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the Mohammedans of Java has been established
in Batavia.

Woman's In 1902 the beginning was
Training School. made of a Bible Training
School for women. For
years this school also was conducted wholly in
the vernacular, but during the past few years
an English Department has been developed for
young women who have completed at least the
seventh grade in an English school. The experi-
ment is still too new to speak with certainty as to
practical value of the English training, but there
is a conviction among the missionaries that the
results will fully justify the work. There can be
no question as to the outcome of the lives of the
older women who have been trained to carry the
gospel story to their fellow countrymen.
The first Methodist institution started in the
Netherlands Indies was a Bible Women's Train-
ing School. Within three months after the mis-
sion was begun two native women were converted
and enrolled as probationers. With these two
women Mrs. Denyes began her school. This in-
stitution has also grown until it has twenty-five
women and girls on the roll.

Christian In 1890 the Rev. W. G. Shellabear,
Literature who as a voluntary worker had been
helping in the Mission by preaching
to the Malays for two years previously, while he
was a Captain in the Royal Engineers, was ap-
pointed as a missionary for Malay work, and came
out from England with a few hundred dollars
which had been raised in England and America by
himself and Dr. Oldham to establish a Methodist
Mission Press at Singapore. Prom the small begin-
ning made in 1890 the printing press grew rapidly
until, after ten years, it had become a large concern
employing 50 or 60 native printers. As Mr. Shella-
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