We have also some assurance that the schools reach the Government standard of efficiency in the teaching of secular subjects.
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Primary | Proportion | Higher | Proportion | Remarks Schools | Receiving | Schools.

| Receiving | and | Government | | Government | Conclusions.
| Grant, if any.

| | Grant.

| -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | ________|________________|__________|____________|___________________ Hitherto we have dealt only with schools in which the pupils are probably for the most part children; but in some countries the mission makes a great effort to enlighten the illiterate adults, especially the illiterate adult Christians, and thus, as in China, missionaries propagate simplified systems of writing the language, or in other countries have reduced to writing, languages which possessed no script.
We have already set out the reason why this appeals especially to Protestant missionaries.

The reading of the Bible is a keystone in their evangelistic system, and with them Christianity and reading go hand in hand.