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the sentiments he expressed to his dear friend, John 
Hartland : — 
“ I feel stronger than ever ; I feel calm, trusting in 
the power, guidance and blessing of the living God, 
who has called me to make a sacrifice that He will 
make up to me ; and now my one prayer is, not for 
guidance, encouragement and resignation — these I 
have no fear of — but for grace to live the highest, 
noblest life, to live very close to Him in prayer, to 
realise spiritual things, to have more the spirit of 
Jesus. Hartland, my dear fellow, pray for me in this. 
“ I am so utterly unworthy of this post of honour, 
my heart is often so cold and lifeless ; I want to glow 
with love to Jesus. I want to commune more with 
Him, and to realise His promises ; I want to love 
His Word, to love prayer more. 
“ I am thankful that I have never had a thought of 
turning back ; forward, upward, heavenward, eagerly 
pressing on, striving to do, be, what He would have 
me. 
The voyage was long, occupying no less than forty- 
one days, being completed on the 5th of December. 
From communications describing the incidents and 
experiences of the voyage, a few extracts may be 
culled 
“ On Sunday afternoon we snapped the last con- 
necting link with dear old England, by letting the 
pilot go. I daresay you can imagine I soon got 
home-sick and felt desolate. Cut away from so much 
dear and congenial society, for the first time I entered 
into the full meaning of ‘ There ^s no place like 
home.’ ” In the letter to the Camden Road children 
the terrible storm experienced before reaching 
Madeira has been vividly described. Had the 
Ethiopia proceeded a few miles farther on her voyage, 
it is most probable she would have suffered the fate 
which overtook the other vessels. Such a storm at 
Madeira had never been remembered. “The cable 
between Lisbon and Madeira snapped, so we could not 
