Clip 10 from Adoniram Judson :: A Cost of Missions

The Judsons landed in Burma in 1813. Their little Roger was born soon after. He grew, fat and happy. He was the joy of their hearts and would lie for hours beside his daddy's study table as long as he could see Adoniram's face. After study or business was finisehd for the day, "it was our exercise and amusement to carry him round the house or garden, and though we were alone, we felt not our solitude when he was with us."

But in the tropical climate, Roger contracted some kind of fever and a cough. After battling for several days, it looked like it had finally abated. But a day and half later returned with more force. Exhausted by the second night with no sleep, Nancy fell asleep while Adoniram--also sick--took the baby and fed him some milk. The baby calmed and Adoniram laid him in the cradle for sleep--"he slept with ease for half an hour, when his breath stopped without a struggle, and he was gone!"

"Our hearts were bound up in this child; we felt he was our earthly all, our only source of innocent recreation in this heathen land. But God saw it was necessary to remind of our error, and to strip us our only little all. O may it not be vain that he has done it. May we so improve it, that he will stay his hand and say, "It is enough.'"