Baptizing Burma Art & Design Education means another moment closer to

means another moment closer to something that will change his life for ever

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Baptizing Burma Art & Design Education means another moment closer toIn July 1813, a young American couple from Boston arrived in Rangoon to preach the gospel. Celebrated in the Protestant press, which ran dramatic accounts of exotic adventures, the attempt to convert the Burmese met mixed results. Although Burmese Buddhists largely resisted Christian evangelism, people from minority communities were baptized in astonishing numbers throughout the nineteenth century. American Baptist Christianity was itself transformed