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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 24, 13 October 1893, Page 20

The usual contrast between our missions and those of another well-kn iwn church is pointed out in the following letter lent to the Allahabad Morning Post and dated Pobyat in tbe Karen country (East Burma), July 18ih -.—The Roman Catholics have established a mission here and are working with a zeal and energy, coupled with a self-sacrificing self-denial, found nowhere outside the Church of Rome. They are lialians, from the Milan Seminary, and are under the orders oi the Kight Rev Lord Bishop Rocco, Vicar-Apostolic of Eastern Burma, with headquarters at a place called Leiktho, in tbe Karen billß, east of Toungoo. Their work and self-denial is in Btrong contrast to the pretence of another foreign mission who were first in the fijld and whose mem here, some of tbem, lived continuously in Toungoo, varied by trips to • sanitarium or the se* shore during the hot wea ber, and who, once in a blue moon, pay a flying visit np here from s^eer necessity which never la^ts for more than a few day* (either the visit, or the necessity, according to their own ideae) in order that they may not be compelled to submit an account d la Gulliver :o their home board. Many of the members of this precious set have gone in for filthy lucre, beyond tbeir handsome salaries, and make no secret of foisting upon the Karens patent medicines put op by th»ir (the miseionaries's) impecunious relative! in the home land. To this tney add scents, soap, cheap calico, and even betel nut; they al?o sell milk which upon at least two occasions baa been found to contain pullywoggs or tadpoles, etc. There »re, however, • ime true souls among them who mourn over these iniquities, bat seem powerless to pievent them.