Nevertheless they do occur.

A Chinaman is readily reached through his own language.

Hence the importance of raising up native teachers of the Gospel who can speak to the hearts as well as to the understanding of their countrymen.

As we observed in the foregoing chapter, in the Orient, as in Syria and Egypt, Jews and Mohammedans sometimes allow their children to attend the English schools, and to a large extent from a worldly motive.

The Syrian or Arab who can speak English is in demand as a dragoman, an accountant, an office clerk in the bazaar, or a camp-servant or boatman.