In this compelling historical narrative of Ann Hasseltine Judson, the beloved first wife of America's first Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, readers may trace her life from childhood through her untimely death. Learn about her scholarship as a Bible translator and her work as a pioneering missionary and as a ministry partner of her more famous spouse. Walk the spiritual road paved through this creative chronicle, and discover how the Holy Spirit worked through the faith-filled and courageous life of this nineteenth-century woman of God.

A new biography of Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson (1788 - 1850), written to honor the 200th anniversary of his first mission trip from the U.S. to the Far East that would in turn mark the start of Americans joining the modern missions movement.

In October 1810 a twenty-year-old girl in the quiet New England town of Bradford wrote the following words in her journal: 'If nothing in providence appears to prevent, I must spend my days in a heathen land. I am a creature of God, and he has un undoubted right to do with me, as seems good in his sight...He has my heart in his hands, and when I am called to face danger, to pass through scenes of terror and distress, he can inspire me with fortitude, and enable me to trust in him. Jesus is faithful; his promises are precious. Were it not for these considerations, I should sink down with despair. Ann Hasseltine had received a proposal of marriage from Adoniram Judson, who was shortly to leave for Asia as one of America's first overseas missionaries. And thus commenced one of the great dramas of church history--a saga of love, courage, suffering and perseverance.

Compared with the true independence the noble energy the almost superhuman intrepidity of the Mrs. Judsons how weak and despicable seem the struggles of many misguided women in our day who seek to gain a reluctant acknowledgment of equality with the other sex by a noisy assertion of their rights and in some instances by an imitation of their attire!' (Excerpt from Preface)

"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.

Part of the History Makers Series Adoniram Judson was America's first foreign missionary An inspirational story to thousands

An engaging and in-depth tale of a couple who influenced the birth of American missions, "Bless God and Take Courage" (one of Ann Judson's favorite sayings) provides an intriguing trail of never-before-published discoveries about the missionaries.