The tears flowed down our cheeks as we listened to Spalding's recital, and the result of his visit was that more than one of our students volunteered for the work of foreign missions.
It was also my great privilege during that Princeton course to put eye upon a man who, by common consent, is regarded as the king of American missionaries.

On my way from Princeton to Philadelphia in the Christmas week of '45 I found among my fellow passengers a gentleman with a very benign countenance, and to my great delight I learned that he was Adoniram Judson, who was on his final and memorable visit to his native land, and was received everywhere with the most unbounded and reverent enthusiasm.

He had begun his work in Burmah in 1813, but under great difficulties.

During the first six years he made no converts; he defied the demon of discouragement and labored on with increased faith and zeal, and then came an abundant harvest.

The colossal work of his life in Burmah was the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the Burmese language.