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308 CHINA MISSION YKAR HOOK.34 in all. Of the students now in attendance many areprofessing Christians. At a recent communion service28 of the students were admitted to the church, thelargest number that has ever been received from theseminary at one time.The government has recently opened many schoolsin the city, called Halls of Learning normal schoolsand colleges the attendance in which varies from fiftyto one or two hundred. These have a good number ofstudies in their curriculum, but it is to be feared thatoftentimes the instruction given is very superficial.One of these, which perhaps takes highest rank andis called by the Chinese a college, a few weeks sincegraduated its first class four young women. Theseschools are more or less decidedly anti-Christian. Inthe one just referred to, among the students was oneChristian girl. She stood at the head of a class offorty-five in scholarship and deportment, and yet wasfrequently made to feel that her presence was unwelcome, and as the time for graduation drew nearit became so evident to her that it was not considered desirable to have a Christian in the graduatingclass that she withdrew and entered a medical college.On the other hand another large school has as itssuperintendent and her assistant two young Christianwomen, who received their education in the True LightSeminary.Three other students from the seminary havestudied for a time in the Christian College, and one ofthe number had the honor of receiving the highest gradegiven in the institution one year.Four other young women have studied in thecollege and many others have applied for admittance,but could not be received.Two young students have recently gone to Americato continue their studies there. An institution whichwill furnish to the young women of South China theopportunity, which many of them so much desire, of