This remarkable book was first published in 1851, and passed through over 20 editions in the years preceding the American Civil War. It relates the stirring true story of three courageous pioneer women, successive wives of the first American Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson of Burma. We get a glimpse of the gritty realities of missionary life from a woman’s perspective, and its heart rending sacrifice. If, as one writer stated, that ‘the chief end of biography is to embalm virtue and perpetuate usefulness,’ then this present volume certainly merits the consideration of thoughtful Christians everywhere. It has been beautifully republished.
