...time, in company with eight missionary brethren and sisters, he embarked, in the Dryad, for Ceylon. When asked, afterwards, how he could refrain from...have wept ? I had been waiting with anxiety almost 8 years for an opportunity to go and preach Christ among the heathen. I had often wept at the long...

...leaving his native country, and all that was dear to him there; replied, 'Why should I have wept? T had been waiting with anxiety almost eight years for...often wept at the long delay. But the day on which 1 bade farewell to my nstive land was the happiest day of my life.' _ . 376 MEMOIR OF THE REV. JAMES...

...were answered, and, in company with eight missionary brethren and sisters, he embarked for Ceylon. When asked, afterwards, how he could refrain from...Christ among the heathen. I had often wept at the long delaj'. But the day on which I bade farewell to my native land was the happiest day of uiy life." The...

...months. When asked, afterwards, how he could refrain from weeping at the time of leaving his native land, and all that was dear to him there, he replied, "Why should I have wept? I had been anxiously waiting almost eight years for an opportunity to go and preach Christ among the heathen....

...missionary brethren and sisters, on the 22d of October, 1815. On leaving his native land he said, "I have been waiting with anxiety almost eight years for an...opportunity to go and preach Christ among the heathen. I have often wept at the long delay. But the day on which I now bid farewell to my native land, is the...

...that time, in company with eight missionary brethren and sisters, he embarked in the Dryad for Ceylon. When asked, afterwards, how he could refrain from...for an opportunity to go and preach Christ among the hea then. I had often wept at the long delay. But the day on which I bade farewell to my native land...

...Bardwell, he sailed the same year, October 22d, for Cevlon. On leaving his native land he said: " I have been waiting with anxiety almost eight years for an...opportunity to go and preach Christ among the heathen. I have often wept at the long delay; but the day on which I now bid farewell to my native land is the...

...On leaving his native laud in company with eight missionary brethren and sisters he said, " I have been waiting with anxiety almost eight years for an...opportunity to go and preach Christ among the heathen. I have often wept at the long delay. But the day on which I now bid farewell to my native land is the...

...leaving his native country, and all that was <fear to him there; replied, 'Why should I have wept? 1 had been waiting with anxiety almost eight years for...often wept at the long delay. But the day on which 1 bade farewell to my native land was the happiest day of my life.' " The Dryad had a favourable voyage...