WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

in poor health, for Saigon is a hot city. There is no
cool season there—just a hot one and a hotter one.
It usually takes a little time to become acclimated;
but when one's constitution becomes accustomed to
the heat, the even temperature is pleasant and not
too unhealthful.
The next year the senior missionary at Tourane
returned to America on furlough. One of the men
from Saigon was married to a young lady missionary
who had been studying at Tourane, and they were
appointed to that station. The other young man
went back to Saigon and was joined there by two
new missionaries. More missionaries came from
America until by the autumn of 1921 the staff had
increased to fifteen. The Field Conference that fall,
which was the seventh annual conference, opened
three new stations in Cochin-China where the Mission
had a free hand, for the restrictions that had
been placed on work in the protectorate of Annam
did not apply there. Another station was opened at
Haiphong in the state of Tonkin. Thus there were
now stations in all of the colonial cities within the
protectorate of Annam, and four more in the French
colony of Cochin-China.
In 1922 other new missionaries joined the field,
and at the conference of that year, a new step was
taken in Mission government. Mr. Jaffray was still
the Superintendent of the field, although he always
conferred with the Executive Committee which was