The Episcopacy has concluded to send me to Liberia. I hail it as the most joyful appointment from them that I have ever received. The prospect now is, that, feeble as I am, there I may be useful, while the energy of life remains; that there I may 'cease at once to work and live!' I thirst to be on my way. I pray that God may fit my soul and body for the duties before me; that God may go with me; then I have no lingering fear. A grave in Africa shall be sweet to me, if he sustain me.
Melville B. Cox — Remains of Melville B. Cox, Late Missionary to Liberia, with a Memoir (Boston: Light and Horton, 1835), p. 85
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