It is generally held that it is a good thing to get a congregation before one thinks of building a church, but it does not look at it Dr. Kensett would have to wait long for a church on that account. At his Chinese services he already has an attendance of from fifteen to twenty adults, several of whom are Christians who learnt about Christ before they came to Kwala Lumpur. This is a pretty good congregation to have got together as the result of three months’ work. But the prospects of the work among the Tamils are even brighter. There are quite a large number of the educated class of Tamils in Kwala Lumpur and the vicinity, working as clerks and overseers on the railways and telegraphs and in other branches of the public service, and a considerable proportion of them are the sons of Christian parents or have been converted to Christianity in India in connection with the Wesleyan Mission and the Church Missionary Society. Some of these men have been in the habit of attending the English services of the Church of England, but many of them have attended no place of worship, and as there has been no preaching at all in the Tamil language, those who are not very well acquainted with English have had no service to which they could go. Dr. Kensett at once saw the opening for work among these people, but it was some time before he could get a Tamil preacher, and as he is not acquainted with the Tamil language the only thing he could do in the meanwhile was to begin a class for English-speaking Tamils. When I visited Kwala Lumpur I found a dozen intelligent young men in this class, most of them well instructed in the Scriptures. Moreover Dr. Kensett was able to report that his Tamil preacher had arrived a fortnight before, and that he had opened an Anglo-Tamil School and had already seventeen children of both sexes on the roll. On the Sabbath I heard the Tamil brother preach to an attentive audience of sixteen or eighteen persons, and after the sermon I briefly addressed the congregation, the preacher interpreting for me. A Tamil Sunday-school is held in the afternoon. Chinese services are held morning and evening, and Chinese Sunday-school just before the morning service; all of these services, in addition to the Tamil preaching service in the morning, are held in a hired native house open to the street. Dr. Kensett already has his hands more than full in supervising all these work. Moreover in the same building he has fitted up a dispensary, so that he can attend to the bodily ailments of those who come to the meetings, and in the front room where the preaching services are held he has Christian literature on sale.

Altogether a most encouraging commencement has been made. The nucleus of a Chinese church and also of Tamil church has been formed, and ere long we may hope to see a steady growth of the work among the Chinese of Kwala Lumpur and the surrounding towns and villages, which are easily reached by rail, as well as among the thousands of Tamils who are working on the railways and in the coffee plantations of Selangor.