llect was equally useful in other missionary labors.
Though through fear of being subjected to extortion, some of them had
been obliged to flee to the woods, not one disciple had disgraced or
dishonored his profession. A violent effort and been made by some of
Moung Shwa-gnong's enemies, to ruin him in the opinion of the viceroy,
by complaining of him that he was making every endeavor "to turn the
priests' rice-pot bottom upwards." "_What consequence?_" said the
viceroy, "_let the priests turn it back again._" All the disciples from
that time felt sure of toleration under Mya-day-men, (the name of the
viceroy.)

The history of the next few months presents nothing novel in the life of
this little Christian community, to which there were however some
accessions. But Mrs. Judson was gradually sinking under the disease
which had so long troubled her, until at length it was found essential
to her _life_ even, that she should seek some more propitious climate.
After much anxious deliberation it was resolved that she should sail for
Bengal, and thence to America. Her feelings on leaving the 'home of her
heart,' and the husband of her youth, as well as the spiritual children
that God had given them in that heathen land--to try alone the perils of
a long and tedious voyage, in a state of health which rendered it
doubtful whether she would ever reach the land of her nativity, or
return to that of her adoption--can scarcely be conceived, much less
described. Her own words are:

"Those only who have been through a variety of toil and privation to
obtain a darling object, can realize how entirely every fibre of the
heart adheres to that object when secured. Had we encountered no
difficulties, and suffered no privations in our attempts to form a
Church of Christ, under the government of a heathen despot, we should
have been warmly attached to the individuals composing it, but should
not have felt that tender solicitude and anxious affection, as in the
present case.

"Rangoon, from having been the theatre in which so much of the power,
faithfulness and mercy of God have been exhibited; from having been
considered for ten years past as my home for life, and from a thousand
interesting associations, had become the dearest spot on earth. Hence
you will readily imagine, that no ordinary consideration would have
induced my departure."

She arrived in Calcutta Sept. 22d, 1821. Finding when she reached there
that the American captains o