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"CITY SURVEYS 403The population of ITangchow is 800.000.he survey was niac^e tnere were 918baptized Christians in Hangchow, or oneChristian for every 871 persons in the city.The 918 communicant Christians are em-Occupations.ployed as fol]owsRailway ...... ...... 3 Teachers ............ 74Postal .. ---- .. ...... 5 Shopkeepers ......... 83Police or military .... 10 Labourers .......... 199Farmers and gardeners 38 Students .......... . . 295In employ of Church. . 48 No report .......... 109Doctors .............. 54Total 918It will be noted that there are 83 church-members ofthe shop class in the entire city. This class is particularlyhard to reach. They have not the disposition or habit tostudy and are not free to attend public worship. Thereare also difficulties in the way of their joining the Church.Special methods need to be thought out and worked out toreach this large class in our city. Two years and more agowhen this survey was made there were no officials in theChurch. Although there were many students very fewwere from the government schools, if indeed there were any.There are 563 men and boys and 355P rf M 0rt nwomen andlgirls, 61.3% of the former andWomu 38.7% of the latter. This means that forvxevery six males there are only four or lessfemales in the church. There are several reasons fo*r this.AVomen are naturally more conservative. In China most ofthe women cannot read and therefore cannot study theBible for themselves. But. in a very important sense, it ismore important to win the women than the men. WhenMr. Wen joined the church he asked at once for some oneto teach Mrs. Wen the gospel with a view to leading iu-rinto the church. When I join the church," he said,it is only an individual that is added. Win Mrs. Wen andyou win a family and future generations for Christ andHis Church." Should we not then emphasize more work