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as help us pay our debts in America, if we will 
let him. 
To put the mission upon a less expensive basis 
without causing a retrograde movement or injur- 
ing our good name and credit in that country was 
a difficult work; but God helped us to do it suc- 
cessfully. As soon as I landed there, the word 
was circulated that our mission was bankrupt, 
and I had come out to close up affairs. By put- * 
ting a few articles in the Early Dawn^ explaining 
affairs, and stating that we soon expected to start 
a training-school, the mission has as much credit 
and popularity as it ever had, and the arrange- 
ment to give each station so much and no more, 
will, with God’s blessing, enable us to hold the 
ground, and go forward slowly at least. 
Our working Mendi Mission, and the use of 
the steamer John Brown^ according to the ar- 
rangement agreed upon between our Board and 
the American Missionary Association, cease with 
the beginning of the year 1888. The stations we 
got from them, namely, Avery and Good Hope, 
are in good condition, considerable money hav- 
ing been expended upon the saw-mill and mis- 
sion-residences. They, and at least two new sta- 
tions, with buildings erected, can be kept up 
on the $5,000 we receive from the association 
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