Mission for life
Subtitle: the story of the family of Adoniram Judson, the dramatic events of the first American foreign mission, and the course of evangelical religion in the nineteenth century
By: Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Judson family.; Baptists -- United States -- Biography.; Missions, American -- History.; Evangelicalism -- United States -- History.
Description: Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) was born at Malden and reared at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was the first American to become a fully committed evangelical foreign missionary, first for the Congregationalists in 1812, but almost immediately for the American Baptists. He served chiefly in Burma, married three times (his first two wives died in mission field, and the third was a fiction writer who thereafter used her talents as a missionary publicist)--and was notable for his will- ingness to use popular cultural forms to push the cause of religion. Descendants lived in New York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 291-295.
Includes index.