Adoniram Judson Part — 3
Prayer Answered
“Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days…In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good”
(Ecclesiastes 11:1,6).
When Judson lay dying he heard from the lips of his wife, as she read the newspaper, that some Jews in Turkey had been converted through the published account of his sufferings for the gospel in Burma. “This awes me! This alarms me!” he said.
“Why?” asked his wife. “This is good news!”
He replied, “When I was a young man I prayed for the Jews and tried to go to Jerusalem as a missionary. But God sent me here to preach in Burma and to suffer in Burmese prisons. Now, by this means, God has brought Jews to repentance in Turkey. What awes me is this, that I never prayed earnestly for anything but it came, sooner or later, perhaps in the last way I could have imagined; but it came.”
