Whitney & Paradise
Carte-de-visite showing the "Ordained Pastors of Burman Missions", 1860s
Albumen print
4 x 2 1/2 inches
The subject identifications printed verso.
The subject identifications printed verso.
An interesting 1860s group portrait showing eight “Ordained Pastors of Burman Missions.” They are identified on the verso as “Pa-Poo, Koo-Lah, Na-Lay, Sau-Quala, Sah-May, Po-Quay, and Sau-Tay (one is unidentified)....
An interesting 1860s group portrait showing eight “Ordained Pastors of Burman Missions.” They are identified on the verso as “Pa-Poo, Koo-Lah, Na-Lay, Sau-Quala, Sah-May, Po-Quay, and Sau-Tay (one is unidentified). The credit on the mount reads “pho. copy by Whitney and Paradise 585 B’Way NY” so it is unclear if it was taken in New York City or elsewhere.
Missionary work in Myanmar began when American Baptist missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson arrived there in the early 19th century, evangelizing and translating the bible. They were soon followed by Jonathan Wade, one of the first students of the Baptist Seminary in Hamilton, NY, and his wife Deborah Latham Wade. Many of their early converts were the Karen people, a minority group of ancient Tibeto-Burman ancestry.
There are a handful of accounts of the missionary Sau-Quala, who is referred to in print as “the second Karen convert.” He was baptized in 1847 and an 1863 article published in the Buffalo Advocate writes that he himself had baptized 1860 people in an 18th month timeframe, as well as constructed 28 churches. Most of the other names appear in 19th-century periodicals such as “The Missionary Magazine” published by American Baptist missionary Union and other similar papers.
Missionary work in Myanmar began when American Baptist missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson arrived there in the early 19th century, evangelizing and translating the bible. They were soon followed by Jonathan Wade, one of the first students of the Baptist Seminary in Hamilton, NY, and his wife Deborah Latham Wade. Many of their early converts were the Karen people, a minority group of ancient Tibeto-Burman ancestry.
There are a handful of accounts of the missionary Sau-Quala, who is referred to in print as “the second Karen convert.” He was baptized in 1847 and an 1863 article published in the Buffalo Advocate writes that he himself had baptized 1860 people in an 18th month timeframe, as well as constructed 28 churches. Most of the other names appear in 19th-century periodicals such as “The Missionary Magazine” published by American Baptist missionary Union and other similar papers.