. Evenings with the sacred poets:. re-shipment to England, sailed from Madras, in a vesselbound to Rangoon. Thus they reached Burmah,where it was found that Providence had a great workfor them to do. Their mission was commenced aboutthe year 1815 ; and Judson labored, in connection withthe American Baptists, until the breaking out of theBurmese war with the British, in 1824; when was seized with violence by the natives, cruellybound, and cast into prison ; and it was not until April,1826, that he was liberated. During his painful incar-ceration, like Paul and Silas, he solaced his pr
. Evenings with the sacred poets:. re-shipment to England, sailed from Madras, in a vesselbound to Rangoon. Thus they reached Burmah,where it was found that Providence had a great workfor them to do. Their mission was commenced aboutthe year 1815 ; and Judson labored, in connection withthe American Baptists, until the breaking out of theBurmese war with the British, in 1824; when was seized with violence by the natives, cruellybound, and cast into prison ; and it was not until April,1826, that he was liberated. During his painful incar-ceration, like Paul and Silas, he solaced his prisonhours with Christian songs. It was during this periodthat he composed the paraphrase, Our Father, God,who art in heaven, which is said to be comprisedin fewer words even than the original Greek. He wasa scholar and linguist, having translated the Bible intoBurmese, and constructed a Burmese and EnglishDictionary. He died in peace, at sea, on the 19th ofApril, 1850, aged sixty-two years; his remains beingcommitted to the NINTH EVENING. MODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN.
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