When was adoniram judson born

By the time of Judson's death, there were 63 churches and 7, converts. Of the Karen peoples, there were churches and , believers. Over the years, largely through the influence of Luther Rice who never returned to the field but was representing the mission in America , new missionaries arrived on the field for various aspects of the ministry.

One of these couples was George and Sarah Boardman. They, along with others of the newer missionaries, were targeting the tribal people, particularly the Karen, a predominately pagan, animistic tribes people.

Another such missionary was Elisha L. Abbott, who has been credited as the creator of the indigenous policy. He arrived in Burma sometime around and was a contemporary of Adonirom Judson. The thing that particularly distinguishes Mr. Abbott was his vision of self-support of these churches. He was the instrument God used to raise up 50 churches and thousands of believers. His motto was "American support for Americans; Karen support for Karens.

In fact, he twice returned half of the gifts back to America, but the American Baptist Missionary Union was never in agreement with this indigenous policy.

Neither was the aging veteran, Adoniram Judson, who felt it would give support to the "good works" philosophy of Buddhism. Looking back over the ministries causes us to reflect on whether the rapid growth of the ministry among the indigenous tribes people which has continued right down to the present time is related to the indigenous principles founded by Mr. Today there is virtually no church of a Fundamental nature among the Burmese per se that is the outgrowth of Adoniram Judson's ministry.

Adoniram left Ann and the infant Maria in a more healthful location and was summoned back up to the British camp as an interpreter in the ongoing negotiations with the Burmese. Ann died at the age of 37 at Amhurst, a British settlement, on October 14, Adoniram did not learn of her death until a month later. The infant Maria was cared for by some fellow missionaries but also died about six months later at the age of 27 months and was buried beside her mother.

Judson's wife and all their children died in the first 14 years of his missionary career, and he became very despondent. He questioned: Did he carry death with him like a contagion? In the beginning there had been Harriet Newell and her baby; followed by Samuel Newell, who died a few years later in Bombay; then Judson's own son Roger; his wife Ann; and now his daughter Maria.

He hoped—he believed—he carried the gift of life eternal into the next world, but wondered why he carried the gift of death in this? Most importantly, since these dead were happy, he wondered why he grieved. He later began to suspect that his real motive in becoming a missionary had not been genuine humility and self abnegation but ambition to be the first American foreign missionary—the first missionary to Burma, the first translator of the Bible into the Burmese, the first in his own eyes and the eyes of men.

He had a lust to excel. Toward the end of October , he built a little hut in the jungle some distance from the mission house and dubbed it the Hermitage. It was in a dangerous, tiger-infested area. He moved into the hut October 24, , the second anniversary of Nancy's death. He wrote, "It proves a stormy evening, and the desolation around me accords with the desolate state of my own mind, where grief for the dear departed combines with sorrow for present sin; and my tears flow at the same time over the forsaken grave of my dear love and over the loathsome sepulcher of my own heart.

During this period of depression and melancholy, self-denial and seclusion, Judson, with his Bible under his arm, went over the hills behind the Hermitage even deeper into the tiger-infested jungle behind the Hermitage until he found a place that suited him near a long-abandoned pagoda. Here he began spending his days reading, reflecting, praying. Each evening he returned to the Hermitage. Adoniram spent forty days in this solitary meditation by the old pagoda.

His entire diet consisted of nothing but a little rice. This time probably marked the extreme in his search for some sign that God had forgiven him. What seemed to bring him out of his three years of deep depression was news that his younger brother Elnathan had professed salvation before his death. This had been a heavy burden on Adoniram, and he rejoiced in the knowledge that his brother had finally come to peace with God.

He threw himself wholly into the completion of the Old Testament translation of the Bible into the Burmese language. In he wrote to the secretary of the Baptist Board, referring to short-term missionary service and some missionaries, "They come out for a few years with the view of acquiring a stock of credit on which they may vegetate the rest of their days in the congenial climate of their native land.

The motto of every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or school master, ought to be devoted for life. The worst off needs the very best we have. God gave His best, even His only begotten Son, in order to redeem a lost world. Christianity will advance over the earth with long, swift strides when the churches are ready to send their best men and the best men are ready to go. In April of , almost eight years after the death of Ann, he married Sarah Boardman, whose husband had passed away some three years earlier.

Unlike most missionary widows who, on the death of their spouse, return to their homeland, Sarah had remained in Burma and had very faithfully carried on in the ministry. She became a very loving and supportive wife to Adoniram and bore him a number of children. On September 26, , he completed the Old Testament translation and one month later baptized the th member of the Burmese church. Thus his goals of translating the complete Bible into the Burmese language and seeing a church of Burmese Christians had been accomplished.

Due to Sarah's declining health, Adoniram Judson decided to take her to America. She died en route at St. Born August 22, , in Eaton, New York. She was a professional writer under the pen name of Fanny Forester. Judson had read some of her writings and contacted her to write the biography of his second wife, Sarah.

After working together on the biography, their acquaintance lead to their being married in , about a year after his return to the United States following the death of Sarah. They returned to Burma, where Emily finished the biography of Sarah, which was published in They had two children, a daughter Emily, born in , and a son Charles, born and died the same day in , three weeks after the death of Judson.

See also The Three Mrs. Judsons: Helpmeets to the Missionary to Burma. Helene, off the coast of West Africa? Emily Chubbock - an American poet who wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Forester. They married on June 2, On July 11, , the newlyweds sailed from Boston to Burma where Judson had been a missionary for many years. The Judsons had a daughter named Emily Frances who was born in A son named Charles was born and died on the same day in , three weeks after Judson's death at sea.

After learning of his death, Chubbuck returned in poor health to the United States in However it is not final resting place, multiple records indicate he was buried at sea off the coast of Burma. The names of other family members are recorded here, including his three wives. Familypedia Explore. Create or edit article. Improve article; tree, bdm, etc Form:Person Semi-manual method Advanced form rarely used. Surnames People by decade Birth decade Death decade.

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Society, Judson, Emily C. Memoir of Sarah B. Judson: Member of the American Mission to Burmah. New York: L. Colby, Wayland, Francis. A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson. Boston: Phillips,