IN BURMA, as two men were looking over a colporteur’s stock of Gospels, one warned the other not to buy them.
“What harm can there be?” asked the first man.
“There is certainly great harm,” replied his friend. “I know a large number of Burmans and Karens who have bought these books, and they nearly always end by becoming Christians.”
“Well, that is true,” answered the first; “but I have some friends who were once notoriously bad men, and since they became Christians they are honest and good. This is why I want to read these books.” Then he chose and paid for the Gospels in Burmese.
ML-06/19/1960