He at once hastened to his relief, but he was too late.

The devoted missionary rested from his labors on the 26th of December, at the age of thirty-five, after a sickness of twenty-four days.

His disease was typhus fever.

Mr.Hinsdale was a native of Torrington, Connecticut, and received his education at Yale College, and the Auburn Theological Seminary.

"On the night of his decease," says Dr.
Grant, "while his deeply afflicted wife and Mr.Laurie were sitting by him, he was heard to say, amid the wanderings of his disordered intellect; 'I should love to have the will of my Heavenly Father done!' It was his 'ruling passion strong in death.' Desiring to have the will of God done in all the earth, he had toiled to fit himself for the missionary work, and then, regardless of sacrifices, he had come to a field rich in promise, but full of hardships.