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OTHER MISSIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS 167Secretary of the Far Eastern Olympic Games held inShanghai in May, 1915, and in this way served the interests of physical education throughout the country.Bible study has had an important place inBible Study jjie y ear ? s programme. It has proved to be amJLocal. ,f. ,. LAssociations m st effective agency in leading young meninto the Christian life and service. Reportsfor 1915 reveal 684 Bible classes in city Associations with8,258 students, and 718 Bible classes in the student Associations Avith an enrollment of 7,561, making a total of 1,402classes with 15,819 young men enrolled. The enrollment inBible classes in most of the Associations exceeds the totalenrollment in both day and evening educational classes atotal of 8,258 were enrolled in Bible classes as comparedwith 5,332 in educational classes. The Shanghai Associationin 1915 had a total of 2,097 young men studying the Biblein the city and student branches. Throughout nine monthsof 1915 there was a daily average of 105 men and boys engaged in Bible study in the Shanghai Association building.Decision meetings were held during theEvangelismyear k3 r a number of the Associations. Atleast a thousand men are known to havedecided for the Christian life and have been introduced topastors for church-membership. 693 young men have beenbrought into church-membership in 1915, largely from themembership of the Bible classes.No series of large evangelistic meetings was held in 19.15.Special attention was given by the Religions Work Department of the National Committee and by all the localAssociations in helping to conserve the results of the meetings of 19.14. Short union campaigns were conducted inTaiyiianfu, Kaifengfu, Changsha, and Chengtu withencouraging results. The travelling secretaries of theStudent Volunteer Movement have had fruitful evangelisticresults as an outcome of their visitations. Reports from allsections of the country indicate a peculiar ripeness forevangelistic effort among young men. The harvest is limitedonly by the state of the Church s preparedness for reapingand conserving the results.