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ThereWOMAN S WORK EDUCATIONAL. 295tremendous possibilities for influencing a communitythrough the agency of the day-school^, it is to be hopedthat the number may increase. At the day s close thepupil is sure to rehearse in her home some fact gleanedin school, some Gospel truth, some fact of hygiene,geography or history, or she sings over again the beautiful hymn learned that day, and think of the inevitableinfluence this will have upon the home !SCHOOLS FOR WOMEN.>Bible Women sTraining Schools. areschools in Ichang (Church of Scotland Mission), Hankow (A. C. M.), Kitikiang (M. E.)> Nanking (fivemissions), Sungkiang (M. E. So.), Shanghai (S. B. C.)and Kinhvva (A. B. M. U.); there are doubtless others.The school at Kiukiang has 82 women enrolled, who arebeing trained as Bible-women or day-school teachers.The course in this school is unusually comprehensive,and very efficient work is done by the women whohave had their training here. Hayes Wilkins Memorial Bible School (M. E. So.) in Sungkiang has a building large enough to accommodate 100 pupils. Thespiritual tone is high, and the school is in a flourishingcondition. A class of six women was graduated lastyear.In some of these schools industrial work also isoffered, but in all the object is the same to :give womenthorough instruction in the Bible, sacred history, anddoctrinal books, training them for Christian work andthem for service as Bible- women.especially preparingPractically all of the women engaged in evangelisticwork in Central China, as well as a large proportion ofthe day-school teachers, are products of these schools.Women s Industrial Schools. One has recently beenopened by the Advent Christian Mission in Nanking.Foremost, perhaps, among the industrial schools of thissection is the Soochow Industrial School which took in