Read Part One HERE
In this post I will focus on a woman named Ann Hasseltine Judson. She lived from 1789 - 1826.
Ann was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, USA, As a young girl she spent much of her time reading religious books and praying. Ann was part of the New England religious revival of 1806 and at that time she resolved to devote her life to God.
Ann studied at Bradford Academy and began teaching when she was eighteen years old. At twenty-one she met Adoniram Judson, who was a Congregational minster at the time, at a Mission meeting that was held at her home, hosted by her father John, who was a deacon. They were soon engaged and they were married on 5 February, 1812.
The next day they the young couple set off for India on the "Caravan." The coyage took four months and they arrived in Calcutta, India,on 18 June.
During the voyage both Ann and Adoniram read "Lives of the Martyrs and Saints" along with several books on baptism and upon their arrival they joined the Baptist Church and they were baptised by immersion in a Calcutta chapel. They wrote home about their conviction, which caused some criticism, but good came from this change also. The Judsons were instrumental in awakening the Baptist Church in America to their duty to carry out foreign mission work. Due to their influence, the Baptist General Convention in Philadelphia was formed in 1814, which appointed the Judsons as Baptist missionaries with freedom to select their own field of labour.
P.S. I will continue my story of Ann Hasseltine Judson in my next post.
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