The mission at Oroville was our first attempt to deal with this problem of work among the Chinese miners. It was begun, so far as downright and determined effort was concerned, February 1st, and continued till June 1st. The school is closed during the hot months, but will be resumed, I trust, about October 1st. In some respects it has fulfilled our hopes, and abundantly repaid our somewhat large expenditures. Six Chinese are reported as converted, but we did not reach many of the miners through the school, as such. They would come to hear Lee Haim or Lem Chung preach, thronging the little mission house sometimes, and listening to the Gospel, as, indeed, news, good news possibly, with eyes fixed and ears and even mouths wide open, to receive the words. But coming and going, here to-day to trade at the temple for luck and at the stores for “grub,” to-morrow gone we know not where, we could learn but little of the work that good news wrought within their hearts. It is evident, however, that if we are to reach our Chinese mining population it must be mainly through evangelistic service—a mission school at some central point, as a headquarters, and a well-trained helper to go forth from it, preaching here and there on Sundays and on week days, in the cabins or on the streets, wherever he can induce his countrymen to lend him a listening ear. And in order to this, we ought to be training helpers by the dozen where now we are training one; not by sending them to Academies or opening for them a Theological Seminary, but by putting them to work and letting them learn to preach by preaching. This was Wesley’s method for those half heathen among whom his victories were gained in England, and I am persuaded that it is the beat method for these whole heathen for whom our struggle is going on to-day. Do not educate the helpers up out of the range of easy sympathy with those from whom they spring and among whom they go, but let teaching and working, lesson and practice, go hand in hand. I am eager to do more of this next year than we have ever done. I am greatly encouraged respecting it, by the results vouchsafed to us already; but how to do it aright, with the resources now at command, I do not, and I fear, I cannot see, for the rules of arithmetic are against it, and those rules are stubborn things. You cannot, in this case, reduce the multiplicand (_i. e._ the helper’s salary, for it is at the lowest point that justice will admit already), and you cannot increase the multiplier (the number of helpers) without enlarging the product (_i. e._ the expense to be met and the drafts to be made). What shall we do about it? * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1880. * * * * * MAINE, $55.00.