HALL, Gordon

[s. 303] : Born at Toll and, Ma ., April 8, 1784; graduated at Williams College 1809 with the highest honors of his cla ; studied theology with Dr. Porter (afterward profe or at And over); was licensed to preach, but, declining several invitations to settle, his heart being set on going to the heathen, he entered And over Seminary in 1810. Here he was a ociated with Mills, Richards, and a few other kindred spirits, who prayed and conferred in reference to personal labor among the heathen. After studying medicine he was ordained at the same time with Judson and others, and sailed February 18, 1812, as a mi ionary of the for India, reaching Calcutta August 8. Peremptorily required by the East India Company to leave its territories, and unsucce ful in his attempts to obtain permi ion to establish a mi ion, he presented to the governor of Bombay an earnest appeal, which brought him official permi ion to remain. In Bombay he labored thirteen years, visiting the temples and bazaars with the Gospel me age, discu ing with the Brahmans and translating the Bible. Having completed the translation of the New Testament into the Marathi, he left Bombay for a preaching tour on the continent. At Nasik, a hundred miles distant, he found multitudes dying of cholera, and ministered to the sick till his medicines were exhausted. He then started to return to Bombay. At Durlidhapur, spreading his mat in the veranda of a heathen temple, he lay down to sleep. Rising at four o’clock in the morning to resume his journey, he was violently seized with cholera, and, after eight hours of great suffering, breathed his last at the age of forty-two, March 20, 1826. The lads who were with him buried him shrouded in his blanket, without a coffin. A stone with an inscription in English and Marathi marks the place of his interment. “No mi ionary in Western India,” says one, “has ever been more respected among the Brahmans and higher cla es for his discu ions and pulpit discourses.” His tract. The Conversion of the World, or the Claims of Six Hundred Millions, which he prepared in connection with Mr. Newell, was widely circulated in America and England and produced a profound impre ion. ch046.xhtml a 303