Singapore Training School
By K. M. Adams
IN our missionary training school, we have young men and women from Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsula. They have come to prepare themselves to teach their fellow countrymen of the love of Jesus. There are so many nationalities in these islands, that the school is truly cosmopolitan. Among the various nationalities represented are Chinese, Tamil, Javanese, Japanese, Timorese, Battak, Singhalese, and Amboynese. With so many classes, it would seem as though the work of teaching must be very difficult; but nearly all speak the Malay language, and that tongue is used as the medium of communication. There were eighty-two in the school in 1915, with a staff of five teachers. The students show a real spirit for Christian work. Outside of school hours, they go into the city of Singapore, where every one can find some of his own nationality, and sell literature and teach the Bible. The native teachers lead in the work, to show the students how. When we see how young men and women from the interior of degraded heathen lands blossom under this Christian influence, we realize that there is power in the word of God. We realize that God is working miracles of transformation on human hearts to-day that are as mighty and as real as His great work of healing the sick and raising the dead when He was here in person. Pray that the young workers who leave this school to take up the fight against superstition and idolatry may be faithful and strong, and lead many out of darkness into light.