CHAPTER XII. 



CONCLUSION. 



It has been briefiy told how in the course 

 of twenty-one years a Mission which began 

 with but one couple, without any nioney 

 from thc home Church, has gathered 

 strength and grown with the years. Now 

 it is an Annual Conference of three dis- 

 tricts, with work in eighteen centers; six- 

 teen male missionaries, most of them mar- 

 ried, and eight Woman's Foreign Mission- 

 ary Society missionaries ; three native.or- 

 dained preachers, and forty-five nuordained 

 preachcrs ; fifteen foreign teachers ; and 

 over one hundred and fifty other native 

 helpers; a membcrship of over two thou- 

 sand, and a Christian community of four 

 thousand, with about five thousand chil- 

 dren in schools; it raises over $6o,ooo 

 a year towards currcnt expenscs, and 

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