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56 MISSIONS AND CHURCHEStherewith, (d) the Ch ung Te Boys 7 School with about onehundred and twenty boys, mostly non-Christian day scholars,(e) the St. Faith s Girls School with about one hundredand sixty girls, half of them Christian, (f ) the P ei HuaSchool for girls of the upper class, which is successfullystruggling to establish itself, and (g) our latest venture, ahostel for two hundred students in Government colleges.This last merits further notice. No one conversantwith the conditions under which such students normallylive can be blind to the need of providing hostel accommodation for them. We have made a start, and our hosteJ isfull up with twenty -three students. For the present wecannot take in more: and it is a moot question how farmere numbers are important compared with the more intimate intercourse which is possible between a warden and asmall number of picked men. Time and experience willhelp to show.~., ,,. . Outside Peking our work spreads fromOther Mission s , r^. . ,Stations three centres, J. i ungchtnglts ten, uiiy wilesto the south, conspicuous for its school work,which isfiwilc princeps in the country. I overheard two oldboys talking the other day in an "inn, and one said : If itwere not for the Ts un Shih School where should we Yungch ing boys get a chance nowadays?" There is also thebeginning of industrial work for other boys.2. Hokicnfu, where we are trying the experiment of acountry hospital in charge of a graduate doctor from theUnion Medical College in Peking.o. Chichow, forty miles south of Paotingfu, where thework is newer, more full of life apparently, and moreunconventional. It embraces a homo For girls rendereddestitute by floods, worked as much as possible by the Chinesethemselves, though supported with foreign money; villageschools Avldch are half-mission and half-village (at presentworking successfully) and; energetic efforts, not alas! yetcrowned with success, at co-operation with the gentry of thedistrict in getting the Government to tackle the vitally important question of river-conservancy. Industrial work isalso being planned for, and in everything the Chinese aregiven as free a voice as may be. The more vigorous life in

ANGLICAN GROUP 57this station may be partly due to this fact ;but it is undoubtedly partly due also to the absence of an old tradition andunregenerate Christians, and the presence of an exceptionallyearnest Chinese priest.Diocese of ShantungGeoffrey D. IliffThe progress of the work during the past year has beenvery much the same as most j^ears, slow but steady.The staff ofsforeign workers has beenconsiderably reduced for out of a total oftwenty-eight workers (including wives) on the field at theopening of the year, no less than eight had left the diocesefor one reason or another when the year closed. It is hopedthat at least half this number will return eventually, butsome leave vacancies which cause serious hindrance to thework for the time being. There is, however, a credit side tothe account. The Australian Board of Missions has sent tothe diocese a valuable worker in the person of NurseLawrence, for whom they guarantee the entire cost of hersupport. Also Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Shepherd have been lentto Weihaiwei during the absence of Rev. and Mrs. Burnett,now home on furlough.The Chinese staff has been increased by the addition ofthree of our former students who have graduated at theChristian University at Weihsien; all three of whom are ofgreat assistance in the educational work .enera] nature of the work in the^eNature of g"Workdiocese consists in establishing mission centres, under the supervision (generally) of foreign missionaries, with their schools for both boys and girls, preachingwork, and if possible medical work also. From each centreeducational and evangelistic work is extended into the surrounding district. During the past year a fresh mission centrewas Pened ilt Tungchangf u, a city which wasformerly of very considerable importance, bothas a business centre and as a Government prefecture.Even now, when it retains only about one-tenth of its formerA 7

56 MISSIONS AND CHURCHEStherewith, (d) the Ch ung Te Boys 7 School with about onehundred and twenty boys, mostly non-Christian day scholars,(e) the St. Faith s Girls School with about one hundredand sixty girls, half of them Christian, (f ) the P ei HuaSchool for girls of the upper class, which is successfullystruggling to establish itself, and (g) our latest venture, ahostel for two hundred students in Government colleges.This last merits further notice. No one conversantwith the conditions under which such students normallylive can be blind to the need of providing hostel accommodation for them. We have made a start, and our hosteJ isfull up with twenty -three students. For the present wecannot take in more: and it is a moot question how farmere numbers are important compared with the more intimate intercourse which is possible between a warden and asmall number of picked men. Time and experience willhelp to show.~., ,,. . Outside Peking our work spreads fromOther Mission s , r^. . ,Stations three centres, J. i ungchtnglts ten, uiiy wilesto the south, conspicuous for its school work,which isfiwilc princeps in the country. I overheard two oldboys talking the other day in an "inn, and one said : If itwere not for the Ts un Shih School where should we Yungch ing boys get a chance nowadays?" There is also thebeginning of industrial work for other boys.2. Hokicnfu, where we are trying the experiment of acountry hospital in charge of a graduate doctor from theUnion Medical College in Peking.o. Chichow, forty miles south of Paotingfu, where thework is newer, more full of life apparently, and moreunconventional. It embraces a homo For girls rendereddestitute by floods, worked as much as possible by the Chinesethemselves, though supported with foreign money; villageschools Avldch are half-mission and half-village (at presentworking successfully) and; energetic efforts, not alas! yetcrowned with success, at co-operation with the gentry of thedistrict in getting the Government to tackle the vitally important question of river-conservancy. Industrial work isalso being planned for, and in everything the Chinese aregiven as free a voice as may be. The more vigorous life in

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