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OTHER MISSIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS 165as well as members of boards, secretaries and Associationmembers throughout the country.The National Committee operates throughan Executive Committee of nine members andCommittee the following; departmental committees: city,student, publication, lecture, religious, physical,secretarial training and the Student Volunteer Movementfor the Ministry. Twenty -seven secretaries served the Committee in 1015 in the different departments. The work of theCommittee and its secretaries is largely conducted throughor in co-operation with the city and student Associations.Other activities are of a more general nature. The StudentDepartment, in addition to visiting and assisting 110 studentAssociations, shared in the conduct of six student conferences held at Wofossu, Tsinanfu, Hangehow, Killing, Amoyand Canton. Nine hundred arid forty-three students werein attendance. These conferences are primarily for trainingleaders in the student Associations. A number of non-Christian students in attendance decided to become Christians, and Christian students were led to prepare for theministry.The Student Volunteer Movement liascontinued to renderVofwntecrimportant and directMovement service to the churches by presenting theclaims of the ministry to students and helpingthose intending to enter the ministry during their period ofpreparation. Pastor Ding Li-mei and Rev. Wang Shen-chihhave travelled for the Movement throughout the year, visiting all the thirty-nine institutions having volunteer bands,besides many without such organizations. Fifty-threevolunteers have already entered the ministry and 109 arestudying in theological seminaries.tPublicationThe Publication Department in 1915 issuedtwenty new books and pamphlets and ninenew editions or reprints. 194,049 copieswere sold, including literature on Bible study, social service,personal work, apologetics, biographies, character building,education, physical education, present-day tracts andAssociation literature. Three monthly magazines, Progress