husband. Kev. Dr. Mason, but emphatically repudiated
by the Missionary Union. The result was a division in many, if not most of the churches, the maji rity in some instances taking -ides with one party, and in other
instances with the other. A return, made in January, 1865, reported about 10 churches and a membership of about 2000. 2. Maulmdm Burman Mission had, in 1865,
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•1 missionaries, G native assistants, 1 church, 130 mem- bers, 2 Anglo-vernacular boys' schools, containing to- gether about 130 pupils, and 2 girls' schools, with about 100 pupils. The mission has one out-station and a Tamil department. .">. Matdmain Karen Mission had 11 out-stations, 2 missionaries. 9 ordained native assistants, 836 members, 10 village schools, and 1 nor- mal school. 1. Tavoy Mission had 19 native assist- ant-. 19 churches, 790 members, 1 normal school. There is also, again, a Burmese department, with 1 church and 1 school. 5. Schwaygyeen Mission had 1 missionary, 18 churches, 946 members. G. Rangoon Mission. — The Burmese department sustained 2 preach- ing-places in Rangoon and 6 in villages, together with about 157 communicants, and a small vernacular school for girls. Rangoon has also an English church, and a Chinese mission with about 25 members. The Karen Theological Seminar}' numbered, in 1865 (its 13th term), 45 scholars. The mission press at Ban- goon issued, from 1863 to 1865, 8.751,900 pages; and from 1855 to 1865, 109,615 Scriptures and parts of Scriptures. The Pwo Karen Department had 12 churches, 367 members, 1 normal school. 7. Bassein Mission. — (The district has an area of 8900 square miles, and a population of about 275,000. Of these, 176,555 are Burmese, and 83,295 Karens. Of the latter, about 40,000 are Pwo Karens.) The Sgau Karen depart- ment had, in 1865, 52 churches, 5572 communicants, 50 pastors, 11 native missionaries, 2013 Christian fam- ilies, 33 village schools, 787 scholars. This depart- ment was in connection with the American Baptist Free Mission Society, but the Missionary, Mr. Beech- cr, in 1865, joined the Burmah Baptist Mission Associ- ation. The Pwo Karen department had 15 churches, 600 communicants, 13 pastors, 12 native missionaries, 100 converts (during the past year) from heathenism, 10 village schools, 219 scholars. The Burmese de- partment had 2 churches, 72 communicants, 2 pastors, 31 Christian families, 68 pupils. 8. Henthada Mission. — The Karen department had 59 churches, 6G preach- ers and teachers, 1831 members, 1 normal school, with 33 pupils; 4 high schools, with an aggregate attend- ance of 112; 41 primary schools, with 495 pupils. The Burmese department, which was established in 1854, bad 50 church members, 1 school, 25 scholars, 4 licentiates, 1 ordained pastor, 2 out-stations. 9. Prome Mission, 6 missionaries, 298 members, 205 scholars. 10. Mission to tin .S/tons. — This mission was begun in 1861. According to a report presented by the mis- sionary, Mr. Bixby, in October, 1865, ten different tribes or races had been visited, and a few converts gathered from nearly all of them. Three mountain tribes — the Geckhos, Saukoos, and Padoungs — called Shan Karens, living north-east of Toungoo, on the borders of Shanland, were building chapels, and al- ready six young men had been stationed among them. Three churches bad been gathered from the Burmans, Shan-, and mountain tribes, containing an aggregate membership of 102. The mission had 10 chapels, 10 assistants, and as many primary schools, with about 200 pupils. In Toungoo there were two schools of a higher grade: one in the Burmese town, taught by a European, assisted by a native, when the wants of To- ungoo for general education were partially met. This B< bool received 500 rs. annually from the government. The other is a training-school for teachers and preach- er-, in which instruction is given in the Burmese lan- guage, ;,,id mainly in the Scriptures. More than 50 pupils had been in attendance up to 1865. Matrices for casting type in the Shan language were, in 1865, manufactured in the United States and sent to Ran- tfewcomb, Cyclopcedia of Missions; Mrs.Wylie, Thi Gospel in Burmah (N. Y. 1860, 8vo); Reports of Baptist Missionary Union. See India.
Burmaim, Francis, son of a Protestant minis- ter, was lorn in L632 at Leyden, where he received ition. Having officiated to a Dutch congre-
gation at Hanau, in Hessen, he returned to his native ! city, and was nominated regent of the college in which ( he had before studied. Not long afterward he was elevated to the professorship of divinity at Utrecht, where he died November 10, 1679, having established considerable reputation as a linguist, a preacher, and a philosopher. His works include (in Dutch) Com- mentaries on the Pentuteuch (Utrecht, 1660, 8\o, and 1668, 4to) : Commentaries on Joshua, JMh, and Judges (Ibid. 1675, 4to) : — Commentaries on Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther (Amst. 1683, 4to) : — Com- mentary on the Booh of Samuel (Utrecht, 1678, 4to). He also wrote, in Uatin, Synopsis Theolcgica (Amst. 1699, 2 vols. 4to), and other works. — Bi< g. Univ. vi, 327 ; Landon, Eccl. Diet. s. v.
Burmann, Francis, Jr., son of the preceding, born at Utrecht in 1671, where he taught theology until his death in 1719. He wrote, among other works, Theologus, sire de Us quce ad verum et consummatum Thc- ologum requiruntur (Utrecht, 1715, 4to) : — De persecu- tione Diocletiani (Ibid. 1719, 4to).