“But there is absolutely no place in all Bangkok where they can attend church unless they divide up by sexes and travel several miles in a boat to Sumray and Wang Lang. This some of them do, but their parents and friends do not. Every year our schools are sending out more of these young people, but we are not following them up, and they are left to drift.... For this great work a man and a church are needed at once. No other need in Siam is more urgent. The man should be able to speak the Siamese like a native. He should be conversant with the intricacies of Siamese customs and etiquette; and so understand the native mind that he can enter into sympathy with it and be able to mould it for God. “There is one man in Siam who meets all these conditions. I believe that he has ‘come into the kingdom for such a time as this.’ That man is Rev. Boon Boon Itt ... one of the most remarkable men I have met in Asia. His station has been Pitsanuloke, where he has done a fine work in building up next to the largest boys’ boarding school in the mission. Another man can do the work at Pitsanuloke equally well, but no other man in Siam or out of it can reach the young men in Bangkok as he can. As the head of his ‘clan’ whose family home is in Bangkok, he is widely and favourably known in the capital. Young men like him and resort to him for advice whenever he visits the city.... We can use this man to better advantage for the cause of Christ. So I proposed to the missionaries that Mr. Boon Itt be transferred to Bangkok, and the proposal was unanimously and enthusiastically agreed to.” So it came about that Boon Itt was unexpectedly but with great reluctance persuaded to accept the call to Bangkok. In a letter to a friend in America he wrote: “Now there comes a call for me to come down to Bangkok and take up the work here with young men and for young men. This now seems to be my work. I am drawn to it now. I was not before; I looked at it from a sheer sense of duty. I want to put my best work in down here, for it is extremely important to build up homes if purity is ever to be indigenous. When I went up to Pitsanuloke I was in doubt about the school work, so I said to the Lord if He wanted me to start a school there, would He give the money wherewith to build it. He owns all the riches of the world and people’s hearts are in his hands; so I asked Him to influence the people there to give the money and the materials—and He did, and the school has been built.