The Spirit of missions . II. THE BEGINNINGS THIS simple lit-tle p i c tu r erepresents all therewas of St. PaulsSchool thirty yearsago. To show whatprogress our Churchin Japan has madethrough the sym-pathy and self-sac-rificing work ofthe American Church it is important to. Rev. Y. Sugiura OF ST. PAULS SCHOOL consider the advance in educationiwork, which is such a great evangelisagency. I wish, therefore, to give ya comparison of the beginning of SiPauls with its present condition. To-day, with four hundred and ninet:three day pupils and sixty-six boar(ing pupils it is a flourishing school anf
The Spirit of missions . II. THE BEGINNINGS THIS simple lit-tle p i c tu r erepresents all therewas of St. PaulsSchool thirty yearsago. To show whatprogress our Churchin Japan has madethrough the sym-pathy and self-sac-rificing work ofthe American Church it is important to. Rev. Y. Sugiura OF ST. PAULS SCHOOL consider the advance in educationiwork, which is such a great evangelisagency. I wish, therefore, to give ya comparison of the beginning of SiPauls with its present condition. To-day, with four hundred and ninet:three day pupils and sixty-six boar(ing pupils it is a flourishing school anfar different from what it was whenentered in 1880. This small building was twenty-foi|by twenty-seven feet, and consisted of i Keminiscences of the Early Days 771 two class rooms and a reception room,so-called. It was a wretched, one-storywooden affair, the wall around it wasfalling down, the gate was gone, theyard was overgrown with grass and itwas altogether pitiful to see. The build-ing in the background is the dormitory,in which were twelve students. Besidesthese there were five or six day scholars,so in all you see there were only seven-teen or eighteen pupils. The principal was Mr. Gardiner, anenergetic young man, who had come tothe East full of hope, and I ca
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