MISSIONARY ANNALS. (A SERIES.) A STORY OF ONE SHORT LIFE, 1783 to 1818. BY ELISABETH G. STRYKER. CHICAGO: WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST, Room 48, McCormick Block. COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY WOMAN'S PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST. CONTENTS. PAGE I. ANCESTRY--BIRTH--BOYHOOD--CONVERSION . . . . . . . . . . 7 II. COLLEGE--THE HAYSTACK--EFFORTS TO SPREAD THE INTEREST IN FOREIGN MISSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 III. OBOOKIAH IN HAWAII--IN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 IV. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS WITH AND WITHOUT THE GOSPEL . . . . 20 V. MILLS AT ANDOVER--THE AMERICAN BOARD . . . . . . . . . . 22 VI. AN APOSTOLIC JOURNEY IN THE UNITED STATES . . . . . . . 25 VII. MILLS' SECOND TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 VIII. THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY--THE UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 IX. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY--MILLS, AS ITS AGENT, VISITS AFRICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 X. THE LAST JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 As I write, I have in my mind a row of intelligent boyish faces. Manly souls look through bright eyes. My heart responds to the beats of affection beneath jacket and cut-away. I see also a row of girlish faces, in which Christian and womanly graces are dawning. I feel the warmth of pure young hearts beginning to swell with generous desires. These are my real friends. Beyond them I see rows and rows of boys and girls whose sympathies and interest I would gladly claim. PREFACE.