CONTENTS. Norwich-Female friends, and efforts for their spiritual good tions of her character and intercourse as a sister-Efforts for the spiritual - Correspondence with her father and friends respecting the foreign mission service Engagement to Mr. Smith Marriage-Embarkation, ... 127 Entrance on missionary labors -Interest in the establishment of a school - Habits and manners of the inhabitants - Experience on missionary Scenery - Sabbath evening-English service-Troubles of Mohamme- dans - Death of Dr. Dodge-Appeal to American Christians On physical culture - Intercourse with English friends-Letter to Mrs. Dodge-On preparation for the missionary work-Female prayer meeting-Native habits of fasting-Thoughts on American character Arab visits- Letter to Mrs. Wisner on the death of her husband- Thoughts on the world as a portion-Close occupation of time- Moslem wedding-Views of her employment-Of a heaveny inher- itance-Interest in American friends Engagement in a plan for reli- Letter to the members of the Young Ladies' Academy, Norwich - Views of the effects of the mission - Climate -Importance of respectability of appearance in missionaries - Good Friday - Translation of an Arabic grammar Spring and its productions - Impediments to missionary labors - Religious conversation Health-School-Letter to Mrs. MEMOIR. CHAPTER I. PARENTAGE AND ANCESTRY DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTHFUL CHARACTER RELIGIOUS IMPRESSIONS EFFORTS IN SABBATH SCHOOL, AND VIEWS RESPECTING WANT OF PIETY IN TEACHERS HER CONVERSION. SARAH LANMAN HUNTINGTON was born in Norwich, Connecticut, June 18, 1802. Her father was Jabez Huntington, Esq. Her paternal grandfather was General Jedidiah Huntington, of New London; favorably known as an officer in the American army in the war of the Revolution; but better known, in later periods of his life, as devoted to works of pious benevolence, particularly as one of the early members of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It was a source of satisfaction to the subject of this Memoir, particularly after her entrance upon missionary engagements, that an ancestor whom she so much loved and revered, was in his lifetime a member of that Board, in the service of which she was to go forth to the missionary work. Writing of him a few months before her decease, she remarked, "He was far before his age in his liberal views of benevolent efforts. I shall never forget the interest with which I stood by his monument, in New London, just before my departure from America. I felt that his spirit. approved of the consecration I had made." Her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Faith Huntington, was daughter of the |