Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. By the Rev. B. Baring-Gould, M.A.<br><br>My only claim to be allowed the privilege of introducing to the reader the accompanying little volume arises from the fact that I happen to be one of the last who, as an official of a missionary society, saw the subject of these memoirs in the midst of her beloved children and work.<br><br>Deeply conscious from somewhat extensive personal observation of the debt of gratitude which the Church Missionary Society owes to the workers connected with the Female Education Society, most gladly do I respond to the request which has been made to me.<br><br>The name of Miss Cooke, it need scarcely be said, has been for many years a household word among all who possessed an intelligent knowledge of Christian work, specially in South China and in the Malay Peninsula. Hence it was in full accordance with the fitness of things that, on paying a brief visit to Fuhkien in December of 1894, again and again did we come across in the wives of Christian native workers the most cheering fruit of the labour expended by Miss Cooke and her colleagues in her boarding-school at Singapore.
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