BALLAN TINE, Henry

[s. 80] : Born at Schodack Landing, on the Hudson, near Albany, N. Y., He graduated at the Uni March 5, 1813. versity of Ohio, Athens, 1829; entered Theological Seminary, Princeton, but left on account of ill health; resumed his studies at Union Theolog finished at And over, ical Seminary, Virginia; ordained at Columbus, O., April, 1835; 1834; sailed same year as a mi ionary of the American Board for India. In 1837 he was stationed His health fail permanently at Ahmednagar. ing, he left, in 1850, for home, but returned in 1852. He labored with great zeal and without interruption as preacher and pastor, and as During the editor and translator until 1865. last five years of his life he gave much time to By the theological education of young men. medical advice he left India with his family, An accidental detention September 4, 1865. of the ship in the Red Sea aggravated his malady, and he died November 9, off the coast of Portugal, and his body was consigned to the ocean. His connection with the mi ion covered thirty years. An accurate knowledge of the Mardthi, added to an acquaintance with Sanskrit, prepared him to become a translator of the Bible, and he has left the impre of his idiomatic Mardthi on many parts of the sacred volume in that language. some of the best He translated or composed hymns in the Mar hymn book. 80