On the 19th of February she writes to her friend in Waterville:  “Your kind and affectionate letter found me in bed, so weak that I was obliged to read it at intervals; but it afforded heartfelt consolation.  Thanks to our Heavenly Father whose guardian care and love I have so largely experienced.  I am now much better, and once more enjoy the prospect of gaining that degree of health which will allow my return to Burmah, there to spend my remaining days, few or many, in endeavouring to guide immortal souls to that dear Redeemer, whose presence can make joyful a sick chamber, a dying bed.

“For the last month I have been very ill.  The disease seemed to be removed from the liver to the lungs.  I have raised blood twice, which the physicians thought proceeded from the lungs, though I am inclined to think it was from the throat.  I was however bled so frequently and so largely that my strength was quite reduced.  At present I am free from every unfavorable symptom, but am still weak.

“I am rejoiced to hear that Mr. Boardman has offered himself to supply dear Colman’s place.  If actuated by motives of love to God, and concern for precious souls, tell him he will never regret the sacrifice, but will find those spiritual consolations which will more than compensate him for every privation.  I shall rejoice to afford him every assistance in the acquisition of the language which my health will allow, though I fear he will not be ready to sail so early as I hope to embark.

“This is the third day I have been writing this letter, on account of my weakness.  But I am gaining a little every day.  Yesterday I had a little female prayer-meeting in my chamber—­trust the blessed Saviour was near us.  Oh it is good to get near to God, and feel whether in life or death, we are His.

“Let us, my dear sister, so live, that our union to Christ may not only be satisfactory to ourselves but to all around us.  On earth we serve God—­in heaven enjoy him—­is a motto I have long wished to adopt.  When in heaven we can do nothing towards saving immortal souls.”

In a subsequent letter she mentions receiving a journal kept by her husband, with the joyful intelligence of the accession of five more converts to the little church there, three of whom were females, and members of her Wednesday meeting.  “They have,” she says “set up of their own accord a female prayer-meeting.  Is not this encouraging?” Dr. Price had been ordered to Ava on account of his medical skill, and Mr. Judson was about to accompany him to make a further effort for toleration.

In March, Mrs. Judson went to Washington to superintend the printing of her History of the Mission, and here she was detained contrary to her wishes until the last of April.  However, this detention gave her an opportunity of meeting the Baptist General Convention which held its session there at that time.  A committee was appointed to confer with her respecting the Burman Mission, and at her suggestion several important measures were adopted.