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could still help her husband: can you tell me how you think she managed it? Perhaps she sent some one to see him, mamma."

No-he had been moved again to another prison, where no one knew where to find him. "Perhaps she wrote to him, mamma?”

How could she, when no one would have known where to take the letter? besides, she was too ill to write-think again—“I cannot tell, mamma-for if no one knew where he was, I don't see how they could do anything for him.”

Mrs. Judson tells us herself what she did; she could not rise from her bed, but she could pray, and she did pray; she asked God to take care of him, and she felt comforted in the thought of His love and protection; and in time she recovered from her illness. In the mean while, the English army came nearer and nearer to the city, and the king and the people got more and more frightened; at last they sent and promised to give the English everything they wanted, if they would only promise to go away. Among the things which the English demanded, was, that all the white people, (amongst whom of course were Mr. and Mrs. Judson,) should be sent to them. This the king, for a long time refused, for though he had used

them so cruelly, he did not wish to part with them; but when the English army threatened to take possession of his city, he consented to that, and everything else they required. If Mrs. Judson had prayed to God in her distress, she did not forget to praise Him now, when, safely seated in the boat, with her husband and little baby, and sailing down the river on a beautiful moonlight night, she left for ever, the place where she had suffered so dreadfully.

"And were the English kind to her, mamma, and did she get safely back to her own country, and live happily afterwards?"

The English were very kind to her, and I have no doubt that she lived happily afterwards; but she did not desire to go back to her own country; she lived, and died among the heathen, trying to teach them about Christ-nor was it without success, five I have read of who were converted and became Christians, and some of them who loved Mrs. Judson very much, had stayed with her all the time Mr. Judson was in prison, and did everything they could to comfort and assist her.

"But five seems very few, mamma!".

Very few, Janie! I do not know that there

were only five, but if so, it is not very few; do you remember the text you have learnt, about all the angels of God, rejoicing in heaven over the soul of one person who repents? one, only one; how can you say, then, that five are very few ? "Are there any Christians in that country now, mamma ?"

I do not know; the account I was reading said, that the English were going to war with those people again; and, therefore, all the Europeans who were living there, afraid of being ill-treated, had come away-the steam-boat brought many persons, both English and American; but I do not know whether any of them were missionaries; I should think some of the people, whom Mrs. Judson taught, must be alive now, and if so, I trust that there are still Christians amongst them.

THE MISSIONARY JOURNEY.

I HAVE told you before of the wicked practices of stealing the poor Africans for slaves, and selling them to strangers, far away from their country and their friends. I am sorry to be obliged to add, that English people were often guilty in former times of this great sin; but at last they repented, and agreed together, not only that they would never take any more slaves themselves, but that they would not allow others to do so; they built a town, therefore, on the coast of Africa, and sent some ships to sail about there and keep watch; and when they saw a vessel carrying away slaves, to stop it, and take possession of the slaves: the English ships, you know, are the finest in the world, and I do not think they were ever employed in a better cause, many and many a vessel did they catch, which was sailing off full of poor slaves; some of these people had been brought from a great distance, from villages miles up in the interior of the country, some from one place, and some from another, so the English ships used to take them to

the town I have mentioned before, where they were provided for, and taken care of; the name of this town, as you have before been told, is Sierra Leone.

Amongst the other English people who live at this town to take care of the Africans thus brought to them, are missionaries, to teach them about Christ; and it has pleased God, that by their means many of the black people have become Christians. Some years ago, a missionary wished to go to the African tribes who live at a distance from Sierra Leone, and tell them about Christ, and he wished to take with him some of the negroes who were Christians, in order to show him the way, and to speak to the people in their own language: now there was great danger to them in this plan, for it was quite possible they might be seized upon again, and sold as slaves : don't you think then they would refuse to go? No! they said, that though they might, perhaps, be taken again as slaves, yet they counted not their liberty nor their lives dear to them, so that they might have the opportunity of telling their countrymen, the good tidings which they had heard, and what God had done for their souls.

The missionary and his people found it a difficult thing to travel through the woods, and

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