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lias growTi until it requires the services of more than thirty
workmen. From its presses have come thousands of Bibles,
tracts, leaflets, periodicals, hymnals, catechisms, dictionaries,
and school text-books—the working tools of the Church.
This literature is scattered broadcast by the missionary on
his rounds, and it not only serves the purpose of teaching
the truth to those who have already entered the Church, but
it sows the seed of future harvests.
RESULTS, OUTLOOK, NEED
The first generation in the life of a Christian mission must
of necessity be a time of small beginnings. The heathen
mind cannot readily comprehend that spiritual life is
a possibility. It takes years for an Asiatic
Statistics and people to realize that Chri.stianity is not a sys-
General Influence tem of forms and ceremonies, purer, perhaps,
but not essentially different from their own
forms of worship. And yet the Church of Malaysia does

OUR CHURCH AT KUALA LUMPUR

not come with empty hands as the result of her short life of
only nineteen years. At the close of 1903 there were in
Malaysia, apart from the Philippines, 26 schools, with 112
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