“God grant me grace to keep the above rules, and ever live to His glory, for Jesus Christ’s sake.
A. Judson.”
“August 9, 1842.
“1. Be more careful to observe the seasons of secret prayer.
“2. Never indulge resentful feelings toward any person.
“3. Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings, and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.
“4. Sweet in temper, face, and word,
To please an ever-present Lord.
“Renewed December 31, 1842.
“December 31, 1842. Resolved to make the desire to please Christ the grand motive of all my actions.”
It may be well to glance at some of the forms of excessive self-mortification which this great religious nature assumed under the stress of sickness, sorrow, and solitude. He was reared in the sound common-sense views of New England. He knew the value of money and the necessity of providing for the future by thrifty habits and close economy. Now all this he felt it his duty to give up. His advice to young men who were coming out as missionaries was, “Never lay up money for yourselves or your families. Trust in God from day to day, and verily you shall be fed.” He was allowed by the Governor-General of India five thousand two hundred rupees,[[35]] in consideration of his services at the treaty of Yandabo and as a member of the embassy to Ava. Besides this, the presents he received while at Ava amounted to two thousand rupees.[[36]] All this money he paid into the treasury of the mission. Nor did he regard this as a donation. His view was that whatever a missionary might earn by such necessary and incidental outside work belonged, in the nature of the case, to the Board by which he was employed. But not only did he cheerfully give up these perquisites, but at a single stroke he transferred to the mission all of his private property, the slow accumulation of many years of thrift. He thus wrote to the Corresponding Secretary: