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"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