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218 EVANGELISMChristians, all the mission preaching staff has been kept onthe move. Xo worker during the year has spent more thanan aggregate of two or three months in any one church.6, Missionary Spirit and Activity in the ChurchesAHwaiyuanstrong spirit of evangelism has beendeveloped in our boys boarding school, andthey frequently visit the nearby villages, while the girlsfrom the girls school help in the city services for women,and in the Sunday schools for neighbourhood children.OurSutsiencity is not a great one, and our wholework is largely of a country character. Thereis volunteer country evangelistic work done by a numberof city church-members, and a good deal by the boys inboarding school. More than ten places in and about thecity are visited every Sunday. The mission hospital has alarge evangelistic influence.We have one general itinerant evangelist for the wholefield, who goes about with a tent seating more than ahundred people. This tent is used in towns and villages andis kept busy all the time. The local evangelist helps in thetent work when it is in his particular field. Also one localChristian is employed to help all the time while other localChristians render help in preaching and testifying as theyare able and willing.The evangelists located at the different centres givesome time to evangelistic preaching at points where thereare no Christians and to bookselling, but most of them coulddo more of this than they do.A good deal of local evangelistic work is lately beingdone at some out-stations by private Christians under theleadership of local helpers, and this is greatly developingspiritual life. In this connection evangelistic societies aredoing excellent work.~ ,-hIt seems to me that the mission for sometime to come will have to .hear the largershare of the responsibility for the wider evangelism. Fundsin the small struggling churches will not be adequate for