Holy Eucharist to my three dear ones."

'"All complaints of old men must be serious."

'I wish I had more time to write, but I am too busy in the midst of
school, and printing Scripture histories and private prayers, and
translations in Nengone, Bauro, Lifu; and as all my time out of
school is spent in working in the printing office, I really have not
a minute unoccupied. With one exception, I have scarcely ever taken
an hour's walk for some six weeks. A large proportion of the
printing is actually set up by my own fingers; but now one Nengone
lad, the flower of my flock, can help me much--a young man about
seventeen or eighteen, of whom I hope very much--Malo, baptized by
the name of Harper, an excellent young man, and a great comfort to
me. He was setting up in type a part of the little book of private
prayers I am now printing for them. I had just pointed out to him
the translation of what would be in English--"It is good that a man
as he lies down to sleep should remember that that night he may hear
the summons of the Angel of God; so then let him think of his death,
and remember the words of St. Paul: 'Awake, thou that sleepest,'"
etc.; when in came the man whom the Archdeacon left in charge here
with my letters. "I hope, sir, there is no bad news for you;" and my
eye lighted on the deep black border of your envelope.

'To-morrow, if I live, I enter upon my thirty-second year--a solemn
warning I have received to-day, as another year is passing from me.
May some portion of his spirit rest on me to bless my poor attempt to
do what he did so devotedly for more than forty years: his duty as a
soldier and servant of his Lord and Master, into whose joy he has no
doubt now entered.