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490 MISCELLANEOUSmany hundreds. Again and again literature and pledgeswere sent for, often from remote places.SuccessIt became very evident that not only inMet with large cities like Peking, Tientsin, Paotingfu,and Kalgan but in smaller towns and countryplaces, if a steady and continuous work could be kept upamong the men, a large movement might be started, whichwould not only lead men to give up their native wines, theinjurious effect of which the men themselves freely acknowledge, but prevent them from falling victims to foreign beerand other alcoholic liquors, the perilous morphia needle, thedegenerating cigarette and the well-advertised patentmedicines, containing frequently large doses of alcohol oropium.Miss Ch en^u ^unc ^ 1915, Mr. Ch iian left for theUnited States to enter a Theological Seminary.The Union was very fortunate in securing the services ofMiss Yii-ling Ch en, a graduate of the Women s UnionCollege of Peking, a young woman with a long line ofofficial ancestors behind her, whose family, becausethey fell upon evil times, had an open ear toward theGood Tidings in Christ Jesus. In her own family shelearned something of the bitterness of the curse of opium,so her words have a power denied some. Her main workhas been of first, preparation, studying about scientifictemperance and methods of work, and second, starting LoyalTemperance Legions in various schools and an orphanage inthe city of Peking, and lecturing in every part of the cityto large groups, who hang upon her words. Best of allhas been the repeated testimony that all are irresistiblydrawn to a belief in the purity and Christian winsomenessof the woman behind the words. In October ^lissCh eiiwas able to make one trip to Manchuria, where severalsocieties were formed in the schools in the cities visited.Particularly encouraging was the response in the government schools. At Moukden, the temperance and socialservice work has made a bond betweeu the governmentnormal and the mission normal schools.