THE children's SERVICES AT CAMDEN ROAD. 39 
closed), I shall try to send a letter to Lucy 
Harrison in this. I think her address is 63 Falk- 
land Road ; Miss Emma Keen can tell you. I have 
written to Alice Smith." 
The promised letter from Madeira duly arrived, and 
is inserted appropriately here as a sample of the many 
admirable epistles he afterwards wrote, not only to 
the children at Camden Road, but also to Sunday 
schools generally, some of which have appeared in 
the Juvenile Missionary Herald^ greatly to the delight 
of the youthful readers of that magazine. It is not 
every one who can write or speak so as really to 
interest and profit the young. Mr. Comber in a 
remarkable degree possessed this rare gift. The 
letter to his young friends now given, as well as 
those already inserted, will abundantly justify this 
opinion : — 
‘‘My DEAR Friends, — This is the third time I have 
tried to write a letter to you since I have been on 
board. On the two former occasions, the pitching 
and rolling of the vessel, added to an aching head, 
compelled me to give up. We are now, however, 
comparatively quiet, being sheltered from a heavy 
gale that is blowing all around us. 
“We have come more than a thousand miles by 
water, and it does seem so far away from home. The 
ship started from Liverpool rather later than was 
expected, — on Sunday morning, at eleven o'clock. 
And just about the time Mr. Tucker was giving out 
the first hymn in chapel, the order was given to ‘ let 
go/ and we steamed off. 
“ Our Sunday on board was far different from yours 
at Camden Road. All was noise and bustle here, 
putting the cargo in order, and preparing to meet the 
‘ troubled sea.' We should like to have held a 
service on board, but there was no opportunity ; but, 
in the afternoon, Mr. Thomson and I went into his 
cabin together, and asked God to help us on the 
