visit England, to obtain in person the necessary information. This reply constitutes the first letter in the third Part of this volume.

In June 1810, Messrs. Judson, Nott, Mills and Newell, having come to the solemn resolution of spending their lives in heathen lands, applied to the General Association of Massachusetts for advice. This application occasioned the appointment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

In January 1811, Mr. Judson sailed for England, with instructions from the Prudential Committee, to ascertain whether any assistance could be obtained from the London Missionary Society, in case the Board should be unable to sustain a Mission. The London Society agreed to support Mr. Judson and his companions as missionaries, if necessary.

During the session of the Association in 1810, Mr. Judson first saw Miss Ann Hasseltine; and soon proposed to her to accompany him in his Missionary enterprise. In his letter to her father, asking his consent to the marriage, Mr. Judson said; "I have now to ask, whether you can consent to part with your daughter, 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. 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? Can you consent to all this, in hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with a crown of righteousness, brightened by the acclamations of

praise which shall redound to her Saviour from heathen saved, through her means, from eternal woe and despair?"

They were

Miss Hasseltine's situation was one of peculiar delicacy. She had no example to guide and allure her; and most of her advisers discouraged the idea. She however overcame all obstacles and decided to go. accordingly married at Bradford, February 5th, 1812. The next day, Mr. Judson was ordained at Salem; and on the 19th, sailed for Calcutta, where he arrived on the 17th of June.

He had now reached missionary ground; but formidable obstacles arose before him, threatening forever to bar his progress. The government ordered him home; but with some difficulty, he obtained permission to sail for the Isle of France. While at Calcutta, Mr. and Mrs. Judson embraced Baptist principles, and were baptized by immersion. This change resulted in the establishment of the Baptist General Convention in the United States.

After encountering numerous difficulties, Mr. Judson arrived at Rangoon in Burmah, July 1813. Here he commenced the laboricus business of learning a new language, and making arrangements for a missionary life; and after laboring six years, administered baptism to the first Burman convert.

In 1822, Mrs. Judson visited America for the recovery of her health, and returned the next year to Rangoon.

The sufferings and dangers of the Missionaries during the war of 1824 and 1825, compose a narrative of thrilling interest. Fiction never described a scene more soulstirring, or one more directly calculated to enlist the sympathies of our nature. The Bengal government invaded Burmah in May 1824; and in June, Mr. Judson with Dr. Price and others was seized and imprisoned. During his imprisonment of more than a year and a half, nine months in three pairs of fetters, and two months in five pairs, amidst indescribable sufferings, Mrs. Judson repaired

every day two miles to the prison, prepared food for her husband, administered to the wants of the prisoners, and made constant application to the government for their lives and their deliverance; until at last, on the approach of the British army, she had the happiness to announce to them their freedom. The entire narrative, as contained in Mrs. Judson's Memoir,' is intensely interesting.

Mr. and Mrs. Judson now settled in the new town of Amherst, on the Salwen river. But after a few months, in the absence of Mr. Judson, Mrs. Judson died of a fever October 24, 1826, aged 36 years. Soon afterwards her only surviving child, Maria, aged two years and three months, followed its mother to the grave. Her other child, Roger Williams, who died at the age of eight months, was buried at Rangoon.

Mr. Judson's station is now at Maulmein, some distance east of Rangoon, where he is employed chiefly in the work of translation. He has prepared a Grammar and Dictionary of the Burman language; has translated the New Testament, and a part of the Old; to which will be added the remainder, as soon as circumstances will allow.

The prospects of this mission are now. highly encouraging. Under date of February 5, 1831, Mr. Judson writes; "the most prominent feature in the Mission at present, is the surprising spirit of inquiry that is spreading every where, through the whole length and breadth of the land. I sometimes feel alarmed,-like a person who sees a mighty engine beginning to move, over which he knows he has no control. During the great annual festival which is just passed, I have given away nearly 10,000 tracts, giving to none but those who asked. I presume there have been 6,000 applicants at the house. Some came two or three months' journey, from the borders of Siam and China,- Sir, we hear that there is an eternal hell. We are afraid of it. Dr. give us a writing

that will tell us how to escape it.' Others came from the interior of the country;- Are you Jesus Christ's man? Give us a writing that tells about Jesus Christ.''

It is now twenty-one years since Mr. Judson last saw his native land, and he is the oldest American Missionary now in the field; his early associates having either been called away by death, or compelled by illness to return home.

The title of D. D. was conferred upon Mr. Judson, by Brown University, in September, 1823. He however respectfully declined it.

SAMUEL NEWELL.

SAMUEL NEWELL was born at Durham, Cumberland County, Maine, July 24, 1784. His parents were both natives of Newton, Mass. His father Ebenezer Newell, was married at Newton, to Mary Richards, about the year 1767. They had seven sons and two daughters. Three of the sons, and both the daughters are still living in the State of Maine. The family removed in 1771 to Cape Elizabeth near Portland in Maine, and from thence after a residence of six years, to Durham in the same State, where Mrs. Newell died in 1786, and Mr. Newell in 1794. The father spent the greater part of his life in the instruction of youth. He is represented to have been a man of great firmness and integrity, but somewhat reserved in his manners. The mother, with a disposition naturally amiable, an education superior to that of most among whom she lived, and an ardent, active piety, lived

beloved, and died lamented, by an extensive circle of acquaintances.

Of the nine children, Samuel was the youngest but one. He was about two years and a half old when his mother died; an event which he said some months before he sailed to India, he could distinctly remember. At the age of ten, he became a destitute orphan. When about fourteen years of age, he conceived a desire to see something more of the world; and accordingly having obtained the consent of his friends, he filled his pockets with provisions, and set out on foot for Portland, distant from Durham about 26 miles. ger to every body, and was much amused by the new objects which struck his eye. His attention was particularly attracted by the vessels in he harbor; and although he had never seen a ship before, he had little difficulty in deciding what was the object of those odd machines.' Curiosity led him to inspect them more closely; and while thus engaged, a captain of one of the vessels observed him, and was struck with his appearance. 'What is your name, my boy'? Samuel made a civil reply. What do you want? was of course the next question. Samuel told him he had come to 'seek his fortune.' Well said the captain, I shall sail to-morrow for Boston; how would you like to try your luck with me'? Samuel was delighted with the idea of so romantic an adventure as this then appeared to him, and readily assented to the proposal. On arriving in Boston, the captain happened to meet Judge Lowell, (father of the Rev. Dr. Lowell of Boston,) who was wishing to obtain a boy to live in his family. The captain named to him young Newell; and being pleased with Samuel's appearance, he took him home to live with him in Roxbury. Judge Lowell proved to Newell a faithful friend, and continued his patron until his death, which happened in May, 1802.

He arrived at Portland a stran