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William Carey: A Gallery of Missionary Pioneers
They boldly went where no Christian had gone before
Elizabeth Cody Newenhuyse is an author and editor from Wheaton, Illinois. | posted 10/01/1992 12:00AM
Adoniram Judson (1788–1850)
Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789–1826)
America’s unlikely missionaries to the Far East
He had been a cynical actor who rejected the faith of his father. She had been the town belle, indulged by her parents.
Hardly likely candidates for the rigors of the early nineteenth-century mission field—but now Ann Hasseltine Judson, nicknamed Nancy, and her husband, Adoniram Judson, are assured of their place in history. They helped open the Far East to others who would carry out the Great Commission.
Before they met and were married, both Adoniram and Nancy underwent powerful conversion experiences, passing, as Nancy put it, “from death into life.” Both had a passion to join the nascent missionary enterprise that was firing the imaginations of youthful Christians on both sides of the Atlantic. So thirteen days after they wed, in 1812, they set sail for India.
Aboard ship, Adoniram, an ordained Congregational minister, changed his theology to the Baptist position. Ann did also, ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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