Innovators in Religion; 2; The Meaning Of Missions - Adoniram Judson

if there are some of you who weren't here last week let me go back and try to pick up some of the things that we were saying are the ground rules for these three evenings together for the medium of biography i'm trying to get at the lives of three people i'm calling innovators in religion they were innovators because in a sense they did something unusual in their time i said that day i'm challenging you to find the things that these people have in common and i was amazed how much they had in common as we went through last week we talked about roger williams this week we're talking about adam aron judson next week about frank see la bach let me start taking you now toward admire and johnson last week when we talked about roger williams we began a little bit with the situation in the world in which he found himself it was a period in rick in which religion was in turmoil and there were thrust in many different kinds of directions

we were talking about a life that was lived out in the sixteen hundreds tonight when we talk about american johnson we're talking about a man who was born in the late seventeenth hundreds and died in eighteen fifty so if you have him place during the last twenty five years of the young seventeen hundreds and the first fifty years of the eighteen hundreds it's fair to say that if you're talking about this period in america in the seventies seventies eighties and nineties it was a time of religious recession in many respects there was open repudiation of christianity and the attacks were coming not necessarily from people outside the people who were nominal christians who were doing the best blow to him it was an age of rationalism history for the first time was being interpreted in non theological terms skepticism was the prevailing philosophy of the day the french revolution had been anti christian roman catholicism had been its target the

american revolution was not anti religious necessarily but it had absorbed the energies of the country and political rather than religious affairs and after the war ended there was a sense in which religion had languished i think you could say that christianity was in a recession and one of the men who was responsible for bringing it to life in a significant way again in america was admiring johnson he was born aug nine seventeen seventy eight in malden massachusetts and was the son of a congregational minister his father ruled the household with a kind of puritanical streak this is described as being something between an old testament prophet and roman senator in all the years that an nih room was growing up his father served hastert's and when i'm in braintree and in plymouth massachusetts from the very beginning it was quite clear that i admire and they had an extraordinarily bright child when he was three his father went away on a trip and admire him and his mother decided to play a trick on him and when father justin returned

home he was surprised to find that his three year old son couldn't read an entire chapter of the bible at nih or i'm also had a very inquiring mind he was distrustful constantly about things that he was told and as he attempted to establish true for himself and on one occasion he went out the backyard lay their flat in a meadow for a whole afternoon with an old hat across his face with a circular hole cut in and trying to establish whether or not the sun moved hours later almost blind and he is ice wall and from exposure to the light he felt he had established the facts for himself and he got up and walked in the house and muttered it doesn't move it was at nih rooms father's hope that his son would follow him into the christian ministry admire him and or brown university where he it became an excellent student the classes were small but the competition was very stiff and there was some doubt whether at an

ironwood stand first in his class somehow if you understand this man you'll know that this could never have possibly been at an insight in his character in his relationship with his father that when he had finally been named valedictorian of the class he sent home a simple message that had entered only four words i have got it like many another boy in school admire i'm lost much of his christian faith to college or whether it was three billion against the strict authority of home or whether he was simply motivated by this desire that nobody was going to tell him he would find out for himself he came under the influence of an older friend who was a very profound skeptic and admire and became one expected a plot a position to teach in plymouth and he taught for a period of about two years and in addition to his teaching responsibilities he turned out his first two books they were called elements of english grammar and the young ladies arithmetic but this sort of life prove to tame a

life for anybody with his restless nature and the next year he joined a traveling theatrical company traveling down to it on old steamboat which had just been invented with his booming voice and his very good looks and his zest for living he must have been a very welcome addition to the company but i didn't satisfy him either and he left the company not quite decided about what he was going to do with his life that night he had one of the very climactic experiences of his life to stop for the night at a country inn the innkeeper apologize because the only room available was one next to a man who apparently was ill and dying expressed the hope of admire him wouldn't be disturbed by the moans and groans and ira measured in that he was a very sound sleeper nothing would keep him awake he was very tired but he was kept awake all night long he listened to the moans from the adjoining room and persistently one question kept focusing itself on at nih rooms mine

was this man and ready to face his death again and again he wrestled with this thought he thought how his friends in the theater would have laughed in market such a question and he thought about his intellectual friends from college would've scoffed but admire and could not dismiss it from his mind as he heard the man dying next morning he inquired from the innkeeper about his fellow larger and he discovered that the man had in fact died during the previous night he asked if he knew who the young man was oh yes of the innkeeper is a matter of fact he was a young man from providence college this was williams college this was we're at not brown college were admiring had gone he said as a matter of fact his name was so and so and he named admire i'm skeptical friend from the university days stunned by the news at an iron got on his horse and headed toward home for him this was the message from heaven and he knew what he had to do within a month he

enrolled in a theological school at andover massachusetts as two year course was half completed when a sermon called a star in the east fell into his hands there was an internationally known piece and it described the meaning of a christian mission in india it was a spark which was set the tender of admire and spirit and soon he was meditating on his future and praying about what he would do with his life in the words of the gospel flooded into his mind with compelling force billion to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature he discovered that four of his friends at andover were also thinking of becoming missionaries these four young men were from williams college they had met for a long time together trying to earn god's will for them their conversion experience in the big spring to control all their behavior had been in one of their taste back meetings on the farm says the event is illustrated in the corridor of churches and irony ali became their friend but eventually he became the leader of this group and they decided to submit a petition to the

congregational association of massachusetts at all then be sent out as missionaries the result was the organization of the american board of commissioners for foreign missions johnson was selected to go to london and like the matter before the london missionary society after stopping this was a time when the american colonies were still fairly close to all their connections with england on the voyage that the saw and which had an arms sale was captured by a french private ear and he was held prisoner in bayonne france for a period he escaped and finally made his way to england where he presented his proposal ended his business although he was cordial he received it was the judgment of the leaders in london that the political situation being very unstable as it was the americans should conduct their own missions and become independent of the british judson hurried back to america with this news interest in the project of sending young men as missionaries was too high for it to be

sidetracked and fines and widespread support a rally for it on september nineteenth eighteen hundred eleven admire and johnson was appointed as one of foreign missionaries to burma or other fields that might open judson have been also quite eager to get back to america because before he left he had fallen head over heels in love with a young girl named and hassle time daughter of one of the elders of the bradford church and was a beautiful lovely spirited and about she would really be a debutante in today's terms she felt that somehow god was preparing a place for you but for her but she never really felt that he had revealed to her what it might be one evening as her father entertained for young clergyman for dinner and got her first glimpse of admire and johnson she saw young man of medium height slender but very compact yet if they're complex and high forehead great masses of chestnut hair she says he was self composting mannerly fastidious in his

dress she said he radiated a charm which can communicate communicated itself quickly to all who were open to him he had a ready sense of humor and a delightful way of communicating in short it was love at first sight for her when it became obvious that i admire and judson was bound for foreign lands as a missionary most women would have been put off but not a noun she vowed to go as a missionary with him of thing no other american woman had ever done that she was convinced was the faith which god had prepared for her public sentiment at the time was very much against the hassle times allowing their daughter to carry out such an unheard of scheme one that lady said i hear that the cycle time is going to india why does she go well can the reply she goes because she thinks it is her duty would you go if you thought was your christian duty but said the lady with truth and emphasis i wouldn't think it was my duty on

february twelfth eighteen twelve am an admirer and were married on the following day he was ordained to the congregational ministry in salem massachusetts a group of theological students walked from andover to salem sixteen miles in the deep snow to attend his ordination one of them got frostbite and almost died on the way back and was carried their the ceremony was one in which the laying of hands are was done and the newspaper reporting the evening reported had very spiritual music played on a bass violin unfair was february nineteenth before the jetsons along with another missionary couple sam nolan his wife embarked for calcutta it to stop and think what a sea voyage was like in eighteen hundreds accommodations were very primitive and iron johnson was a man accustomed to clean land and daily and for a man like this for months on a dirty crowded ship was very varied because although morsi say most of them were you know there

was no fresh food the captain's directions was that the yellow meal was for the chickens which were carried the white meal was for the other animals and the rice was for the missionaries they yeah they lived partly on at enormous package of gingerbread which mother hassle time had sent along with them which she said if you keep closed keeps fresh for months and it took them months to get there and they live on to gain exercise the two young missionaries skipped rope on deck when the weather permitted or they square against and i think this is what a lovely pictures in my mind at least of two young missionaries going out to service square dancing their way across the ocean much of their time was spent and reading study and conversation they expected that they would face doctrinal controversy with the english baptists who were on the field in india and therefore they sought to arm themselves with a new wing new testament foundation for the congregational

practice of child baptism so they began to study the new testament gradually add an iran began to doubt that such a baptism of children was scriptural at all and finally liss find out for yourself on a speech compelled him to recognize but the two baptist tenants face should always precede baptism and baptism is a martian seemed much more logical and much more in line with the scriptural foundation ian and talked about it by the hour and told him that no matter if he became a baptist she would not but in the end he did and she did when they arrived in calcutta both of the jetsons received baptism at the hands of the reverend william ward and that meant immersion their honor now compelled themselves to declare that to the congregation was too had sent them out but they had become baptists an act that would automatically cut them off from the care of the societies and would eliminate their

only source of funds and philippe said the word back to america judson also communicated with thomas baldwin of boston lucius bowls of salem suggesting why didn't the baptists form a missionary society they were facing another kind of bitter disappointment in india because of the war of eighteen twelve east india company would allow no americans at all to remain an indian they would have to move on the vessel was sailing for rangoon burma and rather than return to the united states defeated the young couple seized on this last hole without funds without contact without support from america they sailed for burma when the tide has reached america that mr mrs johnson the congregational missionary sent out by the board had been baptized and baptists in calcutta baptist throughout the land greeted the event with lead surprise god had seemingly suddenly placed at the disposal of the baptist the nomination to

fully equipped missionaries already on the field so i actually had to be prompt several influential ministers met at the home of dr baldwin in boston and plan to campaign at the baptist triennial convention and eighteen fourteen they created the baptist society for propagating the gospel in india and other foreign ports i wonder what that would be to shorten the letter says they prepared a cooperative endeavor with a baptist missionary society in london but again the english about this refused to assist and the americans were on their own a guy and in rallying to the support of unarmed johnson the american baptists walk for the first time to self consciousness as a denomination and to an awareness of their strength as a denomination thus judson denominational change became the occasion for the founding of two great missionary societies the action of the andover students in the original ordination led to the founding of the congregational border foreign missions and their decision in calcutta he precipitated the

american baptist missionary union as he had no other achievement this in itself would be enough to trip to burma was a ghastly one and was ill on the voyage she lost her first baby prematurely during that time and in fact lost almost her own life there were knowingly speaking persons aboard the ship was old and dirty there was only a canvas shelter for the young bride who had been reared in very chaste security of a puritan whole thing she was twenty one years old admira was twenty five and everything was wrong their clothes were all wrong they were dressed for a new england winter in black wool as became missionaries it was rainy it was hot it was humid and they were miserable in spite of this admire and never forgot his first sight of burma lavender mist parted and there in front of them stretched rangoon from a green hill the rose an exquisitely proportion speier

of gold and he saw quote his greatest shrine in burma his love of beauty responded immediately and he loved the country with a passion which he never forgot this was not just to be a barbaric land for him it was a land of beauty and spirit it was paulson has contemplated to face the practical aspects of getting settled in a house even the getting about was strange for someone from new england the road was costly intersected by little creeks over which bamboo bridges have been thrown gaming chameleons shot up the tree trunks to hide themselves in the branches little ducks floated from ditch to ditch there were hordes of maps and mosquitoes the air was constantly filled with deep notes of gongs are the tinkling of many bells i admire him as he walked along was aware of exotic blossoms of magnificent flowers everywhere and then suddenly he was shocked to find by the roadside in men stretched on upright bamboo poles naked and symbolic

the only house that was available to them was border with mine though trees and rows of vines and i remembered pigs grunting and pushed aside the branches and looked through on to what apparently was the city dump on the far edge there were a dozen or so corpses in various stages of pitcher faction be a huge kite settled with the beating of wings along with the ruling hogs that were there and admire and turned away sick was this the land to which he had brought his beautiful young wife you had very little to do with the dawn darling except to make the trip with me was and response it was god i planned it you know but that night they come together homesick for new england and listened as the tropical nightly rain beats down on the bamboo almost at once and i really began to try to learn the burmese language he would need it if you are going to achieve his mission and the mission was to him very simple to us it is staggeringly naive this young man of twenty five and

his young bride had as their purpose to undermine an ancient religion fixed in the hearts of four hundred million human beings they had no desire to start schools to teach arts or science they were concerned really with changing the standard of living or improving the public health all i wanted to do was start a revolution nothing less than change the hearts of all the individuals in burma the millions of burmese were to be taken one by one and their affection subdued in their characters transformed by the religion of christ they were sure that if the story of christ could be i could be gotten to the people the people with names and immediately said is exactly what i want and the weapons they had for this struggle were some very old fashioned troops the judges live and work within the framework of nineteenth century protestantism they believe that eternal life was the most important of all the considerations

and the human life that the only way to save oneself from the dreadful punishment of hell the only way to enjoy the happiness of heaven was consciously giving one party jesus christ there were two major channels by which the story that they had come to tell would be told to the burmese the eyes and the ears the burmese were people who really are there ancient scriptures their first question to the missionaries was where are your sacred books and i realized almost at once that his first job would be to print the gospel is second would be to preach being a missionary for them was heartbreaking work the climate was hard on both the jetsons a son was born and died in seven months the burmese listened politely to admire and teaching and went quietly away it was four years before the first burmese made the first single inquiry about the new religion it was seven years and four months after admire him had left america

before he baptized his first convert on the inner cover of a book that he used in compiling his dictionary he wrote enjoy or sorrow health or paint our course be onward still we saw and burma's barren plain we read on zion scale persecution followed his initial small success the most of the great goad has turned against the foreign devil and they threaten death to any of the burmese who became christians after ten years of heartbreaking work he could count only eighteen converts and many of these persons attached to the mission compound itself then things changed while favre shown on them at last they moved inland to a vote the capital free to preach and teach and they build a teaching house there but almost at once war broke out between england and burma suspicion fell on all white all english speaking foreigners and admire him were seized and thrown into the deaf prison and eva conditions in the prison or indescribable

there was no ventilation and the heat and the stench were overpowering and iran was dragged off to a block in their three star perez offenders awaited his ankles and here he met the prison governor who's naked breasts was branded with the dread words blue fiat murder he called america his beloved child and said he liked to be known by as father when the feathers had been fixed into position on ankles and wrists father smiled and rubbed his hands now walk my child he urged admire him tried only to fall on his face in the dust the shortness of the change would permit a walk only in which one step a step was from the heel of one foot to the toll of another he was dragged into the main prison and thrown into the room where he would spend many many months the erin it was dusty blue but truly recognize that the floor was covered with half naked prisoners stocks climbed a wall filled with drooping prisoners

and iran was thrown on the filth of the floor in his chains fessenden ring later his father entered and gave an order a man passed a length of them go between the legs of each of seven men riding them like beads the roles were pooled pulled them go up to the ceiling a height that allowed the man's shoulders and heads to rest on the mark of the floor in this position they heard a father bid them a pleasant goodnight this was how they were to sleep every night during his imprisonment back at the mission house and decide on a course of action dressing carefully she saw an audience with the queen sister in law she brought the inevitable presence and present a request for help the woman promised that she would attempt to influence her husband but day's drive by and there was no word the house was searched again and again many of their possessions confiscated daily and went to the president to bring food and clean clothing and every day she died a little way she saw her husband more and more

invested with berman his eyes diseased his limbs raul soar her appeals one one concession the seven men and admire its bamboo were taken from the archive and put it outside in a ban outdoor shed but she was disheartened to learn that the king would do nothing and as far as anybody knew the men would remain there indefinitely the only humorous thing about all the imprisonment is that one the prisoners were moved to the shed they were freed from the band was stockton which they had been raised at night but they were forced to sleep packed very tightly together and i think it's funny because to admire and disgust he was chained with a missionary who like to sleep curled in a ball and his fighters better legs can't admire him in the back so often that he would have preferred to go back to the bamboo suspension from the ceiling after many blows and kicks at night he lost his temper and shouted at him brother pierce you're a public nuisance i insist on your learning to sleep as other people do one day and appeared with a little pill that was so hard that it was

totally unattractive to the guards who confiscated articles from all the prisoners the mission house was being searched regularly and so she had put into the pillow admire his most precious possessions his translation of the new testament if a varied it in the garden as they did some things that would have rotted but in the cell at least she thought it was safe and it was with him the summer slipped away in the cool season began the mercury drop to forty five degrees at night the fever and delirium from the heat now changed to colton calls daley and resident government house to attempt to release but she was put off by assurances that everything would be taking care of after the war with britain was concluded second by smallpox and spotted fever she had her own problems she was giving birth to their daughter maria judson in typical fashion composed a series of verses which he dedicated to maria elizabeth butterworth johnson you dedicated them to her an infant daughter twenty days old from the condemned prisoner a van

and one of the verses when like this sleek darling infants sleep in hushed awe my mother's breast let no news no roots sound of clinking chains does disturbed by balmy rest after eleven months of imprisonment the prisoners were marched eight and one half miles in the mid day heat to another prison where the word was that they were to be executed the rope in paris unheard of the speakers we can buy fever it's the role from the shark gravel exhausted from lack of food and sleep parts from lack of water jets and would not have lasted all on the march had he not been carried by having police friend he was so weak he couldn't stand for days and most distressing to him was it the precious pillow had to be left behind in the prison yard outside an angry linus roared in a cage and it was the prisoners gossip that they were to be fed to her as a form of execution but no orders came to this effect nor had the guards any orders to feed the lion and so the poor beast eventually died of starvation and johnson sees the opportunity to move into the empty

cage and major improvement in his housing only the death of the official who had ordered their execution finally save their lives they were six months in this prison before help came johnson was ordered to the capital to act as interpreter negotiations with the british the authorities refused to allow iran to accompany her husband he was allowed to see her before he left she had one piece of good news for him in a bleak world pressures translation of the new testament was safe again one of his converts had gone to the prison on the david judson was transferred hoping to find there some moment of his precious teacher what he found was the middle of the hard little pillow in reality the precious manuscript tucked inside some dirty cop material the guard decided the hard interior wasn't worth keeping he kept a pillowcase thruway the bible and a convert had brought in and now had returned it and judson for her husband after a period of service as an interpreter

judson was returned suddenly to eva he was locked up again and then told he would soon be back in the day of prison and soon be executed on the way back to the desk prison he paso close to his house he could see its lights but he was not allowed to go when he was anxious about an in the bay before there had been no word from them for months finally after he arrived back at the prison for the influence of the governor of the northgate he was released and hurried back to the mission inside it found a burmese woman nursing a thin dirty baby so dirty didn't even recognize it is is a little maria he hurried into the bedroom and they're stretched over the foot of the bed was what appeared to be the lifeless body of his wife or fine black curls had been cut from her head which was covered now with a dirty cotton kept her skin was stretched chalk white across the cheekbones she looked more like a skeleton in a human being he lifted the four little figure in his arms and kreidler on his breast and only when her eyes flickered did he realize that she was still alive she had fallen victim to cerebral meningitis the

burmese spotted fever when the first sentence came and knew what to expect that it would very likely be fatal she found a wet nurse for maria and for two weeks she had suffered a burning fever the doctor had common suggested that shaving overhead and the application of hot blisters to it and to her both a stop on her feet and after days of delirium now she was on the men for the first time again eager to take up where they left off the jetsons found that there were now only for lack of their original eighteen christians they no longer dared stay in rangoon and so they moved to a town called amherst but the hardships had we can and an on oct twenty sixteen eighteen twenty six at the age of only thirty six she died a fever contracted from the baby baby maria herself died a year later at age two years and three months the mission at amherst failed the workaday vote was making no progress the bible translation had become an empty grind for him and at the age of thirty nine broken hearted health shattered his family

buried at nih room prepared himself for his own death but he was not really a man for sickness or melancholy and he should've known about itself gradually he got caught up in the work once more to new missionaries had come to help him george and sarah gordon and fresh from america seemed to the tired missionary the most beautiful people he ever seen they regarded him with a kind of hero worship which was very therapeutic for him sarah set herself to running the house picking up with man's work with children women when they learned the language admire him reluctantly sent them off to found a mission a tomboy and then their fall another period of depression at a period of great asceticism he would sit for our silent beside a grave that he had dug attempting to see how each of his features would appear actor had lain in the grave for three years he set out to crucify his flesh even more he accused himself of inveterate habits contract into a long corps ursa religious

sending he renounced all his property he willed it to the mission he sent some to america he renounces worley the honorary degree which brown university have conferred upon him he was snapped out of this by a tearful but defiant and very annoyed sarah boardman who took him to task she said ever since i was of age to think mr johnson i have worshipped you are intense admiration for you and your work was what drew me in my darlin george together but if you turn ascetic what becomes of the missionaries and the man we've served nobody had talked as plainly as this to him since and death and it moved him and he got back to work the news again began to be cheerful an early convert others all unbeknown to him have established a mission and wrangling a torta the north left little outposts in villages everywhere so he was convinced that he must the nations translation of the new testament so that people could read it and talk about it so that the ground would be prepared then word came that george gordon had died of

tuberculosis and sarah was trying to carry on his work into voice after several attempts at writing admirer finally sent her the following letter he said this dear sister you are now drinking the bitter cup was dragged i am somewhat acquainted with and go for sometime you have been aware of its approach i dare say it is far better than you expected it is common for persons in your situation to refuse all consolation to cling to the dead to fear that they will too soon forget the deer object of their affections but don't be concerned i can assure you that months and months of heart rending anguish are before you whether you will or not i can only advise you to take up the cup with both hands and sit down quietly to the better we passed which god has appointed for your sanctification you will soon learn a secret but there a sweetness at the bottom you will find the sweetest cup you have ever tasted in all your life you'll find have been coming here to you and the familiarity with your husband's voice

will be a connecting link going you within the spirit of celestial music he went back to his translation of the bible convinced now that it was an essential that he finished he discipline himself to through translator about twenty versus the day and the workforce for a steadily until an eighteen hundred thirty four he laid down his pen and the task was finished he took a holiday and headed for to avoid where he made one more try for happiness he asks sarah boardman if she would become his wife i had many happy years together in burma and they shared many sorrows in eleven years together eight children came to them and two of them were buried and tiny grades finally disease fastened on admire and chance he could hardly speak and was an intense pain sarah to was in bad health and in may made a trip to america and forty five with three older children they're trying to save her health but it was too late and she died en route to america on the lovely legacy she left him was a love

pong just before her death it goes like this we parted on this green island love bao for the eastern maine i saw the setting sun love all went to meet again my heart is sad for the love for a loan by way will be and all my tears will fall love for my children and for me like my tears fall fast for the love how can i say farewell but goes by god be with the love by heart's deep grief to quell yet my spirit clings to find love by sol remains with me and often will hold communion sweet or the dark and distance the then gerd by an armor on love your faith now by the way till buddha shall fall and burma sun shone with science way well i admire and did continue the voyage he returned to america but he found the land he no

longer knew or understood he made speeches everywhere but the frailty of his health and the condition of his voice made it necessary for a second speaker to give a translation for him as a delightful story of a boy coming to sell admire the newspaper and he took it the finally realized the boy was waiting to be paid and he apologized and said he was sorry that he'd gotten used to giving things away for so long he couldn't imagine people having to pay for them anymore during his stay in america judson that emilie chubb aka writer of popular stories who had been greatly influenced by the story of an hassle time on a trip to the philadelphia house of dr gillette gillette gave him a copy of a book called the killings by fannie forster which was and we spend name recognizing her gifts in the power of her pen johnson remark i certainly would be glad to know her a lady that writes that well to write better as a petty such find talent should be employed on such subjects and we went to the gillette's and they met at the wedding a few months later it please nobody the

literary world thought she was throwing herself away on a dried up old mission area fifty eight religious circles sauce frivolous writer married to an important conservative missionary but admire and judson cared for nobody's opinion if he had he would never have been either a missionary or a baptist like tan and sarah before her emily was in love with an iran without being too over awed by him she wrote about him i think your description give you a good feel for him she said this good man works just like a galley slave and equate distresses me sometimes but he seems to get fired on it so i try not to worry he walks or rather runs like a boy over the hills a mile or two every morning then he gets down to his books scratch scratch puzzle puzzle and when he gets down deep in the mire out it goes on the veranda with your humble servant at his side walking and talking til the point is elucidated and down again scratch scratch and so until ten o'clock in the evening i

think it's the walking that keeps them out of the grave he walked all time even walk when he prayed and prayed best walking in the open air when the children heard his heavy and well measured tread in the room they said to each other than poppy is praying they went back emily and admire into random with its bison as liz isms cockroaches and bugs and all those things did not go well this time he was neither discouraged nor embittered he regarded those years as the greenest always sees in his life one night while he was sharing the care of one of the children he caught a cold and cough followed and then dysentery and congested fever along sea voyage was the only thing the doctors could suggest for him the ocean have always invigorated him he was carried aboard the boat where his life ed the way as delay after delay held up the sailing on the boat left he had four days and four nights of intense agonies and then the pain my left him for his last quiet hours there was no sign of suffering that in his last word was a

request for his family to be cared for at eight o'clock on the evening of april twelve eighteen fifty the crew assembled the larboard fore has opened an imperfect silence broken only by the voice of the captain all that was mortal admire and judson was committed to the deed is supple her was the blue waves his monuments were the burmese bible is burmese dictionary and the beginnings of the american missionary movement let us pray together our father god grant that as we pause before the life of one who gave all that he happened was we may be humbled to examine the meaning of our own lives and the calling as to which we are called does our guide us in

all the places where we should be serving be help us to have the courage to walk the plane path which god does give us to walk in christ name ma'am fb