A Sermon on the Death: Of the Reverend George Cran, Augustus Desgranges, and Jonathan Brain, Missonaries in India From the London Missionary Society (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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For a considerable time he enjoyed good health, and there was a pleasing prospect that he might be spared for many years; but a bilious fever, in Nov. 1808, brought him to the gates of death. He recovered in some degree, and the general who commanded in that district invited Mr. Cran to accompany him in his journey round the province, in hopes that it might prove beneficial to him. In that journey he finished his course. The letters which he wrote-to Mr. Desgranges shew the frame of his mind, and his employment during the last weeks of his life. In one of them he says, I am sorry to say that this leaves me in a weak state. However I was able to go into the village in the evening and address the poor heathen. They rejoiced to hear; and I was constrained to pray that God would be pleased to spare my life a little longer, that I may enjoy the pleasure of proclaiming the good news. I find this. Does me good. In' another, from a difl'erent place: I have had much conversation with the natives, at least once or twice every day, and sometimes with considerable numbers of both sexes. In short I have spent many pleasant hours with them, and found many desirous to here more of the Gospel. Travelling among the natives and proclaiming the good news of salvation is certainly delightful work. Such were the sentiments and feelings of this good missionary of Jesus Christ, who in less than three weeks after wards, on the sixth of January, 1809, closed a useful life of ser vice to Jesus his master. Mr. Desgranges arrived a few hours after his decease, and'conveyed his remains to the grave in the burying place at Chicacole.

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