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408 OTHER INTERDENOMINATIONAL ASSOCIATIONSis being used in the place of romanization. The plans tosecure and train Chinese teachers have been improved duringthe current year, and there is a much clearer understandingthat the Avork of the missionary in charge of the schools isdirective rather than instructive. The question of linkingup the work done in the training school and the subsequentpreparation and study of the missionary has been underdiscussion. Plans are being considered for carrying outthe ideas developed. The need for assisting missionaries toadapt themselves to special types of work in China hasbecome prominent. It has been suggested that new missionaries who are looking towards a certain type of workshould for a shorter or longer period, as the case may be, beassociated with a practical expert in the doing of that workin China.Some special efforts have been put forth by the SpecialCommittee on the Training of Missionaries appointed by theChina Continuation Committee to push forward the problemof the training of new missionaries, and to put into effectconic of the suggestions that have been brought to theirattention. In October this Committee called at Shanghai aconference of new missionaries of the Wu dialect section.This was done to compensate for the absence in this sectionof any organized effort for the training of new missionaries.About thirty missionaries attended, who represented tenmissions or societies.In December there convened at Nanking atConferencetjie cal] ()f thig Comm i t tee a conference ofot JJirectors ... . . .iir>directors 01 training schools ior missionaries.A series of findings were approved by the directors of sixschools, and it was decided that similar conferences shouldbe held at regular periods in the future.^^ s comm^^ee has also initiated theManual preparation of a Manual for New Missionaries,which is now being prepared under the editorship ofDr. A. 11, Smith.The committee has furthermore assisted the trainingschools to unify their handbooks and to prepare a generalhandbook on the training schools for missionaries inChina.