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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 18, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 10

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CHRISTIAN LABORS THWARTED.

Rev. J. L. Phillips of Orissa, India, describes the moral desolation spreading among the Burmese and Karens, from the growing use of alcohol and opium, introduced by the English government. Some entire villages are ruined; honest, laborious working-men have become idle vagabonds; and some churches are completely and hopelessly disorganized by this vice, as opium-eaters seldom reform. Fifty years ago the native Burmese were remarkably free from intoxicating habits; now they say, “The English taught us to use arrack and opium.” The English government realize from this traffic an immense revenue, sixteen times more than is expended for public education throughout the province.