hers, she organized and continued through the favorable portions of
the year, a Sunday-school, of which she assumed the responsibility of
superintendent; and at the usual annual celebrations, she with her
teachers and scholars joined in the exercises which accompany that
festival."

"It is my ardent desire," she writes to a friend, "that the glorious
work of reformation may extend till _every knee_ shall bow to the living
God. For this expected, this promised era, let us pray earnestly,
unceasingly, and with faith. How can I be so inactive, when I know that
thousands are perishing in this land of grace; and millions in other
lands are at this very moment kneeling before senseless idols!"

And in her journal--"Sinners perishing all around me, and I almost
panting to tell the far _heathen_ of Christ! Surely this is wrong. I
will no longer indulge the vain foolish wish, but endeavor to be useful
in the position where Providence has placed me. I can _pray_ for
deluded idolaters, and for those who labor among them, and this is a
privilege indeed."

This strong bias of her mind toward a missionary life, was well known to
her mother, who still remembers with a tender interest an incident
connected with it. Sarah had been deeply affected by the death of
Colman, who in the midst of his labors among the heathen, had suddenly
been called to his reward. Some time afterward she returned from an
evening meeting, and with a countenance radiant with joy,
announced--what her pastor had mentioned in the meeting--that a
successor to Colman had been found; _a young man in Maine named
Boardman_ had determined to raise and bear to pagan Burmah the standard
which had fallen from his dying hand. With that maternal instinct which
sometimes forebodes a future calamity however improbable, her mother
turned away from her daughter's joyous face, for the thought flashed
involuntarily through her mind, that the young missionary would seek as
a companion of his toils, a kindred spirit; and where would he find one
so congenial as the lovely being before her?

Her fears were realized. Some lines written by "the enthusiastic Sarah"
on the death of Colman, met the eye of the "young man in Maine," who was
touched and interested by the spirit which breathes in them, and did
not rest till he had formed an acquaintance with their author. This
acquaintance was followed by an engagement; and in about two years
Sarah's ardent aspirations were gratified--she