Author: JUDSON, SARAH B. & JUDSON, EMILY C.:
Title: Questions on the Apostles. Two volumes bound in one. Maulmain, American Baptist Mission Press, Thomas S. Ranney printer, 1848.
Description: . 16mo. Lvs (73) + (52). With Burmese text, title pages in English. Some staining to front endpaper. Contemporary half calf cloth boards lightly rubbed and stained. First Burmese edition, printed in 500 copies. Provenance: Nashua Historical Society, inscription by Mrs. S. Noyes dated 1873. Very rare work by two American women missionaries serving in Burma.Sarah Hall, American-born missionary, arrived in Burma in 1827 together with her first husband George Broadman. Eventually they settled in Tavoy where they established schools and church for the Karen people. Broadman died in 1831 and a few years later Sarah married missionary Adoniram Judson, one of the pioneers of missionary work in Burma. Sarah made many translations of scriptures, devotional poetry, prepared a hymn book and compiled several books of scripture questions for Sunday schools.Due to poor health Sarah, along with her husband, was on her way home to the USA when she died on St Helena in 1845. Emily Chubbock (with the pen name Fanny Forester) became Adoniram Judson's third wife. They sailed together for Burma in 1846 and there Emily devoted herself to missionary work, wrote and translated several works. She compiled the second part of this work, a continuation of the first part made by Sarah, here posthumously published. "I am now engaged in writing questions on the Acts of the Apostles, in Burmese, for the use of the Bible Classes and Sabbath School. We have a Sabbath School, numbering nearly a hundred children, and a Bible Class of twenty adults" (Fanny Forrester "Memoir of Sarah B. Judson" 1860, p. 162). Not in Cordier.

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