of our most promising boys and girls we
had raised the money for them to get outside the country what they
could never get in it, namely, the technical training which is so much
needed on a coast where we have to do everything for ourselves, and
the breadth of view which contact with a more progressive civilization
alone can give them. The faculty of Pratt Institute gave us a
scholarship, and later two of them; and with no little fear as to
their ability to keep up, we sent two young men there. The newness of
our school forced us to select at the beginning boys who had only
received teaching after their working hours. Both boys and girls have
always had to earn something to help them on their way through. But
they have stood the test of efficiency so well that we look forward
with confidence to the future. A girl who took the Domestic Economy
course at the Nasson Institute told me only to-day, "It gave me a new
life altogether, Doctor"; and she is making a splendid return in
service to her own people here.

The real test of education is its communal effect; and no education is
complete which leaves the individual ignorant of the things that
concern his larger relationship to his country, any more than he is
anything beyond a learned animal if he knows nothing of his
opportunities and responsibilities as a son of God. But though
example is a more impelling factor than precept, undoubtedly the most
permanent contributions conferred on the coast by the many college
students, who come as volunteers every summer to help us in the
various branches of our work, is just this gift of their own
personalities. Strangely enough, quite a number of these helpers who
have to spend considerable money coming and returning, just to give us
what they can for the sole return of what that means to their own
lives, have not been the sons of the wealthy, but those working their
way through the colleges. These men are just splendid to hold up as
inspirational to our own.

The access to books, as well as to sermons, may not be neglected. Our
faculties, like our jaws, atrophy if we do not use them to bite with.
The Carnegie libraries have emphasized a fact that is to education and
the colleges what social work is to medicine and the hospitals. We
were running south some years ago on our long northern trip before a
fine leading wind, when suddenly we noticed a small boat with an
improvised flag hoisted, standing right out across our bows. Thin