![]() The event was known thereafter as the Haystack Prayer Meeting, and historians speak of it as the beginning of American-based foreign missionary work. ![]() During the meeting, a thunderstorm caught the five young men and they sought shelter in a haystack. ![]() In the summer of 1806, a group of students from Williams College planned to meet and pray about the subject of foreign missions in a grove of trees in Sloan’s Meadow near Williamstown, MA. We must understand, of course, that Judson’s missionary career was the product of several earlier events as the other Tribune articles will show. To commemorate that event, the Tribune is republishing a biographical article about Judson (May 1998, Tribune) and an article about Ann Hazeltine Judson, whom Adoniram married in 1812 (April 2008, Tribune). ![]() Editor’s Note: 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Adoniram Judson’s inaugural missionary journey, first to India and later Burma (modern Myanmar). ![]()
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