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222 EVANGELISMand by frequent letters. We advertised the meetings forseveral weeks in advance. Then a few days before themeetings opened, the district superintendent, a splendidman, a Chinese, went out and helped the preacher in hispreparation. We used tracts freely. We had a physicianwho held daily clinics and dispensed free medicine. We hada bookstore. On market days we preached nearly all days,but every day we had Bible classes for the Christians fromnine until ten. Every afternoon, in the temple, we hadlectures and gramophone concerts. At night wo had apreaching service in the church. A times when thefew7crowds were too large for the church, we also had theevening service in the court at the temple.This present year we expect to visit the same placeswith a campaign on Bible study and self-support, besidesentering new places where we have evangelistic meeting forthe non-Christians.7, LessonsTheHwai nexperience of the past years has ledthe mission to plan in every way to inducethe Christians to help themselves, whether the boys in theschool or the Christians in building chapels, or whatever itmaybe. In the boys school we have developed a self-helpand an industrial department. We have drawn our dayschools more closely to our central school by giving scholarships to graduates of the day schools. But in every case,where help is given, it is for something that has been doneand in the building of our chapels they must first themselves contribute before they come to us for assistance.There is 110 difficulty in finding inquirers. Ourattention is turned toward the holding of church-members.Careful records are kept. The best method of keeping themseems to be through the Sunday school, and it is througheighteen months trial proving of great assistance.We needSuts jen continually to emphasize, morethan some of us have been doing, consecratedgiving by the Chinese Christians, by the very poor as well asby those who have more. And we should aim constantlythat the funds which they give are properly cared for and