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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE RETURN TO BURMA ? THE WORK IN TOUNGOO?JOURNEY TO THE SHAN STATES PERILS BY THE WAY In 1860, Mr. Bixby was appointed by the Missionary Union to open a new mission to the Shans, in Burma, and he gladly responded. He arrived in Rangoon, with his wife and daughter, March 23, 1861. A tedious journey by a native boat brought them, on the 8th of May, to Toungoo. There they learned that, because of warlike disturbances, Shans were coming over into the British possessions, and that ten thousand had settled in the vicinity of Toungoo. In the first year Mr. Bixby began to prepare a vocabulary of the Shan language; and wrote two Shan tracts. Meantime he distributed many Burmese tracts, which had already proved an effectivemethod of preaching. As an instance of this he cites the following: One day a man asked me if I was Jesus Christ's teacher. I told him that I was. He then stated one Scripture truth after another, until he had given a summary of the Gospel. I asked where he had learned these truths. He replied: " I have been reading your books and liked especially one written by Teacher Ingalls, entitled Glad Tidings." This man was soon converted and became a great help in the mission. A chapel was an immediate necessity. For this the English Deputy Commissioner gave Mr. Bixby a piece of land, the site of a ruined pagoda. There were many such places in the neighborhood, the disturbance of which always aroused the indignation of priests. " There is a great amount of silver at the base of this pagoda," they said.?" Dig for it and take it away. I do not want it," replied the missionary. For several days they dug, but in vain. " We want to rebuild the pagoda," was the next plea. Mr. Bixby knew this was false and refused to yield. " It is an awful sin for ...

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