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which niade the Java tour a great deal more 

 pleasant and successiul than it would other- 

 wise have been. Constantly the missionary 

 learns of his boys, who years after they 

 have left thc school, have so pronted by 

 the teachings they have received, iliat they 

 have turned to God and carried the ines- 

 sage to people in far off parts, otherwise 

 unreachcd by any nussionary, whilc more 

 directly from the school itself we have re- 

 ceived some of the choicest Christians to 

 be found in all the land, The schools have 

 by no means impeded the Mission. They 

 have been a distinct addition to the evan- 

 gelizing agencies in the field, and since they 

 pay their own bills the attitude to be as- 

 sumed towards them should be one of cor- 

 dial sympathy aud good-will. 



The school at Singapore greatly necds 

 strcngthening in the senior departments. If 

 two professorships could be endowed Mr. 

 Pease would be relieved from the constant 

 anxiety to make the school pay its own 

 way; and the beginnings of a college would 

 be made possibic. With the constant 

 stream of young men passing through this 

 school, many of them of the bctter fam- 



