History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . circles ; the Christian demeanor of the foreign converts furnishing a livingattestation of the power of the gospel upon heathen hearts. In the course of this journey, many small donations were given to Ko Chet- thing, designed for his own person-al benefit. Just before embarkingforBurmah, he requested the Treas-urer of the Board to exchange thismoney for Spanish dollars. Thisdone, he exultingly held up hispurse, and said, this no Ko Chet-things money; this Jesus Christsmoney. He had formed a resolu-tion,
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . circles ; the Christian demeanor of the foreign converts furnishing a livingattestation of the power of the gospel upon heathen hearts. In the course of this journey, many small donations were given to Ko Chet- thing, designed for his own person-al benefit. Just before embarkingforBurmah, he requested the Treas-urer of the Board to exchange thismoney for Spanish dollars. Thisdone, he exultingly held up hispurse, and said, this no Ko Chet-things money; this Jesus Christsmoney. He had formed a resolu-tion, which on his return, he ful-filled, of building a zayat with it inwhich to preach to his letter from Mr. Wade writtenon their return voyage, containssome notices of the deportment ofKo Chet-thing and Moung ShwayMoung which aire peculiarly grati-fying, considering that the totalchange of their circumstances andthe abundant, and perhaps not al-ways juffilcious, attentions whichthey received in America, were a„ -^ „ severe test of their Christian char- MoUDg Shway Moun^.. EIGHTH TRIENNIAL MEETING OF THE CONVENTION. *539 acter. The Karen, you know, was so humble, steadfast, and zealous indoing good while in America, that we might almost literally say he wasunblameable and unrebukable before God and man; but the grace of Godhas abounded in him more and more. Of the Burman, he says, It waswith great satisfaction that I saw him coming into my cabin one day, withhumility and penitence depicted on his countenance, and heard him volun-tarily acknowledge how unworthy he considered himself of having a placeamong the disciples of Christ, mentioning particularly his ingratitude for allthe kindness which we and Christians in America had shown him. Thistenderness and humility continued, and furnished better evidence of pietythan he had ever before given. The eighth triennial Convention, met in Richmond, Virginia, April 29,1835. The presence of the Rev. Dr. Cox and the Rev. Mr
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