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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">American Minute with Bill Federer</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">February 19</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">The groans of a dying man kept him awake in the little inn outside New York. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">He was hardened to the cries because a college friend at Brown University had persuaded him to be an atheist. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">The next morning he learned the man who died in the night was none other than his college friend. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">This rude awakening led him to become one of America's first foreign missionaries. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">His name was Adoniram Judson, born in Massachusetts, August 9, 1788. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">At age 23, and his wife 22, they sailed from New England on FEBRUARY 19, 1812, for Calcutta, India, but were forced by the British East India Tea Company to Rangoon, Burma. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">They preached in Burmese, translated Scriptures and started schools. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Enduring hardships, Adoniram was imprisoned during the Burmese War. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">He later gained respect from the Burmese and British officials, translating his English-Burmese Dictionary and the Bible. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">By his death, there were 63 churches, 123 ministers and over 7,000 baptized Christians in Burma. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">Adoniram wrote: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">"How do Christians discharge this trust committed to them? </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">They let three fourths of the world sleep the sleep of death, ignorant of the simple truth that a Savior died for them."</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></B><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#17365D" SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">Eric G. Brown</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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