Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-15

to meet tho wants of these and to make desirable
work for Bible Glasses The substaRce of the larger
work is given in the authors words, but reduction
has been Effected chiefly by the omission Of detailed
accounts of views and ofhoir refutatons,
| and of part Of the notes. work unsurpassed in
depth of spiritual insight, and in true evangelical
sentiment, is thus placed within the reach of the
masses,
| TIE LIFE AND LETTERS OF MRS. EMILY @.
gUDsoN. BY "A. 9. Kendrick, Professor of Greek
Literature in the University Of Rochester New
Cincinnati; Hickey, Mallory Co.
The story Of girl of lowly birth, who grewup a
romantic young woman aud after years oflaborious
occupation teacher, and several publications Of
Improbable books, achieved reputation rs a write
of light literature, and with it, pecuniary success
which she devoted first to the support and comfort
other parents In brief, she had fought the battle
Of life through adversely. and had shown herself
| true, noble hearted woman.
While in this sphere she captured by Dr.
| Adoniram Judson, then q missionary to India, and
suffering the aficton Of a second conjugal bereave-
ment. The beginning Of their acquaintance was
romantic During the tedium Of q detention Of A
railroad train, he saw a volume of her "Trippings"
he called some of her pieces. He found that his
travelling friend knew the author, and he inquired
| ifshe Christian. he found that she was He
| asked she a Bap ptist, and found that she was
His attention riveted to the book by the "grace
Of the style and the truth and sprghtlness of the
narrative" he said the pieces were 'wrtten with
great grace and power" and tn at he would be glad
to know the author, and that it was a pity her tai
ents should be employ ed on such subjects.
An opportunity occurred the next day. She was
stopping at the house of a mutual fIlend and the
Doctor sought an interview. Ho began the biogra-
pher says "with characteristic impetuosity," and,
he might add, with the pr, mptness of a widower on
his third venture. BE conducted her to a sofa say
ing he wished to talk with her. "She replied half
payfully that she should be delighted and honored
by having him talk to her." He began by inouiring
chow she could reconcile it with her conscience 10
employ talents noble in a species of writing so
little useful spiritual" She plead her circum
stances, her INDECENT parents and her ill-success in
| publishing several books.
He was somewhat softened, and opened another
subject "He wished to procure a person to pre-
pare memoir of his recently deceased WIFE, and IL
partly in fact, with this purpose that he sought
Emilys acquaintance" and began it with this lee
ture on the employment which in his view so emf.
nently qualified her for this work. 'The discussion
Of this proposition We read, NATURALLY threw
them much together during the ensuing few DAYS.
''The consequences what has so often occurred
since the days of Adam and Eve" The memoir of
the second wife was omitted, and the intended au.
thor was persuaded to make subject for another
This book is that other.
We read that she pressed the subject upon hor
with all the energy of his impassioned and most
truthful character" He painted to her the glo-
rios and the deformitios of the Orient; its moral
desert in wilderness of luxuriant beauty"
He exalted the grandnoss of carry ing the GOSPEL TO
q land 80 beautiful, which was stretching out its
hands for salvation, and he gloried "the privilege
Of being reaper in the great moral harvest of the
world" In short, he plead with such ardor, that
'his arguments falling from lips wet with Oastilian
dews, well as with the dews that descend upon
the mountains of ZiOn," prevailed, and Emily set
about Teconciling her friends to this sudden change
for the Doctor had pushed the siege without inter.
mission. Liberal selections of their correspondenoe
after this period given. The following in which
the Doctor refers to the first tumult of his love- we
give a specimen of total deprayity love-letter
The Doctor shows how he condescended to loye her
when she was SHINING against God by living useful
lie and supporting her parents, and when he was a
holy Missionary and how he loves her now when he
has found that she is willing to be a Missionarys
wife. We quote:
81 have some confidence in my love for you be-
cause began at the bottom of the ladder. L loved
you not as goddess, but as sinful creature-more
sinful than myse1. Now have discovered my mis-
take, and can love you less ?"
She was a convert to the ardor of a missionary.
y hich he fondly imagined to be missionary zeal.
When consider the almost inappreciable effect
which the most successful labors of these mission
aries can have on the millions of humanity which
under the care Of the Providence aud Of
the improbability that such feeble means can have
been all that God has provided for their salvation
and Of the thousands within hearing of the rattle
of the gold it flows nte the treasury of the Board
of Foreign Missions, who never hear the Gospel any
more than the Hindoo, we inclined to doubt
that duty requires such sacrifice as that of Mrs.
Judsou, in abandoning q useful and loValy liEa