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12. The education imparted is entirely Christian and at the same time thoroughly practical. It aimi to fit the pupils for useful careers in life, and so far as their blindness admits of this, to render them inde pendent by teaching them to earn their own living.
13. With this end in view the girls besides being instructed in the duties of religion are taught to read and write under the BRAILLE System. They are also trained in stocking knitting, straw plaiting and every kind of house work. Nor are the lighter accomplish- ments such as music omitted from the school curricu lum. The elder girls are taught to play on the har. monium.
14. Every afternoon the children are allowed to divert themselves in the garden and here their blithe- some merriment is delightful to listen to. The happi- ness of these girls makes us long the more earnestly that this work of Christian charity may extend from year to year.
15. Meanwhile it became necessary to leave the house in Hongkong and we found it impossible to rent a house large enough to accommodate the school for the money, we were free to spend. Therefore we were obliged to move to Macao temporarily. But Macao is not the proper place for a Protestant-school- and it is quite important to have a place of our own, in a safe place such as Hongkong.
16.-Our object in circulating this short report is to awaken a new interest on the part of many friends and lead them to do what they can with loving heart and band to amellorate the sad lot of blind girls in China.
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