His knowledge of languages, considering his well-known active habits, has often been to us a subject of surprise and thanksgiving.

All men who could comprehend French, Italian, or Greek, were accessible by his powerful admonitions.

In the first-mentioned language he conversed with ease, and in the last two, performed with perfect fluency the common public services of a preacher of the Gospel.

Even the Arabic he had so far mastered, as to commence in it a regular Sabbath service with a few of the natives.

At the time of his death, besides preaching weekly in Arabic, and also in English in his turn, and besides his grammatical studies under an Arabic master, he had just commenced a work, to which, with the advice of us all, he was directing, for the time, his main attention.