Project Gutenberg's Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons, by Arabella W. Stuart

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons

Author: Arabella W. Stuart

Release Date: October 13, 2005 [EBook #16863]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIVES OF THE THREE MRS. JUDSONS ***

Produced by Joel Erickson, Robert Cicconetti, Stacy Brown
Thellend and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net

LIVES

OF THE

THREE MRS. JUDSONS:

_MRS. ANN H. JUDSON_,

_MRS. SARAH B. JUDSON_,

_MRS. EMILY C. JUDSON_,

MISSIONARIES TO BURMAH.

BY

ARABELLA W. STUART,

(MRS. ARABELLA M. WILLSON.)

A self-denying band, who counted not
Life dear unto them, so they might fulfil
Their ministry, and save the heathen soul.

BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK: CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five,

By Miller, Orton & Mulligan,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of
New York.

[Illustration: Mrs. Ann H. Judson.]

[Illustration: Mrs. Emily C. Judson.]

PREFACE.

Among the many benefits which modern missions have conferred on the
world, not the least, perhaps, is the field they have afforded for the
development of the highest excellence of female character. The limited
range of avocations allotted to woman, and her consequent inability to
gain an elevated rank in the higher walks of life, has been a theme of
complaint with many modern reformers, especially with the party who are
loud in their advocacy of woman's rights. That few of the sex have risen
to eminence in any path but that of literature, is too well known to
admit of denial, and might be proved by the scantiness of _female_
biography. How few of the memoirs and biographical sketches which load
the shelves of our libraries, record the lives of women!

The missionary enterprise opens to woman a sphere of activity,
usefulness and distinction, not, under the present constitution of
society, to be found elsewhere. Here she may exhibit whatever she
possesses of