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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.