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" "Come"EVANGELISTIC WORK. 153Miss Guex writes of a certain widow: "So constantly has slie invited the passers-by to come in tohear the doctrine that a bird, a sort of magpie, whichher boys keep in a cage, took up the cry, and to theastonishment of all, the bird with its high-pitched clearvoice would repeat the words of the good womanLaitiug-tao-liand hear the doctrine."Foreign Christian Missionary Society.Chaohsien, Chucheo, Luchowfu, Nanking, Nantungchow,Shanghai, Wuhu.Evangelist Shi, of Chucheo, accepted an invitationfrom the Anhwui Federation Council Committee to helpin the evangelistic services at the Wuhu Bible Institutein April. This was the first institute gathering of theAnhwui province Christian workers under the CentenaryConference plan. Our Nanking Bible Institute, startedsix years ago, is now changed into a union instituteunder the six missions of that city.Along the lines of progress the misson reports inadditions to the churches ;one new missionary, MissEva May Raw four;new out-stations opened four new;day-schools for boys and girls started ;a day-schoolchanged into a boarding-school at Chucheo, and lastbut not least, the Bible College and Training-school inaugurated at Nanking.Chucheo. The church at Chucheo and several ofthe out-stations have had revivals. The chief characteristic of these meetings has been a conviction and confession of sin by the church members. Our most giftedand trusted evangelists have confessed to their beingguilty of gambling, opium smoking, adultery, and usingthe power of the church in official business. A largemajority of the most active and prominent membershave made open confession of the sins which they have