Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-12

est1ng SchOOAS-A Hospital ScShe-EAos and Lively RanGOon-The Railroads oi Standardization Influence.
 RANGooN, British Burmah, Feb. Is.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The American Baptists have taken British
 Burnah by storm. I cannot understand
 why this should be so, unless the other de-
 nominations have recognized the Rignaily
 proVidentisl way in which the field has been thrown into the hands of the Baptists, and dare not assume the responsibility of sharing a work which is being done so well. There are at least seyenty.two American Baptist missionaries in British Burmah, and four
 lover the ine.'' There are also plenty of Catholic missions and few English "High Church' missions, of the very loftiest type of high churchism. In laboring among the Burmese these missionaries have to encoun- tsr Buddhism in it's purest form, which is always most unfavorable to the spread of the true gospel. But there are wild aboriginal tribes, as, for instance, the Shans, Karens and
 Kakhyens. who are not held by any religious thraldom, among whom missionary effort is specially successful. Among the Burmese
 proper there are about an even two thousand Protestant communicants to day.
 I found Rev. E w. Kelly's residence to be like those of all the European families living in Moulmein, built upon piles for the double purpose of ventilation and excluding ground insects and small reptiles. I enjoyed the novel experience of being driven in gharry right under the house to the back front stair way, or front back stairway, whichever you please. In other words, the front of the house looked toward the rear of the lot upon which 1t was built, in order to promote the coolness of the front rooms. After brief inspection of Mir. Kelly's pleasant home and entered gharry aud began our tour of the schools. We first drove about three miles to the mission among the Karens, which is in charge of Rev. and Mrs. Price, late of Penn sylvania and Ohio, and Miss Carton, of Iowa. The Karen school had just closed, but we took 8 look over the buildings. The two best buildings were put up entirely by Karen money. They are of course buildings of simple construction, but are made of superb teak wood, which would be fabulously expen sive at home. Glancing at the rcl found that it contained 130 names and was iEtro- duced to several of the students, who were just packing up their things to go home. The Karen countenance ia mild and pleasant, and just distinct enough from the Burmese type tO 1AdhO LA0 hOohthtC AhhlOA6lAGy "64l-OGHucu These Karens,N said MT. Price, ''seem to bear some such relationship to the Burmese as the American Indians do to us at home They are subjpgated aboriginal race no doubt. When we found them they had no written language and no religion, although they cherished good many religious trsdi- tions that were extraordinarily akin to the scriptural history of Christianity. Hence they have taken to Christianity with phenom enal readiness Although our mission is ten years younger than that among the Burmese we have 24 ,OOO communicants Rs against 2,000 Burmese. This. too, in spite of the fact that there are millions of Burmese, and only from 300,000 to 100000 Karens It argues nothing in our favor. The difference lies altogether in the recipiency of the peo-- pie. When Buddhism has once gained 8 foothold among people it is very hard to unsest it." t'Ars the Karens naturally a fierce race ?" ':On the contrary. they are one of the gentIGst and moat timid of all the AEiatic peoplss They are 8 jungle people, and even to this day when I go into their villages on the distant mountains, the people will desert their homes and rush away in direst fear. Whole villages may thus be de- populated at the approach of a single white man. The converted Karens are now send- ing missionaries out among their fellow tribes on the mountains 7"
 From the Karen school we drove to the OuEHCSC OOyb SCAOOA unOeE G1S CuHE&0 OA Miss Barrows. Here the advanced classes performed complicated sums in algebra for us in English. Their teacher was an intelli- gent young man whose father had been 8 Eurasian and his mother Chinese. He &C., cordingly effected compromise in his style of living by wearing European clothes and dressing his hair in decent Occidental fssh~ ion, except at the very crown of his head, where he grew ssmall but select" pigtail.
 In the Tamil branch of the school I was especially interested. It was under the charge eff a young Tamil and his wife, 8 really handsome woman of the same race, named Joanna, The children were mere specks of humanity of an intensely black hue. When asked to sing for my benefit they pipsd hymn with Joanna's assistance to the familiar tune of :'We won't go home till morningl" Perhaps I laughed immod erately at the incongruousness of the combi- nation, but I was nevertheless pleased with the little episode. The whole school num- bered 21O boys.
 Thence VIC proceeded to the girls school, where 11O girls were under the charge of Miss Sheldon, of Providence Rhode Island Here we were favored, with Bringing in the and other Moody and Sankey tunes sung both in Burmese and English, for though Burmese is the language of the class room, English is also taught, and most of the text books in the advanced studies are in English. Then we visited the Eurasian Home where thirty-four friendless children are being cared for and educated under the surveillance of Miss Bum, of Pittsburg
 Lastly we went to the medical dispensary and hospital, where Miss Dr. Mitchell and g corps of assistants attend to the physical woes of the natives. Here I made the &C., quaintancs of 8 finely educated Burmese physician by the name of Shaw Loo. s'Wsre you ever in Amsrica, sir ?'' in- quired. 1T received my medical education" was the reply, tat Cleveland, Ohio, in the years 1866 and 1867" At the mention of the name of my own native city I shook hands with Dr. Shaw-Loo again, and promised faithfully to tender his kindest regards to Dr. Weber, Dr. Scott and the others of his teachers upon my return Verify BurEnsn is capable of a great deal under cultivation. We now stepped into the hospital, where a young Burmese girl lay on cot near the door. ''Poor thingl" said Miss Mitchell aside to me. 'It is only 8 question of few hours with her, and do nos think she can live the day out Consumption Is 8 sad scourge in Burmah. We brought her here to die about 8 week ago, as she had no home that was fit for the final scene" At tbis point the large lustrous eyes opened and weak voice said in broken English: 'sDo you think it will be long now, Miss Mitchell? 1 an so tired waiting for the snd.' "OnIy a littls while, dear,' said Miss Mitchell, as she kissed the wan forehead and smoothed the counterpane. And sAe added as va passed into the next room 'tShe Is not quite twenty years old yet, but she keeps longing and praying for the end.'' Poor, faithful souiI have seen no faith more beautiful in any land. whether the full gospel day shons upon it or the light was only just beginning to break Doubtless e'er I am penning these lines ths gates have swung wide open to thy soul snatched from hesthenism and for the fullaess of welcome that awaited beyond. many of the potentates and mighty men of this generation WiIl finally pray in vainl
 From the dsathbed we went literally to the marriage festival. In other words our next visit was to chapel adjoining Mir. Kelly's homo, where two Christian Burmans were united in wedIock according to a civilized legal service Owing to the multiplicity of things to be recorded in this letter I must de- fer sny further mention of this interesting event. Suffice it to record that at the end of our trip we pulled up at Mr. Kelly's home, and I enjoyed 8 repast including pumpkin, for dessert and several other dishes familiar at home. but which had not vet tasted anywhere in the Orient.
 Of Rsngoon there is nothing unfavorabIe to be eafd, except it is like furnace heated seven times Being located forty miles up the mighty Irrawaddy river, 1t never gets the