Rev. LOVEL INGALLS was born in Worcester, Otsego Co., N. Y., August 21, 1808. He was one of the earliest fruits of an extensive revival of religion which occurred in the year 1827, in Boston, Erie Co., N. Y., and united the same year with the Baptist church in that town, under the pastoral care of the Rev. Clark Carr. Soon after he was induced, to use his own words,- by "a burning desire to preach the gospel to the heathen," to commence a course of study with reference to the Christian ministry. His literary training was conducted in the collegiate and theological departments of the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, where he spent three years, receiving licensure in 1829 from the church of which he' was a member. His final determination to devote his life to the work of preaching" among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ," was in the autumn of 1831.

Before engaging in the foreign service, he spent some time in laboring with the Baptist church in Cummington, Ms., where his work was crowned with the divine blessing. Many were added to the church under his ministry; among them was the first Mrs. Ingalls, who afterwards shared his labors and his joys among the heathen. Mr. Ingalls was ordained at Boston, N. Y., in the year 1834, and sailed from Boston, Ms., Sept. 22, 1835, in the ship "Louvre." He arrived at Amherst, Feb. 20, 1836.

Mr. and Mrs. Ingalls having been designated to join the Arracan mission, embarked at Maulmain for Arracan on the nineteenth of March, taking with them their teacher and above 47,000 tracts. On the twenty-third of the month they encountered a violent storm, and for several hours expected every moment to be engulphed in the sea. Met by head winds, which baffled the attempts of the seamen, they concluded to turn aside to the city of Bassein; and here the missionary labors of Mr. Ingalls were begun. In passing up the river, they stopped at a number of large villages, distributed books, and proclaimed to the people the glad tidings of salvation. They were received with kindness at Bassein, but the timid magistrates fearing to permit the evangelical labors of Mr. Ingalls without special leave from the viceroy at Rangoon, he returned to the ship after an absence of six days, and was conveyed back to Maulmain.

Having made several unsuccessful attempts to join Mr. Comstock in Arracan, Mr. Ingalls repaired to Rangoon in October, 1838, and in the following December made an excursion, accompanied by assistants, to Pegu and the villages adjacent, distributing some three thousand tracts. So indefatigable were his efforts that in the month of March following he announced that the 50,000 tracts designated for Arracan had been nearly all distributed among the millions of Burmah, and that, through the aid of his assistants, the gospel had been proclaimed to many thousands. Thus, although disappointed in respect to his laboring in Arracan, his tongue and his hands were not idle, and there is reason to hope that his labors were not in vain in the Lord.

Returning for a season to Maulmain, he preached from house to house, and occasionally, when houses could not be obtained, in the open street. A spirit of inquiry was awakened among the native population, and additions were made to the church. He also took the supervision of several Burman day-schools, and for a season had the charge of the English church.

Near the close of October Mr. Ingalls removed to Mergui, accompanied by three assistants. At that time there were two Karen churches in connection with this station, Kabin and Thingboung, numbering together about seventy members, besides several Christians scattered over the jungle. His labors here were divided between zayat preaching and tours in the jungle and among the various villages. In February, 1840, a Karen association was formed, and the presence of the Holy Spirit was manifest both in Mergui and the jungle. By the close of 1842, six churches were connected with this station, embracing 190 members, and Mr. Ingalls and his associate, besides the preaching of the gospel, devoted themselves to efforts to improve the social and domestic condition of the Karens by aiding them in the establishment of permanent homes. It became known to the natives in the jungles east of Tenasserim, which were said to be full of Karens from Siam, that there were teachers at Bangkok and Mergui, and these new inquirers became anxious to see the men who were able to expound to them the gospel of Christ.

The mission at Mergui during the following year continued in an encouraging state. Several conversions occurred in connection with the English church, and more than twenty Karens avowed their purpose to be servants of the Lord Jesus. Many of them were chiefs of villages, and they came from various parts of the Mergui province. A new impulse was given to the cause of education. The social position of the Karens was elevated, and some of them were appointed to offices of trust.

But while the blessing of God was upon the labors of his servant, the decaying health of Mrs. Ingalls compelled him to retire with her to Maulmain, in May, 1845. The change was beneficial at first, but subsequently her disorder increased in violence, and notwithstanding every expedient resorted to, proved fatal Nov. 9, 1845. She had been a faithful laborer in the mission for about ten years, and died in peace at the early age of thirty-one. Mr. Ingalls remained for several months at Maulmain, where his services were greatly needed by the Burman population. The season of sorrow was not without its useful result. The painful bereavement, falling upon a sensitive heart, was the means of drawing that heart nearer to God, and of developing qualities all-important to the subsequent usefulness of the sufferer. Having lingered for a season by the grave of his departed companion, communing with himself, in penitence and contrition, and with God, at length he interpreted the wise design of Him who wielded the rod, and kindled around him this furnace of fire; and, opening his heart in affectionate and earnest appeals to his brethren to fill the ranks that were thinned by the demise of missionary laborers, he addressed himself anew to his work. "If the Board will send a

man to Mergui to look after the interests which my departure has left to suffer, I am willing to go (to Arracan), and abide the consequences. If there be no better man to go, 'here am I, send me.' The present generation of four or five millions of Burmans are fast going down to death; and another generation, and another come on the stage to follow in their footsteps; - not because precious blood has not flowed for them; nor for want of a command to Go and preach the gospel to each one of them; and not for want an Agent to attend that preaching with life and power. In the name of God, and of Christ, let me ask,-on whose garments will the blood of so many souls be found?"

Animated by these feelings, in April, 1846, Mr. Ingalls went to Akyab, in Arracan, to take the place left vacant by the removal of Mr. Stilson to Maulmain. In this removal he thought he saw the hand of God, directing his steps. He commenced at once the work of preaching daily to all who called, and was thronged by visitors from morning till night. Some came expressly to hear the gospel some to dispute and oppose. A chapel was built close upon the public street, and the word, notwithstanding the hardness of the hearts of the people, took effect. Within two months fifteen converts were baptized at Akyab, among whom were five Kemmees, the first fruits among that people. The principal employment of Mr. Ingalls and his assistants was "preaching the word." A boarding school was also taught at Akyab of thirty pupils, and a day school of twelve pupils. After a residence of fourteen years in Burmah, Mr. Ingalls reported that he had never seen the prospect so encouraging.

Early in the year 1850 Mr. Ingalls visited America. But though he was absent from the chosen scene of his labors, he was not unmindful of the service to which he had consecrated himself. His heart still yearned for the heathen. Writing from Wisconsin to a friend in Boston, he said, "This delightsome land cannot charm me, when so many of our race sit in darkness, and Christ's last command remains unfulfilled. I still feel that Burmah is my home, and I shall, when recruited, return to my post with more pleasure than I left it. I feel like a stranger, though surrounded by the warmest friends."

Returning again to Arracan, Mr. Ingalls resumed his post at Akyab Dec. 13, 1851. During his sojourn in his native land, he formed a second matrimonial connection. While he was absent, the church at Akyab was much reduced, and afflicted by dissensions; but on his return, the clouds were dissipated and circumstances of an encouraging nature re-appeared. Preaching was constantly maintained in two different parts of the town, and numerous visitors listened attentively to the word. Mr. Ingalls filled the place of pastor of the church, and gave himself to daily preaching in the zayat and conversation with inquirers, both there and at his own house, which was always open to visitors. His labors were much blessed, and could hardly have been more judiciously directed.

Southern Burmah, however, was his earliest field of labor, and thither he ardently desired to return. He went to Arracan, because no one else was available for the post at that time, and because Burmah was then shut. But now that the way was open, in accordance with his earnest request he was authorized to remove to one of the stations to be established in Southern Burmah. Accordingly he left Akyab for Maulmain, not to return, but to await designation to his former and much desired field, taking with him two native preachers who had been his assistants in Arracan. (6 Deep feeling," he says under date of Rangoon, March 13, 1854, was manifested by the people when we left (Arracan.) They came around us like children, and we found it hard to part with them; but duty demanded it. It was hard to part from a people so affectionate and so ready to listen; still I cannot but believe that the Lord had a work for us to do here, and we have been

permitted to see good days in Rangoon. More than seventy Burmans have been baptized during the past eight months, a larger number than were ever baptized in so short a period. With these converts we have spent much time, and have rejoiced over them. Most of them give good evidence that they have been born again."

So then, at Rangoon, where had now been constituted a mission, Mr. Ingalls took up his abode, the last and most successful scene of his labors. Five places for daily preaching were established within the city, where numbers congregated every day and listened to the word. The dispensation of the truth was manifestly accompanied by the dispensation of the Spirit. A spirit of inquiry prevailed, more general, more earnest, and leading to more decisive results than at any previous period of the Burman mission. In the language of the Annual Report (1854)," Of the 70,000 people of Rangoon, a comparatively small portion, indeed, may have been cognizant of what was in progress. There have been gathered no thronging thousands, there has been no public excitement,-only groups of tens and twenties and fifties, pausing on the verandah of a dwelling, or seated in a shed by the wayside, listening to words of soberness, and quietly conversing on eternal things. These groups have come, and dispersed, and returned; faith has come by hearing, and an almost uninterrupted procession of converts has been led to the baptismal waters. Sixty-seven have been added to the two Burman churches, making an aggregate of 106 members, most of them gathered in within two years. In December last, a Buddhist priest and a nun were baptized, an event adapted to impress the popular mind as a visible and conspicuous sign of the triumph of Christianity.”

The labors of the succeeding year were equally extensive and interesting, and equally successful. The Lord of the harvest blessed the efforts of his servant abundantly, and permitted him in large measure to "gather fruit unto life eternal." The work thickened as the hour for his release drew near. "The duties of twenty men," he said, “devolve upon one. Did our churches know the toil in the foreign field, they would feel as enthusiastic as do the Britons for their countrymen in the Crimea."

But from this most promising field, for which he had labored and prayed, and had not fainted, and in which he had won many souls for Christ, he was about to be removed. A faithful reaper, he was summoned from his work while it was "yet high day." The remainder is told in a letter of Mrs. Ingalls, dated Rangoon, March 20, 1856, - announcing his death:

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'My dear companion departed this life at sea, on board the Tenasserim, on the morning of the 14th of March, as we were returning from Calcutta to Rangoon.

"Mr. Ingalls had not been well for two years past, and we both felt convinced that he ought to return home; but there was no one to relieve him and he felt compelled to remain. He had a prostration some three months ago, and when he had recovered sufficient strength to walk a little, we persuaded him to take a change. America, or a trip to Penang, was advised; but in view of the state of the funds at home and our scanty remittances, he decided to take the shorter and cheaper trip to Bengal, fondly hoping he might there receive the desired strength. Dr. Dawson and family had gone to Ava, and as there was no one to take charge of the Burman department, it was decided that I should remain at home and do what I could, and that Mr. Ingalls should go alone. After a few days at sea, his feet commenced swelling and the effort of getting ashore in Calcutta was too much for his weak state, and he was again prostrated and seemed just on the brink of the grave. The friends advised that I should be sent for. The commander of the steamer, Capt. Fryer, visited him and offered to take me as his friend and

guest, and accordingly Mr. Ingalls asked me to return by the steamer, which I did.

"I found him very weak, his feet greatly swollen and his form very emaciated; yet he assured me he was regaining his health, and I learned from a Burman Christian who attended him that he was better. But my heart was filled with sadness, and I felt it was but the last flickering gleam of life. I again urged the trip to Penang, but he could not bear the idea of the expense and long detention from home; and, as the station was alone, he decided to return with our kind friend, Capt. Fryer. I warned him that a return might hasten his death. He said the churches at home, the students, and many of the pastors are forgetting the wants of the heathen, and if he could go and work a few months more, he must go, and perhaps, said he, to the altar of sacrifice.

"He had then a long talk on the state of things at home, and told me what he intended to say to the churches. But I have not time to write them now, neither will the recollection of that emaciated form and streaming tears allow me to recall them here.

"We embarked on the sixth, and for a few days he improved, and was able to sit at the table a few times, and go upon the deck. But during the night of the 12th, (Wednesday night,) his cough left left him and expectoration changed, which gave me alarm and I called the doctor, who said he was very bad, that he thought him beyond human skill, and that I might prepare myself to see him expire at any moment.

"Knowing his great desire to get to Rangoon and his great dislike to an ocean grave, I only told him that he was getting weaker and I feared he could not get better. He said he was aware of his weak state, but he was not afraid to die; he had stood upon the brink of the grave in Calcutta, and his peace was made with God. The Saviour was doubly precious to him. He knew well, he said, that his lungs and liver were badly diseased, and he did not hope to regain but a temporary strength of a few months. He thought he had some more work to do in Burmah. He wished to instruct the ordained man so that he might fill his place, and he wished to baptize and to organize a new church, where the people had been waiting nearly a year.

"But the Master had called him to rest from his toil, and during the day he grew weaker and weaker, but would not leave his chair until the shades of evening had gathered around, when he let me lift him upon his couch. During the night he had frequent attacks of sinking, but we were able to raise his pulse with port wine and ether until five in the morning, when he asked for wine very quickly. Miss Vinton, who was with me, and the Burman Christian raised him and put the glass to his lips; but the dread hour had come, and his countenance flushed up with the hue of death. His eye became fixed, and we laid him down for his long, long sleep. I took his hand, but he could not press mine, as he had often done during the night. I asked him if he knew me, and his face lit up with the deepest and sweetest smile, and he was gone - gone too without a sigh or a groan, or a movement of a muscle.

"Miss Vinton had sung for him, a few evenings before, —

'The morning light is breaking,

The darkness disappears;'

and he had remarked on its sweetness. The morning light of heaven had broken upon his soul; the darkness and storms of this world hd disappeared. He was so weak that he was unable to speak much; but once during the night, Miss Vinton