Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-01-07

hands to God; Oh that American Chris
tians would take careful survey Of this
vast field, and send up their united petit
tons to,the God ofan grace in behalf of
these. nations. -.Ionly wish that all who
love our Lord Jesus could witness what
have seen this day,-the vast multitude Of
human beings, the temples, the pagodas,
the idols. 1t was night-faH when | pass
ed Ummerapoora with its 10000 souls,
and late lnthe evening when came under
the metropolitan walls of Ava. What an
ocean of immortal beings are here; but
oh how degraded, how proud, how aw-
fully far from God the gloom ofnight is
only faint resemblance of that moral
darkness that lies deep and heavy on this
city, yet here the eye can find a resting
place-there is little band of believing
souls within these walls and at this hour
they are bowling down before the throne
Of grace.
MISSION TO THE SHANs.
We have the pleasure of announcing to
our readers thatthe Board are on the point
of realizing their long cherished hopes of
Introducing the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ among this numerous and benight-
ed people. Rev Mr. Brown, recently of
, the Mission. of Maulmein, has already
, been set apart to the work, and will enter
upon it with the least possible delay NJ
is expected, also, that one of the printers at
= Maulmein, with printing press, will ac-
- company him.
The station, at which it is proposed to
commence operations, is Sudlya, situated
:, In the northeastern extremity Of Assam,
. about 400 miles north of Ava, and lat the
- northernmost point Of territory inhabited
u by the great Shan family.' The attention
% of the Board has been specially directed
to this point, in consequence of letter ad-
dressed TO Mr. Trevelyan, of the Civil
- Service, Calcutta, by Captain F Jenkins,
=! Governor Generals Agent and Commits
! sioner in Assam, resident at Gowahatti
~ The letter was written in reply to one
y from Mr. Trevelyan, in which he had en-
closed communication from the Cores
80 ponding Secretary Of the Board to Rev
49, WIN H. Pearce, Of the English Baptis
~ ~ Mission, Calcutta, and is dated Gowa
~, haiti, 10th March, 1885
~ The ground would particularly visl
81 81 TO bring to their notice, (Capt. J. says il
q this letter,) is the northeastern district c
~ Assam, occupied by two tribes of the grea
gu Shan family, the Khamtis and the Sing
Nc phoS. The dialects of these tribes dif1e
- very little from the Siamese and Burmese
W. and the characters in use are essential
the same; and, in consequence of the ST.
premacy of the Burmese being establish
ed over the original provinces whenc
our Shans came, with the inhabitants
No. which they are in constant commune;
ton, the Burmese language is in a mea
urc known to all these tribes.'
~, Capt. Jenkins proceeds to remark tn
~ the labors of our Missionaries in Burma
would be, with very little difficulty mac
on available for the district round Sudiya, al
er- here they (the missionaries from BurmaE
rye would labor under the protection of OF
OF government, and not be liable to tho
eA- checks which the Rangoon Mission h
OF constantly suffered from the jealousy al
SEE barbarity Of the Ava government II
1elr Shans, too, with whom the Mission
1 10 Sudiya would be brought in contact, are
hey much finer and more intelligent peor
lelr than the Burmese, and ten times as
leSe ,nerous Their L;ndro1 roo,a ,,.<,,
Dc throug hout the country whence arise
lore the mighty rivers from the Burhampoot
lelI to Kianguan (the river of Nankin y tn
n nos occupy entirely the two frontier PROVING
' NE of Ava-Hookoom and Moongkoom :
WIN they occupy all the east bank Of the Irr
o. waddy; they stretch down the SaIw6n
81 TcnasSerlm. Laos and Siam, and Coch
on China are their proper countries; tn
'iio compose half the population of Yunnan
great proportion of that Of Salwen, a
eaK stretch up into that district that has alwa
!. d.! baff1ed the Chinese, between Thibet, T;
nelr tary and Lechuen whilst Assam is chi
rom ly populated by the overfowings of Il
'e'" great peopl lie. The Cacharese are Shan
aye and the governing race of Upper Ass5
for many centuries,-the Ahoms are
lfse tribe from the highest eastern sources
rue the Irrawaddy, and until very lately tn
aAe' kept up communication with their p
apr ent stock. Here is an ample field, 1t
It 10 indeed boundlcss; for it extcnls over
10 the north and west Of China, flor such
Rot' the extent of commune alton that we co.
ara ara n1and from Sudiya,) and it embraces sol
of the most fertile and most temper;
sur countries on the face Of the EARTH"
NY Mr. T. says -
,rcb From this point (Sudiya) an imprt
;tted sion may be made upon Burmah, from
into exactly opposite quarter from thatat viii
The it has been heretofore entered by the m
oon- sionary. The communication is CD
No with Yunnan, the westernmost province
!. ~, China, and it is the intention ofthe Indi
r;oe government to send a mission there
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