divine authority with
the books of the Old Testament.--ED.

[F] This he actually proposed, but the patriarch would not listen to the
proposal a moment.

[G] "He causeth all--to receive a mark," &c. "and no man might buy or
sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast." The patriarch
was also clothed in scarlet, like the woman on the scarlet coloured
beast.

[H] See Rev. xiii. 13

[I] When he first came to Beyroot, this same sentence was dictated to
him, and it appeared in his eyes so much like blasphemy, that he refused
to write it.

[J] We afterwards ascertained, that he was decoyed off to a distance, as
if for walk, and when he would have returned, was prevented by force.

[K] This letter was a mere tissue of testimonies, brought from the
fathers, and from the scriptures, condemning the worship of images.

CHAPTER IX.

PERSECUTIONS OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARIES IN INDIA, DURING THE YEAR 1824.

_Account of the Scenes at Ava during the War._

Mr. and Mrs. Judson were among the number of the first missionaries who
left this country for India. After labouring for some time in Hindostan
they finally established themselves at Rangoon in the Burman Empire, in
1813. In 1824 war broke out between the British East India Company and
the emperor of Burmah. Mr. and Mrs. Judson and Dr. Price, who were at
Ava, the capital of the Burman Empire, when the war commenced, were
immediately arrested and confined for several months. The account of the
sufferings of the missionaries was written by Mrs. Judson, and is given
in her own words.

The sufferings of the missionaries, during this long and disastrous
period, surpassed all that the most alarmed and fertile imagination had
conceived. Of the dreadful scenes at Ava, a minute account was written
by Mrs. Judson to Dr. Elnathan Judson. It will be read with strong and
painful interest. Fiction itself has seldom invented a tale more replete
with terror.

"_Rangoon, May 26, 1826._

"My beloved Brother,

"I commence this letter with the intention of giving you the particulars
of our captivity and sufferings at Ava. How long my patience will allow
my reviewing scenes of disgust and horror, the conclusion of this
letter will determine. I had kept a journal of every thing that had
transpired from our arrival at Ava, but destroyed it at the commencement
of our difficulties.

"The first certain intelligence we received of the declaration of war by
the B