vernment, and often suffered bitterly; but in Maulmain, and other
places in British Burmah, religion flourished, and converts were
multiplied. Mr. Vinton, (a new missionary,) preached with great power in
the Karen churches, and that people, says Mrs. Judson, "flocked into the
kingdom by scores." Mr. Judson was revising his translation of the
Bible--a task of five years' duration,--and preaching to the Burmese
church; while Mrs. J. instructed in the schools and translated into
Peguan such tracts as were thought most calculated to acquaint that
people with Christian doctrine. She afterwards translated into that
language the New Testament and the Life of Christ; but on the arrival of
Mr. Haswell, she gave up to him all her books and papers in this
language, and only attended to it in future so far as to assist him in
his studies.

Of the severest trial to which Mrs. Judson was called during the
remainder of her life she gives an account in the following eloquent
words: "After deliberation, accompanied with tears, and agony and
prayers, I came to the conviction that it was my duty to send away my
only child, my darling George, and yesterday he bade me a long
farewell.... Oh I shall never forget his looks, as he stood by the door,
and gazed at me for the last time. His eyes were filling with tears, and
his little face red with suppressed emotion. But he subdued his
feelings, and it was not till he had turned away, and was going down the
steps that he burst into a flood of tears. I hurried to my room; and on
my knees, with my whole heart gave him up to God; and my bursting heart
was comforted from above.... My reason and judgment tell me that the
good of my child requires that he should be sent to America; and this of
itself would support me in some little degree; but when I view it as a
_sacrifice_, made for the sake of Jesus, it becomes a delightful
privilege.... I cannot but hope he will one day return to Burmah, a
missionary of the cross, as his dear father was.... This is in some
respects the severest trial I ever met with."

It would be delightful to accompany the dear boy in his perilous journey
to the Father-land, and to transcribe the yearning and affectionate
letters of his mother, both to him, and to those to whose charge he was
entrusted--they could not but heighten our opinion of her excellence in
the maternal relation, as well as of the great sensibility of her heart;
but we are warned that our pages are swelli