Burma by H. H. VOTAW

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 20, 1910

Burma

By H. H. VOTAW

SINCE last I wrote, we have been having a very heavy rainfall. The monsoon season began in Rangoon on May 12, and by the end of the month there had been twenty-nine inches of rain,—about one fourth the annual rainfall in normal years. The effect of such damp weather has been to cause much sickness. We have never before known of so much fever as there has been this year. Nearly all the members of our church are or have been ill. However, by the blessing of the Lord there have been no deaths, and nearly all are on the road to recovery.

After an illness of seven weeks, Mrs. Votaw is able to be at work again. During her sickness the brethren and sisters here showed their love for the message as well as for us personally by a multitude of kindnesses.

The work is onward. A few days ago Prof. R. B. Thurber wrote me that more boys are applying continually for admittance to the school in Meiktila. He believes he will have to rent another room, and enlarge the school. When I visited Meiktila, a few weeks ago, I found that

the parents who had children in the school were well pleased.

Preaching services are being held for the Buddhist people in our schoolroom, and about a hundred have been in attendance. This is rather remarkable; for the Buddhists are, as a rule, difficult to reach. The brethren there are much encouraged by the prospect. Both Brother R. Beckner and Professor Thurber are making good headway in the study of the vernacular, and doing public work through an interpreter will be a further help to them. We join them in praying that the Lord will speedily gather out the honest-hearted.

In Rangoon we are making a special effort with the literature that we have in both the Burmese and the English. We are also circulating some tracts that we secured from the brethren in India, as there are thousands of the natives of India in Rangoon.

We ask the readers of the REVIEW to pray that we may have divine wisdom for the task before us.

H. H. VOTAW.