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PRESBYTERIAN GROUP 133throughout the entire field. Net-weaving, rug-weaving, carpentry and gardening for boys and lace-making for girls arebeing introduced here and there with varying measures ofsuccess ; but the testimony of those who have initiated eventhese simpler lines of training is encouraging. We can buthope that ultimately all our Christian students, irrespectiveof their economic condition, will be familiar with at leastthe rudiments of some form of handiwork.Co-operation with the Chinese has been a11011notab ]e feature of theSithTh? 6year. Nearly everyChinese Mission reports progress in some form. Cooperative schemes seem more feasible and moreeasily carried out in evangelistic work than in any otherphase of our mission activities. We are inclined however tosound a note of caution. Wherever co-operation is naturaland will lead clearly to some better results, we feel it wise;but the essential principles should be carefully borne inmind and any scheme fully thought out to its logicalconclusion before the attempt is made. No steps should betaken which may need to be retraced.,ATf gratifying progressis reported fromevery part of the field. The Church is takingover more and more of: the burden which has all too longbeen resting upon the missions with regard to contributionsfor the distinctive work of the Church as distinguished fromits schools and hospitals.With regard to contributions for the distinctive workof the Church as distinguished from its schools andhospitals, the mission has endeavoured to separate clearlythe gifts of the Chinese Christians from the gifts offoreigners (missionaries and others), in order that the sumreported as "Chinese contributions" may represent solelythe gifts of Chinese Christians.