Memoir of Ann H. Judson by Ann Hasseltine Judson

The youngest of five children, she was doted on by the family, and was an especial favourite of her warm-hearted father, John Hasseltine. Ann Judson’s life Childhood and ConversionĪnn, affectionately known as “Nancy,” was born just before the Christmas of 1789 in Bradford (Massachusetts). Ann Judson, through years of faithful and sacrificial service, served as a spearhead for the modern mission movement and the spread of the Gospel in Asia. Ann served with her husband Adoniram in Burma from 1813 until her death at the early age of thirty-seven, in 1826. The father gave his consent, and, subsequently, Adoniram and Ann Judson took their place among the first group of American missionaries to go overseas. Can you consent to all this, for the sake of him who left his heavenly home and died for her and for you for the sake of perishing immortal souls for the sake of Zion, and the glory of God? ((Sharon James, My Heart in His Hands: Ann Judson of Burma, A Life with Selections from her Memoir and Letters (Darlington: Evangelical Press, 1998), pp.

I have now to ask, whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world whether you can consent to her departure for a heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary life whether you can consent to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean to the fatal influence of the southern climate of India to every kind of want and distress to degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death. Two hundred years ago in 1810, a young man named Adoniram Judson composed an extraordinary letter to the father of the young woman he wanted to marry.

Memoir of Ann H. Judson by Ann Hasseltine Judson