San Quala was one of the first converts among the degraded
Karens. From the lowest state the gospel raised him, with a
rapidity that no civilization ever knew, to a noble Christian
manhood. His first impulse was to tell others of Jesus. He
helped to translate the Bible into the Karen tongue, for fifteen
years guided the missionaries through the jungles, and then
himself began to preach and to plant new churches. In one year
he had formed nine, with 741 converts; in less than three years
the nine had grown to thirty, with 2,000 converts. He did his
work without salary, and when the English Government offered him
a position, with large compensation, he at once declined, tho
his poverty was such as prevented him from taking his wife with
him in his missionary tours.--PIERSON, “The Miracles of
Missions.”
(2057)
See SACRIFICE FOR RELIGION.
=Missionary’s Gallant Action=--See COURAGE, CHRISTIAN.
=Missionary’s Liberation=--See INTERVENTION, DIVINE.