in numbers and influence until last year (1911) it attained the distinction of Bangkok Christian College. While it still does grammar and high school work, it seemed wise to give it the larger name of college, in view of the use of the term "College" in the Orient in connection with institutions not so far advanced as this school.

Of the 200 students, only a small number are professing Christians, yet at least eighty per cent are intellectual believers, and are perhaps held back from confessing Christ by the pressure of Buddhist friends and their heathen environment. As an evidence of this Christian spirit, they have refused the past year to take part in athletic contests with the national schools because the games were played on the Sabbath day. It is only fair to say, however, that they may have acted partly upon the knowledge that the college would not permit Sunday games.

These young men go out from this institution to fill important positions in the government, and, though they are not professing Christians, they are friends of Christianity and are helpful in many ways to the missionaries. One of the advanced students of Bangkok Christian College, Kru Noi, who was reared by the Chow of Lakawn, is now teaching in the mission school in Lakawn and is most valuable in every way to the mission. Bangkok Christian College is the only high grade Protestant school for boys in lower Siam, and occupies a unique position of usefulness. Every effort should be made to increase its equipment and efficiency. It has now five buildings on two and one half acres of land. The Board has granted an appropriation from the Kennedy Fund with which to buy

1. King of Siam

BANGKOK

2. View of School Across the River

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The Faculty of the School

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Miss Edna Cole, Principal of School, Caling on Princess of the Old Palace

5. View of Palace

additional land, but there is great need of other things, such as a water supply, better equipment and two or three expert teachers. It is absolutely essential to the life and growth of our mission schools that they keep ahead of the government schools. In recent years our schools have not kept pace with the national schools in equipment and modern facilities for school work. It will be a very short sighted policy on the part of the church to allow this institution to lose its well earned precedence for lack of adequate support. Rev. W. G. McClure, D.D., has had charge of this school for seven years. Under his wise management it has done most excellent work, and stands today in point of efficiency at the very top of all educational institutions in lower Siam. He is ably assisted in the College by Mrs. McClure, their son, Arthur McClure, Miss A. Galt, and a strong force of native teachers. The whole spirit and atmosphere of the College is Christian. The educational work is always kept subordinate to the spiritual and evangelistic. There is no stronger missionary agency in Siam than Bangkok Christian College. It is an interesting and encouraging fact that all the higher education in the Siam Mission is practically self-supporting.

Mrs. Harriet
M. House
Girls' School

The Wang Lang Girls' School was opened about 1870, on the west side of the river, just across from the King's Palace, in one of the most desirable parts of the city. In 1879 the school had enrolled twenty with an income from tuition of $40, the total remaining expenses that year being $490. In 1886, $300 was appropriated for a building. Since that time

the building has been enlarged and made to accommodate more than one hundred girls. In 1894 A. D. the name of the school was changed to the Mrs. Harriet M. House Girls' School, in honor of Mrs. Samuel House, so long a faithful missionary in Siam. This is by far the finest girls' school in Siam. It is the only high grade school for women in the Empire, and ranks among the best of all our institutions for women in mission lands. Miss Edna Cole has been in charge of the school for twenty-five years and has done a most excellent work in building up the institution. She is thoroughly in sympathy with the Siamese people and has put into her years of service a consecration and efficiency that has made her work a great success.

Miss Cole is ably assisted by three American teachers, Miss Bertha Blount, Miss Margaret McCord, and Miss Ellenwood, who has just come to the field. There are seven native teachers, former graduates from the school. One of these young ladies has just returned from America where she spent four years in some of our best colleges specializing in primary and kindergarten methods.

There is no agency of our mission that exerts a more wholesome and uplifting influence in Siam than the Harriet M. House Girls' School. The graduates go out with the stamp of the institution upon them to become teachers, and wives of the most influential men of the nation. The wife in Siam is the "man of the house," the head of the home. Her position in the home is more influential than in any other country of the Orient. This custom gives to the Girls' School in Bangkok a peculiar opportunity to mould the life