Malaysia Methodist Missions. 39 



of English to the sons of other Chinese 

 mcrchants. They also opened a school for 

 tlic children of English residents, and soon 

 a grcat niany young people were brought 

 under their inrlucnce. Whcn thc Chinese 

 gcntlcmen of Singapore saw thcse mis- 

 sionaries earnestly pouring out their !ives 

 for those who were around them, some of 

 them camc forward and proposcd to build 

 a schoolhouse at a cost of $6,000. In the 

 new premises the schoo! imniediately began 

 to enlarge, and at the end of the mission- 

 ary's third year a seli-supporting school 

 numbering bctwcen two hundrcd and three 

 hundred lads— Chinese, Tamils, Malays, 

 English, etc. — was in fuU operatton, while 

 alongside of thc School there stood an Eng- 

 lish church, and at a distance of haif a 

 mile was a small building in which preach- 

 ing in Tamil and in Malay was carried on 

 several times a week, and thc foundations 

 were laid of w r hat has now become the 

 Malaysia Annual Conference, from which 

 the Philippine Islands Mission Conference 

 is a branch. 



The whole record of those earlier days 

 only demonstrates that with an earnest and 



