Together, Rice and Judson played a key role in uniting American Baptists and mobilizing them for foreign missions. Rice was commissioned by the Triennial Convention to raise funds for the Judsons and, once some were appointed, other American Baptist foreign missionaries.9 He also became involved in a number of other ministry initiatives under taken by the Triennial Convention during its first dozen years of existence.10 For his part, Adoniram’s mission work became a rallying point for Baptists in