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282 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.opium or wine, I cannot stay away." Lectures havealso been given in other places, under the same direction,by young nurses and a few by foreigners. The placenear the fair was first opened as one of those for thereading and comment upon the newspapers, but thisespecial line has largely given place to more generalrange of subjects, although the Bible-women who arethe chief speakers are still eager to find matters ofinterest to present from the daily news items. TheWoman sDaily News of Peking struggled bravelyfor life under the care of the really public-spirited anddevoted Mrs. Chang, but it was too early for such aventure. It failed to secure sufficient financial support,and to enlist such a corps of writers as could make it ofcontinued value, and was given up after two or moreyears of strenuous and self-sacrificing effort on the partof Mrs. Chang.EVANGELISTIC.This is the work to which all other is subservient,that for which the missionaries are here, and we countany other as truly successful only as it more or lessdirectly contributes to the spread of the "good tidings."We may differ much in judgment as to howthese are to be brought to our Chinese sisters, but neveras to our desire so to bring them, nor our convictionthat in the knowledge of Jesus Christ alone lies thecure for social evils and the way of peace and joy forindividual souls. So all which is wrought has thebringing of such knowledge to those whom we may inany way influence as its ultimate aim. This has beentrue from the beginning, and remains as true now thatthe avenues of approach are more varied and the problemof the ordering of the daily service more complicatedthan in the earlier lime. Probably there has been manyfold more direct preaching of the Gospel to women inthe last three years than in any period of similar lengthsince the arrival of the first missionaries.

"WOMAN S WORK IN GENERAL. 283In season and out of season the foreign and Chinesesisters have been going from home to home and villageto village, gathering women about them in their homes,by the roadside, and in the many chapels, preaching tohigh and low, rich and poor the unsearchable richesof Christ." The most striking new feature of thiswork which has been noted, has been especial evangelistic meetings at some centres conducted for womenby women. Miss Greig, of the C. I. M., has carried onsuch work in Chihli and especially in Shansi. At oneplace in the latter province five hundred women gatheredat a central station for many days of consecutive meetings. God spower was especially manifest in bringingto confession of sin and to definite consecration tomanyservice. Such meetings have been held by several ofthe missionaries, and we hear very recently of thoseconducted by a young Chinese woman in the Pangkiachuangand Lintsing fields. No feature of the work is sohopeful as the growing sense of responsibility of the Chinese leaders. When this has so increased that they areready to take the initiative, and we become their helpersand supporters, the new day will have dawned in theChristian church, and we shall no longer need to be its"nursing mothers," but the happy watchful sharers oftheir joys and sorrows, giving from our longer and largerexperience the upholding which they need, but rejoicingto recognize them as the chief teachers and evangelists.One token that that day is not far distant is that insome stations the native church is not only supporting,but also establishing training schools for Christianworkers. In the Tsingtao station, Miss Vaughanreports all the station classes for women as held at theexpense of the Chinese Christians. Support for thetraining class, begun and directed by them, was fromfriends, both foreign and Chinese. A glance at the statistical tables will show that the number of Bible-womenis steadily increasing, but no table can show the advance in the character and quality of their work. For

282 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.opium or wine, I cannot stay away." Lectures havealso been given in other places, under the same direction,by young nurses and a few by foreigners. The placenear the fair was first opened as one of those for thereading and comment upon the newspapers, but thisespecial line has largely given place to more generalrange of subjects, although the Bible-women who arethe chief speakers are still eager to find matters ofinterest to present from the daily news items. TheWoman sDaily News of Peking struggled bravelyfor life under the care of the really public-spirited anddevoted Mrs. Chang, but it was too early for such aventure. It failed to secure sufficient financial support,and to enlist such a corps of writers as could make it ofcontinued value, and was given up after two or moreyears of strenuous and self-sacrificing effort on the partof Mrs. Chang.EVANGELISTIC.This is the work to which all other is subservient,that for which the missionaries are here, and we countany other as truly successful only as it more or lessdirectly contributes to the spread of the "good tidings."We may differ much in judgment as to howthese are to be brought to our Chinese sisters, but neveras to our desire so to bring them, nor our convictionthat in the knowledge of Jesus Christ alone lies thecure for social evils and the way of peace and joy forindividual souls. So all which is wrought has thebringing of such knowledge to those whom we may inany way influence as its ultimate aim. This has beentrue from the beginning, and remains as true now thatthe avenues of approach are more varied and the problemof the ordering of the daily service more complicatedthan in the earlier lime. Probably there has been manyfold more direct preaching of the Gospel to women inthe last three years than in any period of similar lengthsince the arrival of the first missionaries.

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