The Wades: Jonathan Wade, D.D., Deborah B. L. Wade.; A Memorial

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Walter N. Wyeth. The Wades: Jonathan Wade, D.D., Deborah B. L. Wade.; A Memorial

The Wades: Jonathan Wade, D.D., Deborah B. L. Wade.; A Memorial

Table of Contents

I.--Binary Stars--IN THE HOME SKY

II.--Abroad--THE NEW SPHERE

III.--Rangoon--SIEGE AND CAPTURE

IV.--War--THE CLOUD SHIFTING

V.--Back from Calcutta--SETTLING AND UNSETTLING; MEE SHWAY-EE

VI.--Great Experiences--LANGUAGE WRITTEN; HUNGER FOR KNOWLEDGE; "FOOT-STEPS IN THE SEA."

VII.--In United States--NORTH, SOUTH; CASTING IN JEWELRY

VIII.--Tavoy--"BEAUTIFUL FEET"; "CITY OF LOVE"; GLORY IN THE JUNGLES

IX.--Jungle Tours--FLOODS; EPIDEMICS; GREAT GRACE UPON THE PEOPLE

X.--Third Decade--CHANGES--MERGUI, ST. HELENA, HOME

XI.--Afield Again--TOILING, ENDURING, DYING.--Mrs. Wade

XII.--Gates Ajar--LOOKING HEAVENWARD, AND GOING THITHER.--Dr. Wade

XIII.--Aftergleams--THE WESTERING SUN

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Walter N. Wyeth

Published by Good Press, 2021

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In education their advantages were quite dissimilar and unequal, more so, by far, than the sexes experience at the present day. He had access to the "School," poor as it was, which was started expressly for such as he, and which cherished him in respect to bodily and in spiritual wants. She was "only a girl," and was born in an age when to be a prophet's wife meant, mainly, to dress plain and serve him and the Church. He was granted a provision for his necessities--twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents the first year--which was about two-thirds of the entire amount raised that year for beneficiary aid! She, doubtless, was not presumed to need anything. What her education was can be known only by her general character; and how she came by it is involved in the mysteries of family life. Her good success in after years gives evidence of an active girlhood in securing qualification. It is suggestive of extra books, tallow-dip, still hours.

Mr. Wade pursued his studies in the school for four years, graduating in 1822. He then took up the study of the Burman language and prosecuted it for one year; a kind of post-graduate course not before known in this country. His education in an untried course, and under teaching not tested, was primary and crude, yet fundamental; and in an institution too "sacred" to admit any others than students for the ministry, there would naturally be acquired the sombre visage disclosed in the portrait, with clericalisms that hinder rather than help. Still, the "School" and the student were in advance of their time.

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