Mission for Life: The Story of the Family of Adoniram Judson, the Dramatic Events of the First American Foreign Mission, and the Course of Evangelica

Mission For Life tells the remarkable story of two generations of an important family of evangelicals, the Judson family. The Judson's story is both colorful and extremely human, and the cast of characters is absorbing. This chronicle of a Baptist evangelical family represents a new and important direction in the social history of popular American religion. The author's skillful treatment of the Judson family illuminates the course of American cultural development and casts new light on the persistence of the evangelical tradition.