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"CHINA SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION 305Swatow, last half of February, 1916.Canton, first half of March, 1916.Foochow, last half of March, 1016.These were attended by an aggregate of some Uireehundred and more Chinese leaders. "Follow-up" local,conferences have been and are still being held in varioussections by those who attended the central conferences. Thedefinite problem before the conference was: The enlistment,training and use of adult for effective Bible study and teaching,personal trorl: and Christian service."At these conference it was urged that Adult Bible(.-lasses be formed in the various churches and that theorganization of these classes should be(in general after theform used so successfully by the International SundaySchool Association in America. Two leaflets issued by thisorganization were circulated in both English and Chinese atthese conferences.The methods presented in these leaflets,.Enlisting Lay i iWorkers however, need adaptation to the work inChina, and to this end various suggestionshave been made at the conferences. Perhaps the mostfruitful of these suggestions has been that all adults in thechurches be urged to eulist in an Adult Bible Class andthere pledge themselves to two things : first, to definite Biblestudy; and second, to the use of iliat Bible study in specific line*of evangelistic and social service work. To this end, tentativelists of possible forms of lay service were prepared at theseconferences. Full discussion of this work and copies ofthese lists will be published from time to lime in the ChinaSunday School Journal. There was much enthusiasm atthese Conferences, and the time seems ripe not only for anOrganized Adult Bible Class Movement but for a realLot/men * .\foreinent in China.Lesson Note Circulation^ne ^jessou Note circulation of the ChinaContinuedIncrease Sunday School Union still continues thephenomenal increase reported in former YKARBOOKS; and this in spite of revolutions and the financialA :;s