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totalOTHER MISSIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS 1711,083 students are known to have been baptized and joinedthe churches during the year in addition to the 693 alreadyreported from the city Associations, or a total of 1,776young men almost wholly from the student classes.YOUNG WOMEN S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS OF CHINAGrace L. CoppocfcOrganized City Associations : Cltilil.i: Tientsin ; Kicingxu :Shanghai; K-tmrigtung Canton.:Student Associations in fifty-five schools.!>,Foreign secretaries 24, Chinese secretaries4, 195.Rei nio t cementsmembershipNothing brings greater encouragement toan organization than a large remtorcementof workers; especially is this true in such an organization asthe Young Women s Christian Association, where we arehaving, almost daily, to definitely refuse to undertakedifferent pieces of work because of being under-staffed.Entering only those centres where mission work is alreadydeveloped, we have not had to wait for openings, as doother agencies which have entered newer fields. On thecontrary, we have never been able to avail ourselves ofmore than a small portion of opportunities already opento us.Therefore it is with much praise and thanksgiving thatwe report the addition of twelve foreign secretaries since welast wrote a report for the YEAR BOOK. With the exceptionof two, who were sent out for special office w r ork,all are atlanguage study. Of the above number, one was sent to usfrom Australia by the Australasian Associations and one bythe Swedish Young Women s Christian Associations. Ourworking force therefore now consists of twenty-four foreignand nine Chinese secretaries, representing in all fivecountries.Q* A * w t There are now fifty-five student branchesbtudent work .nV, -,,-,- miThese represent11-with a membership of 3,17iJ.schools of seventeen denominations and one large governmentschool. In many of these Associations a regular voluntarycourse of Bible study is carried on by the students.