Missionary work results in a healthy growth of the worker 215 The successful missionary must be an all-round man 215 He secures a training beyond that of any university course 216 That training is spiritual as well as intellectual 216 It tends to make him doctrinally sound as to Christ's deity and atonement 217 Or convinces him that he has no proper place on a mission field 218 A valuable lesson for our societies and churches at home 218 New Testament polity, as well as doctrine, is tested by missions 219 Our mission churches are becoming models of self-support, self-government, and self-propagation 219 The physical environment of the missionary needs to be cared for 219 The large house, many servants, and an automobile, are great and almost necessary helps 220 All these can be obtained cheaply, and should be provided 220 Other denominations furnish better equipment than ours 220 Yet the days of missionary hardship are well-nigh past 221 Missionary trials are mainly social and spiritual; and there are enough of these 221 But faithful work, in spite of hope deferred, will be rewarded at last 222 I A WEEK IN JAPAN The Pacific Ocean was very kind to us, for it answered to its name, and was pacific beyond all our expectations. Sixteen days of smooth seas and lovely weather brought us by way of Honolulu to Yokohama. Only the last day of our voyage was dark and rainy. But though the rain continued after our landing, Japan was picturesque. On four out of our six days we drove about, shut up in water-tight buggies called "rickshaws." They were like one-hoss-shays, through whose front windows of isinglass we looked out upon the bare legs of our engineer and conductor, who took the place of the horse for twenty-five cents an hour.