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""""276 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.(or winter) schools for the workers ;in the EnglishPresbyterian Mission in Swatow district this has been aroutine practice for several years, and is found to be ofvalue to all who attend. Agreatrecently founded societyfor all the preachers wives in the Hinghwa district, forstudy and work, gives promise of yielding rich resultsthese workers.amongEVANGEL ISTICWORK.Turning to methods of evangelistic work, one findsvery little that is new, but everywhere there is referenceto the increased opportunities, whether in the homes ofthe people or in hospital wards and waiting rooms.At Fooclunv an A. B. C. F. M. worker holds a weeklysocial, to which the Bible-women invite any non-Christianwomen who will come; pictures are shown, new r spapersread ; any who wish are taught to read, and a Gospel talkcloses the afternoon. At Tingchowfu, the L,. M. S.missionary is "at home on Saturday afternoons, andsometimes fifty or sixty women will come to"play,"but with few exceptions are pleased to listen to theGospel. At Canton the Baptist Mission has a guestroom, and we are told that many women leave withfaces brighter and hearts more hopeful."At Foochowin the Methodist Mission a poor woman who acceptedthe Gospel and developed leprosy became the firstworker in the leper village, where a very encouragingwork is now carried on. In the C. M. S. at Foochow an interesting work is carried on among thenumerous boatwomen the workers;go in their ownboat among the sampans and preach to all who arewilling to come and listen, and a half-day schoolis held for young women and girls. On the wholeone isimpressed with the man} 7 openings for ork andwrinclined to think there may be room for ingenuity andin "push" finding new methods forto come in.compelling them