A Sharp Sword Sheathed in Burma

For six long years in Rangoon, Adoniram Judson preached, translated, and pleaded — and won almost no one. By 1818, he had exactly zero Burmese converts. His wife Ann suffered from tropical fevers. Friends back in Massachusetts questioned whether the mission was a waste. Judson himself wrote that he felt like a man "calling out in an empty cathedral." Then came the Anglo-Burmese War.…