Thus it has been somewhat of a surprise that more of the men of different missions have not availed themselves of the portunity to not only visit, butremain xttheic now vacated stations through tle summer, and get things into such shape that when in the autumn, if things go as now they promise, the prohibition "gainst the ladies is raised, the families might return to a somewhat prepared home and work. That this permission to the men has not been more largely used is somewhat surprising.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.