72 



Malaysia. 



must be absent from Singaporc, and this in- 

 terruption of the tcaching of the school is 

 necessarily a great drawback to thorough 

 efFectiveness. Students could be multiplied, 

 and thc training niadc greatly more crTect- 

 ive if a Chinese and Tamil speaking mis- 

 sionary could be sct apart exchisively to 

 this work. The great need of Malaysia is 

 the endowment of an American profcssor- 

 ship for the hcadship of this school. One 

 Amcrican with suitable native assistants, 

 giving thcir whole time to the training of 

 a native ministry, would tell mightily upon 

 the whole situation. 



When narrating such facts as these one 

 is often interrupted by tlie eagcr statemcnt, 

 "Why don't you do it ? Why not secure 

 a suitablc inan and sct him to work at this 

 great educational problem?" But alas 1 thc 

 answer is so casily given, — bccause of the 

 absence of means. Here is anothcr place 

 where a small gift of $25,000 or $30,000 

 would bless a wide area of missionary oper- 

 ations for all time to come. There are 

 already in this school, neccssarily defective 

 as is its present management, students from 



