She established Bible societies, distributing tracts in their own language to the French, English, Burmese, Shans, Hindus and Karens.

[2] Ingalls was the author of, Ocean Sketches of Life in Burmah (1858), A Golden Sheaf from the Judsons' Work at Ava (1881), and The Story of the Queen's Bible (1909).

Ingalls listened with rapt attention and sympathy, and announced afterward to her companions that if she were grown up, she would go to Burma and tell the people that that idol was no god.

[3] As the years passed, no young woman ever loved a good time, a pretty dress or a tale of chivalry and romance more than Ingalls.

But there were nights when, closing her chamber door on all the fun and frolic of the day, she thoughtfully read the Bible lying on the night-stand.

Lovell Ingalls (b. Worcester, New York, August 21, 1808)[8] at a missionary meeting at Racine, Wisconsin.

[4] On furlough,[1] he became a guest at her family home where her stepfather, the pastor, felt privileged to talk with a returned missionary.

and Mrs. Ingalls took their seat, and with a few of their Bibles and tracts spread out before them, endeavoured to attract the Burmans who passed by.

A short trip to Bengal was tried in the hope that a cessation from labor and a change of air and scene might improve his failing strength.

Knowing his great anxiety to get back to his work place that he might die there, they embarked to return to Rangoon.

She visited districts where no Caucasian woman had ever been seen, and with her native assistants made long evangelizing tours into the jungle.

Each man and woman free from disease and care of infants is expected to make some trips for special teaching among the local people.

At the very outset, she erected a shed in the marketplace, hung it round with Bible pictures, and, with local helpers, talked to all whose curiosity led them to visit her.

Her little study opened into this room, so she could step in at any time to help her assistants, to explain, argue, or instruct.

There was then no Woman's Board or Hasseltine House to give her what she wanted, but she finally secured Miss Rosa Adabis.

It was during this visit that she gave two representations of "Life in Burma", in Boston, with the assistance of the young people of the Shawmut Avenue Church, whom she dressed in costumes, and drilled in their parts.

Her mother in her declining years longed to see her; but Ingalls felt she could not leave her people, lest they lose courage and the Dacoits become emboldened, so she stood at her post till the rebellion was over.

Ingalls saw here an opportunity to begin a new line of work in giving books and tracts at the depots and in the railway carriages.

The English government and the railway officials helped on her libraries, and even the local population contributed toward her tract distribution.

Her article in the Baptist Missionary Magazine for November, 1893, and also one in May, 1894, told the story of this work in her own words.

As she visited many cities and towns, her eyes and ears were open to all she could take back to help uplift the people of Burma.

Nothing, however, impressed her more than the work that had been accomplished by the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society in arousing interest among the home churches.

Ingalls had brought many curios, costumes, pictures, and so forth, back with her to illustrate life in Burma; and in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia she gave interesting exhibitions and lectures.

Upon her arrival in Burma, she resumed her work in all its varied departments, and for ten more years, labored unceasingly.

She had many influential friends in England and a wide acquaintance among the English residents in Burma, but rarely accepted their invitations, feeling that to enter into their social life would divert time and strength from her work.

I do not need better doctors, nor need to go home for a change..."[3] Ingalls was the author of, Ocean Sketches of Life in Burmah (1858), A Golden Sheaf from the Judsons' Work at Ava (1881), and The Story of the Queen's Bible (1909).

Ocean Sketches of Life in Burmah (Philadelphia, American Baptist Publication Society, 1858) contains gravings, including one of which represents Burma as it appeared when first visited by Christian missionaries.

[13] A Golden Sheaf from the Judsons' Work at Ava (Woman's Missionary Society, 1881) was a tract written by Ingalls in her usual graphic style.

[14] The Story of the Queen's Bible (Boston, Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, 1909) was published posthumously in 1909.

Even though she made long stays in Burma, her writings for the Baptist Missionary Magazine and other papers were so vivid that people were always interested in her work.