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Morrison Education Society.
Oct.
a community of such well-known liberality as that formed by the foreign residents in China, to raise the means requisite for carrying on this good work. The time has now come, then, when the trustees feel they are in duty bound to make known to all the friends of this Society its wants, and to urge on them its claims.
In the absence from China of the vice-president and auditors, their places have been temporarily filled by other members of the Society, nominated by the trustees; and in these arrangements it is hoped the Society will concur.
Hitherto the number of pupils has been small; but it may now be doubled, or even trebled, and with very little increase of expendi- ture. That this result, however, may be attained with its fullest advantages, the desirableness, already felt, of having at least one more teacher, is forced upon the attention of the trustees. This want has been most amply supplied by the gratuitous services of Mrs. Boone and the Rev. Mr. Milne, who, with the Rev. Mr. Boone, have had entire charge of the school and library during Mr. Brown's absence from Macao, from April 1st to Sept. 10th of this year. For these time- ly and valuable services the warmest thanks of the Society are especial- ly due. The desirableness of early procuring the permanent assistance of another teacher, already alluded to, must be apparent to every one; and the trustees confidently hope that the present meeting will au- thorize those, who may be intrusted with the management of the So- ciety's affairs for the coming year, to adopt the necessary measures to attain an object so essential.
In closing this report, the trustees would encourage themselves, and all the friends of the Society, by renewed reference to the grand and noble object to which it aims. It is impossible, by any language, adequately to express the high importance of training young Chinese in the manner proposed by this institution. It should be borne in mind, also, that a new era has here begun in the course of events, and, under these new and improved prospects opening before us, it is time the work of training the intellectual man be urged on upon a broader scale and with augmented force.
After the reading of the report, it was moved by Mr. MOLLer, seconded by Mr. WILLIAMS, and unanimously resolved:→
"That the report now read be accepted and approved, and printed under the direction of the committee of trustees."
It was next, on motion of Mr. MATHESON, seconded by Mr. Boone, unanimously resolved:-
"That the especial thanks of the Society be conveyed to professors