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214 EVANGELISMbest in gifts and service from Chinese Christians in thecountry is a ministry that hah not been educated because itcan acquire the prescribed intellectual equipment, but onewhich has been trained to do better the kind of work alreadyattempted in humbler spheres. Our evangelists and leadersmust be sought in the h rst place amongst the zealous churchmemberswho have the evangelist c passion, rather thanamongst the graduates of our schools whose education insome cases unfits them for work in the country. For. . .the high task of training the present preachers amid theactual conditions of their work, the ablest missionariesshould be set apart."5. FinancesWith theHwai uanexception of the pastor s salary,all salaries are paid from foreign missionfunds, but all chapels are built with funds raised on thefield, one-half coming from the Christians and inquirers ofthe immediate locality where the chapelis situated.Weg . . i require local patrons to pay at leastone-third of running expenses of all schoolsand provide school rooms. The evangelists are employedalmost exclusively w r ith foreign funds. The ChineseChristians are beginning to assume a small share in thisexpense and we are hoping to develop this more and more.The mission s policy is to require the Chinese Christiansto provide their own homes of worship at out-stations, butat important centres foreign aid has been given.^n ^ie ^ rs* instance the work in the hsienTehchowcity is of necessity largely subsidized by fundsfrom the home society. The central work carried on by theteacher-pastor is to stand as a sort of example and incentiveto work through the county, which is its turn will have tobe self-supporting. In emphasizing the school as the centrein the village work, the idea is that the combined incomefrom both church and school should go to the support ofthe one man, or perhaps more as the case may be. By thisplan, the funds from the American society will be used forthe work in the hsien centre, leaving all the other work as