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TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR MISSIONARIES 429well to adapt their courses to that in the language school,so that students will not be tempted to think that they haveunnecessary and extra burdens put upon them by a failureon the part of their seniors to consult fully about the workthey are given to do. The students suffer less from thestrain of the study than when they study alone and have todirect their own work, because they have fellowship anddirection. The recesses filled with snappy athletic workadd much to the tone of the students and the efficiency oftheir study.The writer has visited the University ofDevelopment Nanking Department of Missionary Trainingseveral times during the past three years inorder to study its work critically. In its language teachingit has now reached a high degree of perfection and in thispart of its work the chief improvement in the future is tobe looked for in the development of a larger number oftrained teachers and in a larger use of phonetic script, forwhich plans have already been made. But as the name ofthe institution suggests, and in accordance with the opinionand action of the China Continuation Committee on theTraining of Missionaries and of the Boards of MissionaryPreparation of Europe and America, the benefits given tothose who attend the school should not be limited to theacquisition of the language. Few of the students who enterthe school have had the privilege of attending the HartfordSchool of Missions, or other similar training schools inEurope or America and even those who have done sonaturally received more of general missionary preparationand not enough of special preparation for work in China.All need help in understanding such things as MissionaryHistory and the Science and Practice of Missions, Sociology(especially the study of society in China), Chinese Historyand Geography, Comparative Religions, the Apologetic forChina, A etc. beginning in these things has been made andthe students have had the benefit of lectures on these subjectsby such men as Drs. J. L. Stuart, J. C. Garritt, P. F. Price,Arthur H. Smith, Liu Ching-shu, Rev. C. E. Darwent andothers, but such work should be advanced beyond the lecturestage and should include also assigned reading, discussions