CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE ARMENIANS.
1861-1863.
Dr.Dwight having completed his eastern tour, visited the United States, where he arrived in November, 1861.

It was arranged, that he should prepare and publish the results of his extended missionary observations.

But the Head of the Church had ordered otherwise.

On Saturday, January 25, 1862, while passing in the cars through Shaftsbury, Vermont, on his way to spend a Sabbath at Middlebury College, "the stormy wind, fulfilling His word," lifted the car from off the rails, and tossed it down a steep embankment; and one of the heavy trucks, following and dashing through it, at once set free the sanctified spirit of our brother, and gave him a sort of translation to the regions of the blessed.

It was a sudden and unexpected close of a most useful life.
Dr.Dwight was born at Conway, Massachusetts, on the 22d of November, 1803.