Produced by Joel Erickson, Robert Cicconetti, Stacy Brown Thellend and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net LIVES OF THE THREE MRS. JUDSONS: _MRS. ANN H. JUDSON_, _MRS. SARAH B. JUDSON_, _MRS. EMILY C. JUDSON_, MISSIONARIES TO BURMAH. BY ARABELLA W. STUART, (MRS. ARABELLA M. WILLSON.) A self-denying band, who counted not Life dear unto them, so they might fulfil Their ministry, and save the heathen soul. BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, By Miller, Orton & Mulligan, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York. [Illustration: Mrs. Ann H. Judson.] [Illustration: Mrs. Emily C. Judson.] PREFACE. Among the many benefits which modern missions have conferred on the world, not the least, perhaps, is the field they have afforded for the development of the highest excellence of female character. The limited range of avocations allotted to woman, and her consequent inability to gain an elevated rank in the higher walks of life, has been a theme of complaint with many modern reformers, especially with the party who are loud in their advocacy of woman's rights. That few of the sex have risen to eminence in any path but that of literature, is too well known to admit of denial, and might be proved by the scantiness of _female_ biography. How few of the memoirs and biographical sketches which load the shelves of our libraries, record the lives of women!