New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . he and Judson could no longer honorably acceptthe support of the American Board, under whoseauspices they had been sent out. That left the Judsons alone among the New Eng-landers in their new denominational affiliations, andseemed to necessitate the cultivation of a new by the English East India Company fromlanding on the east coast of India, they took a shipwhich happened to be in the harbor, whose destinationwas the far-off and filthy village of Rangoon in SouthBurma. Here Judson worked six years bef
New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . he and Judson could no longer honorably acceptthe support of the American Board, under whoseauspices they had been sent out. That left the Judsons alone among the New Eng-landers in their new denominational affiliations, andseemed to necessitate the cultivation of a new by the English East India Company fromlanding on the east coast of India, they took a shipwhich happened to be in the harbor, whose destinationwas the far-off and filthy village of Rangoon in SouthBurma. Here Judson worked six years before he hadhis first convert. Sickness, imprisonment for a yearand a half during the war between Great Britain andBurma, his wifes death, were all powerless to breakhis spirit. He labored on in loneliness and discourage-ment, gaining ground as the years went by until, beforehe died in 1850, he had translated the Bible into theBurman dialect and made for the first time a Burmandictionary. One comfort of his imprisonment wasthe precious manuscript of that portion of the Bible. ADONIRAM JUDSONBorn in Maiden, Mass., August 9, 17^8 /CONSPICUOUS among that pioneer group of New EnglandcrsVV who took to India and Burma the quickening influences ofWestern Christianity. NEW ENGLAND AND INDIA 285 which he had already translated into the wife, realizing its value, carried it to him concealedin a pillow which she had sewed up in a stout pillow-case. In the sudden transfer of prisoners to anotherplace the pillow was carelessly thrown out into theyard, but was recovered by a faithful servant, whohid it until the war was over and he could restore itto the Judsons. So exact was the Burmese translationthat it served as a basis for all later versions, as didLuthers Bible in Germany and Tyndales in England. Theodore Parker wrote in his diary, after readingthe Life of Judson, *What a man! Had the Avholemissionary work resulted in nothing more than thebuilding up of such a man, it woul
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