Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ogether withthis medical relief, spiritual influence has constantly been Mr. Preston has preached to the patients each Sabbath morn-ing, and four discourses have been given each week by a nativepreacher, under the direction of Dr. Kerr. Daily morning prayershave also been maintained through the year. Thus our Savioursexample of healing both body and soul has been followed, withreliance upon the blessing of God to make both The work of training a native ministry mainly under the charge ofRev. Dr. H
Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ogether withthis medical relief, spiritual influence has constantly been Mr. Preston has preached to the patients each Sabbath morn-ing, and four discourses have been given each week by a nativepreacher, under the direction of Dr. Kerr. Daily morning prayershave also been maintained through the year. Thus our Savioursexample of healing both body and soul has been followed, withreliance upon the blessing of God to make both The work of training a native ministry mainly under the charge ofRev. Dr. H;ipper, has advanced with stearo<ii-ess. The number ofyoung men under instruction, has varied from 14 to 20. The courseof study has consisted mainly of portions of various books of theOld and New Testaments, and various standards of the is also a training school for women under the care of MissHattie No\ es, with 12 pupils. A boarding school for girls, underthe same directress, reports 20 pupils. Eive day-schools for 58 ANNUAL REPORT. one linger the care of Mr. Preston, and four in charge of Mr. Noyes,report an apjGjre^ate attendance of 140. Six day-schools for girls,directed by Misses Noyes and Happer, report 97 pnpils. Otherday-scliools, making 15 in all, in the city and vicinity, are unre-ported. During the year a second church has been formed, with at first13 raemV)ers, most of whom ha 1 been connected with the first church,under the care of Dr, Happer. The year has been crowned withthe blessing (if the Holy Spirit in an unusual degree. Forty-two ad-ditions have been made to the chin-ch. In all, since December,1872. the number is 48. The last accession occurred January 11th,at which time 13 persons made a profession of their faith in theLord Jesus Christ. It was an occasion of great joy to the mission-aries and to the native Christians who had been won by theirefforts. We cannot better set forth the real spirit of the occasion,and the consequences whi
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