there are enrolled more than 30,000
pupils, who pay annual tuition fees of more than $80,000. The Morton
Lane School at Maulmain, the Eurasian School at the same place, the
Kemendine School in Rangoon, the Girls' School at Mandalay, have each of
them about three hundred scholars, and they are sending out influences
which will in a few years revolutionize the civilization and the
religion of Burma. Other schools of not so high a grade are doing
equally faithful work. Our Baptist College at Rangoon is caring for the
higher grades of education, and is preparing hundreds of young men for
teaching and for government service. It was inspiring to address a
thousand of its scholars, under the direction of Principal David
Gilmore, D. D., formerly of Rochester. The endowment of such an
institution in this heathen land would be an achievement worthy of some
Christian millionaire in America. And the same thing may be said for our
Burman Theological Seminary at Insein under Dr. John McGuire, and our
Karen Theological Seminary under Dr. W. F. Thomas.

That walls of partition are breaking down under the influence of
Christianity, was made plain to us by invitations to take breakfast with
a noted Parsee barrister, and to take afternoon-tea with a wealthy
Mohammedan gentleman, both of them citizens of Rangoon. The courtesy and
intelligence of these hosts of ours will always be a delightful memory,
while their novel and beautiful homes revealed to us what art and nature
can do when united in other than Christian surroundings. Our Parsee
barrister had obtained his education largely in England, and the
Mohammedan gentleman had enjoyed intercourse with the best of our
American missionaries. The Moslem friend still maintained a sort of
seclusion for his wife, and only the ladies of our party visited her in
her private apartments. But when we rose to depart, he surprised us all
by asking that we offer prayer, and he endorsed the prayer that was
offered by uttering a hearty "Amen." As we stood ready to go, it was
easy to pray for a blessing upon the house and the family which we were
leaving behind us. Respect for Christianity, and a conviction that
Christian education is the great need of the future, are already
permeating the higher classes of Burman society.

The climax of our stay in Burma was reached when Lord Chelmsford, the
viceroy of India, visited Rangoon, and the lieutenant governor invited
us to an afternoon-tea in his honor. The