Sketches from Formosa.

STUDENT LAU-SENG IN THE PULPIT 233
possibilities gathered up there ?
child longs for and must have ?
What is it that this
Nourishment. What
kind of nourishment ? Milk ; pure, unadulterated, and
life-giving milk. Where does it get the milk ?
its mother's breasts. How many breasts are
From
there ?
one typifying the Old Testament,
Two, and only two ;
and the other the New ; so that, when the dear little
babe has been partly satisfied at the left or weaker side,
we have only to turn it round that it may
obtain rich
abundance at the other ; for it was to the right side of
the ship that Jesus told His disciples to cast their net for
a great multitude of fishes "
and so on. I feel here
I should apologise to the reader for burdening my pages
with exegetical slag of this kind.
In order to furnish better opportunities for training
work, a proposal was made several years ago to send
some of our promising lads over to the Theological College
at Amoy, but it was found that this arrangement would
not work well, and that the Island missionaries would
themselves require to do the best they could in the circumstances.
This led to the abandonment of Takow
as a separate branch of the Mission, and to Taiwan-fu
becoming our only headquarters in Formosa a ; change
which gave our students the benefit of almost continuous
missionary supervision in the class-room and outside.
Another important addition soon after was the engagement
of Mr. Law Liong as resident Chinese Tutor. He
had been baptized at Amoy many years before, and was
a man whose abilities and character were worthy of all
respect. His labours here have given us entire satis-
faction, and we hope that even greater advance will be
made in this important department of work when we
have taken possession of the new college buildings now
in course of erection.
There are seven students now under training. They