Your ShelfYour Projects

Burma

10%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 25, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 17.

Read the full edition

Burma

By R. B. THURBER

R. B. THURBER
While China is struggling in the throes of a revolution, and there is much unrest and excitement in India, Burma remains comparatively quiet. The great Eastern question with us now is how to get the message to more of these people more quickly.
In Meiktila our method is especially school work, and it is not without its results. We are rejoicing in the first-fruits of our labor. Three of the school-boys were recently baptized in the lake. The prospect is that others will be ready soon.
During our six weeks' vacation, which begins in April, some of the boys will go out to sell copies of the first edition of our Burmese quarterly magazine. Others will stay to help erect buildings.
We are still receiving liberal responses from the people in the way of donations for the school, having received nearly two hundred dollars recently from the American drillers in the Burma oil-fields. We are about to install a water-plant to irrigate the land, and with the opening of the rainy season will have many seeds in the ground. Sufficient money to build a house is in hand from the $300,000 Fund, and we expect soon to begin operations on that building.
Our furniture factory has more than it can do. We have turned away a number of orders. We are now working on a one-hundred-dollar order from the government for some office furniture. A good permanent building is needed for the industries, and we have some money in the treasury toward paying for its erection.
The brush is fast being cleared from the farm; and a team of bullocks and a cart have been added to the school equipment.
We thank God for continued good health; but we shall endeavor to get away to the hills for a time during the hot season just beginning.
Meiktila.