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raised and there was not sufficient to meet the ex-
penses of opening the new mission, but at the
critical moment the students of Northwestern
University offered to pay $1,000 a year for two
years.

It was in March, 1905, that the preliminary sur-
vey was made and work was begun. In 1906
work was begun at Pontianak in West Borneo by
Rev. C. M. Worthington and in Medan, Sumatra,
by Solomon Pakianathan, a Tamil local preacher.
In 1907 the work in West Borneo and in Sumatra
was united with that in Java and the Netherlands
Indies District was formed with J. R. Denyes as
Superintendent.

Less than thirteen years had passed when in
February, 1918, The Netherlands Indies Mission
Conference was formed with thirty missionaries
and twenty-five native preachers and teachers on
the roll and nearly a thousand members of the
church. Rev. H. B. Mansell is in charge of this
new mission.

From the beginning of mission work in Malay-
sia the workers have lived with their eyes upon
the horizon. They dream of new fields to con-
quer. But it is not the spirit of mere
Paulinie adventure or the desire for *'some new
Ambition thing'' that prompts this reaching out
after new territory. Rather it is the
'^I have fully preach-
ambition of Paul, who said :
ed the Gospel of Christ; yea, being ambitious to
preach the Gospel, not where Christ was already
named, that I might build on another man's
foundation; but as it is written. They shall see,
to whom no tidings of him came and who have
not heard shall understand."
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