When I was in America, I used continually, when preaching, to ask the
dear children whether they would not become missionaries. I used also to
beg them to write down what I had asked them. Many complied with my
request. While I was at the Avon Springs, one of the daughters of a
physician there, not only wrote it down, but gave me what she had
written. The following is a copy of what she wrote,
_August 18, 1844._
_Dr. Scudder requested me to come to India to help him when I am
grown._
S. P. S.
_Avon Springs_
Could I raise my voice loud enough to reach America, I would beg of
_you_ to write down the following sentence: Dr. Scudder asks me, to-day,
whether I will not hereafter become a missionary to the heathen. Perhaps
you will write it down _immediately_.
Now, my dear boys, if you will come out to India, or go to Burmah or
China, to tell the heathen of the Saviour, you may, with the blessing of
God, do as much good as Swartz and Carey, and others have done. And if
you, my dear girls, will do the same, you also may do much good. This
will appear from what I am going to tell you about a little girl in
Ceylon.
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