Many of the expressions of this young convert are very interesting.  We find them in a letter from Mrs. Judson.  “In our religion there is no way to escape the punishment due to sin; but according to the religion of Christ, he himself has died in order to deliver his disciples.  How great are my thanks to Jesus Christ for sending teachers to this country! and how great are my thanks to the teachers for coming!” On hearing the fifth chapter of Matthew read, he said “These words take hold on my very heart, they make me tremble.  Here God commands us to do everything that is good in secret, and not to be seen of men.  How unlike our religion is this!  When Burmans make offerings to the pagodas they make a great noise with drums and musical instruments that others may see how good they are.  But this religion makes the mind fear God; it makes it of its own accord fear sin.”

In the same letter she mentions a very interesting meeting with the females before mentioned, fifteen in number, who had for some time received from her religious instruction.  Their love for, and confidence in their own religion seemed to be taken away; the truth seemed to have forced itself upon their understandings; but the sinfulness of their hearts, which among heathen as well as Christian nations is the great obstacle to salvation, could only be removed by the Holy Spirit, and oh how earnest and fervent were the prayers of their teacher for the presence of that heavenly agent!

Mr. Wheelock, one of the recently arrived missionaries, was obliged on account of his failing health to try a sea-voyage; but during the passage to Bengal, in a paroxysm of fever and delirium, he threw himself overboard and was drowned.

Some of the inquirers at the zayat had no inconsiderable powers of reasoning and argument; one in particular, named Moung-Shwa-gnong; who would spend whole days at the zayat, and engage Mr. Judson in endless discussions.—­Not satisfied with the Buddhist faith he had become a confirmed skeptic, and disputed every Gospel truth before he received it with much subtilty and ingenuity.  But after a while he found that his visits at the zayat had attracted the notice of Government, that the viceroy on being told he had renounced the religion of his country, had said, ‘Inquire further about him,’ and the missionaries for a time saw him no more.

The two candidates that next presented themselves for baptism, were urgent that the ordinance should be performed, not absolutely in private, but at sunset and away from public observation.  The missionaries discussed their case long with them and with each other.  Mr. Judson’s remarks on the subject, as well as his description of the baptism, are so full of that tenderness and pathos which is eminently a ‘fruit of the Spirit,’ that we must give them in his own words.