all these peoples preserve
their distinctive characteristics of dress and language, so that
racial differences are more apparent.

The Roman Catholics and the representatives of the Church of England
have made great efforts to capture Burma. They have established noble
plants in the way of church edifices, hospitals, and schools. The
leper asylum of the Romanists is an impressive and worthy provision
for the housing and treatment of hundreds thus afflicted. The
cathedral and school of the Anglican Church show a most praiseworthy
estimate of the needs of this great province of the British Empire,
and breakfasting with Bishop Fyffe, the metropolitan of Rangoon, gave
us a pleasing impression of his kindly Christian spirit. The
Methodist Episcopal Church has also its representative here, and all
of these evangelizing agencies are supplemented by the work of the
Y. M. C. A., the Y. W. C. A., and the Salvation Army. Yet it is not
too much to say that the Baptists have first place in Burma, both in
church-membership and in education. We were the first Christian
denomination upon the ground; we have leavened the country with our
influence; our Mission Press has furnished the Bible in several
different languages to the people of Burma; our schools are the most
advanced in grade and the most numerously attended; our churches are
most nearly self-governing and self-supporting. We have great reason
to thank God and take courage.

All this is the growth of a single century. It was in the year 1813 that
the Judsons arrived in Burma, and it was six years after that the first
Burman convert was baptized. In 1828 the first Karen convert followed
Christ. These two were the first-fruits from the two leading races of
Burma. Since their baptism there has sprung up a flourishing Christian
community which embraces representatives both of the indigenous races of
Burma and of the immigrant peoples from India proper, from China, and
from other lands. The Baptist churches in Burma to-day, as their
official representatives inform us, enroll members gathered from
eighteen different nationalities, besides members of the Anglo-Indian or
Eurasian type. "The entire Christian community in Burma, according to
the Government Census of 1911, numbers 210,081; of which number, 122,265
are Baptists, while 60,088 are Roman Catholics, 20,784 are Anglicans,
1,675 are Methodists, and the remainder are distributed among smaller
sects. That one Protestant conver