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viiice, even those farthest in the interior, has a permanent 

 Jesuit mission establishment, constantly kept up by fresh 

 aspirants, who are taught the languages of the countries 

 they are going to at Penang or Singapore. In China 

 there are said to be near a million converts ; in Tonquin 

 and Cochin China, more than half a million. One secret 

 of the success of these missions is the rigid economy 

 practised in the expenditure of the funds. A missionary 

 is allowed about 30Z. a year, on which he lives in whatever 

 country he may be. This renders it possible to support a 

 large number of missionaries with very limited means ; 

 and the natives, seeing their teachers living in poverty 

 and with none of the luxuries of life, are convinced that 

 they are sincere in what they teach, and have really given 

 up home and friends and ease and safety, for the good of 

 others. No wonder they make converts, for it must be 

 a great blessing to the poor people among whom they 

 labour to have a man among them to whom they can go 

 in any trouble or distress, who will comfort and advise 

 them, who visits them in sickness, who relieves them in 

 want, and who they see living from day to clay in danger 

 of persecution and death entirely for their sakes. 



My friend at Bukit-tima was truly a father to his flock. 

 He preached to them in Chinese every Sunday, and had 

 evenings for discussion and conversation on religion during 

 the week. He had a school to teach their children. His 



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