The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . destination they learned of the orderfor the transportation of the American missionariesfrom Bombay to England, and fearing a like dispo-sition they sailed at once for Rangoon, the
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . destination they learned of the orderfor the transportation of the American missionariesfrom Bombay to England, and fearing a like dispo-sition they sailed at once for Rangoon, the principalport of the Burman empire, arriving there July,1813. More than a year passed before Judson learnedof the formation of the Baptist general convention,and that it had taken him under its care. For threeyears he devoted himself to the study of the difficialtBurmese language, and mastered it so thoroughlythat he spoke with the freedom of a native; havingpractically abandoned the use of the English lan-guage, he both thought and spoke in Burmese, onlyallowing himself one English newspaper. After sixyears of labor his first convert was baptized. Duringthis period he published tracts, translated the gospelof Matthew and the Epistle to the Ephesians, con-ducted public preaching, and labored indefatigablyfor the furtherance of his work, despite the unfriend-ly attitude of the Burmese monarch. In 1824 he re-. C^ ^Cr,^t-^ moved to Ava where he preached for a short timeuntil war between the English and the Burmesebroke out, which placed the missionaries in greatperil and resulted in extreme hardships and Judson was imprisoned for two years at Ava,confined in the death-prison, and subjected tothe most extreme cruelty, being bound with eitherthree or five pairs of fetters. In these straits hewas only saved from actual starvation by the un-wearying attentions of his faithful wife; for the pris-oners were not supplied with food by the Judson besought the o
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