Judson

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

ADONIRAM, an American about 6 feet high. Balaram is painted cation to t missionary; born in Malden, Mass., Aug. white, Juggernaut black, and Sabhadra to go 9, 1788; was graduated at Brown Uniyellow. Juggernaut's car is 432 feet t of the high. It has 16 wheels, each 62 feet in versity in 1807 and studied theology at the Andover Theological Seminary. In diameter. The brother and sister have also cars. April, 1810, he made application a to the There are 13 festivals each The chief is the Rath Jattra, or London Missionary Society to go to year. "India, Tartary, or any part of the East- Car Festival, at which the three idols are ern continent." In February, 1812, he brought forth, being dragged out in their by the multitudes of devotees. by sailed with his wife for Asia. During cars the voyage he was converted from the Formerly a few fanatics threw themselves beneath the wheels; this is not Congregational faith to that of the rad now permitted. The present temple of Baptist Church. In 1814, when the g Baptists of the United States organized Juggernaut was completed in 1198, at an rev a missionary union he was taken under expense of nearly $2,500,000. The ng the He settled in Burma; mastered British obtained possession of it in 1803. its care. Bu the language; and labored there for They found that the pilgrims had paid nearly 40 years. During the last 25 a tax to the Mahrattas. In 1806 the years of his work there were about Anglo-Indian British government took 2, 1850 20,000 conversions among the Karens. the pilgrim's tax and directed the wor- He was the author of a Burman gramship of the temple. In June, 1851, the mar; a Pali dictionary, a Burman dicgovernment ceased to have any connectionary; and a complete Burman Bible. tion with the temple. He died at sea, April 12, 1850.