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84 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK,as the writer can ascertain, nothing beyond Bibleclassesfor workers and some day-schools for women and girlshave been attempted. There is therefore great need inthis province for work on a broader basis if workers canbe secured.In the province of Yunnan the China Inland Missionand the United Methodist Mission hold the field. Theschool work done is very similar to that done in GweiDjow. At Djao Tong"there is a Bible training school inwhich some of the rudiments of Western subjects aretaught, but the missionaries in charge are too busy withthe many demands on their time to do much in additionto the Bible teaching.Among the Miao, elementary schools have beenestablished since the great movement towards Christianityin that tribe beginning in 1907. The hope of the missionaries in that work is that from these lower grade schoolsthe brighter boys will be drafted into a few centralschools of higher grade and from these be sent on to alarge central institute that Rev. S. Pollard expects toestablish in the near future. This work so far has beenremarkably successful. When the missionaries first wentamong the Miao they were about the most backwardpeople in Yunnan, without even a written language invogue. A phonetic alphabet has been invented and thechildren are coming to the schools in scores. It isreported that at the present time a very large percentageof the Miao boys and girls can read and write both Miaoand Chinese with considerable facility.Szchuan ispar excellence the banner province formission educational enterprise. The unique thing aboutit is that all the eight missions here are in unison bothin aim and policy in this work. Some missions, it istrue, are more enthusiastic than others in developing theeducational department of missionary effort, but all havemissionaries set apart specifically for educational work,and all are following the course agreed upon by theWest China Christian Educational Union. Hence to