The Mission Cemetery and the Fallen Missionaries of Fuh Chau, China; With an Introductory Notice of Fuh Chau and Its Missions

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1858 Excerpt: ... AMERICAN BOAKD OF COMMISSIONEBS. Sophia Aelanb Hamilton, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest daughter of Luther Hamilton, Esq., and was born in the town of Fleming, in the county of Cayuga, New York, on the 20th day of March, 1818. Her father was a gentleman of intelligence and wealth, and a prominent and influential member of the community in which he lived. He was a father devotedly attached to his children, and received from them in return the most ardent esteem and affection. Especially was he the earthly idol of his eldest daughter Sophia, whose heart received one of its most severe strokes when the intelligence of his death reached her in the first letter received from home after her arrival in China. Both her parents were prominent and active members of the Baptist Church in her native town; and she enjoyed in early life that greatest of all blessings--a pious home, and the gentle discipline of Christian parents. She had three sisters and a brother, to whom she was devotedly attached, and for whom she cherished the tenderest affection until the lints, one by one, were broken by death, so that one alone remains to cherish the memory of her sisterly devotion. There are but few more loving sisters than was Miss H., and but few, as we shall see in the course of this memoir, have given more substantial evidence of the depth and power of her affection. When but a child she had serious and earnest thoughts on the subject of religion, which were early discovered and cherished by her parents. Perhaps, more than anything else, the noble Christian example and unimpeachable character of her father originated these thoughts, and impressed on her young heart the reality and power of religion. At the age of thirteen she made profession of religion, was bapti...