The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-09
FINDS BURMAH
FRUITFUL FIELD
WA. Sharpe Describes Inter-
eSting Conditions in the
Orient.
PLANS OF THE BRITISH
USING THE RAILROAD TO IN
WADE SOUTH CHINA.

Rev w A. Sharpe, one OF the hard
working American missionaries in the
Orient, who is now in this city lectur-
ing upon foreign missionary work. tells
an interesting story of the life of the
American who goes abroad in church
work. His incidents of life in the ORR
ent form an edifying picture of the
work that the men OF his kind are sent
to the east to do. He utterly repudi-
ates the idea that missionaries have not
won their place in the great work Of
opening to the Occidental world the ORR
ent, with its teeming millions and won
derful possibilities. His deductions are
based on twelve years service as
Baptist missionary in the far east.
Mr.. Sharpe's work has been mostly III
Burmsh, but his experiences have not
been confined TO that nation. Travelling
much up and down the China coast he
has seen and been able from his own
experience TO value the work of his fell
low missionaries in the China coast from
Shanghai beyond the Straits and into
India. Everywhere he notes. not only
pi ogreSs, but an increased standing of
the missionary sects among the people
with whom their work is He was one
OF the delegates to the Shanghai con-
ference last spring, which was regarded
of such importance by the Chinese gov
eminent that fourteen out of nineteen
provincial VicerOys attended it on the
part of the Celestial empire, and the re
suits Of which, in the amalgamation of
the various religious denominations. re-
corded an epoch in Chinese missionary
work, and whose effects beyond the Pa
eific are apt TO make that occasion one
OF the religious landmarks of the gene
ration
Years of Preparation.
Mr.. Sharpe who, although yet a young
man, shows in the seriousness of his
purpose and the determined lines of his
face the marks of hardship and strug-
gle. was born in Topeka. Kan. He was
educated in that state and at the Uni
versity of Chicago. Upon the compile
ton of his studies. which were from the
first designed to equip him for the for
eign missionary field, he was married
and assigned TO EuTasian work at Ran
COON, the capital of the province of Bur
nah, the easternmost portion of the In
dian empire.
He arrived in RangoOn in 1893 and
from then until the spring of 1900 de-
voted himself to the acquisition of the
Burmese language and customs. TO edu-
cational and church work in the vari
Gus Baptist church institutions, which are
leading the educational and evangelical
work in that part of the world. He
spent two years thereafter in the United
States engaged in lecture work upon the
mission field. And the subsequent five
years again saw him at his post in Bur
nah. In the spring of this year he at
tended the Morrison centenary at Shang-
hal and returned to the United States
in June. He will be occupied this year
In the lecture work among Baptist
churches and will have chair in the
Baptist Theological seminary at Kansas
City. where he will make his home.
Mr.. Sharpe talked most Interestingly of
Burmah and the Oriental situation.
6urmah's Capital.
My time in Burmah." he said. Il di-
vided between Pynmana. where l had for
three years and more a church of my