The little faith of the churches shrank from the responsibility of sustaining missionaries in the field, and Judson was sent to England to solicit the cooeperation of the London Missionary Society.

This effort happily failing, the burden came back upon the American churches and was not refused.

At last, in February, 1812, the first American missionaries to a foreign country, Messrs.

Judson, Rice, Newell, Nott, and Hall, with their wives, sailed, in two parties, for Calcutta.
And now befell an incident perplexing, embarrassing, and disheartening to the supporters of the mission, but attended with results for the promotion of the gospel to which their best wisdom never could have attained.

Adoniram Judson, a graduate of Brown University, having spent the long months at sea in the diligent and devout study of the Scriptures, arrived at Calcutta fully persuaded of the truth of Baptist principles.