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PrintedDEVELOPMENTS IN PROVINCES AND CITIES 251seventy-live inquirers were registered at these. A chancewas given the Christians immediately for service, in connection with these and other sectional meetings. The firstvalue of the meetings was a marked sense of unity, as Tientsin Christians faced their common Christian enterprise;and there was a very genuine "Arousal to service," asshown by the 401 cards, and the care with which they weresigned.p Follow-up work has been done in all the||separate churches, starting from the pledgesmade. After two months all report benefits received; thepercentage of pledges actually being carried out is estimatedfrom thirty to fifty.For the women, more are faithful. Manymen have been brought into Sunday schools or other Bibleclasses. The greatest single impulsion was on the pocketbooknerve. One church leaped successfully to self-support,contributions from Chinese alone going from $13 to $30.Another became solvent, not because members raised theirsubscriptions, but because they paid them, an unaccustomedthing. And the independent Chinese church opened anout-station in a small village, a plan long projected, butunaccomplished. Recruiting from all the churches, a UnionPreaching Band was organized, and is officered almostentirely by laymen. There are sixty members, of whomtwenty are working two or three days every week; twelvenew enquirers reported. The paucity of lay workersreceiving training is still, as before, the greatest need in allthe churches.A I M t n s^~n^P r^ the Tientsin Union arranged another series of meetings, focussed upon homeservice, a "Home Welfare Week." Patriotism and theHome, Hygiene, Joint Responsibility of Husband and Wife,Home Training, and Religious Training, were the subjectsdealt with by various speakers. There were also a MothersMeeting and a Fathers Meeting. Audiences ran from 250.to 300. leaflets giving the material carefullyprepared, were distributed, at some of the meetings. Thegreatest single emphasis was upon the need of whole families,not individuals, believing in Christ and coining into theChurch.