Excerpt from The Fiftieth Annual Report of the American Madura Mission, 1883 In 1854, there was not one native assistant, who had received a seminary education, and of the wives of these native assistants one only could read. The people were proportionally ignorant. But there has been a great change in this respect. Of the 54 native assistants, now employed, 13 have studied at Pasumalai Seminary; 16 have 5th grade teachers' certificates, and 8 are well educated school-mis tresses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.