Church decorated for harvest festival, Myanmar, s.d.

"A church in a jungle station" Church in rural area decorated for harvest festival. The Burmese text can be translated as "God has crowned the year with His Goodness".; From a set of lantern slides entitled "Methodism in Burma" compiled by Rev H. Crawford Walters who served as a missionary with the [Wesleyan] Methodist Missionary Society in Burma from 1910 to 1916 and from 1918 until 1930. The Wesleyan Methodist mission to Burma started shortly after the British annexation of Upper Burma in 1886. The pioneer missionaries were W. Ripley Winston and Arthur H. Bestall who established a mission in Mandalay in 1887/8. Due to strongly-rooted Buddhist beliefs the mission made slow progress. However, a Home for Lepers in Mandalay was built in 1890 and mission stations eventually opened in Pakkokku, Kyaukse and Monywa. Work was also carried out among the Taungthus people in the Shan Hills.

"丛林驿站中的教堂"：一座为收获节布置装饰的乡村教堂。画面中的缅甸文字可译为"上帝以其恩慈赐福丰年"。该影像来自一套题为《缅甸的卫理公会》的幻灯玻璃片（lantern slides），由H·克劳福德·沃尔特斯牧师编撰。沃尔特斯曾以卫斯理宗卫理公会传教团（Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society）传教士的身份，于1910年至1916年、1918年至1930年间赴缅甸传教。英国于1886年吞并上缅甸后不久，卫斯理宗卫理公会便开启了在缅甸的传教事业。首批传教士为W·里普利·温斯顿与阿瑟·H·贝斯托尔，二人于1887至1888年间在曼德勒建立了传教站。由于当地根深蒂固的佛教信仰，传教事业进展缓慢。但传教团仍于1890年在曼德勒建成了麻风病人收容所，并最终在帕果果（Pakkokku）、皎实（Kyaukse）和蒙育瓦（Monywa）开设了传教站。此外，传教团还在掸邦山区的东姑族（Taungthus）群体中开展传教工作。