t Illness and Death, 311

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PART III.

THE LIFE OF THE THIRD MRS. JUDSON.

CHAPTER I.

Remarks on her Genius--Her Early Life.--Conversion.--
Employments--Tales and Poems--Acquaintance with Dr.
Judson.--Marriage.--Voyage to India--Biography of Mrs. S.B.
Judson.--Poem written off St. Helena--Poem on the Birth of an
Infant.--Lines addressed to a Bereaved Friend--Letter to her
Children.--Prayer for dear Papa.--Poem addressed to her
Mother.--Her Account of Dr. Judson's last Illness and Death, 321

CHAPTER II.

Reflections on the Death of Emily C. Judson--The Delicacy of her
Constitution and her Final Malady--Her Sufferings at Rangoon,
and the Good Effect upon her Health of a Removal to
Maulmain--Precarious State of her Health--Her Resignation--Death
of Dr. Judson--Decides to Leave Burmah, and Returns to her
Maternal Home, in Hamilton. N.Y.--Her death--The Traits of her
Character--Domestic Attachments--Her Missionary Life and
Literary Labors, 357

PART I.

LIFE OF MRS. ANN H. JUDSON,

FIRST WIFE OF

REV. ADONIRAM JUDSON, D.D.

CHAPTER I.

MRS. JUDSON'S BIRTH, EDUCATION, AND CONVERSION.

When an individual attains a position of eminence which commands the
admiration of the world, we naturally seek to learn his early history,
to ascertain what indications were given in childhood of qualities
destined to shine with such resplendent lustre, and to discover the kind
of discipline which has developed powers so extraordinary. But in no
researches are we more apt to be baffled than in these. Few children are
so remarkable as to make it worth while, even to a parent, to chronicle
their little sayings and doings; and of infant prodigies--though there
is a superstitious belief that most of them die early, which is
expressed in the adage--

"Whom the Gods love, die young,"

those that live commonly disappoint the hopes of partial friends, who
watched their infancy with wonder and expectation.

There are certain qualities, however, which we shall rarely miss even in
the childhood of those who attain eminence by a wise employment of their
talents and acquirements. These are: firmness of purpose, industry and
application, and an ardent, and sometimes enthusiastic temperament.
These qualities were possessed in no common degree by Ann Hasseltine,
the subje