March 5. 1825. Two hundred years ago this week, in early March 1825, Adoniram Judson was in prison and facing execution. The six white people in the jail were put through the final preparations for death by the Burmans who needed to appease the gods and win a battle over the invading British army. Judson’s captors added two more fetters to the three he already had on his legs to prevent him from escaping. His belongings were divided up between the guards. Knives were sharpened for the traditional 3AM execution schedule. “Three o’clock came and went. The prisoners remained alive. Dawn came…. They were still alive.” (Anderson, p. 334.) No one knows why the executions were not carried out that first week of March in 1825 but Judson would live to minister for another 25 years and Judson University would be created to honor his name.