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and the wholc country is benerited much 

 by thcir enterprise and shrewd initiative. 

 Such men, of course, eagerly desire cdu- 

 cation for thcir children, while in all mat- 

 ters religious they are hospitable beyond 

 most Asiaties. 



When Mr. Ohiliam projected an Anglo- 

 Chinese school hc was providing- for a want 

 which was felt, and iu thc supplying of 

 which he was most nobly helpcd. The Gov- 

 emment provides some schools, the Romau 

 Catholic Cluirch some others, but there is 

 considerable op|x>rtunity for still another 

 school systcm in which clear ideas of duty 

 and morals, and right rclations to God and 

 men, shall be consistently taught* Such 

 scliools have since sprung up in most of 

 the leading stations of the Mission. The 

 Angrlo-Chiiicsc school at Sin^;Ljx>re, tmder 

 the admirable leatlership of such principals 

 as those wlio follou-cd Mr. Oldham, — 

 Kelso, Banks, Lyoits, Buehanan, and 

 Pease f — has gone from strength to strength 

 until now it numbers one thousand students, 

 with a boarding department of nearly ioo. 

 And the entire institution pays its own bills 

 without any help whatever from the Mis- 



