[Sidenote: A Model Mission.] Among the societies which entered Madagascar at this period was the _Norwegian Missionary Society_ which settled in the province of Betsileo in 1867. With admirable administration at home, and in spite of serious difficulty with an opposition mission established by the Jesuits, they have accomplished a task which is universally praised by missionary historians. They have at work, besides many Norwegian and some American missionaries, ninety-six native pastors and over nine hundred catechists. There are two medical missions and a leper asylum, schools and printing offices. It is reckoned that among the one hundred and thirty thousand Christians in the Island, eighty-four thousand are Lutherans. Among the great names of the mission are those of _Dahle_, who established a Seminary for native workers, and _Doctor Borchgrevink_, a medical missionary. AMERICAN SOCIETIES. The Norwegians in America, always closely connected with the Church of the Fatherland, sent their missionary contributions at first through the fatherland societies, the Norwegian Missionary Society and the Norwegian Church (Schreuder’s) Mission. To Schreuder’s Mission the _Norwegian Synod_ (American) still contributes, having sent in 1915 about $10,000. [Illustration: FIRST GRADUATING CLASS FROM KINDERGARTEN AT OGI, JAPAN.] [Illustration: GROUP OF THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS, KUMAMOTO.] In the work in Madagascar American Norwegians have a large and important part. In 1892 the Norwegian Missionary Society assigned to the _United Norwegian Lutheran Church_ (American) the southern part of the island. In 1897 this field was divided once more, the _Norwegian Lutheran Free Church_ (American) taking the western section. Together these two societies have a territory covering about thirty thousand square miles, with a population of almost four hundred thousand. The United Church contributed in 1915, $42,000 for its work and the Norwegian Free Church almost $17,000. Together they have a Christian community of about twenty-six hundred. To the work of the Leipsic Society in East Africa the American Lutheran _Synod of Iowa_ contributes and to the work of the Hermannsburg society, the _Joint Synod of Ohio_. The _Synod of South Carolina_, now a part of the United Synod in the South may be said to have been the first Lutheran body in America to send a missionary to Africa. This was _Boston Drayton_, a colored member of the English Lutheran Church of Charleston, who sailed in 1845. Of him or of his work, little more is known.