Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ...several years since. They had one little son. His name was Charles Lathrop Winslow. He was an excellent and pious boy. He was constant in his prayers to God, and used to pray with his young companions. He was very fond of learning, and his great desire was to be a missionary that he might teach the heathen. His parents wished him to have advantages which he could not obtain in Ceylon. So they decided to send him to their friends in the United States, to be well educated and then return and be a missionary. Though they had no other son, and loved him exceedingly, they were willing to part with him, that the cause of Christ might receive benefit. And though he was so young, he did not fear to trust himself on the ocean for so many thousand miles, with no protector but God. Look upon your maps and see the long way he had to sail from Ceylon to New York. The mighty waves tossed the ship, and when he went to his little bed there was no kind mother to kiss and bless him. Sometimes a storm arose, and the thunder upon those wide waters was very loud and terrible. But he remembered that his Father in Heaven could rule the raging of the sea, and hush the wind when he pleased. Though little Charles was alone among strangers, he made himself contented and happy on his long voyage. He knew that his parents thought it best for him to take this voyage, and he willingly obeyed them. He spoke kindly to the sailors, and sometimes told them of Jesus Christ. He daily wrote in his journal, and he took great comfort in prayer. At length the vessel arrived in New York, and he was received by his friends there with great delight. But he was seized with sickness, and in about ten days, died. His Father in Heaven took him unto himself. A biography of him is to be...
