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 Indian young men, supported wholly
by mission funds, may be trained in the vernacular at any
missionary school supported in whole or in part by missionary
societies, the object being to prepare them for the ministry,
whose subsequent work shall be confined to preaching, unless they
are employed as teachers in remote settlements where English
schools are inaccessible.

"6th. These rules are not intended to prevent the possession or
use by any Indian of the Bible published in the vernacular; but
such possession or use shall not interfere with the teaching of
the English language to the extent and in the manner hereinbefore
directed."

COMMENT.

This order presents a great and gratifying modification of those
extreme rulings of the Department which occasioned so much
dissatisfaction among the churches. While we rejoice in these