CHAPTER Vnt 



Java. — A Providential Mission. 



In 1904 the Mission opened a new sta- 

 tion in Java. Tlie story is anothcr of those 

 missiouary romances in which the Malaysia 

 Coniercnce has been so proliric. R. 

 Denyes retnrned to Amcrica on his first 

 furlough from Singapore. He went with 

 a deep irnprcsston upon his mind, born of a 

 close study of the situation, that the Mis- 

 sion should extend to Java, that populous 

 Island, with a stable population, which is 

 the cluef pearl of the Dutch possessions. 

 Missiouary Oldham sixteen years before 

 had visitcd Java with the earnest desirc to 

 scnd workcrs there, but he found things.un- 

 propitious. The missionary bodies already 

 on the ground wcre not inclined to be hos- 

 pitable, and the government was loath to 

 graut any permits without the consent of 

 thc cxisting missionary bodies. Mr. Denyes 

 was not unaware of the former effort, but 

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