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Monary Society. When, somc years ago, a 

 N'e\v York Episcopalian rcctor visitcd Sm~ 

 gapore, he found this school and noted his 

 pleasure and apprcciation in an article in 

 the Outlook, in which he very felicitously 

 descrlbed "ihat school in tlie corncr of 

 Asia." Similar schools have since been 

 planted by Dr. B. F. West in Penang, where 

 now under the able leadership of J. F. 

 Pykctt, cxccllent work is being done in the 

 "Wood Institutc," crected by the gencrous 

 gift of Capt. John W r ood of Pittsburg. 

 This school has more than sevcn hun- 

 dred lads, moslly Chinese. At Ipoh, Dr. 

 Luerii]£-, with thc splendid help of Mr. Foo 

 Choo Clioon, a wcalthy Chinese gcntleman, 

 lias creatcd perhaps the rnost beautiful se- 

 rics of school bttildings in the Mission, 

 which are Bbw conductcd by Rudlcdge and 

 Bcaumont ; the latter, himseh* a product of 

 the Mission, enrolls over four huudred pu- 

 pils. At Kuala Lumpor, the iederal capi- 

 tal of the Malay States, Missionary W. E. 

 Horley, the prcsiding clder, has succecded 

 in building- a sclioul at a cost of $15,000 

 (Straits money) and nlling it with nearly 

 five hundred students without any expense 



