Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson, Jr.was an American Congregationalist and later Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma. His mission and work with Luther Rice led to the formation of the first Baptist association in America to support missionaries...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth9 August 1788
CountryUnited States of America
tired home world
I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.
running prayer answers
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
christian baptism trials
After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
rivers joy comfort
Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
prayer shapes matter
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
let-me commonplace
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
pride facts reason
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
kindness prayer answers
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
mind temporary eternal
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
missionary daylight lasts
I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last...
years obscurity may
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.
christian prayer adoption
Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.
alone evil existence fearful future good happy miserable
There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.
attending indicate
The places chosen for the administration of the ordinance, and the circumstances attending those instances, in which the act of baptizing is particularly described in the New Testament, plainly indicate immersion.