OPPORTUNITY IN THE FAR EAST.

The article we publish in this issue is significant of the fact that "this is a contracting world." The "grande tour" of Europe of a former generation is today being increasingly replaced by a year's trip around the world. That such an experience is profitable in various ways we cannot have a doubt, but with it unquestionably goes an element of dilettantism. --Nine months teaching at a mission school may not permit the covering of one-half the territory, but it has three distinct advantages: 1--It gives an intimate sympathetic knowledge of at least one foreign race; 2--In its element of service and abstraction from the conventional it helps a man to a decision on life's work; 3--It supplies very, real assistance to a very worthy cause. One rarely meets an opportunity for short service that appears in so attractive a form.