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248 EVANGELISMWe are accordingly giving our attention to acoming year.suitable programme of work for 19.16. There will necessarilybe some change in the personnel of the executive secretaries.III.SHANTUNG CITY EVANGELIZATIONR, M. MateerThis enterprise has been presented in previous years.What is spoken of refers entirely to work conducted byChinese. It is just in its beginning and so largely confinedto foundation work which is never showy, and has not agreal deal to report.The interesting recent advances are:1- TheRcccutsecuring of a goodly number ofAdvances high grade men for this work. One conditionis that they shall be ordained men, able totake entire charge of the work developing under them.Three such are already in charge of three cities opened.Four more are in the Theological Seminary taking threeyears study preparatory to this work. These are all carefully selected, high-grade men, who have been alreadythoroughly tested, five of them having been college professors. A description of each ones fitness for the workwould be a revelation.2. The very especial attraction this work has for highgrade men. It is hard to discover all the reasons for this.It seems to furnish them such a large- sphere of usefulnessas has never presented itself to them before, and it is awayfrom the foreigner far enough to escape the handicap ofbeing overshadowed, allowing a man to gain prestige andexert a wide influence for the Kingdom, all his own. As thiswork progressesit is becoming apparent that these citieswill simply be centres from which this superintendent willinfluence the whole county, through the country churchesand especially in connection with the better educated portionof the population.3. The great interest this has awakened in the Churchso that funds are being promptly supplied for the equippingof these cities.