Just finished the biography of Adoniram Judson (Courtney Anderson's To the Golden Shore) which is a riveting account of this missionary's life. Judson gave up just about every worldly comfort to bring the Gospel to Burma in the early 1800's and his story should have particular interest for our church since he was the first American Baptist Missionary, who also happened to be from Massachusetts. He was born and raised in the North Shore (Wenham, Hamilton, Haverhill, Bradford, ...) and graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island before sailing from Salem, MA to Rangoon, Burma in 1812.
Just before leaving, Adoniram met and fell in love with Nancy Hasseltine. To give you a feel for the man, here is what Judson wrote to her father when h