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 CHARLES LATHROP WINSLOW, 
 WHO WAS BORN IN CEYLON, 
 
 JANUARY 12, 1821, 
 
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 MAY 24, 1832. 
 
 WITH AN APPENDIX, 
 
 Containing brief Notices of his Grandfather and Parents. 
 
 i: The isles shall wait for his lav/." — Isaiah xlii 4 
 
 NEW- YORK : 
 
 PUBLISHED BY JOHN S. TAYLOR & CO. 
 
 At the New-York Sunday School and Juvenile Book Depository, 
 Brick Church Chapel, 145 Nassau st. 
 
 1844. 
 
 
Digitized by the Internet Archive 
 
 in 2012 with funding from 
 
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
 
 http://archive.org/details/memoirofcharleslOOwins 
 
INTRODUCTION, 
 
 Much is said, and very properly, of the im- 
 provement, within a few years, of books for chil- 
 dren. It may be doubted however, whether many 
 of the works of fiction, now in their hands, do 
 not tend to produce in them an effeminacy of 
 mind as unfavorable to mental vigor, and a mor- 
 bidness of sensibility, as prejudicial to sound 
 judgment, as the vain stories which have been 
 displaced. Such marvellous histories as Tom 
 Thumb, and Jack the Giant-Killer, excited the 
 imagination, and like the Arabian Nights' En- 
 tertainment for older children, amused the fancy, 
 without conveying any valuable instruction ; 
 but they did not blind the judgment, because 
 they could not be soberly believed. The number 
 was also too small to produce much dissipation 
 
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IV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 of mind, and there was a corrective in the few- 
 sober books found in their company, which there 
 was time to read again and again, and on that 
 account, though perhaps with difficulty, the bet- 
 ter to understand, as the stomach digests harder 
 food the more readily, when it takes in but 
 little. 
 
 A taste for reading was then less common than 
 it is now, and when formed, was often improper- 
 ly directed ; but it was more sound and health- 
 ful than that arising from too highly stimulating 
 works of fiction, which destroy the appetite for 
 solid reading. 
 
 To obviate some of the evils, and secure as 
 far as may be, the many benefits cf the more 
 enlarged" libraries for children, it is desirable to 
 increase the number of sketches from actual life, 
 that the world may be seen by them as it is, and 
 religion as it has existed in reality, and not in 
 imagination. Biographies of the j^oung, are 
 therefore particularly useful. When children see 
 in those of their own age, an example of piety, 
 they are more easily impressed with its beauty, 
 and may be excited to seek its blessings. As it 
 is particularly desirable to cherish in them a 
 spirit of benevolence, and to teach them to send 
 their little hearts abroad, the memoir of one born 
 
INTRODUCTION. V 
 
 in a distant heathen land, though short, and 
 marked with but little variety, may be found 
 interesting and useful. 
 
 To supply a little that want of description of 
 natural scenery, desirable to give locality to the 
 subject of the memoir, and which was unavoida- 
 ble, as the compilation has been made by one 
 not acquainted with the country, the following 
 notice of the place where he was born, and spent 
 all his short life, except the few closing months, 
 is taken from a Journal of his father, written in 
 1825. 
 
 VIEW OF THE STATION. 
 
 " In coming from Jaffnapatam to Oodooville, 
 your way lies principally through populous native 
 villages, which appear at a distance, like a con- 
 tinued forest, on account of the large and tall 
 fruit, and other trees, beneath which the houses 
 are concealed. Indeed, the road, much of the 
 way, is shaded by the banyan, or the wide spread- 
 ing and thickly leaved margosa, which afford a 
 most agreeable protection from a tropical sun, 
 and look green and fresh, even when the fields 
 around are burnt up with heat. The continual 
 verdure of these and some other trees, gives a 
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VI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 richness to the scenery, which compensates, in 
 part, for its monotony. There being neither hill, 
 nor rivulet, nor even a solitary rock, but one un- 
 varied surface of level country, with a similar 
 variety of gardens, orchards, dry grain lands, 
 and rice fields, the prospect would be tiresome, 
 were it not enlivened, here and there, at all times 
 with the rich verdure of spring. A carpet of the 
 brightest green nature ever laid, is sometimes 
 seen here in the midst of what appears a sandy 
 waste. Such are the little spots cultivated du- 
 ring the hot season, in the midst of the rice 
 grounds, and watered from some tank or well. 
 The road to Oodooville is good. 
 
 "After passing through the village of Erneville, 
 four and a half miles from Jaffna, you come in 
 sight of the church and house, about one mile 
 distant, at the left hand. They are three 
 quarters of a mile from the main road, leading 
 on to Mallagum and Tillipally. The low gable 
 end of the church, and the front of the house, on 
 a line with it, both plastered and white-washed 
 outside, make a pretty appearance from the road 
 in passing, as the ground is quite level, and 
 nothing obstructs the view. In front of the 
 house is an open plain extending to the east, as 
 far as the eye can reach. A little distance back, 
 
INTRODUCTION. Vll 
 
 but not in sight, are rice fields ; and on either 
 side, the gardens and houses of Oodooville vil- 
 lage. The house and church, with the ground 
 belonging to them, are enclosed with a neat 
 living hedge, and we enter through a plain, 
 barred gate, (from the road which runs east and 
 west,) a walk running directly past the front 
 door of the church, to the south ena of the Viran- 
 dah of the house, a few feet beyond it. The 
 house is connected with the church by an arched 
 gateway, through which we go into the back 
 part of the garden, and with a long low stone 
 building parallel with the house, and about 20 
 yards back, used for a store-room and kitchen. 
 On a line with that, is a mud-walled bungalow, 
 occupied by the Female School, which has also 
 a school-room taken off from the west end of the 
 church. Immediately back of this room, is a 
 convenient bungalow, with mud walls, but 
 white-washed, occupied by the native assistant 
 at the station. The breadth of the church is 27 
 feet, and the whole length 130 feet, of which 
 only 90 are now taken up by the part occupied 
 for divine worship. 
 
 " The church, though low and narrow, cov- 
 ered with olas, without a ceiling over head, 
 and having only a moderate sized bell hung 
 
Vlll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 in a small tower at the top of the front gable end, 
 is a very decent and comfortable place, for a 
 native congregation; and what is better, it is 
 tolerably well filled on the Sabbath. The house 
 is covered with tiles, and like many other houses 
 here, is not ceiled over head ; so that the roof, 
 from which snakes and serpents sometimes fall, 
 is seen inside from the floor. There are two 
 decent rooms in front, and two narrow rooms 
 back. None of them are large, but they are 
 comfortable. 
 
 " There is a pleasant virandah in front, which 
 looks into a garden, where are roses, Indian 
 pinks, and various other flowers, most of them 
 peculiar to a tropical climate. There are, also, 
 in the garden, salads, as lettuce, parsley, &c, 
 and we cultivate cucumbers, watermelons, beans, 
 arrow-root, and some vegetables peculiar to the 
 country. We have plants of the orange, lime, 
 pomplemose, jack, mango, and some other fruit 
 trees ; and near the house is a vine, which is 
 beginning to bear very fine grapes. 
 
 " The principal thing to be seen in the garden, 
 however, which is on three sides of the house, is 
 the plantain, whose broad and fresh leaf, shooting 
 up, and then bending over like the leaf of a corn- 
 stalk many times magnified, affords a most agree- 
 
INTRODUCTION. IX 
 
 able relief to the eye, and a partial shade. By 
 giving out considerable quantities of moisture, 
 it allays the burning heat of the atmosphere. 
 During the dry season, that is, from the latter 
 part of January to the latter part of October, 
 when but little rain falls, large quantities of water 
 are drawn, almost daily, from the wells, and con- 
 ducted in little channels over the garden, which 
 also tends to cool the air. This watering is so 
 expensive, that the garden does not pay for itself, 
 unless the comfort, and almost necessity, of a 
 little shade around one, be reckoned in the ac- 
 count. 
 
 " There are two wells on the premises ; one an 
 old one, which was filled up when we came, and 
 another which we have dug. The latter is about 
 20 feet deep, and 30 feet in circumference, and 
 sunk nine feet into the rock, which forms the 
 basis of this District. It has usually nearly five 
 feet of water. The water is raised by a large 
 basket, attached by a rope or pole to a common 
 well-sweep, on which a man, by the help of some 
 pegs in the sweep, and some tall saplings on 
 either side for him to lay his hands on, steps 
 back and forwards to bring his weight on the 
 opposite side to the basket, when it is full, and 
 on the same side with it, when empty, while 
 
X INTRODUCTION. 
 
 another, directing the pole, or rope, fills and 
 empties the basket. By this simple contrivance, 
 about six gallons of water are raised at once, and 
 near a barrel in a minute, when they particu- 
 larly exert themselves. The whole body of 
 water in the well is easily drawn out by two 
 men, in a forenoon. This manner of watering 
 the lands, is common throughout the District, 
 though, in most parts, the wells are less deep 
 than they are here, and there are many tanks 
 from which the water is more readily raised. 
 1 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers 
 [channels] of water.' Ps. i. 3 " 
 
 Perhaps it may tend to make this account a 
 little more graphic, and to throw further light on 
 some parts of the Memoir, to add also the follow- 
 ing notice, from the same Journal, of the changes 
 which had then taken place in Jive years, and 
 which since, by the blessing of God, have been 
 still greater; as the number of native Free 
 Schools has, as we learn, been increased to twen- 
 ty, the members of the Female Central School 
 to fifty, and of members of the native church to 
 more than forty, in communion. 
 
 11 July 4, 1825. — Five years ago to-day, in 
 connection with brother and sister Spaulding, 
 
INTRODUCTION. XI 
 
 we took up our abode in this house, which had 
 then neither floors, doors, nor windows ; was not 
 plastered, and but partly covered. We lived, and 
 had all our effects, in a little unfinished room 
 about twelve feet square, while brother and sister 
 Spaulding had one of similar dimensions. But 
 we were happy, because it was our home among 
 the heathen ; nor has this home become less pre- 
 cious by having been made somewhat more com- 
 fortable, and by having become more like a mis- 
 sionary station. Then we had no Boarding 
 School ; only two native Free Schools; no suita- 
 ble place for preaching ; and none about us, who 
 wished to hear preaching. Only one young 
 man, a native assistant, who is not now here, 
 had any regard for Christianity. 
 
 " Now, there is a Female Boarding School ; 
 there are thirteen native Free Schools ; a decent 
 place for public worship ; a respectable congre- 
 gation, and a little church. The change in the 
 moral aspect at the station is, therefore, a little 
 like that in its natural scenery. When we first, 
 (four months previous to taking up our residence 
 here,) visited the place, it was " all grown over 
 with briers and thorns," in which the serpent 
 and scorpion lay concealed. The old broken 
 down walls of the church and house were the 
 
XII INTRODUCTION. 
 
 resort of owls and bats, and the supposed resi- 
 dence of evil spirits. The natives around feared 
 to come near the ruins, and the stranger quick- 
 ened his step, and cast a hasty glance at them, 
 in passing by. Let then the friends of missions, 
 and especially the contributors to this mission, 
 consider the change which their charity has 
 effected. Let them look at the stones revived 
 out of the heaps of rubbish ; at the ruins rebuilt ; 
 the place, like the other stations of the mission, 
 resurted to by multitudes to be benefitted in a 
 variety of ways; — the sick for healing; the 
 poor for charity; the ignorant, sometimes, for 
 instruction ; and many for various other purposes, 
 which bring them, for a short time at least, 
 within the sound of the gospel. 
 
MEMOIR, &c. 
 
 Charles Lathrop Winslow was the 
 son of the Rev. Miron WinsloWj American 
 missionary to Ceylon, and was born at that 
 island, January 12th, 1821. His father was 
 the son of Mr. Nathaniel Winslow, of Salisbu- 
 ry, Conn. ; his mother, Mrs. Harriet Winslow, 
 was the daughter of Charles Lathrop, Esq., of 
 Norwich, Conn. 
 
 In the appendix, the reader will find brief 
 notices of both of these grandfathers of young 
 Winslow ; through whom he could trace his 
 descent in an unbroken line of pious ancestry, 
 extending back to the time, when the pilgrim 
 fathers of New England first landed at Ply- 
 2 
 
14 MEMOIR OF 
 
 mouth. In his history, therefore, we shall 
 discover one more proof of the faithfulness of 
 God to his promises. " For his mercy is from 
 everlasting- to everlasting unto those who fear 
 him, and his righteousness unto children's 
 children ; — unto such as keep his covenant, 
 and remember his commandments to do 
 them." 
 
 His father is already well known to Ameri- 
 can Christians, as an able and faithful mis- 
 sionary, whose labors at Oodooville in Ceylon, 
 have been peculiarly blessed, and for whose 
 continued life and usefulness, the prayers of 
 the churches are daily offered. A few notices 
 of his early history and labors will be found in 
 the appendix. There also will be found a 
 brief record of Mrs. Winslow, who, about eight 
 months after the decease of this her only son, 
 followed him into eternity. 
 
 By these parents, he was given to God in 
 baptism, three weeks after his birth. Their 
 prayers attended his infancy, and their instruc- 
 tions guided his first inquiries after knowledge 
 and duty. To such parental faithfulness, spe- 
 cial blessings are promised by God. To those 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 15 
 
 who now enjoy, or have enjoyed the privileges 
 of such a birth-right, and such early instruc- 
 tion in the school of Christ, and such prayers 
 for their conversion, we would address the 
 words of the excellent Doddridge. 
 
 " You are the seed of God's servants ; you 
 were early devoted to God in baptism ; you 
 have a large stock of prayers laid up in the 
 presence of God for you. I do really appre- 
 hend, even the covenant of God with believing 
 parents bears a favorable aspect upon their 
 children : and though I dare not say, nor 
 think, that it secures their salvation, for I fear 
 fact lies strongly against such a presumption, 
 as we are sure it did even in the children of 
 Abraham ; yet there is some peculiar encour- 
 agement for such to seek the God of their fa- 
 thers. I believe the Spirit strives peculiarly 
 with them ; and that when they seek it, it is 
 more immediately and more fully communica- 
 ted to them than generally to others. And 
 sure I am, that those early instructions they 
 have received, have often a blessed resurrec- 
 tion in their hearts, even after they have been 
 long forgotten ; and the seed, which seemed to 
 
16 MEMOIR OF 
 
 have perished, often brings forth fruit in abun- 
 dance. And, therefore, thank God and take 
 courage. In his name and strength, set out 
 in your heavenly pilgrimage, with the word of 
 God in your hand and heart, and with your 
 eyes to the Spirit of God, as your guide and 
 strength : and be assured, there are many 
 who will bid you good speed in the name of 
 the Lord, and will rejoice to assist you in your 
 course." 
 
 As with the exception of his voyage to 
 America, and the few days spent here, the 
 whole life of Charles Winslow was spent at 
 Ceylon, our knowledge of his character and 
 conduct, is chiefly derived from the letters of 
 his parents, written without any view to publi- 
 cation, and containing the little details which 
 they knew would interest their American rela- 
 tives. "We shall, therefore, transcribe for the 
 reader these various notices, as they from time 
 time to occur, without any attempt to alter the 
 affectionate simplicity of the language, or to 
 give any more formal arrangement to details so 
 miscellaneous in their character. 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 17 
 
 August 19, 1822. 
 Charles learns fast to speak and understand 
 Tamul and some words of English, and is 
 imitating almost everything he sees. For a 
 few days past, we have had a carpenter at work 
 about the house, and Charles is frequently with 
 a piece of stick sawing a board or hammering 
 it. This afternoon he was much delighted 
 with a small saw made of iron, with which he 
 could make some impression on the boards. 
 The carpenter has also made him a wooden 
 hammer. We feel the want of amusements 
 for our children, in this country, and are very 
 glad to see Charles in the way to provide him- 
 self with some employment. His health was 
 never better. He regularly takes his two or 
 three rice cakes for breakfast, with a little rice 
 and currey, and has three put aside for tiffin — 
 beside these, all his food is milk ; — meat and 
 bread he will not willingly eat, and we don't 
 urge it. Charles likes much to go and sit 
 down on the floor with the girls, and eat some 
 of their rice and currey with his hands, after he 
 has knelt with them to ask a blessing." 
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18 MEMOIR OF 
 
 NARROW ESCAPE. 
 
 Jan. 11, 1823. 
 
 On Tuesday last, Mr. Winslow, Charles, 
 Harriet, and myself, commenced a ride for Har- 
 riet's health, who had been ill for some days. 
 The horse had not been in the gig for three 
 months, and was in rather high spirits. We 
 were only a few rods from the house, when 
 he took fright, and, at the same moment, 
 one of the reins breaking turned the gig 
 on to the roots of a large tree, and the next 
 moment, the other rein breaking increased 
 the horse's fright, and while running the gig 
 turned over. 
 
 Mr. Winslow jumped out, as the second line 
 broke, in the hope of stopping the horse, and 
 fell, so as to get a little bruised. I caught 
 Charles, who was sitting on the bottom of the 
 gig, and held him sometime, till he slipped 
 from my hand, and fell between the wheel and 
 shafts. Harriet remained in my other arm, 
 when we fell with the gig; she received 
 no injury. I was confident that I saw the 
 wheel go over Charles' body, and with the be- 
 
CHARLES L. WIKSLOW. 19 
 
 lief that he was killed, got up myself without 
 being aware that I was in the least hurt, until 
 the dear boy was in my arms, and I saw that 
 he was alive, and not a bone broken. [Mrs. 
 Winslow got home with some difficulty, and 
 was for a long time confined to her bed.] 
 
 Jan. 24, 1823. 
 
 Charles learns to talk very fast, and though 
 he understands a good deal of English, he will 
 seldom speak, except in Tamul. Should the 
 Lord change his heart, and make him a 
 preacher of the gospel to this people, it would 
 be a great advantage, to him, to have known 
 their language in early life." 
 
 Feb. 21. " Charles every day gets a kiss for 
 grandma. For a few days past, he is very 
 often aside with his book to pray and read. 
 He goes to a chair, calls for a psalm book, and 
 turns over the leaves till he finds the place, and 
 then makes noise enough to show that he dis- 
 tinguishes one note from another. After a 
 while, he closes his book, lays it down, and 
 then kneels and covers his face, while he moves 
 his lips in prayer. This being over, (and it is 
 
20 
 
 MEMOIR OF 
 
 sometimes quite long) he takes his book, sings 
 and prays again, often the third time. 
 
 Jan. 20, 1824. 
 
 I wish you could see Charles every day. 
 He is constantly employed. Sometimes with 
 a hammer and nails putting up boards for a 
 house — sometimes with flowers, with which 
 the garden abounds — again, with seeds of 
 various kinds, " making believe " boil rice and 
 currey in cocoa-nut shells — digging in the 
 garden, planting seeds — watering his plants, 
 writing to grandma, &c. (fee. 
 
 H3 and Harriet, his little sister, read togeth- 
 er once a day regularly, and, when well, more 
 than that. They are very affectionate, and 
 Charles is very watchful lest she should get hurt. 
 He was exceedingly grieved yesterday, when 
 she put her hand on something that he was 
 pounding, and he struck it, and hurt her very 
 much. 
 
 I do not see the tenderness of conscience in 
 this dear one, which I wish to see. It is a 
 privilege to feel and pray for him, and will ever 
 be so, though he should be cast off. But I 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 21 
 
 have a strong hope, that the Lord will add to his 
 mercies, this greatest one of our seeing him 
 walking in his fear. You cannot understand the 
 extent of our reasons for wishing to have our 
 children in America. But they are powerful. 
 
 April 24, 1824. 
 
 Charles has had a turn of fever for several 
 days. He is seldom ill, and then it is se- 
 verely. 
 
 Charles came to me the other evening, that 
 he might write to ma's country, and there was 
 no rest till he had got paper and pencil, and 
 filled as much paper as mother would allow 
 him to write. He then requested it might be 
 put carefully away, to be sent in the ship to 
 America. He often speaks of going in a great 
 ship, to see grandpa and grandma — and I 
 overheard him yesterday praying that pa and 
 ma might go to America. 
 
 Feb. 8, 1825. 
 Our little Charles is getting to be a great 
 gardener. He is very active and resolute, but, 
 at the same time, perfectly obedient. 
 
22 
 
 MEMOIR OF 
 
 Near the close of the year 1825, Mr. and 
 Mrs. W. took a voyage to Calcutta, on account 
 of the severe illness of the former. Little 
 Charles went with them, while his sister Har- 
 riet stayed behind, under the kind care of Mrs. 
 Spaulding. While these parents were thus 
 absent, their darling daughter, and Jane 
 Spaulding, the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. 
 S.j were removed by death of Cholera, within 
 a few hours of each other. 
 
 March 22, 1826. 
 
 Charles has talked much about death, since 
 his sister died. He tries to understand how 
 the soul would like to go to God. 
 
 We are now at sea, on our way home. He 
 is well and very active — climbing the ropes 
 — jumping up the ship's sides — making in- 
 struments to take an observation of the sun 
 to know our latitude, and all the "et csetera" of 
 overflowing boyish spirits. He seems now to 
 take to his book a little more than he has done. 
 Since we left home he has been much of the 
 time neglected ; and has made but little pro- 
 gress in reading. Charles could not love any 
 one more than he did Harriet. I never saw 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 23 
 
 brother and sister whose pleasures and pains were 
 so much one; and next to her he loved Jane. 
 
 The news of their death had a singular ef- 
 fect. He looked steadily at his father's face 
 when he told him, and though he saw us both 
 weeping, betrayed no emotion, but seemed to 
 make an effort, and turned away to seek the 
 children of the family for play. 
 
 When we afterwards spoke of them to him, 
 he listened rather reluctantly, but said nothing, 
 and though before, he would speak of them 
 twenty times in a day, always planning to tell 
 them of what he saw and heard, and getting 
 something to carry to them. He now never 
 mentioned their names. After about ten days 
 he was one evening amusing himself by my 
 side, unusually affectionate and free, and looking 
 up suddenly, said, " For many days I did n't like 
 to talk about Harriet and Jane — when mam- 
 ma talked about them, I did not like it. I wish 
 she would n't talk so." " And can you now talk 
 about them ? " " Yes, now I will." He then 
 made many inquiries about how long they were 
 sick — if they had much pain. &c, and was 
 quite affected, when I told him that his sister 
 called Charles twice, a few minutes before she 
 
24 MEMOIR OF 
 
 died. He has since spoken of them often, and is 
 anxious to know what Harriet wanted, when she 
 called him. After thinking, one day, he said, 
 " I think I know ; I think she w T anted to tell me 
 to be a good boy, and pray, and love God." He 
 sometimes says to himself, w dear Harriet 's 
 dead," " poor Harriet 's dead ; " and he says, 
 " do n't mamma know how many times she 
 said, i I want to die — I want to die and go to 
 God,' — now I think Harriet is in heaven." 
 
 March 16, 1827. 
 I had this evening, an interesting conversa- 
 tion with Charles. It seemed a new thought 
 to him, that those who go to hell, have never 
 after an opportunity to repent, and it was diffi- 
 cult to convince him that they cannot put an 
 end to their sufferings by killing themselves ; 
 he said, " but if Jesus should come to them 
 and call them, would they not love him and 
 go to him." 
 
 May, 1326. 
 Dear little Harriet lies beside our little babe 
 in the corner of our front and east garden, 
 where, God willing, our bodies will rest. Our 
 
CHARLES L. W1NSL0W. 25 
 
 dear Charles often goes there, and he said, last 
 evening, " Why, mamma, do you not go and 
 see where dear little Harriet lies ? She is very 
 near the little baby, side by side." He appeared 
 to try to forget her, and avoid speaking of her 
 death when we were away, and would gener- 
 ally comfort himself, if for a moment recollect- 
 ing his loss, in the expectation of finding Jo- 
 anna well, and much improved, so that she 
 could play with him ; but since we came to 
 Oodooville, he has mourned much that he could 
 notsee her. He says, "Oh, mamma, if Godhad 
 let dear little Harriet live, till we came home, 
 how glad I should be. I want to go to heav- 
 en, then I can see her." He has prayed that 
 God would let him die soon, so that he could 
 see Harriet. 
 
 Charles enjoys Joanna very much. Dear 
 fellow — I wish I were not so anxious about 
 him, and would be thankful, that I can cast 
 him on the Lord with more quietness than I 
 once did. He has, however, so much about 
 him that says, I will be something or nothing, 
 that I often tremble, and often know not my 
 duty toward him. He is very observing, and 
 3 
 
26 MEMOIR OF 
 
 inquisitive — thinks and speaks for himself. 
 I see dangers encircle him so that it almost 
 seems as though he cannot escape. 
 
 Nov. 1826. 
 We spent last evening in Manepy, and had 
 a precious time, quite like what we had in revi- 
 vals. We are hoping for times of refreshing 
 from the presence of the Lord, before the close 
 of the year. After meeting, I had an alarm, 
 which will show you how much we are in 
 danger and death, and how kindly preserved 
 from harm. After the last singing, when we 
 had all stood around the table, turning myself 
 to sit down in the chair behind me, my eyes 
 fell on a very poisonous snake at my feet. It 
 moved slowly from me towards Charles, who 
 lay on the floor asleep, about a yard distant ! 
 J had often thought of the possibility of seeing 
 a snake beside the children in bed, and know- 
 ing that if I did anything to disturb it in the 
 least, it would without doubt bite the child, I 
 stood and saw it approach, saw it go under his 
 pillow, come back, and then go over his face, 
 with emotions which cannot be expressed. The 
 agony of suspense I was in, as it crawled about 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 
 
 27 
 
 him, fearing lest he should move a little, and 
 the almost certainty that if he did we should 
 lose him by a horrid death, and then the joy 
 of seeing the creature fairly away from him, 
 was quite too much for me. 
 
 Nov. 28, 1826. 
 Charles is still very tender, in everything 
 that was connected with Harriet. You would 
 have been interested and affected yesterday. 
 After the meeting together by ourselves, we 
 called in the children, Charles, E. and J.; 
 said a few words about Jane and Harriet, 
 and, after a prayer, proposed to them each to 
 repeat a verse of a hymn, before a second 
 prayer. They stood up together, and Charles, 
 without our mentioning any particular one, be- 
 gan, " Tell me, mamma, if I must die." He fal- 
 tered and stopped, and was a good deal affect- 
 ed, for some time. It was a favorite hymn of 
 Harriet's. Everything which he recognizes 
 as once belonging to her, seems almost sacred, 
 and cannot be taken too great care of. 
 
 Oct. 26, 1827. 
 It would, I know, gratify our dear parents 
 to have heard Charles' conversation with me 
 
28 MEMOIR OF 
 
 this evening. We have prayers in Tamul 
 after early tea ; after that, Mr. W. goes to his 
 room, and Charles remains with me till his 
 bed-time, half past eight. He spends this time 
 in reading, that being the condition on which 
 he sits up so long. It is a favorable opportuni- 
 ty, for me to explain to him what he does not 
 understand in his reading, and in various ways 
 to make the task a pleasant one. He general- 
 ly chooses reading of a religious kind. Indeed 
 I am surprised to see with what avidity he 
 seizes on many historical parts in the Old and 
 New Testament — makes his reflections on 
 them, &c. &c. Long before he could read 
 himself, I commenced reading the Old Testa- 
 ment to him, omitting some portions, simplify- 
 ing and explaining the history so that he could 
 understand it. His first reading for himself 
 was to go on with what I had begun, in which 
 I gave him such assistance as he seemed to 
 require. This is his most pleasant study, and 
 he has many parts of Scripture history more at 
 his command, after once reading, than his 
 mother has, after having gone over the same 
 many times. The dear boy remembers facts 
 well, and anything that has been once clearly 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 29 
 
 impressed upon his mind, I never knew him 
 to forget. I think he has, in conversation with 
 me this evening, quoted more than a dozen 
 passages of Scripture, which he cannot have 
 read more than once ; but they carried a dis- 
 tinct thought to his mind, and are therefore 
 fixed there. 
 
 June, 1828. 
 Perhaps I cannot tell you of anything which 
 will interest you more than some account of 
 Charles. He often reminds me of you — not 
 in his appearance only, but in some of his 
 actions ; among others, he sleeps as soundly as 
 you used to do, and eats as heartily. In his 
 studies, he is of course backward, having no ad- 
 vantage of a school, and being instructed almost 
 wholly by his mother, who has so much of other 
 things to do, as often to neglect him. In 
 Arithmetic he is now the second time in the 
 "rale of three," — has just got through Cum- 
 ming's Geography — about half the English 
 Grammar, and a little in the Latin — finds it 
 hard to spell, as he has not the stimulus of a 
 class, but does pretty well — has written one 
 *3 
 
30 MEMOIR OF 
 
 t letter to his papa, but we have not thought 
 it best to hurry him in writing. He does not 
 „ love to commit hymns, and has never learnt 
 more than between 30 and 40. Catechism, 
 a small one, partly Emerson's and partly 
 his mother's — the Scripture Catechism as 
 far as he has read in the Bible, which is 
 now nearly the whole, and a part of the Assem- 
 bly's Catechism. He has gone nearly through 
 the historical parts of the Old and New Tes- 
 tament, with considerable understanding of 
 what he reads, as I have generally been with 
 him, and assisted to explain, &c. He has 
 lately been reading " Scenes in America ;" is 
 much amused with the pictures of scenes and 
 practices there, and wants to know if the peo- 
 ple he shall see, look and do so. He is inter- 
 ested in Biography, and many other little books 
 written for children, but nothing has engaged 
 his attention so much as Scripture history. I 
 am sorry to say, he does not love to pray, or 
 to think of his accountability to God. I fear 
 he will have much trouble with his heart, be- 
 fore it submits to Jesus, and I beg your prayers 
 for him, especially that it may be the will of 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 31 
 
 God early to make him a subject of renewing 
 grace. 
 
 Nov. 1828. 
 
 Charles last night prayed that the Holy 
 Spirit would come down as the rain, and water 
 all this dry country, and keep it wet, and not 
 let it get dry and hard any more, that the 
 people may be always ready to receive the seed 
 of God's word. Dear child, he prays sometimes 
 as though his heart ascended with his words, 
 and reads his Bible as though he had delight 
 in the sentiment and language. But I have 
 no reason to think that he is born again. 
 
 We add two specimens of his letters at this 
 age. 
 
 Oodooville. 
 My Dear Grandpapa, 
 
 I have written to grand mamma Lathrop, 
 and I think that my next letter must be to 
 you. I am a little boy, but 1 have heard of 
 grandpapa Winslow, and I wish to come to 
 America and see you. I had a little brother 
 named after George, and he was a sweet little 
 boy, and loved me, and I loved him very 
 
32 MEMOIR OF 
 
 much, but he died, and now I have one sister. 
 Papa and mamma say, that if I am a good 
 boy, perhaps I may come to America, when I 
 am 10 years old. I hope I shall see you and 
 grandmamma, and all my friends, when I 
 come. I am learning Arithmetic, Geography, 
 Latin, writing and spelling. I suppose I do 
 not learn so fast as boys in America do, but I 
 hope I shall, when I come there. Joanna is 
 not old enough to write you now. 
 
 Mamma says she looks like aunt Morton. 
 
 Please to give my love to grandmamma, 
 and to all my uncles, aunts and cousins. 
 I am 
 
 your affectionate grandson, 
 Charles L. Winslow. 
 
 Jan. 1830. 
 My Dear Grandpapa, 
 
 I have written to grandmamma but she 
 
 has not answered me, and 1 write to you ; I 
 
 think that I cannot find anything interesting, 
 
 but I will tell you that a week ago, we went 
 
 to Tillipally, and went to the sea north of T. 
 
 and got a large basket full of shells, and went 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 33 
 
 into the water the first day. but did not have 
 so fine a time as we had the next day, for 
 then I swam a little. I think that I will 
 come to America. Joanna is sitting by mam- 
 ma's side, and sewing, and ma is praising her, 
 and we are expecting every moment aunt 
 Spaulding and E. and then we shall leave 
 our work and run. We are expecting things 
 from America, and shall be very glad of the 
 book which grandmamma has sent. The les- 
 sons that I get are, — a Scripture lesson before 
 breakfast ; and after breakfast, the first lesson is 
 Latin, the second is Tamul, the third is 
 Airthmetic, the fourth is Writing, the fifth 
 is Geography, and the sixth is spelling ; and 
 after dinner, the first lesson is History, and 
 then my Journal. 
 
 Your affectionate grandson, 
 Charles L. Winslow. 
 
 Nov. 1829. 
 
 Our dear Charles has had two seasons of 
 
 unusual seriousness within the last month. 
 
 They have not left him as thoughtless as he 
 
 was before, nor have they been abiding as we 
 
34 MEMOIR OF 
 
 could wish. It is, however, a matter of thank- 
 fulness that he is not without some strivings of 
 the Spirit. 
 
 Feb. 1830. 
 Charles has been more than usually affect- 
 ed of late, at the thought that the children 
 of the heathen are converted, while he is not. 
 He has been more serious at times. 
 
 April, 1830. 
 
 Charles has had an attack of fever, and 
 been quite ill for a day or two, but powerful 
 medicines seem to have removed the danger 
 which we apprehended, and he is now sit- 
 ting up. He is seldom ill, but then very 
 severely, so that we always feel anxious at 
 once. This morning, as he was better, I 
 told him I hoped he was thankful, and that 
 he might get along, but perhaps God might 
 see fit to send more sickness upon him, to 
 make him think more of death, and be pre- 
 pared for it. He burst into tears, and said, 
 11 Mamma, I am not afraid to die. I know very 
 well, that God has not given me up." 
 
 Charles has been unusually affected by the 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 
 
 meeting this afternoon, but he says, " These 
 feelings go off so soon, that is the difficulty, 
 mamma." 
 
 Oct, 1830. 
 Charles told Mr. W., that he had a hope 
 that he was a Christian. He is altered very 
 much of late, in willingness to attend meet- 
 ings — in his manner of praying, and tender- 
 ness of conscience. He often weeps when 
 Christians weep, and talks as they talk — but 
 I fear he knows nothing of the evils of his 
 heart. 
 
 Nov. 20, 1830. 
 G. (a native,) had spent the day at B. and 
 told what he had seen among his old compan- 
 ions and friends in the seminary ; — how some 
 who had been possessed with evil spirits, were 
 now sitting clothed in their right mind. Some, 
 he said, who had been exceedingly opposed to 
 the truth, had held meetings to ridicule the 
 Bible and those who loved it, and had commit- 
 ted sins too bad to be mentioned, are now with 
 many tears crying to God for mercy. No one 
 
36 MEMOIR OF 
 
 who has not been with them as he has, and 
 known them thoroughly as I have, can con- 
 ceive the alteration. He had also been near, 
 so as to know what was going on in the meet- 
 ing of the children, heard their groans and 
 sobs and prayers, and seemed much affected, 
 and turning to Charles addressed him with 
 much feeling, and I hope with effect. Poor 
 Charles thought it new times to be exhorted by 
 a native, and was quite overcome. 
 
 Oodooville, Dec. 25, 1830. 
 My Dear Grandpapa Winslow, 
 
 When grandmamma Lathrop asked me how 
 I felt, I told her that first I hoped that I had 
 given myself to Christ, but that I had a little 
 doubt then ; but now I feel that I have truly 
 given myself to Christ. 
 
 On the 21st of Dec. mamma invited the 
 children of the missionaries who wished to 
 spend a day in seeking earnestly the salva- 
 tion of their souls, to come to Oodooville, and 
 four came ; the others were sick. One had a 
 fever, and the others a bad cold ; but we had 
 a very good, and a very pleasant time. There 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 37 
 
 has been a revival, as we hope, and many are 
 inquiring, " What shall we do to be saved ? " 
 and we hope that some have given themselves 
 to Christ ; and all the oldest children of the mis- 
 sionaries are feeling a good deal. We hope 
 that two have given themselves to Christ. 
 
 Jan. 5. I have another sister. I hope 
 that God will keep you all till I come. Papa 
 says that my sister has no name, and asks if 
 you have a name to spare. 
 
 Your affectionate grandson, 
 Charles L. Winslow. 
 
 Mr. Nath'l Winslow. 
 
 [Published in the Conn. Sabbath School Herald.'] 
 
 Charles' parents now resolved to send him 
 to America for his education, for reasons which, 
 as they were situated will commend them- 
 selves to every parent's heart. The following 
 extract will show how painful the parting was, 
 to his affectionate parents and to himself. 
 
 Oct. 1831. 
 Dear Charles feels as though his time to be 
 with us is short. Tonight after he had said 
 4 
 
38 MEMOIR OF 
 
 " good night," with a kiss (as he usually does) he 
 threw himself down, saying, " Oh, these good- 
 nights, where will they be on board ship?" 
 He told Mr. Spaulding, u Ido very well through 
 the day, but when night comes, I think of 
 mamma." Charles' disposition is such, that we 
 have never dared to place him under a native 
 teacher, except to learn Tamul, an hour or so 
 in the day, so that he has always been more 
 or less hindered by the many cares and em- 
 ployments of his father and mother, and his 
 progress in study has not corresponded with 
 his ability. The dear child is pleased with 
 the prospect of going to America, as he has 
 always been, but he says, " Mamma, when we 
 only talked about it, it was not quite certain, 
 but now, since it is certain, I feel differently." 
 Mother can say the same. I have no misgiv- 
 ings of judgment, but my feelings as a mother 
 none can know. It is unnatural for parents 
 to send a child of his age from them with 
 little expectation of seeing him again ; and 
 it was perhaps unnatural for us to leave 
 our parents, but I have no more doubt of my 
 duty in this case, than I had in that ; — and I 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 
 
 39 
 
 think I give stronger proof of love to my child 
 by this act, than I could possibly do by detain- 
 ing him here. 
 
 The time now came, for Charles' departure 
 from Ceylon for America. And this seems 
 the proper place for the following interesting 
 sketch of his early life, and Christian conduct, 
 written by his afflicted mother, shortly after 
 receiving the tidings of his death, and only a 
 few weeks before her own. 
 
 Oodooville, Jaffna, Nov. 23, 1832. 
 Dear Sister F. — 
 
 We have just heard that the " Star " will 
 come to Madras next month, and on account 
 of an opportunity to send to you, and as, just at 
 this time, I feel that what I do must be done 
 quickly, I commence a sheet to yourself and 
 brother H., the first object of which shall be 
 to notice your request, to give you some inter- 
 esting facts of our dear lamented Charles. 
 
 Had I anticipated the event which has so af- 
 flicted us, I could have treasured on paper as 
 well as in memory, many things which to you 
 
40 MEMOIR OF 
 
 and to us would be interesting, especially such 
 as occurred in some of the last months and 
 weeks he spent at home. As it is, my 
 memory would do him less justice than my 
 heart. My letters to Mamma have from time to 
 time contained anecdotes of him to which T 
 cannot add much from recollection, or from 
 memorandums by me. I have, I think, often 
 alluded to his strong attachment to his parents 
 and sisters, of which you had some proof in his 
 tender recollection of them after his arrival in 
 America, and in his sea-journal. I think that 
 a desire to please his parents and add to their 
 comfort, more powerfully influenced him to 
 duty, than any other motive. One proof of 
 this is his writing daily in his journal, as writ- 
 ing was particularly irksome to him. 
 
 He seemed often to have no care of his own 
 convenience and comfort, when it came in com- 
 petition with ours. 
 
 He often refused food at the table that he 
 thought I should like, however much he loved 
 it, until he saw that I did not wish for it, and 
 would often urge me to take what I declined, 
 thinking that I denied myself for him, saying, 
 
CHAFLES L. WINSI^OW. 41 
 
 " Do, mamma, I do not want it ; " and if 
 sometimes I complied with bis wish, he would 
 seem quite happy. 
 
 When he had done wrong, nothing would so 
 soon fill his eyes with tears as to see us grieve. 
 Our sorrows touched his heart as though they 
 were his own, and when he had occasioned 
 them, it was to him doubly trying. 
 
 During the last weeks of his stay with us, 
 when the time for leaving was fixed, in all 
 his prayers with me, which were very fre- 
 quent, his burden seemed to be that the 
 Lord would comfort his dear parents when he 
 w r as gone, and not let them be too sorry. He 
 prayed in this w T ay much more for us than for 
 himself; and I believe the fear that w r e should 
 suffer from his absence was more trying than 
 anything he anticipated for himself; as he very 
 properly said, "I shall see many new T things, 
 and my mind will be diverted, but you, mamma, 
 will be always in the same place.- J 
 
 On his journey to Madras and during his 
 
 stay there, which occupied little more than 
 
 three weeks, he wrote me ten notes and letters. 
 
 In one of them he says, " I wish much to know 
 
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42 MEMOIR OF 
 
 how you feel, if you feel lonely in the evening, 
 and how dear Joanna feels, and papa," &c. &c. 
 To his sister Joanna, " You must be a good girl, 
 and obey papa and mamma, and be kind to 
 your little sister. Try to supply my place and 
 yours as well as you can." 
 
 His affection for his sisters and care of them 
 was very noticeable, by all who visited us ; and 
 he did not regard it, when by way of ridicule 
 he was sometimes called the little nurse. 
 Their attachment to him was sufficient evi- 
 dence of all this, for he was the moving spring 
 of all their joys, when play hours allowed him 
 to be with them ; and you will not wonder that I 
 had much pleasure in the anticipation of this 
 attachment continuing when they should be 
 removed from us to the land of our birth : and 
 his judgment and discretion on common sub- 
 jects such as their behavior, dress, food, &c, 
 led us to hope that he would be very useful to 
 them there. 
 
 His purity of mind was such as, in this pol- 
 luted atmosphere, we could not too much prize. 
 As is common and unavoidable here with chil- 
 dren, however well they may be guarded, he 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 43 
 
 often heard language from the natives to 
 which decent people of youthful or mature age 
 in America are entire strangers, but I never 
 knew or heard of his using either profane or 
 filthy language. It was said by one of his 
 favorite playmates, " Mamma, Charles W. 
 loves to play as well as we do, but he never 
 uses bad words; — though other children do so, 
 I never heard himP This I attributed, in the 
 first place, to his knowing that all such words 
 and thoughts are sinful ; and in the second 
 place to his feeling that they are too mean and 
 low to be practiced by one who wishes to do 
 right. 
 
 With the domestics he was a universal 
 favorite. The old woman especially who was 
 his nurse feels as though she had lost the best 
 friend she had on earth — many prayers did 
 he early and late offer for her, and would make 
 sacrifices for her comfort. 
 
 He was very considerate of her infirmities 
 and wants, and often through his intercession 
 obtained favors for her which she would not 
 otherwise have obtained. He would remem- 
 ber to see if there was a cup of tea or coffee 
 
44 MEMOIR OF 
 
 left after supper, and give it her with his own 
 hand ; if she was ill he would ask if she wanted 
 this or that, and was generally ready to share 
 his fruit and many other things with her if he 
 saw that she was not otherwise likely to have 
 any. Towards the other domestics he was a 
 medium of receiving favors ; they generally 
 applying to him to ask for them, and he 
 almost always thought they particularly need- 
 ed what they asked for, and ought to be grat- 
 ified. 
 
 He was obedient — never that I recollect 
 wilfully disobeying his parents, and his word was 
 seldom if ever doubted. He was much impress- 
 ed with the words, " The eye that mocketh at 
 his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the 
 ravens of the valley shall pluck it out, and 
 the young eagles shall eat it," and he me- 
 ditated on them with a kind of horror. He 
 knew that " liars shall have their part in the 
 lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." 
 He saw many evils from lying in the peo- 
 ple around him, and he also often thought of a 
 maxim descended to him from his grandmother, 
 "Never to do what you would be ashamed to be 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 45 
 
 seen doing." It was, therefore, when under the 
 influence of these thoughts and feelings, less dif- 
 ficult for him to refrain from speaking falsely, 
 than is the case with some children. The poor 
 beggars were objects of his great compassion. 
 For two years or more he was in the constant 
 habit of accompanying me to give them rice 
 &c, and to spend some time in giving them reli- 
 gious instruction. He often exhorted them to 
 repent, &c. They were much affected on hear- 
 ing of his death, and some of them made so much 
 ado that I was obliged to forbid their coming 
 to me, as I was not able to see and hear their 
 expressions of grief. Indeed he seemed par- 
 ticularly desirous for some time to be useful to 
 theheathen, and often admonished such as came 
 to the house. One old woman (the mother 
 of a schoolmaster) since his death has reminded 
 me of a number of instances when, said she, 
 " I stood by that door, or sat on the mat there, 
 and he said, ; you must repent now, you are an 
 old woman and will die soon, you must think 
 of what Jesus Christ has said and done for you, 
 and love him.' " The girls in the school also were 
 often admonished, and exhorted by him ; — one 
 
46 MEMOIR OF 
 
 evening in particular they will never forget. It 
 was during the last revival, when he was more 
 serious than ever before, and himself thought 
 he had accepted the terms of salvation. We 
 were absent. He, after seeing the little ones 
 asleep, proposed to have a meeting with the 
 girls as mamma does ; it being the evening I 
 usually held a meeting with them, and he was 
 generally present. He prayed and exhorted 
 them, as they afterwards said, with earnestness 
 and feeling such as they almost never witness- 
 ed. It was somewhat characteristic of him 
 that he said nothing of it to us after our return, 
 and we should not have known it but from 
 others. 
 
 He had, at quite an early age, a good 
 knowledge of Scripture history. Long before 
 he could read himself, I commenced reading 
 to him the Old Testament, omitting some 
 portions, and explaining or simplifying the his- 
 tory so that he could understand it. His first 
 reading for himself was to go on with what I 
 had besfun in connection with studvino' Emer-* 
 son's Scripture catechism. — which indeed was 
 scarcely a study, as he had the facts in his 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOVV. 47 
 
 mind from his reading, — and proceeding no fur- 
 ther in it than he had read in the Scriptures. 
 The Bible was in this way his most pleasant 
 reading book, and he had the principal histori- 
 cal facts in the Old and New Testament 
 treasured up in his mind, when he had read 
 but little else — and any text of scripture that, 
 in reading or otherwise, had conveyed a distinct 
 thought to his mind, (and there were many 
 such) was never forgotten, but often referred to 
 and quoted in conversation. Indeed I never 
 knew him to forget anything that he had once 
 distinctly understood, and committing to me- 
 mory what he did not understand was so much 
 of a task that it was perhaps too seldom forced 
 upon him. Hence his deficiency in the rules 
 of Grammar, Arithmetic, and in spelling ; 
 while he had gone through with Colburn's 
 Mental Arithmetic, and generally understood 
 well the meaning of words, and used as correct 
 language as most persons of good education. 
 
 His evenings were generally spent with me 
 alone in reading and conversation, — when quite 
 young till eight o'clock, and afterwards till nine 
 and half past nine o'clock, — and these are the 
 
48 MEMOIR OF 
 
 seasons, on which more than all others my mem- 
 ory delights to dwell, when he gladly turned 
 aside from the common amusements of children, 
 and especially of boys, to sit down in a retired 
 room with his mother, open his mind to her in- 
 struction, and into her bosom pour out all his 
 heart. Here he confessed his sins and wept over 
 them, and here I felt that I had an influence 
 which no precepts nor threatenings could give 
 me under other circumstances. He never seem- 
 ed so happy, as at these seasons, and would, 
 when by sickness or any other cause, we had 
 been interrupted, lament that he could not enjoy 
 our pleasant evenings, and ask, " When may 
 we have those pleasant evenings again ? " 
 
 He read principally at these times Rollin's 
 Ancient History, Goldsmith's England, Robert- 
 son's America, a history of Ceylon, and some 
 smaller histories, besides the Bible. He used to 
 make frequent remarks upon what he read, 
 and often anticipated what would be the result 
 of this or that course, when pursued without 
 the fear of God. Such books also as Chalmer's 
 Sermons, and Watts' World to Come, he was 
 particularly pleased with. The latter he read 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 49 
 
 a number of times. The Assembly's Cate- 
 chism he did not begin to learn until able, with 
 assistance, to understand it in a good degree ; 
 and had not gone quite through it when he 
 left. 
 
 He was, for a considerable time, in the habit 
 of taking notes of sermons,* which he heard, 
 though he sometimes complained that he did 
 not understand what was meant. 
 
 Sabbaths here are less interesting to chil- 
 dren than they are at home. There is 
 nothing imposing to the senses in our public 
 worship, and there are no associations of chil- 
 dren in Sunday Schools, except of the natives, 
 as there ; but Charles used generally, to attend 
 to his private duties before breakfast, and 
 after it repeat or sing, " Welcome sweet day of 
 rest," &c, after which, and prayers, he would 
 go with me to the Sunday School of girls until 
 meeting time, and after meeting go to the 
 poor beggars, of whom we have usually about 
 fifty. After an hour with them, the intermis- 
 sion, until 4 o'clock-preaching, was spent in 
 
 * The sermons were all in Tamul, which, however, he un- 
 derstood and spoke as well as English. 
 
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MEMOIR OF 
 
 study, (generally Judson's Questions) reading, 
 and care of his sisters ; and the evening with 
 his papa was always pleasant, and I think very 
 useful to his mind and heart. 
 
 In his seasons of more than usual serious- 
 ness, which towwds the close of the time of his 
 stay with us were frequent, he seemed aware 
 of the danger that they might not be perma- 
 nent, and with many tears used to pray that 
 he might "not be suffered to grieve the Holy 
 Spirit this time, as he had done before." It 
 was his usual practice to pray alone in the 
 morning, and with me in the evening after 
 our reading a portion of Scripture together. 
 On Sabbath evenings, he gave his Sunday 
 lesson to his papa, after which " they had a 
 season of prayer and religious conversation to- 
 gether, and we have often remarked that his 
 prayers were the language of a mature Chris- 
 tian, sometimes very affecting to us, as well as 
 seeming to proceed from an overflowing heart, 
 in him. The burden of them was, that he 
 might hate sin more and more, and be holy as 
 Jesus was holy, and this with the strongest 
 expressions of sorrow for sin, and longing to 
 
CHARLES L. WINS LOW. 51 
 
 be freed from it, and washed clean in the Sa- 
 viour's blood. " There is a fountain filled with 
 blood," &c. was a favorite hymn, to which he 
 often alluded in his prayers. 
 
 The first time he expressed a decided hope 
 to me, was, I think, when he had a severe 
 attack of illness. I expressed a hope that he 
 was decidedly better, but added, " It may be 
 that God will send a severe sickness upon you, 
 to make you feel that you are in danger of death, 
 and lead you to prepare for it." 
 
 He immediately burst into tears and said, 
 " Mamma, I am not afraid to die ; I am sure 
 God has not given me up." He was then too 
 weak to say much in explanation of his feelings, 
 but the simple fact that he was not afraid to 
 die was some evidence of a change of heart ; 
 as death to children in this country, appears 
 among the heathen only in the most forbidding 
 forms. 
 
 Charles had heard much of the joys of heav- 
 en, and had not to my knowledge any unusual 
 dread of death, except at times after having 
 witnessed it in the heathen. 
 
 When about six years of age, one evening, 
 
52 MEMOIR OF 
 
 as he was riding with us, we passed a funeral 
 pile, on which a body had been just laid, and 
 a fire kindled. On our return, he expressed a 
 desire to see it near, and his father went with 
 him. The body was nearly half consumed, 
 and the remaining half left quite exposed ; as a 
 strong wind was blowing the flames from it, 
 Charles looked at it steadily without any re- 
 mark, but his countenance, as he returned to 
 the chaise, plainly showed that new and dis- 
 tressing thoughts were revolving in his mind. 
 After his return home, there was none of his 
 usual cheerfulness and he could not sleep after 
 going to bed. 
 
 It was not for some time that the impression 
 left his mind, and he ever after referred to the 
 sight as the most horrid he had witnessed. 
 
 Once he saw people bringing a body to bury 
 near our house, and this he did not think much 
 of, as he had seen his own dear brothers and 
 sisters laid in the grave. He therefore went 
 out with a friend who was staying with us. 
 The body was larger than the grave prepared 
 for it, and as is often done here, after being laid 
 partly in it, some one or more stepped in upon 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 53 
 
 the almost naked body, and crowded it down 
 with their feet. 
 
 This was another shock to the dear boy's 
 feelings, from which he did not soon recover, 
 and especially as he was often reminded of 
 both these scenes by the flames of the funeral 
 pile, quite in view from our front door, and by 
 the dead being constantly buried on both sides 
 the road leading down from the house. 
 
 He had also frequent providential warnings 
 that he was in constant danger of death, from 
 the bite of serpents, as well as from sickness 
 and other causes. At one time while he was 
 lying asleep on the floor, with a pillow under 
 his head, a beaver snake, which is considered 
 ve-y poisonous, came over the whole length of 
 his body, went under his pillow, and then re- 
 turned over his face. At another time, some- 
 thing falling from the roof into the chair where 
 I was usually sitting at that hour, he ran to 
 see, and as it was pretty dark thought it a stick 
 of wood, and put out his hand to take hold of 
 it, when it showed itself to be a serpent. At 
 another time one fell from the.roof on him. 
 
 He however seemed to think of his sins, as 
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54 MEMOIR OF 
 
 much as of his exposure to danger and to 
 sudden death. One evening 1 well recollect, 
 when he was so affected with thinking of his 
 sins and his danger, that be begged me to pray 
 with him, and himself prayed alone and with 
 me three or four times, appearing to feel that 
 he could not go to bed till his sins were par- 
 doned, and he had a new heart. Another 
 time at a quarterly meeting, during the sermon 
 he was so affected as to weep, which he sel- 
 dom did, when he could be observed ; and du- 
 ring the administration of the Lord's Supper, 
 as he stood by me, put his hand behind my 
 chair and sobbed and wept, and continued to 
 to do so when we were at prayer, and nearly 
 all the time afterwards. On inquiring after- 
 wards why he did so, he said that he felt as 
 he never did before, and he wanted to come 
 also to the Lord's Supper. This desire he often 
 afterwards expressed, and regularly atttended 
 the meetings at the station which were held for 
 inquirers, and those who wished to make a 
 public profession of their faith in Christ. This 
 was the more noticeable in him as he always 
 avoided any unnecessary exhibition of his feel- 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. bO 
 
 ings ; many times dashing the tears from his 
 eyes with his fingers, and turning his head 
 away when he thought he might be ob- 
 served. 
 
 I have thus, my dear, endeavored to comply 
 with your request, as well as my time and 
 circumstances will admit. I have found it hard 
 work to go on with what affects me so much, 
 and especially as I could do it so little to my 
 satisfaction. If it affords our beloved mothers 
 and brothers and sisters any pleasure, I shall 
 feel recompensed, and only regret that I could 
 do him no more justice. 
 
 There are a thousand things on which we can 
 dwell with pleasure, that cannot be conveyed 
 toothers, and the more we think of our dear 
 one of whom we hoped so much, the more thank- 
 ful we are that we enjoyed him so long, that 
 he was so pleasant, and I hope the more wil- 
 ling are we to have him just where he is, 
 though ourselves and others are deprived of 
 him. 
 
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 The history of Charles, after having said 
 farewell to his parents, at Oodooville, until his 
 arrival in America, will be found in the follow- 
 ing extracts from his letters and journals, writ- 
 ten only for his parents' eye, and now pub- 
 lished without alteration, from his artless tran- 
 scripts. 
 
 Copy of a note addressed to his parents from 
 Madras, ( Written in pencil.) 
 
 My dear Parents, 
 
 The Star has not yet arrived, but I hope it 
 will come soon, and I hope I shall soon get to 
 America, and see my friends. I sometimes 
 feel sorry, but then I hope that we may meet 
 again in this world, but if not, I hope we all 
 shall meet in the world to come, on the right 
 hand of God. I still feel that I have given 
 myself to God, and that he will take care of 
 me on the ocean, and on the land, when I am 
 alone and when I am in different circumstan- 
 ces than what I would be if I was at home. 
 At certain times I feel a good deal, but still I 
 hope that God will take care of me and 
 you all. 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 57 
 
 Extracts from the Journal kept by Charles 
 L. Winslow, on board the Ship Star, on 
 his voyage to America, January 20th, 
 1832. ' 
 
 My dear Parents, 
 
 January 21, Saturday. — Last evening at 
 eight o'clock Mr. Spanieling left me on board, 
 and went on shore. We took up anchor, and 
 sailed yesterday. As Mr. S. was with me, I 
 did not feel much, and when he left me, I did 
 not feel much, but now I feel the loss. This 
 morning arrived at Pondicherry, where I wrote 
 to you, and sent to Madras. 
 
 22, Sabbath. — This morning I felt very 
 much, and thought a good deal about you. 
 There has been no preaching nor prayers. 
 
 Yesterday afternoon we left Pondicherry. 
 The work has gone on as common. I want 
 to ask you if it is right to arrange things on 
 board on Sunday. 
 
 23, Monday. — To-day we are in Lat. 8° 
 32', and Long. 82°. Last night it began to 
 rain, and it has rained till twelve this noon. 
 
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 I have been unhappy to-day. This morning 
 one of the sailors died, who was sick when Mr. 
 Spaulding came on board. This afternoon 
 they threw hi in overboard. 
 
 26, Thursday. — To-day we are in Lat. 
 1° 34', Long. 81° 16'. It has not rained this 
 morning, and it has been very pleasant. I 
 still feel a good deal, but the Lord has comfort- 
 ed me. I wish there was a Christian on board, 
 that I could follow the example of, but I pray 
 to God to show me how to walk. I have gone 
 on with my lessons to-day as common. 
 
 27, Friday. — This morning at eleven, we 
 crossed the Equator at Long. 80° 35'. I have 
 been rather unhappy to-day, and have thought 
 a good deal about you. 
 
 29, Sunday. — We are in Lat. 2° 2', Long. 
 79° 1 V. I have been very unhappy to-day, 
 but when I am, I go and pray, and am a little 
 comforted. I studied my Judson's Questions, 
 Catechism, and read the Bible a great deal, 
 and I thought of you a good deal, especially 
 when I thought you were in church, and wish 
 I could be with you. They caught a fish to- 
 day, which I am sorry to say. 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 59 
 
 30, Monday. — I have not been so unhap- 
 py to-day as I was yesterday, but I have 
 thought of you, especially when I thought you 
 were at prayers, because they do not have 
 prayers here. 
 
 February 1, Wednesday. — We are in 
 Lat. 7° 2' Long. 80° 43'. It has been very 
 pleasant to-day, and 1 have been happy, but I 
 have thought of you. Mr. Brown, the mate, 
 caught a Dolphin to-day. It is a beautiful 
 fish. When it is in the water its back is all 
 blue ; but after it was caught, the blue turned 
 into a gold color. 
 
 3, Friday.— Lat. 8° 20', Long. 80°. Ihave 
 thought of you a great deal to-day. I got all 
 my lessons. It has been very hot, not much 
 wind. 
 
 The serious thoughts that I had, I have 
 still, and I love to read the Bible and pray 
 very much — it seems to comfort me a great 
 deal to pray. 
 
 7, Tuesday. — I have thought a good deal 
 about you, my dear parents, but God has com- 
 forted me, and I hope he will comfort you. I 
 know that you have sent me, intending it for 
 
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 my good, and I hope God will qualify me to 
 become a missionary. 
 
 8, Wednesday. — It has been pleasant to- 
 day. I have thought a good deal of you to- 
 day. When I think of you, I pray to God, 
 and afterwards a thought comes into my mind 
 that when God has placed me in such circum- 
 stances, why should I feel so ? While I am 
 praying I am comforted, and I hope the Lord 
 hears my prayers and yours. 
 
 9, Thursday. — It has been very pleasant 
 to-day, and I have got all my lessons, and 
 begun a letter for you, my dear parents, in 
 hopes of speaking a ship coming to Calcutta, 
 or Madras, so you may know before you see 
 my journal, which you may not for eight months 
 or more. 
 
 Copy of a letter written on board the Ship 
 Star, dated February 7th, 1832. 
 
 My dear Parents, 
 
 1 commence a letter to you, in hopes of 
 speaking a ship coming to Madras or Calcut- 
 ta. We are now, by the blessing of God, in 
 Lat. 17° 53', and Long. 71° 16'. We have 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 61 
 
 had a great deal of rain thus far, but I hope 
 we will not have any gales off the Isle of 
 France. On January the 19th we heard of 
 the arrival of the ship Star at Madras, and I 
 was very glad to hear it. The next day we 
 came on board. The next day was Friday, 
 and in the evening at eight o'clock, Mr. Spaul- 
 ding left us on board, . and went ashore. At 
 ten o'clock the same evening, we took up an- 
 chor, and sailed down to Pondicherry. The 
 next morning at eight, we anchored at Pondi- 
 cherry, and at eleven o'clock in the night, set 
 sail again from Pondicherry. I felt very much 
 on the next day, as it was Sunday, and I thought 
 it was not kept as it ought to have been at sea, 
 but I did not say anything about it. I was 
 unhappy so for ten or twelve days ; then the 
 Lord comforted me. 
 
 January 11, 1832. — We are in Lat. 21° 
 12' and Long. 68° 28'. I did not write yes- 
 terday, because it rained so much. I think of 
 you a great deal, my dear parents and sisters, and 
 ever remember you in my prayers, and I hope 
 you do me. The serious thoughts that I had 
 when I was with you have not left me, and I 
 6 
 
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 sincerely hope I am a child of God, and he will 
 take care of me, if I am ; and as there is no 
 one on board whose example I can follow, I 
 have to be always on my guard against sin, 
 especially on Sunday. 
 
 One of the passengers is, I see, very much 
 against the missionaries : I never saw anybody 
 so much against them as he is. He says they 
 do no good at all, and that people will convince 
 me so in America ; but I hope they will not 
 convince me. 
 
 14, Tuesday. — On Saturday evening, I 
 thought a great deal of you, and the many 
 pleasant evenings we had at home, but I know 
 that the God that is with you is with me 
 also. Four o'clock. Mr. Brown, the mate, has 
 just fired at two tropic birds and killed them 
 both, and swam after them and got them. 
 
 On Sunday morning, I thought of you and 
 the pleasant time I, you and Joanna used to 
 have, and I wished I could go to church with 
 you. 
 
 In the morning after praying, I read the 
 Bible till breakfast, which is at eight o'clock, 
 then I studied my Judson's Questions, Cate- 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 63 
 
 chism and hymns, and at one o'clock dinner ; 
 then I read the Bible till supper at six in the 
 evening ; at eight go to bed. In this way, 
 I have spent all my Sundays since I came on 
 board. I think of you and dear sisters all the 
 time, but I hope we shall all see each other 
 again in this world. Will you please to send 
 in the box of curiosities to me, a yam from my 
 garden, as I have left mine at Madras, and my 
 book of directions, for I feel the need of that 
 very much, and some large shells, and some 
 other curiosities for me or my friends in Ameri- 
 ca? I dream every night about you, my dear 
 parents and sisters. I have a comfortable 
 place to sleep in, and good food to eat. I have 
 been very well, and Henry too, though Henry 
 has been very sea-sick, but I have not been. 
 I want to tell you a great deal more, but I have 
 not time enough. So once more farewell to 
 you all. Please to give my love to the ser- 
 vants and girls, and kisses to sweet little 
 sisters. 
 
 February 11, Saturday. — It has been 
 very rainy ever since yesterday morning, and 
 during the night there was a gale of wind, 
 
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 but we have lost nothing. I thought a good 
 deal of you, ray dear parents and dear sisters, 
 and ever remember you in my prayers. 
 
 14, Tuesday. — It was very pleasant to- 
 day till. noon, then it be began to rain as it did 
 yesterday. Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock, 
 we crossed the tropic of Cancer. I thought 
 of you this morning. Last night, I dreamed 
 of being with you, but this morning I got up 
 and found myself in a cabin. 
 
 17, Friday. — I have thought of you a 
 great deal to-day, but the Lord has comforted 
 me so far, and I hope we shall all meet again 
 in this world, and I shall come to Jaffna as a 
 missionary ; but I hear a great deal against 
 missionaries on board. 1 got all my lessons. 
 
 18, Saturday. — I have thought a good 
 deal of you, my dear parents and dear sisters. 
 I am very sorry now, that I did treat you all 
 so badly, as I am afraid I did when I was 
 with you. and it troubles me very much now, 
 and I wish I could ask of you all pardon for 
 behaving so to you. The Lord comforts me, 
 and I hope you also. I wish I could be on 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 65 
 
 land, for I do not like the sea as well as I 
 thought I would. 
 
 20, Monday. — I write for yesterday, as 
 though I wrote on Sunday, but 1 do not write 
 on Sunday, though all on board write their 
 journals on Sunday, except I and Henry. It 
 has been very pleasant to-day, and fair wind. 
 
 22, Wednesday.— Lat. 27° 20', Long. 46° 
 16'. This is General Washington's birth-day, 
 and Mr. Allen fired his own double-barrelled gun 
 with corks in the barrels, which were left in by 
 accident by himself] but it was wonderful in- 
 deed they did not burst. 
 
 When Mr. Allen fired his gun, he said, "Gen- 
 eral Washington ; — first in war, first in peace, 
 and first in the hearts of his countrymen." 
 
 I know when sister Joanna's birthday comes ; 
 I do not remember when it is, but I think on 
 the 25th of this month, and sister Harriet's on 
 the 29th of April. 
 
 25, Saturday. — It has been very pleasant 
 this morning. I remember you in my prayers, 
 and I hope ) 7 ou do me, and I hope the Lord 
 hears mine, and your prayers. I hope I shall 
 •come to Jaffna as a missionary one of these days. 
 *6 
 
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 26, Sunday. — We have had brisk breezes 
 from W. S. W.j very high sea — brought down 
 the fore and mizzen royal masts. I have 
 never been in such a condition before. 
 
 27, Monday. — It has been very pleasant 
 to-day. We are now about 90 miles from 
 land, but do not see it, though I hope to see it 
 before next Monday. 
 
 29, Wednesday. — It has been very pleas- 
 ant to-day. The Dr. went up to the mast 
 head, and sung out, Land ! To-day also saw 
 land only 45 miles oil. We saw 4 or 5 large 
 whales — one would lift up his head another 
 his tail. They were a little distance from the 
 ship. 
 
 March 1,- — Thursday. It was pleasant 
 this morning until 11 o'clock, then it began to 
 blow strong and rain for an hour, then it 
 stopped, and now, 2 o'clock, it is very pleasant 
 indeed. 
 
 2, Friday. ■ — I think a great deal of you, 
 but the Lord comforts me, and I hope you 
 also. I do hope I shall come back as a mis- 
 sionary to the poor natives of the country where 
 I was born. 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 67 
 
 3, Saturday. — Very pleasant to-day, and 
 this morning saw a ship, and at 10 o'clock 
 saw another. I was very glad to see the ships, 
 though we did not go near enough to speak 
 them. I got all my lessons to-day. 
 
 4, Sunday. — My dear and affectionate 
 parents, sisters, and all other friends, ] hope I 
 shall see you all in this world, if not, I hope 
 in the world to come. 
 
 5, Monday.— Lat. 35° 30', Long. 21° 49'. 
 It has been blowing so hard that we have been 
 obliged to lay to, under close reefed main-top- 
 sail and spencers for 19 hours together. The 
 vessel rocks a great deal, so I can hardly 
 write. 
 
 6, Tuesday. — It has been unpleasant to- 
 day, and quite warm. This morning the Doc- 
 tor fished, and caught three most beautiful and 
 delicious fishes. When they were caught, 
 they were of a gold color, and blue streaks on 
 their backs. 
 
 8, Thursday. — It has been very pleasant 
 to*i!ay. This morning we saw land indistinct- 
 ly, but now at 2 o'clock see it very plain. 
 It is Bluff Point, bearing N. N. E. of us by 
 
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 compass. I am very glad to see land, but I 
 would be more glad if I was on it. 
 
 9, Friday. — It has been very pleasant to- 
 day. We now see two sails in sight, and I 
 hope we shall speak them. I like very much 
 to see ships at sea. I want very much to see 
 you all, and I feel very home-sick. I think of 
 you always in my pra}^ers. 
 
 10, Saturday. — This morning at 6 o'clock, 
 we saw a brig. I think a great deal of you, 
 perhaps too much. O I wish I could be on 
 land, or with you. I love very much to read 
 the' Bible, and pray to God. He comforts me, 
 and I hope you too. 
 
 13, Tuesday. — Pleasant to-day, but no 
 wind scarcely, until just now, a little breeze 
 has sprung up. I long to see the land of my 
 fathers — it does seem a very short time since 
 I left you — but 't is now 77 days. 
 
 17, Saturday. — The days seem short. 
 But what is life ? it is but a vapor that appear- 
 eth for a little while, and then vanishes away. 
 Do pray that I may be prepared for death when 
 it comes. 
 
 19, Monday. — Pleasianter to-day, but no 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. G9 
 
 wind ; so we do not go at all. I like very much 
 to see the ship going along. I am very com- 
 fortable here, but there is no retired place where 
 1 could go and read the Bible, and pray quiet- 
 ly. I think often, how I used to come in your 
 room and pray. 
 
 22, Thursday. —MS P. M. crossed the 
 meridian at the Longitude of Greenwich. 
 We are now, by the blessing of God, in West 
 Longitude, and I hope before long to be in the 
 land of my fathers. Do pray daily for me. 
 
 23, Friday. — We are now at the distance 
 of 90 miles from St. Helena. I got no lessons 
 to-day, for, as it is the Doctor's birth-day, he 
 said we need not get lessons. 
 
 24, Saturday. — Early this morning saw 
 St. Helena bearing E. by N. ; distance about 
 14 miles. St. Helena lies in S. Lat. 15° 
 55', West Long. 5° 49', is 10J miles long, 
 and 6 J- broad. This was the place where 
 Buonaparte was before he died, and where he 
 was buried when he died. 
 
 26, Monday. — Pleasant weather, and de- 
 lightful breeze. Course N. W. On Saturday 
 I drew a sketch of St, Helena, and pasted in 
 
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 this book. I will draw a sketch of Bluff Point 
 from the Dr.'s, which he drew. 
 
 29, Thursday. — Very pleasant weather. 
 This morning Mr. Pereson gave me a little 
 flying-fish, which I put in a bottle to keep. 
 
 30, Friday. — I often read this verse ; 
 " Come unto me, all ye that labor and are 
 heavy laden, and I will give you rest." I 
 ever remember you in my prayers. 
 
 31, Saturday. — I saw a great many flying 
 fish to-day. This month of March seems to 
 have passed away very soon. What is life ? 
 
 April 1, Sunday. — 'Very pleasant weath- 
 er, and moderate trades at S. E., course N. 
 W. J W. I get my Assembly's Catechism, 
 and a hymn out of the Village Hymns, and 
 read the Bible and pious Magazines, or any 
 other book fit to read on the Sabbath. 
 
 7, Saturday. — At 11 P. M. crossed the 
 Equator. 
 
 8, Sunday. — I got my catechism, and 
 learnt a hymn, and read in the Bible and 
 Pilgrim's Progress. I have felt very happy 
 to-day, and hope I shall be in America before 
 long, and I hope I shall come back to Jaffna 
 as a missionary. 
 
CHARLES L. WINSL0W. 71 
 
 15, Sunday. — I saw some sea-weed to- 
 day, and to-morrow I hope to see more of it. 
 
 16, Monday. — To-day we saw a great 
 deal more, and caught some, in which we 
 found some small fish, and the Dr. says, there 
 are also crabs in them. We saw some por- 
 poises, and tried to catch some. 
 
 28, Saturday. — Lat. 30° 31', Long. 72°. 
 To-day 3 sails. The Brig which we spoke 
 yesterday, was from Santa Cruz, bound to 
 New York, fifteen days out. Her fore and 
 main top-mast, was carried away by a squally 
 spell, 10 days ago. She was overtaken 
 by us. 
 
 May 2, Wednesday. — Saw 15 sails, and 
 at one o'clock took a pilot. 
 
 Copy of a note addressed to his Parents 
 
 without date, but written at sea. 
 My dear Mamma, 
 
 I want to tell you something about myself. 
 I have a comfortable place to sleep, but it is so 
 hot that it is very difficult to sleep. I hope I 
 am a child of God ; so I do not fear being on 
 
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 the sea, as I think I would, if I thought I was 
 not the child of God. I think a great deal 
 of you and papa, and dear sisters, and other 
 friends in Jaffna, but the Lord comforts me 
 and I hope he comforts you, and my other 
 friends. I do hope we shall all meet in this 
 world. Do not feel anxious about my health, 
 for I am very well, and have been very well 
 since I left you, except a little turn I had at 
 Mr. Carver's. I ever remember you in my 
 prayers, and I love very much to pray, and it 
 seems to comfort me. I am afraid I hurt 
 your feelings very much, and troubled you 
 by my behaving so badly two or three days 
 before I left you ; but do forgive me, for it falls 
 now upon me as a great stone. I am very 
 much troubled on your account, but do tell 
 me when you write, if you have forgiven me 
 for behaving so to you, especially just before 
 leaving you. Ask sister Joanna if she has 
 forgiven me for treating her so badly some- 
 times. Tell her I have forgiven her. Do 
 send the book of directions as soon as you can r 
 for I want it very much. Tell me about 
 Carlo and my garden, and how things come 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 73 
 
 on after I left you, and how you, papa, and 
 sisters say and feel, and what Archie* feels, and 
 all the rest. 
 
 Philadelphia, May 5, 1832. 
 
 My dear Parents, 
 
 By the mercy of God, I have safely arrived 
 at Philadelphia. I left the ship yesterday 
 afternoon with Mr. Allen to go to his house. 
 
 6, Sunday. — To-day went to Mr. R.'s 
 house, and went to church with him in the 
 morning, and in the afternoon went with him to 
 the Orphan Asylum were Mr. White preached. 
 
 8, Tuesday. — This morning and after- 
 noon I walked out, and looked about the city, 
 and went into the United States Bank, and 
 into the mint, where the money is made. 
 
 9. This morning I went down to the ship 
 and brought our baggage ashore to Mr. Fos- 
 ter's boarding-house, and in the afternoon went 
 to Fair Mount with Mr. Allen. 'Tis a beau- 
 tiful place, and a river runs there, and from 
 that the whole of Philadelphia is supplied 
 
 * His old Nurse 
 
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 with water, thrown by a large machine into 
 large iron pipes which run under ground. 
 
 10. Went to Mr. Ralston's son's house 
 and spent the morning, and in the afternoon 
 went with Mr. Ralston's grandson to play in 
 the river. 
 
 11. This morning went to the Museum, 
 and I saw so many things that I can hardly 
 tell you what I saw. There were very pretty 
 birds and animals stuffed. There was the 
 skeleton of a mammoth, and an elephant, rhino- 
 ceros, tiger and lion, stuffed. 
 
 12. This morning Mr. R.'s grandson, 
 Henry, and I went to see the ouran outang 
 alive. Afterwards at 12 o'clock went in the 
 steam-boat with Dr. G. as far as Trenton, and 
 from thence in a stage to Dr. M.'s in Princeton, 
 to spend the Sabbath. 
 
 13. To-day I weut to church with Dr. M. 
 I learned the whole of the last chapter of Mark, 
 and read the pious Magazines of children. 
 
 14. I came with Dr. R. in a stage as far 
 as New Brunswick, and from thence in a steam- 
 boat to New York, and here I saw, for the 
 first time, aunts C. and F., and uncle M. 
 
CHARLES L. W1NSL0W. 75 
 
 The remainder of Charles' earthly history 
 is very brief. His affectionate relatives had 
 scarcely welcomed him to their hearts, when 
 they were called to part with him to meet 
 again, only where 'death-divided friends' 
 will meet to part no more. The following 
 extracts furnish the affecting details of the 
 closing scene. 
 
 From the JV. Y. Observer. 
 
 It is our melancholy duty to announce that 
 Charles L. Winslow, only son of Rev. Miron 
 W. missionary at Ceylon, died in this city on 
 Thursday of last week, at the residence of 
 Rev. Wm. A. Hallock, aged 11 years. He 
 had just arrived in this country, having come 
 hither for the purpose of receiving an educa- 
 tion, in the hope of returning as a missionary 
 to India, and was one of about 70, who obtain- 
 ed a hope in Christ during the late revival of 
 religion, at those mission stations. 
 
 In conversation with his friends, after his 
 arrival, he spoke of the condition of the hea- 
 then with much feeling, and of his desire to re- 
 turn and preach the gospel to them. Three 
 
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 days previous to his death, he was asked if he 
 loved to think of portions of Scripture, while 
 he lay upon his bed ? He replied, " yes, but 
 prayer is my greatest comfort — several texts 
 of Scripture were repeated to him, when he 
 added this, " Not every one that saith unto me 
 Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of 
 heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Fa- 
 ther which is in heaven." Do you think, 
 Charles, there is much wickedness in your 
 heart ? " Yes, a great deal." Does it ever 
 distress you to find so much there, that is dis- 
 pleasing to God ? " Yes, very often." "What 
 do you do, Charles, when you feel troubled 
 about your wicked heart ? His laconic reply 
 was, " Prayer is the only thing." The next 
 day, a few hours before he became unconscious, 
 he said, " I think the Lord seems to comfort 
 me very much." 
 
 The following is extracted from the letter 
 of an affectionate relative, who was present at 
 the closing scene. 
 
 He arrived in New York, Monday even- 
 ing, May 14. Was apparently in fine health, 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 77 
 
 and seemed very happy in being with his 
 relatives in America. He almost immediately 
 inquired about his grandparents, and for a 
 little cousin whom he expected to find in New 
 York, and on hearing that his grandfather 
 Winslow, and his aunt Hallock's baby had 
 both died since he had heard from them, he 
 was much affected. 
 
 When asked if he thought he had given 
 his heart to Christ, his eyes glistened with 
 emotion, as he modestly replied, " I hope I 
 have." 
 
 The day after his arrival, he unpacked his 
 trunks, exhibited his curiosities, distributed his 
 little presents, and then replaced his clothes, 
 &c. with perfect neatness and order, and the 
 care which he took of all his little possessions 
 was remarkable for a child of 11 years. 
 
 He was constantly cheerful and happy, 
 conversed of his parents and sisters with much 
 tenderness, frequently with tears ; of his plans 
 and prospects for the future with uncommon 
 judgment, and of the moral condition of the 
 heathen, with deep feeling. Once when con- 
 versing on this subject he said, "Aunt, what 
 
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 I wish most of all is, to be prepared to be a 
 missionary to Jaffna. 
 
 May 18, Saturday. — He visited Mrs. Pent, 
 and seemed in his usual health and spirits, till 
 towards evening, when one of our cold, spring 
 storms commenced. Chailes appeared to feel 
 the change in the weather, and said he never 
 was so cold. This was of course attributed to 
 his having been accustomed to a tropical cli- 
 mate, and a fire was made on his account. 
 On his return home, he complained of head- 
 ache, and wished to go to rest. Sabbath 
 morning he was rather inclined to sleep, though 
 he said his head was better. He remained at 
 
 home with his uncle H , and slept much 
 
 during theday, but at evening appeared brighter 
 and conversed with his usual animation. Broth- 
 er and sister Hallock sat with him two hours, talk- 
 ing with him of his own spiritual state, his plans 
 for future usefulness, the state of the heathen, 
 his parents, the mission, &c, and were much 
 gratified with what they learned of his relig- 
 ious feelings, and the evidence he gave of being 
 truly a child of God. 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 79 
 
 On Monday, our physician found him 
 feverish, though he was animated and cheer- 
 ful, so much so, that a friend who called to 
 see him remarked, he was so pleasant, she 
 could scarcely leave him. 
 
 His conversation that evening you have in 
 the article which you copied from the New 
 York Observer. He had a restless night, and 
 early in the morning I went to his bed-side, 
 when he said very pleasantly, u l think, aunt, 
 the Lord seems to comfort me very muchP 
 Soon after, his mind seemed rather wander- 
 ing, and during the forenoon, he called Mrs. 
 Hallock mamma, and sometimes imagined his 
 sisters to be present. Dr. Bliss, who had called 
 early in the morning, called again and bled 
 him, which afforded some relief for a time. 
 
 About 2 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Eastman, (who had 
 been spending a few days with us, and who 
 was about leaving the city,) came in to bid 
 him good-bye, but it was some time before 
 Charles recognized him. Rev. Mr. Anderson 
 called about 4 o'clock. Charles replied to his 
 questions in monosyllables, but did not appear 
 to understand what he said. About 8, dear 
 
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 mother arrived, when we attempted to rouse 
 him and make him understand who she was. 
 He opened his e)^es, but not in consciousness, 
 and was instantly in convulsions, and did not 
 speak afterwards. He had talked much of his 
 grandmother, and it was exceedingly afflicting 
 that she should arrive only in time to see him 
 in such circumstances. 
 
 Mr. Anderson, Mr. Ludlow, and several 
 other friends called on Wednesday, and united 
 with us in prayer for him and his dear parents ; 
 but the dear boy lay apparently unconscious of 
 what was passing. 
 
 Three physicians visited him constantly; 
 but all that medical skill and the watchfulness 
 and attentions of friends could do, was in 
 vain. The same fatherly hand that had pro- 
 tected him on the voyage, and brought him to 
 us in safety, was now stretched out to take 
 him home, and the ransomed spirit could not 
 be detained by his earthly friends. Thursday 
 evening, as we were standing around his bed, 
 the "Dying Christian'''' was sung, after which 
 we united in commending his departing spirit 
 into the hands of his Redeemer. During 
 
CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 81 
 
 prayer he turned his eyes upward, and a 
 sweet smile stole over his features, which gave 
 to his countenance an expression of peace and 
 loveliness, which is indescribable. In about 
 20 minutes, as we were singing the " Dying 
 Christian " a second time, he fell asleep in 
 Jesus, at 10 o'clock, May 24, aged 11 years 4 
 months and 13 days. The circumstances of 
 his death, rendered this a peculiarly interesting 
 scene. We felt that not only was a promising 
 boy taken from his parents and friends, but a 
 young missionary was called from the ser- 
 vice of the church on earth, to a higher and 
 perfect service in heaven." C. H. L. 
 
 END OF LIFE. 
 
 With what words can we better close this 
 little narrative of early piety and bright prom- 
 ise, — called so early from the world, than 
 with the beautiful words of the truly Christian 
 poet, suggested by the words of the Saviour, 
 to his wondering disciples — " What I do, 
 thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know 
 hereafter ? " 
 
82 MEMOIR, &C. 
 
 Jesus, we own thy sovereign hand, 
 Thy faithful care we own ; 
 
 Wisdom and love are all thy ways, 
 When most to us unknown. 
 
 By thee the springs of life were formed, 
 And by thy breath are broke, 
 
 And good is every awful word 
 Our gracious Lord hath spoke. 
 
 To thee we yield our comforts up, 
 
 To thee our lives resign ; 
 In straits and dangers rich and safe, 
 
 If we and ours are thine. 
 
 Thy saints in earlier life removed, 
 
 In sweeter accents sing ; 
 And bless the swiftness of their flight, 
 
 That bore them to their King. 
 
 The burthens of a lengthened day 
 With patience we would bear. 
 
 Till evening's welcome hour shall show 
 We were our Master's care. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 LINES 
 
 ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 
 
 A bird came o'er the ocean, 
 
 From the far-off tropic isles, 
 "Where, fanned by the palm-tree's motion, 
 
 Perennial summer smiles, — 
 It had heard salvation's story, 
 
 In its own dear native bowers, 
 And sought for its brighter glory 
 
 In this blessed clime of ours. 
 
 It came with wing of gladness, 
 
 With carol fresh and free, 
 But there breathed a dirge of sadness, 
 
 Sweet stranger-bird ! for thee. 
 For thee was a welcome greeting, 
 
 Where the pilgrim's ashes rest, 
 But thy heart had ceased its beating, 
 
 And the turf lay on thy breast. 
 
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 Thy dove-like pinion soaring 
 
 O'er the waves of a world of sin, 
 Turn'd to God's ark imploring, — 
 
 A pierc'd hand drew it in ; — 
 Where tempest ne'er hath striven, 
 
 Where discord's reign is o'er, 
 Thou dost learn the song of heaven, 
 
 And wilt stoop to earth no more. 
 
 Where Ceylon's flowrets sleeping 
 
 By spicy gales are stirr'd, 
 There 's the voice of bitter weeping 
 
 In the home of that cherish'd bird, 
 There are sister nurslings crying 
 
 For a brother's tuneful tone, 
 While the citron groves are sighing, 
 
 Responsive to their moan. 
 
 Oh ye, who broken-hearted, 
 
 Pour forth the parent's tear, 
 Who from your loved land parted 
 
 For the cause of a Saviour dear, 
 Who toiled where error flourish'd, 
 
 With a faith no cloud can dim, 
 Is it strange that the bird ye nourislid 
 
 Hath taken its flight to Him ? L. H. S. 
 
BRIEF NOTICES OF THE GRANDFATHERS AND PARENTS 
 OF CHARLES L. WINSLOW. 
 
 NATHANIEL WINSLOW. 
 
 Mr. Nathaniel Winslow, father of Rev. 
 Miron Winslow, Missionary in Ceylon, was born 
 in Salisbury, Conn., whither his father emigrated 
 from this part of Massachusetts, and descended 
 from a line of unbroken pious ancestry, extending 
 back to the time the pilgrims landed in Ply- 
 mouth. At an early age his mind and heart 
 became possessed of the principles of evangelical 
 religion, as embraced by his ancestors, and in- 
 culcated in the instructions, prayers and example 
 of a devotedly pious father. He made early 
 profession of his Christian faith, the fruits of 
 which were evinced in a subsequent Christian 
 character, eminently pure, uniform and consis- 
 tent. The sanctification of the Sabbath com- 
 mencing with the shades of Saturday evening, 
 daily morning and evening family devotions, and 
 family religious instruction, public and social 
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86 APPENDIX. 
 
 religious worship, and all other institutions and 
 duties of Christianity, were ever observed and 
 enjoined by him with the same uniform and con- 
 scientious fidelity which characterized the piety 
 of the pilgrim fathers. 
 
 The latter part of his life was principally de- 
 voted to agricultural pursuits. A considerable 
 part of his earlier life was devoted to teaching, 
 and many of his pupils are still living, in various 
 parts of the country, who cherish a grateful re- 
 membrance of his faithful and affectionate in- 
 structions. In his own family, his " doctrine 
 dropped as the rain, and his speech distilled as 
 the dew." Possessing a delicate and uniform 
 constitution, and a retiring and domestic disposi- 
 tion, he was seldom from home, except when ne- 
 cessity demanded, but devoted his leisure time to 
 reading, and to the intellectual and religious in- 
 struction of his children. Both by his precept 
 and example he inculcated, in an eminent degree, 
 the great Christian sentiment, that an idolatrous 
 love of the world is exceedingly base as well as 
 sinful, infinitely beneath the proper dignity of a 
 rational and immor al soul on its way to God. 
 It is questionable whether he was ever known to 
 express in any way to his children a desire that 
 they should become possessed of wealth and 
 worldly distinction ; but thousands of times has 
 
APPENDIX. 87 
 
 he earnestly prayed with them and for them, that 
 they might be saved from those snares, and give 
 their undivided hearts to the great concerns of 
 the soul, religion, eternity. " On a certain occa- 
 sion," said his pastor in his funeral sermon, " a 
 child of his overheard a voice of prayer in a place 
 of retirement, and on listening, perceived it to be 
 the voice of his father praying for him. On hear- 
 ing a father's prayer offered in secret for him, that 
 the Holy Spirit might renew his heart, make him 
 willing to renounce the world, and become an 
 instrument of promoting the Redeemer's kingdom 
 in the salvation of men, he became immediately 
 serious, found no peace till he believed in Christ, 
 and is now a minister of the gospel."* 
 
 He cherished a very deep interest in all the re- 
 ligious societies and enterprises of the day, which 
 are preparing the way for the millennial glory, 
 and according to his ability, and often even be- 
 yond his ability, as most Christians would judge, 
 contributed to their support. Disappointments, 
 loss of property, bodily infirmity, and severe sick- 
 ness, of which an uncommon share fell to his lot, 
 never seemed to disturb the Christian serenity of 
 his soul. He practically regarded them as 
 
 * All his three sons are in the ministry, and his four daughters 
 are members of a Christian church. 
 
88 APPENDIX. 
 
 " light afflictions, which are but for a moment." 
 A few weeks previous to his death, a cloud 
 seemed to settle on his mind, and for a season 
 he nearly relinquished his Christian hope. It 
 was occasioned by a zealous inspection of his 
 past " unfaithfulness," as he expressed it, " in a 
 near prospect of eternity." But the cloud passed 
 away ; light from heaven again shone ; he beheld 
 a forgiving and smiling God in the face of Jesus 
 Christ; and having commended himself, his 
 family, his distant children, and all the dear in- 
 terests of the Redeemer's kingdom in the world 
 to God, still sitting erect in his chair, he folded 
 his hands, closed his eyes, and with a gradually 
 retiring breath, ceased from time without a groan 
 or struggle, and entered upon the everlasting rest 
 which remains to the children of God. Mr. W. 
 died in Williston, Vt., April 30, 1832, aged 70. 
 
 CHARLES LATHROP, Esq. 
 u The end of that man is peace" 
 
 Charles Lathrop, Esq., having received a 
 public education, and entered on the profession 
 of Law, was brought soon after cordially to em- 
 brace the gospel of Christ. He was long a 
 spiritual guide and example to his own house- 
 
APPENDIX. 89 
 
 hold, and a pillar in the church ; the supporter 
 of her institutions, her social meetings for prayer, 
 her Sabbath Schools, Missions, and other benev- 
 olent operations. At length he was seized with 
 a gradual decline, and near the close of his 61st 
 year it became apparent that his end was at hand. 
 
 His faith had been tried by following to the 
 grave his first-born son, in the prime of life, just 
 as he was completing his college course, prepar- 
 atory to the Gospel Ministry ; and by soon after 
 committing his eldest daughter to the ship that 
 bore her from his sight forever, as a missionary 
 to the distant heathen : he knew not how they 
 would be provided for, whom he was about to 
 leave a widow and fatherless ; he saw his own 
 great change approaching, and had no hope but 
 in the mercy of God — yet a heavenly calm 
 pervaded his mind, and he submissively awaited 
 his Father's will. 
 
 While he felt the necessity of being himself 
 prepared for the summons, whenever it might 
 come, he was almost equally solicitous to prepare 
 the minds of his family for the event. He cheered 
 and comforted them by conversing with them 
 familiarly on the subject of his departure ; coun- 
 selled them in respect to their worldly concerns ; 
 desired them not to incur expense for mourning 
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90 APPENDIX. 
 
 apparel, nor for anything unnecessary to his de- 
 cent burial ; and arranged all his business as he 
 desired to leave it. 
 
 He had lived to witness two events, in relation 
 to each of which he felt constrained to adopt the 
 words of Simeon, " Lord, now lettest thou thy 
 servant depart in peace ; for mine eyes have seen 
 thy salvation." The first was the saving con- 
 version, as he trusted, of all his seven surviving 
 children, and their union with the church ; the 
 other a revival of religion, after a long season of 
 spiritual declension, over which he had not ceased 
 to mourn, in which seventy were added to the 
 church with which he was connected, embracing 
 sixteen teachers and six pupils from his beloved 
 Sabbath School. 
 
 He often alluded to the former blessing as 
 probably in answer to the prayers of missionary 
 and other Christian friends, whom the giving up 
 of his daughter for the heathen had brought 
 frequently under his roof. Among these friends 
 was the Rev. Pliny Fisk, late Missionary to 
 Palestine, whose visit was made soon after his 
 daughter's departure. He had preached on the 
 Sabbath and attended a crowded religious meet- 
 ing at Mr. L.'s, both on Sabbath and on Monday 
 evenings. Their interview had been eminently 
 spiritual and full of desire for the conversion of 
 
APPENDIX. 91 
 
 the heathen, and the honor of Christ. On the 
 following- morning, after family worship, a little 
 family religious meeting was held, as they were 
 about to separate. Mr. Fisk, in prayer, seemed 
 to plead with strong faith for spiritual blessings 
 on the family ; and as he bade them farewell, 
 taking Mr. L. by the hand, he said, " The Lord 
 bless you," and then, with a renewed and ardent 
 grasp, added, as if with much assurance, " He 
 will bless you — yes, he will bless you." The 
 words sunk into the heart of Mr. L., and when, 
 near ten years after, he had evidence of the con- 
 version of all his children by the Holy Spirit, he 
 would relate the anecdote to Christian friends, 
 and add, with eyes filled with tears, and words 
 struggling for utterance, " Yes, and he has 
 blessed us. We all hope in his mercy." 
 
 To a daughter who looked anxiously upon him, 
 during a distressing season, when his difficulty 
 of respiration threatened an immediate departure, 
 he said, " Do not look sad. I trust you have no 
 occasion to sorrow on my account. I am sorry 
 to leave you so ; but I am comforted that I leave 
 you all with such a hope. This is a source of 
 unspeakable consolation to me." 
 
 At the close of this day his aged pastor ex- 
 pressed to him the support he had derived from 
 his persevering efforts, especially in the Sabbath 
 
92 APPENDIX. 
 
 School, and in sustaining their prayer-meetings 
 when the state of religion was low. - Mr. L., with 
 his usual diffidence, expressed the fear that he 
 had done very little good, and added, as he often 
 did on such occasions, that if any good had been 
 done, it was not himself but solely of the power 
 and mercy of God. 
 
 Soon after he said, " I have no hope from 
 anything 1 have done, or can do ; all my hope is 
 in Christ." 
 
 On another occasion he said, " I have not 
 those great spiritual joys which some have : but 
 I have a comfortable hope. I am one of those 
 who believe that there is no man that liveth and 
 sinneth not — that in all things we come short, 
 and in most things offend altogether ; and that it 
 is only through the righteousness of Christ we 
 can find any acceptance with God." 
 
 More than once, when speaking in his family 
 of the progress of his disease, he was heard to 
 subjoin, " But why should a living man com- 
 plain : a man for the punishment of his sins?" 
 
 Being asked what message he would send to 
 his daughter in India, he said, " Tell her the 
 time of my departure is very near. Tell her I 
 die with a comfortable hope — hoping to meet 
 her before long, where there is no more parting 
 and sorrow : I hope to meet you all there." 
 
APPENDIX. 93 
 
 Soon after, his little grandson said to him, 
 " Grandpa, Aunt is crying." " Aunt must not 
 cry," he replied, " she must be satisfied that what 
 God does is best." 
 
 Speaking of not resting so well for several 
 nights as he had previously, he said, "Weari- 
 some nights are appointed unto me ; but the 
 Lord doelh all things well, and in infinite loving 
 kindness to those that put their trust in him." 
 
 His last conversation, a few moments before 
 his death, wa£ with his minister, who, having 
 led in prayer for divine support in the hour of 
 trial, said to him, " I suppose it does not alarm 
 you to have the subject of death mentioned.' ' 
 " O no, Sir," he replied, " not at all." " What 
 a blessed thing it will be," added his minister, 
 " if any of us ever get to heaven." " Yes," said 
 Mr. L., " it will be blessed, with respect to the 
 change which will be wrought in us, and with 
 respect to the society and employments of heaven. 
 1 Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have 
 entered into the heart of man, the things which 
 God has prepared for them that love him ;' " and 
 added, " The blessedness and glories of heaven are 
 such as we can can form no conception of here." 
 
 He soon peacefully closed his eyes, (Jan. 17, 
 1831,) and entered into those joys, which his 
 
94 APPENDIX. 
 
 tongue had just been laboring in weakness to 
 describe. 
 
 MIRON WINSLOW. 
 
 From the " Memoirs of American Missionaries." 
 Miron Winslow was born in Williston, near 
 Burlington, Vt., in December, 1789. His parents, 
 both of whom are now dead, were Nathaniel 
 and Anna Winslow, the former a native of Sal- 
 isbury, Conn., and the latter of Sheffield, Mass. 
 His mother was a daughter of Josiah Kellogg, 
 Esq., of Sheffield, Mass. Both of his parents 
 were pious, and they consecrated him to God in 
 baptism. He was a subject of serious impres- 
 sions from his childhood. He was educated for 
 a merchant, and at the age of fourteen entered a 
 store as clerk, in which he continued till twenty- 
 one, when he entered into business for himself, 
 in Norwich, Conn., in which he continued suc- 
 cessfully two years. During the latter part of 
 the first year, his mind became increasingly 
 serious ; and at length he was brought to rejoice 
 in the liberty of Christ. From thai time he felt 
 a strong desire to preach the gospel, and to 
 preach it to the gentile nations sitting in dark- 
 
APPENDIX. 95 
 
 ness. In his very first letter to his parents an- 
 nouncing; his conversion, he expressed a desire, 
 and a strong conviction of duty, to renounce his 
 worldly prospects, and give himself to the hea- 
 then in the service of Jesus Christ. ; saying, that 
 although his worldly prospects were good, he 
 counted it no sacrifice to relinquish them for 
 Christ ; and that as the heathen nations were 
 without light, and none seemed to care for them, 
 he felt it to be his duty to devote himself to them. 
 As his previous education had been thorough, and 
 his reading extensive, after studying a year and 
 a half, he was qualified to enter college two years 
 in advance. He commenced his preparation for 
 college while yet pursuing his mercantile busi- 
 ness ; nor was he able to bring it to an entire 
 close, till he was nearly or quite through college. 
 He entered Middlebury College in 1813, and was 
 graduated in 1815. He also subsequently spent 
 some time in New Haven, and took a Master's 
 degree at Yale College, in 1818. In January, 
 1816, he entered the Theological Seminary at 
 Andover, and completed the course at that Insti- 
 tution in the autumn of 1818. He employed the 
 last vacation of his junior year, and the two va- 
 cations of his senior year, in travelling as an 
 agent to collect funds for Foreign Missions. In 
 
96 APPENDIX. 
 
 these periods he travelled through most of New 
 England, and was very successful. He also 
 wrote his History of Missions in his senior year, 
 and the subsequent Autumn. On the 4th of 
 November, 1818, he was ordained as a Mission- 
 ary, in the Tabernacle Church, in Salem, Mass., 
 together with Messrs. Fisk, Spaulding, and 
 Woodward. The sermon was preached by Pro- 
 fessor Stuart of Andover. He married Miss 
 Harriet Lathrop of Norwich, Conn., eldest 
 daughter of Charles Lathrop, Esq., since deceas- 
 ed. On the 8th of June, 1819, he embarked at 
 Boston for Calcutta, in company with Messrs. 
 Spaulding, Woodward, and Scudder, and their 
 wives. Thej 7 arrived at Calcutta after a voyage 
 of about five months ; and thence embarked for 
 Ceylon, where they have since labored. 
 
 Mr. Winslow's station has been at Oodooville, 
 where he has diligently labored for the education 
 of the natives. That the exertions of our Mis- 
 sionaries in Ceylon have not been altogether in 
 vain, is shown by the fact, that there are now 
 836 scholars in the different schools of this sta- 
 tion, 678 males, and 158 females; and 49 native 
 members of the Mission church. The congre- 
 gation on Sabbath mornings, is from four to five 
 hundred, and fills the church. From seventy to 
 
API'EiNDJX. 97 
 
 eighty are adults, and from twenty to twenty-five 
 are women. The afternoon congregation, consists 
 of the female and English schools, and from 
 twenty to thirty adults. 
 
 MRS. HARRIET L. WINSLOW. 
 
 From the JV. Y. Observer. 
 
 The Oriental Christian Spectator for March 
 contains an obituary notice of Mrs. Winslow, 
 from which we copy the following : 
 
 Died on the 14th of January, at Jaffna, Ceylon, 
 Mrs. Harriet Lathrop, wife of the Rev. Miron 
 Wmslow, of the American Mission. Mrs. W. 
 was the eldest daughter of the late Charles 
 Lathrop, Esq. of Norwich, Conn., where she was 
 born April 9, 1796. At a time of general relig- 
 ious declension in her native place, and when 
 few young persons in the vicinity paid any 
 serious regard to the concerns of their souls, Miss 
 L. solemnly devoted herself to the service of 
 God; and at the age of 12 years was received 
 to the visible church. She was early actuated 
 by a strong desire for usefulness, and originated 
 a Sunday School in her native town, when such 
 an institution was scarcely known, in that part 
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98 APPENDIX. 
 
 of the country. This school, though much op- 
 posed, gradually flourished, and Miss L. superin- 
 tended it until she finally left home. She also 
 formed and taught a Bible class, for adult people 
 of color, some of whom, under her instruction, 
 became hopefully pious. A sewing Society, for 
 the benefit of widows, was likewise formed, and 
 kept in most useful operation ; principally by her 
 exertions. Day after day, and week after week, 
 sometimes in very inclement weather, was she 
 employed in visits of charity to the poor, in their 
 own houses, or in going to the public Alms-house 
 to instruct those of her own sex there. In the 
 general distribution of religious tracts, she also 
 took an early and active part. Her compassion 
 had often been excited for the Heathen, " having 
 no hope and without God in the world," and she 
 had done what she could for the cause of mis- 
 sions ; but it was not until after her acquaintance 
 with her subsequent husband that she considered 
 the question of her personal duty to them. Al- 
 most simultaneously with him, — though he was 
 then pursuing his theological studies in the Semi- 
 nary at Andover — she examined this question, 
 and came to a result most satisfactory to her 
 own mind, but most trying to many of her family 
 friends, to whom she was greatly endeared, and 
 
APPENDIX. 99 
 
 who could with difficulty entertain the thought 
 of thus parting with her. Her parents, however, 
 at length gave her up cheerfully, and a little 
 more than two years after this decision, she was 
 married to Mr. W., and in June, 1819, with him 
 and other beloved associates in the mission, left 
 her native land for Ceylon. In this distant spot 
 she was permitted, though often in ill health, to 
 labor zealously and usefully thirteen years, and 
 at length to lay down her life among those to 
 whose care she had devoted herself. As, for 
 several years, she had the charge of the Female 
 Charity Boarding School, she had the pleasure 
 of doing much for the benefit of her own sex, and 
 to see most pleasing fruits of her exertions. Many 
 from among them will hereafter " rise up and 
 call her blessed." 
 
 The following extract of a letter from the mis- 
 sion, will serve to show in what estimation Mrs. 
 W. was held by her associates : and close this 
 brief notice of departed worth. 
 
 "Our dear sister Winslow has been called sud- 
 denly, but to herself at least not unexpectedly, to 
 put off this mortal, and put on immortality. She 
 was, we believe, ready and waiting. In anticipa- 
 tion of her confinement, concerning the result cf 
 which she had, for no apparent reason, been 
 
100 APPENDIX. 
 
 uncommonly doubtful, she had most literally 
 ' set her house in order,' much as she would 
 have done had she known that death was thus 
 near, and that on its approach she should be, as 
 she was, wholly insensible, and unable so much 
 as to give any one a last farewell. All the con- 
 cerns of the Boarding School as well as the 
 affairs of her household, and of the station, as 
 far as under her management, were arranged in 
 the most careful manner, and written directions 
 left concerning them, as well as concerning her 
 children, with a farewell to her husband. Nor 
 was her soul neglected. She had laid up fresh 
 provision for passing over Jordan. For several 
 years, more particularly from the time of her long 
 illness in 1825, which occasioned a voyage to 
 Calcutta, and the fruit in part no doubt of that 
 illness, and of successive bereavements of much 
 loved children, she had evidently been ripening 
 for heaven. Her last trial, in the death of her 
 first-born and only son, soon after his arrival in 
 America, of which intelligence was received a 
 little more than three months before her decease, 
 appeared in a very special manner to be sancti- 
 fied to her good. This affliction, by weaning 
 her more from the world — by making the Bible 
 and a throne of grace more precious — by caus- 
 
APPENDIX. 101 
 
 ing her to look to the compassionate Saviour with 
 more steady faith, and to appropriate to herself 
 more than ever before the precious promises of 
 his word, so changed the current of her religious 
 feelings, and so carried them upwards, that she 
 often thought and spoke of them as almost en- 
 tirely new, as though she had just begun to 
 understand what is meant by being united to 
 Christ, " even as the branch is united to the vine." 
 She was at this time much occupied in reading 
 the Memoirs of Isabella Campbell, and Mrs. 
 Graham, and comparing their experience with 
 the Scriptures : and the result was that the "life 
 of faith," as exhibited by these favored disciples 
 of the Spirit, is the substance of Christianity.' 
 Their views of the Saviour became in a good 
 degree her own, and she grew ' strong in faith, 
 giving glory to God.' 
 
 " On Saturday evening, the 12th of January, 
 she recorded at some length, in her private diary, 
 her sense of the goodness of God in her late 
 affliction — her thankfulness for the fruits of it 
 — and her last petition for herself, and her be- 
 loved husband and her children, committing all 
 cheerfully to the Lord. She was interrupted, 
 and did not finish her requests for the school, the 
 station, and the brethren and the sisters of the 
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102 APPENDIX. 
 
 mission, as from other circumstances, it is evi- 
 dent, were in her heart : but she showed in all a 
 most pleasing preparation for her departure ; and 
 that her affections were more in heaven than on 
 earth. 
 
 " On Sabbath noon, after having attended 
 church, she renewed a written dedication of 
 herself to the Lord, made when she was about 
 eleven years old ; and often afterwards repeated. 
 This was her last record. Before the afternoon 
 service in the church, which, though somewhat 
 ill, she also attended ; she listened with much 
 interest to part of a sermon on the means of 
 growth in grace, by Dr. Alexander, in the Na- 
 tional Preacher, and was particularly pleased 
 with his description of the Christian in the last 
 stage of his progress, when, much employed in 
 heavenly meditation, he is waiting in peace ' till 
 his change come.' 
 
 " At evening she was at family prayers, as 
 usual, and appeared to enjoy the reading of the 
 46th Psalm, and the remarks made upon it in ref- 
 erence to the safety of Christians in this time of 
 calamity — when, from the prevalence of cholera,, 
 death is on every side, — and after prayers heard 
 the Scripture lessons, and directed the devotions 
 of her little children. About 9 o'clock, she com- 
 
APPENDIX. 103 
 
 plained of some uneasy and uncommqn sensa- 
 tions in her breast, which led to the use of an 
 anodyne. This quieted her for a time, but the 
 distress returning*, and it being probable she 
 would be confined before many hours, Dr Scud- 
 der and Mrs. Spaulding were sent for. Both 
 came before 2 o'clock : and Dr. S. immediately 
 bled her. This, with vomiting soon after, seemed 
 to give entire relief. She then took a cup of 
 coffee, said she felt quite at ease, and very thank- 
 ful ; and insisting on those who were with her 
 going to rest, she bade her husband also good 
 night, and fell quietly asleep. This was prob- 
 ably the last she knew on earth. After a short 
 time Mrs. S., who was with her, noticed a pecu- 
 liarity in her breathing, and attempted to wake 
 filer, but could not succeed. She then called 
 Dr. S. and Mr. W., but as there appeared to be 
 nothing alarming, as her sleep was quiet and 
 pulse regular, they again left the room, to be 
 .soon called back, however, to witness some slight 
 convulsive motions of the eyes and face. These 
 were followed, after a little time, by a severe fit. 
 Every exertion was then made by Dr. S. to 
 prevent its recurrence, but in vain ; and after a 
 forced labor, to which the patient was wholly 
 insensible, her breath grew shorter and shorter, 
 
104 APPENDIX. 
 
 and a little before 6 o'clock on Monday morning-, 
 the 14th inst., without a struggle, or a groan, 
 with her eyes closed, she ceased to breathe. 
 
 " The funeral was attended the evening of the 
 same day by all our number, and by our mission- 
 ary friends in Jaffna. The mother and babe 
 were inclosed in the same coffin, and buried in 
 the Oodooville church ; amidst the tears not only 
 of the immediate mourners, but of the bereaved 
 children of the School — the native members of 
 our churches — and of many people around, who 
 could not but feel their loss. 
 
 " The following week on Thursday, being the 
 time of our quarterly Communion at Oodooville, 
 a funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Poor from 
 the text ; ' And his disciples came, and took up 
 the body and buried it and went and told Jesus;' 
 in which he described the deceased as like John, 
 'a burning and a shining light.' This descrip- 
 tion, though it made us weep the more for our 
 loss, and for the loss of the natives around us, 
 caused us also to rejoice for the grace conferred 
 on our departed sister, while here below, and for 
 our assurance of her now enjoying the unveiled 
 piesence and glory of her Saviour, in the 'bright 
 world above.' " 
 
APPENDIX. 105 
 
 An extract of a letter from the bereaved hus- 
 band, which was published in the Missionary 
 Herald for September 1833, is here added, to con- 
 clude the Obituary. 
 
 " She was much occupied on Saturday, and 
 in the evening of that day, in doing some writ- 
 ing for the mission, (for she was always my 
 copyist,) and in the care of the children ; yet as 
 it was the birth-day of our departed Charles, she 
 found time to express at some length, in her pri- 
 vate diary, her feelings in reference to the sore 
 affliction experienced in his death, which had 
 evidently been greatly sanctified to her soul. 
 After speaking of the trial, as a ' merciful afflic- 
 tion,' expressing a wish to say more than she 
 had done of what she hoped it had wrought in 
 her, she says, among other things, — ' Sure I am 
 that I never before saw the Saviour so lovely, so 
 desirable ; never considered, as now, the length, 
 and breadth, and height and depth of that love 
 which passeth knowledge — the value of that foun- 
 tain, which is set open for sin and uncleanness — 
 never saw the whole glorious plan of salvation, 
 so perfect, so wonderful — never with such feel- 
 ings could say, ' My Lord and my God.' And 
 while this view of the subject has seemed great- 
 ly to endear the fond object whose removal has 
 
106 APPENDIX. 
 
 been the means, I have been thankful that the 
 Lord did not wholly forsake me — did not leave' 
 me to ' compass myself about with sparks of my 
 own kindling' — to strive to work out my own 
 righteousness, by tears and groans for sin. Oh ! 
 I bless him for his chastisement, and long that it 
 should bring forth more fruit. Sometimes heaven 
 has seemed very near, and as though it would be 
 easy to die. * * * Should I be called from my lit- 
 tle family this night, from my dear husband, oh, 
 my Saviour, let me rest in thine arms. Carry me 
 all the Jordan through. Be with me, even as I 
 cannot ask or think. Sustain my sinking feet.. 
 Tear every veil from these blind eyes. Let me 
 not deceive myself. Be thou my Saviour, in that 
 dark hour ; and do thou most graciously bless my 
 dear, dear husband. Uphold him with thine 
 everlasting arms, let thy right hand be under his 
 head, and thy left hand sustain him. * # * My 
 dear babes ! May they, be thine — thine only, 
 and forever.' 
 
 " I could quote more from what this beloved 
 follower of tbe Lamb wrote only a few hours be- 
 forshe was taken ill, but space does not permit. 
 Though unable after her illness commenced, to 
 express to us her feelings, she left them on record 
 down to the end of her being 1 able to write. She 
 
APPENDIX. 107 
 
 had for three or four months been much occupied 
 in heavenly meditation, and had somewhat new 
 views of the Saviour as her Saviour, by something 
 like an appropriating faith. The Bible had not 
 only become increasingly dear to her, but in- 
 creasingly plain and appropriate, and her reli- 
 gious joys abounded as she grew in grace. 
 
 " She w T as fully prepared to die. Her house 
 was set in order. Her lamp was trimmed and 
 burning ; and she was ready to meet the bride- 
 groom. It was in some respects a great mercy 
 that she was removed from earth so suddenly; 
 for the pains of dying had often terrified her, and 
 fear had kept her in bondage. The messenger 
 came gently to her, for the last she knew was, 
 when, speaking to me, she said she felt no pain, 
 but entirely at ease ; and bidding me good night, 
 wished me to lie down on a couch. She then 
 fell asleep, and awaked no more to any con- 
 sciousness of what was passing around her ; but 
 awaked, I doubt not, to behold the 'full glories of 
 the Lamb.' " 
 
103 APPENDIX. 
 
 MISSIONARY HYMN. 
 
 From Greenland's icy mountains, 
 
 From India's coral strand, 
 Where Afric's sunny fountains 
 
 Boll down their golden sand ; 
 From many an ancient river, 
 
 From many a palmy plain, 
 They call us to deliver 
 
 Their land from error's chain. 
 
 What though the spicy breezes 
 
 Blow soft o'er Cey.on's isle, 
 Though every prospect pleases, 
 
 And only man is vile : 
 In vain with lavish kindness 
 
 The gifts of God are strown, 
 The heathen, in his blindness. 
 
 Bows down to wood and stone. 
 
 Can we, whose souls are lighted 
 
 With wisdom from on high, 
 Can we to men benighted 
 
 The lamp of life deny ? 
 Salvation, O salvation ! 
 
 The joyful sound proclaim, 
 Till each remotest nation 
 
 Has learned Messiah's name. 
 
 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story > 
 
 And you, ye waters, roll, 
 Till, like a sea of glory, 
 
 It spreads from pole to pole ; 
 Till o'er our ransomed nature, 
 
 The Lamb for sinners slain, 
 Redeemer, King, Creator, 
 
 In bliss returns to reign. 
 
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