NINH AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS RFOR FOREIGN MISSIONS LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1831, by the in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of No books are published by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations of Christians, viz. Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Reformed Dutch. Not more than three of the members can be of the same denomination, and no book can be published to which any member of the Committee shall object. N545 N545li 1831b ADVERTISEMENT. THE reader, on comparing the writings of Mrs. Newell, as now published, with the former editions of them, will find many alterations, and large additions. The alterations are, almost without exception, mere restorations of the original manuscript, to the state in which it was left by Mrs. Newell. The narrative of her life, and other notices, interspersed among her writings, have been added by the compilers of ais revised edition. 3 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.-Birth and parentage of Mrs. Newell- CHAPTER II.-Extracts from her journal, continued- Review of her religious experience-Reading society, --Singing school-Dangerous illness-Byfield Aca- demy. CHAPTER III.-Miss Atwood's attention turned to the wants of the Heathen-Mr. Newell's first intro- duction to her-Extracts from letters and journal- sons- CHAPTER V.-Extracts from Letters to sundry per- s-Her intimacy with Miss Hasseltine-The hour CHAPTER VI.—Journal, during her voyage to India; CHAPTER VII.-Residence in India-Serampore- Baptist Missionaries-Juggernaut-Natives bathing in the Ganges-The Missionaries ordered to leave 5 38 72 · 110 THE LIFE, &c. OF MRS. HARRIET NEWELL. CHAPTER I. Birth and parentage of Mrs. Newell—Her attend- THE highest excellence, exhibited in the life of But Providence has called some females to more And when an offering of precious value, and of rich perfume, has been publicly poured upon the Saviour's feet," wheresoever this gospel shall be preached, there shall also this that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her." HARRIET ATWOOD, afterwards MRS. NEWELL, was born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, October 10, 1793. Her father, Mr. Moses Atwood, was a merchant, extensively and honourably known by his enterprize, benevolence, and inflexible integrity. Her mother still survives to forbid our praises. Under the nurture of such parents, and in the society of beloved brothers and sisters, her childhood was happy. She was naturally cheerful in her disposition, and ardent in her feelings. In her first, as in her later years, she was always a warm and faithful friend, an affectionate sister, and a grateful and obedient daughter. She early manifested that love of books and of her pen, and that thirst for mental improvement, so conspicuous through her following life; as a proof of which, it may be mentioned that, when only about eleven years of age, she kept a regular diary, in which she wrote the events of the passing day, with frequent moral reflections, suggested by the incidents she recorded. About this time her heart was evidently visited with the strivings of God's spirit; and it is known, from |