HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH

tist Missionary Union and sailed shortly after their marriage. They set- tled at Tavoy where they laboured with praiseworthy devotion for near- ly twenty-nine years. He died there Sept. 6th, 1905, aged sixty-two years. Mrs. Morrow died at Rochester, Vermont, April 11th, 1928.

The first Karen convert was baptised May 16th, 1828. In 1928 there were sixty-eight thousand, four hundred and forty-one members in nine hundred and fifty-one churches. The Morrows had a con- spicuous part in this wonderful achievement. They left the impress of their life and work on the mission and the country. Their names will stand in worthy succession with those of the Judsons, Boardmans and Wards in the annals of Burmese missions.

—H. G. M.

REV. J. ALEXANDER FORD, M.A., AND MRS. FORD

Rev. J. A. Ford was born in Bothwell, Prince Edward Island, July 9th, 1852. He attend-3d the public schools and Prince of Wales Col- lege, graduating with First Class Teacher’s License. He entered Acadia College 1882 and graduated in 1885 with honours in History and Phil- osophy. He was editor of the college paper for two years. He pre-

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