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:fBurma lAcwsRECORD OF THE RANGOON !>IOCESAl' ASSOCIATION

THE BISHOP'S LETTER

My dear Friends,It's always difficult to take up the story when you can 't remember

where you left off•... But here are the things which are uppermost in myconsciousness at the moment .

There is the Diocesan Council, with i t~ big job of considering the NO l thIndiatpakistan -and Ceylon Reunion Schemes. Our Commtuee has workedreally hard at these, and submitted its recommendations. We came -tothe conclusion in the end that more still has to be done if this is to ;)ea real step .towards " Unity."

We await the welcome visit of the Rev. Kendrick Hughes, and St . Luke's,Toungoo, is staging much for him . There should also be a number ofother vlsltors passing through after the World Council meet ing at Delhipresently . Esther Hla Gyaw will be going to this as representing You.h,and the Rev. Jahn ·Maung Pe both for Province and Diocese .

Other expected visitors are the Rev, Gilbert Baker, of the ChurchOverseas Council and the Rev. Cyril ·Brown of the Missions to Seamen .. The Rev. John Lee, once of Holy Cross College, and now liaison forthe work with the Chinese Dispers ion throughout S.E. Asia, comes forthree weeks at the time of the Diocesan Council. i especially welcomethis, as our work for Chinese has been very haphazard, at any rate inrecent years.

Of .. events OJ two things stand out in my mind. First, immediatelyafter the Diocesan Council the Rev. Joseph Maung Maung Is set to breakopen what is in fact a new .. mission area ." !He has already made twoprospecting journeys north-west of Prome over the 'Irrawaddy, and reportsthat there is a real field here, and that the people are ready to welcomehim. H is base will be at Thayetmyo. I asked him to get a photo of thechurch and parsonage there as they are today. I have forwarded thtsto S.P.G The photo shows an unrelieved piece of jungle with some treesat the back. . The well has gone .. back to nature." And that is hisbase! All, : in fact, that is left .from earlier days is the plinth of thechurch and parsonage buildings. He has thls : iJ1 hand, For the work

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proper there is almost unlimited opporaunlty, and 'he hopes to have twoyoung Catechists with him, who will settle in at different villages andearn the ir keep !by teachi -ng. Here, 'then, is one more example of the newpattern of .. na'tional" :initiative and (('esponsibility, for which we are allgratefuJ. Please remember him and those with him.

The seco~d .. event" happened clast week. As you already kno w inthe Kach in iSta·te we have been having trouble. A group broke away andformed what they called the II Chrlstlan Freedom-Church." As r' havebeen go.ng round in these paras, it became clear to me that action wascalled for to strengthen and help those who remained staunch. [thereforeasked the ·Kachin clergy and some of the leaders from both south andfrom the Triangle to meet me ,in Myitkyina on October 4j) and 5th.-Fln ty-four came , and . while I admit 1I was more chan a little anxious aboutit all, I was thoroughly rebuked for my .. little fa lth " by what happened.First. t·he presence 0·( ten Kachin clergy was a striking novelty; when Icame there was one only. Secondly. there was determination to havenorth and south work ing as one . Thirdly. it was agreed that the timewas not ready for a new Archdeaconry of 'Myitky ina. But, fourthly. thereshould be an interim Area Church Council, on.wh ich both north and southv. -re represented. and that this Council should work under and !beresponsible to ·the Diocesan Council . A letter was wr i-tten to the DiocesanC' .uncll asking for this , ·Fifthly, the formation of parishes was urgentlyneeded. That was the greater part of the .. business:' And then-afterW,' had .finished-a large group got hold of Bishop Aung Hla, and said :W,! must have a .. convention " to pray and study together; it may be uptp 1.000 strong, from all parts; and we ought to hold it in 'One of thevi.lages where there have been difficulties about the" split : ' This was

~ ~ ~ .'cr~a:~i~g<:°a~~~~~e~~ira~d~~~:;~~~iV:ll a~~a{ei~p~~~~~li~~k:dn~S·t~~~pruvlslcn of teaching. Ieadership in worship, etc . lClearly this is the newp,::tern. My hope ·and prayer is that th is is the beginning 'Of the endor much unpleasantness and •• speaking against," which we have beensuIfering from for a number of years.

You will be sorry to hear that the Rev. Timothy Tun Sein has beenknocked down with T.B. Dr . Brears at lSyriam has ordered him threemouths absolute rest with a possible extension if necessary. The ·Rev.Snphen Thaung Tin is moving up temporarily to Syriam, while SayaT lI :' Sein is off duty.

'<he Rev, Peter Ba Maw is now parish priest of Inseln , in place of theRev. H. Ba Htet, who has retired. Saya Ba M-aw continues as Bishop 'sChuplaln, and gives Kyaiklat a visit one Sunday a mont·h.

v' uch has got into the press of various countries about , the matter ofthe State ·Religion. ,I do not believe that there is real cause for anxiety inany way. The iPrime Minister and Government could not have done moreto ne fair to minorities. and the new definition of freedom of religlon ,which includes the words .. freedom to teach " is a great boon. The

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tho devout leade rs of the country that Burma shall not be a secula r,materlalistState; and that is surely laudable.

Rangoon has well topped the hundred inches of rain th is year. withplaces like lM'oulmein trying to double the ·amount. 'But it is in thedistricts that the real trouble lies . The rice crops have been destroyedin a number of places, and the latest is that on Thandaung side they havebeen having an unprecedented plague of rats and other eater-up ofstores. 'It really is very serious, and relief funds are being raised .

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Miss Lewis is doing a wonderful jab, ge~ting about all over the placeand .. teaching teachers how to .teach .. religion , as well as getting out aproper syllabus for thls.

I hope that some of you wlll jbe meeting our two Holy Cross studentsnow a'~ St . Augustine's, Canterbury. They ace Peter Hla Mauog, nephewof Bishop Aung Hla, and Saw Peter Thein Maung-c-so We bave bothBurman and Karen. They hope to spend Holy Week and Easter at Mirfield.Also coming to England in the New Year will be Mr. H. Booth: thePrincipal of rst. John's Diocesan High School, Rangoon. It has been fora long time his desire to go forw.ard to Holy Orders, and he will bespending so:ne months preparing for this.

The only other .. novelty" is the presence in 'Mandalay. living in theChrist Church parsonage, of four students working up for the HighSchool Final and at the same time increasing their English . This done.they will come to Holy Cross in preparation for Ordination. This is anexperiment, with a view to raising the educational standard of Our futureclergy generally.

I cannot end without a sincere note of gratitude for all the intere st.gifts, and prayers that flow from you. Believe me, it helps!

Yours in our Lord,VICTOR RANGOON.

ANNUAL MEETING, 1961The meeting was held at S.'P.G. House on June 14th with Bishops Fyffe

in the Chair. Bishop Tubbs opened the meeting wi,th prayer, followed bythe Rev. G. Appleton. who told us there was no special speaker this timebut many interesting letters 'had been received which gave a good pictureof the general position of things at the ~resent time. First he read a

~~n~m~~ds~g~~le:~i~oJ~~~~, ~fie~ h~;d~~~ :rid: - ~r:e ~~se~~, a~~[y_:i~~~discussion groups. The Yen. John Hla Gyaw and Sayagyi U. Po Kin

~~~~d~. ili~aA~Yo:n3~~;~~:i~~~y.an~e~~~dro;~g;k r~~~:C;te~ya;~oess~~~:river at Prome, where Saya 'Washington has settled at Tawma, withabout twenty villages to get round . 5aya Yawthat's Catechists' Schoolwill help to provide for this work. The 'Rev. Henry Ba Htet is resign ingfrom Insein, -his place be ing taken by Rev. Peter Sa Maw. Miss Lewishas 'been doing great work on the Sunday School and Children's side andsavona Esther Hla Gyaw has been getting the A.Y.P.A. going in severalplaces . Bishop Ah Mya has been to Akyab district to ordain three eldermen to help Rev. ,E. W. Francis to cope with that work . Bishop Aung Hlahas been having a bad etme with illness first thought to be .typhoid, butlater that it was a bad malaria . anyhow he is now better 'but will take

~~U:iot~mbei~g ~;~a~is~1 i~gu:~·Trf~~;\r n~~:Se;~~b~'~e6yaR;~~j~~~:Kumsaung Tu. He has asked Rev. John Shan Lone to go up and takepart.

This was followed by a letter from Miss D. Lewis telling how she wasvisiting schools in and near Rangoon and getting plans for a syllabus forSchools and Sunday Schools, hoping later to tour upper Bunna. The Rev.E. Cox read a letter from Rev. George Gyaw My. and Mrs. Ladds onefrom the Rev. Vere Wheeler at St. Gabriels, he told of a Conflrmation bythe Bishop in January, which was beaut-ifulIy done with great reverencewith. very good congregation. Miss Cam reported that all three of the

nurses had now completed their training. Cecil-ia Kyai back in Kemmen­dine and married but mean ing to work soon. Mary H!a Gyaw alsomarr ied to a young medical student at Bants, they hope to go back toBurma together when he is qualified .

Delyse 'Stephen son also has gone 'back and is marr ied and liv ing inRangoon at present.

The Rev. E. Turner read from a letter of 'Saya David Po Ch o of theBllnd 'School telling of a very successful Poppy Day. which brought inKyo 45.000. He also said he was taking out groups from the scho ol onl'vangilis tic tours of some villages .

Bishop Fyffe then brought a ttention to Rev. G. Appleton 's new 'book«n Buddhism, .. On The !Eight Fold Path," is£ .M. Press .

The need for a spec ial fund to help the Clerg y with -the education ofI .teir children was then discus sed. Naturally the Clergy wish to giveI aeir children a higher education than many of them were able to getl;:i ~ on their stipends it was not poss ible to ra ise the required fees.

During the last year many 'old fr iends of Burma have pass ed away..... ':.1 tributes were pa id to them and their work . The Rev. Blencoe spokeo R. Clayton. Mrs . Appleton of Miss d<. Redpath, Miss Druilt of Jess iekuscoe, Rev. V. Whitt am of Mr. Maitland Gibbson. The Rev. G. Appleton·.':nke of two fa ithful priest-Rev. Ch it E and Rev. Ne 'Khlne. The Rev.c. K. Hughes spoke of our most recent loss 'in the death of Rev. H. McLt.de Wilson. .

I'he meetlng ended with prayers by Bishop Fyffe.

REPORT ON B£.M.S. WORK IN THE DIOCESE OF RANGOONFhe we:!{ is becoming more and more integra ted in the Diocese as a

\' .ole, though its main centres of work remain the same-in the KachinS .ue, the Shan States. Arakan and Rango on. .

During the absence of the Re v. ·W. S. Jarrold on leave in England,1: Rev. David Darlington has moved to Rang oon where he is Acting Fieldt: ~-;; retary. and while working in tile new 'housing areas at Th ingang yui'1<:1!',J Okkalapa, also lec tures weeJcly in Holy Cross Divin ity School .

f he Rev. Cushing Hla arrived back in Rangoon in August from England,to take up his post as Principal of the Emmanuel Divinity School, Mohnyin,0 :' which th e Rev . E. Stevens is Vice-Prin cipal. The new building will bedl:dicated by the Bishop of Rangoon in November. Early in October animpor tan t meeting of Anglican leaders is to tak e place in Mym,yina underUJe chairmanship of the Bishop to decide on the future pattern of thepastoral care of the Chu rch in the Kachin State. the existing DeaneryCouncil not having proved adequate. Zau Raw, the Kachin lay leader, whohas formed a sc hismatic church. whicfl he calls the .. Freedom Church "continues to ha-re some following who owe allegiance to him, but theyseem to be dw~::lJing in numbers. The Rev. Jame s Kumsawng Tu, incharge of the Church in the ·Triangle, norah of Myilkyina, held a Bibleteaching Convention in September, ass isted by the Rev. Dumgan Sinwa,who Is normally work ing wi·th the Rev. Geoffrey Rowland in the -HukawngValley .

After the Diocesan Council meeting in October, the Rev. John Shanl one is go ing to be appointed ro tak e care of the Church at Nans iaung ,where Miss G. KiJIick 'Bod Miss E. Berry are at work. In July there died atBilumyo the first Shan Christian convert, Dew I, who with her latehusband U Aw, brought u~· an outstanding Christian foLnily in a whollyBuddhis t environment. and woe the respect of the whole commun ity.

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The hospitals at Mohny in, Panglong, and Langko continue to flourish,but there is an urgent need of medical recruits, several doctors, and atleast one nurse . Daw 'Sein 'Tha, Princlpal of me Deaf School , Rangoon ,has opened a branch school at Kyaukse, and another successful PoundDay took place in August.

The Church continues to grow in Arakan, especiaJly among the Khurni,and in April last ·Bishop Francis Ah Mya not only confirmed 120 Khumi, butordained as deacons the Revs . .Len Voi, Tiu Jo, and Zung Tho. On TrinitySunday, in Rangoon Cathedral, among other Ordinations was that of theRev. Timothy Mya Wa, of Pang long, now doing a curacy under Bishop AhMya at Paean, before returning .to work in the Shan States.

The Rev . and Mrs. P. R. Thompson, at present doing 'a cura cy in EngJand,hope to return to Burma in March, 1962, and are allocated to Kyaukpyu .

REPORT FROM HILDA SEXTON OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL,MANDALAY, 19.1.61 .

1960 has been a busy year, with a large increase in the number of out­patients and more inpatients, both in the maternity ward and the children 'sdepartment.

Early in the year the children's ward was enlarged to contain elevencots , and a small women 's medical ward was opened. Sometimes two 0 ;three beds have been added to the children's ward, for older children crwomen, and often a small 'Child is admiotted to the women's ward with irsmother, so that her mind may be at rest while she is receiving treatmen t.Upstairs, the accommodation has been increased by enclosing the Northverandah, 'but even so, extra beds have often to be put up in the mainward.

Several new buildings were completed at the beginning of the: yea r,including a very rrlce extra home for the nurses, a smaLl building of fourrooms and a verandah for the night nurses, and a new kitchen. Bisho»Aung Hla arranged for that work to be done very economically. . Sincethen extensive repairs ,to the hospital and compound have been carriedout. These include plastering the ' entire outside and the lower part cfthe inside walls Cif the hospital, repairs to roof, ceilings and floors, newtoilet fixtures, completely new drainage system, three new septic tanks,a road into the hospital, cement paths , overhauling of the wells and othernecessary innovations. Unfortunately, the cost has been higher than atfirst anticipated, as the contractor found it necessary to do several extr ajobs before starting on ehe items ion the estimate. For instance, extensl verepairs to the roof and guttering were needed before the drain-pipes couldbe attached, and extra septic tanks had to be constructed before installingthe required sanitary fittings . -I think the work has been welt done.especially the carpentry, but the problem of damp 'w aHs and floors is stillwith us, 1 'suppose because of the low level of the ground and the absenceof a damp course. Our bank balance is much depleted, 1 am afraid , but1 think the repair work will prove worthwhile.

The patients have much apprecleted the services of Dr. Sheartburn andDr. Rees, and it has ·I::een a great joy to us to have a missionary docto r.We are sad at -the thought of Dr . Shearburn's departure in the near future,but grateful that she has stayed several months more than she firstintended.

The expenses of the Children's Ward and Women's Medical Ward havebeen rather high, as we have had a number of very poor patients, somealmost destitute. 'Most have paid as much as they were able , ' but somechildren were treated for months free of charge. Some were suffering

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from severe malnutrition on admission, for example Ilttle Ma Myint May,who weighed 10 tbs. 12 ozs. at two and a half years . It is a greatpleasure -tosee these children 'putting on weight, leaming to play, si.t upand talk, and sometimes to walk before being discharged home. We havejust received six eases of whole milk powder from U.N:I.C.E.F., and thiswill mean a great saving of expense for us, as well as being a great boonto some of the half-starving 'babies we see in outpatients. It i~ sad that50 many undernourished people can be found in a country so rich innat u ra l resources.

The Med;cal Ward has 'been useful for patients needing treatment duringrt; e ante -natal period, and for older women with various diseases . Theo:der women seem to be very happy whilst in hcspjtal, 1 think. they like the( .mpany and the rest.

The Maternity Department seems to meet a need. over a thousandr--,:;ients being admitted last year. Our most difficuLt time is the extremelyh : J ~ weather, when some of the babies develop very high temperaturess-u n after birth . Some do not become adjusted for about a week, and(: ~ is a very anxious zlme. As soon as the temperature faUs. at the

r t of the rainy season, all is well . We hope things will be better thisr r, however, as Dr. Shearbum has designed a new cot. so that air can

L . culate all round the babies. Two dozen have so far been made. and.rted in pastel shades.

';'he Ante-natal Clinic has 'been well attended, and many mothers haveb-vtefit ted remarkably, The patients who arrive in very poor conditionf.: :' their confinement are 'invariably those who have attended the Cl inico r.e only.

<everat nurses have finished training this year. and eight new pupilsh. -e been accepted. We are very disappointed 'that it 'Will not be posstblefl" them to take the Government examination, but the requ irements oft i , ' Board are impossible to fulfil. rrhey require i of the beds to be free,n.. fewer <than three doctors. ewo sister tutors. several sisters and twelves' ..d nurses w ith general a-nd midwifery train ing. and other staff we doI " ~ , have here . as well as a theatre with ante-room, anaesthetic room. etc.X 'eay depantment, Laboratory and other requirements. I : don't know\·: ; ' , ~' they are so particular when so many girls are anxious to train . Att!',,· entrance examination held at the Government Hospital in Mandalayr, cently there were only six vacancies for eighty cand idates, all of whomhoo d reached the necessary educational standard.

The -Revd. Edward Yarde has continued to be our Ohaplain, and has heldsovices 'regularly in our Chapel. as well as a class for the nurses onWednesdays and short services on the ward twice a week. Our MidnightMass in the Chapel was well attended. and we were able to welcome someAmerican guests to the service. M-iss Hadow holds a girls ' Bible classi ll the Chapel on Sundays, and ,we have started havrng the small SundaySchool in the lecture room of the Hospital, so that patients may attendif I hey wish. iLast week one of the nurses spoke on the film-strip of the" Lost Sheep ." Now we are looking forward to Sister Bunnell's returnearly next month. and a possible visit from the Bishop of Singapore ,

Thank you very much for all you are doing for us at S;P.G., and pleasethank all those who are supportmg us wlth their gifts and prayers, andpractical work .

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EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM IDA BUNNELL, MANDALAY, 20.8.61

.. . .. We have had some very sick children in late ly, mcluding a JiUlegirl of ten years old with typhoid . 'She had had it ten days when shecame to us and we tho ught she would die. She just lay staring into spacewith her 'big brown eyes, quite unconscious for days, but slowly, slowlyshe recovered, and now after a month she is a happ y 'llt tle girl , up andabout. We had to shave her hair, it was alive, she looks rather like aBuddhist nun. All through her illness she hugged a little celluloid doll.which seemed to comfort her .

.. J went into her ward yesterday and she had claimed all the toys, herdoll, cups and saucers, a ball, a toy motor cycle and an elephant, and shewas seated on a sto ol with them all round her !

lothas cost a good deal to get the little girl well. Drugs alone for thefirst eight days cost 12/ · a day and since then she has had injections formore than a month. Her people gave us some help towards the cost ofthe drugs, 'but can't pay more than a third of it.

.. We are fortunate to have enough milk powder to help us in theChildren's Ward. Eggs cost about 5d. each and we like to give two a daywhen possible. About 5/ · a day would keep six children in eggs. Perhapssomeone would like to give 5/·...

EXTRACT FROM LETTER FROM HILDA SEXTON, 24.7.61

.. A few weeks ago we had a little boy of just over a year, who ha'Jfallen out of bed into a pan of cooking oil, which was heating on a brazier.He had qu ite bad scalds of the head and face. They had been treated athome with ink, then someone else had applied gentian violet, so helooked a very strange 'being on arrival. He recovered and became acharm ing little boy , more advanced for his age than the other lit tlethings.'

STATISTICSInpatientsMaternity Cases ' .Children , Medical, etc. . .

1.078152

OutpatientsNew Cases ~Mostly Children) 10,196Total Attendance .. 21,458

Ante-Natal ClinicNew Patients . .... ... ... .. . 1,509Total Attendance . . . 5,234

LETTER FROM BISHOP Ah MYA

This ra iny season 'has been a period of trlals and difficulties. The floodshave affected most parts of the Karen State. The Mission Compound gotthe worst of it. We had a temporary wooden bridge between the school

~~ Ir';ot~~~:e~ri~' t~~t":l:idl~~?rJJr;~n~~~e~ :~~ ~~~~~~r~rt~::eis 'Still water in most parts of the compound. Our chicken got Chlcken­pox and over 200 died and One of our pig s got bitten by a sw imming snake.

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Saya Ba Than of Mandalay has donated a ben for the Church and weplan to build a porch which wiIJ also act as belfrey,

Our greatest problem today is finance . We need a ,big sum to completethe minimum build ing construction. The School hall is a bare skeletonwithout a platform and without doors . The girls hostel has no floor andno roof yet. On the other hand we have managed to complete a cottagewhich will serve as a guest room and we are now starting a small press of

~;~c~:;i P~~.~:~p:lf:n~~w~~. C~~rh~;~ '~:~l~ ~:~cgrn;~roC:r~~~:at Kwanta. Kappali and Kwamb i. At the end of the week a definite[>rograrnme for self-support was proposed .

LETTER FROM NAW ESTHER HLA GYAW

Looking back to the day when I first started work among young peoplej ... the Diocese (September . 1959) i teet that we have moved a step(,.rward. At first I did not know where to start, there was so muchI : , do. The Lord Bishop suggested that] visit Youth Associations to~ ...," what is suitable . f did this for one year. The result was the launch­i i"; of the Anglican Young <People's Association. During this year thel):·Jcese could not spare any finance for ·this work, fortunately friendsf.vm England sent [ust enough to see me through. The T.A. from S.P.G.. ' '; a great asset.

When the Diocese launched our A.Y.P.A. it allotted us Kys 1000. Wej'·'iJe later to finance ourselves , as we slowly build up. We have BranchJ..« oc.auons in var ious places, which are affLliatedto the Central 'Diocesan( ,' .1:;:', Each Branch is quite independant in their administration , but looksI" the Central Committee for help and guidance. It is amazing thero.i ount of correspondence one has to cope with as the Branches are verykeen to Iearn how best they can effectively work and witness for Christ<,:,·1 His Church. Vt.T~ are holding our first annual meeting in Octoberr-. Holy Cross College, delegates from twenty branches will be there.vorking in a country where there is so much unrest is not easy. We need;: .' support and help and guidance of friends in England. We are onlyr. .e year old, but with the help of God and the prayers of " Senior Friends Of

\ ." will do our best.

LETTER FROM MISS D. LEWIS

Life goes on and so does the Monsoon : h does not seem as if it wille-ver end this year. The floods have devastated thousands of acres ofyoung paddy round Toungoo and in the Karen State .

The pattern at the moment is the production of scripture teaching",' ter;al for School and Sunday Schools. The teachers have not, UP to! !UW , been using any guide or syllabus , except in a few places. Teachershave tried to plan their. work independantly of each other . We havetherefore set to work to give them short lesson outlines : a four year 'scourse in the 'Sunday Schools and two lessons a week in the schools. Theteachers have evidently felt the need for something of .this SOIit and arekeen to do this work as well as possible. ,I have visited 'most of theDiocesan Schools now and hope to cover two groups of schools in theDelta during November. I have concentrated on ,trying to give a littlehelp on teaching methods.

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MISSION TO THE BLINDThe Annual Exhibition and Pansy Day continue as regular events in the

yearly round in Rangoon, maintaining a tradltlon going back pretty wellforty years from Father Jackson's early days at Kemmendine . The 1951Pansy Day coJlection was expected to reach a total of Its . 60,000/·, Over600 collecting boxes having been in use in Rangoon and the districts. Thepeople of Burma have a warm .comer in their hearts for the blind . TheMission to the Blind receives about three quarters of the amount collected ,the Union Council for the Welfare of the Blind taking the balance.

The Annual Exhibi·tion was graced by the presence of Daw Mya May.wife of U Nu, the British Ambassador and his wife, Mr. Justice Ba Nyunt ,the chairman of the Union Council for the Welfare of the Blind. Overthe air, voices of blind pup ils were heard teJling of the Blind School inKachin, Shan, Karen and Burmese.

A letter from David Po Cho tells how at St. Michael's Father Jackson 'stranslations and music for Holy Week were once again brought into full

~:. flI~~SI~fe~eS~:f~ds{;~~i~h~~rS;iv:~t~:lilis:ek8~~;:sSii~t~~~iei~"i~~were of course lost during the war ..but tSaya David, having interested aRoman friend in the Blind School , was surprised a month later to receivefrom him as a gift a complete new set . ISo this year -the picture for HolyWeek included on Palm Sunday the blessing of palms and a processionof over 200, the reading of the pass ion each day 'by different groups ofblind people and sayas, stati ons of the cross , with the blind girls in turngiving a talk at the stations, renebrae, the Three Hours on .Good Friday,and on Easter Day among the communicants were four blind boys andtwo blind girls confinned a week earlier. On Palm Sunday, John -ShweDaung, the priest in charge at 51. Michaels, had asked the congregationto keep their rad io, receivers silent , as part of the observance ot HolvWeek, " Apaygy i never allowed any one to make any noise during HolyWeek ."

MISSION . TO THE BLIND1'HEFAntER JACKSON MEMORJlAL FUND, launched in 1932 is now

abJe to provide some useful 'Contribution towards the salary of SaYs DavidPo Cho, .the head of the mission. It has not always 'been possible to usethe interest on the cap ital in this way, so in some years the interest hasbeen added to cap ital, and th is together with legacies and ,contributionsto the fund in recent years has brought the capital to a total of about£3.300, producing an annual income of about £1..150.

A:NNU:AL SUBSCR,IPTIONS aad donations for the ordinary fund of themiss-ion, received here in England, keep very steady at between £50 and£60 and among other .th ings enable us to keep zhe Blind School suppliedwith Braille apparatus which has lobe obtain ed from England . Th is faith­ful su-pport is very much appreciated. as references in letters from Burmashow from time to .time. .

CANON HUGH McDOWALL WILSON'Hugh Wilson 'came out of the 1914·18 war -with an M.e. and a permanent

hole in -the calf of one leg, both of which were unknown to nearJy everyoneelse. He had Jain on a stretcher labelled for removal of the leg, but ayoung surgeon had asked if he might experiment on him, and saved theleg. He had known the misery of being visited in extremis by clumsyfumblers until ,one came who knew how to minister to the dying, andthat one was an Anglo Catholi-cpriest. . :

So Hugh came back to Oxford to take the war degree and the diplomain theclogy, detennined to become an Anglo Catho lic priest. His grimexperiences upon a Yorkshire founda tion produced an except ionally stron gcharacter, a rock-like faith , an outstanding priesthood.

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Afoter a short curacy in Southwell Diocese he went out to St. John 'sCollege in 1924 and six years later became its Principal.

When war approached and Bishop West, in June 1941, suffered a fractureof the skull in a never-explained motor accident, Hugh became Commis­sary in charge of the Diocese though in poor health , mentaUy tired anddue for leave. To these two tasks he added, for a short while, when theGovernment 'faded out before the Japanese i-nvasion, a kind of directionof the closing down of Rangoon education. He was one of those whodid not die in the overland retreat from Burma into India. 1943.-45 sawhim chaplain at Ranchi, and in 1945 as Han . Canon of Rangoon he returnedto be Diocesan Registrar for a year and Cathedral Chaplain for two years.

In 1947 he came home to the college living of Beckley and in 1952 therural deanery of Rye. Ouring ehese years he gave such help to S.P.G.3 P 'a secretaries in -the Northern Province that he received the distinction,rare in a parish priest, of being made -a Vice-Presldent.

! lis latter years were troubled 'by a series of increasingly painful opera ­tiuns and treatments, about which he never spoke or complained . Afterthe first serious one he took a locum in Venice at Whitsuntide in 1957.vwnere other people have guts ," he once said, .. I have nylon, whichav )arentIy sometimes ladders !' But guts were just wha.t he did have.

:: was a cruel start for his youth, and a cruel end to his manhood. Buthi.' vas always a couragous, cheerful invigorating friend , a selfless com­prnion, good company, a spiritual leader and guide.

tc was of the stuff of which martyrs are made. Almost he might have5:' i with St. Paul " lNow -I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, andfi) ~ I P on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in myfl. ." for h is body's sake which is the Church:'

C,K:H.

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Pril'lted bvSENNETT BROTHERS

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tWHEN YOU PRAY FOR BURMA

ALMIGHTY FATHER. who hast grantedto Thy faithful servants in all ages thegrace and power to resist evll, suffergladly for the truth, and ever to strive toshow Thy Love for all mankind; grant toThy Church in Burma that same powerand love, so that the peoples of the landmay turn to Thee for guidance and growto know Thy Love. revealed in Christ,the Way. th e Truth and the Life.-Amen.

TIIANKSGIVINGS

For the success of the Summer Schoolat Toungoo.

For the spirit of loyalty and initiat iveshown by the Kachin Church and leadersfrom the Triangle .

For the new Churches built ; and theinstruction given in the Pa-an area atKwanta Kappali, Kwambi.

For progress made in the work of theYouth movement and in the teaching inSunday Schools.

For the steady advance and growth ofthe medical work in Mandalay.

INTERCESSIONS

Let us pray:-For the work ;0 the Arakan with the

Khumi Christians and for the newlyordained Deacons.

That fresh support may be found tohelp Bishop Ah Mya to comp-Iete hisplans at Pa-an, in spite of many difficulties.

ana"~~rJ~ernH~e~y;;;:'n~afo~eJe'rfI~~I~~the A.Y.P.A.

anaha:n~~rt::;~ebYm~heben~~C~y~f~g~~worked out by Miss Lewis.

For a blessing on St. Lukes. Toungoo,which is keeping its Festival this month,and the visit of Rev. C. K. Hughes.

For Rev. Wellington in his new homeat Tawma and the villages of the Promehills.

For Rev. J. Mauog Mawng, that he maybe blessed in his work of restarting theChurch in Thayetmyo.