26th, 1866. The valedictory salutations which happened then to be there. This "and thronging memories of the past "visit to the capital of Brazil had an imwere fully shared in by the officers of portant influence in shaping the future. the Board, by the Prudential Committee, Dr. Samuel Worcester, the first Correby personal friends, by the missionaries sponding Secretary of the American present, and by one vast concert of feel- Board, had been on most intimate terms ing and emotion the whole of that great with Mr. Anderson's father, and maniassembly expressed its tribute of respect fested a paternal interest in the son and affection for the person and charac- of his friend. Intent on learning ter of the retiring Secretary. Our lim- the religious condition of all parts of ited space lacks room to record on these the world, Dr. Worcester gave him a pages but a small part of "the warm-letter of inquiry, which was answered hearted resolutions which had been from Rio de Janeiro, and Mr. Evarts passed by the Prudential Committee in view of this resignation." Having known this eminent man for the most part of his official life, it seemed quite fitting, in common with many others, to offer our humble tribute of respect and personal regard, and gratify the feelings and wishes of numerous friends at home and missionaries abroad by putting on record in this permanent form the portrait of one so much beloved and revered for his life-long labors and toils in the cause of Christian Missions in foreign lands. A brief outline biographical sketch will add interest to the portrait. deemed it proper to insert this letter in the Panoplist of 1819. This was Mr. Anderson's introduction to the second Corresponding Secretary of the Board, and when Mr. Evarts' health gave out early in 1822, he requested Mr. Anderson, then in the Senior Class of the Andover Seminary, to supply his place for a few months, while he visited the Missions of the Board among the Indians in the Southwest. His permanent connection with the correspondence of the Board dates from the autumn of that year, first as assistant to the Corresponding Secretary of the Board, and Rev. Rufus Anderson was born at from 1832 onward for thirty-four years North Yarmouth, Maine, August 17th, as one of three coördinate Secretaries, 1796. His father was pastor of a Con- having charge of the department of forgregational church in that place, but eign correspondence. To this add the from 1805 to 1814 was pastor of a church ten preceding years of service in this dein Wenham, Mass., where he died. His partment, and it extends Dr. Anderson's three sons graduated at Bowdoin Col- labors in the Secretaryship of the Board lege, but the second and third died soon over the long period of forty-four years. after of consumption-the disease which All these were of necessity years of in'had proved fatal to the parents. Rufus, cessant toil, with but little time for rethe eldest, made a public profession of laxation and rest even amid the heats of religion while in college, and graduated summer. At the commencement of Dr. in 1818. He was then so seriously threat- Anderson's connection with the Board, ened with consumption, that Mr. Inger- it was in its infancy, and its oldest missoll, of Beverly, a gentleman whose sion had been established only eight death soon after entering the gospel years. During his official life Dr. Anministry was a great loss to the church, procured a gratuitous passage for him | in a ship belonging to Mr. Henry Gray, of Boston, bound to India. The ship sailed from New-York, and the young graduate there made the acquaintance of the late well-known Pelatiah Perit, without either of them knowing under what circumstances it would afterwards be renewed for a long course of years. The ship changed her voyage at Rio de Janeiro, and his health being confirmed, he returned in another ship belonging to the same generous owner, derson has been associated with eight Secretaries, three Treasurers, and thirtyone members of the Prudential Committee. In the winter of 1823-4, Mr. Anderson visited the Island of Cuba, to recover from the effects of a severe cold; and a visit to South Carolina and Georgia, in 1837, was also mainly for reinvigorating health. The Missionary Herald for 1824, in three successive numbers, contains notices of Cuba from his pen. As Dr. Anderson has performed a number of very extended missionary Dr. A. C. Thompson, of Roxbury, Mass., as a deputation under the instruction of the Prudential Committee. The deputation sailed from Boston August 2d, 1854, thus aiming to avoid both the rains and the excessive heats of that country-in which they were favored, providentially, beyond their expectations. They reached Bombay just after the rains; visited the Deccan in the cool of winter, and finished their work in the Madura mission before the hot season. In these important and responsible labors assigned them, the deputation spent seventy-two days in the Mahratta missions, fifty days in the Madura mission, sixty-five in the Ceylon, twentyone in the Madras, and twelve in the Arcot missions-in all two hundred and twenty days. Dr. Thompson then embarked at Madras on his homeward voyage; but, detained by illness, spent a fortnight in the Syrian mission, and nine days at Smyrna, in which time he visited the church then lately organized at Thyatira-making his sojourn in the mission more than eight months. journeys in the service of the Board, we | Board in India, in company with Rev. group a few of the facts here as matters of interest: His first missionary visit to the Mediterranean was made in 1828-9. His second visit occurred in 1843-4. In 1854-5, Dr. Anderson visited the missions of the Board in India, and on his return again for the third time visited the missions of the Board on the Mediterranean. Dr. Anderson's fourth missionary journey was made to the Sandwich Islands in 1863. All these journeys had no reference to his health-they were all undertaken and performed in good health, and, indeed, required it for their successful performance. Dr. Anderson's visit to the Sandwich Islands was doubtless the most important of all his missionary journeys, as it was certainly the most laborious, and was undertaken at an age when men are generally excused from such services. Few men have performed such journeys and rendered such arduous services to a public institution, by travels so extended by sea and in foreign lands. A few facts and particulars of these travels can hardly fail to interest the reader. In 1828-9, Dr. Anderson made his first missionary visit to the missions of the Board in the Mediterranean, and was absent one year, and travelled by sea and land a distance of some eleven thousand five hundred miles, then far more difficult than now. In his second visit to the missions of the Board in the Mediterranean in 1843, Dr. Anderson, in company with Dr. Hawes of Hartford, sailed from Boston, October 11th, and reached Athens, touching at Malta, on the 23d of November. They spent a week at Athens, a month at Smyrna, a week at Broosa, thirty-seven days at Constantinople, four days at Trebizond, twenty at Beirut, and a week in Jerusalem. About three and a half months were thus spent in personal intercouse with the missionaries, and two months more were spent in voyaging and journeying, after leaving Athens and Smyrna. An important service was thus rendered to the cause of missions in the Levant. Dr. Anderson returned to the United States by way of England, after an absence of ten months, having travelled by sea and land twelve thousand nine hundred miles. The third missionary tour of Dr. Anderson was made to the missions of the Dr. Anderson spent twenty-four days in Calcutta, fourteen in the Syrian mission, and forty-six in the Arminianvisiting Kessab, Antioch, Aleppo, Aintab and Constantinople making eightyfour days, and a total in the missions, for him, of three hundred and four days, or about ten months. Their arrival at Bombay was on the 2d of November, 1854; Dr. Thompson's departure from Smyrna was September 12th, 1855, and Dr. Anderson's departure from Constantinople was November 8th. The former reached his native shores, October 27th, 1855, and was absent fifteen months. Dr. Anderson reached Boston January 13th, 1856, having been absent a year and a half, and travelled by sea and land in that time twenty-seven thousand miles. We have not space in these pages to record the varying and interesting incidents such a tour must furnish. 4. By request of the Prudential Committee of the Board, Dr. Anderson made a visit to the Sandwich Islands in 1863, on matters of great moment to the interests of missions in those islands. On this interesting tour, he was accompanied by Mrs. Anderson and their daughter, thus imparting additional en Polynesian, the Court Journal, as they would say in London, made this record at the time: "Dr. Anderson, Mrs. Anderson and Miss Anderson, were very graciously received by her Majesty the Queen, in her private apartments in the palace yesterday at eleven o'clock forenoon. To mark now much they wel comed these philanthropic visitors to this kingdom, it pleased her Majesty to send her carriage to convey them to and from the palace." joyment to the journey. They left Bos-ed by the Queen and her people. The ton on the 9th of January, 1863, and on the 12th of the same month embarked in the steamer Ocean Queen, at NewYork, going by the way of Aspinwall and the Isthmus, and arrived at San Francisco, February 9th, having taken the steamer Constitution on the Pacific, which ran over the three thousand miles from Panama to San Francisco, almost always in sight of the mighty range of mountains forming the eastern barrier of the Pacific ocean. Captain Cresey, of the Boston clipper-ship Archer, bound to China, was induced to land the party at Honolulu, where they arrived, February 27th, in about six weeks from New-York. The annals of the world furnish no such marvellous change and renovation from barbarous to civilized life as has occurred in the Sandwich Islands in about forty years. The inhabitants were barbarians and idolaters, without a written language, and in abject debasement. By the divine benediction upon the missionary instrumentalities of the American Board, the inhabitants of those islands have become civilized and Christianized, put in possession of a written language, and extensive literature, education, good laws, good government, and sit in safety and happiness under their own vines and fig trees. All this wondrous transformation has been achieved in the official lifetime of Dr. Anderson, and now he lands on those islands to behold with his own eyes the rich fruits, which, as one of the Secretaries of the Board, he had so long labored and prayed to promote. No earthly conqueror ever gazed upon such a conquest as must have rejoiced the heart and moistened the eyes of Dr. Anderson as he traversed those beautiful isllands as the official representative of the heaven-born Board that sent him. To read Dr. Anderson's most interesting volume, The Hawaiian Islandsquite a romance of modern historywould impart more real benefit to a sensible mind than a score of volumes of romantic sentimentalities of the present day. Honolulu has grown up to be a city, and the metropolis of the islands, where Dr. Anderson and his family were most cordially received and greet After spending a few days at Honolulu, the party sailed for Hilo, March 9th. On March 11th, they approached Hawaii, and had a grand profile view of the island, while Mauna Kea, one of the two great volcanic mountains, rose before them thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty feet, and Mauna Loa, the other, rose to the height of thirteen thousand seven hundred and sixty feet, still sending forth vast streams of lava. On its passage, the steamer took in wood upon the very spot where Captain Cook was killed. Reaching Hilo after dark, the party was borne to the shore through the high surf on the shoulders of friendly natives, more or less wet. The party visited Kilauea, the great volcano, occupying two days on the way, both going and returning. The crater is four thousand feet above the level of the sea. It has a diameter of three miles. The party descended to the great black floor of the crater, and then had a walk of two miles to the burning lake. The whole was a scene of awful grandeur. They saw one of God's wonderful works. By particular request of the parents, Dr. Anderson baptized the infant daughter of Kanoa at the volcano, a returned native missionary from Micronesia, by the name of Henrietta Kaui, an incident alone in the history of baptism. After their return, the party proceeded to visit and make the tour of the island of Maui and its villages-of the island of Oahu, and its villages and missionary stations, and Oahu College and other places and scenes of interest of the Island of Kauai, its villages and its missions, performing extended journeys of many miles amid scenes and landscapes of marvellous beauty and interest. To enumerate, or even name, any consider 1866.] POETRY able portion of the facts and incidents- Committee and the friends of missions. of valuable information obtained by Dr. The steamer was at length rescued from Anderson's three months' journeyings the trough of the sea in a providential and sojournings in the islands-would way; her mate having been disabled by swell this outline notice far beyond the a fall, and an old sea captain, a passenHis visit to ger, taking his place. Dr. Anderson limits assigned to it. these missions and missionaries, and the and his family reached New-York, Sepdiscussions held with them, were pro- tember 6th, 1863, after an absence of ductive of a vast amount of permanent eight months, and a journey by sea and And it good, and the volume recording the re- land of fourteen thousand miles, also five sults of his careful and sagacious obser- hundred miles in the islands. vation, must be regarded as a treasure, must be a matter of interest to the nuboth to the interests of religion and merous friends of this eminent Secretary commerce, as well as a rich contribution of the Board to know that his various missionary journeys have occupied from to the facts of history. four to six years, and the distance travelled amounts, in summing up, to sixty-six thousand miles, in the service of the Board, from which he has retired with the lasting respect and heartfelt gratitude of the American Board and its many friends, as well as the numerous missionaries on the foreign field, who have for so long a period been the objects of his solicitude and almost paternal care. On their return voyage from San Francisco to Panama, the steamer in which Dr. Anderson and his family were passengers encountered a terrible hurricane, in which for twenty four hours they ate nothing, and it was the general expectation that the steamer would be overwhelmed in the deep. But, we believe, Dr. Anderson did not share in that expectation, feeling a strong confidence that the work assigned him by Divine Providence could not be completed without his safe return home, and the results of his visit to the islands laid before the Prudential THE PARTING Dr. Anderson is the author of several valuable works on missions, and we believe it is expected that he will be the historian of the Board up to the date of his retirement of the Secretaryship. POETRY. Be but sworn, my love, 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. FROM out her father's hall she came, Were naught to her-her love was nigh! Her heart's one love-her father's foe! Tight clasped within his arms she stood, He thought no more of king or state; "And wilt thou trust me, darling? Say! When envy's shafts my name assail- Wilt thou be true, my life's one light? 'Nay, fear not, sweet! thy guardian love Shall charm with holy spell my life! My toils shall end, my labors cease! Shall be my heaven-sent, long-sought peace! "Oh, stay!" she cried, "Ah! true, mine own, if truth can be, I'd cling for ever to thy side For ever thus be near to thee! Though kith and kin should curse thy cause, Love's empire knows no father's laws DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW. SAITH the white owl to the martin folk, In the belfry tower so grim and gray: The swallows around the woodman skimmed, "Over the meadows we sweep and dart, Down with the flowers, or up in the skies; While these poor lumberers toil and slave, Half-starved, for how can they catch their flies?" Quoth the dry-rot worm to his artisans In the carpenter's shop, as they bored away: "Hark to the sound of the saw and file! What are these creatures at work at—say?" From his covered passage a worm looked out, And eyed the beings so busy o'erhead: "I scarcely know, my Lord; but I think They're making a box to bury their dead!" Says a butterfly with his wings of blue All in a flutter of careless joy, As he talks to a dragon-fly over a flower: 'Ours is a life, sir, with no alloy. "What are those black things, row and row, Winding along by the new-mown hay?" "That is a funeral," says the fly: "The carpenter buries his son to-day.” -Chambers's Journal. GEORGE PEABODY. WE mourned the old chivalric times, "The great Arthurian days we mourn, And all the lapsing years that wrought Change after change, yet evermore Till every knightly heart grew cold, The tournay of the Cloth of Gold. 'The poetry of earth is dead: * What lesser grief should we bemoan, With Science in the place of Faith, With quicken'd brains and hearts of stone? Our noblest triumphs mock our skill, We link the Continents in vain— It only tends to sordid ends, So from our lips remonstrance fell, Its pulsing fervor is not spent! "For, lo! a Queen of sovereign sway, Of zoneless empire, quits her throne, No more the queenly woman sees. "No more; but in her heart there glows Of princely aid in sorest need. As forth she thrusts a trembling hand, Homage to Goodness! Queenly meed Survive in us of later birth; Never did truer beauty clothe The radiant limbs of courtly knight, Than clothes that brow serenely smooth, And fills those eyes with gentle light. To latest times that homely form, And that familiar, kindly face, The holier memories of men Will with a tender beauty grace. Where'er that honored name is heard The tears will gleam in woman's eyes: The hearts of men will stir and creep, And blessings to their lips will rise. Though Science join'd the sunder'd worlds, It needed yet what he has doneA noble action, meekly wrought, Has knit the hearts of both in one. "The poetry of earth is never dead.”—Keats. |