"Twelve Karens arrived last evening, six of whom have asked for baptism. These, together with the two received last sabbath, I baptized this afternoon, in the royal tank.

Baptized four more Karens. We had no Karen interpreter, but they all spoke Burman, so that we succeeded much better than we had anticipated in their examination. These make twenty-two I have baptized within these three weeks, and many more are said to wish for baptism, of whom the native brethren speak favorably. The instruments in this work of grace have been three men, and two lads under fifteen years, all of whom can scarcely read Burman at all, and understand it less, and who, if they read Karen, have but a single tract of six pages, besides a spelling-book of thirtythree pages, in all their language.

"How great is the grace of God, to render the truth so plain that the mere child may teach enough, if it be received with unwavering faith in God, to purify the heart and life and prove the salvation of the soul."

After the persecution commenced, Ko Thah-byu, being a prominent individual, left Maubee by the advice of his countrymen, and fled to Pegu. Mr. Webb writes in September, 1835; "Kyouk-kheh, an interesting Karen, from the Karen brook, visited me last evening, and staid through the night. The villages along the Karen brook are subject to Mau

bee city, and have shared in common with the other Maubee Karens in the persecution. I learned from him several interesting particulars; a circumstance peculiarly gratifying, as we have not before heard any thing from these villages since the first of their troubles."

"The Maubee governor has under his control, one thousand houses. Before the persecution, Myatthah, one of the Karen Christians, was appointed by him, ruler of one hundred houses. When the persecution began, Myat-thah and every other one who professed to believe in Christ, were seized and fined, in all, to the amount of four hundred rupees. This was a heavy fine, considering that a Karen seldom has property to the amount of fifty dollars. Myatthah was deposed from his office, and Kyouk-kheh put in his place. He says, that among the one hundred under him, fourteen are Christians, and have been fined for their religion. He has not yet been baptized, though he says he and his wife, and all his relations worship God, and all suffered in the general persecution. He says the Karens are afraid to visit me, but they daily worship God, and never worship the nats, or the pagodas. Indeed, the whole account he gives of them is of a pleasing charac

ter.

"We had heard nothing from Ko Thah-byu for four months. Kyouk-kheh says, he has heard of

him at Pegu, preaching among about two thousand Karens who live in that vicinity. When the persecution commenced at Maubee, his brethren advised him to avoid it; and so, like an apostle, when they. persecute him in one city, he flees to another."

In December, 1836, Mr. Howard, writing from the scene of Ko Thah-byu's labors in Maubee, and on the first visit of missionaries, says; "I left Rangoon, November 18th, with brethren Vinton and Abbott, for the purpose of visiting the Karens in Maubee and vicinity, among whom no missionary had ever been. As brother Vinton sends you a journal of the whole affair, it is unnecessary that I should detail particulars. I will only add my testimony, that the persons baptized (one hundred and sixty seven) during the week which we spent among these children of the forest, sustained as good an examination as any of an equal number I ever witnessed in America. The helpless condition of man as a sinner, and the way of salvation through Christ alone, were truths apparently well understood by all; and though they had every reason to expect that cruel persecution would be the result of their professed allegiance to the Saviour, yet their's was the confidence and the joy of those, who could say, 'I know in whom I have believed.' In this section are probably a hundred or more believing Karens, who are still waiting for an opportunity to be