------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Superscripted characters are preceded by ‘^’, and where multiple characters are so printed, they are enclosed in ‘{ }’. Footnotes have been moved to follow the chapter in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. [Illustration] THE LIFE OF ADONIRAM JUDSON BY HIS SON EDWARD JUDSON NEW YORK ANSON D. F. RANDOLPH & COMPANY 900 BROADWAY, COR. 20TH STREET COPYRIGHT, 1883, BY EDWARD JUDSON. NEW YORK: EDWARD O. JENKINS, _Printer and Stereotyper_, 20 North William St. ROBERT RUTTER, _Binder_, 116 & 118 E. 14th St. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO THE CHILDREN OF MISSIONARIES, THE INVOLUNTARY INHERITORS OF THEIR PARENTS’ SUFFERINGS AND REWARDS, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY ONE OF THEIR NUMBER. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is not my purpose to present a theory of missions, but simply to give a clear and consecutive story of my father’s life. I have been impelled to do this by the desire that his memory should be cherished in the minds of the rising generation. Dr. Wayland’s noble and comprehensive Memoir is now out of print, and it has seemed to me that a career which may be justly said to form the main artery of all American foreign missionary endeavor, needed to be presented anew. In order to bring into bold relief my father’s social, domestic, and personal traits, I have introduced large extracts from his letters and journals, which, however, in a few places, I have taken the liberty of condensing. Free use has also been made of the valuable reminiscences contributed to Dr. Wayland’s Memoir by Mrs. Emily C. Judson. E. J. NEW YORK, _January, 1883_. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS. -------