SPAULD ING, Levi

[s. 717] : Born at Jaffrey, N. H., Died June 18, 1874. Graduated at Dart mouth College, 1815, and And over Theological Seminary, 1818; sailed for Ceylon, June 8, 1819, under the ABCFM. He labored at Manepyfor several years. In 1833 he removed to Oodooville, and with Mrs. Spauld ing took charge of the girls’ boarding school, which was under He was one of their care for nearly forty years. the most accurate Tamil scholars in Southern India, having so mastered the language as to use More than it with great facility and power. twenty Tamil tracts were prepared by him, and many of the best lyrics in the vernacular hymnbook were from his pen. He prepared two dictionaries, one Tamil, the other English and Tamil, and took a prominent part in the revision of the Scriptures. He furnished an excellent translation of Pilgrim’s Progre , and compiled a Scripture History, which is used in the schools. Schoolbooks, hj’mnbooks, tracts, and Gospels pa ed through his hands for revision and proofreading. August 22, 1791. But he was far from being chiefly occupied with In season and out of season, to tasks. merchants on their verandas, or seated with wayfarers under the hedge, to the poor and the maimed, in lanes and highways, and to the children in the school or the street, wherever he met a native, he ceased not to preach and to teach these Jesus Christ. His fluency in the colloquial language, his apt quotations from Hindu books, his original illustrations, and ready and racy sallies, combined with his genial humor, gave him great influence with the natives. 717