History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . now the prophecy of their fa-thers would be fulfilled. This singular prediction was, Children andgrandchildren ! the powerful will continue to demand of the weak. Whenthey come by land, mourn—when they come by water, laugh. Now,they say, the prophecy is fulfilled. We still have to pay taxes, but oursituation under the English, who came by water, is such that we maylaugh, while we ever had cause for weeping under our oppressions, whengoverned by Burmans, Talings, or Siamese, who came by land. At Mata, the
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . now the prophecy of their fa-thers would be fulfilled. This singular prediction was, Children andgrandchildren ! the powerful will continue to demand of the weak. Whenthey come by land, mourn—when they come by water, laugh. Now,they say, the prophecy is fulfilled. We still have to pay taxes, but oursituation under the English, who came by water, is such that we maylaugh, while we ever had cause for weeping under our oppressions, whengoverned by Burmans, Talings, or Siamese, who came by land. At Mata, they found nearly one hundred members of the church. In1S32, the Christians living scattered in Tshick-koo, Kantha, Khyaungsong-kyi, Ngalikyi, Nga-pauktaung, Hidu, Kweytha, Kyet-Pway, Khat, Yekyn,and Kweytha, had been assembled by one of the missionaries, the disadvan-tages of their present situation stated, and the proposal made that theyshould agree to locate themselves together, that all might be furnished withreligious privileges, and schools for their children. A site, known as the. MAP OF MATA, AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY. Drawn by Rev. Prandi* Maaon. 518 BAPTIST nENERAt CONVENTTOK. ancient city, of whose history even the parents of the most aged peopleliving had no tradition, was selected, lying in the forks at the confluence ofthe Ben and Kha-maung-thwey rivers. The people consented to remove tothis spot, and called it, instead of the ancient city, Mata, or the City ofLove. A small mission house was immediately erected, and around this,as a central point, the people hegan the following year to collect. Matastands on a bluff nearly an hundred feet high, two hundred miles aboveMergui in latitude 14 deg. 12 min., about twenty miles in a direct lineE. N. E. from Tavoy. It is near the principal road from Tavoy to Bang-kok, and the Siamese settlements are only two or three days walk miles below, near the Tenasserim, is a hot spring strongly impregnat-ed with sulph
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