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CHAPTER XL 
Day and Sabbath Schools — War — Mr. and Mrs. Hadley Return 
to America — His Death. 
The work of teaching, preaching, and praying, 
went on. Our missionaries reported in 1868 that 
they had twenty scholars in the day-school. Most 
of these were members of the Caulker family. If 
a few others were brought in, they would remain 
but a short time. For one cause or another, some- 
times known to the missionaries, but often entirely 
unknown, these other scholars would disappear, 
and that would be the last they would see of them ; 
but they secretly believed that King Caulker had 
something to do in sending them away. 
But the Sabbath-school was more hopeful. 
There were twice as many persons in attendance, 
and they came more regularly than the day schol- 
ars, took a deeper interest in the instruction they 
received, and, on the whole, as is often the case in 
long established churches in this country, the Sab- 
bath-school was the most hopeful feature of the 
mission. The old people were so confirmed in 
