and at considerable cost. We are
satisfied that to spend more money for such a purpose is a waste.
The only true remedy is to remove the present home, connecting it
with the school-building for additional school-rooms, and then, on
the vacant site, to erect a new home with proper foundations. If any
benevolent person should offer us the means for making these
changes, we fear we have not the self-denial to refuse, unless the
churches or benevolent individuals for whom we act shall command us
to do so. We await the response they will give.

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*THE VERNACULAR. THE LAST GOVERNMENT ORDER.*

THE ORDER.

We give below a copy of the last order received from the Interior
Department in relation to the vernacular.

"1st. In Government schools no text-books and no oral
instruction in the vernacular will be allowed, but all text-books
and instruction must be in the English language. No departure
from this rule will be allowed, except when absolutely necessary
to rudimentary instruction in English. But it is permitted to
read from the Bible in the vernacular at the daily opening of
school, when English is not understood by the pupils.

"2d. In schools where Indian children are placed under contract,
or to which the Government contributes in any manner, the same
rule shall be observed in all secular instruction. Religious
instruction in the vernacular may be allowed in such schools,
both by the text-book and orally, provided not more than
one-fourth of the time is devoted to such instruction.

"3d. In purely mission schools--that is, in schools toward whose
support the Government contributes nothing--religious and other
instruction may be conducted in the manner approved by those who
maintain the schools, provided that one-half of the school hours
shall be employed in instruction in English.

"4th. Only native Indian teachers will be permitted to teach
otherwise in any Indian vernacular, and these native teachers
will only be allowed so to teach in schools not supported in
whole or in part by the Government, and where there are no
Government or contract schools where English is taught. These
native teachers are allowed to teach in the vernacular only with
a view of reaching those Indians who cannot have the advantage of
instruction in English.

"5th. A theological class of In