WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

ages who live by hunting the wild game that abounds
in that region.
Money had been provided fox the erection and
opening of a school at Dalat for the children of the
missionaries. The Lord moved the French authorities
to sell the Mission a most suitable piece of prop¬
erty on which a boarding school was built, and an
excellent teacher came from America. This met a
great need, for the number of the missionaries had
multiplied until, by 1929, when the school was built,
there were twenty-two missionary families on the
field. Some of the children had reached school age,
and the question of their education had become
acute. This school has solved the problem. The
children are getting the best of training in a climate
that is as healthful as any. The temperature at
Dalat ranges between thirty-five and seventy-five degrees.
It is neither hot nor cold, but is vigorous and
bracing.
A matron has been appointed to mother the chil¬
dren and provide the home life that is as essential
as their educational training. The school grew rap¬
idly, for there are more than sixty missionary chil¬
dren on the field. Later, a second teacher was sent
out, and also a nurse to work with the matron in
caring for the health of the school family.
This hill station has also another ministry. It
provides a place for missionaries to go from the hot
plains when their health is run down or when they