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WOMAN S WORK EDUCATIONAL. 309obtaining a thorough education is greatly needed, and itishoped will soon be established.Among the educational influences at work forseveral years past has been the Bible Institute or Schoolfor Bible-women, which has been held annually forseveral years. The representatives of all the missionsunite in teaching the Bible-women of the differentmissions, who gather together to attend the meetings,which are continued for ten days. At the institute thisyear more than seventy women were in attendance, andit was inspiring to see such a goodly company of trainedand experienced workers, earnest consecrated Chinesewomen. The evening meetings were addressed byministers, either foreign or native. Each one of theChinese preachers expressed in his own way the pleasurehe felt in meeting with so many Christian sisters helpersin the work for the Master, his regret for the past years,during which the Chinese men have not given to womenthe place to which they are entitled, and joy that thosedays have passed, and the daughters of China are nowentering into the inheritance which Ais justly theirs.few days since, in Canton, a large mixed audience listenedintently to an excellent address given by a Chinesescholar on the duties of Chinese men to their wives anddaughters, and at the close the speaker was heartilyapplauded by the men. More and more in South Chinathe value of the Roman izatiou of the Chinese colloquialis becoming appreciated. In the large mission fieldswhich find their centres in Amoy and Swatow it haslong been considered an invaluable aid, but the colloquialprinted in Chinese character in Canton has- been sosatisfactory that many have considered any other methodunnecessary.It remains an undisputed fact, however, that thegreat majority of the women who are Christians cannever have the time and opportunity to learn to readthe Bible in Chinese character. The necessity of thisfor the development of Christian life and character is