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""CHAPTERXXMANUAL AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN MISSIONSCHOOLS IN CHINAWm. H. GleysteenThe following questionnaire 1 was sent to representativesof all the larger Protestant Missions in China arid most ofthe smaller ones. From a few centres no reply was received,but the data tabulated below are if not absolutely complete,at leastfairly representative./. Have I/OIL ani/ Industrial Schools or Self-help Departmentsin your educational work?Fully two-fifths of the missions have no signs whateverof manual and industrial education; of the remaining threefifths,two-fifths carry on such work in only the simplestforms, such as .sewing In approximately one-fifth of themissions there is at least one institution, and very often onlyone, where fairly earnest efforts are being put forth in thisdirection. A few replies indicated that there is not muchzeal for such undertakings in their midst, but with these oneor two exceptions, there seems to be a profound convictionthat whether we are engaged in such undertakings or not,we are missing a rare opportunity in not developing theselines of work.77. What do you seel: to accomplish throughthis v:ork ?. .tSelf-help for poor boys is the primarymotive in establishing what a great manycall self-help departments. The Church, like Christ, issent to the poor and the children of the poor. Instead ofa pupil being given free board, he is t given two or morehours work a day, enabling him to earn a part of his expenses.