Show Heroic Persistency y- y of Missionary To Burma D Described scribed in Volume Honore Willsie Morr Morrow w Adds Fictional Suspense Sus Su Suspense pense to True Tale of Soul Saver ii By Helen Orr Or Many books have been written on ond the life me of ot J Judson pioneer pioneer pio plo neer American missionary to Burma but It is to b be doubted that any ot of these these- have proved to be bc bemore bemore more Int Interesting than the Uie latest one one ne entitled Splendor of ot G God d by Honore Morrow Few men Have probably hia had more suffering and difficulty crammed Into their lIV lives 8 than this thui man In Ina a l land where death was wai the penalty e exacted a ted for either preaching or or listening to an any religion other than that of Buddha it ft was an almost impossible o task JU Judson son cho chose e to undertake He lie came carno to But Burma urnia ma a healthy red cheel cheeked d youth of 25 At Atthe the end of the book boole one twenty years 1 later ate 1 only the disease ra wracked ked fran frame e of a a. m man n remains Go 9 bi back bik k to America r Go back tonight There's Theres n nothing for tor r you u hero here but heartache he lie w was s warne J on his first d day lY there But Bui It waa wa difficult for him hin to lo conceive o of liow a n race rac of who on tIme the e surface appeared r to be tim the kindest and people in th the world word could at th S time b be bO the the most mo most t passionate and nd cruel Accompanied by Ann Mm hu beautiful beau beau- young girl wife he la Jn landed d at Rangoon In 1813 to begin his his work This place according to tOr his fl first st impression ulon w was s a sad iud d. d silly town town- Burma Bunma at nt thiS tim time w was wa truly a n a. a pagan pagan almost almost b barbaric b rl r co country It It had d developed an architecture and find literature that was as not nol to bt bl surpassed b by any other In thc World orId bu but at nt Jh tho same i time its most 1 d men thought that the world worM was 1 cent rl l and ancl about about- their theil own o small territory tl e. e earth carU was anything but flat had never QC ac- ac to to- them Th The Tho British who came camo to subdue them during 1 J JJ P l r 1 upstarts w worthy of ot o only h Y b such buch h no io notice tice Uce a an would keep them In their their- place Their ruler l the lord of ot life and mid air divided his time b between tween playing back a and d t n people who displeased him to horrible hor deaths His favor could o ld be gained only through gifts and md this in direct proportion t to to- the tI-ic way la lh time pr presentations appealed d to him n. n A sad sUI place place lTd indeed d The pr phe y made to him on Ms hs first day there proved to tobe be only too wife t two v true Judson lost Jost his hid children dud and most of ot his Ills property H He was wa tortured at th times almost cs- cs t pas past t his endurance Whenever he he lie- managed to to gain converts to hl his faith It seemed that even en these would die Two years he hie spent In In- on ono one 4 ot of f th their ir worst prisons AH AU of his h however ho interpreted inter Inter- r as as' as Gods way way of t prep preparing hl him him p for tor his great task t t hits his great faith survived the ordeal and this thia he- he nevel lost lost To a a. a modern reader it it- would seem seeni that Judson had bad wasted asted his his' UC flu flu- flur r tim tho pursuit of ot J hysterical fu futilities ru- ru u- u but It must be remembered that at at- atthe the beginning of ot the tho nineteenth nine nine- re nth ry people w were were inclined inclined i izat ier to o taj take their religion zat rather ou ly Judson Tudson did succeed hoWever however how how- ever er in It m making Christianity y a permanent per permanent per peI- manent institution in Burma With such a a. subject it w was g easy for tor Morrow r now to t tell ll her her- story as ns though It were fiction Emphasis In laid not so much on eu it the grue gru gruesome gruesome some horrors of or the pl place co and tIe the details of his work as U a u. mission missionary a ary r but buC on Cn the tho great greal J love lovO v t that tat ox ex I ted b between Judson Ann lila His Ils life entire Ut life I Is not Included In In the thc manner hanner of ot tr tr truo o fiction It stops stops' stops Mope at ate atthe atthe the e pont poInt where it seems that that- his drean s- s a lr about to costle come true l and he hewins wins his J second e ond wife William Morrow Co Nt New ork 1 12 |