t of 1819 has become an army of one
hundred and fifty thousand."

We must add to this numerical statement the facts that a corps of
Christian leaders has been trained and put into service; that native
Christians have found their way into influential positions as
magistrates, township officers, teachers of schools, inspectors of
police, and clerks in all departments of the government. Christian men
are prominent in business and professional circles, as traders,
contractors, brokers, physicians, lawyers; and the Christian character
is everywhere recognized and honored. A church, to a large degree
self-propagating, has been planted in Burma. A complete system of
missionary education has been organized. Modern philanthropic work for
the relief and prevention of physical ills has been transplanted to
Burma. The Sunday School, the Christian Endeavor Society, the temperance
movement, are common methods of Karen and of Burmese church activity. An
extensive Christian literature has been provided, in addition to the
printing of the Bible in all the main languages of the country. In fact,
a Home Mission Society, for the evangelization of the natives in the
remoter sections of the country, is in active operation. When we
remember that all this is the product of a hundred years, in a land
where only a little while ago Christianity was a persecuted religion, we
praise God for the result.

I must mention two features of my visit which claim special attention. I
refer to the work of the collegiate and other schools, and to the
hospitality of non-Christian gentlemen. We have inaugurated in Burma a
graded system of education, under government inspection, and leading to
full university training. Nothing in my travels interested me more than
to see hundreds of boys and girls of Burmese and Karen families, in
which girls have hitherto been unable to read or write, singing
Christian hymns from books with the music and words before them. The
great need of France, as the Emperor Napoleon once said, was good
mothers. It is equally true of Burma, and little children carry back
into idolatrous homes their love for Christ, and their juvenile protest
against heathenism. I addressed several audiences of a thousand each,
where the full half were girls and women, no longer secluded and
ignorant, but prepared to assume responsibility as the mothers and
trainers of a new race of Burmans. In these schools, exclusive of the
seminaries and Bible schools,