The anniversary of the mission was held on Sunday evening, October 26. A large audience was present, and great interest was evinced. Besides the exercises by the pupils, there was the annual report, and brief addresses by the pastors of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches. The exercises indicated some good progress made during the year. I remember especially a recitation of the 115th Psalm, a responsive recitation of John, xiv. chap., and a little dialogue about our mission schools, and what is learned in them—“not only the English language, but about Jesus Christ our Saviour from sin.” One pupil recited the Apostles’ Creed, another the Ten Commandments, and none except one or two very recent comers were without some Gospel text, which, fastened in the memory, was recited in intelligible English. Sacred songs, in both English and Chinese, were interspersed, and the half-hour was fraught with blessing, I am very sure, to all concerned. I have never been so hopeful of the best results from our Santa Barbara work as I am just now. CHIN FUNG is one of our earliest fruits, a bright intelligent young man whom, years ago, I invited to become one of our helpers. He declined on the ground of being too little acquainted with Chinese, having had little, if any, opportunity of attending school in China. But I remember that he said, “I have wished very much that I could be prepared to go as a missionary to my countrymen at home.” I confess that I did not realize how deep that feeling was. Such expressions are frequent among our brethren, and I never have doubted their sincerity, but I have generally thought of them as consciously a wish for the _impossible_, and consequently never likely to grow to a controlling purpose deciding the life-work. But it was not so with Chin Fung. With the hope of this he has been saving all these years, with rigid economy, the slender earnings of his work as a house-servant. At length, encouraged by the excellent Christian lady by whom, of late, he has been employed, he determined to go to Hartford, Conn., and commence his course of study. Before this letter reaches you, I trust he will be there.