their Bible study to embrace Baptist tenets, and their decision was confirmed on their arrival in Calcutta when they came to know William Carey, the celebrated English Baptist missionary, and his colleagues. They at once immersed the new converts after the custom of their denomination. Rice soon returned to America to agitate in behalf of a Baptist missionary society, since he and Judson could no longer honorably accept the support of the American Board, under whose auspices they had been sent out.

That left the Judsons alone among the New Englanders in their new denominational affiliations, and seemed to necessitate the cultivation of a new field. Debarred by the English East India Company from landing on the east coast of India, they took a ship which happened to be in the harbor, whose destination was the far-off and filthy village of Rangoon in South Burma. Here Judson worked six years before he had his first convert. Sickness, imprisonment for a year and a half during the war between Great Britain and Burma, his wife's death, were all powerless to break his spirit. He labored on in loneliness and discouragement, gaining ground as the years went by until, before he died in 1850, he had translated the Bible into the Burman dialect and made for the first time a Burman dictionary. One comfort of his imprisonment was the precious manuscript of that portion of the Bible

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CONSPICUOUS among that pioneer group of New Englanders who took to India and Burma the quickening influences of Western Christianity.

which he had already translated into the vernacular. His wife, realizing its value, carried it to him concealed in a pillow which she had sewed up in a stout pillowcase. In the sudden transfer of prisoners to another place the pillow was carelessly thrown out into the yard, but was recovered by a faithful servant, who hid it until the war was over and he could restore it to the Judsons. So exact was the Burmese translation that it served as a basis for all later versions, as did Luther's Bible in Germany and Tyndale's in England.

Theodore Parker wrote in his diary, after reading the Life of Judson, "What a man! Had the whole missionary work resulted in nothing more than the building up of such a man, it would be worth all it has cost." Judson lived to see the beginnings of the transformation of Rangoon into a clean, well-ordered, modern city with a large college and schools of other types, and in many another city, town and village the sprouting of the same germinating seeds which he brought to Rangoon.

Thus did Judson, the Massachusetts man, drive into Burma the entering wedge which opened the way for the imparting of ideas and impulses that have changed to a marked degree the outward and inner life of many of its people.

Meanwhile Gordon Hall, another Massachusetts man and Judson's friend from seminary days, who

had felt with him both at Andover and at Salem the same mysterious but irresistible impulse luring him to the Far East, was breaking into western India. Up to that time Bombay had been sealed to missionary effort. What their English brethren had so far failed to accomplish came about largely through the impassioned and persistent appeals of Hall and Nott to the English government. Access was thus obtained to a population of some twelve million persons. Hall speedily acquired enough knowledge of the language to translate the gospel of Matthew into Marathi. He preached in the market places and wherever he could find the people. He took long tours. On one of them, after ministering heroically to the victims of cholera, he was stricken with the same dread disease and died among strangers, just as his wife and children were landing in America. His distant, lonely grave " 'mid Asia's arid sands" is one of Christendom's sacred places.

Dying at forty-two, Gordon Hall had done in fourteen years a work of immense importance. He had securely rooted Protestant missions in western India. He had started the movement toward the unification of missionary agencies which has come to such satisfactory embodiment in these later years throughout many sections of India. He had also awakened the churches in America by his cogent and earnest appeals