JULY, 1924.

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SEE ' OF RA~GOON

List of Cle:tgy.. arnd .Efllg'!Eh Missionaries.

(NDU.-Tb.e .&de _given is l~hat of arrivdl in the Mission oJ E ngli.sh .wlis.iiouarUs, of ©rdinatioa of Native Clergy.)

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Bishop. lr.b.e JRigh t 'Rev..~· rs. F YFFI£., D.!El- (on :fuYlougli) 190!

.!BiSh op's 'Oour:.t, JRang.oon . (Consecra.tell 'Oil ..b.Illlacy' Jl.7.f·h, J.9l0 .)

-Bishop~s :Chaplain.

Diocesan Secretary . J. W. SwiNN-.ERTON ;w..Es~'ON, EsQ.-Bishop 's Court • . 1921

S. P. G. Bur me:se Mission. Rev. D . C. ATWOOL, B.A., Worcester College, Oxford-Moulrllein . , 1909 Rev . A. H. BLENCOWE, B."A. , Christ's College, Cambridge-(on {urlo1lgh) 1913 Rev. E. H. Cox, 1\f.A., S. Edmund Ha.ll, OxforJ, and Cuddesdon---

8. •Barna. bas, and Syriam , . - . . 1907 'Rev . F . R. ED?trONDS, M .. A., ·s. Edmund H!lll, -OxfQr0.-Bi$hop's Court 1906 Rev. ·.C . E. GARRAD, M .A., Clare Colle-~e , Capibridge-Maymyo . . 1906 Rev. W. H. JACKSON .,...B.A.-Blind ScD:ool, Kem m endine " . 1917

.Rev. W . C. B . I'unsEn, M.A., S. John's College, Cambriage-Kemmendine 1904 Rev. C. R. PURSER, Cambr:iilge Cler.gy Training School-S. John's

College, Rangoon , , , , 1910 Rev. D. Po SAH-Kyai_kla.t 1901 Rev. S. Po TllET-Kommendine 1901 Rev H. M . STOCKI~GS, S. Augustine ' s College, Ua.nter bur.y-- 'Shwcbo 1886 Rev, P. SAN NYUN., ,:S.yr iam, Rangoon 1918 Re\', ·S. MA UNG Tu.N (Chin)-Kemm8ndine . , Hl21

.. Rev, N. Qn_]3wrn (Tala ing Karen)-Kernmend.ino 1921 Mr. R. R. CLAYTON, S. :Matthew, Moulmeili 1914 I\Ir. n.nd .Mrs. PouLTON-Blind -B.chool , 'lioulmc.in . . 1923 Mr. S. J. LAw, Blind School , K·emmendine 1!f23

S. P. (i. Winchester Mission at Christ Church, Mandalay. Rev. W. R. GARRAD, M.A., Cla-re College, Cambridge . Rev. N . S . AeanvATkAM (Tamil Priest )-Maymyo Rev . G. K.;A BIN (Bunnese Pt·itst)-Mandalay ltov . P . KIN MAUNG (Burmese p,·iest)-Mandala.y Rev . S. J. JosHUA (Tamil P1-iest) .Man~alay

Rev. S . CHIT TwA~ (Bunnese Deacon-)-Mandala,y 1'1-(l: .. J. R. 'NEAL, -Roya.l Sc·hoo1-

1910 1911 1911 1921

• . 1914 1Q1S 191.5

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Rev. C. K. HUGHES, :M.A., Queen's College, Oxford-S. Luke . . 1921 Rev. W. R. MENZIES, B.A.., Gonville &>nd Oa.iue College, Cr.mbridge-

(on furkruflhj · • • • • . • . • • . • . 1906 Rev. M.&.w LAY (Priut)-Wathoko .. 1906 Rev. M.&.w RE (Pn,st)-Maw Ku Der .. 1916 Rev. MJ.w 8BJ. Po (Deacon)-Kaw So Ko .. 1916 Rev. PJ.B U (PrUst)-Titterpoo .. 1901 Rev. PER LEB U (Pritst)-Toungoo , . 1921 Rev. Po CHO (Deacon)-Thrawpu . . , , 192i Rev. 8BWJ: L:mB (Deacon)-Luwekko , , 1923 Rev. TA.BBEB BEB (Prie:Jt)-Simido • , 1899 Rev. 8. T.lW 'MY.l (Deacon)-Kappali, . Moulmein .. 19iS Rev. TH.l_ PWIIE (Priut)-Kidderpur oo 1907 Rev. G. A. WJ:BT, M.A., Ltncoln College, Oxford-S. Peter oo 1~1

Mr. D. SsiBLDB-8. Luke's School, Toungoo

S. P. 0. Tamil and Telugu •Minion.

Rev. V. N. KEIKP, B.A., Sidney &uesex College, Oa.mbridge Rev. D. P. Du&UBJ.J-8. Gabriel, Rangoon Rev. A. OoiLPILLA.I (DeMOf'l.)-8. Gabriel • .

S. P. o. Mfasloo, Nlc::obar lslaod•·

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1917 • • 1920

JoHN RIOBJ.:RDBON (Native Oatechi:Jt) Dr. & Mrs. RoYA.PPJ.

[Mr. E. HUT, Government Commieaioner.]

Additional Clergy SO<:Iety (Burma).

Rev. A. A. BB.lUMD, A.K.C.-Akya.b .. 19!;1:1 Rev. J . . G. C.lLDICOTI', 8. Auguetine'a College, Ca.nter:bury-Chindwin

River •• , 19U Rev. G. B. Ouc.u:, M.A. , Oxford and Liohfield Theological Oollege-

Baaeein . . .. .. • • .. .. 19071 1915 ReT. T. FISHER, a. Augustine's College, Oanterbury-lnlein .. •• 1898 Rev. B. FoBD--Moulmeio , . · 19!;1:1 Rev. J . Smith-S. Philip, Rangoon .. 19!;1:1

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RANOOON OIOCESAN ASSOCIATION • .Jt'ounded in. 189'- to assist th6 work of tlu Church in Rangoon,

Affiliated to S.P.G. 1905.

President. THE RIGHT R:a:v. THE LORD BISHOP OF RANGOON.

Patrons. The ABCHBISHOP OF 04N'l'ERBURY.

The ARCHBISHOP OF YORit. The BIBH,OP OF BATH AND WELLS. The BISHOP OF BIRMINGB.i.M.

The BISHOP OF MANCHEBTJ:R. The BISHOP o:r NoRWICH. The BISHOP OF OXFORD. The BISHOP OF BR.lDFORD.

The BISHOP OF BRISTOL. The BISHOP OF CHELMSFORD. The BISHOP OF CHESTER. The BISHOP OF CHJCHJi':STER. The BISHOP OF COVENTRY. The BISHOP OF DURHAM, The BISHOP OF ELY, The BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER. The BISHOP OF HEREFORD, The BISHOP OF LINCOLN. rhe BISHOP OF LIVERPOOL. t'he BISHOP OF LONDON.

The BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH, The BISHOP OF RIPOK, The BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, The BISHOP OF SALISBURY. The BISHOP OF 8. ALBA.l'fB. The BISHOP OF 8. EDMUNDBBURT

& IPSWICH. The BisHOP OF SouTHW.t.RK. The Bn3HOP OF TRURO. The l:hsnop OF W .lKEFIJo:LD. The BISHOP OF WINCBEB'l'EB.

Vice-Presidents. The Right Rev. Bishop RYLF., DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. The Right Rev. Bishop WELLDON, DEAN OF DuRHAM. F. 8. CoPLESTON, Esq. (late Chief Justice of Burma.).

The Bishop's Commissaries In England. •The Right Rev. Bishop KNIGHT, S. Augustine's College, Canterbury.

•tThe Rev. G. Ct:CIL WHITE, Pentwyn, Freshwater, I. of Wight.

Committee. Chairman-The Righ~ Rev. Bishop KNIGHT.

Mil!ll D. ATWOOL. Ven. C. P . CoRY. Miss LEVIEN. Rn. E . C. BEDFORD. Rev. E. H. DAY. Rev. C. W. LYNE.

tRel'. A. L. BROWN. Rev. A. H . FINN. B. T . PETLEY, Esq. Miaa L.lTBOM·BROWNB. Miss GIPPS. Rev. W. P:&:'rl'EB. Rev. F. C. P. CLARKE. Rev. W. E. HARDCASTLE. Rev. H. A. R.lWLINSON. Ma.jor CHAMBERS Mrs. HARDY. Rev. A. 8HILLITO. MBa. CHARD. Miss HoDGKINSON. Rev. G. H. C. SHORTING. Rev. G. H . CoLBl!:CK. Miss LANGTON. tMiss C. WILLES. Dr. CoRFE. Rev. E . G. LEVIEN

Treasurer and Oeneral Secretary, Editor of Quarterly Paper. tRev. P. H . CooKE, Ickleton Vico.rage, Great Chesterford, E888:r.

to whom a.ll communications should be addressed. •Members of Committee. tMembers .of Wincheatar Sub-Committee.

Ouild of Intercession and Work. Miss LA.TBOM BROWNE, 1, Ta.lbot Road, W. 2.

Forward Movement. M.iaa LEVIEN, 11 Pa.rkhill Road, Hampstead, N .W. S.

Secretary for O.O.M. THB GENERAL SECRETARY.

Children's Fund. Miss L.lNGToN, 78. Grosvenor Road, ~ondon, N. 6.

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RANGOON

AssociATION.

QUARTERLY PAPER.

VoL. x. 8. JULY, 1924. No. 111.

General Secretary :-REv. P. H. CoOKE,

ICKLETON VICARAGE,

GREAT CHESTERFORD, ESSEX. Telegram8 : HINXTON.

T,HE ANNUAL MEETING.

This Meeting was held on Thursday, June 12th, at S.P.G. House, by kind invitation of the Society. The Board Room was arranged for its maximum number and was well filled. The Right Rev. Bishop Knight presided.

Besides the speakers there were present the Rev. E. W. and Mrs. Blyth, Rev. and Mrs. G. A. R. Thursfield, Miss Hearn, ~fiss Linstead, the Ven. J . P. Cory, the Ven. H. C. Blandford, Mrs. and Miss Blandford, the Revs. A. H. Finn, W. E. Hardcastle, E. C. Bedford, C. W. Lyne, H. A. Rawlinson, Canon and Mrs. Petit, Rev. and Mrs. J. T. N. Lee, Miss D. Atwool, Mrs. Chard, Mrs. Corfe, Miss Gipps, Miss Langton, Miss Levien, the Misses Lathom Browne, Mrs. Rickard, Miss Dunkley, Misses Edmonds, Mrs. Jameson, Mr. and· Mrs. J. R. Lee, Mrs. Hardcastle, Canon and Mrs. Blencowe, Mrs. Cowper-J ohnson, Mr. and Mrs. French, Mrs. Grant Nicoll, Rev. H. J. Buxton, Lady Jane Gathome-Hardy, Mrs. G. G. Compton, Miss Pedder, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs. Evans Price.

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The BISHOP OF RANGOON said that the first thing that he found he always had to do when he wa.s speaking in England was to ·say u Thank you." He always found people who were doing something to help in the work. He need not say how much he owed to the Rangoon Diocesan Association, their Chairman, and Mr. Cooke, the Committe• and the Com­mittee of the Winchester Mission, and various other Societies in the R.D.A.

At that meeting he was glad that he had not got to exhort anyone. Everyone in the room was as keen. as himself about spreading the Kingdom of God in Burma. He knew that he might simply share with them the various difficulties that he had to face. First with regard to Missionary Work. The rate of living was now a good deal higher than it had been, and the cost of passages was practically double. Their income, un­fortunately remained much as it was, and that meant that they could not do so much in the diocese as they used to do, a.nd some kind of re-organisation had become necessary. He wanted to arrange for one group of four men for Kemmendine and S. John's, and another of four for Toungoo; two, at all events, at Mandalay, and single men in other parts-Shwebo, Moulmein (except in so far· as it could raise its own fund for a second English priest) S. Barnabas', and the Indian Mission of S. Gabriel's, Rangoon. If he did that it meant that for the moment they would have to put in a married man at Mandalay, and give up the brotherhood idea temporarily. Mr. Charles Garrad was just getting to the end of his time at revising the Burmese Bible, !fnd he felt that it was best that he should go back to his old work at Mandalay with his brother. Then he thought that he could just manage the other groups that he had spoken of. Meanwhile they had got, he thought, the men that were necessary for the work. (Applause). He had accepted an offer from the Rev. W. B. Hicks, a tip-top man, and they would get him anyhow. Three others would come, he thought, if they could find the means. The men were there. On the Women's side, they had got in Burma every lady that their means allowed them to take in the missionary work. It had been one of his troubles that they had had to withdraw the worker in charge of the little school at Shwebo, because that was no longer a place where a lady ought to be alone, and it was impossible, in view of other claims, to place two there.

In regard to work among English people, there, too, was need for workers. Their port chaplaincy had fared very badly through the illness and death of the good layman who had been officiating as Chaplain. Now he .could announce that their old friend, Mr. Doherty, who had been in England, and had been ordained, was coming back as chaplain (Cheers). They had still got to

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find soJJ!\!one to take up permanently the important work at S. Philip's, Rangoon-a big town work with .a congregation that had played up so splendidly. Unfortunately they could not make him very comfortable. The church had taken all their money, and t.here was no parsonage. The post had formerly been held by Mr. Courtenay, who had been quite indifferent to such matters. Nobody could ever be sure where Mr. Courtenay might be living. He was afraid that as things were the new priest ought to be unmarried. Then, if the right kind of man could be found, he would like to have one to be his chaplain. He feared he would be losing his good friend Mr. Swinnerton­Weston in the early spring, who did all sorts of things in the way of diocesan ac.counts, which the new chaplain would have to learn.

The next matter about which he had to speak was the Mission in Car Nicobar. He had been very anxious about that for some time, but the situation had been saved by their good friend Mr. Hart who bad been all sorts of Government officials rolled into one. He was now hoping very much that their old friend Mr. Blyth was going out there. It was a very important job, and they had not had an English missionary or chaplain in charge for some time. Mr. Blyth would have combined charge of Port Blair and Car Nicobar, and this would be for five years or so on end.

He supposed that people were anxious to know what had been the effect of recent political changes in Burma. Of course the Burmese were less friendly than in the old days. At one time the one thing that English people could depend on was the friendliness of the Burmese people. For the moment that was rather lacking. However, he hoped that the time was coming when it would be regained. They had got through the school boycott, and most of their schools were as full as they had been before. He thought that on the whole he must say that progress was rather slower because of the unfriendly feeling. However, the census showed that the growth of the Christian community was quite normal. The increase was due to the Karens, who were always ready to welcome the missionaries, wherever they went. He was also quite sure that by means of their schools and other institutions there was a progress in thought towards Christianity. People were saying, quite correctly, that India was Christian in thought already. He thought that that was going to be true in Burma also.

The Bishop of Rangoon said in conclusion that he had a message for the audience from his wife, who was extremely sorry not to be at the meeting. She was bitterly disappointed, but she was in bed with influenza. She was not very bad, but they knew what influenza was.

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Then, he did not think they could pass over th&t annual meeting without alluding to Archdeacon Price, who had passed to his rest during the past year. He wanted to say how much the diocese owed to him. Again he wanted to remind them of that wonderful little children's Hospital at Mandalay, run by Miss Patch, which had been opened since he was last at home. It had now its lady doctor, Dr. Mary Blakeston. Then he wanted to say a word of thanks to S. Andrew's, Ashley Gardens, through whose efforts it was that Miss England was able to do work for the Mission. Miss England was an excellent linguist. She had passed first in the Burmese examination held by the Burma Christian Council. And they ought to hear Mr. Menzies in front of a Karen audience! He asked them also to have in mind Mr. Blencowe and the re-building of S. John's College. It had got to be done, and they could not help it. Dr. Marks .had got S. John's a magnificent compound, and it would be a great pity if they could not keep the school in the front rank of educational work in Burma. Then there was the new Burmese university. The Burmans were flocking to it. He felt that the Church must have part in it. There would be a central government building, and the Baptists were going to have a special college, and they were desirous that bodies like the Church in Burma should have hostels. So as soon as they had S. John's off their hands, that would be another nice little morsel to bite at. Their accounts were carefully kept, all who were interested in their work could see what they were doing.

The l'tEv. W. P. MENZIES spoke about the work in the Karen Mission at Toungoo. There had been, he said, many changes since he had last had the pleasure of speaking at a meeting of the R.D.A. Mr. Fisher, after twenty-two years, had gone to other work in the diocese. They had all heard of the great Joss which Toungoo had suffered when Mr. Blyth had to leave them. Two new men, Mr. Hughes and Mr. West, had joined the staff in 1921. Miss Fisher and Miss Selby both remained at their posts. Miss Fisher looked little the worse for having been out for eight or nine years without leave, and that after twenty-one years' service. Friends of Miss Selby would not be surprised to hear that S. John's school was prospering greatly under her devoted care.

But the cl]anges in the Mission were more than mere changes of personel-new men entering into the labours of those who had preceded them. The new men had brought with them new ideas, and the whole policy of the Mission had been under criticism and had been undergoing reconstruction. The older missionaries were, he thought, chiefly remarkable for their ' patience.' They had a great respect-perhaps too much respect-for established order, and it had been their way to do, or to try to do, whatever

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was required of them-from the management of a printing press to the superintendence of a large school-in addition to the charge of a Mission. The way of the younger men was different. The intolerable thing with them, especially with those who had been through the war, was that a inan should waste his time and energy in trying to do work which he was not fitted or had not time to do thoroughly. Waste and inefficiency were things not to be born. Work, if it was to be done at all, must be done well. The old way of making the best of a bad job was gone and that, he thought, was all to the good.

It was not that the older missionaries were unaware that things were not as they ought to have been. He remembered how much impressed he had been when he was new to the Mission, but some of those early impressions had had to be corrected as close acquaintance with the work brought defects to light. Such important matters as the contributions of the native church, the training of teachers and the type of education provided · for their Karen boys and girls were seen to be unsatisfactory. In particular they had been impressed by the lack of a keen missionary spirit in the native church. He thought that Mr. Blyth's chief contribution to the work had been his insistence on the need of greater evangelistic effort. He remembered a very strongly worded letter which he had himself written to the Bishop urging the necessity of creating new centres for Karen work and of obtaining two more men. The Bishop had been entirely sympathetic, but asked whether he was to regard the letter as an ultimatum. Did Mr. Blyth and he mean to resign if their wishes were not carried out ? He, being of the old school, had replied 'No.' (laughter). But they had got the two men, Mr. Hughes and Mr. West, and they were at work now. With their arrival the policy of the Mission had gone into the melting pot in earnest and a good deal of it was still there. But one or two things had come out.

First, it was plain that S. Luke's school was one man's job. This had not been so obvious as long as the school had remained comparatively small, but in recent years it had grown into a great school of 500 boys with a staff of twenty teachers and had been advanced to the status of a High School. It could no longer be regarded as an appendage of the Karen Mission, to provide an education for tho;jr Christian Karen boys. It was in itself an independent and most important piece of missionary work among the non-christian boys who made up two-thirds of the school. S. Luke's school stood, he thought, to the Karen Mission in Toungoo in the same relation as S. John's College did to the Burmese Mission at Kemendine. It was as absurd to ask a missionary to look after a big school like S. Luke's in addition to the charge of a Mission as it would be to expect the Vicar of

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a large parish in England to act as headmaster of an important secondary school in his parish. S. Luke's was now under the care of Mr. Hughes who was particularly well qualified for the work and his whole heart was in it.

Then there was the training of native agents, They had always had a training school for catechists ill Toungoo. It had been unsatisfactory because it had never been possible W spare enough time for it. One man had tried to do that work in addition to the superintendence of a Mission. That meant that the school had to be closell while the missionary was on tour a11d could only be carried on for five or six months in the year. They had come to the conclusion that that work was too important to be carried on in so haphazard a way, and that one man must make it his particular work. Mr. West was engaged now in re-organizing the school and had reported that more men had applied for ad­mission under the n~w conditions than the Mission could provide for.

He had no time to say anything about education. .That was a matter which was still in the melting-pot and they did not yet know what to do about it. It was clear, however, that an anglo-vernacular education was not the best kind of education for Karen boys and girls who were going back to a simple life in the jungle. They hoped to find a solution in some kind of vocational school.

Mrss ENGLAND spoke about work in the jungle schools. It would not be possible to continue those schools, she said, if it were not for S. Mary's, Kemmendine, where the girl teachers are trained, and also S. Michael's, where they trained their boys. The custom had been to evangelise through the schools. The Karens wanted Christianity to some extent, and they also wanted Christianity to some extent, and they also wanted education. The teaching of the Mission had not the same reception in all the villages. Some responded more than others. In one of those villages she would have liked the audience to go as she had done and question the children on the life of Christ. The first time she went only four or five of them were Christians, and their parents were practically all unbaptised, but she felt that the gospel was a very real thing to them. She had been present at the baptism of five of them, since then two whole households from that village had also been baptised by our Karen Priest. She was sure that they would get from that village a great many keen Karen Christians. There was another place where a school had only been opened two years where it had seemed to her rather questionable whether they ought to be using Christian prayers, when the people had not been baptised ; but the next time she went she found that a great many had been.

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The work did not end with the children. It was very difficult to realise that fourteen years ago these Pwo Karens of ours ·knew nothing of Christianity. They had lived for centuries in fear of spirits, and it could be realised what it meant to them to ex­perience the abiding presence of God with them as their Protector. Village choirs meant a great deal to them. They did so love to get into a choir and sing hymn after hymn. The Mission had a tremendous amount of progress to be thankful for. Ori all hands the people were asking for schools and for additional priests, and the Mission could not supply them to the extent they were being asked for. These people were tremendously dependent on the ideals and sympathy of a goQCI European missionary. They felt the need of the missionaries. Although they were really seeking after God, side by side with that was a very strong nationalistic tendency, and English missionaries were needed to keep the Catholicity of the gospel before them, and also to keep them up to the idea that Christianity did not necessarily go with material progress.

There was another thing that the Karens asked for, and which both the Mr. Pursers were strongly in favour of, and that was a really good central school in the heart of the Delta. This school would be supplementary to S. Mary's and S. Michael's, Kemendine and would aim at giving the children a better education in the lower standards than they could at present get at the jungle.

Secondly, this school was needed in order that students passing out from Kemmendine should be able to get experience there as class teachers prior to being put in charge of jungle schools elsewhere. They wanted the school to be a jungle school with just such conditions as the teachers could have in all other schools in the Delta, so that it could serve something of a model for them. There was a pressing need for a dispensary attached to this school and if possible a building where they could take patients requiring nursing and care. They would like an English trained nurse, but if that were not possible · Karen girls could be trained at Miss Pateh's Hospital, Mandalay, to carry on this work. They wanted the school to be a strong missionary centre, with, it is hoped, a Karen priest residing there.

The Karen people needed to realise more fully that the Church of Christ is a Catholic Church, for all peoples, and a spiritual not a material one, and that their hope should be to help to draw the Burmese race into the fold of that Church.

The REv. A. H. BLENCOWE said that it was the first time that he had had the privilege of coming to an Annual Meeting of the Rangoon Diocesan Association. He wanted, he said, to refer to the devoted work of Mr. Best, and he had been very

glad to see coming into the room Mr. Rawlinson, who had done such devoted work among the Christian boys at S. John's. At S. John's now they were working in the closest touch with S. Michael's Mission and received .all the boys from that mission who desired an English education. This had in many ways helped the Christian work at S. John's. The number of Burmese and Karen's Christians in the school had very considerably increased. Formerly when the boys were in chapel they used to put the Christian boys on one side and the Buddhist boys on the other. Now the Christian boys filled the chapel, and if they wanted to bring in the Buddhist boys, they had to leave out some of the smaller Christian boys. He felt that their educational work was extremely important, because by means of it they were building up a strong and educated Christian community. There was a strong nationalitic spirit among the Burmese ~vhich made them much more inclined to receive the teaching of one of their own people than of a foreigner. He thought that as they stayed on in the country they felt more and more that their success as a mission was going to depend on their ability to train up teachers and evangelists from the people themselves, and that was their work at S. John's. It was not only a matter for hope. In the school they had the happiness of finding boys coming in and saying that they hoped to be ordained some day. That was their main object-the training of Christian boys to take part in the evangelistic work of the Mission·. S. John's had had nothing to do with the reasons that led to the boycott of all the schools in Burma, but S. John's had suffered with the rest. Of course it had been a strange experience for the time being, and some boys had suffered a good deal in trying to come to school, and a}so their parents, but S. John's soon recovered and a year and a half after they had more boys in the school than before the boycott. The nationalistic people had wanted a ' girlcott ' too, of all the girls' schools ; but Miss Laughlin had made a splendid resistance, and had simply refused to give way to them. At S. John's they felt that they were helping to remove the strong prejudice which the Burmese Buddhists had against Christianity.

The R.D.A. Secretary, Mr. Cooke, had offered to open a building fund for S. John's, which was in urgent need of re­building. It was nearly falling down, and he was afraid that the boys were sometimes washed out of their beds in the heavy rains, and the school authorities had been absolutely forced to start rebuilding. They had put up one building at £5,000, and there was some money in hand, and a £1,000 grant from S.P.C.K. They had to find £3,000 in the next two years, in addition to the money granted by the local government.

The collection amounted to £15 5s. 7d. After the meeting there was a most enjoyable tea with pleasant talk. We are

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very grateful to the ladies at S.P.G. House, who arranged this so well, and looked after our comfort so effectively.

In connection with this meeting, there were celebrations of Holy Communion at the following Churches, the collections being given to R.D.A. in the case of those marked with asterisk :-

Bath and Wells Diocese.-* Mark ; Minehead ; S. Andrew, Taunton.

Canterbury.-Addington; S. Augustine's College, Canterbury; * S. Stephen, Norbury.

Chelm.iford.-S. Clement, IIford ; * Pattiswick. Durham.-* Easington ; S. Oswald, Hartlepool ; * Winston. London.--• All Saints, Camden Town ; * All Saints, Childs

Hill ; * S. Peter, Hornsey; S. Pancras, Old Church; S. John, Stamford Hill ; S. Mary, Soho ; S. Philip, Tottenham.

Manchester.-* S. Anne, Brindle Heath ; * Lever Bridge; S. John, Oldham; * Rossall Mission.

N orwich.-Banham ; Cranwich ; South Creake ; * Side­strand; * Syderstone ; Wymondham; Yaxham.

Salisbury.-* Abbotsbury; *Mere; * S. Mark, Salisbury ; * West Lavington.

Southwark.-Earlstield; Trinity College, Oxford Mission; Stratford.

V arious.,-Addingham ; Blockley ; Burgh, S. Paul's Mission­ary College ; • All Saints, Cheltenham ; S. Margaret, Coventry ; * S. John, Cleckheaton ; * S. Mary, Hampden Park, Eastbourne ; * Edenbridge; • S. Mary, Fishponds; * Hintlesham; King's Cross, Halifax ; * Lucton ; * Pauler's Pury ; * Somersham ; * S. Peter, Stockton; Warleggan; Welwyn Garden City.

Dear Friends,

THE BISHOP'S LETTER.

FRESHWELL HousE,

CR9YPQN BAY,

N. DEvON.

July 18, 1924.

I think my chief impression of England so far is that it is a very busy place. I have been trying to take a holiday, do my duty to the S.P.G., S.P.C.K. and G.F.S . . and do what I can for the Diocese. I confess I have found it more than enough.

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My headquarters since we landed at the end of March have been at a farm house rather deep in the country in Surrey. All expeditions for preaching or for meetings entailed a walk of a mile over the hill to an omnibus which carried me to the railway. Fortunately a kind friend lent us a car for part of the time which made things much easier and pleasanter. Now we have moved from there and I have been for a fortnight with my family in this bracing spot where they are spending six weeks. Then in August we move to the hospitable shelter of my wife's old home. After that it will be time to think of packing up and setting out for Rangoon again.

Weather? Well, until the last few days I .was saying that I had not been warm since we were in the Red Sea. At Port Said we were in our winter clothes and were shivering. The Atlantic was no warmer-not likely, and snow and rain were our lot during most of our stay in Surrey, and the first part of my time here was largely bluster. Now it is glorious, and we have watched hay being gathered in, and think it must be a good crop with all that early rain and sunshine apparently at the right moment.

One point about the late spring we have had was that we could watch all the hedges and trees and spring flowers bursting into green and bloom and the joy of it has been glorious­primroses, violets, cowslips, blu~ bells, foxgloves, besides all the garden flowers coming out in turn for our own special delight we think. And then fortunately the Easter and Whitsuntide holidays were glorious. Our country omnibuses were packed and the lanes were crowded with char a banes and cars, and everybody was so civil and kind that it was a pleasure to be in a crowd. When I was at home after the war I feared the old kindness and ci,;lity were gone, but now I thankfully acknowledge that it is all there still and was only momentarily hidden under that horrible war cloud. Now the old greetings pass naturally and everyone seems to be ready to do a kindness to their neighbour. It is the old happy England (so far as I have seen it) wonderfully unaffected by all the strikes and squabbles among politicians that we hear so much about and read about in the papers. There has been a revolution of course. Labour is at the top and the old houses have had to be sold and the old families are poor. But it has been a good humoured revolution, and we are all taking in our own washing and living in tenement houses with a charwoman to come in to help us for half the day and we are all·smiling over it. And if you ask me what (humanly speaking) is at the roof of the good humour of our revolution I answer u the throne." There walks the King arm in arm (or as near it as our traditional regard for our King allows-and the socialist regards it like the rest of us) with this socialist ministers. That

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is what we have done in England. We have set sociableness and kindness and friendliness above political creeds. Prime ministers and cabinets may change and politicians and capitalists and socia1ists and communists and churchmen and dissenters may talk and squabble as they will, but we remain one family, friendly in spite of our quarrels and changes-a family under our "little father "-reflection for us of the great All Father. He picks out the best, pays them honours, exhorts us all to " develop the family estate " and sets us the example of being good and kind to all-much more important than all the other politics however important they be). I don't know anything about " divine rights of Kings," but what makes for peace and goodwill, with a wholesome freedom to squabble within limits, has got a good deal that is divine in it, and that is all we want to know to make us love our Royal family. And if it means hard work to them, as it certainly does, It is worth while.

So England is delightful in spite of cold weather and political and social squabbles.

But this letter was intended to be about my doings in England. My chief occupation has been accepting and refusing invitations to speak and arranging interviews with and asking questions about possible new workers and if some of the invitations ·have been ignored, as I fear they may have been, I hope I shall be forgiven. I have accumulated a pile of letters that I look at with horror and then go and make sand pies for my small boys on the beach. That is my first duty this fortnight. Before it I gave some help in my neighbourhood in Holy Week and on Easter Day. Then I addressed the monthly meeting of the members of S.P .C.K. which gave me an opportunity of thanking the society for all it has done for us. I also got the news of their generous grant to the rebuilding of Mandalay Church. Later in that week I spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Indian Church Aid Association. Then followed a delightful Sunday at Camberley where I could plead for interest in the Mandalay work as it is within the Winchester Diocese. I was in London for the S.P.G. annual s~rvice at S. Paul's and also for the Albert Hall meeting. Then came a Sunday at Alverstoke, where Mandalay gets loyal support, and then a sermon at a missionary festival of the Godalming Rural Deanery at which the different parishes formally presented the offerings made during the year. The next day I preached at Putney where Mr. Priestly Swain , who conducted the" Mission of Help" in our Cathedral at Rangoon so acceptably, is now Vicar. This was also a united missionary service. Thence I went to Cambridge where I had a talk to men at Ridley Hall and also at Westcott House and preached at Selwyn College. I am hoping that this visit may bring us one good mim in the future and perhaps more.

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My next engagement was to preach at the Salisbury Missionary Festival. It was a pouring wet day, so the Cathedral was not crowded. There was, however, an excellently rendered play the subject of which was the coming of S. Augustine to England. There was also a sale and a meeting at which the Archbishop of Algoma and I spoke. It was all intended to be in the palace grounds, but the weather forbade that, so we had to go indoors. I was the guest of the Dean, whose daughter, Miss A. Burn has done such good service at our Diocesan Girls' School. I wish I could say we were going to get her back, but that, alas, is not so.

The next day found me at a combined missionary meeting in Streatham Parish Church and the next day I gave the final address at the World Missionary Exhibition at the People's Palace, in East London. On the Saturday and Sunday following I was at Basing for a sale and a Sunday. They have been consistent supporters of our Mandalay work for more than twenty year!;, so they must always claim a visit whon I am in England.

Then came the R.D.A. Annual Meeting . . It was a good meeting, but I need not speak of it here as it is described elsewhere. It was delightful to meet so may old friends of the Diocese. I meant to go to Canterbury with Bishop Knight after it, but there were too many people to see, and I lost the train. I lost another next morning in trying to settle about our worker for the G.F.S. Hostel, but I got to Canterbury eventually and had a delightful three days there. There is an atmosphere of straight­forward devotion and kindly fellowship there that is very re­freshing, and for which I am very grateful. There was a gap of course. Miss Knight was no longer there, but Canterbury has a meaning for us in Rangoon that makes us feel we are very near the centre of things when we get there.

My next engagement was to speak at one of the series of meetings of the G.F.S. "week " on "The Call of the G.F.S. overseas." I was glad to be able to tell them of the building of our Hostel in Rangoon. The Society is undertaking the salary of our lady worker.

From London I went to visit my old parish in Bristol and preached in my old school chapel at Clifton and also went to preach and speak at the Worcester Diocesan Missionary Festival at Malvern. There I was driven to my various engagements by our former Archdeacon, Ven. G. H . Seeley, and also met Miss D. Atwool who has been so active in forming the Burma Band of Prayer, It was a glorious day and a joy to be in Malvern and especially in the beautiful old Priory Church.

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June ended with a visit to Taunton to speak at a meeting of our faithful friends there who gathered in Miss Lythall's house. It was a great pleasure to meet Mr. Copleston there again.

I am most thankful for the opportunities I have had of seeing the great interest there is in missionary work and especially for the way the Church, as such, apart from the special societies now works and prays and unites for it, and also for making so many good friends of our work. I wish I could have got to see more of such friends and especially our Diocesan Secretaries, but I simply could not do more, and am very conscious of the number of things I ought to have done and letters that ought to have been written that have been left undone.

Yours truly in Christ's service. R. s. RANGOON.

NEWS FROM THE FRONT.

The Rev. W. Delahay arrived from England on Ea>ter Tuesday, and has taken charge of the Chaplaincy at Bhamo.

The Rev. G. H . Bruce Kerr has also returned.

s. BARNABAS' MISSION,

The Rev. E. H . Cox writes :-

EAST RANGOON,

April 26, 1924.

" Please in the first place record a shout from the Mission of the Resurrection, Syriam, which is an offshoot of this, the parent mission. S. GEORGE'S ENGLISH SCHOOL, SYRIAM WANTS A LADY PRINCIPAL FRml ENGLAND. This School has grown from twelve pupils in 1912 to ninety in 1928, and it needs someone who will entirely relieve the missionary in charge of all responsibility in regard to it.

Syriam (i.e., the modern Syriam-for there is also an old Syrian of historic Portugese fame) is the town of 10,000 or so which has grown up around the Burma Oil Company's big refineries-in the last twenty-five years.

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The children who attend the English School belong to the local employees of the Company, many of them ex-soldiers who have married Burmese wives; others belong to Anglo-Indian families, while a. certian number are ~urmese or Indian.

The school affords a great opportunity for anyone who wants to do real Missionary work without the necessity of learning a new language-though that would of course be a useful acquisition. We are looking forward hopefully to getting a brand new and up-to-date school building, though at the moment of writing I dare not quite reckon on getting it. It rests with the Burma Oil Company who at the present moment are con­sidering my appeal for a donation of Rupees thirty thousand. An offer from home for the post of Principal would, I believe, have considerable influence in determining the nature of the reply to my appeal (efficiency appeals to a very efficient firm). The school has a small boarding establishment attached to it, and the new building will include a dormitory and living quarters for a resident principal.

The Missionary work at Syriam has recently led us a long way into the Jungle, and this dry season I have managed four tours of five or six days each, resulting in the baptism of thirty­eight Burmese and Karens in a village near the mouth of the Sittang River. These people formed part of a large number (some three or four hundred) who attended meetings two years ago in that district, the majority of whom, however, belonged to the class of Burman who is always on the look out for " loaNes and fishes " at the hands of the missionary.

We are now well known _in this district and always have a friendly welcome while touring, which used to be a somewhat difficult matter owing to the prohibitive (for a missionary) cost of cart hire, but is now rendered easy by free conveyances.

The chief difficulty now consists in the fact that· the small nucleus of Christians above mentioned, being of the very poorer class, having no land of their own. are likely soon to be scattered far apart seeking work as coolies, although, provided they remain faithful, this will have its advantage in the spread of Christian examples. But Buddhists are very fond of annoying and holding up to redicule their Christian Burmese neighbours, and these newly baptised Christians will need all the prayers which they· can get to keep them strong in the faith.

We still have a few of the Burmese Christians who were baptised by Rickard more. than thirty years ago in the district near Syriam. There are three of us who tour the district, viz., Rev. Peter San Nyun (who also shares with me the work at S. Barnabas Mission, Rangoon) ; Saya Po Chit, a keen worker and excellent Jungle preacher, and myself.

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In the town of Syriam I have two very distinct classes of Europeans over whom to exercise pastoral care, viz., the covenanted (from home) and uncovenanted (local) employees of the Burma Oil Co. The latter are just now causing . me much anxiety owing to the depths of immorality into which some have fallen, e.g., a case of adultery (an Englishman and Eurasian woman) in which the birth of the child was actually celebrated by a dance in the Syriam Municipal Hall. Unfortunately I was away in the Jungle at the time and knew nothing of it until my return. The case is rendered more flagrant by the fact that the true wife and husband of the adulterous parents are still living in Syriam. This and other cases make Syriam a dark spot on the map at the back of the R.D. Quarterly. But there is many a light as well-men and women, boys and girls, trying to live up to Chri•tian ideals in spite of much temptation.

On Easter Day the two Eucharists at 7 and 8 were fairly well attended, and there were forty-eight communicants.

This letter is probably long enough. I will write or get someone else to write of 5. Barnabas, Rangoon, later.

Yours Sincerely, E. H. Cox.

FINANCE.

Mr. J. W. Swinnerton Weston, the Diocesan Secretary and Accountant has sent a statement of the moneys received from us during 1921 to 1928, £2,410. As most of the items have been shown in our Details of Draft, they are not now reproduced. With regard to the £774 sent 'at Bishop's disposal' he writes:

u A considerable portion of the sum remains here ; on the strength of this balance I hope that the Bishop will not be unduly hampered in the financial problem involved in recruiting a few more missionaries for this Diocese."

We give a few more remarks of Mr. Weston:-

,; The Girls Friendly Society is about to erect a building near the Cathedral to accommodate about twenty of the Eurasian working girls of Rangoon."

"Miss Selby's School (S. John's, Toungoo) is brimming over with pupils and it is a matter of urgency to provide more accom­modation."

" The collection of funds for the European Diocesan Orphan­age Fund is a question which remains always with us and which necessitates the Chaplain usually appointed making visits from

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liouse to house and from firm to firm. Mr. Thursfield has carried out this collection most efficiently during the past two years ; it now remains to appoint a successor. S. Matthew's, Moulmein, is the School to which most of the orphans accepted by the Board are sent."

" S. Philip's Church always meets its obligations and sub scribes generously to Diocesan Funds; at the same time the Church Committee is busily collecting money in order that the roof may be completed in accordance with the original design."

"With regard to S. Barnabas' Mission in East Rangoon which ministers to a mixed Burmese Congregation, the writer has lately been on a missionary expedition with the priest in charge, the Rev. E. H. Cox, among paddy fields away up one of the creeks of the Irrawaddy. Then on our return we stayed a day at Mr. Cox's Mission Station at Syriam where there are large oil refineries and the work is among Europeans and Eurasians. It goes without saying that Mr. Cox's hands are full ."

s. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS DAY.

It is hoped that all our friends and members will remember before God the work in Burma on this day, and that Incumbents of parishes will give opportunities for them to join in the Holy Communion with special intention.

THE MARY CHAPMAN TRAINING CoLLEGE

FOR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.

Hearty congratulations to Miss Chapman and her colleagues, Miss Morrison and Miss Walden, on the commencement of their permanent building. Miss Chapman arrived in Rangoon at the beginning of 1920 and opened her school on August 16th of that year.

On March 4, 1924, His Excellency Sir Harcourt Butler, Governor of Burma laid the foundation stone of a building in Tank Street. Small stones were laid by Bolo, a delightful Bu.rmese boy .some of our readers have met, and by a Karen and a Chinese boy to represent their several races.

Four student teachers are in training, and there are twenty­three pupils on the roll, and it is impossible to take more until this new building is ready. The site is bought and paid for. Rs.75,000 are needed for the part of the plan to be proceeded on now-about three-quarters. Government is giving Rs.50,000 in annual grants, but most of the rest has to be rasied . . We wish Miss Chapman " God Speed " in her work.

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KEMMENDINE MISSION.

The Rev. W. C. B. Purser writes :-

" I need all the help I can get for my vernacular work as I have received permission from the educational authorities to open a higher normal department, but they say at the same time that for the first year they will be unable to make any grant. In view of the development of our village schools, and of the importance which is now attached by the Government to vernacular education, I feel that our policy of specializing in this way is now officially vindicated. Not that one cares very much for that. The real vindication of out work is that all the Christian children in S. Michael's district are receiving a Christian education for the most part in their own villages in Church schools from Church teachers."

A KA:REN CoNFERENCE.

As I drew near Wathoko I found that I was but a unit in a swelling crowd. Pilgrims thronged the way. Each side track was a tributary that fed the main stream increasing in volume as it neared the village. Some of the travellers had covered something like a hundred miles and others not much less. Each had his baggage on his shoulder-a blanket or two, and rice for the way. As the numbers swelled enthusiasm grew and they burst into singing. That day all roads led to Wathoko. Seldom has there been such a gathering of the clans ; old men and maidens, young men and children jostled along together like trippers on a Bank Holiday.

On the evening of January 15, 1924, the little village almost burst with pride, for the village was host and hostess of all the pilgrim host. I had known the village in its peace and . solitude, a mere hamlet barely visible on a solitary ridge jutting out into a sea of jungle depths. Now its houses had trebled in number to give the needed shelter, and the long village street was packed with people and stalls displaying seductive sweetmeats, clothes and medicines. From every house and corner came the hum and buzz of conversation. So packed was the thoroughfare that I almost passed without seeing what is no common sight in this village-the Bishop of Rangoon, and also, an English lady.

At the very foot of the village I came upon what turned out to be the Church and Conference Hall. It was like a huge grotto, with slender tree trunks for supports all roofed above and arched with leaves. Far away at the end of the great hall was a raised floor of flattened bamboo trunks, and in the furthest distance an altar, its rough workmanship hidden under a cloth of white and green. Presently the candles were lit, and scores

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of lamps attached, one to every slender pillar, and now against the blackness of the night through a myriad spaces of the forest hall came streaming gleams of light.

Before long almost the whole area was paved with squatting forms. Many, no doubt glad to rest their weary feet, sat in silent reverence. At last they came. First the Processional Cross, and then the choir in white and red, then six Qative clergy, and last of all one in stature far above the dimunitive Karen, and clothed in Episcopal splendour, the Bishop of them all.

" Onward Christian Soldiers," so they sang, as the choir in white and red threaded its way down the crowded hall to the far off chancel. The Hall was filled many times before the Conference was ended. On two early mornings there were Celebrations of the Holy Communion, when an incessant stream flowed up to the altar rails, there to receive the Holy Sacrament at the hands of their own fellow countrymen. Nor shall I forget one other service, this at night, when all the dignity of the solemn rite of Confirmation was here enhanced by the ·simplicity of all around. They came, more than seventy of them, and before the host of witnesses the Bishop laid his hands upon them, each in turn, and in their native tongue pronounced the words that proclaimed their fuller membership within the Catholic Church.

Conference business was done in the fore and afternoons. The report of each village for the past year was read in public. The main facts were briefly recorded together with names of any who died in the past year. Their offerings for the year were read out. Perhaps they were losing a teacher and needed another. From this point of view the Conference is an Exchange and Mart between village and village.

At on~ meeting, however, considerable feeling was aroused, and an element of bitterness only averted by the timely in­tervention of the bishop. Human nature changes slowly and any appeal to ·racial prejudices touches it at a sensitive spot. A resolution was moved which sought to reverse the poJicy of the white missionaries in seeking to unite in one boarding house boys of the Paku and Bwe tribes. The Pakus supported this resolution as one man. The children would fight ; the parents would be bitterly hostile, the church would break up. The hostility born in . dim antiquity and alternately hardened and inflamed through the centuries will not pass away in a night. " For how long " asked one speaker, " did the Scotch and English fight after becoming Christian." Most of the speeches were temperate in tone, but there was no mistaking the temper of the meeting. The white missionaries, it may be, had acted hastily, and will probably have had to retrace their steps before this is in print.

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LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES.

A well known missionary in Burma who speaks the language like a Burman relates the following story. He was reading a story in Burmese and came across a word that beat him. • After racking his brains he was at last driven to consult his dictionary. But his dictionary failed him too. He then murmured the word aloud trying t o recall where he had heard it-Maw Tur Kar, Maw Tur-Kar, Maw-Tur Kar-at last it dawned-" Motor Car," transliterated into Bunnese.

In the Bible in Karen the names of persons and places are turned syllable b~ syllable into Karen. But after the process some are barely to be recognized. Some are fairly, obvious. The reader soon learns to identify Yo Ha with John, and Hpee Lee Pu with Philip. Pau Loo is easy. Pay t' Roo could only be Peter, and Ah d' Ray Andrew. But all are not so easy. It takes some time to discover Achaicus in A Chai Ku, and S' Tai Hp' Na must be traced to Stephanus.

HOME NOTES.

REINFORCEMENTS.

The Rev. W. B. Hicks, B.A. Cambridge (Curate of S. Cuthbert's, Newcastle-on-Tyne), and Miss Lena Cooke from S. Peter's Parish, Stockton-on-Tees (Rev. P . H. Kirkham's parish) will be going out towards the end of the year. The latter is having some special training at Selby Oak, and will take Miss Hackney's place at S. Mary's School, Kemmendine.

PATRONS.

The Bishop of Ely and the Bishop of Peterborough have kindly consented to become Patrons of our Association.

ScHOLARSHIPS.

We are glad to hear that after all Shwebo Girls' School is not closed, though it has not now an English Head.

Miss Atwool writes :-" I think the Shwebo Girls School will flourish, if the sup­

porters continue to send their subscriptions and give their prayers. Mr. Stockings has put a very efficient teacher as headmaster

of the Day School, Saya Ba. He is a very capable man, and a very good and reliable man, too. He was my munshi, so I got

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to know him fairly well. He speaks English very well, and so do some of the other teachers, so they will be able to keep on the English teaching ; it is an Anglo-Vernacular School.

So.yama Doris and Sayama Gracie are in charge of the boarding house, and they are both good capable women. They will miss an English woman in a great many ways, and one is needed very much in the Mission as a whole, for visiting the women, and for advice, and smoothing jealousies and differences which arise now and then ; for preparing girls for Confirmation and for Church teaching, etc. There are already a good number of Burmese Christian families in Shwebo, and they are anxious that their elder boys and girls should marry Christians. • Some have done so already, and there are several young married couples, both Burmese Christians, living in the Church compound. The catechist has lately become engaged to one of the elder school girls; she is 18, but that is not nearly so young out here as it is in England.

The only scholar who has been transferred is Ruth Ma Ai Yin whom I have here in the Mandalay School, because she is not good at English and wished to complete her education more quickly in a Vernacular School.

I hope Rossall Mission will continue their help to her here ; and that all the other patrons will remain steadfast to Shwebo."

THE YEAR's GRANTS FROM S.P.G.

RANGOON : Total £8,845 16s. 5d., viz. :-(a) Block grant of £7,992 16s. 2d. (General Fund, £7,888;

Rangoon Special Fund, £54 16s. 2d. ; Women's Special Fund, £50, as below). This includes the grant of £411 formerly allocated to the Winchester Brotherhood, and £240 formerly allocated to Car Nicobar-both grants now placed at the Bishop's disposal in the general Grant Division Scheme for the diocese 1925.

Included in the above is £1,691 Ss. (General Fund, £1,641 as., and Special Fund, £50) for Women's Work, to be allocated as follows :-

(1) Women's salaries (eight full support, and three part support), £1,825 6s.

(2) Other Mission work, £865 17s. (b) £500 from the Marriott Bequest, viz. : £800 towards

rebuilding Christ Church, Mandalay ; £200 towards rebuilding S. John's College, Rangoon.

(c) £87 2s. 3d. from special funds. (d) FoR MEDICAL WORK: £215 18s. Annual grant; £100

special funds, single.

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THE REv. W. R. MENZIES' ACTIVITIES.

Mr. Menzies has sent us a diary of his addresses and sermons for Burma.

1923-Dec. 4th, Preached at S. Wilfred's (RossallMission) Newton Heath, where we have keen supporters.

1924-Jan. 27th-Preached at S. Peter's, Mr. Kirkham's parish, and S. John's, Stockton-on-Tees for S.P.G. The former parish sends us £16 to .£17 a year.

Jan. 28th-Spoke at S.P.G. Anniversary Meeting at Stockton.

, 29th-Meeting at Easington Lane (£5 promised for a child in Karen Mission). -

, 80th-Spoke to children in Essington School and addressed meeting. This is Rev. G. A. West's home, and his friends are generous helpers.

, 31st-Addressed Meeting at Easington Colliery (two scholars supported here).

Feb. Srd-Sermons at Christ Church (£1 2s. 6d.), and S. Luke's, West Hartlepool and address to Sunday School.

Feb. 5th-Sermon at Winston Church and address to School children. This is the Rev. C. K . Hughes' home.

Feb. 11th-15th-Lantern Lectures for S.P.G. (Karen slides) at Great Dunham, Litcham, Elmham, and Swanton Norley in Norwich Diocese.

Mar. lOth, lith-Lantern Lectures at Rossall Mission and Holy Innocents, Fallowfield, Manchester.

, 12th-Addressed Rossall Mission children.

, 18th-Lantern Lecture at S. Paul's, Bury. Collection £2.

, 15th-Missionary Exhibition at Leigh, Lancashire.

, 23rd-Preached at Hambledon, Surrey. Collections through S.P .G;

, 24th-Addressed meeting at S. Nicholas, Guildford. Col­lection £1 17s. 6d. for Karen work. ·

, 25th-Preached at Bracknell, Berks. Collection for Rangoon Mission per S.P.G.

April 8th-Addressed meeting at Heacham, 1olorfolk.

May 15th-Lantern Lecture at Kimpton, Beds., where two scholars are supported.

July 6th-Sermons at Shenfield, Essex. Collections £6 Is. Od.

. Mrs. Menzies has addressed several meetings of women and gtrls in Hunstanton, and neighbourhood.

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BATH AND WELLS DIOCESE.

On June 80th the Bishop of Rangoon kindly visited Taunton, and gave a very interesting address at a Drawingroom Meeting at Barr House. Mr. Copleston took the Chair and about fifty accepted the Misses Lythall's invitation, many of whom were friends and keen supporters of the Mission. All were glad to meet the Bishop again and to hear of the work. The collection amounted to £6 lOs. Od. which was forwarded to the General Secretary.

CANTERBURY DIOCESE.

Mrs. Rickard, who was for six years our Secretary for this Diocese and then for five years Secretary for Croydon, has now left the Diocese. We are very grateful to her for her help. The Croydon members are now on the Rev. G. Scott's list.

CHICHESTER DIOCES_E.

A Girl Guide Empire Rally \Vas held at Bexhill-on-Sea on July 2nd. The girls of S. Bernard's School who have for some years liberally helped the Winchester Mission at Mandalay, undertook the Burma scenes, and hired our dresses for the purpose with very satisfactory results.

WINCHESTER DIOCESE.

The Annual Sale of Work for the Winchester Mission Man­dalay, was held at "Daneshill," by kind invitation of Mr. and Mrs. W. Hoare, on Saturday, June 7th. The sale was opened by Lady Bolton. We were very pleased to have the Bishop of Rangoon with us again and are very grateful to him for his helpful and interesting address. We were able to send £26 9s. Od.

Balance Sheet for the Year ended 8Ist December, . 1928.

Receipts. Balance, Ist January, 1928 Subscriptions and Donations I Parochial Contributions .. Guild of Work Quarterly Papers . . Harvey Trust Refund of Passage Money Interest

£ s. d. 162 19 8

57 17 6 845 11 4

42 0 6 2 0 4

18 9 I 2 0 0

77 12 4

£708 10 9

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Expenditure. S.P.G. for Brotherhood • ,. Hospital and Lady Doctor ..

Supported Children Women's Work

,. General Work Quarterly Papers . . Printing, Postage, and Sundries Balance Deposit Account

Current Account and in hand

£ s. d. 184 16 6 104 4 0

5 6 8 20 9 1 50 0 0

7 0 0 16 18 8

261 12 7 58 8 8

£708 10 9 Ea:amiruJd and found correct, ----

D. MARTIN, Audilbr. G. CEcn. WHrm, Hon Treasurer.

2nd Felmulry, 1924.

GUILD OF INTERCESSION AND WORK .

This statement of accounts should have appeared in last issue.

Subscriptions Boxes O.O.M. Quarterly Paper

Receipts.

Kensington Sale (net £18 15s. 10d.)

To General Fund G. F. S. Work .. Quarterly Paper Expenses •.

For Burma Goods

Ea:penditure.

ScHOLARSHIP 1.-~IST.

£ s. d. 14 2 0 2 12 8

7 6 1 8 6

26 8J2

£44 8 10

£ s. d. 84 17 0

1 0 0 1 8 6 2 7 4 5 0 0

£44 8 10

S. LuKE's, TouNGoo.-Add Boys-E. W. B.-Po Kin 1. Ockbrook-Gwai Ma. J .R.G.-Po Kin II. H.C.W.-Po San II. C.K.H.-stewa.rd . . Bedford, Leigh-a boy.

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Change or -add name of scholar.-Cleckheaton-Tha Nay Lu. Blockley-Kyaw Eh. E .K.G.-Bo Gyi. Gosforth All Saints­Du Lu. Bucks Mill-Tun Zau. Allerton-Ba Gwaw. A.C.B.­Tha Po.

Omit Stopsley K.M.~Saw Maw.

S. PETER's, TovNGoo.-Add Boy Etwali-Pah Er. Add Girl, Easington Lane-Maw Po Sa. Omit Boy, E.K.G.-Benjamin Change names, Boys, Anon, Rangoon-Po Nwai. Easington­Maw La Au.

MOULMEIN FORWARD FUND.

This has progressed slowly and surely, and friends are ready to guarantee the further sum necessary for the sending forth and maintenance of a priest in S. Augustine's Mission for a period of five years. '

The amount at the Bank in England has reached a total of £618 1s. 1d., an increase of £18 12s. 1d. on last quarter. Our grateful thanks are due to all contributors.

DoROTHY ATwooL, Treasurer.

BURMA FOR CHRIST.

This is the heading of the Annual Report of S. Augustine's Mission, Moulmein. It is also the motto -of the Burma Band of Prayer. With all our faults and ~hortcomings, with all the poverty of our prayer and worship, we at home are united with members of the Band of Prayer in Burma-at one in our common effort to win Burma for Christ.

There has been some little confusion about the Band of Prayer and a good deal of misunderstanding, but that is gradually being lived down. Men have come to see that we do exist simply and solely to win Burma-the whole of Burma and not only one particular Mission-for Christ. The raising of funds is not our concern as a Band (though it must be our concern individually if we are at all in earnest over our prayers).

We are a Band of Prayer and daily we pray for the conversion of Burma. Our prayers singly may be very poor, but daily they ascend to the throne of grace in company with the prayers of several hundred others -who are united with us ifl this act of ours.

A good many new members have joined in Burma during the last quarter and a few in England. The great event of the quarter (not mentioning the annual meeting of which you will read an account elsewhere) has been the visit of our Bishop to Malvern on June 26th. , We began the day with corporate Communion at Holy Trinity Church. The occasion was the Diocesan Missionary Festival of Worcester, held this year in Malvern.

The weather was very kind to us. We had a glorious June day and a very happy festival. At the Choral Eucharist at the Priory, the Bishop preached a beautiful and inspiring sermon on the " Glorious Church." In the afternoon he addressed a large garden meeting in the beautiful gardens of the Priory School. It speaks well for our English weather to say that a great many of the ·people moved their chairs into the shelter of the trees from the heat of the sun, but it was a little disconcerting for the speakers as the trees were immediately behind them, and they were thus completely surrounded by their audience of. some 800 people.

We are very thankful for this visit of our Bishop and our prayers will go out with him more intelligently and earnestly in the great work which lies before him.

DoROTHY ATWOOL, Secretary

S. JOHN'S COLLEGE REBUILDING FUND.

In answer to Mr. Blencowe's letter here given, we have opened this Fund and trust that many friends of S. John's will send gifts in aid to Mr. Blencowe or to the General Secretary.

Dear Mr, Cooke,

LETTER.

12, DEE HILLS PARK,

CHESTER.

At the Bishop's suggestion I am writing to ask you whether you would kindly start a special appeal for S. John's College Rebuilding Fund in the 'R.D.A. Magazine.

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The position of the fund at present is as follows : Rs.81,401 9 0 has been collected up to date. This includes a Government grant of Rs.87,500 and a grant from the S.P .G. of Rs.7,580 (roughly). The remainder of the money has come from subscriptions, grants from local Diocesan Funds ; the ·main source of income being subscriptions from past students of the school and other fliends. With this money we have already erected one large school building, known as Mark's House, containing a large dormitory, class rooms, living room for boarders, master's quarters, etc. This building is now in use. It cost a little over Rs. 75,000. Next year we hope to erect the main School building. It will cost Rs.l25,000. The government have promised us next year a grant of Rs.62,500, but we must on our part find an equal sum. Towards this we have in hand roughly Rs.6,000, and the S.P.C.K. have promised us £1,000 (Rs.l5,000). We have thus in hand about Rs.20,000. The re~ainder Rs.42,500, nearly £8,000, we must find somehow during this year and next year. In Burma we will go on doing our best, but it would be a great encouragement if we could get strong support at home. I hope none of our friends will think that we are embarking on unnecessarily large and expensive schemes. The old main building is rapidly giving way. The main posts are becoming unsafe and the roof is so bad that in the rains the boarders have a most uncomfortable time. The new building must be large, a school of over 500, with 200 boarders and many resident masters requires a good deal of accommodation. S. John's is all important to the work of the Church in Burma. There we are training those whom we hope will in future be the priests and the leaders in the Christian community.

Yours sincerely, A. H. BLENCOWE.

The following sums have been received :-

West Kirby Rev. C. E. Blencowe

£ s. d. 7 8 3 2 2 0

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SPEGIAL THANilSOIVINOS AND PRAYERS. For the blessing on tbe work for the blind. For <he opening of the Mandalay Children's Ho•pital, and the

appointment of Miss Blakeston as Doctor, and Miss Cam as Nurse. For the other new workers, Dr. & Mrs. Roya.ppa. at Car Nicoba.r, Mr.

'Willia.ms, Miss Upperton, Mr. a.nd Mrs. Poulton, Mise Fleck, MiaR Jameson, Mr. La.w, and the recent ordinations a.nd confirmations.

For the increase of Native Clergy. For blessings on the work of the " Burma. Band," its meetings,

increased membership and spirit of fellowship. For the success our Annual Meeting.

Fo1· more missionaries, especially for Priests for the Ma.ndala.y Brotherhood; Karen Mi~sion; S. John's College; Moulmein; l{emmendine ; Frome; Port Blair; and for Schoolmasters, and Women Workers.

FOl' the continuance of the movements towards Christianity among Burmese and Ka.rens in the Delta.

For a. great increase of devotion of the Native Clergy and CB.te-chists, and in the self-support of the Native Church.

For the complete healing of the Kleebo schism. For ~be return of V. Gna.na.prakasa.m, lapsed Tamil Priest. For the stedfastness of all confirmees.

GYGLE OF PRAYER ( Aa arranged for uae In the Diocese of Ran1Joon).

(Home Organlaatlon added). Sunday.-The Bishop, Clergy, and Layworkers in general;

British Residents. On .furlough: The Bishop, Rev. G. A. R. Thurafield, R~v. W. R. and Mrs.

Menzies, Rev. A. H. Blencowe, Misses England, Hearn, Seeley and Linstea.d. S.P.G. a.nd Diocesan Committees. Ladies' Misaionary Association. Mothers' Union. G.F.S. .

The British residents are the witneaves to Christ to the heathen, and can help or binder the work immensely by their life and conduct.

Monday.-Bhamo, Shweho, and Ka.law-Burnust Mission.-Rev. H. M. Stockiogs, at All Sa.ints' Church; Boys'

a.od Girls' Schools. . English Work.-Rev. W . . Dela.ha.y, Bha.mo; Rev. H. M. Stockings, at

Sh,vebo; Rev , A. 0. N. Lee, e.t Kalaw, each with out-stations. Ho-nw.-The General Secretary and Speakers.

Tuesday.-Mandalay, Maymyo, Riverine Chaplainoy-Winche.sttr Mission, .Mattdalay.-Revs. W. R. Garrad, G. Kya Bin,

J. 8 . Joobua, P. Kin Maung, and S. Chit Twa.y. Boys' Scbool­Mr. J . H. Neal. Hospital & Women's Community with School for Girls- · Miss Patch, Dr. M. Blaxeaton, Nurse Cam, :Miss Atwool, Miss Watson, Miss Fleck. Out-station• at Maymyo, Madaya, Myittha, Boodalet. Theological College a.t Myittha.

Ma.ymyo-Rev. N. 8. Asirvatbam, Tamil Priest, •nd School and Congrega.tion. Rev. C. E. Ga.rrad.

Engli3h Work.-8. Ma.ry, Ma.odala.y-Rev. J C. Lister. Sobool­Misses Upperton and Ga.rrad.. Ma.ymyo-ReY. C. F. Fortescue. S. Michael's Girls' School under Sisters of the Church. The G.F.S. Home of Reat.

RWerint Ch4plaincy.-Rev. J. G. Caldieott, Mogok, Sr.ga.ing, Pakokku 1

Obindwin, Monywa., and Kya.ukse, and Oil Fields. Hcmw.-Winchester Diocesan Aaaociation andSeoreta.riea.

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Wednesday.-Toungoo and Karon Hills; Railway Chaplaincy. Rev. G. H . Hughes, S. Luke's Mission; Rev. G. A. West, S. Peter's

Peter's lfisaion ; six Karen Priests, rour Deacons. Boys' Sehool­Mr. Sbielda. Girle.-Miss Fisher. Theological School. About 100 Christian Villages, 4000 adherents.

English Work.-Rev. T. Fisher at Insein, Thllyetmyo, Pegu, and Tharra. waddy. Rev . G. A. West, S. John Baptist's Church, Toungoo, Shweygin, Tha.ndoung, Pyuntaza, Nyaunglebin, Pyinma.na, and Yametbin. European School , Toungoo-Misa Selby.

HotM.-The Guild of IDtercession and Work. Secret&ries and Members.

Thursday.-Kommondino and Delta; Tbayotmyo, Promo and Bassein-

8. Michael's, Kemmendine, Church, School and Parish-Revs. W. C. B. Purser, C. R. Purser, 8. Po Thet, and N . On Bwin. Kyaiklat Church ant! School-Rev. D. Po Bah. Mingaladon- Blind School-Rev. W. H . Jackson and Mr. Law. S. M1-.ry's Normal School­Misses Roscoe, and Burden.

Chin and Burmese Work from Prome-Rev. S. Maung Tun . English Work.-Rev. A. 8 . Ola.ck, Baasein, Minbu, Yeilangyaung, Magwe,

Henzada, Myaungmya, Maubin, and Pryapon. H011WI.-The Diooeaan Secretanes.

Friday.-Rangoon. English .t Eurarian Work.-Revs. N. K. Anderson at Cathedral,

Ven. W. H. Cowper Johnson, a.t Cantonments. Rev. J . Smith, at S. Philip'a. Diocesan Boys' School-Rev. W. F. Cotton and Mr E . 8. Williams. Girls' School-Misses Hearn, Sumner, Eicke. G.F.S. Work-

Mis•ion 00 Sea.nun.-Bishop's HOf'IU for Gi,.U,-Miss Wa.rlow and Miss Atwool. Burmese Work .-8. Barnabas' Mission & Syriam-Rev. E. H. Cox

and Rev. P. San Nyun. S. John 's College-Rev. A. H . Blencowe. S. Mary's School-Miss Laughlin and Miss Druitt. The Normal School for Masters at S. John's.

Tamil Work .-S. Gabriel-Revs. V. N. Kemp, D. P. Durairaj and A. Coilpillai.

Home.-Our Own Missionary Fund &nd Secretary. The Forwafd Move~ ment a.nd Secretary.

Saturday.-Moulmoin, Car Nicobar, Akyab, Port Blair, Dagshai­Burmesa Work.-S. Augustine's Moulmein, Rev. D. C. Atwool; Rev. s.

Taw Mwa. C&techists ;Bchool-Mr. Tresha.m. 8 . Agnes' School-Ma. Luoy, S. Raphael's Blind School fo,. Girls.- Mr. and Mrs. Poulton. Women's Work.-Mrs. Atwool. Ka,.ens and Tala.ing•-Catechisb. Tamil Work.-C&techist. C'IINMu School, Cr.techis~. Car Nicoba.r.-John Richardson, Catechiat. Dr. and Mn. Royappa.

About 120 Christians, also O&techumens and Soholars.-Mr. Hart. English Work.-:Moulm.ein-8. Matthew's-Rev. B. Ford. S. Matthew's

Boys· Sohool-Mr. Clayton. Girls' Sohool-:Mi1s Fairclough, r.nd Miss Burnett.

~;~~t.•S!n:!::;:x_~:k:,:u::_~~. A. A. Braund. DII@Bho.i-Rev. W. R. P•rk.

DIOCESAN AND LOOAL SECRETARIES. BATH AND WELLs-Miaa C. LythalJ, Barr Bouse, Taunton. BRADFORP AND RIPON-Miss Clark, Rose Cottage, Burosall, Skipton, Yorks. BRISTOL-Mrs. Graham, 10 Dean Street, Bristol. CANTERBURY-Rev. G. Scott, Addington, Sucrey.

Croydon-Mrs. Rickard, 25, Blenheim Park Road. CARLISLE-Mrs. Cbas. Gibson, High Street, Kirkby Stephen. CHELMSFORD-Rev. W. Walker, Pattiswiek Rectory, Braintree. CHESTER-General Secretary (pro tem). CHICBEBTER-Rev. E. B. Hill, 20, Ha.ywa.rd's Road, Hay.,.ard't Heath. CovENTBY.-E. R. Hall, Esq., 26, Mowbray Street, Coventry. DURHAM AND NEWC.A.STLE-J . W. Dick, Esq., Linden Road, Goaforth,

Newcastle-on-Tyoe. Bishop Auckland-Miss Wardle, Castle Square.

ELY-Rev. A. C. Woodhouse, Pa.mpisford, Cambridge. EXETER-Miss Hockmeyer, Shaw Leigh, Bideford. GLOUCI:fiTER-Rev. A. D . Ager, Blockley, Woocestershire.

CMltenJ.am-Miss Hildebrand, Blenheim House. LICHFIELo-Miss Dunkley, Brewood Vicarage, Stafford. LoNDON-Miss Langton, 78 Grosvenor Road, N. 5. MANCHESTER- Rev. W. A. Westley, S. John's Vicar&ge, Oldham. Noawtcs-Rev. F . C. Moore, Sydent.one Rectory, King's Lynn.

Norwich City-Ivirs . Eaton, 26, Eaton Road. OXII'OBD-Miss K. Edmonds, The .Manor House, Haye1, Middleaex1 PETEBBORODGH-Miss I. Lidbetter, Lois Weedon Vicarage, Towcester. RocHESTER-Miss Sautter, Fairfield, Edenbridge, Kent. SALISBURY-Rev. F. E. Trotman, Mere Vicarage, Wilts.

Broadston.e-Miss Houseman, Church Road. SouTHWARK-Misa Page, 19, Hainthorpe Road, B.E. 27.

Gt·~enwi<:h-Mies Hoy, Sl King William Street, S.E. 10. SOUTBWELL-Miss Severn, S6, Spalding Road, Sneiton, Nottingham. S. ALBANS-E. G. ELSON, Esq., !lS Kingsfield Ro&d, Watford. 8. EDMONDSBUBY J.ND IPSWICB-Ven. C. P. Cory, Campsea Ashe

Rectory, Wickham Market. TRURo-Rev. E. A. Bamber, Warleggan Rectory, Bodmin. w ... x~FIELD-Rev. C. S. Newell, B. John, Cleckheaton, Yorks. WI~CBESTER-Rev. A. L. Brown, Wonarah Vicarage, Guildford.

Rev. C. B. Lloyd, Stoke Charity Rectory, Sutton Bcotney, Hants.

11.-liss C • . Willes, Hope Cottage, Little Basing, Baaingstoke. Miss L. McCulloch, West Downs, Petersfield. ·

Wi~hester-Miss Gore Browne, 16 Kingsgate Street. Basin.g-Mias D. Barton, Basing Mill, BaaingaSoke.

WORCESTER-Rev. P. J. Ry&ll, S. Catherine's, Moor, Perahore. WorcesUr City-Miss Bates, Tudor Cott.ge, Worce.ter. Malvem-Mrs. At.wool, 8. Just, M&lvem Link.

You-Rev. J. A. Colbeck, Buratwick Vicarage, Hull.

"· Guu..n oF lNTBROBBBION AND WoaK. •

Members make two or more articles for Sale in England for the benefit of the Rangoon Diocesan· Association Funds, or send an equivalent in money. The articles may be sent either to the Secretaries in London for the November Sale, or to a Branch Secretary for a Local Sale.

Hon. Secreta.ry-Miss LA'l'BOM BaoWNE, 1, Talbot Road, Westbourne Park, W. 2.

STUDENTs' Ftmn . .£8 maintains a Burman, Karen, or Chin for a year in the

Kemmendine Institute for training Teachers and Clergy.

ScaooL CHILDREN's FuND. For the support of orphan and other children in the S.P.G

Schools. Amount' required : £5 a year for a Karen boy or girl at

Toungoo; £6 for a Burmese boy or girl at Bhwebo; £5 for a Burmese boy or girl at Kemmendine or Kyaiklat; 80s. for a Jungle School scholar; £6 for a Burmese boy or girl at Moulmein ; £6 for a Burmese boy at S. John's College, or girl at B. Mary's Schools, Rangoon, or at Mandalay.

Note.-It is not necessa.ry for a School wishing to maintain a child to pledge itself to raise the full amount in the first year or in any year-only to do as much as it can.

Miss LANGTON, 78 Grosvenor Road, London, N. 5. will be ple&aed to furnish any information.

NEWSPAPERS FOB TBB MISSIONARIES.

Friends willing to send weekly, monthly or quarterly papers and magazines to any of the Missionaries should communicate with-

Miss N. LANGTON, 78 Grosvenor Road, London, N. 6. who keeps lists Qf papers sent and papers desired.

CoLLEOTIMG BoxEs. These can be obtained of the General or Diocesan Secretarial.

SERMONs, ADDRESSES AND LEcTURES. The General and Diocesan Secretaries will be glad to give

or arrange for Sermons, Addresses or Lectures (with or without Lantern), and Drawing Room Meetings.

SALE OF STAMPS. The Rev. S. 0. GooDCHILD, The College, Northfleet, Kent,

undertakes the sale of stamps on behalf of the Mission, and will be very thankful to friends who will send him sets for sale. Shoots sent on approval.

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Oovornment ChaplainS. Rev .. N. K. ANDEB.SON, .M.A., Ox:iel Collcme .• . O.xfo.r.d-Ca.thedr.&l . .,. 1911 Rev. W. D:&LAHAY-Bhamo . • • . • . • • . • 1911 'Rev. C. F. FORTESCUE-Maymyo • . • • ~ . . • •• 1922 The Ven. W. H. CowPER JOHNSON., M".A., Trinity College, Ca.mbddge-

Ra.ngoon Cantonments (.A.rchdeacon.) . • . . • . 1~ ReY. G. H. \Bruce Kerr, L ;H:!h. D.ur.ham .. . 1910-19 "Rev. A. '0. N . 'LEE, M.A., C&mbridge-K:a:la-w . . . . .!19l6-21 Rev. J . G . LISTER, M.A., S. Catb.erine's College, Cambridge-Mandab.y 19ljl Rev. W. ~ . .P-'.RK, B.A., ®xet~r College, Ox:iord-Da.gsbai . . : .. U.9U Rev. G .. A . .R. T HURSRIELn., 14/A,-, S. John's CollAge, Cambriage---

(J)n leave) .. .. . . ... .. .. , . .. 1913

DiDce.§an Boy~s .H.ig'b School, . Rangoon, .Rev. ·W.T. Oo'I'ToN, .M.A., Oxfo.rd .. 19"20 .1\fr. E. STUART W ILLIAMS, B.A., Oxford 1~

.Mission to Seamma.

Moulmein. After-car.e of Blind. Boys' School.

:Mr. TRESHAM. Mr, POULTON . • 19.23

WOMEN'S WORK. Diocesan Olrls' High School, Rangoon.

MissCoLBATCHCLARK,B.A .,L·ondon 1969 Miss HEARN, B.A., Londpn Miss SuMNER . . .1906 (on fU1·lo-ug1tJ 1912

:Miss E1CKE . • 1922

:Miss LAUGULIN S. Mary's School, Rangoon.

1897 • MISS DRUITT 1909

S. Mary's Kemmendine, Normal, ... Practising and Blind Schools. Miss RoscoE, ~LA. .. 1920 Miss ENGLAND (on furlough 1919

· Miss H unDEN (Delta W01·k).

S. Luke's School, Toungoo. S. Agnes' School, Mo.ulmein . Miss FISHER • • . 1903 MA L UCY.

Miss SELBY

S. John's E uropean School; Toungoo. 1907

S. Matthew's School, Moulmein. Miss F AillCLOUGH :Miss BunNETI'

S . Mary 's European School, Mandalay .

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Mi SS GARRAD . , , • 1919 1\Iiss UPPERTON , • 1923

S . Michael's Girls' School, Maymyo. S isters Lars, AMY, ELSIE, H ARRJET. Mi::;s SEELE Y (on leave) 1!=12 1

Bishop's Ho me, Rangoon. Miss J..VAULOW . . ·, . 1920 Mi Ss J AMESON 192 4.

Community of \\'omen, Winchester Miss ion, 1\-'landalay'. Miss PATCH . 1908 . ~li~;s GRACE WATSON

Dr. MARY fuAKEST0N , . 1923 ~figs FLECK 1923 :Miss A. CAM • , 1222 :?\riss ATWOOL • • '1911

G.F.S. and Girls' 'H0stf~l.

GirJs' Blind School, 1\'loulmein. Mrs. 'PoULTO~ .. 1923.

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