend Fathers, convened in the
+  General Association at Bradford, to the following statement and
+  inquiries:
+
+  They beg leave to state, that their minds have been long impressed
+  with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to
+  the heathen; that the impressions on their minds have induced a
+  serious, and they trust a prayerful, consideration of the subject
+  in its various attitudes, particularly in relation to the probable
+  success and the difficulties attending such an attempt; and that
+  after examining all the information which they can obtain, they
+  consider themselves as devoted to this work for life, whenever God
+  in his providence shall open the way.
+
+  They now offer the following inquiries, on which they solicit the
+  opinion and advice of the association. Whether, with their present
+  views and feelings, they ought to renounce the object of missions,
+  as visionary and impracticable; if not, whether they ought to
+  direct their attention to the Eastern or Western world? Whether
+  they may expect patronage and support from a missionary society in
+  this country, or must commit themselves to the direction of a
+  European society; and what preparatory measures they ought to take
+  previous to actual engagement?
+
+  The undersigned, feeling their youth and inexperience, look up to
+  their fathers in the church and respectfully solicit their advice,
+  direction and prayers.
+
+                                           ADONIRAM JUDSON JR.
+                                           SAMUEL NOTT JR.
+                                           SAMUEL J. MILLS.
+                                           SAMUEL NEWELL.
+
+The names of Rice and Richards were struck off "for fear of alarming
+the Association with too large a number."
+
+This paper was referred to a special committee, who indorsed the
+sentiment and submitted a plan to the association, which was carried
+into effect by the appointment of a Board of Commissioners for
+Foreign Missions.
+
+After much exertion and inquiry at home, Judson was sent to England
+to learn if help could be expected from the London Missionary
+Society. He found that society willing to take the young men under
+its care and support, but not ready to assist the new Board.
+
+The American society soon received aid within its own boundaries,
+which was a far better beginning than to be dependent upon outside
+resources. Mrs. Mary Norris, the wife of one of the founders of
+Andover Seminary, bequeathed thirty thousand dollars to the Board.
+God's Spirit generally revived the churches, opening the eyes and
+hearts of His people, their purses as well, though not many of the
+latter were well filled in those days.
+
+God only has a full record of the anxious courage and faith which was
+exercised by the supporters, managers, and appointees of the Board
+during those first struggling years. Under the care of this board
+Mills and his friends placed themselves, and by it most of them were
+sent out in the year 1812.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+
+From the first throb of his Christian life, the heart of Mills beat
+like a soldier's. He called out the recruits, captained the forces,
+and died in service--a hero! In his student days he had a compelling
+influence upon his classmates, and even then showed signs of
+generalship in his faculty of organizing. The establishment of the
+Foreign Mission School was largely consequent upon his suggestions;
+in the formation of the American Board he was one of the foremost
+personal instruments.
+
+Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn
+schemes began their struggling claim for his attention. The world
+with all its lands stretching their help-beckoning fingers, was
+persuading him. Over the home land, his and ours, he turned his
+penetrating glance. He saw occasion for vast concern, and here was
+his first response. To go first, opening the way for others through
+the tangled wilderness, was his design, his master-plot. That "divine
+ferment" at Williams College worked the good of home, as well as of
+foreign, missions.
+
+Having chosen a companion-spy, the Rev. John Schermerhorn, soon after
+his graduation in 1812, he went to view a goodly land, which he
+desired to have the people of God go up and possess. This tour was
+undertaken under the patronage of the Connecticut and Massachusetts
+Home Missionary Societies. Heretofore these societies had prayed and
+wept over young missionaries sent to the uncivilized wilds of Western
+New York! The plan of Mills and Schermerhorn was to travel through
+the wide territory lying between the great lakes and the Gulf of
+Mexico, to learn the moral condition of the inhabitants, and scatter
+what good they might.
+
+The map of this region, as published in Morse's school atlas of 1823,
+is curiously different from the maps of the present day. The state
+and territorial lines have been altered, those green, pink, and
+yellow blanks have become densely freckled and wrinkled, by the dots
+of cities and towns, and by the complicated tracery of railroads.
+
+These travelers did not telegraph their intended arrival, nor sleep
+and dine their way to their journey's end, on the "Flyer," and then
+rest in some palatial hotel at last. Each mounted his horse, taking
+with them by way of baggage all that was necessary for the
+trip,--tent, provisions, clothing and Bibles. They plodded through
+miry swamps, they climbed up and down almost perpendicular ledges,
+and cut their way through canebrakes with a hatchet. When they had
+creeks to cross they swam their horses. At night they camped, often
+in the rain and sometimes without food. More than once they were
+serenaded by Indian war-whoops and the howling wolves. Stopping at
+town or settlement they were made cordially at home in hut and cabin.
+In some places they perceived bright prospects, the germs of future
+cities, and were often urgently besought to stay and preach the
+gospel permanently.
+
+They found everywhere the Sabbath profaned, only a few good people in
+any one place, and Bibles rare possessions. In some places the people
+were longing for the Gospel. In all the leading towns they formed
+Bible societies, and everywhere preached and distributed Bibles,
+which were gladly received.
+
+From Nashville they went down the Cumberland and Mississippi with
+General Jackson and fifteen hundred volunteers. In New Orleans they
+gained the consent of Bishop DeBury to distribute the Scriptures in
+French to the French Romanists, who made up three-fourths of the
+population of the state. They found no Protestant church in the city.
+They here organized a Bible society, and remained several weeks to
+preach and to hold prayer-meetings.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+MILLS' SECOND TOUR.
+
+
+In the year 1814 Mr. Mills having obtained the assistance of some of
+the eastern Bible societies, and having chosen as companion the Rev.
+Daniel Smith, started on another tour through the South and West.
+They went laden with Bibles and the prayers of Christian friends.
+They went through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
+In all these states they found the people "exceedingly destitute of
+religious privileges," and a "lamentable want of Bibles and
+missionaries." They found "American families who never saw a Bible,
+or heard of Jesus Christ." There was only one minister to ten
+thousand people if equally placed; but there were districts
+containing from twenty to fifty thousand "without a preacher." These
+men were light-bringers to this "valley of the shadow of death," as
+Mills called it. They found English soldiers, French Romanists,
+colored slaves, our own dear countrymen, greedy for the bread of
+life.
+
+They traveled more than six thousand miles; they passed through a
+variety of climates; they endured "perils in the city, perils of the
+wilderness, perils on the rivers and on the sea," that they might
+cast that bread upon the waters which you and I are finding after
+many days.
+
+Mills arrived for the second time in New Orleans, soon after the
+celebrated battle of January 8, 1815, and cheered many hearts by his
+coming. He visited the soldiers in prison, the sick and wounded in
+the hospitals; kneeling on the bare floor where they lay, he prayed
+and talked with them, sang for them, and gave them Bibles; he
+preached in camp. The Philadelphia society had given him a quantity
+of French Bibles. The people were clamorous for them. They thronged
+the distributor's door, and remained even after the notice had been
+given that no more could be had until the following day. They came
+sometimes from great distances. In one week a thousand copies were
+given away. In one instance a Romish priest assisted in this work.
+The bishop acknowledged the deplorable state of the people, and
+preferred their having the Protestant version to none at all.
+
+When these adventurers in Christ's kingdom visited St. Louis, they
+found it a place of two thousand inhabitants,--"a tumble-down French
+village,--built mainly of wooden slabs and poles set vertically, and
+well daubed with mortar mixed with straw, though there were many log
+houses." In a school-room they delivered the first Presbyterian or
+Congregational sermons ever preached on the west side of the
+Mississippi. They were gratefully received, and had crowded
+audiences. The people would gladly have supported either one could he
+have stayed.
+
+But the immediate duty of these explorers for souls was to return to
+the churches which had sent them out, to report what they had
+discovered, and to beg that men be sent to these waste places which
+were waiting to be made to blossom. All New England was roused to
+effort by their appeal, and the next year ten or twelve men responded
+to the summons.
+
+In 1848 the word "gold" was whispered in California and heard all
+over the world. The gold-hunters pressed forward from every corner of
+the earth. It was not thought a hard thing to turn one's back on
+home, friends and country, for the sake of gold, though that
+glittering promise was, to most of those who searched, like the bag
+at the end of the rainbow, and all the riches of this world "make
+themselves wings." "The promises of God are sure," and the riches
+which He bestows are everlasting; and yet to the call, gold and
+glory, young men answer by the thousand, while to the cry, Christ and
+a crown, they respond by the dozen! "Choose ye this day whom ye will
+serve."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+
+During these two missionary journeys the heart of our apostle was
+swelling with the woes of the sin-bound, and his brain contriving for
+their release. Upon his return he settled in New York state, and
+spent two busy years in working out his purposes. While waiting for
+their maturity he was most of the time in the large cities,
+particularly New York. Here he spent what might have been leisure, in
+visiting the poor in the neglected districts. He also wrote many
+letters; and in the churches, and everywhere, and upon everybody,
+urged attention to the world's great needs, and their great duties.
+As the result of this planning, waiting and working, he was permitted
+to see formed the American Bible Society, and the United Foreign
+Missionary Society. On the subject of city evangelization, he
+advanced ideas which we at this striving time might well study.
+
+The entire destitution of religious privileges which Mills had
+witnessed in the West and South, and the great desire of the people
+for the word of God, with their inability to supply themselves, made
+him eager for the formation of a National Bible Society, which should
+be large enough and strong enough to supply such great want. He had
+some hope of having the matter brought out at the general assembly of
+the Presbyterian church; but it was thought best to have it come
+about through the existing Bible societies, rather than have it bear
+the features of any denomination.
+
+The matter was kept constantly before influential people by this
+indefatigable man, and at last on the 8th of May, 1816, delegates
+from the different Bible societies of the United States convened in
+New York city, and resolved unanimously "to establish, without delay,
+a General Bible Institution, for the circulation of the Holy
+Scriptures, without note or comment." Before closing their sessions a
+constitution was adopted, managers elected, and an address issued to
+the people of the United States, informing them of the project, and
+inviting their sympathy and coöperation in this benevolent scheme.
+
+This was a great day to Mills, and those who saw him, sitting apart,
+watching with intense eagerness the deliberations of the convention,
+long remembered his delighted face. But how must the resources and
+usefulness of this society have exceeded even his fond hopes!
+
+As its first depository, it shared the office room of its agent. From
+time to time it was forced to move to larger quarters, until the year
+1853, when it located permanently, in its well-known building, The
+Bible House, on Astor Place, New York city. This edifice is of brick,
+six stories high, and occupies a solid block. In its first year, the
+society received $37,779, and issued 6,410 volumes; in its seventieth
+year (1886) its receipts were $523,910, and it issued 1,437,440
+volumes. In the Bible House, the working force--manufacturing and
+executive--numbers about 250. The auxiliaries which directly and
+indirectly center in this society, number about 7,000.
+
+From this great tree and its many branches, the leaves have been sent
+for the healing of nations. There are now but few countries where
+there are any impediments to the free circulation of the Scriptures.
+In our own land the society has afforded relief to its feeble
+auxiliaries, has supplied destitute Sabbath-schools, has endeavored
+to place the Bible in the common schools, to distribute it among
+soldiers and seamen, to furnish hotels, steamboats, railroads, and
+humane and criminal institutions. By it, the Bible has been
+circulated among immigrants, the destitute poor, the freedmen, the
+Chinese, and (in the Douay version) among Romanists. At four
+different periods the society has made exploration among the states
+and territories, to search and supply the destitute. Proportionately
+the number of families without the word of God is much smaller now
+than when the society was organized, notwithstanding the enormous
+growths in population.
+
+The society has attempted to send the Bible to all the inhabitants of
+the earth, accessible to its agents. It has established depots in
+almost every place where the American churches have missions. It
+circulates the Scriptures in more than eighty different languages and
+dialects. In 1856, in compliance with a special request, and by means
+of a special gift, the Society's Imperial Quarto English Bible, bound
+with extraordinary care, enclosed in a rosewood case, and accompanied
+by a courteous letter, was sent to each of the reigning monarchs and
+other chief magistrates of the world.
+
+Before the art of printing, the Bible was the most expensive book in
+the world. So late as the American Revolution, in its cheapest
+edition a volume could not be purchased for less than two dollars.
+This society now furnishes a copy of the entire book for twenty-five
+cents. It has made the Bible the cheapest book in the world.
+
+Mills, anxious to see every wheel set in motion for the advancement
+of Christ's kingdom, was restless because of the inaction of the
+Presbyterian church in the cause of Foreign Missions; again by his
+personal influence upon prominent men, another plan was matured. A
+committee was appointed by the General Assembly to confer with
+committees from the Dutch and Scotch churches, and a new society was
+formed, called the United Foreign Missionary Society. After a few
+years of efficient service this society was merged with the American
+Board, yielding to it its name and affairs.
+
+While so busy with these schemes just referred to, Mr. Mills was
+collecting all possible information in regard to South America. He
+desired to have the way opened for a mission in that country, and was
+willing to go himself to make the needed investigations. But it was
+seven years later when the American Board sent the first men to that
+field.
+
+In spite of these great enterprises, which must have been so
+absorbing of time and energy, this busy man found opportunity and
+strength to search out the squalid back streets of New York, and to
+go from house to house of its wretched inhabitants, giving sympathy,
+speaking words of Christian love and instruction, and where they
+would receive them leaving the word of God and good books.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS
+AFRICA.
+
+
+Abraham Lincoln, when a young man, made a journey into the South. Of
+all the impressions which those new scenes made upon him, the one
+deepest and strongest was that of slavery. It filled him with
+loathing, but kindled a zeal which never slumbered, until it cost his
+priceless life.
+
+It was such a spark which became a fire in the breast of Mills. What
+he saw and what he heard, during those southern tours, made him a
+willing martyr for the sake of Africa's sons and daughters. Their
+degradation made him ready to endure all things if only he could
+pierce the black cloud overshading them. His first effort resulted in
+a school, called the African School, for training young colored men
+to teach and preach to their own race. He then lent essential aid in
+the formation of the American Colonization Society.
+
+This society was composed of noble-minded men whose pitying attention
+was fastened upon the bondage, afflictions and heathenism of their
+black brothers, in this so called free land.
+
+Their aim was to furnish a refuge, in their own country, for those
+who were emancipated here, and it was their hope that such a scheme
+would do much toward the abolition of slavery.
+
+Their first effort was the collection of information: first, in
+regard to the condition of the slave here, that they might enlist
+general sympathy in their work. In a letter written by Mr. Mills
+about this matter, he said: "State facts. Facts will always produce
+an effect, at least on pious minds. You can easily possess yourself
+of facts, the bare recital of which will make the heart bleed." From
+the extensive observations he had made in the South, and by having
+the subject so long in his mind, he was very ready to "state facts,"
+and did so in every time and place. The information needed, in the
+second place, by the society was in regard to a suitable location for
+the colony, and the methods which would be required to obtain it. Mr.
+Mills was made their agent.
+
+He chose as a colleague, to share his responsibility, the Rev. Mr.
+Burgess. After some months of preparation they left America, planning
+to visit England first for information and assistance and then
+Africa, for the accomplishment of their errand.
+
+His father says of the "good-bye" which he bade him, at the time,
+that "he enjoyed peculiar peace of mind, committing himself entirely
+to the guidance and protection of the Almighty." He, who had endured
+so many hardships for Christ's sake, knew in whom he trusted.
+
+After about two weeks' sailing, they encountered a fearful storm and
+had need of all their faith. The wind blew furiously for thirty-six
+hours. The captain ordered the masts cut away and the decks cleared.
+He remained on deck, calmly giving orders, until they were driven
+almost upon a ledge of rocks. Despairing of any safety in the ship,
+he abandoned her, taking his children with him in a small boat. Some
+of those left on board the ship, in their agony of peril, were in the
+cabin, beseeching the mercy of Him who rules the violent sea. Others
+were on deck, where Mr. Burgess, praying aloud, commended their souls
+to God.
+
+All unexpectedly, a counter current bore them into deeper water, past
+the rocks. All exclaimed, "It is the work of God!" A gloomy night
+they spent tossing on the sea, but in the morning quiet came. The
+mate assumed control, and by using what crippled forces they could
+command, they found their way to a harbor of France.
+
+From there they proceeded to London. They were cordially received by
+a number of distinguished men and officials. Among them Mr.
+Wilberforce and Mr. Zachary Macauly, the former governor of Sierra
+Leone, who introduced them to the Duke of Gloucester. They met
+everywhere with Christian sympathy, and the kindest offers of
+service. Having obtained letters to the governors of colonies in
+Africa, they left England for the west coast, February 3, 1818.
+
+This voyage was a pleasant one, and brought them in about thirty days
+to the mouth of the Gambia. They anchored near the village of St.
+Mary's, and went to inspect this and other settlements. They made the
+acquaintance of the governors and the Europeans, everywhere gathering
+useful and pertinent facts.
+
+They proceeded south, visiting towns and villages, and calling upon
+the kings and head men. On these occasions they were received in the
+"palaver house," by the chiefs arranged in true African style,
+regardless of taste. One was described as wearing "a silver-laced
+coat, a superb three-cornered hat, blue-bafta trousers, considerably
+the worse for wear, and no stockings or shoes." The insignia of
+royalty were a silver-headed cane in one hand, a horse-tail in the
+other. Before the palaver could go on, the hosts must receive
+presents, and as their guests had oftenest been slave traders, rum
+and tobacco had become essentials.
+
+By means of interpreters they made known their friendly feelings, and
+that they had come from America. "That wise and good men had agreed
+to help the black people who wished to come to this country; that the
+design was a good one, and would promote the best interests of the
+black people both in America and Africa; that if they would sell or
+give tracts of their unimproved lands, the people who came would
+introduce more knowledge of the arts and agriculture, would buy such
+things as they had to sell, and would sell to them such things as
+they wanted;" that the children were to be educated; that they had
+come as messengers of peace and good tidings, bringing no weapons in
+their hands--that they did not desire war.
+
+They found that African kings knew the art of being slothful in
+business. They seemed to have no idea of dispatch, but would talk for
+hours without coming to the point. In general their reception was
+cordial, and, in some instances, more than that. Land was offered
+them in five different places. Their greatest obstacle was the
+unsavory reputation of the white men who had preceded them,--the
+slave-traders and merchants,--men who had been gross, violent and
+rapacious. One of the natives who saw Mr. Mills and Mr. Burgess in
+prayer, said he "never knew before that white men prayed!"
+
+They found that the natives would not be unwilling to give up their
+superstitions, and were gratified at the prospect of education for
+their children; that they would be glad to have God's word, and the
+pure religion it teaches. One old man with white hair and beard,
+wished for this good time to come at once; he wanted to know more
+about God's book before he died.
+
+The observations and inquiries which had been so conscientiously made
+by the agents, enabled them to report to their society that the
+project was both practicable and expedient. After due consideration
+of the instructions and recommendations of experienced foreigners,
+and the details of exploration, which this report furnished them, the
+society thought it most wise to proceed with the undertaking.
+
+After seeking needed individual and governmental aid, and perfecting
+so far as possible the organization, the first colony was sent to
+Africa in 1820. They endured the discouraging vicissitudes which are
+generally incident to new settlements, and in a few years success
+seemed certain.
+
+In 1847 LIBERIA became an established free republic. The constitution
+is modeled upon our own.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE LAST JOURNEY--BRIG "SUCCESS," FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1818.
+
+
+"We have taken an affectionate leave of the clergymen, the civil
+officers, and the colonists of Sierra Leone. We are embarked for the
+United States, by way of England; and the continent of Africa recedes
+from our view."
+
+This is the last entry in Mills' journal. Three months had been spent
+in Africa; months of unsparing toil, under a scorching sun, amid
+depressing pagan scenes. But the undertaking had been reasonably
+successful, and tired bodies had been upheld by grateful hearts.
+
+On shipboard once more, with faces turned homeward, opportunity came
+for fatigue to assert itself. The strength of Mills, never great at
+the best, began to fail. A deep spirituality, which had possessed him
+through all the journey, grew stronger and stronger. And as they were
+wafted, day by day, nearer home, it became evident that his spirit,
+too, was nearing its desired haven. Fever burned his body; but at
+last eternal health claimed his soul. Under a glowing sunset, he was
+buried, to wait until the sea surrenders its dead.
+
+The one great desire of his life, "to sit in some quiet corner and
+teach the perishing," was unfulfilled; but God through him had sent,
+and yet sends, many teachers to many far corners.
+
+Thirty-five years, only, of mortal life was allotted him in which to
+accomplish so much; yet it was time enough,--not because of his
+uncommon gifts, but because he knew the secret of well doing. He did
+not attempt to be the origin--the source, but gloried in being the
+channel through which God poured His great thoughts. No time was lost
+by obstructions; the dredge that kept the channel free was
+prayer--private, social, public, constant prayer, not for himself,
+but for God's glory.
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818, by 
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+Title: A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
+       [Samuel John Mills]
+
+Author: Elisabeth G. Stryker
+
+Release Date: September 19, 2009 [EBook #30026]
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+
+<h2>MISSIONARY ANNALS.</h2>
+<center><small>(A SERIES.)</small></center>
+<br>
+<hr width="150" align="center">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h4>A STORY OF</h4>
+<h1>ONE SHORT LIFE,</h1>
+<h4>1783 to 1818.</h4>
+<br>
+<hr width="150" align="center">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center><small>BY</small></center>
+<h4>ELISABETH G. STRYKER.</h4>
+<br>
+<hr width="150" align="center">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center>CHICAGO:</center>
+<center><small>W<small>OMAN'S</small> P<small>RESBYTERIAN</small> B<small>OARD OF</small> F<small>OREIGN</small>
+M<small>ISSIONS OF THE</small> N<small>ORTHWEST</small>,<br>
+Room 48, McCormick Block.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center>C<small>OPYRIGHT</small>, 1888,<br><br>
+<small>BY<br><br>
+W<small>OMAN'S</small> P<small>RESBYTERIAN</small> B<small>OARD OF</small> M<small>ISSIONS<br>
+OF THE</small> N<small>ORTHWEST</small>.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CONTENTS.</h3>
+<hr width="75" align="center">
+<br>
+<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" summary="table of contents">
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap1">I.</a></td>
+		<td><small>ANCESTRY&mdash;BIRTH&mdash;BOYHOOD&mdash;CONVERSION.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap2">II.</a></td>
+		<td><small>COLLEGE&mdash;THE HAYSTACK&mdash;EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN MISSIONS.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap3">III.</a></td>
+		<td><small>OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII&mdash;IN AMERICA.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap4">IV.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE SANDWICH ISLANDS WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap5">V.</a></td>
+		<td><small>MILLS AT ANDOVER&mdash;THE AMERICAN BOARD.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap6">VI.</a></td>
+		<td><small>AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap7">VII.</a></td>
+		<td><small>MILLS' SECOND TOUR.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap8">VIII.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY&mdash;THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap9">IX.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY&mdash;MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS AFRICA.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+	<tr>
+		<td align="right" valign="top"><a href="#chap10">X.</a></td>
+		<td><small>THE LAST JOURNEY.</small></td>
+	</tr>
+</table>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>As I write, I have in my mind a row of intelligent boyish faces.
+Manly souls look through bright eyes. My heart responds to the beats
+of affection beneath jacket and cut-away.</p>
+
+<p>I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly
+graces are dawning. I feel the warmth of pure young hearts beginning
+to swell with generous desires.</p>
+
+<p>These are my real friends. Beyond them I see rows and rows of boys
+and girls whose sympathies and interest I would gladly claim.</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>PREFACE.</h3>
+<hr width="75" align="center">
+<br>
+<p>Those among us interested in the young people, the boys and girls of
+our Churches, somewhat realize the lack of material wherewith to
+stimulate and nourish these young workers. The apiarist studies the
+nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers
+that "the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference" in
+the bees. We have long watched our boys and girls, and either we do
+not care what they yield, or we are dull not to notice that what
+surrounds them and enters into their minds, is surely deciding their
+natures. White clover honey can only be made from white clover
+blossoms. What they read and what they may be induced to read
+concerns us as mission workers. Individual tastes make many by-paths
+in the field of literature, but the girls all enjoy the windings of
+romance, and the boys delight in the highway of adventure. "But,"
+they say or think, "Missions, their history and progress are so
+stupid, they have no decent heroes and heroines. We like Robinson
+Crusoe, and Little Women, and the Arabian Nights!" But do we not know
+that the stories of the lives of some of our missionaries, well told,
+may stand side by side, upon the book-shelves and in the hearts of
+our young people, with the pages of De Foe and Louise Alcott? Many a
+boy and girl, charmed by the life and fortune of some unreal, and
+oftentimes unworthy, hero, has attempted to make copy in his or her
+own life. Missionary lives are not lacking in the spirit, adventure
+and romance which are so fascinating. With these ideals in their
+minds, may we not expect followers of the Judsons, the Moffats, the
+Fiskes and the Rankins?</p>
+
+<p>The writer, who has humbly undertaken to re-tell an old tale, is
+neither a De Foe nor an Alcott. She finds she can borrow neither of
+their pens. Her own, conscious of its inexperience, finds its only
+relief in the fact that the story is its own strength.</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h1>SAMUEL J. MILLS.</h1>
+<br><a name="chap1"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER I.</h3>
+
+<center><small>ANCESTRY&mdash;BIRTH&mdash;BOYHOOD&mdash;CONVERSION.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>Our country is quietly enjoying the benefits of a great activity.
+Foreign Missions are still feeling a noble impulse, and the origin of
+this force was, under God, in the heart and brain of Samuel J. Mills.</p>
+
+<p>It is a name known to us, but a history almost forgotten. Only upon
+the shelves of some antiquarian, or in the undisturbed library of
+some old homestead can a volume be found bearing the title "Mills'
+Memoirs." Take it down, blow the dust from the leaves yellow with
+sixty-seven years, and you will find the narrative related in the
+stately, old-time style, and somewhat laudatory and expansive.</p>
+
+<p>He had no son, as Adoniram Judson had, gladly to record the details
+of his busy life. The writer was Dr. Gardiner Spring, who laments
+having failed in the attempt to obtain what appeared to him to be
+important information. We are thankful to him for gathering even
+these rare fragments.</p>
+
+<p>From a sketch of Salmon Giddings, the Damon Memorial, a letter from a
+relative of Mills, and the life of Henry Obookiah have come a few
+incidents and facts, but mainly in the record of Dr. Spring have we
+found our Story of One Short Life. Such hid treasure should find the
+light, even though quarried by unskillful hands.</p>
+
+<p>Biographies are apt to seem discouraging, in the beginning; the
+attention being riveted upon the supposed hero, meets with a shock in
+finding it has been following the history of his great-grandfather.
+The scattered energies are then directed upon the grandfather, only
+to meet with a second delay. Again recovering, and following the
+father's fortunes, the son, the subject of the work, is at last
+introduced.</p>
+
+<p>The great-grandfather of our hero must be brought in just long enough
+to answer one question. He was once asked, "How did you educate four
+sons at Yale College, and give each a profession?" His reply was,
+"Almighty God did it, with the help of my wife." The grandfather (of
+our hero) was drowned while some of his children were still young.
+His widow, committing their babes to the God of the fatherless,
+especially offered for His service, a son named Samuel John. He
+became a minister, and for many years was settled in Torringford,
+Connecticut. He was eminent for his ability and character. Mrs. Stowe
+said of him&mdash;"He was one ingrain New Englander. Of all the marvels
+that astonished my childhood, there is none I remember to this day
+with so much interest as Father Mills." This was the name by which he
+was extensively known. His wife was a woman exemplary and devout.</p>
+
+<p>Being assured that the three preceding generations were
+commandment-keeping, we shall see how the Lord showed mercy unto the
+fourth. Almighty God and a true mother secure for many a man's sons,
+not only education, but large efficiency and honor.</p>
+
+<p>The seventh child, born April 21st, 1783, in this Torringford home,
+was a son, named after his father, Samuel John. The child grew to be
+a mighty instrument in God's hand, which He in His wisdom selected,
+knowing the fineness of the material with which he dealt. That we too
+may know something of the tempering of the steel, we are permitted a
+reverent glance into that pious mother's bosom. Before the birthday
+came she continually dedicated the little life beneath her heart to
+the God who is pleased to accept such gifts. During all his childhood
+he received the most careful Christian training. Nourished in such a
+home-garden, and shined on by such mother-light, we cannot wonder
+that the child grew toward the Sun, and that the roots of religious
+character struck deep and spread wide.</p>
+
+<p>When but a little child he showed an unusual concern of conscience.
+At fifteen the town in which he lived was greatly aroused and
+revived. His friends and acquaintances received the blessing, and he
+was deeply interested, but the revival passed, leaving him with a
+bitter, rebellious feeling in his heart.</p>
+
+<p>About this time, one fine cold winter morning, a merry sleigh load
+drove from his father's house. He, with his brothers, sisters and
+cousins, about eighteen in all, went to spend a few days with his
+uncle in West Hartford. Samuel had recently come into the possession
+of a fine farm. He was gay and ambitious. His companions fearing his
+good fortune might make him feel a "little too high minded," sought
+to tease him. The evening before their return, after eating nuts and
+apples, they agreed to have a little singing. They struck up "Hark,
+from the Tombs a Doleful Sound," to the tune, Bangor. They sang it
+slowly and solemnly, now and then casting at him glances from their
+mischievous eyes. He sat a silent listener, while their song, sung in
+fun, made an earnest impression of which he could not rid himself.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after his farm was sold, and at eighteen he determined to go to
+Litchfield and study in the Academy. As he was leaving home, his
+mother's anxious heart could not let him go without enquiring for his
+soul's health. Other mothers know the pain she suffered, when he told
+her "for two years I have been sorry God ever made me." She replied
+to him as her wise heart prompted her, and sent him on his way. She
+went where all mothers of boys must so often go, to her knees, alone
+with God.</p>
+
+<p>He had not gone far on his journey when he met a Friend. It was the
+Good Shepherd, whom that mother's urgent prayer had sent searching
+for the wanderer. It was as if he had met Christ in his path. He
+looked up at the great trees and down at the blossoms, and in
+everything saw God. He became so impressed with the perfections of
+the Holy One he had so long resisted, that he lost sight of himself.
+He sat down in the woods to wonder and to pray. It was not until some
+time after that he realized any change in himself, and not until he
+returned from Litchfield did his father perceive it. His conversion
+was thorough. Not only was he turned about,&mdash;his face God-ward
+instead of self-ward,&mdash;but he was impelled toward "those sitting in
+darkness." In his childhood, from his mother's lips, he often heard
+stories from the lives of Brainerd, Eliot, and other missionaries. He
+heard her prayers for them and their great undertakings. Once he
+heard her say, "I have consecrated this child to the service of God
+as a missionary." Now it was his joy to follow those noble examples,
+and to fulfill his part in the plans of God and his mother for him.
+His parents approved of his determination, though the thought of
+separation tore their hearts. His mother said to him, "I cannot bear
+to part from you, my son." When he reminded her of her vow, she burst
+into tears, and never after made complaint. To his father he said
+that he could "not conceive of any course of life in which to pass
+the rest of his days, that would prove so pleasant, as to go and
+communicate the gospel of salvation to the poor heathen."</p>
+
+<p>This desire to spread the Gospel grew to be a sublime purpose, and
+from it he never wavered. He set about his plannings, with this
+supreme end in view. Thanking God for his own salvation, he laid his
+life in God's hand, imploring Him to use it for those who had as yet
+no knowledge of that mercy. The Lord took him from the plough, as he
+did Elisha. He left the field for the college.</p>
+<br><a name="chap2"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER II.</h3>
+
+<center><small>COLLEGE&mdash;THE HAYSTACK&mdash;EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN
+MISSIONS.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>He entered Williams College in the spring of 1806. During his first
+visit home in June, he connected himself with his father's church. A
+college course means to some young men four years of frolic, or
+worse. To others it is an opportunity to cram knowledge, that shall
+by-and-by astound the round world and they that dwell therein. To
+one, at least, it was the time for choosing "smooth stones" for his
+combat with the giant adversary, whom he was brave enough to meet
+alone, if need be, "in the name of the Lord of Hosts."</p>
+
+<p>As a scholar he was not brilliant, but as a Christian he was "a
+bright and shining light." To serve God was the highest aim of his
+life. First of all, he served Him upon his knees. He used to pray
+often and earnestly, alone and with others. He pursued his studies
+for the after use he might make of them, not for his own
+accomplishment. As he visited his friends in their rooms, and walked
+with them through the groves, the subject dearest to his heart was
+oftenest the theme of his conversation. To one friend he said:
+"Though you and I are very little beings, we must not rest satisfied
+till we have made our influence extend to the remotest corner of this
+ruined world."</p>
+
+<p>His life was so consistent, his disposition so sweet, his manners so
+winning that every one was his friend. Those who had been unfaithful
+to their vows were reproved, and those opposed to religion were
+induced to follow his example. During his first year there was a
+revival, which seemed to come in answer to his earnest prayers. Many
+of his comrades became Christians, and so earnestly that they laid
+aside or sanctified their old ambitions, and prepared to spread
+through the earth the fire kindled by this devoted youth.</p>
+
+<p>A mission band of boys were examined as to their knowledge of Samuel
+Mills. "Where was he born?" asked the leader. "Under a haystack!"
+replied a small boy. Had the question been, Where was the American
+Board of Foreign Missions born? the answer would not have been so far
+from the way. Its baptismal naming came some years later, but under a
+stack of hay in a meadow, near Williams College, it was born, nursed
+and prayed over.</p>
+
+<p>About fourteen years earlier foreign missionary organization had
+begun across the Atlantic. On this side, the attention of Christians
+had been occupied with their new homes and the needs of the destitute
+near at hand. There were societies of domestic missions; but no
+scheme to touch hands God-blessed with hands idol-cursed, had ever
+been devised before the Lord of both put it into the heart of Mills.
+"God called him out of the midst of the bush." The bush was this
+haystack, but the place became "holy ground." The Lord said: "I have
+surely seen the affliction of my people, and have heard their cry."
+"Come now, therefore, and I will send thee."</p>
+
+<p>This commission filled his soul. He gathered a few of his friends in
+a grove, to tell them his convictions and his hopes. What was his
+surprise and joy to find that the "Angel of the Lord" had appeared to
+them also. A sudden thunder storm came upon them here, but his
+retreat, his place of safety, was near by. He led them under the
+haystack, and there they talked together, and with God. And there
+they continued to meet through two seasons, and finally formed
+themselves into the first Foreign Missionary Society of this
+continent. Its object was "to effect in the persons of its members a
+mission to the heathen."</p>
+
+<p>From the spot where the haystack once stood, now rises a marble
+shaft, bearing aloft a globe, underneath which is inscribed:</p>
+
+<center>"T<small>HE</small> F<small>IELD IS THE</small> W<small>ORLD</small>."</center><br>
+<center>"The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions, 1806."</center><br>
+
+<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="list1">
+	<tr><td>S<small>AMUEL</small> J. M<small>ILLS</small>,<br>
+		J<small>AMES</small> R<small>ICHARDS</small>,<br>
+		F<small>RANCIS</small> L. R<small>OBBINS</small>,<br>
+		H<small>ARVEY</small> L<small>OOMIS</small>,<br>
+		B<small>YRAM</small> G<small>REEN</small>.</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>At every commencement, the college president leads to this monument a
+procession of alumni, students, and guests. Prayer is offered that
+the spirit of missions may still prevail at Williams, and that the
+traditions of the past may be maintained.</p>
+
+<p>In these years public opinion was decidedly opposed to the enterprise
+of these young men. Even good men thought their zeal extravagant and
+expected it soon to subside. In order to arouse sympathy and a right
+sentiment, they devised various means. They discussed their projects
+with Christian people. They distributed missionary sermons. A list
+was made of the names of distinguished ministers, to whom these young
+men made frequent visits, urging their suit. Among them, the first to
+take fire, was Dr. Worcester. With one of them, Dr. Griffin, Mills
+asked to be permitted to study theology. Said the Doctor: "I had
+always refused such applications, but from the love I bore to him, I
+agreed to criticise one sermon a week. After that exercise he would
+commonly sit and draw letters very moderately and cautiously from his
+pocket, reading passages to me on some benevolent project. At length
+I perceived that <i>studying divinity</i> with me had been quite a
+secondary object, that his chief object was to get me engaged to
+execute his plans. As soon as I discovered that, I told him to bring
+out his letters and all his plans, without reserve."</p>
+
+<p>Mills became convinced that they could not expect help from the
+Churches unless the number was increased of young men ready to devote
+their lives to this cause. He and his friends then separated for the
+purpose of establishing societies in other colleges. Mills went to
+Yale, hoping there to find kindred spirits. This was not the case,
+but God had sent him for another purpose, and that to know Obookiah,
+a heathen boy from the Sandwich Islands. This acquaintance greatly
+increased his zeal.</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes a little seed, wafted by the wind, is borne far from its
+mother plant to take root in a foreign soil: but its fruit may be
+returned whence it came. This little lonely heathen child, blown by
+seemingly cruel and adverse winds, was tossed upon our Christian
+shores by the good hand of God. The ship which brought him touched
+other and idolatrous lands, but he was not to put his feet down till
+they could be planted in the right place.</p>
+
+<p>That his life touched Mills' life, both being quickened, is perhaps
+reason enough for giving here a portion of Obookiah's history and
+that of his native land, if there were not another reason, and that
+the opportunity, here afforded, of following a stream of influence to
+its sea.</p>
+<br><a name="chap3"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER III.</h3>
+
+<center><small>OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII&mdash;IN AMERICA.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>Henry Obookiah was born in Hawaii, about the year 1792. When about
+twelve years old, two parties contending for dominion, disturbed the
+peace of the island. He alone survived the persecution of his family.
+He was captured and carried home by the man who killed his parents,
+but finally made his way to an uncle. Though he was well treated, he
+suffered from loneliness. He said of himself, "When I was at play
+with other children, after we had made an end of playing, they return
+to their parents: but I was returned into tears, for I have no home,
+neither father nor mother. Poor boy am I."</p>
+
+<p>He determined to go to some other country, and forget his sorrow. The
+captain of an American vessel showed him kindness, and consented to
+take him on board. He brought him to America, and took him to his own
+home in New Haven. Henry was a clumsy, stupid-looking boy at this
+time, his appearance not revealing the undeveloped depths of his
+nature. He made the acquaintance of some of the students at Yale
+College, and of the Rev. E. W. Dwight. These friends becoming
+interested in his welfare, offered to teach him. He accepted their
+aid with avidity, and made wonderful progress, at the same time
+becoming more and more lovable and attractive.</p>
+
+<p>A fun-loving disposition soon showed itself. He had great difficulty
+in pronouncing the letter <i>r</i>, giving it the sound of <i>l</i>. Every day
+his teacher tried to help him, saying, "try, Obookiah, it is <i>very
+easy</i>." This seemed to amuse the boy greatly, though as yet he could
+not express himself in English. Some time after, when he could speak
+more readily, he was describing to his teacher some of the customs of
+his native land. Clasping his hands together, and adjusting his
+thumbs, he formed a cup which he raised to his lips to show how his
+countrymen drank from a spring. His instructor tried to do the same,
+but before he could reach his mouth with his hands the cup would be
+inverted so that the contents, had there been any, would have been
+spilled. Obookiah laughed heartily and said, "<i>try</i>, Mr.
+Dwight, it is <i>very easy!</i>"</p>
+
+<p>One day he mimicked the gait of some of his friends so cleverly, that
+there was no mistaking whom he intended to personate. His teacher
+then mocked his own awkward style, when he exclaimed several times:
+"me walk so?" Being assured that it was true, he rolled upon the
+floor until his mirth exhausted his strength.</p>
+
+<p>After being instructed about the true God, idol worship seemed to him
+ridiculous. He said, "Hawaii gods! They <i>wood</i>,&mdash;<i>burn</i>. Me go home,
+put 'em in a fire, burn 'em up. They no <i>see</i>, no <i>hear</i>, <i>no</i>
+anything." Then added, "We make <i>them</i>. Our God," looking up, "He
+make us."</p>
+
+<p>After Mr. Mills arrived in New Haven he became a friend of Mr.
+Dwight's, and being often in his room, occasionally heard this boy
+recite. He became greatly attached to him, and began to cherish a
+plan for his future. He wanted to see Obookiah a Christian, educated,
+and then a missionary to his native land.</p>
+
+<p>One evening Mr. Mills had not been long in Mr. Dwight's room, when
+Obookiah came in with a very gloomy face. He said he had no place to
+live; Mr. &mdash;&mdash; didn't want him any more, and Miss &mdash;&mdash; had threatened
+to take away his new clothes. Mr. Mills told him he would take him to
+his own home, and that he had clothes enough for both. This cheered
+the poor, disconsolate fellow, who soon went with Mr. Mills to
+Torringford, and was placed under the "care of those whose
+benevolence was without a bond or check, or a limit to confine it."
+Here he spent a part of the year 1810, and was treated wisely and
+affectionately. Mrs. Mills taught him the Catechism, and her son
+Jeremiah assisted him in his studies. At different times, and
+frequently, their house was his home.</p>
+
+<p>He became gentle and refined in his manner, a Bible-loving, earnest,
+prayerful Christian. His friends who had been so careful in the
+training of his mind and heart, had not neglected his hands. He was
+taught much that was useful and practical, particularly in farming.
+He surprised all by the quickness and eagerness with which he
+learned. He was both inquisitive and acquisitive to a remarkable
+degree. He persisted in knowing and getting, that he might impart
+what he had gained to his own countrymen. To return to them for their
+enlightenment, was his consuming desire.</p>
+
+<p>He visited many families, and many of the churches of New England,
+always creating a deep interest in his mission. Many people who had
+affirmed that the heathen could never be reclaimed from their low
+estate, were forced to change their opinions after seeing and knowing
+Obookiah, and were inspired to pray and give for his and other
+unevangelized races.</p>
+
+<p>The presence of Obookiah in this country, as well as of other heathen
+youth, together with the desire to educate some of our own Indians,
+led to the formation of the Foreign Mission School, at Cornwall,
+Mass. This school was under the care of the American Board ten years.
+Its pupils were from many different nations. In 1826 it was
+discontinued, for by this time the missions were able to educate the
+young at their several stations.</p>
+
+<p>Obookiah was pursuing his studies here, when, in the beginning of the
+year 1818, he was stricken with typhus fever, and suffered several
+weeks. On the 17th of February, 1818, he shook hands with all his
+companions present, and with perfect composure addressed to them the
+parting salutation of his native language, "Alloah ò e"&mdash;"my love be
+with you."</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Stone, in whose house he died, and who cared for him with
+Christian kindness during his sickness, said, "This had been one of
+the happiest and most profitable periods of her life; that she had
+been more than rewarded for her cares and watchings by day and night,
+in being permitted to witness his excellent example, and to hear his
+godly conversation."</p>
+
+<p>Almost immediately after his death, missionaries, inspired by his
+life, hastened to accomplish his cherished purpose, the establishment
+of a mission in the Sandwich Islands. Mills was far from home, but
+returning at the time, not knowing Obookiah had died, he said to a
+friend, "If it please God that I may arrive safely, I think that I
+shall take Obookiah and go to the Sandwich Islands and there I will
+end my life."</p>
+
+<p>From that day to this, missionaries and missions, schools, churches
+and Christians have multiplied, till all those islands name the name
+of Christ.</p>
+<br><a name="chap4"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER IV.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE SANDWICH ISLES WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.</small></center>
+<br>
+<center><small>"Surely the isles shall wait for me."</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<p>The missionaries found upon these islands naked savages, without
+books, education, or courts of justice. The people were slaves,
+governed arbitrarily by chiefs. It was a nation of debauchees,
+thieves and drunkards. There were no marriage laws. Two-thirds of the
+children born were destroyed. If an infant was ailing or troublesome,
+the mother scooped a hole in the ground, covered the child with earth
+and trampled out its life. The aged and infirm were taken to the brow
+of a precipice and pushed over. The sick were removed to such a
+distance that their groans could not annoy, and left to die. The
+insane were stoned to death.</p>
+
+<p>God opened the way for the missionaries by a revolution which did
+away with idolatry, but did nothing for the uplifting of society.
+Some of the noblest specimens of our American manhood have devoted
+their lives to these desolate, far-away creatures. The mention of one
+will suffice as a sample of the salt that purified those bitter and
+filthy waters.</p>
+
+<p>When he stepped on shore at Hilo, in 1832, it was to stay till his
+work was finished&mdash;and he lived beyond the three score and ten. Such
+a life is a rebuke to the restlessness of many modern workers. For
+forty-two years he labored patiently in pressing himself and what he
+knew upon Hawaiian youth&mdash;nearly a thousand in all&mdash;many of whom are
+now pastors, leading lawyers, men of affairs, missionaries to
+Micronesia, and the men who stand for righteousness in the native
+churches. Great events and advances in science were exciting his
+native land, but he worked on, struggling for things unseen and
+eternal. Amid uninspiring surroundings, and performing many menial
+duties, he led a high spiritual and intellectual life, not seeking
+honor, but service&mdash;thereby gaining honor, and the "rest that
+remaineth."</p>
+
+<p>As for the results of such consecration, wisdom and work, the facts
+are a marvel in history. Any prophecy in regard to them would have
+been thought a wild dream. These islanders have taken their place
+among the Christian nations. Marriage is considered honorable, the
+family established, as well as schools, churches and a government,
+whose constitution ordains that "no law shall be enacted at variance
+with the word of the Lord Jehovah, or with the general spirit of His
+word."</p>
+
+<p>In proportion to the population, there are more readers than in
+Boston. The proportion of true Christians is as great as anywhere in
+Christendom. They are decently clad, their homes are comfortable,
+even sometimes going so far as to possess a melodeon and a
+sewing-machine! They have progressed in agriculture, commerce, the
+industries, literature and the arts. It is a regenerated nation.</p>
+
+<p>The American Board has erased this mission from its list and
+transferred all responsibility to the Hawaiian Evangelical
+Association.</p>
+<br><a name="chap5"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER V.</h3>
+
+<center><small>MILLS AT ANDOVER&mdash;THE AMERICAN BOARD.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>From Yale College, Mills went to Andover to study theology. Soon
+after entering, his dear mother died. His grief was passionate. He
+mourned for the loss of her face, her voice, her prayers, but not as
+one "without hope."</p>
+
+<p>At Andover he met some of his former friends, and found new ones
+whose hearts the Lord had stirred&mdash;Newell, Judson, Nott, Hall, Mills!
+Names to shout at the sleeping saints of this our day! Lives to
+uphold to the view of our self-pleasing generation! These men
+organized a second missionary society, similar to the one at
+Williams. They met to pray and plan. Their prayers were answered and
+their plans resulted in the formation of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions.</p>
+
+<p>If the objections made to their plans were here rehearsed, the
+arguments would sound very familiar; they are the same, in spite of
+their repeated death-blows, that array themselves against the plan of
+missions to-day. The assailants of this cause are not students of
+history. There is no such thing as opposition, or even indifference,
+to Christian missions, unless there is ignorance behind it.</p>
+
+<p>These young men succeeded in gaining the sympathy and alliance of
+some of the prominent pastors, and the professors in the seminary. To
+the annual meeting of the General Association of Massachusetts, at
+Bradford, June 27, 1810, they presented the following paper:</p>
+
+<blockquote><small>The undersigned, members of the Divinity College, respectfully
+request the attention of their Reverend Fathers, convened in the
+General Association at Bradford, to the following statement and
+inquiries:</small></blockquote>
+
+<blockquote><small>They beg leave to state, that their minds have been long impressed
+with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to
+the heathen; that the impressions on their minds have induced a
+serious, and they trust a prayerful, consideration of the subject
+in its various attitudes, particularly in relation to the probable
+success and the difficulties attending such an attempt; and that
+after examining all the information which they can obtain, they
+consider themselves as devoted to this work for life, whenever God
+in his providence shall open the way.</small></blockquote>
+
+<blockquote><small>They now offer the following inquiries, on which they solicit the
+opinion and advice of the association. Whether, with their present
+views and feelings, they ought to renounce the object of missions,
+as visionary and impracticable; if not, whether they ought to
+direct their attention to the Eastern or Western world? Whether
+they may expect patronage and support from a missionary society in
+this country, or must commit themselves to the direction of a
+European society; and what preparatory measures they ought to take
+previous to actual engagement?</small></blockquote>
+
+<blockquote><small>The undersigned, feeling their youth and inexperience, look up to
+their fathers in the church and respectfully solicit their advice,
+direction and prayers.</small></blockquote>
+
+<div align="right"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="list2">
+	<tr><td><small>A<small>DONIRAM</small> J<small>UDSON</small> J<small>R</small>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
+	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
+	S<small>AMUEL</small> N<small>OTT</small> J<small>R</small>.<br>
+	S<small>AMUEL</small> J. M<small>ILLS</small>.<br>
+	S<small>AMUEL</small> N<small>EWELL</small>.</small></td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+<p>The names of Rice and Richards were struck off "for fear of alarming
+the Association with too large a number."</p>
+
+<p>This paper was referred to a special committee, who indorsed the
+sentiment and submitted a plan to the association, which was carried
+into effect by the appointment of a Board of Commissioners for
+Foreign Missions.</p>
+
+<p>After much exertion and inquiry at home, Judson was sent to England
+to learn if help could be expected from the London Missionary
+Society. He found that society willing to take the young men under
+its care and support, but not ready to assist the new Board.</p>
+
+<p>The American society soon received aid within its own boundaries,
+which was a far better beginning than to be dependent upon outside
+resources. Mrs. Mary Norris, the wife of one of the founders of
+Andover Seminary, bequeathed thirty thousand dollars to the Board.
+God's Spirit generally revived the churches, opening the eyes and
+hearts of His people, their purses as well, though not many of the
+latter were well filled in those days.</p>
+
+<p>God only has a full record of the anxious courage and faith which was
+exercised by the supporters, managers, and appointees of the Board
+during those first struggling years. Under the care of this board
+Mills and his friends placed themselves, and by it most of them were
+sent out in the year 1812.</p>
+<br><a name="chap6"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER VI.</h3>
+
+<center><small>AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>From the first throb of his Christian life, the heart of Mills beat
+like a soldier's. He called out the recruits, captained the forces,
+and died in service&mdash;a hero! In his student days he had a compelling
+influence upon his classmates, and even then showed signs of
+generalship in his faculty of organizing. The establishment of the
+Foreign Mission School was largely consequent upon his suggestions;
+in the formation of the American Board he was one of the foremost
+personal instruments.</p>
+
+<p>Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn
+schemes began their struggling claim for his attention. The world
+with all its lands stretching their help-beckoning fingers, was
+persuading him. Over the home land, his and ours, he turned his
+penetrating glance. He saw occasion for vast concern, and here was
+his first response. To go first, opening the way for others through
+the tangled wilderness, was his design, his master-plot. That "divine
+ferment" at Williams College worked the good of home, as well as of
+foreign, missions.</p>
+
+<p>Having chosen a companion-spy, the Rev. John Schermerhorn, soon after
+his graduation in 1812, he went to view a goodly land, which he
+desired to have the people of God go up and possess. This tour was
+undertaken under the patronage of the Connecticut and Massachusetts
+Home Missionary Societies. Heretofore these societies had prayed and
+wept over young missionaries sent to the uncivilized wilds of Western
+New York! The plan of Mills and Schermerhorn was to travel through
+the wide territory lying between the great lakes and the Gulf of
+Mexico, to learn the moral condition of the inhabitants, and scatter
+what good they might.</p>
+
+<p>The map of this region, as published in Morse's school atlas of 1823,
+is curiously different from the maps of the present day. The state
+and territorial lines have been altered, those green, pink, and
+yellow blanks have become densely freckled and wrinkled, by the dots
+of cities and towns, and by the complicated tracery of railroads.</p>
+
+<p>These travelers did not telegraph their intended arrival, nor sleep
+and dine their way to their journey's end, on the "Flyer," and then
+rest in some palatial hotel at last. Each mounted his horse, taking
+with them by way of baggage all that was necessary for the
+trip,&mdash;tent, provisions, clothing and Bibles. They plodded through
+miry swamps, they climbed up and down almost perpendicular ledges,
+and cut their way through canebrakes with a hatchet. When they had
+creeks to cross they swam their horses. At night they camped, often
+in the rain and sometimes without food. More than once they were
+serenaded by Indian war-whoops and the howling wolves. Stopping at
+town or settlement they were made cordially at home in hut and cabin.
+In some places they perceived bright prospects, the germs of future
+cities, and were often urgently besought to stay and preach the
+gospel permanently.</p>
+
+<p>They found everywhere the Sabbath profaned, only a few good people in
+any one place, and Bibles rare possessions. In some places the people
+were longing for the Gospel. In all the leading towns they formed
+Bible societies, and everywhere preached and distributed Bibles,
+which were gladly received.</p>
+
+<p>From Nashville they went down the Cumberland and Mississippi with
+General Jackson and fifteen hundred volunteers. In New Orleans they
+gained the consent of Bishop DeBury to distribute the Scriptures in
+French to the French Romanists, who made up three-fourths of the
+population of the state. They found no Protestant church in the city.
+They here organized a Bible society, and remained several weeks to
+preach and to hold prayer-meetings.</p>
+<br><a name="chap7"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER VII.</h3>
+
+<center><small>MILLS' SECOND TOUR.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>In the year 1814 Mr. Mills having obtained the assistance of some of
+the eastern Bible societies, and having chosen as companion the Rev.
+Daniel Smith, started on another tour through the South and West.
+They went laden with Bibles and the prayers of Christian friends.
+They went through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
+In all these states they found the people "exceedingly destitute of
+religious privileges," and a "lamentable want of Bibles and
+missionaries." They found "American families who never saw a Bible,
+or heard of Jesus Christ." There was only one minister to ten
+thousand people if equally placed; but there were districts
+containing from twenty to fifty thousand "without a preacher." These
+men were light-bringers to this "valley of the shadow of death," as
+Mills called it. They found English soldiers, French Romanists,
+colored slaves, our own dear countrymen, greedy for the bread of
+life.</p>
+
+<p>They traveled more than six thousand miles; they passed through a
+variety of climates; they endured "perils in the city, perils of the
+wilderness, perils on the rivers and on the sea," that they might
+cast that bread upon the waters which you and I are finding after
+many days.</p>
+
+<p>Mills arrived for the second time in New Orleans, soon after the
+celebrated battle of January 8, 1815, and cheered many hearts by his
+coming. He visited the soldiers in prison, the sick and wounded in
+the hospitals; kneeling on the bare floor where they lay, he prayed
+and talked with them, sang for them, and gave them Bibles; he
+preached in camp. The Philadelphia society had given him a quantity
+of French Bibles. The people were clamorous for them. They thronged
+the distributor's door, and remained even after the notice had been
+given that no more could be had until the following day. They came
+sometimes from great distances. In one week a thousand copies were
+given away. In one instance a Romish priest assisted in this work.
+The bishop acknowledged the deplorable state of the people, and
+preferred their having the Protestant version to none at all.</p>
+
+<p>When these adventurers in Christ's kingdom visited St.
+Louis, they found it a place of two thousand inhabitants,&mdash;"a
+tumble-down French village,&mdash;built mainly of wooden slabs and poles
+set vertically, and well daubed with mortar mixed with straw, though
+there were many log houses." In a school-room they delivered the
+first Presbyterian or Congregational sermons ever preached on the
+west side of the Mississippi. They were gratefully received, and had
+crowded audiences. The people would gladly have supported either one
+could he have stayed.</p>
+
+<p>But the immediate duty of these explorers for souls was to return to
+the churches which had sent them out, to report what they had
+discovered, and to beg that men be sent to these waste places which
+were waiting to be made to blossom. All New England was roused to
+effort by their appeal, and the next year ten or twelve men responded
+to the summons.</p>
+
+<p>In 1848 the word "gold" was whispered in California and heard all
+over the world. The gold-hunters pressed forward from every corner of
+the earth. It was not thought a hard thing to turn one's back on
+home, friends and country, for the sake of gold, though that
+glittering promise was, to most of those who searched, like the bag
+at the end of the rainbow, and all the riches of this world "make
+themselves wings." "The promises of God are sure," and the riches
+which He bestows are everlasting; and yet to the call, gold and
+glory, young men answer by the thousand, while to the cry, Christ and
+a crown, they respond by the dozen! "Choose ye this day whom ye will
+serve."</p>
+<br><a name="chap8"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER VIII.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY&mdash;THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>During these two missionary journeys the heart of our apostle was
+swelling with the woes of the sin-bound, and his brain contriving for
+their release. Upon his return he settled in New York state, and
+spent two busy years in working out his purposes. While waiting for
+their maturity he was most of the time in the large cities,
+particularly New York. Here he spent what might have been leisure, in
+visiting the poor in the neglected districts. He also wrote many
+letters; and in the churches, and everywhere, and upon everybody,
+urged attention to the world's great needs, and their great duties.
+As the result of this planning, waiting and working, he was permitted
+to see formed the American Bible Society, and the United Foreign
+Missionary Society. On the subject of city evangelization, he
+advanced ideas which we at this striving time might well study.</p>
+
+<p>The entire destitution of religious privileges which Mills had
+witnessed in the West and South, and the great desire of the people
+for the word of God, with their inability to supply themselves, made
+him eager for the formation of a National Bible Society, which should
+be large enough and strong enough to supply such great want. He had
+some hope of having the matter brought out at the general assembly of
+the Presbyterian church; but it was thought best to have it come
+about through the existing Bible societies, rather than have it bear
+the features of any denomination.</p>
+
+<p>The matter was kept constantly before influential people by this
+indefatigable man, and at last on the 8th of May, 1816, delegates
+from the different Bible societies of the United States convened in
+New York city, and resolved unanimously "to establish, without delay,
+a General Bible Institution, for the circulation of the Holy
+Scriptures, without note or comment." Before closing their sessions a
+constitution was adopted, managers elected, and an address issued to
+the people of the United States, informing them of the project, and
+inviting their sympathy and coöperation in this benevolent scheme.</p>
+
+<p>This was a great day to Mills, and those who saw him, sitting apart,
+watching with intense eagerness the deliberations of the convention,
+long remembered his delighted face. But how must the resources and
+usefulness of this society have exceeded even his fond hopes!</p>
+
+<p>As its first depository, it shared the office room of its agent. From
+time to time it was forced to move to larger quarters, until the year
+1853, when it located permanently, in its well-known building, The
+Bible House, on Astor Place, New York city. This edifice is of brick,
+six stories high, and occupies a solid block. In its first year, the
+society received $37,779, and issued 6,410 volumes; in its seventieth
+year (1886) its receipts were $523,910, and it issued 1,437,440
+volumes. In the Bible House, the working force&mdash;manufacturing and
+executive&mdash;numbers about 250. The auxiliaries which directly and
+indirectly center in this society, number about 7,000.</p>
+
+<p>From this great tree and its many branches, the leaves have been sent
+for the healing of nations. There are now but few countries where
+there are any impediments to the free circulation of the Scriptures.
+In our own land the society has afforded relief to its feeble
+auxiliaries, has supplied destitute Sabbath-schools, has endeavored
+to place the Bible in the common schools, to distribute it among
+soldiers and seamen, to furnish hotels, steamboats, railroads, and
+humane and criminal institutions. By it, the Bible has been
+circulated among immigrants, the destitute poor, the freedmen, the
+Chinese, and (in the Douay version) among Romanists. At four
+different periods the society has made exploration among the states
+and territories, to search and supply the destitute. Proportionately
+the number of families without the word of God is much smaller now
+than when the society was organized, notwithstanding the enormous
+growths in population.</p>
+
+<p>The society has attempted to send the Bible to all the inhabitants of
+the earth, accessible to its agents. It has established depots in
+almost every place where the American churches have missions. It
+circulates the Scriptures in more than eighty different languages and
+dialects. In 1856, in compliance with a special request, and by means
+of a special gift, the Society's Imperial Quarto English Bible, bound
+with extraordinary care, enclosed in a rosewood case, and accompanied
+by a courteous letter, was sent to each of the reigning monarchs and
+other chief magistrates of the world.</p>
+
+<p>Before the art of printing, the Bible was the most expensive book in
+the world. So late as the American Revolution, in its cheapest
+edition a volume could not be purchased for less than two dollars.
+This society now furnishes a copy of the entire book for twenty-five
+cents. It has made the Bible the cheapest book in the world.</p>
+
+<p>Mills, anxious to see every wheel set in motion for the advancement
+of Christ's kingdom, was restless because of the inaction of the
+Presbyterian church in the cause of Foreign Missions; again by his
+personal influence upon prominent men, another plan was matured. A
+committee was appointed by the General Assembly to confer with
+committees from the Dutch and Scotch churches, and a new society was
+formed, called the United Foreign Missionary Society. After a few
+years of efficient service this society was merged with the American
+Board, yielding to it its name and affairs.</p>
+
+<p>While so busy with these schemes just referred to, Mr. Mills was
+collecting all possible information in regard to South America. He
+desired to have the way opened for a mission in that country, and was
+willing to go himself to make the needed investigations. But it was
+seven years later when the American Board sent the first men to that
+field.</p>
+
+<p>In spite of these great enterprises, which must have been so
+absorbing of time and energy, this busy man found opportunity and
+strength to search out the squalid back streets of New York, and to
+go from house to house of its wretched inhabitants, giving sympathy,
+speaking words of Christian love and instruction, and where they
+would receive them leaving the word of God and good books.</p>
+<br><a name="chap9"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER IX.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY&mdash;MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS
+AFRICA.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>Abraham Lincoln, when a young man, made a journey into the South. Of
+all the impressions which those new scenes made upon him, the one
+deepest and strongest was that of slavery. It filled him with
+loathing, but kindled a zeal which never slumbered, until it cost his
+priceless life.</p>
+
+<p>It was such a spark which became a fire in the breast of Mills. What
+he saw and what he heard, during those southern tours, made him a
+willing martyr for the sake of Africa's sons and daughters. Their
+degradation made him ready to endure all things if only he could
+pierce the black cloud overshading them. His first effort resulted in
+a school, called the African School, for training young colored men
+to teach and preach to their own race. He then lent essential aid in
+the formation of the American Colonization Society.</p>
+
+<p>This society was composed of noble-minded men whose pitying attention
+was fastened upon the bondage, afflictions and heathenism of their
+black brothers, in this so called free land.</p>
+
+<p>Their aim was to furnish a refuge, in their own country, for those
+who were emancipated here, and it was their hope that such a scheme
+would do much toward the abolition of slavery.</p>
+
+<p>Their first effort was the collection of information: first, in
+regard to the condition of the slave here, that they might enlist
+general sympathy in their work. In a letter written by Mr. Mills
+about this matter, he said: "State facts. Facts will always produce
+an effect, at least on pious minds. You can easily possess yourself
+of facts, the bare recital of which will make the heart bleed." From
+the extensive observations he had made in the South, and by having
+the subject so long in his mind, he was very ready to "state facts,"
+and did so in every time and place. The information needed, in the
+second place, by the society was in regard to a suitable location for
+the colony, and the methods which would be required to obtain it. Mr.
+Mills was made their agent.</p>
+
+<p>He chose as a colleague, to share his responsibility, the Rev. Mr.
+Burgess. After some months of preparation they left America, planning
+to visit England first for information and assistance and then
+Africa, for the accomplishment of their errand.</p>
+
+<p>His father says of the "good-bye" which he bade him, at the time,
+that "he enjoyed peculiar peace of mind, committing himself entirely
+to the guidance and protection of the Almighty." He, who had endured
+so many hardships for Christ's sake, knew in whom he trusted.</p>
+
+<p>After about two weeks' sailing, they encountered a fearful storm and
+had need of all their faith. The wind blew furiously for thirty-six
+hours. The captain ordered the masts cut away and the decks cleared.
+He remained on deck, calmly giving orders, until they were driven
+almost upon a ledge of rocks. Despairing of any safety in the ship,
+he abandoned her, taking his children with him in a small boat. Some
+of those left on board the ship, in their agony of peril, were in the
+cabin, beseeching the mercy of Him who rules the violent sea. Others
+were on deck, where Mr. Burgess, praying aloud, commended their souls
+to God.</p>
+
+<p>All unexpectedly, a counter current bore them into deeper water, past
+the rocks. All exclaimed, "It is the work of God!" A gloomy night
+they spent tossing on the sea, but in the morning quiet came. The
+mate assumed control, and by using what crippled forces they could
+command, they found their way to a harbor of France.</p>
+
+<p>From there they proceeded to London. They were cordially received by
+a number of distinguished men and officials. Among them Mr.
+Wilberforce and Mr. Zachary Macauly, the former governor of Sierra
+Leone, who introduced them to the Duke of Gloucester. They met
+everywhere with Christian sympathy, and the kindest offers of
+service. Having obtained letters to the governors of colonies in
+Africa, they left England for the west coast, February 3, 1818.</p>
+
+<p>This voyage was a pleasant one, and brought them in about thirty days
+to the mouth of the Gambia. They anchored near the village of St.
+Mary's, and went to inspect this and other settlements. They made the
+acquaintance of the governors and the Europeans, everywhere gathering
+useful and pertinent facts.</p>
+
+<p>They proceeded south, visiting towns and villages, and calling upon
+the kings and head men. On these occasions they were received in the
+"palaver house," by the chiefs arranged in true African style,
+regardless of taste. One was described as wearing "a silver-laced
+coat, a superb three-cornered hat, blue-bafta trousers, considerably
+the worse for wear, and no stockings or shoes." The insignia of
+royalty were a silver-headed cane in one hand, a horse-tail in the
+other. Before the palaver could go on, the hosts must receive
+presents, and as their guests had oftenest been slave traders, rum
+and tobacco had become essentials.</p>
+
+<p>By means of interpreters they made known their friendly feelings, and
+that they had come from America. "That wise and good men had agreed
+to help the black people who wished to come to this country; that the
+design was a good one, and would promote the best interests of the
+black people both in America and Africa; that if they would sell or
+give tracts of their unimproved lands, the people who came would
+introduce more knowledge of the arts and agriculture, would buy such
+things as they had to sell, and would sell to them such things as
+they wanted;" that the children were to be educated; that they had
+come as messengers of peace and good tidings, bringing no weapons in
+their hands&mdash;that they did not desire war.</p>
+
+<p>They found that African kings knew the art of being slothful in
+business. They seemed to have no idea of dispatch, but would talk for
+hours without coming to the point. In general their reception was
+cordial, and, in some instances, more than that. Land was offered
+them in five different places. Their greatest obstacle was the
+unsavory reputation of the white men who had preceded them,&mdash;the
+slave-traders and merchants,&mdash;men who had been gross, violent and
+rapacious. One of the natives who saw Mr. Mills and Mr. Burgess in
+prayer, said he "never knew before that white men prayed!"</p>
+
+<p>They found that the natives would not be unwilling to give up their
+superstitions, and were gratified at the prospect of education for
+their children; that they would be glad to have God's word, and the
+pure religion it teaches. One old man with white hair and beard,
+wished for this good time to come at once; he wanted to know more
+about God's book before he died.</p>
+
+<p>The observations and inquiries which had been so conscientiously made
+by the agents, enabled them to report to their society that the
+project was both practicable and expedient. After due consideration
+of the instructions and recommendations of experienced foreigners,
+and the details of exploration, which this report furnished them, the
+society thought it most wise to proceed with the undertaking.</p>
+
+<p>After seeking needed individual and governmental aid, and perfecting
+so far as possible the organization, the first colony was sent to
+Africa in 1820. They endured the discouraging vicissitudes which are
+generally incident to new settlements, and in a few years success
+seemed certain.</p>
+
+<p>In 1847 L<small>IBERIA</small> became an established free republic. The constitution
+is modeled upon our own.</p>
+<br><a name="chap10"></a>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3>CHAPTER X.</h3>
+
+<center><small>THE LAST JOURNEY&mdash;BRIG "SUCCESS," FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1818.</small></center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>"We have taken an affectionate leave of the clergymen, the civil
+officers, and the colonists of Sierra Leone. We are embarked for the
+United States, by way of England; and the continent of Africa recedes
+from our view."</p>
+
+<p>This is the last entry in Mills' journal. Three months had been spent
+in Africa; months of unsparing toil, under a scorching sun, amid
+depressing pagan scenes. But the undertaking had been reasonably
+successful, and tired bodies had been upheld by grateful hearts.</p>
+
+<p>On shipboard once more, with faces turned homeward, opportunity came
+for fatigue to assert itself. The strength of Mills, never great at
+the best, began to fail. A deep spirituality, which had possessed him
+through all the journey, grew stronger and stronger. And as they were
+wafted, day by day, nearer home, it became evident that his spirit,
+too, was nearing its desired haven. Fever burned his body; but at
+last eternal health claimed his soul. Under a glowing sunset, he was
+buried, to wait until the sea surrenders its dead.</p>
+
+<p>The one great desire of his life, "to sit in some quiet corner and
+teach the perishing," was unfulfilled; but God through him had sent,
+and yet sends, many teachers to many far corners.</p>
+
+<p>Thirty-five years, only, of mortal life was allotted him in which to
+accomplish so much; yet it was time enough,&mdash;not because of his
+uncommon gifts, but because he knew the secret of well doing. He did
+not attempt to be the origin&mdash;the source, but gloried in being the
+channel through which God poured His great thoughts. No time was lost
+by obstructions; the dredge that kept the channel free was
+prayer&mdash;private, social, public, constant prayer, not for himself,
+but for God's glory.</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<center><small>THE END.</small></center>
+<br>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818, by 
+Elisabeth G. Stryker
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
+       [Samuel John Mills]
+
+Author: Elisabeth G. Stryker
+
+Release Date: September 19, 2009 [EBook #30026]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STORY OF ONE SHORT LIFE ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Ron Swanson
+
+
+
+
+
+MISSIONARY ANNALS.
+(A SERIES.)
+
+
+
+
+A STORY OF ONE SHORT LIFE, 1783 to 1818.
+
+
+BY
+ELISABETH G. STRYKER.
+
+
+
+
+CHICAGO:
+WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST,
+Room 48, McCormick Block.
+
+
+
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1888,
+BY WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+                                                             PAGE
+   I. ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION . . . . . . . . . .  7
+
+  II. COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST
+      IN FOREIGN MISSIONS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+
+ III. OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
+
+  IV. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL . . . . 20
+
+   V. MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD . . . . . . . . . . 22
+
+  VI. AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES  . . . . . . . 25
+
+ VII. MILLS' SECOND TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
+
+VIII. THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN
+      MISSIONARY SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
+
+  IX. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT,
+      VISITS AFRICA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
+
+   X. THE LAST JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
+
+
+
+
+As I write, I have in my mind a row of intelligent boyish faces.
+Manly souls look through bright eyes. My heart responds to the beats
+of affection beneath jacket and cut-away.
+
+I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly
+graces are dawning. I feel the warmth of pure young hearts beginning
+to swell with generous desires.
+
+These are my real friends. Beyond them I see rows and rows of boys
+and girls whose sympathies and interest I would gladly claim.
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+
+Those among us interested in the young people, the boys and girls of
+our Churches, somewhat realize the lack of material wherewith to
+stimulate and nourish these young workers. The apiarist studies the
+nature of the insect which must yield him its sweets, and discovers
+that "the nature of the cell and the food affects the difference" in
+the bees. We have long watched our boys and girls, and either we do
+not care what they yield, or we are dull not to notice that what
+surrounds them and enters into their minds, is surely deciding their
+natures. White clover honey can only be made from white clover
+blossoms. What they read and what they may be induced to read
+concerns us as mission workers. Individual tastes make many by-paths
+in the field of literature, but the girls all enjoy the windings of
+romance, and the boys delight in the highway of adventure. "But,"
+they say or think, "Missions, their history and progress are so
+stupid, they have no decent heroes and heroines. We like Robinson
+Crusoe, and Little Women, and the Arabian Nights!" But do we not know
+that the stories of the lives of some of our missionaries, well told,
+may stand side by side, upon the book-shelves and in the hearts of
+our young people, with the pages of De Foe and Louise Alcott? Many a
+boy and girl, charmed by the life and fortune of some unreal, and
+oftentimes unworthy, hero, has attempted to make copy in his or her
+own life. Missionary lives are not lacking in the spirit, adventure
+and romance which are so fascinating. With these ideals in their
+minds, may we not expect followers of the Judsons, the Moffats, the
+Fiskes and the Rankins?
+
+The writer, who has humbly undertaken to re-tell an old tale, is
+neither a De Foe nor an Alcott. She finds she can borrow neither of
+their pens. Her own, conscious of its inexperience, finds its only
+relief in the fact that the story is its own strength.
+
+
+
+
+SAMUEL J. MILLS.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION.
+
+
+Our country is quietly enjoying the benefits of a great activity.
+Foreign Missions are still feeling a noble impulse, and the origin of
+this force was, under God, in the heart and brain of Samuel J. Mills.
+
+It is a name known to us, but a history almost forgotten. Only upon
+the shelves of some antiquarian, or in the undisturbed library of
+some old homestead can a volume be found bearing the title "Mills'
+Memoirs." Take it down, blow the dust from the leaves yellow with
+sixty-seven years, and you will find the narrative related in the
+stately, old-time style, and somewhat laudatory and expansive.
+
+He had no son, as Adoniram Judson had, gladly to record the details
+of his busy life. The writer was Dr. Gardiner Spring, who laments
+having failed in the attempt to obtain what appeared to him to be
+important information. We are thankful to him for gathering even
+these rare fragments.
+
+From a sketch of Salmon Giddings, the Damon Memorial, a letter from a
+relative of Mills, and the life of Henry Obookiah have come a few
+incidents and facts, but mainly in the record of Dr. Spring have we
+found our Story of One Short Life. Such hid treasure should find the
+light, even though quarried by unskillful hands.
+
+Biographies are apt to seem discouraging, in the beginning; the
+attention being riveted upon the supposed hero, meets with a shock in
+finding it has been following the history of his great-grandfather.
+The scattered energies are then directed upon the grandfather, only
+to meet with a second delay. Again recovering, and following the
+father's fortunes, the son, the subject of the work, is at last
+introduced.
+
+The great-grandfather of our hero must be brought in just long enough
+to answer one question. He was once asked, "How did you educate four
+sons at Yale College, and give each a profession?" His reply was,
+"Almighty God did it, with the help of my wife." The grandfather (of
+our hero) was drowned while some of his children were still young.
+His widow, committing their babes to the God of the fatherless,
+especially offered for His service, a son named Samuel John. He
+became a minister, and for many years was settled in Torringford,
+Connecticut. He was eminent for his ability and character. Mrs. Stowe
+said of him--"He was one ingrain New Englander. Of all the marvels
+that astonished my childhood, there is none I remember to this day
+with so much interest as Father Mills." This was the name by which he
+was extensively known. His wife was a woman exemplary and devout.
+
+Being assured that the three preceding generations were
+commandment-keeping, we shall see how the Lord showed mercy unto the
+fourth. Almighty God and a true mother secure for many a man's sons,
+not only education, but large efficiency and honor.
+
+The seventh child, born April 21st, 1783, in this Torringford home,
+was a son, named after his father, Samuel John. The child grew to be
+a mighty instrument in God's hand, which He in His wisdom selected,
+knowing the fineness of the material with which he dealt. That we too
+may know something of the tempering of the steel, we are permitted a
+reverent glance into that pious mother's bosom. Before the birthday
+came she continually dedicated the little life beneath her heart to
+the God who is pleased to accept such gifts. During all his childhood
+he received the most careful Christian training. Nourished in such a
+home-garden, and shined on by such mother-light, we cannot wonder
+that the child grew toward the Sun, and that the roots of religious
+character struck deep and spread wide.
+
+When but a little child he showed an unusual concern of conscience.
+At fifteen the town in which he lived was greatly aroused and
+revived. His friends and acquaintances received the blessing, and he
+was deeply interested, but the revival passed, leaving him with a
+bitter, rebellious feeling in his heart.
+
+About this time, one fine cold winter morning, a merry sleigh load
+drove from his father's house. He, with his brothers, sisters and
+cousins, about eighteen in all, went to spend a few days with his
+uncle in West Hartford. Samuel had recently come into the possession
+of a fine farm. He was gay and ambitious. His companions fearing his
+good fortune might make him feel a "little too high minded," sought
+to tease him. The evening before their return, after eating nuts and
+apples, they agreed to have a little singing. They struck up "Hark,
+from the Tombs a Doleful Sound," to the tune, Bangor. They sang it
+slowly and solemnly, now and then casting at him glances from their
+mischievous eyes. He sat a silent listener, while their song, sung in
+fun, made an earnest impression of which he could not rid himself.
+
+Soon after his farm was sold, and at eighteen he determined to go to
+Litchfield and study in the Academy. As he was leaving home, his
+mother's anxious heart could not let him go without enquiring for his
+soul's health. Other mothers know the pain she suffered, when he told
+her "for two years I have been sorry God ever made me." She replied
+to him as her wise heart prompted her, and sent him on his way. She
+went where all mothers of boys must so often go, to her knees, alone
+with God.
+
+He had not gone far on his journey when he met a Friend. It was the
+Good Shepherd, whom that mother's urgent prayer had sent searching
+for the wanderer. It was as if he had met Christ in his path. He
+looked up at the great trees and down at the blossoms, and in
+everything saw God. He became so impressed with the perfections of
+the Holy One he had so long resisted, that he lost sight of himself.
+He sat down in the woods to wonder and to pray. It was not until some
+time after that he realized any change in himself, and not until he
+returned from Litchfield did his father perceive it. His conversion
+was thorough. Not only was he turned about,--his face God-ward
+instead of self-ward,--but he was impelled toward "those sitting in
+darkness." In his childhood, from his mother's lips, he often heard
+stories from the lives of Brainerd, Eliot, and other missionaries. He
+heard her prayers for them and their great undertakings. Once he
+heard her say, "I have consecrated this child to the service of God
+as a missionary." Now it was his joy to follow those noble examples,
+and to fulfill his part in the plans of God and his mother for him.
+His parents approved of his determination, though the thought of
+separation tore their hearts. His mother said to him, "I cannot bear
+to part from you, my son." When he reminded her of her vow, she burst
+into tears, and never after made complaint. To his father he said
+that he could "not conceive of any course of life in which to pass
+the rest of his days, that would prove so pleasant, as to go and
+communicate the gospel of salvation to the poor heathen."
+
+This desire to spread the Gospel grew to be a sublime purpose, and
+from it he never wavered. He set about his plannings, with this
+supreme end in view. Thanking God for his own salvation, he laid his
+life in God's hand, imploring Him to use it for those who had as yet
+no knowledge of that mercy. The Lord took him from the plough, as he
+did Elisha. He left the field for the college.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN
+MISSIONS.
+
+
+He entered Williams College in the spring of 1806. During his first
+visit home in June, he connected himself with his father's church. A
+college course means to some young men four years of frolic, or
+worse. To others it is an opportunity to cram knowledge, that shall
+by-and-by astound the round world and they that dwell therein. To
+one, at least, it was the time for choosing "smooth stones" for his
+combat with the giant adversary, whom he was brave enough to meet
+alone, if need be, "in the name of the Lord of Hosts."
+
+As a scholar he was not brilliant, but as a Christian he was "a
+bright and shining light." To serve God was the highest aim of his
+life. First of all, he served Him upon his knees. He used to pray
+often and earnestly, alone and with others. He pursued his studies
+for the after use he might make of them, not for his own
+accomplishment. As he visited his friends in their rooms, and walked
+with them through the groves, the subject dearest to his heart was
+oftenest the theme of his conversation. To one friend he said:
+"Though you and I are very little beings, we must not rest satisfied
+till we have made our influence extend to the remotest corner of this
+ruined world."
+
+His life was so consistent, his disposition so sweet, his manners so
+winning that every one was his friend. Those who had been unfaithful
+to their vows were reproved, and those opposed to religion were
+induced to follow his example. During his first year there was a
+revival, which seemed to come in answer to his earnest prayers. Many
+of his comrades became Christians, and so earnestly that they laid
+aside or sanctified their old ambitions, and prepared to spread
+through the earth the fire kindled by this devoted youth.
+
+A mission band of boys were examined as to their knowledge of Samuel
+Mills. "Where was he born?" asked the leader. "Under a haystack!"
+replied a small boy. Had the question been, Where was the American
+Board of Foreign Missions born? the answer would not have been so far
+from the way. Its baptismal naming came some years later, but under a
+stack of hay in a meadow, near Williams College, it was born, nursed
+and prayed over.
+
+About fourteen years earlier foreign missionary organization had
+begun across the Atlantic. On this side, the attention of Christians
+had been occupied with their new homes and the needs of the destitute
+near at hand. There were societies of domestic missions; but no
+scheme to touch hands God-blessed with hands idol-cursed, had ever
+been devised before the Lord of both put it into the heart of Mills.
+"God called him out of the midst of the bush." The bush was this
+haystack, but the place became "holy ground." The Lord said: "I have
+surely seen the affliction of my people, and have heard their cry."
+"Come now, therefore, and I will send thee."
+
+This commission filled his soul. He gathered a few of his friends in
+a grove, to tell them his convictions and his hopes. What was his
+surprise and joy to find that the "Angel of the Lord" had appeared to
+them also. A sudden thunder storm came upon them here, but his
+retreat, his place of safety, was near by. He led them under the
+haystack, and there they talked together, and with God. And there
+they continued to meet through two seasons, and finally formed
+themselves into the first Foreign Missionary Society of this
+continent. Its object was "to effect in the persons of its members a
+mission to the heathen."
+
+From the spot where the haystack once stood, now rises a marble
+shaft, bearing aloft a globe, underneath which is inscribed:
+
+               "THE FIELD IS THE WORLD."
+
+  "The Birthplace of American Foreign Missions, 1806."
+
+                  SAMUEL J. MILLS,
+                  JAMES RICHARDS,
+                  FRANCIS L. ROBBINS,
+                  HARVEY LOOMIS,
+                  BYRAM GREEN.
+
+At every commencement, the college president leads to this monument a
+procession of alumni, students, and guests. Prayer is offered that
+the spirit of missions may still prevail at Williams, and that the
+traditions of the past may be maintained.
+
+In these years public opinion was decidedly opposed to the enterprise
+of these young men. Even good men thought their zeal extravagant and
+expected it soon to subside. In order to arouse sympathy and a right
+sentiment, they devised various means. They discussed their projects
+with Christian people. They distributed missionary sermons. A list
+was made of the names of distinguished ministers, to whom these young
+men made frequent visits, urging their suit. Among them, the first to
+take fire, was Dr. Worcester. With one of them, Dr. Griffin, Mills
+asked to be permitted to study theology. Said the Doctor: "I had
+always refused such applications, but from the love I bore to him, I
+agreed to criticise one sermon a week. After that exercise he would
+commonly sit and draw letters very moderately and cautiously from his
+pocket, reading passages to me on some benevolent project. At length
+I perceived that _studying divinity_ with me had been quite a
+secondary object, that his chief object was to get me engaged to
+execute his plans. As soon as I discovered that, I told him to bring
+out his letters and all his plans, without reserve."
+
+Mills became convinced that they could not expect help from the
+Churches unless the number was increased of young men ready to devote
+their lives to this cause. He and his friends then separated for the
+purpose of establishing societies in other colleges. Mills went to
+Yale, hoping there to find kindred spirits. This was not the case,
+but God had sent him for another purpose, and that to know Obookiah,
+a heathen boy from the Sandwich Islands. This acquaintance greatly
+increased his zeal.
+
+Sometimes a little seed, wafted by the wind, is borne far from its
+mother plant to take root in a foreign soil: but its fruit may be
+returned whence it came. This little lonely heathen child, blown by
+seemingly cruel and adverse winds, was tossed upon our Christian
+shores by the good hand of God. The ship which brought him touched
+other and idolatrous lands, but he was not to put his feet down till
+they could be planted in the right place.
+
+That his life touched Mills' life, both being quickened, is perhaps
+reason enough for giving here a portion of Obookiah's history and
+that of his native land, if there were not another reason, and that
+the opportunity, here afforded, of following a stream of influence to
+its sea.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA.
+
+
+Henry Obookiah was born in Hawaii, about the year 1792. When about
+twelve years old, two parties contending for dominion, disturbed the
+peace of the island. He alone survived the persecution of his family.
+He was captured and carried home by the man who killed his parents,
+but finally made his way to an uncle. Though he was well treated, he
+suffered from loneliness. He said of himself, "When I was at play
+with other children, after we had made an end of playing, they return
+to their parents: but I was returned into tears, for I have no home,
+neither father nor mother. Poor boy am I."
+
+He determined to go to some other country, and forget his sorrow. The
+captain of an American vessel showed him kindness, and consented to
+take him on board. He brought him to America, and took him to his own
+home in New Haven. Henry was a clumsy, stupid-looking boy at this
+time, his appearance not revealing the undeveloped depths of his
+nature. He made the acquaintance of some of the students at Yale
+College, and of the Rev. E. W. Dwight. These friends becoming
+interested in his welfare, offered to teach him. He accepted their
+aid with avidity, and made wonderful progress, at the same time
+becoming more and more lovable and attractive.
+
+A fun-loving disposition soon showed itself. He had great difficulty
+in pronouncing the letter _r_, giving it the sound of _l_. Every day
+his teacher tried to help him, saying, "try, Obookiah, it is _very
+easy_." This seemed to amuse the boy greatly, though as yet he could
+not express himself in English. Some time after, when he could speak
+more readily, he was describing to his teacher some of the customs of
+his native land. Clasping his hands together, and adjusting his
+thumbs, he formed a cup which he raised to his lips to show how his
+countrymen drank from a spring. His instructor tried to do the same,
+but before he could reach his mouth with his hands the cup would be
+inverted so that the contents, had there been any, would have been
+spilled. Obookiah laughed heartily and said, "_try_, Mr.
+Dwight, it is _very easy_!"
+
+One day he mimicked the gait of some of his friends so cleverly, that
+there was no mistaking whom he intended to personate. His teacher
+then mocked his own awkward style, when he exclaimed several times:
+"me walk so?" Being assured that it was true, he rolled upon the
+floor until his mirth exhausted his strength.
+
+After being instructed about the true God, idol worship seemed to him
+ridiculous. He said, "Hawaii gods! They _wood_,--_burn_. Me go home,
+put 'em in a fire, burn 'em up. They no _see_, no _hear_, _no_
+anything." Then added, "We make _them_. Our God," looking up, "He
+make us."
+
+After Mr. Mills arrived in New Haven he became a friend of Mr.
+Dwight's, and being often in his room, occasionally heard this boy
+recite. He became greatly attached to him, and began to cherish a
+plan for his future. He wanted to see Obookiah a Christian, educated,
+and then a missionary to his native land.
+
+One evening Mr. Mills had not been long in Mr. Dwight's room, when
+Obookiah came in with a very gloomy face. He said he had no place to
+live; Mr. ---- didn't want him any more, and Miss ---- had threatened
+to take away his new clothes. Mr. Mills told him he would take him to
+his own home, and that he had clothes enough for both. This cheered
+the poor, disconsolate fellow, who soon went with Mr. Mills to
+Torringford, and was placed under the "care of those whose
+benevolence was without a bond or check, or a limit to confine it."
+Here he spent a part of the year 1810, and was treated wisely and
+affectionately. Mrs. Mills taught him the Catechism, and her son
+Jeremiah assisted him in his studies. At different times, and
+frequently, their house was his home.
+
+He became gentle and refined in his manner, a Bible-loving, earnest,
+prayerful Christian. His friends who had been so careful in the
+training of his mind and heart, had not neglected his hands. He was
+taught much that was useful and practical, particularly in farming.
+He surprised all by the quickness and eagerness with which he
+learned. He was both inquisitive and acquisitive to a remarkable
+degree. He persisted in knowing and getting, that he might impart
+what he had gained to his own countrymen. To return to them for their
+enlightenment, was his consuming desire.
+
+He visited many families, and many of the churches of New England,
+always creating a deep interest in his mission. Many people who had
+affirmed that the heathen could never be reclaimed from their low
+estate, were forced to change their opinions after seeing and knowing
+Obookiah, and were inspired to pray and give for his and other
+unevangelized races.
+
+The presence of Obookiah in this country, as well as of other heathen
+youth, together with the desire to educate some of our own Indians,
+led to the formation of the Foreign Mission School, at Cornwall,
+Mass. This school was under the care of the American Board ten years.
+Its pupils were from many different nations. In 1826 it was
+discontinued, for by this time the missions were able to educate the
+young at their several stations.
+
+Obookiah was pursuing his studies here, when, in the beginning of the
+year 1818, he was stricken with typhus fever, and suffered several
+weeks. On the 17th of February, 1818, he shook hands with all his
+companions present, and with perfect composure addressed to them the
+parting salutation of his native language, "Alloah o e"--"my love be
+with you."
+
+Mrs. Stone, in whose house he died, and who cared for him with
+Christian kindness during his sickness, said, "This had been one of
+the happiest and most profitable periods of her life; that she had
+been more than rewarded for her cares and watchings by day and night,
+in being permitted to witness his excellent example, and to hear his
+godly conversation."
+
+Almost immediately after his death, missionaries, inspired by his
+life, hastened to accomplish his cherished purpose, the establishment
+of a mission in the Sandwich Islands. Mills was far from home, but
+returning at the time, not knowing Obookiah had died, he said to a
+friend, "If it please God that I may arrive safely, I think that I
+shall take Obookiah and go to the Sandwich Islands and there I will
+end my life."
+
+From that day to this, missionaries and missions, schools, churches
+and Christians have multiplied, till all those islands name the name
+of Christ.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+THE SANDWICH ISLES WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL.
+
+  "Surely the isles shall wait for me."
+
+
+The missionaries found upon these islands naked savages, without
+books, education, or courts of justice. The people were slaves,
+governed arbitrarily by chiefs. It was a nation of debauchees,
+thieves and drunkards. There were no marriage laws. Two-thirds of the
+children born were destroyed. If an infant was ailing or troublesome,
+the mother scooped a hole in the ground, covered the child with earth
+and trampled out its life. The aged and infirm were taken to the brow
+of a precipice and pushed over. The sick were removed to such a
+distance that their groans could not annoy, and left to die. The
+insane were stoned to death.
+
+God opened the way for the missionaries by a revolution which did
+away with idolatry, but did nothing for the uplifting of society.
+Some of the noblest specimens of our American manhood have devoted
+their lives to these desolate, far-away creatures. The mention of one
+will suffice as a sample of the salt that purified those bitter and
+filthy waters.
+
+When he stepped on shore at Hilo, in 1832, it was to stay till his
+work was finished--and he lived beyond the three score and ten. Such
+a life is a rebuke to the restlessness of many modern workers. For
+forty-two years he labored patiently in pressing himself and what he
+knew upon Hawaiian youth--nearly a thousand in all--many of whom are
+now pastors, leading lawyers, men of affairs, missionaries to
+Micronesia, and the men who stand for righteousness in the native
+churches. Great events and advances in science were exciting his
+native land, but he worked on, struggling for things unseen and
+eternal. Amid uninspiring surroundings, and performing many menial
+duties, he led a high spiritual and intellectual life, not seeking
+honor, but service--thereby gaining honor, and the "rest that
+remaineth."
+
+As for the results of such consecration, wisdom and work, the facts
+are a marvel in history. Any prophecy in regard to them would have
+been thought a wild dream. These islanders have taken their place
+among the Christian nations. Marriage is considered honorable, the
+family established, as well as schools, churches and a government,
+whose constitution ordains that "no law shall be enacted at variance
+with the word of the Lord Jehovah, or with the general spirit of His
+word."
+
+In proportion to the population, there are more readers than in
+Boston. The proportion of true Christians is as great as anywhere in
+Christendom. They are decently clad, their homes are comfortable,
+even sometimes going so far as to possess a melodeon and a
+sewing-machine! They have progressed in agriculture, commerce, the
+industries, literature and the arts. It is a regenerated nation.
+
+The American Board has erased this mission from its list and
+transferred all responsibility to the Hawaiian Evangelical
+Association.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD.
+
+
+From Yale College, Mills went to Andover to study theology. Soon
+after entering, his dear mother died. His grief was passionate. He
+mourned for the loss of her face, her voice, her prayers, but not as
+one "without hope."
+
+At Andover he met some of his former friends, and found new ones
+whose hearts the Lord had stirred--Newell, Judson, Nott, Hall, Mills!
+Names to shout at the sleeping saints of this our day! Lives to
+uphold to the view of our self-pleasing generation! These men
+organized a second missionary society, similar to the one at
+Williams. They met to pray and plan. Their prayers were answered and
+their plans resulted in the formation of the American Board of
+Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
+
+If the objections made to their plans were here rehearsed, the
+arguments would sound very familiar; they are the same, in spite of
+their repeated death-blows, that array themselves against the plan of
+missions to-day. The assailants of this cause are not students of
+history. There is no such thing as opposition, or even indifference,
+to Christian missions, unless there is ignorance behind it.
+
+These young men succeeded in gaining the sympathy and alliance of
+some of the prominent pastors, and the professors in the seminary. To
+the annual meeting of the General Association of Massachusetts, at
+Bradford, June 27, 1810, they presented the following paper:
+
+  The undersigned, members of the Divinity College, respectfully
+  request the attention of their Reverend Fathers, convened in the
+  General Association at Bradford, to the following statement and
+  inquiries:
+
+  They beg leave to state, that their minds have been long impressed
+  with the duty and importance of personally attempting a mission to
+  the heathen; that the impressions on their minds have induced a
+  serious, and they trust a prayerful, consideration of the subject
+  in its various attitudes, particularly in relation to the probable
+  success and the difficulties attending such an attempt; and that
+  after examining all the information which they can obtain, they
+  consider themselves as devoted to this work for life, whenever God
+  in his providence shall open the way.
+
+  They now offer the following inquiries, on which they solicit the
+  opinion and advice of the association. Whether, with their present
+  views and feelings, they ought to renounce the object of missions,
+  as visionary and impracticable; if not, whether they ought to
+  direct their attention to the Eastern or Western world? Whether
+  they may expect patronage and support from a missionary society in
+  this country, or must commit themselves to the direction of a
+  European society; and what preparatory measures they ought to take
+  previous to actual engagement?
+
+  The undersigned, feeling their youth and inexperience, look up to
+  their fathers in the church and respectfully solicit their advice,
+  direction and prayers.
+
+                                           ADONIRAM JUDSON JR.
+                                           SAMUEL NOTT JR.
+                                           SAMUEL J. MILLS.
+                                           SAMUEL NEWELL.
+
+The names of Rice and Richards were struck off "for fear of alarming
+the Association with too large a number."
+
+This paper was referred to a special committee, who indorsed the
+sentiment and submitted a plan to the association, which was carried
+into effect by the appointment of a Board of Commissioners for
+Foreign Missions.
+
+After much exertion and inquiry at home, Judson was sent to England
+to learn if help could be expected from the London Missionary
+Society. He found that society willing to take the young men under
+its care and support, but not ready to assist the new Board.
+
+The American society soon received aid within its own boundaries,
+which was a far better beginning than to be dependent upon outside
+resources. Mrs. Mary Norris, the wife of one of the founders of
+Andover Seminary, bequeathed thirty thousand dollars to the Board.
+God's Spirit generally revived the churches, opening the eyes and
+hearts of His people, their purses as well, though not many of the
+latter were well filled in those days.
+
+God only has a full record of the anxious courage and faith which was
+exercised by the supporters, managers, and appointees of the Board
+during those first struggling years. Under the care of this board
+Mills and his friends placed themselves, and by it most of them were
+sent out in the year 1812.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES.
+
+
+From the first throb of his Christian life, the heart of Mills beat
+like a soldier's. He called out the recruits, captained the forces,
+and died in service--a hero! In his student days he had a compelling
+influence upon his classmates, and even then showed signs of
+generalship in his faculty of organizing. The establishment of the
+Foreign Mission School was largely consequent upon his suggestions;
+in the formation of the American Board he was one of the foremost
+personal instruments.
+
+Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn
+schemes began their struggling claim for his attention. The world
+with all its lands stretching their help-beckoning fingers, was
+persuading him. Over the home land, his and ours, he turned his
+penetrating glance. He saw occasion for vast concern, and here was
+his first response. To go first, opening the way for others through
+the tangled wilderness, was his design, his master-plot. That "divine
+ferment" at Williams College worked the good of home, as well as of
+foreign, missions.
+
+Having chosen a companion-spy, the Rev. John Schermerhorn, soon after
+his graduation in 1812, he went to view a goodly land, which he
+desired to have the people of God go up and possess. This tour was
+undertaken under the patronage of the Connecticut and Massachusetts
+Home Missionary Societies. Heretofore these societies had prayed and
+wept over young missionaries sent to the uncivilized wilds of Western
+New York! The plan of Mills and Schermerhorn was to travel through
+the wide territory lying between the great lakes and the Gulf of
+Mexico, to learn the moral condition of the inhabitants, and scatter
+what good they might.
+
+The map of this region, as published in Morse's school atlas of 1823,
+is curiously different from the maps of the present day. The state
+and territorial lines have been altered, those green, pink, and
+yellow blanks have become densely freckled and wrinkled, by the dots
+of cities and towns, and by the complicated tracery of railroads.
+
+These travelers did not telegraph their intended arrival, nor sleep
+and dine their way to their journey's end, on the "Flyer," and then
+rest in some palatial hotel at last. Each mounted his horse, taking
+with them by way of baggage all that was necessary for the
+trip,--tent, provisions, clothing and Bibles. They plodded through
+miry swamps, they climbed up and down almost perpendicular ledges,
+and cut their way through canebrakes with a hatchet. When they had
+creeks to cross they swam their horses. At night they camped, often
+in the rain and sometimes without food. More than once they were
+serenaded by Indian war-whoops and the howling wolves. Stopping at
+town or settlement they were made cordially at home in hut and cabin.
+In some places they perceived bright prospects, the germs of future
+cities, and were often urgently besought to stay and preach the
+gospel permanently.
+
+They found everywhere the Sabbath profaned, only a few good people in
+any one place, and Bibles rare possessions. In some places the people
+were longing for the Gospel. In all the leading towns they formed
+Bible societies, and everywhere preached and distributed Bibles,
+which were gladly received.
+
+From Nashville they went down the Cumberland and Mississippi with
+General Jackson and fifteen hundred volunteers. In New Orleans they
+gained the consent of Bishop DeBury to distribute the Scriptures in
+French to the French Romanists, who made up three-fourths of the
+population of the state. They found no Protestant church in the city.
+They here organized a Bible society, and remained several weeks to
+preach and to hold prayer-meetings.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+MILLS' SECOND TOUR.
+
+
+In the year 1814 Mr. Mills having obtained the assistance of some of
+the eastern Bible societies, and having chosen as companion the Rev.
+Daniel Smith, started on another tour through the South and West.
+They went laden with Bibles and the prayers of Christian friends.
+They went through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri.
+In all these states they found the people "exceedingly destitute of
+religious privileges," and a "lamentable want of Bibles and
+missionaries." They found "American families who never saw a Bible,
+or heard of Jesus Christ." There was only one minister to ten
+thousand people if equally placed; but there were districts
+containing from twenty to fifty thousand "without a preacher." These
+men were light-bringers to this "valley of the shadow of death," as
+Mills called it. They found English soldiers, French Romanists,
+colored slaves, our own dear countrymen, greedy for the bread of
+life.
+
+They traveled more than six thousand miles; they passed through a
+variety of climates; they endured "perils in the city, perils of the
+wilderness, perils on the rivers and on the sea," that they might
+cast that bread upon the waters which you and I are finding after
+many days.
+
+Mills arrived for the second time in New Orleans, soon after the
+celebrated battle of January 8, 1815, and cheered many hearts by his
+coming. He visited the soldiers in prison, the sick and wounded in
+the hospitals; kneeling on the bare floor where they lay, he prayed
+and talked with them, sang for them, and gave them Bibles; he
+preached in camp. The Philadelphia society had given him a quantity
+of French Bibles. The people were clamorous for them. They thronged
+the distributor's door, and remained even after the notice had been
+given that no more could be had until the following day. They came
+sometimes from great distances. In one week a thousand copies were
+given away. In one instance a Romish priest assisted in this work.
+The bishop acknowledged the deplorable state of the people, and
+preferred their having the Protestant version to none at all.
+
+When these adventurers in Christ's kingdom visited St. Louis, they
+found it a place of two thousand inhabitants,--"a tumble-down French
+village,--built mainly of wooden slabs and poles set vertically, and
+well daubed with mortar mixed with straw, though there were many log
+houses." In a school-room they delivered the first Presbyterian or
+Congregational sermons ever preached on the west side of the
+Mississippi. They were gratefully received, and had crowded
+audiences. The people would gladly have supported either one could he
+have stayed.
+
+But the immediate duty of these explorers for souls was to return to
+the churches which had sent them out, to report what they had
+discovered, and to beg that men be sent to these waste places which
+were waiting to be made to blossom. All New England was roused to
+effort by their appeal, and the next year ten or twelve men responded
+to the summons.
+
+In 1848 the word "gold" was whispered in California and heard all
+over the world. The gold-hunters pressed forward from every corner of
+the earth. It was not thought a hard thing to turn one's back on
+home, friends and country, for the sake of gold, though that
+glittering promise was, to most of those who searched, like the bag
+at the end of the rainbow, and all the riches of this world "make
+themselves wings." "The promises of God are sure," and the riches
+which He bestows are everlasting; and yet to the call, gold and
+glory, young men answer by the thousand, while to the cry, Christ and
+a crown, they respond by the dozen! "Choose ye this day whom ye will
+serve."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+
+During these two missionary journeys the heart of our apostle was
+swelling with the woes of the sin-bound, and his brain contriving for
+their release. Upon his return he settled in New York state, and
+spent two busy years in working out his purposes. While waiting for
+their maturity he was most of the time in the large cities,
+particularly New York. Here he spent what might have been leisure, in
+visiting the poor in the neglected districts. He also wrote many
+letters; and in the churches, and everywhere, and upon everybody,
+urged attention to the world's great needs, and their great duties.
+As the result of this planning, waiting and working, he was permitted
+to see formed the American Bible Society, and the United Foreign
+Missionary Society. On the subject of city evangelization, he
+advanced ideas which we at this striving time might well study.
+
+The entire destitution of religious privileges which Mills had
+witnessed in the West and South, and the great desire of the people
+for the word of God, with their inability to supply themselves, made
+him eager for the formation of a National Bible Society, which should
+be large enough and strong enough to supply such great want. He had
+some hope of having the matter brought out at the general assembly of
+the Presbyterian church; but it was thought best to have it come
+about through the existing Bible societies, rather than have it bear
+the features of any denomination.
+
+The matter was kept constantly before influential people by this
+indefatigable man, and at last on the 8th of May, 1816, delegates
+from the different Bible societies of the United States convened in
+New York city, and resolved unanimously "to establish, without delay,
+a General Bible Institution, for the circulation of the Holy
+Scriptures, without note or comment." Before closing their sessions a
+constitution was adopted, managers elected, and an address issued to
+the people of the United States, informing them of the project, and
+inviting their sympathy and cooperation in this benevolent scheme.
+
+This was a great day to Mills, and those who saw him, sitting apart,
+watching with intense eagerness the deliberations of the convention,
+long remembered his delighted face. But how must the resources and
+usefulness of this society have exceeded even his fond hopes!
+
+As its first depository, it shared the office room of its agent. From
+time to time it was forced to move to larger quarters, until the year
+1853, when it located permanently, in its well-known building, The
+Bible House, on Astor Place, New York city. This edifice is of brick,
+six stories high, and occupies a solid block. In its first year, the
+society received $37,779, and issued 6,410 volumes; in its seventieth
+year (1886) its receipts were $523,910, and it issued 1,437,440
+volumes. In the Bible House, the working force--manufacturing and
+executive--numbers about 250. The auxiliaries which directly and
+indirectly center in this society, number about 7,000.
+
+From this great tree and its many branches, the leaves have been sent
+for the healing of nations. There are now but few countries where
+there are any impediments to the free circulation of the Scriptures.
+In our own land the society has afforded relief to its feeble
+auxiliaries, has supplied destitute Sabbath-schools, has endeavored
+to place the Bible in the common schools, to distribute it among
+soldiers and seamen, to furnish hotels, steamboats, railroads, and
+humane and criminal institutions. By it, the Bible has been
+circulated among immigrants, the destitute poor, the freedmen, the
+Chinese, and (in the Douay version) among Romanists. At four
+different periods the society has made exploration among the states
+and territories, to search and supply the destitute. Proportionately
+the number of families without the word of God is much smaller now
+than when the society was organized, notwithstanding the enormous
+growths in population.
+
+The society has attempted to send the Bible to all the inhabitants of
+the earth, accessible to its agents. It has established depots in
+almost every place where the American churches have missions. It
+circulates the Scriptures in more than eighty different languages and
+dialects. In 1856, in compliance with a special request, and by means
+of a special gift, the Society's Imperial Quarto English Bible, bound
+with extraordinary care, enclosed in a rosewood case, and accompanied
+by a courteous letter, was sent to each of the reigning monarchs and
+other chief magistrates of the world.
+
+Before the art of printing, the Bible was the most expensive book in
+the world. So late as the American Revolution, in its cheapest
+edition a volume could not be purchased for less than two dollars.
+This society now furnishes a copy of the entire book for twenty-five
+cents. It has made the Bible the cheapest book in the world.
+
+Mills, anxious to see every wheel set in motion for the advancement
+of Christ's kingdom, was restless because of the inaction of the
+Presbyterian church in the cause of Foreign Missions; again by his
+personal influence upon prominent men, another plan was matured. A
+committee was appointed by the General Assembly to confer with
+committees from the Dutch and Scotch churches, and a new society was
+formed, called the United Foreign Missionary Society. After a few
+years of efficient service this society was merged with the American
+Board, yielding to it its name and affairs.
+
+While so busy with these schemes just referred to, Mr. Mills was
+collecting all possible information in regard to South America. He
+desired to have the way opened for a mission in that country, and was
+willing to go himself to make the needed investigations. But it was
+seven years later when the American Board sent the first men to that
+field.
+
+In spite of these great enterprises, which must have been so
+absorbing of time and energy, this busy man found opportunity and
+strength to search out the squalid back streets of New York, and to
+go from house to house of its wretched inhabitants, giving sympathy,
+speaking words of Christian love and instruction, and where they
+would receive them leaving the word of God and good books.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS
+AFRICA.
+
+
+Abraham Lincoln, when a young man, made a journey into the South. Of
+all the impressions which those new scenes made upon him, the one
+deepest and strongest was that of slavery. It filled him with
+loathing, but kindled a zeal which never slumbered, until it cost his
+priceless life.
+
+It was such a spark which became a fire in the breast of Mills. What
+he saw and what he heard, during those southern tours, made him a
+willing martyr for the sake of Africa's sons and daughters. Their
+degradation made him ready to endure all things if only he could
+pierce the black cloud overshading them. His first effort resulted in
+a school, called the African School, for training young colored men
+to teach and preach to their own race. He then lent essential aid in
+the formation of the American Colonization Society.
+
+This society was composed of noble-minded men whose pitying attention
+was fastened upon the bondage, afflictions and heathenism of their
+black brothers, in this so called free land.
+
+Their aim was to furnish a refuge, in their own country, for those
+who were emancipated here, and it was their hope that such a scheme
+would do much toward the abolition of slavery.
+
+Their first effort was the collection of information: first, in
+regard to the condition of the slave here, that they might enlist
+general sympathy in their work. In a letter written by Mr. Mills
+about this matter, he said: "State facts. Facts will always produce
+an effect, at least on pious minds. You can easily possess yourself
+of facts, the bare recital of which will make the heart bleed." From
+the extensive observations he had made in the South, and by having
+the subject so long in his mind, he was very ready to "state facts,"
+and did so in every time and place. The information needed, in the
+second place, by the society was in regard to a suitable location for
+the colony, and the methods which would be required to obtain it. Mr.
+Mills was made their agent.
+
+He chose as a colleague, to share his responsibility, the Rev. Mr.
+Burgess. After some months of preparation they left America, planning
+to visit England first for information and assistance and then
+Africa, for the accomplishment of their errand.
+
+His father says of the "good-bye" which he bade him, at the time,
+that "he enjoyed peculiar peace of mind, committing himself entirely
+to the guidance and protection of the Almighty." He, who had endured
+so many hardships for Christ's sake, knew in whom he trusted.
+
+After about two weeks' sailing, they encountered a fearful storm and
+had need of all their faith. The wind blew furiously for thirty-six
+hours. The captain ordered the masts cut away and the decks cleared.
+He remained on deck, calmly giving orders, until they were driven
+almost upon a ledge of rocks. Despairing of any safety in the ship,
+he abandoned her, taking his children with him in a small boat. Some
+of those left on board the ship, in their agony of peril, were in the
+cabin, beseeching the mercy of Him who rules the violent sea. Others
+were on deck, where Mr. Burgess, praying aloud, commended their souls
+to God.
+
+All unexpectedly, a counter current bore them into deeper water, past
+the rocks. All exclaimed, "It is the work of God!" A gloomy night
+they spent tossing on the sea, but in the morning quiet came. The
+mate assumed control, and by using what crippled forces they could
+command, they found their way to a harbor of France.
+
+From there they proceeded to London. They were cordially received by
+a number of distinguished men and officials. Among them Mr.
+Wilberforce and Mr. Zachary Macauly, the former governor of Sierra
+Leone, who introduced them to the Duke of Gloucester. They met
+everywhere with Christian sympathy, and the kindest offers of
+service. Having obtained letters to the governors of colonies in
+Africa, they left England for the west coast, February 3, 1818.
+
+This voyage was a pleasant one, and brought them in about thirty days
+to the mouth of the Gambia. They anchored near the village of St.
+Mary's, and went to inspect this and other settlements. They made the
+acquaintance of the governors and the Europeans, everywhere gathering
+useful and pertinent facts.
+
+They proceeded south, visiting towns and villages, and calling upon
+the kings and head men. On these occasions they were received in the
+"palaver house," by the chiefs arranged in true African style,
+regardless of taste. One was described as wearing "a silver-laced
+coat, a superb three-cornered hat, blue-bafta trousers, considerably
+the worse for wear, and no stockings or shoes." The insignia of
+royalty were a silver-headed cane in one hand, a horse-tail in the
+other. Before the palaver could go on, the hosts must receive
+presents, and as their guests had oftenest been slave traders, rum
+and tobacco had become essentials.
+
+By means of interpreters they made known their friendly feelings, and
+that they had come from America. "That wise and good men had agreed
+to help the black people who wished to come to this country; that the
+design was a good one, and would promote the best interests of the
+black people both in America and Africa; that if they would sell or
+give tracts of their unimproved lands, the people who came would
+introduce more knowledge of the arts and agriculture, would buy such
+things as they had to sell, and would sell to them such things as
+they wanted;" that the children were to be educated; that they had
+come as messengers of peace and good tidings, bringing no weapons in
+their hands--that they did not desire war.
+
+They found that African kings knew the art of being slothful in
+business. They seemed to have no idea of dispatch, but would talk for
+hours without coming to the point. In general their reception was
+cordial, and, in some instances, more than that. Land was offered
+them in five different places. Their greatest obstacle was the
+unsavory reputation of the white men who had preceded them,--the
+slave-traders and merchants,--men who had been gross, violent and
+rapacious. One of the natives who saw Mr. Mills and Mr. Burgess in
+prayer, said he "never knew before that white men prayed!"
+
+They found that the natives would not be unwilling to give up their
+superstitions, and were gratified at the prospect of education for
+their children; that they would be glad to have God's word, and the
+pure religion it teaches. One old man with white hair and beard,
+wished for this good time to come at once; he wanted to know more
+about God's book before he died.
+
+The observations and inquiries which had been so conscientiously made
+by the agents, enabled them to report to their society that the
+project was both practicable and expedient. After due consideration
+of the instructions and recommendations of experienced foreigners,
+and the details of exploration, which this report furnished them, the
+society thought it most wise to proceed with the undertaking.
+
+After seeking needed individual and governmental aid, and perfecting
+so far as possible the organization, the first colony was sent to
+Africa in 1820. They endured the discouraging vicissitudes which are
+generally incident to new settlements, and in a few years success
+seemed certain.
+
+In 1847 LIBERIA became an established free republic. The constitution
+is modeled upon our own.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+THE LAST JOURNEY--BRIG "SUCCESS," FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1818.
+
+
+"We have taken an affectionate leave of the clergymen, the civil
+officers, and the colonists of Sierra Leone. We are embarked for the
+United States, by way of England; and the continent of Africa recedes
+from our view."
+
+This is the last entry in Mills' journal. Three months had been spent
+in Africa; months of unsparing toil, under a scorching sun, amid
+depressing pagan scenes. But the undertaking had been reasonably
+successful, and tired bodies had been upheld by grateful hearts.
+
+On shipboard once more, with faces turned homeward, opportunity came
+for fatigue to assert itself. The strength of Mills, never great at
+the best, began to fail. A deep spirituality, which had possessed him
+through all the journey, grew stronger and stronger. And as they were
+wafted, day by day, nearer home, it became evident that his spirit,
+too, was nearing its desired haven. Fever burned his body; but at
+last eternal health claimed his soul. Under a glowing sunset, he was
+buried, to wait until the sea surrenders its dead.
+
+The one great desire of his life, "to sit in some quiet corner and
+teach the perishing," was unfulfilled; but God through him had sent,
+and yet sends, many teachers to many far corners.
+
+Thirty-five years, only, of mortal life was allotted him in which to
+accomplish so much; yet it was time enough,--not because of his
+uncommon gifts, but because he knew the secret of well doing. He did
+not attempt to be the origin--the source, but gloried in being the
+channel through which God poured His great thoughts. No time was lost
+by obstructions; the dredge that kept the channel free was
+prayer--private, social, public, constant prayer, not for himself,
+but for God's glory.
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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