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Another who has been removed is Miss Paget of Barn-staple, the devoted friend of Mr. Groves’s early and latter days, of whom a short biographical sketch is now given, and it is hoped that the record will not be unwelcome. To those who are aiming after a more complete consecration to God, its perusal will afford both strength and encouragement, in the contemplation of one whose unworldly Nazarite separation to God gave a peculiar charm to her society, and gives a special freshness to her memory.

The third who has been removed, to whom we would allude, is the native missionary John Aroolappen, whose interesting history has been dwelt on at some length, including important details of the Revival which originated in his Mission in 1860, and spread through many of the mission stations in South India. He was truly to Mr. Groves a son in the gospel; and the history of the Christian-Pettah Mission will long remain an interesting and instructive episode, among the records of Indian missionary labour.

The Supplement ends with some details of the Godaveri Delta Mission, which began with Messrs. Bowden and Beer, to whom frequent allusion has been made in the latter chapters of the Memoir. The sowing time has been long, and there has been much sowing in tears; but the Lord has, of late years, been unmistakably working, and there are now, scattered through the district, many who are “believers in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints.” May all who read these memorials, with all saints, be kept ever faithful, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that their labour is not in vain in the Lord.