They shrunk away into one corner of the prison, where they remained quiet, until a broadside from one of the ships made the prison shake and tremble to its very foundation.  This so alarmed them, that they burst open the doors of the prison and fled.  The missionaries, with the other prisoners, were then left alone.  Their danger, however, was not at an end; but as God had protected them thus far, he continued to protect them until they were set at liberty, and allowed to preach the Gospel again to those perishing heathen.  Drs. Judson and Price were also imprisoned, and suffered much; but they, too, were preserved and delivered.  The accounts of their sufferings are so long, that I cannot now relate them all to you.  You will find them in the life of Mrs. Judson.

After the war was over, the missionaries were permitted to go everywhere to proclaim the name of the Saviour; and their efforts have been very much blessed, especially among the Karens.  It will be impossible for me to give you an account of their many labors, and of the many tokens which they have received of God’s favor towards multitudes who have become followers of the Redeemer.  Suffice it to say, that more than six thousand have been received into the Christian church.  One of the native teachers not long since baptized, on one occasion, three hundred and seventy-two persons.

Adjoining Burmah, is China, a country containing more than three hundred millions of people, about twenty times as many as there are in the United States of America.  It is a country filled with idols.  Many of the people earn their living by making and selling these idols.  There are many shops where they are sold, or repaired when they become broken or defaced.

The females in that country are in a very degraded state.  They are the slaves of their husbands, and live and die in the greatest ignorance.  Any attempt to raise themselves to the level of females in Christian lands, is considered as very wicked.  The little female child is tortured from her birth.  You have, perhaps, heard that the women of China have small feet.  These are made small by a very cruel practice—­by putting bandages of cloth so tightly around them, that they cannot grow.  Many women have feet not larger than those of an American infant of one year old.  Mr. Doty, missionary to China, says, that he was acquainted with a little girl whose mother had bound up her feet so tightly, that she cried two or three hours every day, on account of the great pain which she suffered.

With such little feet, you may well suppose that it would be very difficult for the women to walk.  It is so.  They limp and hobble along, just as if their feet had been cut off, and they had to walk on stumps.

The Chinese do not count their daughters among their children.  Mr. Doty says, he one day asked his Chinese teacher how many children he had.  He replied, that he had several.  “How many of these,” he then inquired, “are daughters?” “We do not count our daughters among our children,” he answered.  “I have three daughters, but we Chinese count our sons only as children.”