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more than three weeks Mr. Groves could not resume the Journal so suddenly broken off. He had many arrangements to make preparatory to his departure from India, and was closely occupied in attending on Dr. Duff through a very dangerous illness. He was ever ready to minister to the sick, and it is even now a comfort to reflect that he was at this season permitted to be of essential service to one whose pro longed life has been dedicated to the service of a people in whom he was himself so deeply interested.

The Journal of Mr. Groves’s homeward voyage affords us the instructive example of a Christian “redeeming the time.” Amidst all the discomforts of the voyage, to which he was the more exposed from resigning his cabin to his sick friend, we