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440 MISCELLANEOUSmissionary forces. It is probable that in the earlier daysopenings occurred and opportunities arose which led to somecentres being more fully occupied than others. The lack ofco-operation between the different missions arid missionarysocieties has in the past prevented any serious attentionbeing given to the distribution of the missionary force overthe province as a whole. In a word, the circumstances andconditions under which many of our missions had to workin the past tended to convert the individual missionary intoa free lance, who worked when and where he could find anopening. At the present time conditions are much morefavourable for a proper distribution of our forces. Formerlythe missionaries had to go whore they could rather thanwhere they would. To-day they may go where and whenthey will. The whole country is open, the people are notonly receptive but even eager for the missionary herald.Wise and statesmanlike occupation of a given territoryis impossible of realization until we have a changed point ofview regarding the relation which should exist between themission and the home base in the mapping out of theterritory,- and the efficient distribution of the home base savailable funds and forces. No individual missionarycontributor should be allowed to dictate the location of themissionary whom his money is to support. Such a policy issubversive of all missionary method.,,j .. In educational work the southern section.educational . .,, ,, .. ., -^Work has a total of over sixty mission collegesand high schools for boys and girls. (TheEducational Directory of China, for 1915, lists fifty-eightbut we know personally of several others which are notlisted). The northern two-thirds of the province has atotal of only eleven high schools for boys and girls. Ofgovernment high schools the entire province has a total ofthirty-three; twenty-one of which are established by thedistrict authorities and private individuals, and eleven bythe provincial authorities. All of these are for boys, andfifteen of them are in the territory south of the River. Inthe territory north of the River there are eight government