t every day visited us, sought out and administered to our wants,
and contributed in every way to alleviate our misery.

"When we were all left by the government destitute of food, she, with
unwearied perseverance by some means or other, obtained for us a
constant supply.

... "When the unfeeling avarice of our keepers confined us inside, or
made our feet fast in the stocks, she, like a ministering angel, never
ceased her applications to the government, until she was authorized to
communicate to us the grateful news of our enlargement, or of a respite
from our galling oppressions.

"Besides all this, it was unquestionably owing, in a chief degree, to
the repeated eloquence and forcible appeals of Mrs. Judson, that the
untutored Burman was finally made willing to secure the welfare of his
country by a sincere peace."

Well may Professor Gammell write of her: "History has not recorded,
poetry itself has seldom portrayed a more affecting exhibition of
Christian fortitude, of female heroism, and of all the noble and
generous qualities which constitute the dignity and glory of woman. In
the midst of sickness and danger, and every calamity which can crush the
human heart, she presented a character equal to the sternest trial, and
an address and a fertility of resources which gave her an ascendency
over the minds of her most cruel enemies, and alone saved the
missionaries and their fellow-captives from the terrible doom which
constantly awaited them."

We will conclude this account of the terrible _two years_, by an extract
from a letter of Mr. Judson dated Rangoon, March 25, 1826. "Through the
kind interposition of our Heavenly Father, we have been preserved in the
most imminent danger, from the hand of the executioner, and in repeated
instances of most alarming illness, during my protracted imprisonment of
one year and seven months, nine months in three pairs of fetters, two
months in five, six months in one, and two months a prisoner at
large.... The disciples and inquirers have been dispersed in all
directions. Several are dead; Moung-Shwa-ba has been in the
mission-house through the whole, and Moung Ing with Mrs. Judson at
Ava.... I long for the time when we shall enjoy once more the stated
worship and ordinances of the Lord's house."

"One result of the Burman war, was the acquisition by the British of
several provinces previously under the government of the King of Burmah.
Thus a safe asylum was provided for the