How a Young Man in Burma Found the Saviour by Maung Vgwr Ziu

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 17, 1916

How a Young Man in Burma Found the Saviour

By Maung Vgwr Ziu

PERHAPS my brothers and sisters in America, “the main center of the world’s wonders,” would like to know how I came into the present truth. When I was about sixteen, I considered that I must go to school to be trained, but when I looked at my parents, they were poor and unable to help me. In the meanwhile I thought of my uncle in Rangoon. This was my only way to get an education. So I prepared to go to Rangoon. On the next day I wished my sisters in Moulmein with lonesome heart farewell, and took the train to Rangoon.

While I was on the train, I met one of your teacher’s uncle, and his son. They were going through Rangoon to the Meiktila Industrial School. We got into conversation, and they persuaded me to go with them to this school. Here I learned of the true God, and saw that my worship had been directed to a false god.

When I read into the depth of the words of Jesus, I saw they were reality and life and light. He is the one only who can hear us, our prayers and our needs. He is the true light, nothing but the life and light through the Father. Through his grace I am saved from eternal destruction.

I was very glad to be baptized on March 2, 1912. Now I felt I must do something for him in spreading the gospel and giving the third angel’s message to my people in Burma. I am now twenty-one years old, and it is the best time for me to start to do his work by spreading the glad tidings to other souls in Burma. I hope to begin next month.

Just recently five of the Buddhist boys in school, to whom I have been teaching the knowledge of the Bible on every Sabbath afternoon, were baptized by Brother Thurber in Meiktila Lake. Nine of them were together, but only five of them went forward in the Christian faith. I am very grateful to his guidance. So, brothers and sisters, please pray for these boys and others for whom we are working. I pray that we may gain some other souls whose lives are in the book of Satan, or in the death register roll.

With kind wishes to you all, from your really Christian brother,

Yours in service, MAUNG VGWR ZIU.