After making two tours to the southwest as far as New Orleans, distributing and selling Bibles and organizing Bible societies, Mills made the suggestion, that led to the organization of the American Bible society in New York, May 11, 1816; and to the Synod of New York, the plan of educating negroes to carry the gospel to Africa. In 1817 he was sent as a missionary to Western Africa, including Sierra Leone. He died on the homeward voyage and like his friend Adoniram Judson, who went to farther India and translated the Bible for the Burmese, was buried in the sea.
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TRIBUTES TO OTHER MINISTERS AND ELDERS
BUTLER.—COLBERT.—GLADMAN.—BRIDGES.—STARKS.—MEADOWS.—AND ELDERS CRITTENDEN.—SHOALS.—FOLSOM.—BUTLER.
"Walk about Zion and go round about her; tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following."
—David.
REV. WILLIAM BUTLER
"The kindly word, how far it goes along life's way!
The kindly smile, how it lights up a sad, gray day;
The kindly deed, how it repays the doer."
—Mary D. Brine.