Identifier: americanmissiona00pier (find matches)
Title: American missionary memorial : including biographical and historical sketches
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Pierson, Hamilton Wilcox, 1817-1888
Subjects: Missionaries -- Biography Missionaries -- Portraits Missions -- History
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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no-bler triumphs. Such a death, wrote Dr. Judson, next tothat of martyrdom, must be glorious in the eyes of Heaven. The death of Mr. Boardman occurred February 11th, 1831.Her sorrow was deep and intense, but she was sustained bydivine consolations. During the previous two years she hadattained to a higher type of piety than ever before, and this,which had given a new lustre to her character, and made hermore than ever the occasion of blessings to others, now was awell of water in her own heart, springing up into life everlast-ing. With the choice before her of continuing her missionarylabors or returning to America, she deliberately chose the for-mer, and applied herself diligently to her work. Wh^n I first stood by the grave of my husband, she said, I thought that I must go home with George. But these poor,inquiring and Christian Karens, and the school-boys, and theBurmese Christians, would then be left without any one to in-struct them ; and the poor, stupid Tavoyans would go on in
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MRS. SARAH BOARDMAN JUDSON. -(On the road to death with no one to warn them of their dansjer.How, then, oh! how can I go ? We shall not be separatedlong. A few more years, and we shall all meet in yonder bliss-ful world, whither those we love have gone before us. Ifeel thankful that I was allowed to come to this heathen land.Oh it is a precious privilege to tell idolaters of the Grospel; andwhen we see them disposed to love the Savior, we forget allour privations and dangers. My beloved husband wore out hislife in this glorious cause ; and that remembrance makes memore than ever attached to the work, and the people for whosesalvation he labored till death. In such a spirit she continued her missionary work at Tavoy.Besides managing a school with great success, and giving re-ligious instruction at home in various ways, she was accus-tomed to make long and toilsome journeys among the mount-ains, frequently amid drenching rains, that she might bear theBread of Life to the Karens. In thes

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