And that our labor is not all in vain will be evident when I show you what this work was in the beginning.

You have seen a little of what it is now." They went back to the office of the missionary.
"It is nearly twenty years," said Mr.Paulding, "since the organization of our mission.

The question of what to do for the children became at once the absorbing one.

The only building in which to open a Sunday-school that could be obtained was an old dilapidated frame house used as a receptacle for bones, rags, etc.; but so forbidding was its aspect, and so noisome the stench arising from the putrefying bones and rotting rags, that it was feared for the health of those who might occupy it.

However it was agreed to try the effect of scraping, scrubbing, white-washing and a liberal use of chloride of lime.