In the spring of 1872, another was added to the list.

These little ones of Christ have all thus far shown themselves faithful.

They were sent back to their homes in the summer, and several, if not the most, of them may be forbidden to return again to the school.

Some may say, why allow them to go home?
The policy of encouraging children to run away from their parents and connect themselves with foreign missionaries and missionary institutions, will lead the heathen to hate the very name of Christianity, and to charge it with being a foe to all social and family order, and on the broad ground of missionary usefulness, the girls can do far more good in their own homes than elsewhere..