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EVANGELISM IN PROVINCES AND CITIES 24:9From the above you will see that the interest attachingto this projected work is chiefly that of possibility andpromise.^ ^ie e^esFirst Results J ust opened only one hasalready large things to report and that isphenomenal. First, because there had already been a lot ofwork done in that city, and second, because the superintendentis an exceptionally all-round man with a wide reputation asan educator and intensely earnest as an evangelist. It isfortunate that we have the inspiration thus furnished forthe opening of the first city.1A large pawnshop was secured and fitted up at verysmall cost. In this the second year, this man has a boyshigh school of eighty boys and a girls normal school in whichforty girls are being prepared for teachers. Both schools areself-supporting. There is a night school of about fifty smallboys, an English class of fifteen and a nightly Bible class forinstructing enquirers and Christians. lie has been preaching three times on Sundays. There is a street chapel in acentral place where the buildings are located. The studentsassist in this work on market days. The teachers andstudents go out on Sabbaths to surrounding Christianpreaching places, and in vacations a goodly number go outto preach among the villages, often led by the superintendent.He has an earnest assistant and an educated, consecratedBible woman. Three prayer-meetings are conducted in threecentres in the city on Wednesday evenings, all well attended.IV.THE TIENTSIN CHRISTIAN UNIONRob art E. Chandlerr^le ^^^sin Christian Union is establishedConstitutionby the Protestant Christians of Tientsin, andincludes, specifically, seven organizations, the four missionsworking in the city (English Methodist, Methodist Episcopal,London Mission, and American Board), the Chinese Christian Church (independent), and the Young Men s and YoungWomen s Christian Associations.. The Union is not organic,but for work, any large Christian work that can be doneconjointly. As reconstructed in February, 1915, it has aA 31