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"CONGREGATIONAL GROUP 77grades. The hospital at Lintsingchow was completed. AtFoochow the Peace Street Church seating two thousand andthe parish house will soon be completed and the pipe-organcosting $2,500 gold installed. At Ing Tai of the FoochowMission the parish house is already being used and the newchurch will soon be ready.^^ 1(Evan elism ^Al was Ile ^ ^Orwar(^ work inevangelism. In the Peking station groups ofleaders spent a week in each of twelve strategic centresgiving lectures on such subjects as China s NaturalResources.," "New Methods in Education," "Self-help.These meetings w^ere organized by the leading gentry at eachplace and attended 03- officials and business men. Theseaddresses were followed naturally by discourses on religion,often at the request of the audience. On Sunday regularservices were held. The attendance at the lectures during aperiod of six weeks was 30,000. The evangelistic meetingsfollowing the lectures were attended by 20,000.,, ,, , In Peking union bauds of Christians ofMethods used -.. .. . -,, -,.,different denominations visited street chapelsto stir up interest. In Shantung the post-oilice was used tosend Christian newspapers and books to picked men and thiswas followed up by personal visits. Bible classes for menand women are reported from the three missions. InShansi at Fenchow a short-term school for laymen wasestablished. The Foochow Congregational churches unitedwith the Methodist Episcopal Mission and Church MissionarySociety churches in the Forward Evangelistic Movement,each mission setting apart one Chinese to this work. TheBible classes connected with this union forward movementwere attended by two hundred twenty-seven men. Onehundred fifty men were enrolled in evening classes for thestudy of Chinese taught by enquirers. Numerous lectureson plague, tuberculosis and other subjects were given,illustrated by lantern-slides. Thousands of placards weredistributed. Many people were inoculated against plague.In the fall of the year three union evangelistic meetings wereheld at different centres in Foochow. At these meetings 461men and 291 women signified their desire to study the Bibleand classes were organized for them.