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A coffin was made of plank that had been bought at Durban to be made into church doors, and when her husband had kept lonely vigil all night over her remains, Henrietta Robertson was laid in her grave, where the Norwegians hope to build their church, Mr. Robertson himself reading the service over her. But her work has not died with her.
Mr.Robertson returned to his lonely task, helped and tended by the converted man and his wife, Usajabula and Christina, whom she had trained, and whose child had been with her in the fatal overturn.
A clergyman returning from the Zanzibar Mission came to him and aided him for a while; other helpers have come out from time to time, and meantime, Miss Mackenzie exerted herself to the utmost, straining every nerve to obtain funds for the establishment of a Missionary Bishopric in Zululand, as the most fitting memorial to her brother, since it was here that, had he chosen for himself, his work would have lain.
After several years of endeavour she has succeeded, and, even as these last pages are written, we hold in our hands the account of the arrival of the new Bishop at Kwamagwaza. So it is that the work never perishes, but the very extinction of one light seems to cause the lighting of many more; and thus it is that the word is being gradually fulfilled that the Gospel shall be preached to all nations, and that "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." Footnotes: {f:6} At first sight this seems one of the last misfortunes likely to have befallen a godly gentleman of Charlestown; but throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Algerine pirates swept the seas up to the very coasts of England, as Sir John Eliot's biography testifies.
Dr.James Yonge, of Plymouth, an ancestor only four removes from the writer, was at one time in captivity to them; and there was still probability enough of such a catastrophe for Priscilla Wakefield to introduce it in her "Juvenile Travellers," written about 1780. {f:130} Articles of dress. {f:133} The Judsons always use the universal prefix Moung, which we omit, as evidently is a general title. {f:137} All along in these letters, written journal fashion, it is to be observed how careful and even distrustful Mr.Judson is. {f:221} Merino sheep, so called in Spain because the breed came from beyond the sea (_Mer_), having been introduced from England by Constance, daughter of John of Gaunt, and wife of Juan II. LONDON: R.CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BREAD STREET HILL. ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIONEERS AND FOUNDERS*** ******* This file should be named 19308.txt or 19308.zip ******* This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/3/0/19308 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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