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One year I visited about 150 Burmese women at their own houses, such as would not go to the missionary. On one of these excursions, I went to a door where three fruit women were conversing: "_Thwa! thwa!_ Go! go!" was the immediate reception, waving us away with the hand. The heat was intense, and we felt ready to sink, but at that moment the awful judgment rose so vividly before me, I could not move, but stood there saying, in conciliatory tones, that we had come all the way from home on foot to tell them of a Friend who loved them.
-"Jesus Christ?" they inquired with infinite scorn. "We want nothing of your Jesus Christ."