THIED LETTEE. 



53THE last letter was written just before we reached 

 ^r Ceylon. We dropped anchor in Colombo harbor 

 at 4 a.m. Sunday, loth January. Colombo is a city 

 of 120,000 inhabitants, of these about 2,000 are 

 English-speaking. I preached in the evening in the 

 "oldest Wesleyan chapel in Asia." It was built in 

 1816. It is well situated as respects population, being 

 in one of the crowded parts of the city. It contained 

 a large marble tablet, erected to the memory of the 

 great and good Dr. Coke. May 3rd, 1814, that good 

 man ascended to his reward. 



The tablet tells us that his body was buried at sea, 

 lat. 2.29 south, long. 59.29 west. It also bears the 

 name of those honored brethren who accompanied 

 him in his glorious work. The names are Lynch, 

 Squance, Harvard, Erskine and Clough. 



Although the good Coke never reached the shore 

 towards which his heart and his prayers went 

 out, I presume the work would not have been begun, 

 at any rate so soon as it was, if he had not led the way. 

 When the sea shall give up her dead, what a great 



