Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1897, or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland: For the Year 1896For the first time since its commencement in the earlier years of this century, the Annual Monitor has to record the death, by violence, of Friends, who, in devoted love to their Lord, were willing to encounter the uncertainties and risks of missionary life amongst a heathen people. Whilst we mourn and are saddened that William and Lucy Johnson, who were so beloved in their faithful dedication, with their lovely little child, should have been thus taken from their sphere of service, for them we must, surely rejoice, in an undoubting assurance of the glorious inheritance to which they have been translated, and of the joyous and untramelled service of Heaven on which they have entered. we can also well believe that in their death, though perhaps as yet1v.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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