INSTITUTE, pIREcTOR's SNUAL REPORT, The following, which is signed by Dr. Gilbert Reid is dated Now York City, October 16.
It is my pleasure to report to the members of the Iostitate what I have accomplished, daring the last six months. This has been a period of farloagh, and also of work. As has beea our cast>m in Chine, we bare bad no vacation.
The resulta of our Isbours may not! be satisfactory to others, unless they take into consideration their relation to what we hope will be larger results io the fatare. This has been a period of preparation, foundation-bauding, or, to use snather figare of speech, of seed-sowing.
The first month of thie period war passed on the Pacific Ovean. We. travelled in one of the boats belonging to Mr. Robert Dollar, of San Fraodeco, passing around by the north of Japan, in order to take on a large cargo cof oak-logs, and thence southeast ta gan ina, in Wasbiogton, in New York and Brooklyn, in jin Utica, Syracase, Rochester and Buffel". There have been references of complimentary character to our the " Oatlook" and the " Re-of Reviews." We written articles, which have been accepted and fare to be be published within the next month or so, in the " World's Work" and the "North American Revi Besides this, we have been engaged in the preparation of a book which we hope will be accepted and daly published.
Though the summer months, and in fact the whole period from the ti we arrived until the present write have been unsuitable for addressing large audiences, we have seized whatever opportunities presented la speaking in diarches on Sanday and at conferences, to which we have been invited.
Altogether, we have made some fifty eldresses, We attended an interesting Jonoference of the Missionary and Christian Alliance, aleo a conference called by the Christian Endeavour Society to consider the moval and religions training of the youth. The
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.