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Study Section 7: Heroes between 1788 - 1818

7.1 Connect.

The world says, “Get all you can for yourself! Enjoy life! You deserve it!” But Christ says, “Make
your life a living sacrifice to me!” The two gentlemen we are going to study today laid their lives
down for Christ to use them. And at the end of their lives, God did just that. Thousands of
people were rescued from slavery to sin and freed to live lives that pleased God. Whole countries
were changed. This is what can happen to the man who 100% will give his heart to Jesus.
Amazing things can happen….

7.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to describe the dedicated life of Adoniram Judson changed to course
of a nation.

2. The student should be able to show that prayer to our Lord in the life of George Muller provided
for thousands of orphans and changed the lives of thousands.

7.3 Adoniram Judson 1788 – 1850 by Fred Barlow

https://www.wholesomewords.org/missions/bjudson1.html
Copied with permission from Profiles in Evangelism, ©1976

Adoniram Judson was an American Baptist missionary,
lexicographer, and Bible translator to Burma. He was born in
Massachusetts in 1788. He helped form the American
Baptist Missionary Union. In 1834, he completed a
translation of the whole Bible into the Burmese language.
During the Anglo-Burmese War, he spent twenty-one months in prison.
From 1845-1847, after thirty-four years in Burma, he took his only furlough to his native land. Returning to
Burma, he spent his remaining years working on his English-Burmese dictionary. He died in 1850 and was buried
at sea.

By whatever measurement you measure the man Judson — the measurement always is the same — he was a
mighty man!

Mentally — he was mammoth. He read at the age of three years, took navigation lessons at ten, studied
theology as a child, entered Providence College (now Brown University) at seventeen — despite the fact he
spent one year of his youth out of school in sickness — and he was a "veritable bookworm." Also, he mastered
the Burmese language (possibly the most difficult language to acquire, excepting Chinese), writing and speaking
it with the familiarity of a native and the elegance of a cultured scholar, and he also translated the Bible into

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