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...Adoniram Judson Wells Jr., aged 17, of Highland Park, Ill., graduate of Deerfield-Shields Township High School. Wells was valedictorian of his class, was active in school publications, dramatics, and track, and has shown originality in his chemistry laboratory at home...
...backing of wealth, no organization of boards and committees. But behind him was a fresh, vigorous British and U. S. religious awakening; before him the duty, as held by nearly every Protestant church, of carrying the Word to the ends of the earth. Famed are such pioneers as Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), who put a sign "Is It Pleasing to God?" in his room at Brown University, spent a year and a half in traveling to Burma. Ordained a Congregationalist, he espoused baptism by immersion, became an independent missionary, finally received full Baptist support. He translated the Bible into Burmese...
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...Adoniram Judson Sidney Lanier Matthew F. Maury James Otis William Penn Wendell Phillips Paul Revere Henry H. Richardson Benjamin Rush Philip H. Sheridan Benjamin Thompson Henry David Thoreau Noah Webster Walt Whitman
...recent CRIMSON editorial reference is made to the "average educated man's" conception of a missionary. In justice to the old-time missionary, the "average educated man" would do well to read the lives of John G. Paton, missionary to the New Hebrides; of Adoniram Judson, missionary to Burma; of David Livingstone, missionary to Africa; of Hans Egede, missionary to Iceland. If, after a careful persusal of the lives of these men, he still has any lingering doubts that the missionary is not a long-haired non-producer, but a person of heroic character and the moulder of people from...