Excerpt from Memoir of Rev. Erasmus J. P. Messinger: Missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Africa
He early manifested a taste for music and for drawing. His little room was decorated with the productions of his own pencil. For ‘a long time several little books were preserved in the family, which he and a cousin of his own age had filled with fancy sketches and landscapes of their own draw ing. These little productions exhibited un usual accuracy and skill, although he had never received any instruction in the art. To gratify his taste for music, his mother purchased a flute for him, and on this he learned to play with but little instruction from others. These recreations became sources of much pleasure and usefulness to him in his subsequent life. He delighted so much in music that he afterwards had many doubts whether he ought not to aban don it entirely, as an amusement too ah sorbing and unprofitable.
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