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The biography traces the subject's journey from a precocious New England childhood through theological training and a determined commitment to foreign missions, documenting his voyage to Southeast Asia, his conversion to Baptist views and resulting missionary appointment, and his marriage to a fellow missionary. It describes immersion in local language and culture, methods of evangelism emphasizing preaching and the printed word, the challenges of conservative society, official restrictions, illness, imprisonment, and personal loss, and includes extensive extracts from letters and journals to illuminate domestic life, daily labors, translation work, and steadfast perseverance in mission service.

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Title: The life of Adoniram Judson

Author: Edward Judson

Release date: June 2, 2023 [eBook #70894]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1883

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THE LIFE OF

ADONIRAM JUDSON

BY HIS SON
EDWARD JUDSON
NEW YORK
ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY
900 Broadway, cor. 20th Street
COPYRIGHT, 1883,
BY EDWARD JUDSON.
New York:
EDWARD O. JENKINS,
Printer and Stereotyper,
20 North William St.
ROBERT RUTTER,
Binder,
116 & 118 E. 14th St.
TO THE CHILDREN OF MISSIONARIES,
THE INVOLUNTARY INHERITORS
OF THEIR PARENTS’ SUFFERINGS AND REWARDS,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
BY ONE OF THEIR NUMBER.

It is not my purpose to present a theory of missions, but simply to give a clear and consecutive story of my father’s life. I have been impelled to do this by the desire that his memory should be cherished in the minds of the rising generation. Dr. Wayland’s noble and comprehensive Memoir is now out of print, and it has seemed to me that a career which may be justly said to form the main artery of all American foreign missionary endeavor, needed to be presented anew. In order to bring into bold relief my father’s social, domestic, and personal traits, I have introduced large extracts from his letters and journals, which, however, in a few places, I have taken the liberty of condensing. Free use has also been made of the valuable reminiscences contributed to Dr. Wayland’s Memoir by Mrs. Emily C. Judson.

E. J.

New York, January, 1883.