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CHAPTER XV.WOMAN SWORK-EDUCATIONAL.CentralChina*ELIGIOUS Life. In lookingeducational work among theinto the matter ofyoung women of thissection, several very hopeful signs appear. Moreand more missions are coming to realize that educationalwork, because essentially evangelistic in its results, iswell worth pushing forward. Girls enter the schoolheathen and become ardent Christians after only a year sresidence ;this is the rule and not the exception. Muchstress is laid on the teaching of the Scriptures some;schools require also the teaching of the catechism. TheYoung Women s Christian Association, the ChristianEndeavor Society, the Kpworth League, the Young Woman s Christian Temperance Union, and kindred organizations are important factors in developing thespiritual growth of the pupils. One principal tells oftwo girls in her school who became earnest Christians asa direct result of the Y. W. C. A.Hundreds of school girls have covenanted to observethe "morning watch." In a number of schools inwhich the spiritual tone is high, large voluntary prayergroups meet for a quarter of an hour, and, in somecases, for a half hour before breakfast. With suchconditions obtaining, the organization of five branchSabbath schools, by the girls in one of these schools, isnot a matter for surprise.The number ot accessions to the church from theranks of the pupils this year has been most gratifying ;the number varying from five (American Baptist Girls