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  Adoniram Judson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Judson was born on 9 August 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts, son of a Congregational minister of the same name.
Judson was commissioned as a foreign missionary by the Congregational Church, and married Ann Hasseltine on 5 February 1812.
Adoniram Judson was imprisoned for 17 months during the war between England and Burma, first at Ava and then at Oung-pen-la.
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 Adoniram Judson Baptist missionary to Burma - Christian Biography Resources
Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was an American Baptist missionary, lexicographer, and Bible translator to Burma.
Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826): Teacher, translator, author and first missionary wife of Adoniram Judson, she was the first American woman missionary to go overseas.
Her family knew the Judsons well, and when she was thirteen she wrote a poem on the death of the first child of Ann and Adoniram.
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 Adoniram Judson, 1788-1850, Missionary to Burma A biography of Adoniram Judson, pioneer missionary to Burma ...
Adoniram Judson was the son of a Congregational minister.
Judson, the spokesman for the group, soon was composing a graceful sonnet in her praise.
Judson cleaned out the cage and secured permission for her husband to stay there for a few weeks, since he was crit- ically ill with fever.
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 ADONIRAM JUDSON - LoveToKnow Article on ADONIRAM JUDSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1845 his wifes failing health decided Judson to return to America, but she died during the voyage, and was buried at St Helena.
In the United States Judson married Emily Chubbuck (1817-1854), well-known as a poet and novelist under the name of Fanny Forrester, who was one of the earliest advocates in America of the higher education of women.
Judson was perhaps the greatest, as he was practically the first, of the many missionaries sent from the United States into foreign fields; his fervour, his devotion to duty, and his fortitude in the face of danger mark him as the prototype of the American missionary.
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 Adoniram Judson by Fred Barlow  1788
Judson's life by the cord of love was bound to Miss Ann Hasseltine, whose sublime heroism has made her one of the most remarkable women of her generation.
Judson prepared the body for burial and that afternoon it was carried ashore and buried in the public burial grounds of that rocky island.
Judson died, in the year 1826, having become so weakened by her hardships and sufferings that she was unable to resist the fever which attacked her.
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 Adoniram Judson
Adoniram was graduated at Brown in 1807, and spent a year in teaching in Plymouth, Massachusetts He had become sceptical on theological subjects, and, being inclined to adopt dramatic authorship as his profession, attached himself for a short time to a theatrical company for the purpose of becoming familiar with the regulations of the.
Judson having been committed to the "death prison," she was unprotected against the plundering of her goods and the seizure of her person.
Her life was written by Asahel C. Kendrick (New York, 1860).--Edward, son of Adoniram and Sarah Boardman Judson, clergyman, born in Maulmain, Burmah, 27 December, 1844, was graduated at Brown in 1865, became principal of a seminary in Townshend, Vermont, and in 1867 was made professor of Latin and modern languages in Madison university.
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 The Traveling Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Adoniram Judson was born August 9, 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts.
Judson decided to contextualize the gospel when he decided to build a Zayat — a Buddhist-style meditation room on the main street where he could hold meetings and teach passers by in a way that was not foreign to the people.
Adoniram Judson will be remembered for his role in the establishment of U.S. missions, the translation of the complete Burman Bible, and his pioneering work among the Burmese people.
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 The Baptist Page - Portraits - Adonirum Judson (Print Version)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Adonirum Judson was born in 1788, the son of a devout Congregationalist minister.
The parting of the Judsons and Luther Rice with the Congregationalist was on friendly terms and was used to further the kingdom of God just as did the parting of Paul and Barnabas.
Judson and Pierce slowly had gained the king's approval only to have that destroyed by the announcement that 5000 British troops had attacked and taken Rangoon.
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 Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson was born in 1788, the son of a devout Congregationalist minister who cherished the fond hope that his son would follow in his footsteps.
Judson was precocious and at the early age of three learned to read under the tutelage of his mother while his father was absent on a journey.
Judson became critically ill in the spring of 1850 and it was believed that his only hope of recovery lay in taking a long sea voyage.
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 Adoniram Judson's Text (F W Boreham)
Wherever Adoniram Judson went, in the course of his historic and adventurous career, he carried with him, as Dr. Angus says, that evidence of the truth of Christianity which is at once the most portable and the most conclusive-the vivid memory of a startling and sensational conversion.
Judson assures the innkeeper that it does not matter; death, he declares, is nothing to him; and, except that he will feel a natural sympathy for the unfortunate sufferer, the circumstance will in no way disturb him.
Judson, starved to a skeleton, being driven in chains across the burning desert, until, his back bleeding beneath the lash and his feet blistered by the hot sand, he sinks, utterly exhausted, to the ground and prays for the merciful relief of a speedy death.
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 Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives - Adoniran Judson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As a result of this challenge and in response to the vigorous efforts of Luther Rice, who returned to the United States to advocate the world missionary cause, the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions was formed in 1814.
This organization, popularly known as "the Triennial Convention," served as the agency for the support of foreign missionaries of American Baptists, both of the North and of the South, until the organization of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845.
Ann (Hasseltine) Judson died in 1826, and in 1834 Judson married Sarah Boardman, widow of missionary George Dana Boardman.
www.sbhla.org /bio_adoniramjudson.htm   (461 words)

  
 "The Life and Work of Adoniram Judson, Missionary To Burma" by Robert I Bradshaw
Adoniram Judson was born on the 9th August 1788, the son of a stern and humourless Congregationalist minister, in Malden, Massachusetts, USA.
On the voyage Adoniram continued a translation of the New Testament from Greek into English, and as he did so he became convinced that the Baptist position of baptism by full immersion was the Scriptural one.
For Adoniram Judson was indirectly responsible for the fulfilment of the Karen legends and provided for them their lost book, the Bible.
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 Higher Praise Greatest Preachers (Adoniram Judson)
Judson’s parents who were at one time so devastated by his lack of concern for things of God were now encouraging him to accept a prominent ministers job in Boston rather than go off to the mission field.
Under Judson’s and the Boardman’s, which were a new missionary couple that had joined Judson, discipleship this man come to be a mighty preacher that came to known as the Karen Apostle.
In 1850 Adoniram Judson was advised to take a sea voyage because of his health and on April 12th he died and was buried at sea.
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 Adoniram Judson: "How Few There Are Who Die So Hard"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Adoniram Judson "hated his life in this world" and was a "seed that fell into the ground and died." In his sufferings "he filled up what was lacking in Christ's afflictions" in unreached Burma.
Judson was a Calvinist, but did not wear his Calvinism on his sleeve.
Judson had not been to America now for 33 years and was only returning for the sake of his wife.
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Adoniram was deeply stirred by a printed sermon by Dr Claudius Buchanan, a Church of England minister, who took as his text, “We have seen his star in the East”.
Judson himself was involved in expeditions of diplomacy and later in diplomatic work of negotiation of a peace treaty for the British after the defeat of Burma in the war.
Adoniram’s agony is revealed in a letter he wrote to Ann’s mother: Dear Mother Hasseltine—My little Maria lies by the side of her fond mother.
www.mountzion.org /text/Paperback_Books/Adoniram_Judson-Hulse.doc   (12609 words)

  
 To the Golden Shore - Adoniram Judson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
First printed in 1956, it was reprinted by Judson Press in 1987 to honor the 175th anniversary of Adoniram and Ann Judson’s sailing from Salem aboard the ship Caravan as two of the first missionaries every to go forth from North America.
But to Adoniram, the confirmed deist, death was not an entrance but an exit; an exit to an empty pit, to darkness darker than night itself.
Although the final results of Judson’s life and ministry are impressive, that is not what impacted me most in reading this story of his life.
www.brooksidebaptist.org /book_reviews_judson   (2285 words)

  
 Adoniram Judson
But the next morning, when Judson inquired of the proprietor as to the identity of the dead man, he was shocked by the most staggering statement he had ever heard: "He was a brilliant young person from Providence College.
Judson jotted in his journal: "Oh, may it prove to be the beginning of a series of baptisms in the Burman empire which shall continue in uninterrupted success to the end of the age." Converts were added slowly -- a second, then three, then six, and on to eighteen.
Judson was condemned to die, but in answer to prayers to God and the incessant pleadings of his wife to officials (one of the most emotional-packed, soul-stirring stories in evangelism), Judson's life was spared and finally British intervention freed him from imprisonment.
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 missionaries Adoniram & Ann Judson
Adoniram, for his part, had been an actor and at best a spiritual agnostic.
The Judsons made their way to Burma, where they were allowed to remain but under horrible conditions.
Ann Judson might have died from either of two dangerous illnesses that overtook her, smallpox or spinal meningitis.
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 Judson Memorial Church: Thoughts Around the Life of Adoniram Judson 11-07-04
Adoniram arrived in America with the older children -and began a tour of the churches on behalf of the missionary enterprise.
Judson thought the writing good though not as Christian as he would have preferred - but he liked the style and so on Christmas Day, 1845, at the home of the Rev. A.
In the early part of 1850 Judson took sick, and the doctor advised a sea voyage for the cure.
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 Judson, Adoniram articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Adoniram Judson Official Site for Christianbook.com books, bibles, music, gifts and more.
Judson, Adoniram JUDSON, ADONIRAM [Judson, Adoniram], 1788-1850, American Baptist missionary, b.
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 Adoniram Judson
There Judson mastered Burmese, into which he translated part of the Gospels with his wife's help.
In 1827 Judson removed his headquarters to Maulmain, where school buildings and a church were erected, and where in 1834 he married Sarah Hall Boardman.
Judson was perhaps the greatest, as he was practically the first, of the many missionaries sent from the United States into foreign fields; his fervor, his devotion to duty, and his fortitude in the face of danger mark him as the prototype of the American missionary.
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 AllRefer.com - Adoniram Judson (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Adoniram Judson[adunI´rum] Pronunciation Key, 1788–1850, American Baptist missionary, b.
As a Congregational minister, Judson sailed (1812) for India.
The Judson Memorial Church in New York City is named for him.
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 July 13: Adoniram and Ann Judson arrive in Rangoon
Adoniram Judson is often singled out as the first American foreign missionary.
Although the Judsons sailed as Congregationalists under the mission board Adoniram had helped form, in a curious twist he did not remain Congregationalist.
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 February 6: Entertainment different when Judson was ordained
Adoniram Judson and Anne Hasseltine were married one day.
One of them, Ephraim Newton, collapsed in the snow, and was found half-frozen by other students who hurried to carry him to a nearby house where he was revived in blankets near a fire.
The Judsons did not remain in India, but became missionaries in Burma where Anne's support of her husband during a period of captivity saved his life and cost her hers.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/02/daily-02-06-2001.shtml   (758 words)

  
 Southern Baptist Historical Library & Archives - Anne Judson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of these young men was Adoniram Judson, who was invited to dine in the Hasseltine home.
In the bitter conflict between the British and Burmese armies, Judson was imprisoned many months and would have died had not Mrs.
Judson was stricken while her husband was absent on a mission to Ava, and she died Oct. 24, 1826.
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 Pray for Myanmar: PIONEER MISSIONARY ADONIRAM JUDSON 1788–1850
Judson is known and respected in Myanmar as a devoted servant of God whose sacrifice and suffering paved the way for tremendous advances of the gospel.
During his 38 years in Myanmar, Judson’s most outstanding contribution was his translation of the whole Bible into the Myanmar language.
In 1824 Judson was thrown into prison on suspicion of being a British spy, because, in the absence of banks, his financial support from America was found to have been transmitted through the English Baptist Mission in Calcutta.
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 Welcome to Judson Church!
Judson Memorial Church is proud to serve Fair-Trade coffee, tea & cocoa during Sunday Service coffee hour.
Judson's Ministers' responded to the latest Anti-Gay Push with an Open Letter to the Regional Executive Ministers Council (Executive Directors of the 34 geographic regions in the ABC).
What follows is the current quote that can be found on Judson's historic Bulletin Board in front of the Church at 55 Washington Square South.
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 Amazon.com: To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson: Books: Courtney Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The life of Adoniram Judson makes very clear what it means to take up one's cross and follow Jesus, but it also shows that God's grace is sufficient for whatever may come.
But the Judsons and others were so convinced of their faith and so confident that their obedience to God's will would produce fruit that they never gave up.
The interest is compelling by virtue of Adoniram Judson's historic place in American foreign missionary endeavor and by the drama of his life.
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