In San Francisco there are 4 schools; Central, Barnes, Bethany, and West. The Central school is taught in our Central Mission house, the headquarters of our work for the whole State. This is, I regret to say, a _rented_ building, the cost of which absorbs more than a sixth of the utmost amount we can hope to command for our whole work. We have occupied it now almost six years, have spent in rents nearly enough to have paid for as good a building, if only we could have seized our opportunity; and I cannot even yet get sufficiently hardened to this expenditure, to meet it without a throbbing heart. “If only I could use this sum for teaching and preaching the Gospel of Christ!” is my thought and my longing; when will the time come? The building is a very plain one, but pleasantly located, just on the edge of the Chinese quarter, and overlooking an acre or two of greenness in the heart of our city which we call “the Plaza.” It has two stories and a basement, the latter occupied by our Association of Christian Chinese as a hall and reading room, with some facilities in the rear for hospitality. The first floor is the school room (18 x 50), in which at times no less than 145 Chinese have crowded themselves. The average attendance now is about 60; it is increasing, and I hope will again reach 100. In the upper story are the rooms of our Chinese helpers, with a little office, also, for the Secretary of the Association above named. A great deal of work is done here besides the mere teaching; a great deal of correspondence carried on; a great deal of what may be called pastoral care exercised; a good deal, also, of honest study of God’s word.