Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode, we are going to Burma with Adonairm Judson.

Adonairm Jutson Jr. was born in Massachusetts in 1788.

His father was a missionary in the Congregational Church. This was old New

England Puritan stock. He was an ambitious young man. He learned to read at the age of three.

He loved foreign languages, picked them up very quickly. He went to Brown University in Rhode Island

and graduated valedictorian. While he excelled academically, spiritually,

he was departing from the faith of his youth and he became a deist. He opened an academy

and started writing books and all of this by the age of 20. In the fall of 1808, he decided to go

to Andover Newton Seminary.

He was, it appears, looking for answers.

He made it clear that he was going to study and had no intention to go into ministry.

By the spring of 1809, however, he publicly professed his faith in his father's church.

Now, remember our episode back a few on the Haystack prayer meeting and the founding of the

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions?

Well, Adon-Irm Judson and three other Andover Newton students were appointed as missionaries

by the board to Asia in the hopes that, quote, Providence shall open the most

favorable door. Judson married Anne Hasseltine on February 5, 1812, and the next day he was ordained.

Two weeks later, they set sail from Salem. Four months later, they pulled into the port at Calcutta, India. On board, he was

studying baptism. He had, of course, the Congregationalist position, which is infant baptism,

but by the time he landed in June and then by August, he had become convinced of the

Baptist position, known as Believers' baptism. He resigned from the American board. He was rebaptized by

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