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 praiseworthv devotion for near- ly twenty-nine years. He died there Sept. 6th, 1905, aged sixty<two years. l\vIrs. lWorrow died at Rochester, Vermont. April 11th, 1928.

The first Karen convert was baptised May 16th, 1828. In 1928 there wer: 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, Boardman; and Wards in the annals of Burmese missions.

—H. G. M.

HI‘TV. .I. .\|.I5\v\\'l)ICII FORD. ,\I.\.. AM) \IIIS. HIRI)

Rev. J. A. Ford was born in Bothwell, Prince Edward Island, July 9th, 1852. He attendsd the public schools and Prince of \Vales Col- lege, graduating with First Class Teacher’s License. He entered Acadia College I882 and graduated in 1885 with honours in History and Phil‘ osophy. He was editor of th: college paper for two years. He p11,.

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