Afoot and afloat in Burma . s for tellingothers of the gospel message. When we reach our destination, we mustcarefully canvass the whole town. This willtake us two or three days; so for the time ofour stay we will live at the dak bungalow,unless we meet some friend who invites us tohis house. Up and down each street we go,calling at every house with our papers, andby the time the day is over we find that manyhave been disposed of. Even the Chinesepawnbrokers and liquor sellers readily buythe Chinese papers we have, while men fromdifferent parts of India come to us for thepapers in their variou


Afoot and afloat in Burma . s for tellingothers of the gospel message. When we reach our destination, we mustcarefully canvass the whole town. This willtake us two or three days; so for the time ofour stay we will live at the dak bungalow,unless we meet some friend who invites us tohis house. Up and down each street we go,calling at every house with our papers, andby the time the day is over we find that manyhave been disposed of. Even the Chinesepawnbrokers and liquor sellers readily buythe Chinese papers we have, while men fromdifferent parts of India come to us for thepapers in their various languages. Althoughit is not possible for us to do more than On the River Launches 187 carry on a casual conversation with many ofthose we meet, yet we leave with all a silentmessenger giving them the story in theirmother tongue. Up and down the railway and steamerroutes, and in the parts where these facilitiesdo not exist, our canvassers have gone andstill go; and in this way the work is reachingout all over the Burmese Aboard a Launch


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