ristian Chinaman and member of the Broadway Tabernacle Church. The
address of the editor is No. 117 West 87th St., New York, and of the
manager, No. 15 University Place. It is intended for all workers in
Chinese Sunday-schools, and every teacher of Chinese Sunday-school
scholars would do well to send a dollar and secure this invaluable aid
for a year. Its column of items is named "Tea Leaves." We would
suggest that the motto for this bright little paper be "_Tu doces_."

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THE VERNACULAR IN INDIAN SCHOOLS.

BY SECRETARY STRIKEY.

This question is not settled. One thing that has kept it unsettled has
been the uncertain use of the term "missionary schools" in the Orders
of the Indian Department. What is precisely a missionary school? Let
me try to explain. There are three kinds of schools in the
nomenclature of the Indian Office, based on the sources of their
support.

1. _Government_ Schools, supported wholly by Government
appropriations--such as those at Carlisle, Genoa, etc. These may be
left out of the account in this discussion, for no one objects to the
Government's directing the studies in them.

2. _Contract_ Schools, so called because the missionary societies
which sustain them receive under _contract_ with the Government a
certain amount of money in aid of their support. The school at Santee,
Nebraska, and the school at Yankton, Dakota, are specimens of this
class. But these are _mission_ schools, for the societies which
support them would not continue to do so for a day except for their
missionary character; and yet these schools are classed by the
Department not as missionary but as contract schools.

3. _Missionary_ Schools, which are supported wholly by missionary
funds, the Government contributing nothing. Here, again, in the recent
{120} order, the Department employs the confusing use of terms,
speaking in general terms of "missionary schools," and then of
missionary schools under the charge of "native Indian teachers," and
at remote points; the inference being that the white teacher of a
missionary school, though it may be in a place so remote that neither
the pupils nor the people can understand the English language, cannot
teach in the vernacular.

With these explanations we present, under date of Feb. 11, 1888,

THE LATEST ORDERS OF THE DEPARTMENT.

1. No text-books in the vernacular will be allowed in any school where
children are placed under contract or whe