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Mr. Judson, a graduate of Brown University, "an ardent and aspiring
scholar," was one of four or five young men in the then newly founded
Theological Seminary at Andover, whose minds had become deeply impressed
with the wants of the heathen, and a desire to go and labor among them.
By their earnestness and perseverance, they so far awakened an interest
in their project, that a Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was
appointed, and the young men were set apart as missionaries. During the
two years in which Mr. Judson and his associates were employed in
efforts to accomplish this result, he had formed an acquaintance with
Miss Hasseltine, and made her an offer of his hand. That he had no wish
to blind her to the extent of the sacrifices she would make in accepting
him, his manly and eloquent letter to her father, asking his daughter in
marriage, abundantly proves. He says:

"I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter
early next spring, to see her no more in this world; whether you can
consent to her departure for a heathen land, and her subjection to the
hardships and sufferings of a missionary life; whether you can consent
to her exposure to the dangers of the ocean; to the fatal influence of
the southern climate of India; to every kind of want and distress; to
degradation, insult, persecution, and perhaps a violent death? Can you
consent to all this for the sake of Him who left his heavenly home, and
died for her and for you; for the sake of perishing immortal souls; for
the sake of Zion and the glory of God? Can you consent to all this in
hope of soon meeting your daughter in the world of glory, with a crown
of righteousness, brightened by the acclamations of praise which shall
redound to her Saviour from heathens saved, through her means, from