Maung Shwe Wa; Sowards, Genevieve; Sowards, Erville. Burma Baptist Chronicle. Rangoon: Board of Publications, Burma Baptist Convention, 1963. First Edition. [11405]
Red hardback decorated in gilt, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, map end papers, notes in ink on the title page front and back, xvi, 448 otherwise clean pages. Illustrated with line drawings by E. G. MacColl. Good. Hardcover.
"The present volume, outlining as it does the history of the Baptist Church in Burma during the one hundred and fifty years since its beginning, is a most timely publication...the authors...have searched and sifted the source material of fifteen decades to provide a background for an understanding and interpretation of the data in the context of conditions prevailing in our times." - Introduction.
The book is divided into two parts, the first being the history beginning with the work of Adoniram Judson and others and continuing to 1960. The second is a collection of essays by various missionaries about their present work. This section includes, The Church Among Burmese-Speaking People; Baptist Work among the Mons; Baptist Work among Karens; The Pwo Karen Churches; Work among the Chinese; Baptist Work among the Shans; Work among the Asho Chins; The Work among Kachins, Lisus, and Nagas; &c.
