Untitled

274 CHINA MISSION YKAK KOOK.A Saturday evening class for the women Christianswho help on Sunday in teaching the Sunday Schoollesson to heathen strangers has been most beneficial.(Hunan.)This little sketch of woman s work in this regionmust not close without making mention of the beautifultestimonies which have come in of the faithful lives andefficient work of the Chinese women helpers pastorswives and day-school teachers, as well as Bible-womenof greatly varied training not only in important centresbut often in lonely and particularly difficult fields. Forsuch work as theirs statistics are impossible, but we areconvinced that their influence for good in the uplift ofthe womanhood and the home-life of China has beenincalculable.(Mrs. Frank J.Raven.)ELSIE vSiTESRAVEN.Women s Work in General South China.The scope of this article is work in the threesouthern provinces Fukien, Kwangtung, Kwangsiand information has been collected from seven societies.There are doubtless other Protestant societies workingfor the women of these provinces, but it has not beenfound possible to obtain knowledge of what they aredoing. Study of letters and reports gives a general impression that there has been steady progress during thesethree years, but not much that is new or startling ;thisindeed might be expected from the nature of the work.BIBLE-WOMEN.One notes that the work of Bible-women is constantly larger and more appreciated. One writer tellsus that the pastors find that they can do little withoutthe Bible-women to carry on in the homes what they doin the church, while another refers to their labours as