audama also.

As there is a tendency in enlightened minds to feel a contempt for the
intellect of barbarians; and as some have even felt that time spent as
Mrs. Judson's was with those native females, was thrown away, we will
here record her testimony to the intelligence of the Burmese women. "The
females of this country are lively, inquisitive, strong and energetic,
susceptible of friendship and the warmest attachment, and possess minds
capable of rising to the highest state of cultivation and refinement....
This is evident from their mode of conversing," and may be illustrated
by some particulars in the experience of one of them, named May-Meulah.

Previous to the arrival of the missionaries in her country, her active
mind was led to inquire the origin of all things. Who created all that
her eyes beheld? She inquired of all she met, and visited priests and
teachers in vain; and such was her anxiety, that her friends feared for
her reason. She resolved to learn to read, that she might consult the
sacred books. Her husband, willing to gratify her curiosity, taught her
to read himself. In their sacred literature she found nothing
satisfactory. For ten years she prosecuted her inquiries, when God in
his providence brought to her notice a tract written by Mr. Judson in
the Burmese language, which so far solved her difficulties, that she was
led to seek out its author. From him she learned the truths of the
gospel, and by the Holy Spirit those truths were made the means of her
conversion. "She became an ornament to her profession, and her daily
walk and conversation would shame many professors in Christian
countries."

Christians in America, was Mrs. Judson's time thrown away, when she was
leading Burmese females to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus?

One of the most splendid buildings in the empire is a pagoda at Rangoon,
in which is enshrined a relic of Gaudama. At this pagoda, a yearly feast
is celebrated which lasts three days, and draws people together from all
parts of the country.

Mrs. Judson says--"If Dr. Young could have seen the devotion of this
people to their idolatry, he might well have exclaimed, 'O for a heathen
zeal in Christian hearts!' Even while I am writing my ears are stunned
with the noise and confusion of preparation for an approaching festival.
Could you, my dear sir, but once witness this annual feast, could you
behold the enthusiasm of their devotions, you would readily admit that