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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 14, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 2.

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From Burma

FROM a private letter from Pastor H. H. Votaw, superintendent of the Burmese Mission, we extract the following:
“Our work is growing nicely. We have just issued the third number of our Burmese quarterly magazine. Each time 5,000 copies have been printed, and all have been disposed of. We have about 2,600 subscribers now, and hope to have 5,000 by the time the paper is a year old. We have found that the journal awakens an interest wherever it goes, and we feel that it will advance our work more rapidly than any other factor.
“The school in Meiktila is growing rapidly. Last year we only had about thirty-five students, and when the present school term opened in May, thirty-five boys were present. Brother Thurber naturally felt glad for this, and in a tone of confidence he wrote to me saying that he expected the number would rise to fifty within the next few months. But it has not stopped at fifty, nor even at seventy-five, but has risen until we now have more than a hundred, and still they come. It would do your heart good to visit the school, to see these bright boys taught the gospel, and to hear them sing the songs of Zion and repeat the precious words of the Scriptures. It always moves me especially, for I feel that from this school we will soon get workers to help finish the work here. It is something that leaves me with a new love for God and a new reverence for the power of the gospel, as I see souls emerging from the darkness of heathenism into the light of gospel truth.
“In Rangoon there is a class of candidates preparing for baptism as a result of the work done in English. Six will be baptized soon, and two or three more a little later. Three races and will be represented in the first number, but we have learned long ago that the message we have gives no heed to racial distinctions.
“Our rains will soon be over, and we are planning for a vigorous campaign during the dry, cooler months.”
May God bless the work in far Burma.