Stories and Poems — William Goodell

 THE MISSIONARY'S FATHER A LETTER FROM REV. WILLIAM GOODELL  CONSTANTINOPLE, August 18, 1843. MY DEAR BROTHER-The intelligence contained in your letter was not unexpected. Our father had attained to a great age, lacking only five days of being eighty-six years old. He was full of days, but more full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. How long he had "borne the image of the earthly" before he was renewed in the spirit of his mind, I know not; but I know he had long borne "the image of the heavenly." Though I can look back some forty-five years or...