Morning Star

Mr. Kincaid, Baptist missionary to Burmah, writes as follows in relation to the prospects of the gospel's spreading among the Chinese.

"I should judge the Chinese to be intelligent, industrious, and rather enterprising; but owing to their moral degradation, their affections are brutalized and their minds cramped. Here is a field for Christian effort." There is no nation on earth, that stands in more pressing need of the enlightening and purifying influence of the gospel. They are superstitious, degraded heathen, having no hope, and without God in the world.--Perhaps it will be said, the way is not clear for the commencement of labors among that people. The way is not entirely clear, and there is no hope that it will be, till the Christian church takes hold of the subject in earnest.

Here in Ava and Amarapura are three or four thousand Chinese, and great numbers come and go every year, so that in addition to those settled here, there is an opportunity of having intercourse by means of the travelling merchants, with the western provinces of China. Were a man to take his stand in Amarapura, he could learn the language, and soon begin active operations among this people, and it is not too much to hope that in a few years the way would be open for planting the Christian standard in some of the cities in the west of China. Ava is but a few days' march from Yunnan, a large and populous province, bordering upon Burmah. Were the churches informed on this subject, I am confident they would seize this position without delay.