While a few of her friends stedfastly encouraged her, most opposed her undertaking as wild and visionary. She realized fully the many sacrifices that she would be called to make. Indeed Mr. Judson himself had taken pains that all concerned should know the extent of the sacrifice they were making. To her father he wrote in the following strain:—‘I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world? whether you can consent to her departure