Emily Judson (Adoniram's third wife, his first two having died) is about to go ashore Burma. She is going through trauma. Then her husband prays for her, like her Saviour would. In fact, I thought at first that she was sensing the Saviour was praying for her until I looked closer.
"Presently I heard words, but though spoken close to my ear, they were not addressed to me. How that low, mellow voice crept down into my heart, calming its foolish agitation, imparting the strength of faith, illuminating its tremulous, shadowing depths with hope, and elevating it to a still, serene reliance on Him who can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, imply because His nature though sinless, has vibrated to every earthly emotion.
Then how strange to be so thoroughly comprehended! Any body else now would have thought I was in a pet from the disappointment of not going ashore, or something else of the kind.
He knew, I can not tell how, but he told it all in that prayer as I never could have done- he knew just how a faint heart feels, suddenly pressed upon with a view of moral sublimity to which it is for the moment inadequate; he knows what it is to have the doors of time, all shut and barred, and the long vista of eternity stretching in solemn perspective before the shrinking soul, and he knows just what it needed at such a crisis.
I remember a soothing, balm-distilling influence, a feeling of perfect security and serenity, and then I went to sleep."
Emily Judson
