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METHODIST GROUP 115Theology for a full theological course. We have somethirty students in this school at present. One foreign missionary and two Chinese teachers are giving their wholetime to the school, \\hile another missionary gives part of histime to it.s , i Our high schools for girls and youngfor Girls women, iiameh McTyeire at Shanghai, theLaura Haygood at Soochow, and the VirginiaSchool at Huchow, and the intermediate schools, Susan B.Wilson in Sungkiang and the Davidson in West Soochow,are all doing well. The total registration of students inthese five schools for the past year has been nine hundredand sixty-four students. The Bible Women s School atSungkiang has about seventy students in it. During thepast year a number of efficient Bible women have beengraduated from the Bible Women s School and are nowlocated at different places in the mission doing effectivework among the women and children.~, A new church was built in Soochow lastUlldmgyear at a cost of nearly M$30,OOQ. Themoney for this church was given by St. John s MethodistChurch in St. Louis, Missouri. It has a seating capacity ofnearly fifteen hundred and is perhaps one of the finestProtestant mission churches in China.Medical Work^ ur mecucal work ill the two hospitalsin Soochow, one for men and the other forwomen, has been carried on in a very satisfactory mannerduring the past year. Dr. W. II. Park is planning to raisethe sum of M$100,000 with which to rebuild his hospitalfor men. He already has a considerable amount in handfor this object. Many of his former patients whom he hastreated in past years are coming forward with liberalsubscriptions to the fund. This is especially gratifying asit shows appreciation on the part of Dr. Park s patients ofthe services he has rendered them in former times.The union of the medical work of the two missions,Baptist and Methodist, in Huchow has been finally consummated during the past year, aud already gives promise ofincreasing efficiency and success. The Women s Hospitalin Soochow, under the management of Dr. Ethel Polk, is.