there are many testimonials to Mrs. Boardman’s personal loveliness and grace of manner.  In Calcutta, where she resided nearly two years, she was regarded as a “finished lady;” and in a well-written tribute to her memory, published in the Mother’s Journal, she is described as “of about middle stature, agreeable in personal appearance, and winning in manners.  The first impression of an observer respecting her in her youth, would be of a gentle, confiding, persuasive being, who would sweeten the cup of life to those who drank it with her.  But further acquaintance would develop strength as well as loveliness of character.  It would be seen that she could do and endure, as well as love and please.  Sweetness and strength, gentleness and firmness, were in her character most happily blended.  Her mind was both poetical and practical.  She had a refined taste, and a love for the beautiful as well as the excellent.”  But all these fine gifts and endowments were consecrated; the offering she had made on her Saviour’s altar was unreserved; nor do we find that she ever cast back to the world where she might have shone so brilliantly, “one longing, lingering look.”

She is said by her fellow Missionaries to have made wonderful proficiency in the Burman language, and indeed she translated into it Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.  She loved the language much; and used to read the Scriptures in it in preference to reading them in English.  She once said to Mrs. Mason, “I should be willing to learn Burmese, for the sake of reading the Scriptures in that language.”

The translation of the Scriptures into Burmese is a work for which Burmah is indebted to Dr. Judson For many years this devoted servant of Christ employed on this great work every moment he could spare from pastoral labor; and there is something truly sublime in the record he has left of the completion of it, in his Journal under date of Jan. 31, 1834:  “Thanks be to god, I can now say, I have attained!  I have knelt down before him, with the last leaf in my hand, and imploring his forgiveness for all the sins which have polluted my labors in this department, and his aid in future efforts to remove the errors and imperfections which necessarily cleave to the work, I have commended it to his mercy and grace; I have dedicated it to his glory.  May he make his own inspired word, now complete in the Burman tongue, the grand instrument of filling all Burmah with songs and praises to our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ Amen.”

CHAPTER XIV.

MRS. BOARDMAN’S SECOND MARRIAGE.—­REMOVAL TO MAULMAIN.—­LETTER FROM MRS. JUDSON.—­HER SON SENT TO AMERICA.—­HER HUSBAND’S ILLNESS.