I lRortb 1924 L ______1-' MINUTES Of the thirty· Second Session of the North China Woman's Conference of the Methodist Episcopa Church held in Peking September 3 to 9 Nineteen Hundred and T wenty·four. CONTENTS. PAGE. OFFICERS AND l\fEMnli~R.S OF THE CON1!'ERF.!iGE 1 R,EJPORTS :- E.DUCATIONAI~ : Peking U niversi ty 5 Mary Porter Gamewell School ...... 9 Keen l\feID.orial School ...... 12 Alderman ~I~morial Girls' School ...... 17 Ma.ria Brown Davis 8cho·ol ...... 19 Peking Kindergartens ...... 20 Tientsin KindeTgartens ...... Girls' Primary Schools Ching ChaD District ...... 24 PrimaTY Schuols-· ·Tien tsin. .... "...... 27 Prima.ry Schools.-Tienl-sin District ..... : ...... ".. 28 Primary Schools-Three Eastern Dist.rict,s ...... Primal'Y Schoo,ls--Taia,n a,nd YencholW Districts ...... 32 EvANCELISTIC : Evangelistic W ork-Peking ...... 37 Evangelistic '\Vork fOl' \\Tomen-Petking Country Dist,riet ...... ' ...... ' ...... , . . . . . 42 E.vangelistic- Work---Tient,sin ...... 46 Evangelistic ",V-m'k-Three Eastern Districts ...... 47 Pilgrim and City Evangelistic Work-Taian ...... 50 UniQin Bible Training &hooJ fOIl' Women-Peking. 5'1 Edna Tel'l'Y Bible Woman's Training School-TaiallJ 53 Thompson BiblE" Training School-Ghangli ...... 55 PAGE. MEDICAL: SleepeT Davis MemOTial Hospital ...... 57 Sleeper Davis Hospital Sch{){)l of Nursing ...... oJ School of Nursing-Isalhella Fisher Hospit..'ll ...... 61 Isabella Fisher Hospital ...... 62 Taianfu Industrial Work ...... fi3 Council on Health Education ...... 66 .APPOINTMEl'.'"TS-GENERAL ...... ApPOINTMENTS OI<' BIBLE WOMEN ...... 75 ApPOI~"'TMENTS OF EIDUCATlONAL ASSOCIATE :MEMBERS .. 7{) MINUTES 78 REpORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES ...... 87 RESOLUTIONS ...... 92 STA]'I;'"DING COMMITTEES ...... •...... •...... 93 LANGUAGE SCHOOL CoURSE ...... '94 CONSTITUTION ... ' . " ...... , ...... • •....•.... .95 BY-L4.WS ...•••••....•..••.. : ...... ••...... •...... 97 CHRONOLOGY 100 STATISTICS ...... ~'..... 105 OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE WOMAN'S CONFEREN CE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NORTH CHINA. OFF ICERS. Presid~nt Ida. F Frantz Vicel-PresidOOJt. Mrrs. Ch'ing Liu Lan Ying Secretaries: English Edith Shufell.t. C'hinHsel Oh' en Hs-iu J ung Custodian of Confereillee Funds Mrs. Cha.rlotte ~L Jewell ACTIVE MEMBERS. Charlot.te M. Jewell Eliza,berth Hobart Effie G . Young Marie Adams Gertrude Gilman Mabel R. N orwlin ·'Emma E .. M.arlin *M:a,ry E. Bedell *L. Ma.ude Whee.lell" Ruth M. Danner' Emma, M. Knp(X Lillian P. Greer Alice M. Powell Irma, Hi'ghbaugh Clara Pea,rl Dyer Ruth L. Stahl Eyelyn Baugh Krause Joyce E. Walker Myra A. Jaquet M{)nona. L. Che,ne'Y Minnie Stryker Birdice E. Lawrence Iva M. lfriUer ~·Ortha. M. Lane *Ida BeHe Lewis Lora. I. Battin +;r ennie B. Bridenbaugh *Lydia L. Sohaum Dora. C. Fearon E.l iza.beth lL Ca,rli3le Eva. A. Gregg Minta. M. Sta.hl :M:aJ.J7 F Wa.t.rous .Pansy P Griffin Elsie L. Knapp Viola. Lantz Louise Hohart Edith Shufelt *Fra.nces J. Helath Tirzah Stahl Nora, M. Dillecrlbeck Ruth Nuzum France·s R. Wilson Camilla Mills Ida. F. Frantz Ruth M. Oaldwell M. Lillian Halfpenny ~ ulia Morgan *On Furlough Gen.B"ral Boa.rd Emily R. Hobart Ocie Rentsch Brown Elma A. Keeler Chinese tTseng Rsiu Hsiang Yang Kuei La.n P'ang Yun Hsiang Ch'en Hsiu Jung Ch'ing Liu Lan Ying tWang KueJi Ling " Li W 3JllIg' Pao Qhen Hsieh Wang- Wen Kue.i Chou Wang I Si T'ie Chi Chih T'ing P'a.n Cheng Su Ying Wang J ui Fang Li H ueli Chieh Tseng Shu Feng Teo Ch'en Li Sa.i Na Laura. Yang HaOt Chou Mei Te Yang Su Ju Fang tYang Mi Li An Ts'a.o Te Chen Tu Chi Yu Chin Mary Shih Hsu Rsiu Li Wang Kuei Ch'ing Ke Wu Kuei Yu Wang Kuei p'jng . tIn School ASSOCIATE MEMBERS. PEKING AND CHING CHAO DISTRICTS. Chinese Kan Liu Yun Ch'ing tChang Jui Chen. Yeh Liu Hsin I t P'ang Lan Ts'uei Kao Tu Ai Te tOhang Moo Yun Wa.ng Li Poa Ohia. T'ien Lu Te Kuo Chin Mei J ui Ch'e Ts'ue[ C'h'ing Sui Kuan Lu Te t Yang Kuei Ling Pi CholU Lien Ch'ing Chang lIei Li Chii8t Su Shih Ching Hsia W~ Yu Shen Wang T'ing Lan Li Hung En Chi Wang Chung H ui Yang Yang Li Ch'ing Chao Wei Fu Chen 'Wang Su I Wa.ng Li Ts'ung Hsip;n Wang Su ChelIi Waug Challlg Yueh Chen He Chin Wen Yang Wang Wen Ohen Ch'en Chni Rlla.ng Tseng Han Fe.mg Yu Yin Chen Chu P'an Li Yu Oh'eng Liu Ch'un Yen YangCh'en Yu Ch'in Yang Yiu Lien Li Ma Hsiu Chen Feng Yuan' Chen tLiu Lan Ming Yaug Kuei Hsiang tShan Kuei E Chia Shih Hang tIn School Ame1'ica(fb *Edna A. King Gladys Ven berg Cora C. LowrY Evelyn Full * Irma, R. Da:vis :Uaude Dildine Louise WhiUlesee Felt Lucile Terman *Mary Ninde Gamewell * Margnerite' Berkey Ma,ybeHe G. Da:vis * LO'i's HaITi's Hazel Littlefield Smith Elizabeth Searles DOorris Prentice Hilla Scherich Ruth Pyke Breece Eldah 'And~son * Blanche :JI cDonald Clara, B. Whitmore *MeTle Ae,schliman Grace Lester *Alice Terrell Elizabeth Hurst Katherine Felt Margaret Wyne Mabel BrOown :Uarjor1e. Va.n Camp *On; furlough lIrs. Ella COoOole T1ENT SIN DISTRICTS. Chinese Li Ai Te Hsu Kuei .Tu l"oa. Wang W ~n Fu Ma Yu P'u Chi I~i ShOll Chen Li Yun Lan Yaug Chao Lu Te t Phoehe Wang Wa,ng Ruei P'ing Ku Cheng Ts'uei. Yu ·W·u Chang Ch'un Chih Ohang Tung Ko Ling Chang Kuei Yun Hsiao Wen Pao Yang Chang }fe1 Te P' an Ching Chih I,i Yu Mei Ts'uei Shu ShOoU Anna .8eroo _4mericon. Jose'phine Fearon Winans Estherr :McCracken *Mildred A. Rowland Margaret J.1'uller Eliza,beth Wigton Lyra Ba.hren burg Ruth Lowry 'InB,.EE EASTERN DIS'l'RICTS. Chine:~e Chang Liu Jui Ch'uan Yang Sai Na Ya.ng Chou H uei J u Tung Shu Hua *On Furlough. tIn Sehool. 3 Wang Li Kuei Fen Wang Shu Jung }{a. Hsiao IIsien Cheng Ha.Q Lan Hsiang ~Ia Shu Jung Li Ts'ueli Yu Yang Hsiu Ying 'Van Mell Yun T~iu Wen Ch'ing Chou Huei Fang Liu Yu Lan Li Feng Gh'ao Ch'u L~ Ying Li Yu Hsiang Kuo Li Shih Ke1ng ""rein R·ua Wang Ch'en Shih P' eng Kuei Chen Chang Shu Hsien Nieh Yu Ch'ing Fu She·u Hsien Ch'e:n Hsiu Jung Charug Li Shih W.ang Wang Ma.. Li Ya il1nHican Gertrude Baldwin Carol Dewey Anna May Oongdon SHAKTFKG DISTRICTS. Chinese ",,,"a.ng Wang K'a: La I.Ji Rsiu Yini Lo Ching Chen Ma Kuei L~.n Yaug Shu Kum Chao Kuei P'ing Huang Shu Ch'en Hsu Chin HsiaAg Meng Chih T'ing Wang Pao Lin Lu Lan Hsiu Chao Yu Mei Liang Jui Ts'uei American Ruth Leitzel. Rertta Baker R ut.h HaD.S(m J essie Hibbard *Sa.rah Oechsli *Oll furlough +In School 4 REPORTS PEKING UNIVERSITY A PARTIAL R~~·POn,TI OF THE DEAN OF YE,NOHING COLLEGE. ALICE B ..FRAME. THE. pendulum has swung through uno.t.he~ year of academlo work in much the sanle fashion as past yeaTs, sa.ve perhaps for a perceJptible a(;.celerat.ion of ant.ICipation of moving t.o· the ne.w campus and buildings. Students and teachers alike pre face many stat.ements ()rf new plans and larger hopes by the words, "-When v,-e move." The students. particl'!.larly hayc reason to look for·ward to more plea.sant and sanit.ary liying conditions. T'he dormjtories od: the \\:omen's CoHege, as well as those of the, ~fe'n's, promise t{) he even more ',Towded than this last year, and the sight of the four ne,,," women's dor mit.ories at Ha.itien: is very heartening.' The olther four new buildings be,ing erected by the 'Yo-men's College are also nearing completion, and weare hoping that the foundations of the Gymnasium a.nd Student's Building' ma~- sonn be dug. That roomy and weU-equipp~d building, 1:ogether with the spacious cenkal at.hletic field, will mean much for the health of our students. Health. The e:mployme,nt, this past year of an exper iEnced and mature school nurse, with more tim9 from our physical direc.tor has kept the health average higher' than eve'r before. This, too, in 8pite, of our VEll'~- limited space for exercise and the c:ramped' eondit.ions 01 Ijying. Student Body. 'fhe size of the st.udent. body has prac tically be'en dei,ermined hy our ac('omodations, plus a s·mall proportion of day-pupils. We lost quit€, a nUllllher of pre- medical students whO' felt. it safer to continue thai·!' studies in the Premedical School at T'sinan, in close- toruch with the WDmen's Medical SchDol, whieh mDved thither at New Year's time. The number o.f ~tudents at Yen ching whO' lave been here nOot less t.han a semester :is Dne hundred. The statistics of the student body are as follo'\\"8': SeniDrs ...... 5 From Pre~by t.t~rian SChDOls ..... 17 Juniors ...... 13 .FrDm CDngl'egatinna.l 8chools... 19 Sophomo.res ..... 20 Flom MethQdist 8eh001s ...... 15 :Freshmen ...... 19 .From ot·her Ohristian SchDols... 22 Sub-:Freshmen .. 38 Graduate ...... 3 73 Special...... 2 ]'r{)ID Non-Christian SChDOls ... ~1 IOU Totals ...... 100 Student Or,qan'':za.twns. '1'he new Student A.ssDciatiOon has done 8(}1 well during this, the first yea.r of its existence, tha,t the faculty have granted it a fulIeharter. The AssociatIon se€ms to have made definite progress t{)ward bringing t.he whole stu-le:lt bOody (;,loser together in facing gene-ral problems and interests, and tOo correlate the work of the various org'an i7.ations which fOorm its constituent parts. The Y.W.O.A., a8 the organization definitely respons.ible for t.he religious and philanthropic ac.tivit.ieg Df the students, has held its regular m.eetings, Tun its Half-day &~hD()l forr the poor children of t.he neighborhood, arranged for students to lead meet.ings and Sunday-School and contributed timet or money to other fOtI'Dl,s of social seI'Vice. The Self-GOovernment Association. haoS worked fa,ithfullv at its task of guiding and help·ing- the students in t.he det.ail~ of t.heir living together and u phDJdiug standards of cleanliness and thoughtfulness of others. A Women's Athletic Association waS started lately at an enthusiastic meeting and gives promis'e Df developing a. morre personal interest in athlertics among the- stud en ts thMl has been evident in the past. The annual play, given early ill Decem'ber, was, this year, "T'he Taming of the Shrew," dDne into vivid Ohinese 'by Miss Ru~h Ch'eng. A majoo- sha.re of the proceeds ($600) was . deSIgnated hy the ~tudent body toward a Practice School at 6 the nerw site, :while $200 was cont.ributed to the philanthropies under t.hb care 01 the Y. \V.C.A. alid a small~l' sum divided among various college organizations. Some of the young women are joint editors (}f the student paper, "l'he Yenching' ,W:eekly," and for the. first.t.ime, some of our women &t.udent~ took a heavy sha.re :in the intercollegiate debates in English and Chinese, and helped royally in winning two of the la.tter. '£he fact that more- t.han a fOUlih of the st.udent body are non-Ohristian and that a large propor6on of these live at home, has produced a rathel' new condition of t.hings religious ly. Hitherto, pract.ically all the students were Christians. The presence of a number of non.Christians, many of them of strong and attractive personalities, has bTOught albout a situa t.ion which has made the: Uhrist.iaJls 'Tery thoughful, and ought to put them on their m.ettJe. Even where some of these Iton Christ.ians have not (>,onfessed Christ.ianity tlheir development in self-control and social-mindedness shows, we hope, the in fluence of Christian atmosphere and ideal~. Religiou.s Life. The· daily chapel service, at which we have tried to introduce a deeper s€n~e of worship, has been quite well at.te·nded, considering t.he fact that a number of the older students ha,vet morning classes at t.he Men's College. The attendance at the evening- p-rayers, at the Sunday even ing meeting of the Y W .C.A., at the weekly Bible Classes and at the brief weekly Discuss10n Groups ha.s been uneven. Pressure ()f academic work is OIle vel'y real reason, t.he Inul tipolicity of ot.her meetings, and also th.e sense of a larger liberty of choice which come's to a College student fr~h from the more restricted atmosphere of the Middle School, have also been responsible :for the uneven attendance. The :faculty and .A dministrative Committee have felt L increasingly t.he need of ha,ving one or t.wo pell'sons who would make the religious intelJ."eSlts of the eolleg-e their main work, teaching classes in ReIigiO'n, guiding the student.s in their efforts, correlating and unifyIng the work of all the other me:m'beTs of the staff, whO' are' burdened with many academic responsibilitie~ but wh~ are eager t{) share in this important w(}rk of character-building. We aTe grateful to learn of the recent actioln of the Yenching CbUege CJOmmitiee in a.ppoint ing to a part of this work, a. young woman or unusual -gifts and training. 'Vie are hoping i;.o sec~rel fo.r her co-workel' Some one who has lived long enough in China u} understand con ditions of Chinese life and thought., in addition t~ special training, so that this side of O'ur colle.g'e life may be, mor.e aiieq uately developed. Staff. The largest addition to the st.aff of Yenching occuring at any single time in her hi &tory, took plaee; last October, when seven new memherrs joined us. rrhis aut.ullill we are anticipat.i.ng t.hEI coming of our new and old staff, Miss Stahl, returning -to the Music Department, Mrs. Zwemer, returning to assist. in the English Depart ment, Dr. 8u I 'Yang, to the Psychology and Education Depart ments, :Miss Eldlah Anderson, coming to t.he Chemistry Depart ment., :Jliss Mary Chamberlain, coming to the English DepuTt ment, Miss Louise :E1gTberl, BitJlle and Religious Director. Standards. The educational st.andards of Yenching Col lege have, been steadily raised ever since its fuunding, almost twenty years ago. Tho limits have always been the same,~ that of staff and financial reso.urCIe6 on t.h €I o'ne· side, that of the pos.sible' attain.m~ts Olf olUr feeding' scho011s Oln :the other. We ha,ve made- efforts to raise the stalndard of acade;mic work alo.ng several lines t.his year, with most noticeable effect in two branches, Mathematics and English. The rapid advance of the boySl' Middle Schools in confQlrming to the 6-6-4 educa tional system has made it possible fQlr t.he Men's CoHege com·· plete1y to dro1p its suhfreshman class, but as the girls' schcJ''Jls have been a little slower and mOTe uneven in their work, the Women's College feels it must continue. this pre-ca.llege' yea.r for a little longer in Ol'der th~t the membel's of each. Freshman class may be of a more even aca.demic standard, and more thoroughly prepared for real college work. . During t.his year of waiting beifore mo~ing to the new site, with all its possibilities, we h()!pe that in spite of the severe limitations, forbidding any expanSIon in numbers or in new department.s, itnlay be a year; not of marking time, but OI real innei growth tDward highel' standards of char acter, spirit a.nd woork. N or can we feel that all our needs are met. Cert.ain urgent lacks present. t.hecrnse'lve~ insistently to our at,tention: (1) The cooperation in the 'Vomen's College of more Women's Boards whORf:> :field representatives desire to send t,heir students to Yenching. a. An increase; in our resources, looking toward a larger permanent income. available for current expenses and Chinese sa,laries. b. More salaries as used by the constituent Board::; 01' by friends. MARY PORTER GAl\'I.EWELL SCHOOL. MYRA J AQUET, PRINCIPAL. THE faculty of G--d.mewell Bchool started the year's work wit.h a keen sense, of something terribly lacking among us. l"hat something was the bright, joyous and courage0'us spirit 0'f our former p~rincipal. And when in the Spring the news came of her de,ath, we felt that our peTSonalloss and t.he loss to the school was jnfinit~ely gre'at. Just here wei wish to rooder our trihutel to France's Gray f0'r h~ distinctivE' con tribution to t.he school, and to voice our t.han1dulness to the Father for the privilege of frien.dship and fell0'wship with her. The year opened with the Jubilee gift from the conTer enee 0'£ $11,000 for land fo'r the nt',,' bu:ilding. During the yea,}' the OhineRe haye worked to increase that fund, but have found it mut{'h n1:Ore difficult than :in the first yeal'. "~Ie hop-e. that they will succeeq won in securing t.hel land as the huildlng is badly needed. In the present bUIlding, not only is growt.h impossible, but we are abso'lutsly una.hIel to do efficient High Scho0'1 work with the poor facilities we hav,~. Last Fall we refused to receive aveit' one. hundred girls, chiefly hecause of room. The total enrollment this year ha.s Lee'II, High SchoDl 164, Higher Primary 62; whjle ·the la-weT primary day schools have enrolled 245, a total in the city schools of 471. 9 In spite of the lack of room we' find it absolutely necessary to add (me lu(,re yew' to the High &ho01, c.()ming up to the 6-6 standard. This year we gra.duated from the High School a. cla8S1 of twem.ty-:two girls. Of these twelve will ent.er other schoo1s for further study, nursing, college, or kindergart.en; and ten will tea,ch, though not. all bi{'llong' to us. "''''e should have twice that Dumber orr graduates; tor not. only does Oll.lr own work demand a large number of High School girls but other fol"IIla of OhriBtian work are constantJy sending requests fOT help. The health of the girls, on the whole, has been good, very little time having heen spent in the hospital. A capahle school nurse and physical diI'ootor have been of great help. The nurse with her SWf.€t spirit has 1uade the girls feel free til go to her with all theIr little ailments. The phy8ical dIrector has gi.ven t.he girls a love for athletics such as I have never before foieen anlO'llg' t.hem.. In addition, every gil'l upon entrance rlOOeived a thorough physical examination. and later a special tubm-culo'Sis examination was ma,de by a doctor from the Union Medical College. Dr. PrE:'Jntirc:e and his students have examined t.he tooth of all th& students a.nd made fillings, free of charge. For this work we are very grateful to the dental departmel1t of t.he mens' hospit.al. .All t.he teachers have shown an int.e.rest in their work and in the whole life of the school. As a, result the girls ha,ve taken a very real interest in aU schoOil activities, academic and others. 'T'he Y. 'V.O.A. opened a ganle and reading room which the girls greatly apprecjated .. They arranged games and contests with the other girls' High School in Peking, as well as inter-class contests. They have kept up their regular religious work in t.he sehool and outside. In the S.pring, a t. ...yO day exhibIt of WOl"k was held. The first day a program waR given to show the work (}If the students iu English and Chin€'se. Then the g'ue.;;ts were asked to go around the ibuilding and see the work done by the students during the year. Papers, maps, cha.rts and drawlngs showed the work of different elusses. The Ghinese are clever with their hands and this work was remarkably well done. The second day was the exhibit of work'done in music and athletics and these seemed to draw the la.rgest cl'o,,~d of interested parents and friends. 10 One innovation which came entirely from the student.s was a· schooJ pa,pe~. The'Y began to plan "fof!" it. in tlle Spring, sO' they we're able to print but one copy. The paper was in English and Chinese and contained school news and articles by diffeTent st.udents. There has been a beautiful spirit a,mong thf'l teachers and pupils 0.£ the city lower prlmary schools. We should be glad to") have the tE'lachers all return for anot-hm- yea.r's work, but of t.he nine whG were in the five schools last year only one expects to return. Tw.o expeet to teach in the higher primary, one goas to' a new home of her own, one will continue heT kindergarten training, a.nd four will return to take up illeir studies again in the High School. Every one of thest': tealChe:rs j s a Christian and seemed to feel that her most Import.ant work for the boys and g:rls in her 8(;hool was to lead them to kno'W and love Jesus better. Nearly every year there are paJ'ents who come to us with the request tllat their ~hildren he e.xcused :from s(;hool prayers a.nd Blible stories. We feel that this is a veIl'y yjtal part of our wOJI1k wit.h the children a.nd we havSi never granted tbis request. In nearly ~vro'Y caSe the ('hildren entered the f:chools, leaJ'Iled t.he Bihle stories and children'S hymns and love them just as little children always do. One day a little chap in one' o[ our sec.ond gra.des said to me, ".Uy father and mot-heT do not want me to learn Bjbl~, stories but I do learn them {b:ecause they are ~ood. I love Jesus and I am a. Clhrist.ian." The dem:' !iUle fellow stood up about an inch taller 3S he' said this . ...I\. rather unusual complaint came fro111 the parent" of several children in one of the schools. They informed US that. they sent t.heir children to school and paid their t.uit,ion hoping that they would' use every minutl€' of thel time st.udying and not waste fifteen minutes everry morning and afternoon playing. They WIshed t.hecrn to stay in t he s('ho(~l room and study at reCiess time. At a mother's lneeting we tried to explain that. "All work and no play makes Jack a JulllJJoy." That cloud soon blew away. Co-education is working splendidly in four 0.£ the schools. Seve'ral of the little boys who have completed the four years work of the lower primary expect to enter the Gamewell higher primary this Fall. The enrollment has not been high but the ]1 average at.tendance was ve!ry good, nearly all absences being duet to illness. Some progress is being> made t.oward self-support. $910 was taken in last. year. The Christmas gift from one school fOor the poor in the c.hllrch wa.s $1l. W €I ha.ye· t.:urned the COI"Ilm", we ha;ve passed the half century mark in the lif~ 0·£ Ga.me.well SchooJ, and cOmpleted one year of a new half century. We' }lope· that every year will show an irnprov€'ment. ill the quality of the work done, imt most o£ all a. real growth towards the J\iaster's ideal fon us, and a rea.l unde'rstanding of the s.pirit of our Lord in the hearts and lives of studentR and fafC.ulty. KEEN MEMOQIAL SCHOOL, TIENTSIN. L. MAUD 'W-HEELER, PRINCIPAL. A S we look back Oover t.he year in order to report on ii, we are looking again a,t the a,ims we ha.d set up for the year's work and aTe asking' Oourselves, "In how fa,r have we reac.hed these aims ?' , · 'Ha've we none 01] r best. to reach them f" "If we have fa-iled in any way is it because we have tried to accOomplish in our own strecr:lgt.h inswa,d 0.£ in t.he strength of om Ghrist?" The various rert:,reats Wb have had this year have helped us greatly to doone our aims mOloIf' clearly and tOo See just where we stand in relatiOon to thea:n. Our first od: these retreat.s was Olle day wit.h our own, mis sionary group of both men's Rnd wOIDe'n's workers, a day spent in prayer an d in discussion of prohletm~. Then at t.he hegicning of the year we had two days of quiet, prayer and thinking together of pl'oblems, with hoth Ohin€'se and Amea-ica,n workers of our various Methodist Churches in thE:" cit.y plresent. 'fhis resulted in our deciding to have a monthly meeting· of all :Methodi8t workeTs, meeting oonsecutively in our ch~urche~ and oiheT Institut.ions. These were partly social when wet became bettetI" a:cquainted with each other. Each time a report was given of the work in which the gathering was being held after which the! party was con- 12 ducted through the place, so that each of us migh1, Ihecome more iamrliM1 with what is being done in ~l departme.nts of work. Later a four da,ys' .ret.rea,t was 1;leld whe.n representatives of aU deno'mina.tions working in thel city with {hosS' from the Y.M. and Y. W., met t.o discuss vital problems of the Chris tian Church in China. Three words, ~Falth, Hope and Love welre constautly emphasized as the secTet of all that Chris tiani t.y can mean toO China. I think I may say that. the- spirit of these retreats has been the spirit of Keen School throughout this' year. Many thing~ have not ye,t beenachievea but we Uire still hopin.g and working t.oward tlem.W.e: ~till do not'· have our murc.h needed primary building' that will take Cal'S' of our upper and lo,wer primary work of Kee1l: thus leaving our present. build ings for t.he. J umor and Senior Miiddle Schools and a beginning at least of our Home Ecoilomics de.partme'llt. ~rhelJl we have not yet given up hope of a,n A.ssembly Rall whell'e we may nOot only ha.v€' J"oonl. for OUI' entire, student boOdy to meet together when we wish hut wheil'e, we may also· illyite in our p1arents and friends tOo meet with us and t.hus get t.o know them better. Our girls worlwl hard this year to get a building start-ed fo'r the primary schnol which they support: The'Y now have almost. one thousand JoHan,; which ihey thelllseh-E's have sub scribed. toward it besides the $700 a year which is the budget for their Y W.O . .A. work. T'hey wait.ed upon the' Chief of Police, Ya,ng I Tie this spring hoping he might be willing to give them the, land on which to put t.he building-. Rei was not. p€lrsua,ded 'hut promisE'd to give t.hem Some help on the building itself when it was once begun. Before' Chl'ist.mas anu at Easter time special evangelIstio meetings were, held to try to help our yOoung people' see their relation toO Christ [lnd tOo realIze the lleeds and opportunities of sell'vice. After the first group of meetings the girls were given the Oop'portunity of signing cards signIfying their desire either to join the ehurc.h or to engage in deifinit.e service or bOoth. They could sign the "My Serl'vice'" ca.rd for any de partment. fur which each thought she might render the best f.l.ervice. A.s a result. 34 SIgned for Sunda,y School work, 13 for country work in the spring, 25 for community work at 13 South Gate, 3 for special work dUl'ing the Week of E.vange lism, 4~ fDr Bihle, and group classes, 20 for industrial wOlk for the poor and 62 for teaching Dthers to read. The country trips were carried c·ut as last year under the directiDn of Miss Halfpenny and the first &teps of a. survey of the community t.a.ken. The hope is that t.his may he lCon tinued in the fall. Christmas time came w it.h the usual 10'ng bRt of enter tainments and parties. Thel gjrls dramatized "The! Other Wise Man" very efiectively and g'clve it in 1.he ,V esley, 1\:" est, City, SDuth Gate (:hurche'S and at Keen. 'Vhen the electric (TOSS shown out and the voice ~aid," Inasmuch Cl8 you have dDne it unto Qine Qif the least orr t,hsse my brethren you have: done it unto }fe," many felt in a new way the significance 0'£ the great Gift to us all. Wedding bells ha.ve sounded during the year. The fa,ther of Dnet Df our .girls, and one DE -our most earnest studetnts called Qine day and .asked permis.sion to' talm he,l' hO'me fo·r a few days. During' thest' days thE' matte.r was settled a.nd much against her will the daughter was given in marriage t.o 3i military man in Shansi. Many partie'S have {!ome during the year to make inspec tion of the school.; a group of fifty or mDre fI'om Mukden, a· graduating class Df a hundrEd from Shansi, groups hom lie-king and /Classes in E:ducation from N ankai, groups large and small, t€'aCheI'S and student.s, lllen and women, Japanese and Chinese, Christians and non-Christia.ns, the very keen and the rat.her bewildered, all showing that. China is a wake for helpful suggest.ions. Quite in CQntrast is the story of one of tho girls whic.h tells of twenty baudits entering her home when her mother was alone, beatIng her and taking all tha,t cDuld be found in the house fDr personal gain. At t.he close of the spring term of 1~3 we lost SO' ma.ny frOom Oour teaching ranks tha,t we WOondered how wei could "carry on" at all. However in each case a. way wa.s provided and when classes were begun in the· fall we ha,d R.uth Cla.ld well to t.ake~ over the accounts for the various lines O'f work; her musical talent was put to wide service and she he.came a very live member of thel tt"aching force as well. Miss BlanfChe Langdon was seemed to' t.ake ovel}" a part of the E;ng lish depal't.ment, Mrs. Kua.n who was hOl'n in A me:rjca and 14 rec.eived her M.A. at Chicago University came for a half day Df English teaching, and for the second term we had added to our ranks Misses IJ,yra BahI·eniherg and Dorothy C'alvert who have given full tjrne to EngliSh and Mathematics and t.aken their share in other activities of the s,;hoo1. The music department. has been continued in MiSts Stahl's absence, under Mrs. Ling and Miss Chou, former pupils of here, hut the depart.ment is greatly In need of her supervision and inspirat.ion. 'Ve have been fortunate in securing- Ml1's. Ch'en who has brought t.h~ Physical Traming Q~~ent to t.he highest, standard that perhaps it has ever reached. An entertainment wa~ given in J llne when hell' various groups gave proof of their excellent t.raining'. It has been a joy Jm·jug t.he yeaJ.· to be invited into the various homes oil our girll!;.. in one wh€le the mothffi' is not living the daughter ac.ted as ho:->tess arid father hOBt; at an· other just. the young l)eople played the pa.rt of both host .and hostess and nothing was lackIng to make t.he, entertainment complete; but most enjoyed ha.veo been those where father and mother have been present and shared t.heir home with us for. the time being, where we have sat ahout the round tahle, all have taken part in the conversation, and some entertainment in the way of music or an excursion planned to, take pla.oo arter eating. Some of the homes ha.ve· been or wealth, where servants are nllmerou~ and luxury is s~n on eivery side, some where erverything· speaks of moderate prosperity usually more Dr less foreig-n, but. of:en they are the more humble ones with two bedrooms (;If the (~ommon Jiving room and a little kitchen off of the COllr·t. When love and harmony reign Dne enjoys boeing taken into t.hese real t.hough humble home. From one a f thes~ moderately prosperous homes came into our sehool some, yeaJ.'s ago, a girl, iull of fun, rathe:ro careless and not. unusually good at her books, ibut WIth a good inheritence of a. Christian home where wise discipline· was exercised. A" the years passed she showed signs orE deep thinking an·l faithful service and this last year was made president of the, Y W.C.A. No more capable, faithful, thoughtful ann deeply spiritual girl has passed through the 15 school-a tribute to a Ohristian home linked to Christian school training. Oh that mvre homes were prepared to lay this firm fccnda.tion lor future- building! As I write, commencement and the closing of the terro are in the nOot distant past. .A. class 0.£ eleven graduated~ taking as their motto "Four Square," the purpose to build a· character symInertrical, mental, social, physical and spiritual,. all receiving prop€ll" attention; gaining not for self but to give out to others Hnd in order to render real service'. So: they go out to join 1he. fifty-one gra.duate~ whO' have gonel O'U.t 00: th.& school since' 1915. Last year a map was used on which coros :were strftched too va.rious r1aces where 1he,se fifty-one graduates have gone,. and a tabulation made to I"how "hal lhey are doing. SIxteen are ma.rried of whO'm thre~ were engaged in Y.W.G.A. work and thr~ teaching; nine unmarried :wetr~1 :teaching; ~wenty three were jll c~llegelS, six In American colleges, t,wo in Ginling, two jn the Peking UnIon :Medical College, one in Yen Ohing a.nd eJc,Yen in :Na.nkai.. Of the three who, at that. time were not. in active, work OJ' prfoparation, all have since planned to ta.ke furihe.l' haining. And t.his cla~s go€!S ()IUt. to· join the ranks od: the Alumnae), all but one are planning to· enter different institutions for higher training. This one wants to teach a year so as t.o come in close touch with people· oo·fore going on WIth het!, haining. This spring five of Oul:' graduates are l'eceiring diplomas from various ('olleges, on£> h~r M.D. from ,Johns Hopkins, two from Morningside·, one from Ginling and one from N an kai. Prepare.d for hig'hfr service' we look lOT them to make a real contrib~tion to som~ field of need :in theil' lU!ld. The ~econd generation are bE-ginning to CODle to us now. This ye·ar two !it.tle second generation folk entere.d our kindel'- garten and olhers will be T1€fady soon. At the close of th~ term 1he senior c,lass gave with credit "The llrince-ss" It was given to a large audience,. again in a borrowed auditor-ium, and the proceeds, about seven hundred dollars. is t.he first cr)lltrihution to our much ne~ded Primary RuildjIlg which we are hoping to secure pro priation for soo'n. 16 No plans have been made this year for carrying on SUmmel' schools, but. it may ;})e just. as weU for we are hearing juSt now 'of a campaig'D. £01' opening In the city a large numlber of schools for teaching the thousand character books. If this 18 done suc:ce,ssfully wha,t changes we may see in the lives of the young people in Tient.sin in the yeaTs to come ~ This year three of our gradua.tes have taught. successfully in O'ur schoO'I. One is to return to us, anothel' to enter nurse t.raining and the third to return to her home villa.ge to he'lp her father lD a school he has ·start.ed there, the only one for girls. She will find a great place for leadership a.nd wide influence there. China is in ne~d of educat.ed yOUIlg people but if educat.e'd without real consecration will their educatiO'n supply China's great need? May our schools be centers from which young people, filled with a real zeal fO'r unselfish service, shaH be sent out to supply t.his need. Our registra,tion this yeal' has reached two hundred and eighty; Lower .Prima.ry thiriy-four; Upper Primary O'ne hun dred and t.oo; in t,he six years Middle' School one hundred and thirty t.wo. Boarders including teachers, have numbered. one hundred and thirty. and sevent.y-two mOl'€, have taken thel noon meal. ALDERMAN 'MEMORIAL GIRLS' SCHOOL. CHANGLI. PANSY GRIFFIN, PRINCIPAL. ALTHO I ha,v~ no previous expe,rie1nce with which to eO'lIl!- pare this past. year, still I wish t.o sa,y it h~.s been a go{)d year, for while therel is much room. fo.r improvement, it was better than I could ha,ve hoped for. We ha,ven't done anything sta,rtling, nor especially st.riking in ~y way; but I thin~ tha,t, a la1'g~ majorit.y of t,hel girls have spe·nt a year of rea.! study and growth t.hat is: not merely physical. On~ of t.he good t.hings is t.ha,t., due' to ha:ving a. scho.ol nurse who knows her business, we have had no se-rious illness. I fully realize: t.hat. the, succe:ss of the' year is quite the 1'esul t o.f t.he loyal support. and co-o'Pera.t.ion o.,f the Cllinese te·achers. They have all been most he'lpful a.nd pat.ient. with me. The girls especially have ta.ken responsibility, and ha,ve 11 done everything with. such -a, glad, willing spirit tha.t. it. is indeed a, plea~ul'€, to work with them. We regret tha,t Miss Liu Jui La.n is nOot. returning t.Oo us another year, hut. we fully a.ppreciate' h~I desire to' go: on to scho'ol. In Miss Bridenbaugh's a,bsence" Miss Wan ha.s ha,o charge of 1,he Jlrimary Sunda,y School, wit.h its Teacher T'raining class, aJlo .Tunior Church. She has boom most faithful in ca.rrying it .on. 'Ve ha,ve also had a, J unio'r Leagu~- this year, composed Qof thet HigheT' Primary boys and Alderman first year girls. This helped to reduce, numbers in the, adult League. JunioT League was generaUy leo by the pupils, most. of whom pro,ved quit~t ca.pa.bl~ lea,ders. We hope t.o see more progTess in this department.. Somet of the girls volunt.eered tOt carry O'll SQ'me work begun last summer at Ting-tzu-chien, , a. village about a, mile and a haH away. Four to ~ight. girls weiIlt regularly once a. week during good weather with Miss Chou they told a story, played gam.es, and taught the children, a, few characters. As a. result, one littl€l girl etlltere!d our 'Gha.ngli Prima,JOY S~hool, but we ho'pe tha,t the people of the villa,ge will s,oon believe that they could ha,v~ a girls' school, as well a,s a bOoys~ school. As Miss Ch'e:ng'~ time was fully taken up in the first. grade, we had no t.ea.cher a.vaila,hle for se,wing and such handwork. Un thf.' Oothe,ol' hand, the, loa.n by l\iiss Dyer of one· of the new day school organs made- it possible, for a, few more girls tOo take music than last yeaiI'. This year we plan to{} change tOo the ne-w e:duca.t.ioual sys t~ of 6-6-4. T'hat. give,s us the first yoor of .T unior High School. W €I are ea.ge[l" for the time' whe!Il Miss Bridetnba.ugh shall be a,ble to return and make plans for N oTllla.l work fol lowing this. year of Junio·r Righ. T'heret weT'e thirty girls to graduate from Alderman in J nne. Eleven od: the'm plan to gOo to P~king tOo High SchOool next faU; the others ~xpect to· te'ach. The roll shows 28 girls this year bringin,g t.he full ~;unt of board (nOot counting tuition) as compared with 16 last y~ar. PelI"haps people are believing more that i t pa~s to educate, girls. l'Ootal enrollment for the- year :- w,wer Primary Schools, C'ha,ngli ...... 113 Aldell'm.a.n High€1I" Primary...... 148 Thtal receipts for hoard an,d tuition, $1,490 (gold). 18 MARIA BROWN DAVIS SCHOO.L, TAIANFU. EFFIE G. YOUNG, PRINCIPAL. THE Davis schooJ has no tragic elV~ts' nor wonderful tales - to re,la.te this year, hence an uninteresting report. T'his means a, peace,ful and prosperous year, however, fo'r which we are very grateful. OUT total en1'ollmen./, 'Wa.s one hundred and seventy-six. This taxed our seat.ing capacity to' its utmost. New seats were put into eyery ava,ilabJe spac£1 and still t.wo girls w€tre ·without. desks. A little, t.able was put in the corner against the waH whm"e they sa,t dUling t.he Y€l'3.r. W €I grea.t.ly need a, new building fOor Lower PrimaJ'Y and Kindergarten work, leaving the' present. building fO'r Higher Primary and 1\Iiddle SchoO'l. 'Y'£I cannO't. ~pand IU rt,h ell' until we have such a building. The Lower Primary must be nea,r SOl tha,t, t.he: girls in the Normal Depa,rt.ment can do their practice work con veniently. We have partly enough land for it. hut. neled a little mo,re, with mo.lley fOol' building and equipment. Who will help us? Because of la.ek o,f tea.chers we have been doing exchange wOl'k with the boys'- schoo1. It has been tried in other places, but as Shantung is mD}'e conserva.tive it did not seem wise tOI do so until this y€tar. Our girls went. to the hoy'S school fo,r Physics and the boy~ ca.me to' us 10lr Algebra and History. It is needle~s to say that bo,th boys alJd girls likpd it very ~uch. By othEw exchange work some of our girls had the privilege 0'f taking piano lessons undetr Mrs. Leitzel. 1Ye var':ed our Christmas progra,mme thi s year. I nstea.d of the usual Christmas entm'tainment in thel church w~ had a. grand paJ'ade. The· girls had t.heil' Ol\Vll g0'od time in. the rno,rIling ",-hen they received thel gifts sent. hy their friends in .L~merica,. At one o'clock the bOoys a.nd girls of our own and other mission sch0'ols in the city, thel WOomelll Qif the Bihle ' Training School, and so·mel Qif t.hfl' church membe,rs, melt in our boys' school compound and formed 1m' t.he parade. The school ba,nd led, follolweld hy bOlys and girls in companies 0:£ fifty, singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" and carrying ban nell"S on which w€II'e wI,itten appropnalte characters. Besid~ our own schoo1, thel Anglicans, Ba,ptists, and Salvation Army 19 were repl'esented. It was a. lon.g pl"OcessiD'n and seemed to ma.ke quite an impress-iOll on the city. ,,7 e had asked pCl1'1llis sion of the city O'fficials a.nd th~ policH had deared the streets so that there was pm'fect ordm'. Crowds wa.tched as we march_ ed arDund a.nd through the city. T'hey seemed astonished to' knO'·" that therE:11 we're so many Christians in their- midst.. At the beg-inning of t.hel school year Dr. Ij gave· all t.he girls a thO'rO'ughphysical C'XaminatiO'n. "\Vith the help of O'ur gO'od little nurRC~ Misr. Wa.ng, tOo watch over them, the ge!leral health of the g'irls has been gOoO'd. Ther'e W€Te a few ease..q O'f measles hut. nothing seriO'ons. As the union cO'mmencement. of the< 'boys' schoDl, t.he Bible "\\'T' Groan's Training Sch(;ool, and the Davis schDol proved such a SUCCe3~\ last. year, we hied it again thjs year. Three girls whO' had finished MiddlE; SchDol a,nd thirty-thre1e whO' had finished Higher Primary received diplomas. Of the three Middle SchDol graduates O~~ will prepare to study mooicine, Q1ne will teach in Davis -schoQlI, and one will teach in the bmuding school at Anchiachuang. Althoongh thel religiO'us life Q,f the scho()l is nO't all that we CQuld wish, prDgress has heen made. All th~1 Oolder girls ta.ught in Sunday SchDol or Junior TJeague, aond 011 Sunday afternQons a number "Welnt out to' he'lp the T'ra.ining' School women hold meeting~ fo:1' women a.nd childr~n. The O'lder girls have alsO' le·d many 0 0£ the weeokly schDol prayermeertings. Thirty-six are teaching Bible Vaca,tion Schools this summer. EolE:1'ven jO'ined the church o~ probation a.nd ninet.oon ot.hers we-re bapt.ized and takoo into full nHIDlbership. The mercies and help of t.he past yea.!' give us fa.ith a.nd courabJ"C for the new year. PEKING KINDERGA~TENS. ELIZABETH HOBART IN CHARGE. TUERE are always t.wo divisiOons in this report. thel Me·t,ho .. dist kindergarten a.nd the T'raining SchO'ol. During a nurobeil' Df yea.rs t.he empha.sis has chaJlged. In the. first. pla.c~ it was entirely about the kindergaJioo aud now the emphasis is on the Training SchO'oi. The change· is sOomE:1'what sign fieant as we have CQme to realize mO're and mOorel the' oon- 20 ne(-tion between them a,nd t.h~ necessit.y of training teachers if we airel t.o have; kindergartens. AA head of the Training School J receive' letters e'very fffiv we!e!ks asking- for teachers who are impossible tOo fin.d. It is hoped the n.e1W course for kindergarten and primary t.eachers will help to supply the d~ma.nd for trained te'aehers. This ye1aI' we· had six girlp, who came, back for t.he secO'nd year and thirt.een new girls in t.he first. year. We required e1ntrance ~amina.tions for the new girls so were a,ble to choose the best nnes. During the yea!!' fiv£:! haNe dropped out. One very fine girl went hOome after th~ first tenn beca'Q,se o;f tu her culosis. "'"" e hOope that after a ynaJ." of rest shel will he able to return to' us. We' were fortunate in ~ecuring foT' matron a. woma.n who had taught kindergarten for ~evera.l years. Shel lived with the girls, and aJso went t.n so·me of the classes and ohse'l'ved t.he wnrk done in t.he kindNogarten. This will help her in her work next. year when she go~ hack tOt te'ach. The second year girls pra.ctised in the kindergarten t.hree timels a. week and it was a. great pleasure to' watch them gTOW in therrl' a,bility to' understand and he'lp the children. Bot,h teachers and children lea.rned much frO'm a little dea.f and dumb hoy who came' to kindergarten in the middle of the year. He wa.::;. so ~mnny and sO' quick to' dO' whateve·r he could. Wheu he was. a.bsent the' childre:n. at his table- watched the doo-r to see if he: would nOot. come. In the spring wei had a,n exhibitiOon to. which t.he girls invited their friends. All the paJ-ts 00:£ the progra,mme: were part of our l'egular class wOlrk so required nOo oth~r prepara tio·n. The pa.int.ing t.he secOond year girls did in thear class with ~ljss Wannamaker aud the ha;n,dwork books were D·n exhibit.ion. rr'he prO'gra.mme consisted of game·s, folk da.ncElIs, songs and stories. One· of the girls told t.he story of Pefl"Se Jlhone a,nd the btOlOY clas::! acted out the story of J oscph. The act.ing was very good eRpecially t.he' scene where thel silver cup is fnund in Benjamin;s sack. Judah pleads with Joseph in a vel'y ~alistic ma.nner. The co,gt.umes were made o.f all sort·s Q1f pieces of clQlth, Ohines~! garments, et.c., and W€II>e bor rowed froJn ~eyeral property boxes. Bot.h the girls and the audience t.hnroughly enjoyed it. 21 This y~ar we ha,d two :Methodist kindergartens, one old' and one new. The old (Ine' is the "JelWell Kindergarten. ,,. This year it had two rooms in a, fine :Qew building. The larger room has windows along the front. and the sunshine str~a:ms through them in the winter t.ime making it very bright. and C'heedul. The childr.P:ll e'njoy the new room: so much. E:3- pecially the old~r children have learned much in go.verning themselves. One girl in particular is most dist.ressed if a,ny o·ne does. anything to disturb the orde,r a.nd happiness O'f th~ group. The older ones also a:r~ very thoug-htful in helping the younger ones put on t.he.ir wraps to go home. There were fourteen children to gradua,te, 7 girls and 7 boys. The n~ kindergarten we call thel "Date Gro.ve Kinder garten !," b€loo.u.se it is on a sh'eelt hy that. name. ,Ye ju~·,t. had a small ren(e.d room lOT it. The children here, in contrast to the ot.her kindergari:e!l. al'e mostly from nOin-Ghristian homes. Unel da.y on,e child wor~ a piecel of red cloth sewed to her ga.rDlent in the middle of hell' ha.ck. On inquiring wha.t. this meant. t.he Bible woman sa,id it waS to keep the child fro·m getting smaUpo'x. The first week of school a number· of the children were unruly. They did not know how to ~'ha,ve, could nO't stand 0'1" sit st.ill fOI' longer!' than a minute, a,nd erven rolled on th~ floor. After a few wee,ks the change was quit.eJ marked. T'hey learned to beha,v~ much better and enjo.yed the gamet\ and handwork very much. Weare veTY anxious t.Ot have' a. kinderga.l'ten in ea.ch place whe;re there is a pl'ima.ry school but c~not do so until mOore of our girls ta.k~ the t.raining. 'Ve can think O'f no hig'her caUing thaI! t.ha.t of helping to guide these lit.tle children of China. in the paths to' health, happlne.ss and Rea,ven. TIENTSIN KINDERGARTENS. EDITH SHUFELT-IN .cHARGE. THE Ke.en School Kindergal·tetn has not had its usual enroll- ment this ye·ar because of the gradual change in the communit.y. rrhere were only eleven pupj]s with two graduat ing at the end of t.he year. Because of this change we are changing the policy of thel Killde'rgarien. Up to this time 22 the Kindergarten has heen opened to children who were, ahle to pay four dollar:;; a term tuit.ion. There are n The comm.~illcem,ellt eocel'cises in J unel brought joy t.o the hearts of the parents. There w:!s the dramatization of "Little Red Riding Hood" :n costUlll~ anll two siDlple folk dances. The bows on n~eejvIn;~ the little certificates were' made with the great.€st djgnity and made tie giving od: them a real joy a,~ we thought of the deve.]opmeld. in each precious little hfe .. Miss T' ao has boon SUlCh a faithful worker and we are happy that she is to be here a.gain nelxt, yea,r. Miss "\Vang and Miss lrIeng froru the' normal departme,ut of our high school in Ch'angli hrtve been aUf' assistdnts and have gotten much of the RpiI'it of work and pla.y with childr€l11 t,ha.t will help them as,t.hey go into the count.ry places to' teach. The year close,u with the plans for a tbird Kindergarten in the Ex-German Gonce:sslo-n in the sam€' court with one of OUT' Prima,ry Day Schools. It:is in a community filled with c:hildren from homes ihat need Christ and wei kn{)IW that this c:hildren's garden with Jesus as Mastei' will he the means. of taking His love to many. Our slogan is, "The Children of Gh ina :for Ghrist,." GIRLS' PRIMARY SCHOO'LS ON THB CHING=CHAO DISTRICT J..lOUISE IT OBART IN GHARGE. 'V"HEN trayeling ill t.he country one meets a good many things tha.t ure int.e.re.."}ting and yet ha.vt: no direct con n€,ction with the work. Last fall, whe!ll :passing through the northern part of this distIict, I was happy 10 see what splendid "Crops t.hey Wel"e having. As we were Ll'ossing a. l;iver by ferry I tiot-iced a Chinese officer and his family on the same bvat. Rome of the womel1 were asking him a.bout us. He evidently thought we did not, understand for he said, "Oh those are some of t.he people like. the~ carried off in the Lin-cheng .affair. " ....\.nothel' time I was makillg' rapid progress in an ox cart. "\Vhile talking to the drlver, I fOWld out, that he had been wjth the labl"r 'battalion in :France. He offered me an army blanket to keep InPo warm as it was early in the mOlning, assuring me that it wa.s very clean. l'h1s JUan became a "Ghristian because. of his experiences in ]'rance. He decided that. other L.D.tions we'l'(~ so rar ahead of China because they uere Christia'l. So when he returned to his village, he rO'und ·out a.bout this religion and joined the church. But I must tell you mO're about (JUI' schooh. Up' on th~ 1l00"th distl,jet lhere- io u preacher's wife who is a· graduate of OUl' GameweU High School. She has a real affectiO'n fO'r -the school and considers it her hO'me. J.Jast year, when the'y were raising the J'uhilee }'und I-!he wante-d to help. SO' she ·offered to teaeh our pnmary school in hei' t.own and give all her salary to the work. So fifty dollars was put in the Jubilee -}'und as herr gift. Lat~r a "imilar aruount went to work on the district.. The relJnainder "he would like to. have saved to -make a fund to hfJlp poor gll'h in school. Row we wish the:re "were more womelt with this S()rt of devotion. tT ust bolow th(~ mutldy wa.t~rs of t.he HUll Ro is the village of Shuang-Ying-eT. tJne noon we stopped there ror lunch and rest. Because we· were women, ilhe Inn-keeper gave us ·one or the family rooms. 'l'his was very clean because of a -recent wedding ju. the: family. The lnn-keeper's daughte'r ~ame in to' see us. She was such a prett.y girl and not at all 24 afraid of the fOl·eigne]'. She spent her extra time, looking after silk·wonns, and she. luust have had more than a hundred. She had nEwer been to school altd of course, had bound feet. llow we wish that all such g]rls nlight have a chanee, not only h l)e educated, hut to become l'f:;al Christians. This year nlOre trips wer~ madb than In any previous year on this diE,trict. That was partly bel('ause there wel'e more 8("1001s and pal'Uy because several inspection trips were· made wit.h the idea D·f start.ing s(;'hou-is ill the future!, There we'l'et eleven long trIps and te,D short unes of only a day or two. Eci.ght ,)f the:;e trips were made to give the. term examinations, ot.helrs to inspect schools 01- buildings and one erva.ngelist.ic t.rip with :M:iss ,LUJl€.. V\T e hav~ met all kinds of we:lther from the extreme (~,olj of winte;r t.o the heat of summer with several dust st.orm~ thrown. in fo1' good mea.sure. A.t Chinese New 1:"e-n1' tIm€: an instit.ute was planne·d :for these country teachers. They fil'st attended the meetings of the C.R.C.E.A. which ~how€d them that they Wt're only a part of a very hig whole:. Th(:n we st.arted to vjsit schools only to find t.hai the. city schools w~re taking' longel' vacations than: usual and so were disappointed in that. ~Iiss "'-atreus, lfr. Kao a.ndMlss Ch'en Hsiu J'ung werel the faculty and gave t.he girls much praciica.l help for their WOol k. Two new schools were started thi~ veal'. oHe on the extreme nort.h-east and OIle em the south west. ~f the district. In fact the latter, Chien-Uh'a-P'u, -wu,s >:t) far south that we returned to Peking via. T'ielltsiI.!.. The one eu the north, Shih-hsia., lies on the ne'w auto road to J ehol. This school ha.d been taught for several yOOJ'S by the preacher's wife but they want.ed to have a regular teacher who could give ~ll he-r t,ime to the work. Fort.unately there' was a GamewtJI f,(:.h001 girl right In town, so we. were able io begin last faU whell the ot.hro' schools started. The p-eople in Ghien-Ch'a·P'u had heen very anxious fo-r a school for some tIme'. 'rh(' 26 -P-nlMARY SCHOOLS. TIENTSIN. R.UTH NUZUM IN CHARGE. THE Cha.l'm of the Impnssible! _This is. the task that God has called us to du and we are staggered by the ap parent. impossibility of it. 0'1' we are· challenged to make our part count. in making the imp PRJMARY SCHOOLS, TIENTSIN DISTRICT. :31. Ln,LIAN H.U ..r'I'ENNY l~ CHARGE. TIIER:E ,~H:) eight ~ch(jols for g·5rh on this district.. There has bf>3Jl an ave'rage enrollment of Ol1e hundred and twenty. The~y have carried on through difficulties. In one place then: has heen somtithing more like a plagUE! than an epidemic. It took t.he sman son 01 the tea.chelr aud two ()If the school '.!hildre'n. One teaehe'l"8 future. mother-in-law decided the time had an'ived for a weddino- aud a substitute ~ had to tuke, her place. 'rwo of our tfl'achers. Mrs. Li and 3hss Hu hay(~ heen called to r·ho Life Beyc.nd. ' In one place it is interesting- to see the Methodist pastor, a church member, a Buddhist, and a ~fohammedan sittinO' together discussing t.he future good of OIUI' C'hrjstian schools. ~ A gift made1 po~sihle rE:lal desks and chairs in the Nanp'i school. It makes it lool\: so mm:h more like a real schoo] and adds to the com fori aDd heaIt.JJ of the children. For the next year we hope to make the' schools we have a little better and to adu a boa.rding school for the district. 28 Although schools are ne'w on thi8 district we have the call for a hoarding school t.o ta.ke. care· of the few who have finish ed, to take children from the great number of places where there are L,O schQ!ols for girls, Rnd for girls from t.h~ city scho()lls who cannot afiord to gO' to Keen School. PRIMAQY SCHOOLS ON THE THREE EASTERN DISTRICTS. Assistants Clara Pearl Dyer, TSllllhua Dist,l"ic·t ...... Wang· Wen Kum. lia,hel Ruth Nowlin, Lanhsien District ...... Li Feng C'h'ao. Birdice E. L,awrence, Shanhaikuan District. In last year's repmi, we declared it our purpose to strive to attain the fltandard set forth in the I'etport of the E,duca tional Commis,sion, that "'Chl'istian schools, to justify their existence, should be educatiunally efficient, and successful in embodying and impart.ing the Christ.ian spirit" Let us con sider in what way we have this year made progress along these two lines. L-Educa,tl:onal Efficiency. One, of the'greatest contrihut ing fa.c.tnrs to this e'nd has been last year's Teachers' ] nstitute. The teach€fI"s as a body have shown a true prof(!lSsiona.l spirit. They have put into put{,,tice many of the methods and devices leal'ne,d last year and hayei been very active! :in promoting the extra-curriculum activit.ies which lnean so much to the school and the community. '1"he two songs learned last year, "Swat the Fly" and "1] nhind the :Feet", have been sung an over the districts. It is a pleasure· toO watCth the children at their daily morning flag drill and hear their Jittle voices pledging allegiance to t.heir country and hesp'eaking "liberty and justice 10.1' all." Will no In three places where school affairs ~€I€med to be at a low ebb, and t.he pastor seemed unable to cope with t.he sit.uation alone, a Sohool Board was fornled. They got under the bur dens, and wh'm t.he spring t.erm upened, thare was a gratifying attendance. of pupils, all pa.ying more or less tuition, and new equipment furnished' the' schools. lIurrah, we say, for the School Boards! There is a growing spil·it on the distrIcts that the schools are indigenous, and not a foreign production, that t.he1y belong' to the local church, and not to the~ ,\V. F .}'I.S., and we rejoice mightily to realize this. There are 33 schools on the three districts, having a total registrat.ion of 637 pupils. Of theset, 92 boaJ:d at the schools with the teachers. IL-What proofs have we that our schools are beJng sliClcessful in embodying and imparting the Ch'l'istilLn Spi"'it? Of the total number registered, only 197 are from ChristIan families, hut there have been pup.iJs in nearly every s(;hool who have been bapt.ized this ye~u' or have joined the church on probation. Some have brought t.heir families into the ao church; many have unbound t.heir feet; and a few have hroke,n childhood bet.rothals so t.ha.t they could go on with their education. Many of t.he t.ea,chers lake a prominent. place in church life, le.ading meetings~ teaching Sunday School classes, and visiting in the homes of iheir pupils. Another forward nlove-ment is the Increasing number of Paremt,..Teachers mee.tings held in various places. As yet no regular organiaztions have been fOrID.ed, but in. the oc(;as,iOonal meet.ings, the parents have, shown much interest. Oounsel and instruction both educatjonal and definitely Christian have been given to t.hem, and a st.rong tie formed betwee·n the schoOol and the community. IlL-The Boarding Schools. These have ,kept on the eve,n tenor 0& their way. .At Shan-hai-kuan~ the large number of day pupils fro'm non-Christian homes both create a problem and offer an 0PPOortuuity. There are 33 boarders and 37 day pupils and L'nly 1.3 Oofthe 70 are fro·m Christjan families. The kinderg'art.e.n has heeln a joy and a success, and has pJ'€• sented many opportunities for contact wi.th the homes. At J.Jan-hsien. Holt. School has been thriving under its np-w principal, .Miss Li. It. has had 79 pupils, and a much la,rger number of these, 50 in all. are Chr1stian. This is accounted :£or by the fact that its 41 boarders are prae:.tically all products of our day schools, and So become Christian be fore t.hey en tel' the boarding' school. In Tsunhua, there are only 36 pupils, and until the long lines of Bo;xer ruins. can be rebuilt, this school cannot receive the large numbeT of waiting' pupils. From the t.hree schools 55 gTaduat.es have registeTed this ye'ar at Alderman for higher work. IV--Supervision.-Althcugh there have been three· fo'r eign and t.wo Chinese supervisors at work on the districts this year, Miss Lawrence has had to divide her t.ime with Thomp son Training School, and ~:Iiss Dyer give some of hers to Oover seeing building opelrations in Gh'angli. and all have devoted as much t.ime· as possible to evangeEsti(; meetings, so that we are deeply ccnscious of ret.arded progress in the schools, and weak places in the organization, hecause of lack 00:£ time to spend in hOoth administrative and supervisory activities. Miss 31 Wang, who has given such valua.hle assist.ance as supervisor for three veal'S, has left. uS this summer fO'r a more intimate relation t~ one church, as its pastol"S wife, and we wish her happiness and many opportunitie~" for service' in her new field. Again quoting from the Educational Commission's report, "The fundamental aim of t.he OhrIst:ial! school is the develop ment in the students of Chl'istia-n character." As an aid to this end, we are making plans for a repo.rt (::ard fQlr the- pupils which shaH measure ha.hits of the four-square life rather than examination grades, aud we mean to bend an our €'Ilerg'ies and try to- inspire all OUI' te,a.chers to make as the supreme end and goal of this yem-' s ,york the laying O'f a true founda t.ion of Christian character in the soul nr every little one who shall enter one of our Christian schools on these Three Eastern Districts. pnIl\'IARY SCHOOLS ON THE TAIAN AND YENCHOU DISTQICTS. NORA Y. DILLENBECK IN CHARGE. MY feelings when stm:ting 011lt. on my first trip to the co.~try schools were a ihit lIke those nn the day I set saIl fnr China. Tn me it was all unhie-d field and I felt somewhat dThhious as toO the jlnpI-e;ssioll I could make upon it. There was no one, Ohinese 32 Anchia, school this year and we could have taken in many more if there had been rOOlli. It takes cOllt:tiderable squeezing to pack all these into • 'the' main assembly room" and the process is to painful that they usuaEy sepal'ate into groups for morning and evening prayers. There are two large and one small bedroo·m. Think Df twent.y girls sleep:ing on one bed! Elbows touched when t.hey ~tood in a row as long as the bed so you can imagine the cI'Q.wded condition of the dOl'mitorIes. How they escaped sufiocut.ioll on wlnt.er night.s when every thing was closed up t.ightly is a. mystery - Of courSe there is no po·ssilbality of cross vent.ilation and the only heat. was that of their bodies ~o they beEeve in (:ons€lI"ving it. The need for new buildings is appal'ent Oil eve,ry hand. One of the teachers gave up her tiny ro'Om to llle when I was theTe. It had one small window and no out.:side' dool'. '1V-ie had t.hree and a half teachers in Anchia t.his yea,r, The old man who taug~ht his ViTiting classe·s by absent. treat.ment certainly did not count for more t.han haH and we dispensed -with h1S servIces in the middle of the ye'ar. Mrs. Lu, the pTinc.ipa.l, is a woma,n of considerable c,xperIenCp. and a splendid ma.nager so· tha,t we feel sa,fe to leave the matter of huying, repairs, etc., in he'r capable hands. He·r two. assistant.s ha,ve had a year in the normal dass so ,,,,ere prepared to teach the prImary cla~se's better than some of the older teachers in othe·r plaCBs. This i3 t.he only sehool for girls in t.his great village and t.he sur rounding territory so· we are vel'~- erager to' make it a good one and hope for new buildings and equipm,ent in the near fut.ure. One 0.£ OUI' schools was in a room nine feet square. Need less to sa~7 neithell' teac1her nor pupils could do. good work in such quarters and t.he schooll was closed. That was the only "Ghristian institut.Ion" in t.hat village. The: ceiling of another teacher's room sag-ge,d at least a foot jn the' center hut it was liseless t.o fix it until the. 1''Oof was mended and the building does no.ti belong' t.o us so it st.ill leaks aIld sags. The chaperon o.f the sa.me te'a.cher sle6'Ps in o.ne end of t.he schoolroom as t.he,re is no ot,her place, t.here· being twO' or thre'el girls who share t.he tearcher's ro'om a.s they Ii ve t.oo far f] om the school to walk hack and forth every day. Another t.ea.,~her's room had no windo.w at all and the only door ope'ns int.o t.he school room. vV' eo had a window put in although t.he. place does not belong to us. Another school is in one end of the living r()()rm O'f the pastor and his v;~ife, there heing no "\"jndow at that end 33 of the room. The pupils sit outsjde when it. gets too dark toO see anything inside. Another school was closed be'cause there was no place for it exctpt In the home l)f the pas,tor wher~ tha room was needed far their own use. On.e of tili.e Taian city schools is in the 'baseme-nt of the chul'ch which is too dark and damp a p.lac€r for ljttle children from morning t.ill njg·ht. All these· schools are on the Taian dist,rict where the 'city of Tung-ping is the only place- in which we own any property. This is the only place where there! j ~ a room for the· ~upervisor of day schools and on my trayels I sl€1Jt in the nine foot school room, t.he tiny room vacated temporarily by the Loys' teacher, the chul"c.h, and the preHchers' guest room. When starting out to vit'it the day schools we talk about "going to the COlUltry" in spite- of the fact that some of th81 places visited are much larger than Taian:£u. In t.he great city of Tunge our little daysc:hool for girls is 1.he only Chris tian school. The church members are few and not very zealous, the city is steeped in all kinds 0.£ wickedness, and the people very hard to J."each. As I ,listened to our little girls telling Bible stories, rep'eating Scripture, and going home f.:inging hymns and "Unbind Your E'eei" it seemed to me it was almost the only ray 0:£ light in that great heat.hen ciiy. Surely the hope of China is in i.:he children. In this city I fuund OIJ.e wom,an out~ide the pastor's family who had unbound her fEet. She had been eOllverted from the top of her head to the sQllel; of her feet and we hope she will enie'r the Bible Training Scho'Ol in Taian this :fall. The CIty of Tungping is in the same class- and even the government sohoo1s for girls are not very popular for the people are so conS€'rVa.i.ive that they insist on binding the' feet of thlJ girls and are! afTraid' it will spoil them to ~et a litHe education. The situation on rohe Yenchou district is more bopeful for the schools are all lal'geT and in better buildings. This year we have joined the Genet"al Boa,rd in the purchase of land in the city orr Tsouhsien, sacred to the memOTY of Men(;rius. W €I hope the n€!W s0ho'01 building will be ready for use this fall and that it will prove to be a real ce,nter. of religtious activity for the girls and women in that cit~. In the city of Tsining which is one' of the mOE-t progr~sive on these two ilistric:ts, it being locate-d on the Graud C'anal aE! well as the railroa.d, we haTe commodious' quarters rented of the GtmeTal Board. Here there is a gre:at opportunity fo'r grQlwth and we 34 have ma.de a· good beginning this yearhy clearing out and rHmodeling t.he second floor Qof the building ·in which OUl· school is 10C3Jtoe:d so t.hat we now ha,ve a room which will seat nefl.rly fifty pupiL, with u dasr' l;oom a.t the end, all wall lighted and with a. real 'board flOOT. Miss HSlI, a teacher with much experience; if, d,Hng fine work in building up this school and we hope t.o enlarge shll more sO' that we shall be able to take in hoarding and higherr primary pupils. She has one assistant, a girl who has bad .NQormal tralning. There we:re eighteen schools on thebe t.wo districts until the middle of the year when two were clos€d. Five were taught by pastors' wives hecause there was no place for another teacher. Eleven of the teachers ha.ve had normal traIning and four are wo·men who bave had years of experience in o'ur schools or the governlneni schools. The· average numool' of pupils in a E\choo.i was t.we.nty. One· 0-£ the most. distressing tl.ings was t.he lack of E\yst.em 0~I' schedule. Howerver, it is pretty difficult to ha Vf'1 a s.chedule without. a dock and the school with a.ny kind of a timepiece was very rare. We lleed all kinds of material for pTimary work and we need Isomeone who can devote her entire time to the t.ask Qof supervision. Examinations revealeJ that absent trelatment is not advisahle for day schools if we want re'8ultf;. Howevelr, there were bright spot.s for Rome of th{'! iearchers In whom wei had not had much faith proved that they had been doing the most fait.hful work. In lelss tban a month after J had C'ompleted my rounds of t.he Tai ,,,n dishict in the fall two of our men who made' t.he. same t.rip were compe.J1ed to have a guard aga.inst handits a'nd a little later we were forbcr.dde:n to tr'avel in this territory so the' schools were left to t nemseh-es until spring when I made another trip. AftelI' I had r€,tu:rned from one of the out stations on the Yenchou dist.rict., having made pari of t.he trip by moonlight. uttedy unconscious of any danger, I was informed that foreignecrs we're fOl~biddem. t.o travel in that sect.ion. On one of my journeys I met sddiers who were out searc.hing for bandits a,nd Qon a trip by t.rain a. real bandit in chains was brought, in and seated just back od: me. This 'was my closest. contact to t.henn, so far as I know. It seems as if bandits, :£Joods, famine, and sjckness ha.ve I(:Qomhined forces to hinder the supervi~il)in of day schools d1il'ing the p~st few yoo,rs and we are a.p'b to he dis('ouraged at t.he results although we do . see some signs 0·£ growth. 35 One of the most. important events of the year was the arrival 0'£ Mi'!ls Irma Hig-hballgh eady in May. She was fresh from her furlouO'h with an M.A. de'gree earned in Boston and lots of grand ideas for t.he d€IVelopment or pl'limary schools. Together we' vjsited most of the schools on the Taian and Yenchou dish'iets, giving the final exa.mInations in Elome of the former. Late'!' :Miss Highbaugh assisted by Miss Hsu gave the examinations on the Yenchou district, and after our board ing school close1d In 'raian I examined .four more of the schools on the Taian djstrict. ,Ve tried to give uniform examinations and plan t.o lepori the results to the tea,chers when they come together for an institute this fall. ,Yeo hope this will aro'use, a spirit OI competition whilCh may ha,ve' a healthy and help,iul influenee upon the work done in thel coming year. On account of la{;k of help€Ts we were una.ble to hold an institute for the teachers last fall but we are lookIng forward to one this fall which 'we hope. will be of gTe-at. heip and inspirat.ion to every teac.her. Another ervent to which we aJ:e eagerly looking fOI'wa,rd is the an1.val of Miss Lillian Greer in September. She' has also spent some time in Boston in study but best of all has regained her health which will enahle herr to go on wit.h t.he work which needs her ~o much and wh.ich she loves so weB. The ideal arrang'e-men t., ocr course" would he to keep bot.h Miss Gr~er and Miss Highbaugh for the work of these twO' districts but it. l'emain;5 to the seen what lConferenoo will do for us. Although it has been difficult to leave my work in 1..he primary department of our boarding- school, and I realize t.hat the "ol~k on the district.s has not been very satisiaCtory, I am grateful for the opportunity I hay€' had of getting- a broader vision of t.he needs of the day schools. It has giyen me a greatelr symp-a,thy wit.h the probkms of the day school teacheTs a,nd I be-lieve it will help me to prepm'e, the N orIllal girls better for theIr task. I believe more firmly than eve'r, a,s I have seen and heard of the Chrisiian influence of the little day s(·hoo1 pl1piIs in their homes. t.hat ihe foundation of OUI ChTistian work in C!hina should be laid in p,rimary schools. 36 EVANGELISTIC WORK-PEKING. CHARLOTTE M. J EW1<:LI. IN CHA.RGE. THE days· of ano~her ye~r have S~me. and gone. vVha t ~as be,el1l accomphshed fOor the Klngdom? Tha.t only God knows. I t,rust the comforting 'YlH'ds said,aho-ut a woman long ago "8he hath done what she eQuId," may for the mos,t pa.rt be said 0:£ each of our group ot Bi!b,le women. They do a tremendooUs .amount of work that cannot he tabulated-that ne,ver appears in the tlp'en. The berogged wanderer has been helped to take the first step' in the Christ.ian path; faintiug pilgrims· have been revived: those who have' fallen out hy the wayside' ha.ve heen brought ha,ck again; pennies and dollars have been collected for church work and turned over to ('om missioned persons to report.; t.hese are among the t.asks of the Bible women. The larger lC,hurc:he-s have had sevelral weekly neighborhood prayer meetings to he led, Sunday School classes to be taught, in 'which t.he Bible women have taken their share. 'Ve ha:ve had £,Ye reading classe£ in diitf:'Tent churches with varying degrees of success. Two wome·n han; given the rrost of their time to t.his work. We have sustained five missionary a11Xiliari~~an in crease 0.£ ouel over last year. 'This Q1ne is proving itse.l£ the star auxiliary of the gToup, which is due to the part Miss Knox and her Training School take in it. It may be of interest to our sisters in America t.n know that the missionary auxiliaries in 1\o,rth Ohina combine t.he home and Iore,ign work, half of our contributions going t.o the New E.ngland Branch and half tn the work in the province of Yunnan. 'Y t' ha:ve heen a hle tu borrow a lantern, and thereby to show various pictures from differernt mission fields, thus adding ocular proof of the trans fO'rming power O'f t.he gospel, wherever it goes. Asbury Church. :M:rs. Pan insists that she has done nothing this year; nevertheless she ·has kept up heT large Bible class, her prison work, and led varIOUS meetings in various places. In none too good health hel'seH, she has had her niece (fnr weeks at the point of death and now unahle· to' walk, together with the niece's five children-t.he youngest unde'l' two years 0'£ R.::,cP8-) added to her family this year. The wonde'l' is that Mrs. Pan is still able to can)' on. 37 Mrs. Sui is faithfully at her task. AmOong other sto,ries she tells t.he following: Onf'l afternoon as I was c.alling on Mrs. Chao, she said to me. "Mrs. Sui, t.here is a woman named Ruo just come to live by the 'Two-Eye Well' whom it will be well for vou to visit tomurrow." I replied, ;'1 will not put O'ff t.ill ~moITow what. I might un today. You come along with me and we will g'O now." And So we did. Mil'S. Huo is the wife of a univel'&ity student., who is working' his way through school, and E;upporting his wife in the mea.n~ime. He t.ried in vain to' induce hell' "001 COlle toO Pe1.:ing and elD.tell.' school. Neither she nor his mother was willing. It was only when he threatened not to go home any more hImself t.hat she yielded a.nd came to Peking. It was thus I found her that aftern.oon,-an unwilling victim. All thrOough the: heat of the summer I visited her every day, comforting and encourag- ing and helping her as best I could, while her hUlSba.nd was teaching her. One morning I found Mr. Ruo sitting in his doorway looking ra.t.hEor upsert. He said, "~fy wife is going iback hOome. Her belongings are all tied up, and she has gone Oout to get. a cart.." I enquired what had happened, and he said the trouble was all about som.e food. Wlhile we we.re talking she appeared. I talked with her a.bo'ut her foolishness, and she set.tled do'wri again. In t.he fall s.he started in to school. After changing about, a couple of times she settled down and did good work, gained t.he respect, of her fellow pupils, and joined the church on pcrooation. Mrs. Pan Hsi Wen and Mrs. Chang (~11·s. Cllang's hus band is doing Christian work in General Feng's army) have a SUC{lessful woman's class a.t Ma pj Ohang:::enteT. l1:rs. Chang says: I have had thirtoon pupils. They began with phonetics. Four completed "Important Selections from the Bib-Ie," t.hree, First volume of "Important Teachings of the Gospels." Seven of the, class ha,e studied fait.hfully and ha.ve come to class through wind and rain. Six of these seven are girls from heathe;n families; thf'Y themselves are Christians. The seventh, a woman, is very poor; she does industrial work for a living; hut beca.use she has a, fervent heart she finds time to come and Fitudy. Thp. remaining six pupilFi have be€'l1 irregula,r in attendance. Mrs. Pan has had a class in "The Acts of the Apostles." Mrs. Kao. whose special field is the Sleeper Davis Hos pital, has continued her faithful ministry to- the sie:·k. She 38 might weI], be called the "Sing-tng Elvangelist," she so often gains first at.te,ntion by' her Song, and then presses home its lesson. Hua Shih Church. "Te prepared a nice school room at t.his place. hoping for a real advance of lite'racy among the women. With few exceptiOons ,; 'they all btgan to ma.ke excuse." Mrs. Chao., t.he t.eacher, reports eight women in all registered. Only three came regularly. ..A. Heir school hours lIrs. Chao visital in homes', where jf the inmates were Christians" she had a chtillce to pray with i-hem. In heaihen hOlmes they listened to heir words, hut the o,ld prejudice stilJ clin~s. They still deTisively remark when ... he invites them to church, "Where's the good of going to that devil hall?" Mrs. Yeh's stren~th jc;; declining, but not he·r spirit. She reports three women have been baptized and ten taken on pro bation. She has made over 90a visits in homes. The following i.:; her experieuce when laid up jn thel hospital Ior ten_ days: Therel were fou.r of us in the same' room--a church member from th~ coun try, w hom I dj d not. know- -an old lady. a Christian fro111 the Hnme fOl' Dest.it.ute Old Women, and the wife of a nonnal school gra.duate, who has so·me official posi tion. "\Ve Hnee Christ.jan~ weTe talking back and fOirth freely, imd I was waiting upon one' who was no-t allowed to get up. By and b~T the fourth o-ne said to me!, "One 01 these wome:n you don't k:r:ow. The otheT has no mo-ney, and yet you thre-e are very good friends. I want to be- a Christian too." GamerweH School has faithfully taken care of the Junior Sunday Sehool and t.hel Junior Church at 1his place.. Chang Yu Men Church. Mrs. Pi is still Bible woman here. She reports over 800 visits to homE"s, besides many other activit.ies. One· of her stories will suffice to indicatel the characttJ' of hell' work at this place. She ~a:ys: A girl named J~ told me her father wanted to knotw about the Christian religion. I went with her to their home. The fa.thelf received me and we had a little talk, wherehy I le:arne.d sOome of his history. H ei now live'S about a mile from t.he church, acroSS! a barren strert,ch of land. He moved theire because rent.s were cheap. He used to live in the city in the days of t.he empire. He then had some government 39 work. Now he is very poor-his wife- is dead. His son and two .da.ughters make up t.he famjly~ One of t.he two daughters looks after the home. The other take-s in sf:,wing. The boy pastes labels on bottles at. an Amencan wine fact.ory. ,}'he father takes in washing. I inYlted him on two occasions tG come t.o ChUI'Ch, but he did not come. Then I asked the pastor to try him, and he got J:im. He is nuw a regular attend3nt. He and the two girls ha:ve joined t.he church, and -he says in his busines-s he has gained rathe:r t.hanlost, since becoming a church attendant. He has not yet decided t.o forego the boy~s wages on Slmda~T in order to let. him C·Q·me to church. Mr. La told me t.hat. years ago he knelt. all day before Ellddha praying that. his fllther Inight be made an official, but. his prayer was not anFlweTed, whereupon all the idols were thrown out. of the house. Ifour women have been baptized at this place, and five taken on probation. Yung ling Men Church. A good deal of the. work 0:1 }Irs. Cbao, Bible woman at this place, is in the fiye outlying- villages, from one to three miles away There is a Chri1,ian home or two in each of t.hese villages. At Qne pla.c:e ~he says horde'S. of children come to the meeting'S in order to get Dieture cards. -\. few women a],e anxious to .heaJ' t.he gospel ITl €'ss age , hut some body is pretty sure to soon c~om e up all rl call them off to work. 8even pro hat.ioners havel been received a.t this church. and a few women are lea.rning to read l{ark's Gospel, or th~ Oatechism. Hsun Chih Men Church. It. was with great hopes that we located here last autumn with Mrs. Ohi, a graduate of the Woman's Union Bible Tra.in_ ing School. She was a bright eapable woman, not afraid of wOTk. Howe:ver in the early summer a dissatisfact.ion arose, and 'she r~linqui~hed her task. So Hsun Chih ~f en is left. without a Bihle woman. Chu Shih Kou Church. }{rs. Wang has earnestly pursueln her t.asks,-too persis tently, I fear, for a nervous break-down overtook her this spring. Mrs. Yang', 2. preVIOUS Bihle woman, has recovered her health, and has conducted a velI"y good woman's class here since last November. ]'or several months by the kindness of the General Board, tht:. class had the use -of a sunny recitation 40 room in the n.ew chU1~ch. L·ater. when the school-boys required that space, t.he class was glveu a place in the audience room. Thriteen women were enrolled; the greater part. of them did (",o()mmendahle work, sOome reading the whole of Mark1s Gospel in phonetic, while others added to that one volume orr Har mony of ihel Gosp.els. A few others did good work in learning' the Chinese characteri-i. The women here have had a helpful weekly prayer meeting, in which Mrs. 'rSOll. the pastor's wife. has boon helpful. Mrs. Ohaug"s school for poor children prospers. It has mo-ved into bettel' quarters, has a. better tea-eher, and Miss Wiatrous is sUpeTV1sing it. Night.ly gospel meetings are held here, and a. weekl~' mooting for women. Pai Chih Fang ChurCh. 11r8:. Chia" Bible womanl helI"e, sa,ys: In all the hOlmes where I have bee'll to rreaeh Christ's Gospel I have b€en wel comed gla.dly. It s.eE'lll1S to me the hearts of the women at this place are really open. They all like' to' beaT' the ~()spel message. Only t.wo women .ua ve jo,lned the p.hurch. There are three women who naye not. yet joined the ~hur('h who are earnest inquire,rs, and i.hey ha.ve become my real :friends. There are nine famile'i here whose members all belong to t.he church. One woman has stuciie,d with me thre€ months; she is prevent.ed by her mother-in-law from b.ecoming an open Christian. Fang Chin Shang Church. Mrs. liuo, Bih-Ie woman at this place, ha!' had a dass in phOonetics, taken care of t.wo weekly neighborhood prayer meet_ ings, has had her part in prison work and various other activi ties. Sh~ tens of a }Irs. Pai who became a Ohristti.an last year. T'his~f.l's. Pai js a. widow with two (:·hildren. Sohe is partly dependent upon her mother, and this mother keeps an inc.ense shop. MI'S. Pai was at, first afraid her mother would oppose her blbcoming a Christcran and w()Iuld wit1.draw her help. Howerver she detennlned to take the risk. Finally she got up courage to tell her mothe,r what she had done, and 10! t.he mot.ht-~r was ple·a.sed. Mrs. Pai:s t.w::> children have' now joined the church and they are all happy. The young WOoman, lIiss Tu, who was determined, as l'eporled la.st. yea.r, to bring her whole family to Ghrist, has 41 not as vert; realized her ambition. Instead she has been con stantly ~ despised alid l'evileu hy them. Her gisterr has torn up hea: Christian 'books 3,S repea.tedly as she could lay her hands on them, and she has even left the marks of her teeth and nails on t.he poor gi1'l's flesh, but ]iiss Tn remains faithful to Christ. EVANGELISTIC WORK FOR WOMEN ON THE PEKING COUNTR'Y DISTRICT. ORTHA I.oL~'E IN ClB,RGE. SOME of the adventure and surprise of the £.rst year of at country missionary's life may disa.ppeal", but the third vear on the district has a distin<;t alid real charm. As our ~ule cart pulls into a, village, OUI' hearts are filled, not with curiosity and wonder as to what the conditionR are going to be and what kind of p€;toplfl we are going to meet, as in our beginning days, but \,·jih assura.nce of a warm welcome from old friends, and wit.h eager expectation of seeing familiar faces. Before we rea.ch the rchurch goette, a shout "Lai-liao," "Lai-liao," (She's come, she's come) goes up from one of the pupils, and js echoed by the whole school who have been watching for our arri,ral. The smiling church janitor 0iiOOS the gate and OUT cart, goes rumbling uver the stone ernt·l"ancel into the church yard. .As somewhat stiffly w~ clamoo'r down from the cart and be-gin to shakE' off ihe dust! we are greeted ,by the pastor and by hi., wife, who is PToudly carryill,g the new ba,by in her arms. At her heels are the other children, timidly keeping in the background at first., and then coming near enough to inquire if we have brought the organ and some, picture eards. On beIng reminded by their motheil" that n they haven't ~a.id their "thaD.k you iOl' the gifts which came at Christmas time, they make a low bow, until the red and green cords on their sliff little black pig tails almost touch the ground. Soon the chur('.h membe-rs begin to arrive, a.nd while we unpack our bedding and wash off the out.er layer o,f dust, a room full are telling us the church news and pouring hot tea for us and for each other. Soon it is meal time a.nd the crowd politely disappears (all exce.p,ting a. few whose eyes are distinctly visible through the hOlIes in thE' paper windows), and all rea ppetar again in time io1" the evening meeting. 42 Such a scene is typical of the visite of the missionary. This yeaJ." the dIstrict missionary visited 26 of the clhurches, and 17 out-lying villages, assisting in holding 121 meet.ings. AHhoug·h for part of the year she waS llot able to go out on t.he district., 'with her supervision, the A.ssocIate worker, Miss Ch'e, f:;uccessfully carried out the year's work. Two hundred thirt.y-one meetings were held during the year, an averageod: six .meert:.i.ng"s in eve.ry ehurch. We are grateful to Mrs. Yang, Mrs. Kao, Miss Yang Kui Lan, Miss Chu \-Ven P'ing, and ~!rs. Chang, who went on country trips with Miss Oh'e, making it possibJe for her to carry on the work and effectively assisting in thel work of evangelism. 1Ve held meetings in a number of the boys' and girls' government schools, a.lways at their special request, including an evening meeting at the large agricultural school at Huang ts'un. Often the gov€ll'fIlmefut schools with their fac.ulty attend ed our meetings and at one place four different schools all came the same HvenIng, which created a real seating problem, but t.he pupils in our church school he'lped to meet the ·sitUation hy giving up, their own seats to the· quests. In our public health meetings, we used the charts. "Rilling the· Fly:' and "Preventiou of Disease,~' and every one showed great interest in this pha.se of our work, especially the students in the. church and governm,en.t. schools. Four hundred twenty-two men, women and children took the Bible Memory examina.tions and received their Bible's. In the three years that \Ve have, given the...~ tests, 1134 have passed the tests and received Bibles. ThIS yea.r, in addition to our church people, a n.umber of boys frum t.he governnlent schools, non-Christians, pre·paJ.'ed for thel examinations, thus securing Bibles of the~r own so they could study Ghristianity. The uneducated preachers' wIves have found t.he Bi'bJe Memory tests very difficult and some of them took the three years to pass the five tests, TP.lCeiving their Bibles t.his yoor. IW~ a.re sorry to report that oneo-thjrd o[ t.he wives have not been able to get their Bibles, even with three} years in which to prepare. Weare trying to he1 p our preachers' wives to see their responsibilit.y in the work of the church and this year aBked for mont.hly I·ep·orts of the number of calls they made. A.I- 43 though a numher of the·m are too timid to make any calls, many responded, and thE.y reported a total of 411 calls. Our district ma.de a CQnt,rihution of $75 this year as our snare of t.he, Bible ,Youlans' R.etirement Fund. Our four Bible women have done: effective work, spending much of their time ill teac,hing phonetic and part. time in holding hO'me meet.lngs, and VIsiting the surrounding villages During June, we sent out 21 Bible women, part of them grad uates and part Q.f theln undergraduates from the two Bible l."raining Se-haals in Peking. This means that the.r'e' are 25 Bible women (I'll the district this 8ummer which very nearly meets Ollr goal of a Bible woman f01' every church. There a.re two women for e-ach of the ·e;iI'cuits and selVeral circuits ha.V'~ three women. Undel' the diredion of }{rs; '''''ang, these women are ~pending part of the sumnlel' in Hospel Team work, going in groups irom chU'1.'ch to church. This work brought, forth such large fruita.ge last. :year that we are' glad it. can be continued this year. Our distric,t wOTk i'3 sO'depellldent. urOl! the' Bible Training Schools for our Bihle women and upon Gamewell School for our associate workers, t.hat we wish to express our deep gratitude to those. instit.utions for their cooperation and for the effective training they are, giving- in Ghristia.n leadership. Four Phonetic Station Olasses taugh t, by Bilhle ,\Vomen were held on the dish-lct this year, etach for a period O'f ten. weeks. lWIe well'e disap·pointed in t.hel numbeT who eJntereo. t.hese classes, as we could have taken care ur twic.e as many, but we were more than pleased in what t.he 35 illitera,t.e women and girls who enrolled were a.ble to acc.o-mplish. T'hey not only successfully passe.d the e.xa.minat.io,n in the reading of the Gospel of Mark, hut the message of the GO'spel mane a dee.p impression on their heal'ts and lives. Thev also memorized Bible paStSages and hymn8 and many of the~ are now writ,ing letters in Phone.tic and some of them made, a requ.est fo:1' the church hymnal in Phoneti(; so they could join ill the singing at the chlU'ch service. In accordance with the resulution of the N orih China Committee on Forward ~:t:ovement, that this year we set as our goal that. all church members be able' to read the Gospel off Mark in Phonetic or Gharac.tetr, we began last. faU to work on 44 that pl·nblem. We realized that, t-here were more illiterate women than men in the church, and that. hen{'.e this difficult prohlem was especiaHy our pro.blem. Elverywhere we urged those who, could l'ead to teach someone else to reud the ~pel of Mark and to be ready :for the examinations when we e.ame back in t.he spring. A large leather pUlpIt. Bible was o.ffered to the church which had the highest per-cent of members who could rea.d the GOf~pel of Mark and a. small lea.ther Bible to the person teaching the most illiterate to read Mark this year. I n two of the ehurches no' one took t.he eaxaminations when t hey were visit.ed this spring, hut 32 churehes responded. ()ne_ fifth of the members oLf the district. took the examinatioll, most of them in (:.ha racte':l' (bout a few in phonetic. In many plaeEs, members who could rtad who. lived at a distance did not appear for the examination, and the report of the pastcrs on these, brings the total figure for the literacy of the district up· to 50'%. One third of (lUI women can read some and three-fifths of the men. The'l'e are only four churches on the district with aR high literacy a~ 7'5%! Eleven churches have less than 50'% literacy! The lowest. figure for any church is 1,7% 'lite,racy' In thel face of these facts, can we s,t.ill con tinue to say that ~Ielthodism stands for education? Gan we expect to have st.rong Christian homes and a church that will grow in Christian POW€'l', when 50% can not. even read one o,f the Gospels? Al thou.gh wei we,re disheartened by the results of this survey, our hearts rejoice over the success aT one church of t.he district.. Several years ago, the Niuto Church had the reputation of not having one woman chureh mem"b&. Now there are. 25 women church membe·r's and 24 0.£ t.hem passed their examination in Mark. Of the R8 men members, .80 0:£ them took t.he eocaminat.ion, ma.king a total of 104 literate: out of a membership of 113. N at only could they :zoe'ad the Gospel of ~{ark but Pastor Yang had thoroughly t,rainoo them so the~T were' prepal'ed to an~wer quest.ions on t.he content of the Gospel. T'o this ehurch. wIt.h 9~i'% lite.racy, the leather pulpit Bible was preSteIllted a.t. District Conference in Peking in June, and t.o· one of our Bihle ""Tornen, lIrs. Wang Yueh Chen, was presented a. small leat.her Bible for having' trr.ught 19 illiterate women to :read the Gospel o.f' Mark in Phonetic. ~1:iss Ch'e is to leave our district. n€IXt. year, but, will con tinuel in Christian work as a te.a.che'r in Gamewell School. Not only has she proved herself capable of carrying large relSpon- 45 sibilities, but ..her beautiful ChrIstian spu'it and consecrat.ion won :for her ja .large p'la~ III the hearts of the people orr thfe district. Miss Ts'ao who was a~socia.te worker on the district three year!? ago, has just gradua.ted a.fter two years of special training in the Union Bible Training School, Nanking, and will return t.Q. the dishirc.t next year. She is enthusiastic and hopeful of the task which is before her, and, together Wlith the missionary who will be appmnted at Conferooce time, with utter dependence upon Go~ and faith in Him, and love for His people,. will go forth to accomplish great things for the Kingdom. TIENTSIN EVANGELISTIC WORK. M. LILLIAN HAIJFPENNY IN CHARGE. r\. S one {)of our hopes is to have: a Bib-Ie Reading Church, we .. wert:1 gla.d when we hea.rd that an were to I'ead ~\Iark t.hiR year. One hundred and fortY" 'wQlmen on this district are reading. Of this number only forty t.wo- have finished. Sc we find that we have, st.arted on a joh that will take mo-re tha.n one year. \Ve have one new missionary sO'Ciety this year as the' ladies of South Suburb have formeid one. 'The officers Q1f the four societies ha~e met tcgether twice this year. At the first meeting they made out a program for thel yea(l" and at the second brought in reports and were rejoiced to find tha.t OUl' share fDr the Retuement .Fund for Bible women had been raised and that the regular contributions compared wen with other years. ~liss Wang Kuei P'ing has joined orur evangeEstic forces and she :is ~.n inspiration to an aR well as being a grea.t worker. She haR a vision of evangelistic work, and the ahilitv to show this vision to oi.hers. But best ot all Bhe has a. pel~-' sonal Savior shining out through her life The Bible, women ha.ve reported 3000 calls. As we talk with a Bible woman we know thaq,e calls mean a grea.t deal of time. 8he tells of people- CQ'ming, wanting to. be taken to a doctor , o.r t.hey have to move· and Coan she tell them a good neighborhood, or orr some one in need of a servant, or someone looking for a servant c.omes to her for a suggestion. Some- 46 times she naturally wondErs if she isn't. becoming an employ ment. agency, or ·an accomodat.ion hureau and then she says, "It is my business toO help folks." And she counts it all In a the day's job. One of the! finest pioc.es of work on the district. is hieing done by:i:'h€f prE'achers' wives. They ha.ve m.ade over setventee'D hund·red visits this year. As thjs is the tot.al it has not been a gre8Jn burden to any but has meant an effort on the part of all as ne·arly all have children. It is h{)IWerver an effort that brings a reward to t.he worker. Our firFlt "Short, Course fo,r Sout.h Suburh 'Vomen" was given this year. Our preachers, the :faculty of Keen School, and of the School of N ursjng and Mrs. "\Vigton joined with others in a course t.hat was attractive' and decidedly worth while. As we loo,k into. the ye'ar before us we rememb8J" the study of Neohemiah of the yea,r that is behind, and we believe that with more prayer and h2tter plannjng we can do more for our Master. EVANGELISTIC WORK ON THE THQEE EASTERN DISTRICTS. MABEL R.UTH :K OWUN BIUDICR E,. 1.1.4. WRRNCE l IN CHARGE CLARA PEAItL DYE1: ) "AND the king'dom 0.£ hoo-ven is like unto a graJ.I1 of must- ard seed." T'his parable has prorved so true on these thre.e large dist.ricts where ours is the only mission at work. 'Ihere has ooeln such a development that from demanding a part of the time of one missionary and one itine'l:ating Bible woman a fe'\'\' years ago, it has grown until this year there have been three missiona,rie~s and t.wo Chineose assistants who have gjven part of their time to evangelistici work, and two itinerat.ing Bihle women who have given full time to it. Mtanwhile the entire time ()If everyone of us CQuld have been used to advant age had we reen able to give it. 47 AgaIn an(i agaJ.n we have lett tne convICtI01l, "~urely line Lord is in it" Our staff of twenty-two Bible wo,men has testified to this. Going out ir01n our Inslit.ute last fall wit.h high :resolves t.o help make! real thE, vision of a "n€JW heaven and a new earth' j, t.hey have Iound that the way this was to be done was sometimes thI'u such unobt.rThsive ways as "pOouring' oil on troubled water.s", or by beling peace~makers. Oor by shOoW ing by example what. it. meant tc be a Chljstian, with always a demand lOor much pat.ience. vVe still have not as many Bible women as we pould us.e, but we find ourselves in the lJrecarious position of having more Bible women -ready to wCl'k, than our apP'I'opriations will suppo!"t! \Ve du so hope our good American II iends will eome to our rescue, for as our pl"ayer for laborers fOJ' the harvest has iheen answered, we have faith to believe tha,t. the support lor t.hem will be provided from somewhere. On Shanhaikuan and Lan-hsien Districts we held winter Stat.ion Cla.ss€'8 of a month each. "lllost of the women who came were not Chrishans. Some of them were the! wives of ehurch mem hers, whf' hoped the da \'S of instruction would bring them to knOow Christ.. In lllo~t cases t.ha t very t.hing happened. In OIle plae.f:" every women in the class, who was not a Christian, joined the church at the clofie of the' month. On T'sunhua Dist.rict a sG.mmer c1ass is being conducted by one 01 our Peking' TJ'aining School studentis during her vaca t.ion. 'Ve hope that in the. £utule we may have! the funds to e:cable us t.O 'lise t.his yalua.hle method more widely. Our sPeK:ial mef'ltJng;; lor women in some t.wenty-five pla.ces havel vaI-ied from one to five days in length. Usually they have centered in a place, where we have a day school. However their influence has reached a wide'!' circle than we can measure. For inst.ance. in a call made on a church meID be-r in an outlying village,,' the usual throng of non-Christia.n neighbors t.:!l'owded in to hear and see,-mostJy to see. One of the men standing in the outer room was particularly impre6s ~l with the messa.ge as given by our young C'hinese assistant. Never had he' heard suc.h a thing- as this G06>'Pel, nor had he s€en an educated Chinese woman wh(, could talk like that.! When he heard there, vas to. be another lneeiinCl' in the church that night, he attendoo, and met the, pastor. r.> ElVent.ually he became a Christian, and whe'll a return series of meetings was 48 held in the place, his wife and children were among those who were "seelkers after t.he Light" The Gospel's a.ppe.al to another type of women came in our meetings h.eld in I..lanhsien city. Many of the wives of army officers now encamped there were daily att.endants. They seemed to welcome t,he diversion hom ~heir ceaseless gambling with "mah jonng-." They were very frank in their confession of sin in their lives, o·f consta,llt qua,rrels with their husbands and neighbors. They were so anxious to study fur their a.bout this God who had the P01VEiR to change, one's life. Accordingly in the church a Woman's Auxilliary was organized, to which anyone. could belong. It holds two meet ings a month, of which the one is a ~Ii~siona,ry Meet.. ing, the other has more of Bible study a,nd talks on what it means tol be a Christian. The attendance of t.heir fiftv mem- bers keeps up very well. v T'his year our touch with the "regions beyond" came when wei made the first visit to Ta-chang-tze, which is far north 'Jf t.he Great Wall rublout. twenty five miles from tha 1YIongolian bordelr. The new military road made the route more direct, hut somehO'w didn't tend to make any so.£ter the -~nlo-den saddlelS o,f the mules on whieh wei rode! ~-\s we pene tra,ted farther and farther into ihe mountains, tht>J army tele graph poles and wires along thf"; road seemed a friendly Ijnk with the eivilizatiO'Il we were, lea.ving il::ehind us. At the end or the third day, we lound ourselves in Manchu land,-with its countless rang'es of mountains, that were hetter forested than usual,.-with its people of. Sltrong physique and frank count.mLenee, and be'st of all,-its girls ALII.. "rITH UN BOUND FECET, BECAUSE, IT'S TiLE M,ANCHU CUSTOM. EoI' the first time in our lives in Ohina we didn't need to spend t.ime on anti-foolt-binding propaganda. vVe knew that, wometn's meetings had never been held in the place, but were little pre pUl'ed for the eager, hungry-heal·ted welco-me we received. vVhy they took us right in as 1£ wei belonged to the clan! We visjted one yillage called by outsiders the Jesus Village, be c~·use /}ver haH the inha;l:-itants are Christians. To go to church they have to walk over a lO'ng, high mountain p'ass, but t.hey considelr it nO' hindrance. The old mott.o , "Ad astra peT aspera" was much in my t.hought~ as I saw the hail'dness of their iives, for they soomed verily to be "reaching the stars thru hardships" The work of the Bible woman whO'm 49 we le,ft there, promises tv develop into a Sota tion Class TLext year, and perhap~ a, day school will some day be in this far thest northern out.post of Lanhsien dist.rict. With eageTness we look forw3l1"d to t.hel new yea,r, grat.eful £01' the loyal co-operation of our friends in America, heart ened by the faithflJness of our Chinese fellow-workers, and assutred that the "Lord of Hosts" is wlt.h us. PILGRIM AND CITY EVANGELISTIC WORK. :MARIE ADAMS IN CHARGE. WEI nerver were so. encour~ge~ ove1r the, C~ty and. Pilgrim work as we a,re: at thls hmel. The plan t() have the graduates of the Training School take a year or practice work under the supervision ()f the Training SchoOil has meant so much to the women, and i~ has done for the work what nothing else could have done. In p,hang-ing the ;\Voma.n's Hospital into a Training School builJing we turn€;d a part. of the old Training School building into a plant for Oity W OI'k. The old Chapel became a city chapel, and the two tiny class rooms hecame the hVIng quarters £01' these wume:Il. Last sprjng two women graduated from the school. Thls year they have had their year ad: practice work. At th.e same time! they have done a bit of class work jn the school and attended chapel each day. This has made them a part, of the schoo,l and heJped to hnk up the york a, bit beHer. E,ver since we opened the T'raning School we have longed to see a class for our e.hurch women. Our wo'men ca.n nevel' mE:an much in the advance of the Kjngdom a.s long ali thJey cannot re3d iheir Bihles. So that is the first thing we weont after this year. All year we have had this cllass three days a week and three hours each day. Beiing thus connected with the school it has kept the wOO"k very regular. Both semest.elr~ five of t.he Vlomen passed examinations, giving- them Training School credit. Of course more women than that. have studied. This semester we had twelve women, but some of" them were 50 not ready tor examination. If is no easy thing 'for womeu fort.y and fifty years old and who, have never studied befort;f t.,) do ~o,. 1 t has ibee-n a real joy to 'see these women carrying the-ir hymn Looks to eh11rch thes·e past few months--and taking a small paTt. III t,he chuT'ch c,ervice insteado·f just, "looking on." 1Ve hop€! in the next few years that' this work will f.,l'T'Ow unt.il t,ye·ry woman who com~ into the church can be a Bibl~ reading w('man. T'his was an unu~al year for t.he Pilt:,,nm work. There were more women In the tent this vear than ever 'before, hut it. was'nt the, numbers this year that made us so. happy, it was 1'a,th801' the attitude o-t those, who came. . One lady delayed he,r trip home a day that she might hear mo'l'e of the doct.rine. Ag'ain and a.gain as the' two nible ,\Vome'Ii prepared to come home in t.he evening- the Pilgrim WOlnen would heg or! them to stay longe,I' and tell them som.e more about the doct.rine·. The ~tudelllts of the fl.'raining SchoOol helped in the work and W'e never sa,w the,m 00· impre.ssed with the desire of these heathen women to hear thel Gospel as they were, this ye,aI'. While this work is ahsoluteily a sowing of seed with no chancei to know the, re,sult.s, we do not fear t.hat there are not big res-ults even tho we cannot. soo t.hem. We a.re convince'd that t.his plar. for t.he. graduates to take this yelar o,f practice work will send them out., t'\vice as well t.rained workers. To those of us who have· watched these two women this yelar, 1;hey seem to have developed aR much this year as the~ did two years in school. At the same time the' city work hf'.S a. e:hanf'e to develope ,vhich otherwise it would not. UNION BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WOMEN. GERTRUDE GILMAN. ON ellltering the room occupied by the members 6f the first cla.~s c.nron~a in the new J uniol' department (Ka()l teng grade,), onel would soo in the frout row, four graduates of the ThompsoI!. !IH1llorinl Training School in Cha.ngli, t,hen two pt'pils from Americ.:tn Board schools. "Next come happy~ f~ced Mrs. Rao, who wa'3 led to Christ by Mrs. Ho'bart. when 51. a pat.ient in the Sle'eper-Davis Hospital, and :Miss Lin bot.h warm-hearted members of the Chinese Chnstia.n Church. In the back row shining-faced M:rs. T'ien of the Ohina Inland Mission suggests a life in whom Christ dwells. Then come the wife of an Amexican Board worker, a Presbyt.erian young lady a.nd little Among the eighteen. graduates, fini~hing the former three year' s cour~ of study J WPTe t.wo Methodists from thel l\' ort.h Peking district, one from the South Peking dist.rict, one from Peking city and one from Shant.ung. In the two classes of the Senior depart.ment. numbering ten, one is the wife of a. Theologica! st.udent; another" was from Changli, having done: good work as a Bible womar. since her graduat.ion there. K early tVe;ry Sunday during the school year, gl'OUpS of our Methodi~t women have gone to some of the nine :Methodist' churc.hes in the city, whel'e they led large classes of children, small classes. of women 0'1' sat. down beside one woman and talked with heT 01' helped her read the Sunday Schoo·] lesson. All had a turn as pupils in a Hua Shih 8.S. dass where they could observe the effective methods used to interest W'o~en by one of our Gamewell school graduates, now in the Womans" College. These Sunday trips, together with B.ome visits to Oother missions and to Temple Fairs comprised the practical work 0.£ their course. At the: close of the term the majority o£ these pupils were appointed to work ill country plap.es dUJ·ing the Summer. There was one place where. sOome earnest women were "waiting for a t.eacher"; a.nother where "the people wanted to start a girls' sch.()(}l." Some have gone with older Bible women and, of course, there come some reports of m.el€ting ignorance, superstition and Indifference. 'r'he opening of school again in September will bring these wom(';n toirethe.r with t.heir various summer experiences. 52 It is hoped that. with new buildings already secured for increasing the: dormitn.ry space, the coming year may be one of r~al progress in the deyelopme1nt Gf women for Christian serVIce. EDNA TERRY BIBLE WOMAN'S TRAINING SCHOOL. 1LtRIE ADAMS IN CHARGE. IF we had the space of a ibook, instead of a pagel or two we might begin to tell of all the joy we have· had this yeoar in our new homt>~! So we are only going to touch some of the high feints of the year's work. The· first of t.hese high points was the dedication. After four and a haH months ()If heaTing the- hammer, "driving" the m€lll and watching all the details, what a joy it waS 10 ('pen thp dOtH'S to OUlr ±rif"nds who came .to h.elp US dedicaJe. Besides the1 Taian workers, the Bible women and Day School teachers from both of thE" distri;;ts were he~e since t.hey were in a conference at the time. Our Bishop Birney was wit.b us. How lnuch his preseillee a.dded to the day. As the last guest. departed aitelr t.he; drama (The Challenge of the Cross) on the lawn, jn the eY€'ning, we felt that the. Training School and Woman's work for Shantung' h!ld indeed launched out on better days. How we· would love to take you all Dye!, t.he lovely new building from the class rooms, the leal kitchen, the sick room to the children's bath room. Yes so·me folks told us that wEl could ne'\'e;r get. the motheTs to 'hathel t.heir bahies erv'ery day, and the first ihre:e morning'S as we heard the shreicks which ca.me from t.he said bath room we almost despaired. But we discovered it was ll't. any objection littIe Ohina had to a. bath, but an objelC:tion to lea.ying the bath i.ub whose acquainta.nce he had never made be£oTe. It has heen a. real pleasure this year to' wo~k out so many things we nevell' had ibeen ahle to before, because of c.J'amped quarters. The next high point was Christmas.. No, it was not be'ca'lse we received so much, hut hecause. we gave. The ladies of the Gener.:11 Board are running a splendid work roO'm whetre poor women can make a living. These wom'e'll have littl.e ill life, and this year the Training School women t.Tied to glye them a happy Christmas. It mE·ant lots OI hard work. It meant all the.' spare moments the last few weeks to make m-u.iJs out or calico the good A:me.l'iean frle'nds had sent. It meant that some of them had' to go tQthe kitchenalld help prerpaTe ilue meal we gave t.hose fifty wO'men. Aft.er the, paJi-y waS over some of them had to wash the dishes~ '\Yhen the drawing was dO'ne for each woman's "joh" it was a joy to see ho,w happy they were, eve'I! thO' the ones who were to gradua.t.e in the s'pring hail to go to the dish washing- while Somei 0'£ ithe women who had only this year co'me in, d'rew the cards which said RECE,PTTON COMMI'l'TE;E! Those "'lQrk Room women will long roonember that party. We showed them the Christ mas pictures with the st.ereop1-.ican. It was the first Christmas tree they had eve'r Sf'!e'll, and it will be many moons before they will ag'.1in have all t.he food they C"lUn eat. EveII' since we t.ook charge, of the Training School we have wished we coul d have a. special w(>~k of services at, Easter time. And till s ;yea.r we canied out our long d'elSired plan. All i,he women leaders ill rfaian jOlned us in the weeks service. This is one w~e.k in our Christian calend~ when we feel it is more for those who understand what Christiauty really ::neans. 1Ve hegan on Palm Sunday wii:h an ea,rly morDJng' prayer meeting led by the Pastor's wife. The room where we held. the ser"'ices was specially de{!orat€-d, and all that we could remove from the room whi(·h spoke of class work we took away. We followed the Biblical acnount for eaeh day of Pa~sion ·Week in chapel sernce, with a specia.l leader. On F.!"jday afternoon we dismissed our classes at 3: 15 and the Pastor came in to help us in'. t.he Communion I'ervlee. We :firsi hail the pictures of Passion week in col'relation with ~l'ipture, hymn, ,"lnd verse-. No one .knows the fuE 'value of pictures well used. These pieiuref:) brought us up to the Communion service in a wonderful spil'jt, of reverence: and thoughtfll'lne-ss~ In China where quiet is so ha,rd to get, t.he freedom of the hqur from any disturbances was a real benidi(>tion..\fany of 54 the women told us afte:rwards that the,y Ileve]' knew a Com munion service could he sueh a hlessillg' as that. o.ne waS. Early East.er morning when we had the last sel'viee of t.he week, the joyful tone o.f their prayEtS Ehowed that the week had meant much to the women. We hopei to m~kE:. t.hjs week a real blessing to the women evelry year. And no.w for -the :a!",t high point 0.£ the year. Of COUI'se i~i was the CIom..mencement. It waS joint, with the boys and the girls. We' had three splendid gl'aduates this year. Two 'or these are Preacher's wives. The que wHI come baC'k for the year of ptI'actice work this fall. Whilt,: we ICHnnot require the preaJJher's wlyeS to take this extr3, yeaI we w'isn ihey might all do 1'0. Hui this one: women having no. children is fr-ee to co.me ha.("k. The other is the 'Wife of a traveling pre'ache'}'. She expects to go right out, with hell' husband and work among the women She is the stronget:iL woman in €'!Very way we have ever graduated, J.nd wi".> know that .much will bE'" donp. for the Ring-dOom t.hru her. The two wOtnten who gTaduated last spr1ng and ha:ve heen doin~ theh pradic€ work thjs year will bE' appointed aR rej~'ula'!" HihlevVclIl1en this Conference t.ime. T'hey go oui" we fe;el, twjce aR wPill prepared for having this extra yea:r. This first. yenr In the new nome has been so full of joy, a.nd really big things. and we hope }t ha.s only been fl fo.rel runneT of the maliY year.:; of service to come. THOMPSON BIBLE TnAINING SCHfJOL, CRANGLI. BTRDICE E. I.!A"\VRENCE, PRINCIPAL. MRS. EISTIIFR CHOU, Ass. PRIKCIPAL. WHE~ ,ttfiel" ":>;everal years of stri~i~g tow~ the goal of ra,Islng ThompsOon schoo,l to Hlgner Pnma.ry ;;rade, It was finally decided to take all o.f the highe.r primary pupIls to Peking Union school} it seemed lIt some ways a ~tep l>ack ward. But at tJle' close or the first year ()f this experiment., we are quite c.onvince-rl that we are still moving- Iorwa.rd. Of the class of twelve. whom we sent up to Peking last fall, at least pight will probably contilll:;e ~I!d complete the Union 55· school course. The l'e.maining classes have been able· to do much better work thir. year because we we·re able to kee.f. all school activities within their range. Since my first i-n1..roducttion to Thom.pson school four years ago, I have been thinking OIl one. proble:m. To give ~omen who had very little means SOlle opportunity of working w·hilc they were in 8chool, so thal our schoQolarships would t.ake cal'e of more women, and keep up with the increasing CQost of livlng. Our experiment with Ohangli N eedle'CraIt th.is year bas 'been an attempt to solve that problem. In the attempt to mta.ke an attractive layette to place on the narket eitheT llele or in the homeland, we have heen grea.t.ly indebted Ito Mrs. Wnly Oongdon for unstinted time in teaching the wooher and planning all theo details. We fell we had a good star·t in this project when we secured Mrs. Li, ~,n experienced nep-dle woman; and hooause of her dependable supervision we ha.... e needed tv spend very little tim.e jn the work-room. Without these two it would have been quite an impvs8ible underla.kIng. And whatever success may yet c()ome from the veonture WIll be due largely to their combined effOl1:S. Our most visible eause 1m' ]'~jQoicing is l\f course the! splen_ did n9W addition which has been built, f,h ing us two large class-rooms., a. study or office for t.he Principle, a bed-rooDl suite, and dispensary, oooliroom, I:)torerooru, etc. We are indebted for t.he sUpeTVision of this building to Miss Clara Pearl Dyer.; who has spent many weary huurs wIth the ear penter on top of her OWIl job. We are all; plupils and teachers alike, very grateful fQor this much-need·~"d equipment. And. we ~pe and pray that ,ve may meas,ure u.p to REPORT OF THE SLEE,PER DAVIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. STAFF MEMBERS. Emma E. Ma.rtin, ~1.D. 6 mos.}'l'ances J. Heath, M.D. 7 mDS. Minnie Stryker, M.D. 9 moS. Oona M . .R.ohbins, M.D. 1 mo. Lydia L. Scha,um, M.D. (sick lea.ve). Alice ~l. Powell, R.~. Frances R. Wilson, R.N. Elizaheth Ca,rlyle, ILN. THE work of the Sleeper Da,vis Hospital this past year has of llecessity been curtailed. The number of in-pa,tients, howe!Vea-, was ninetY-Ri::x more; than for the year prevIous; and we wer'e surprised to discover, "hen making up the annual statistics, that there ba.d boon Et.tle vr no falling oft in the number of out calls. In the dispensary, the numiber Q1f lJulieub ,vas less by s.eyeral thousand. N ever in the, histO'ry Q1f the institution has so. much ill ness occurred among the members of the fo'reign staff, and never have so m~lny d 59 on both sides o-f the Pacific, we believe, will be glad tOo uf:;sist in this ref~rnishing. We wiSh to thank the staff o,f Hopkins Memo,rial Hospit.a.l for their cooperation and help. Dr. Smith has sent to our wards and private rooms a sha.re of his eye patient.s, and has himself operated UPOll and ~.ared for these pabents. Dr. RaO' has ooem. our cO'nsultant for ear, nose, and throat cases, and the hearing O',f a number of chjldrem has been saved by his timely skill a.s an opwat.or. T'o Dr. George· Lowry we arel deeply indebted for consenting t.o do our majO"r surgery during A}-r11, Ma.y, Jun.e, and .Tuly or a.fter thel death ()!f Dr. R6,bl1ins. Dr. Lowry has visit.ed O'ur surgical department every other day, and ha.s put in IO'ng hours perfo·rming- difficult (J,perations. Religious work in t.he elinic waiting roO'm and in: the hospital wards has beell efficiently ca.n'i~d ou by lIrs. Hobnrt a.nd our belove,d Bible-woman. lfrs. Rao. In the t·lillie this ig of necessity merely sO'wing seed, nOit knolWing 'Which s:hall prosper. The me,thods used ha,ve been e1xplaining a Ye"!'~e' of Scripture, telling a Bible, story. reading and distributing tracts, singing songs OJ- showing pictures. It is oft.en pos sible to be of use to patients in sman ways, varying frO'm lending a little mO'ney t 60 ISABELLA FISHEQ HOSPITAL. STAFF MEMBER~. DR. VIOLA J"'ANTZ, ElVA A. GREGG, R.N. DR. LAUllA. YANG, LoRA, 1. BATTIN, R.N. RUTH M. C'ALDWEI.L, BtlSine$.Y Manager. TiREI OIut· standing feature of the Medical work this ye·ar· is! the fact that our woTk has more than doubled in some} lwanches 'lver that of fonner years. Our 'Out ~alls· have. douhlea. Our obstetrical wOTk has more than dOll bled. We have hall an increase of 849 :first calls of clinic <;ases, an increase of 132 hospital patients. Our g-reateY(. needs are a nur8e home and another doctor. SCHO'OL .OF NUnSING ISABEI4L_t\ FISHE~ H·O'SPITAL TIENTSIN. LOIt.A BATTIN IN CHARGE. THEI sch,:wl of nursing has ha.d sixtf:'en pupils this year ~nd it \YRS only because S,IX of t.his number were in 'PekIng, 'at .the SleepeI~ Davis Hosp)tal School of Nursing untIl this J r .. ne, tha,t we had room for them all. The cla.ss entered last faU is e.spe1c!ially interelsting becaUSe it is ihe first claSS! from whom we' have asked tuit,10!1. Four. out of a class of six, paid theirs. The other t.wo were given SCholarship. The dass of HJ23 wished ro beJp a bit. toward the nurses home whIch we SoO badly need and at Chinese New Y e~ time gave a. play. It was r~a lly qUIte an Ullae!-ta,h,;n.g for six girls\ but with considerable assistance from the faculty and students of Hui Wen, they made of it quite a SucceSS. They cleared $300. The graduJatio'll. program waS a bttle diffeJ'ent this year. A platform was built in the hospita1 ccmrt and a matting shed was put up. l"'he graduatIon class p:re!pared Scenes from the· "History of NUI'sjng- and wIth the help of the other student nurses presented them toO take the place of au address. Th!is was followed with a regular gradua.tion p,rogram with the ommission 0'£ the usual addreRs. Graduation day was on May 12, Flore'nces Nightengale's hirthday which, wheTS ever there: are nurses, is re(;ugnised as R05pital day. Two of thIs 61 graduatil;lg class of four had ,passed the N a.honal li:xamll1a tions with special honors. The day after gTaduation. a meetIng {,f all the graduate,:; was called and an alumnae asSociatlC-'ll waS formed. ThIS assocIation we feel, will be ablE'! to help the' nurses' 8chool, the hospital and more than either, the nurseS thernse,lvef,. SLEEPER DAVIS HOSPITi\.L SCHOOL OF NURSING, PEKING. ALICE .M. POWEJ.L IN CII.A]~GE. TH~' £ailu~6 of the cjty government to get. the electl'i~. ~rs In on tIme made It uecessa,rv for us to dIssolve our U nlOIi. Training School. ,\VIe are no i'nore a union school, as the distance between the Presbyt~rian and ~ret.hodist Ml~sions is too great for ou'I' ever-incren,sIng number of students to do· any work. togethe,r. This last vear we have had enr.alled in our ntW School oJ Nursing fo;ty-six students. The sehool year was a busy one. The. class room WOlk has been heavy, and some attempt has been made to do a little, pub.li(~ health work. in the shape of health polay!'ll given in the Y. lL C. it., Y. "T O. A., and city c.hapels. Factories were visit~d a.nd Sfl 62' instItutional wOlJ."kers-six nurses urgently needed in far west.ern. Szechua,n, fiv~ in Shansi to the nOI't.h, four in Shan tung-to sa,y not.hing of the constant demand fOil' helpmeets for preachers and doctors. W €I wish we could answer them all. TAIANFU INDUSTRIAL WORK. FRANCES TAFT PYKE, ChaiT'man. IN J anU!ll'Y 1923, the married ladies of Q1U:: Tfi.inanfu 8tation orga.nized thellls€!llves intol a commrittoo to open and run industrial work for t,he. poor WOlllen or the city and environs. We sta,rted wit.h four wQlmen and nolW ha.ve ·O'ver eiglity. A majorit,y of the WOlDen aI'e widows or' have been deserted by their husbands and ha.ve a family OI childr'en to support. Som,e have invalid husbands on their hands. One. woman's hushand was wounded in. a fight with thel bandits. .A.. nQlther's has been sent. t.o prison with a. sentence Q1f six yen,rs, sO' she must. take ca,I'e of herself meant.ime. Amo'ng -thel first women who came to us were a, mother and daughter, who we;re on the/ir wa~ back to their villag-e but were held up helJ.'"e on a.ccount of ba,ndits O'n the rO'ad. Their mOiney had given out. a,nd it was a God-send tOo them to. ha,ve a, place to which they could go and ~aJ'n mOiney. The daughter has sta,yed on as one of our a,ssista,rits. At t.he begin_ ning WOITh€1D. came in from miles a.wa;y, fO'r the after-effects of the famine are still an arQlund us. As we ~~.n to be swamped with applicants, we ha,d to set some limit.s and one t.ha,t seemed possible was the· geogra.phical oone. SOo now we do nOot. take in any women whose: homes aJ."So too raJ." awav to be invest.igated and constantly visited. ~ Most. Chinese: women know how to applique. SOl they began with that. kind of wo~k. Then:we taught them hOlw tOo make ·children.s' dresses and rQlmp~lrs' and ho.w t.o croehe,t. We .realiz ed that a,bout. the most. import,ant conside-Tattion in o.pening indu.strial work was the ma.rke~.. so we t 63 Ail during the year r we have had 1:0 USe one end of our 'church building for t.he work room; and t.he da,y school, that haa beelIl established fOil" t.he children of the workers, is in the church basement.. Weno'W ha;ve a proper place for the :women to 'Work in, well-lighted and provided with :tables and benches of the right height. This -building has -nine room.s, four of which are work roo'ms, one ~ cutting and prep'aring room, with store room. attached, one a rest and lunch room, (;ne aiD office, 0000 al laundry, and the las.t a. furnace rOOlm and kitchen. The women bring t.heir noon m~J, which usually cotllRists or a piece or two of a dry kind of bread, or a sweet po~., so we provide somet.hing hot to gOo wit.h it. Having this Ilew, con venient building will gl'ea,tly simplify the work and we waJlt e.specially to' thaiIlk thosel -who made it potSsihle. Every womanent.ering the work understands tha,t, she is to have an hour a, day Oof ihstructio1l, in t,he' Bible a.nd in. ] N\rn ing to read the Pho~etic or thel Th{)IUsand Character I:.e13 de7'S. Some have made remarkable progress and can now read the Bible themsellves. All ihe teaching so far has been done by our committee -it~1f ·a.ss]st€ld bv the wives of some of our Chmese preachers and teachell"S,' but th~s summer ~ e had the help of two of the Bible wronen from the' Bible, W{)llliell'~ Train ing School. 1Ve hired a special teacher with 1.orma.} training: for tl;}.e childrtm's da:y sehool, which takes in b{)lth l-.oys and girls of the workers up to a. ceri-a,in age, when they ("~ll enteT our regular schools. 'Ve are so ha.ppy that through these efforts some have found comfort and hope, as they have come t.o undeTStand the Gospel story; Counting botb the - ,"'':nmen and their children 38 naV't! become. Christians and joined the church, 28 on probation and 10 baptized into full Ulembership. Last fall we l'oorganized t.he cOlllmitte-e, adding several Chin€Se WOOllen, wives of {)Iur local Christian workers, v,'h(l have made valuable, contributions to the vl)rk. Wei also dhided the. laJ.~ge c{)immitt.e~ into two sub-committee-:;. Olie t.o manage the work a.rid the other the welfare of the womenr The work of the latter has dev~loped most iI,teres-tingly.. A.l! a'PP}1cat:ons Inust 'come to this sub-committee, and ~n in vcs1iga,tio.n.s of hOimel conditiOllB are made by i1,' before a wornen can enter. This committee th~ BeaB fpI the m.edicaJ examiua tien, when special attent.ion is paid to.eye a.nd skin conditions. The children of thel women are then cared fo.r, those of school 64 age beling seln! tQi our litt.le day school and the bahies to a day nursery provided fOIl' the,m nearby. Therea.fter this uommittee continues to keep in. touch with their homes through calling and through {)['ganizing Sunda,y mootings in differe:nt ~nters. Fo-r the· hene,fit 0 1£ those who, need treatment t.here' is a daily din ie" and t.hose who need special atten.t.ion are sent to the hospital. This. past ye!ar we ha,ve had two seTious operations amtOng the wQlme·n. The calling in their homes is one or the most worthwhile pa.rts of t.h~ whQile work. That. is where we .get. close to them a.ri.d where, they ope'n the:ir heart.s to us. One' of Qiur best work ers conles from a hOlme, whe·re the heddi/ng was nOlthing hut lUIllps of ragged cotton, darkened to match the hue· of all the I'Cst of the WTeotched room!. She, told us that she had h?,1 seven daughters but two had died, and from .the wa.y she pu~ it, it seemed that shei had just let one die w.hen she was sick, }li-"Caus.e there was not e.nough to go around anywa.y, and t.hey could not support. her. She said, "1 used to cry and c,ry, io.r the,re seemed to he: no hope :for TIlf without sons, hut when I entered t.he workI'oom, I felt. i.hat I had reached heaven and everyt.hing has. be~1Il so differen t since. Of course I cannot remember all tha.t you halve bee.n teaching mel, but I knOlW nnw that 'it isn't right to lose my temper and revile and bea,t up t.he children, SOo I am pat.ient with tohem norw." Now, a year lalter, she is a baptized Christian and one of her da,~hters is a probationer, and they ha.ve, ewe-ning prayers in their home. The difference in temper and conduct of severa.l Oof our women has ooelll.. the subject of comment by t.heir neiO"hoo(l"s and a witness to the pOlwer of Christ. b . We! feel that, this work is eminently worthwhile, -beca.use ~t no~ o~l~ helps t.~e .few women who act.ually come t.o us, but :t a181} 'opellil tht; hearts of the people of our citv to us all(l h ~r messa.g~, for t.he.y can undetrstand a. practi~al dem.onstI'aI bOon of the love of Chri'st bet,ter than any ot.her. 65 THE SCHOO'L HYGIENE DEPARTME:NT OF THE CO·UNCIL ON HEALTH EDUCATION, SHANGHAI. IVA M. ~bLLER, M.D., C.P.H. DURING the m~tin? o~ the General Exec'?tive in H8:ltimore 1922, a,t the' InvIt.ation od: the. ~ecut'lve CommIttee of the CQlUD.cil om, Health Education, I was appoint.ed to give' full time for three years to health work undeT the' direction Oof the Council. Afte·r spending th~ school year in thel Johns Hopkins School of Hygieme. and Public.: Health, three months in the Medical Depart-meant of the Boa.rd of Foreign M1ssions in NEw York and one month in, thel ReseaJ'ch La.bo1ra,tol"ies of the Boa;rd of Health of the City of N erw York, I n~.turned from furlough last N OlVember to find that· the Council wished me to re·main in Shanghai long eIIl.QfU.gh to acquaint myself with the litera ture, wo~kers a,nd methods (}If working. At t.ha.t time, Dr. Woo of the School Hygiene Department was in nero o·f assisL ance, so I be.gan work in his depa;rtJll~nt. History of the Council. The Council on Health Educa.tion i~ first and fOTemotSt a missionary organizatiO!lli. I t was. started by a. missionary, is supported to a great extent. by missionary funds, staffed by n:issionary physicians and we hope may be much used by mis_ sionary organiza,ti{)llls to save the bodies as wen as the SQUls of China's youth. "\VhelIl Dr.\\:". W Pe·ter came to China in 1912, he came to take cha.rge 0'£ a, hospitaJ, befc,re his lan guage study period was completed, he had a. viRion of the ~t benefit. prevent.ivel medicine might com,t.rihut.el to the Christian caUfe in China. While eura.tive medicine has /been the ent.€!cing wedge' for evangelistic and educational wo·rk. health education with improrv~ sanitarv conditions which has made such advances in our own cOlUnih.y during t.he past fifty years, seemed to him to be the logical aid to. the' missionary cause. Thus through the efforts of the Y.M.O.A. t.he y W.O.A., th~ supporl of the, China, Medical Missiona.ry As sociation, with financial help from seve.ral mis.siotll boa.rd~ a.l1(l some special gi ft.s , t.he Council came into- being. Dr. Petter has conducW health campaigns in eVery large city in Ohina and his .name is well kn()lW1l throoghout the land. 66 staff. At present the staff is made up of sevenPhys~ians, most of t.hem having' take'll at. least, one year of work In a schootl ()If public health in til€! U.S.A. Three oi us .ar? giving. full time and the other four, whO' ha:ve charge: of mISSIon hospIta,ls, are giving at least one' fourth or the,ir tim€! too School and Community Hygiene in their sta,tions. T'h~ personnel in Shanghai is as foHows: DirectDr-Dr. 'V 'vY'. Peter. School Hygiene Department--Dl'. S. Y. Woo. Dr. Iva lL lIilletr. Child Hygiene Departul€lnt--Act.ing Head Dr. Iva M. Miller. Chinose Literature Deparhnent-.Acting Head- Dr. S. :M:. Woo. Community lIygiene Department-unsU'pplield. AdIninisb'atiOlI De1)al'tmGnt~lfr. T. Y Chang. Business Depa.r't-mellt~Mr. T. T. Yie. Genell"al office staff is m.ade up of twelve clerks. Methods Used in the School Hygiene Work. Thel pla.n fOol' heginning work in the schools is as foUows : First Stage (a.) PhysicAlI e!Xa.mination of each student. (b) Sanitary survey of each schooL (c) N Oormal health dass instituted. (d) Impro'Ve-ment in school sanitation. Se{~ond Stage (a) Conectio.n of defeet.s. (b) Physica,l training. l 1hird Stagel (a.) Initiation of 8vst€ma.tic health in !'.truction. .- (b) Improve'me'llt in school sanitation. School Hygiene in Hanychow. In the aut.umn of 19~ tht=: Hang-chow Branch of t.he East China Christian E,dueational Asso<:.ia.tion invit.ed t.he C{)1Ul cil to' begin t.his new health pl'ogram for schools in Hang cho-w. So Dr. \Voo went thel'e in September and ·with t.he h€,lp of loca,} physic~aJ1s, ga,ve physical e!Xamina,t.iOlns to· their 2,000 student.s, most of them in pl'ima.ry schools. Many physical defects we·re found, hut Tracho-ma was the most· out... 67 standing one, 30% Qr the st.udents had it. The dQ.ctors in the oue missionholSpital we·re already overburdelIled wIth work 00 were una,ble to cope with the situa.t.ioal in the: schools unless the students eQuId attend t.he hospit.a1 clini13. Many were so :far from the hospit.al that. only a. sm;lll numoorr a:va,ile·r1 themselves of this opp01·tuni~y. T'wo Chinese doctors in private pract.ice volunteered tiQ t.rea.t.the cases in two 0'1 the day schocls but the U ni.on Girls' School with 400 st.udents, from Kinder~arten through Middle SchoOll, had no medical aid. So when the Principal and teachers invited me- to' do, t.heir follow-up work and hellp to elimina,te: t.rachoma. from their school, I accepted fhe offer. Work was started Dece,mber 28 and ended June 14: with the exception of t.he N €!\V Year vaca tion when t.he students. were away. Our C. H. E. He1a]t."h TJnit, made up of Oone M.D. a. Ohinese nurse·., a, dent,alliygienist (man) and a cle·rk held clinics for teachers and students :wit.h more than 1,000 treatments a month while the de-ntal hygienist cleaned the teeth of 250-300 siu<1ent.s. Typhoid inoculat,ions were given. to se-veral and some 200 students W€T'e vaccina,ted. l'he Prima.ry teachers had pledged t.hemselv{l:s tOt teach Health Habits to t.heir students whne t.he: Middle School teachers promised to use the'm a!' sUllplementary in t.heir Phy siology cla~. T'he Health Class forr Primary teache~s wat-: held once a week and spe'(:lal lecture's, some of them moving, piot.ures, were given to the student hody on Friday everungs. One lecturEli wit.h demonst.ratiOO1S wa,s giv@. to the school ser vants. In addition, I spoke' ;l:t. the Chapel service, to thel mothers of the Kinderga~ten and Primary st.udents and a,to two meetings for students at the local Y.)Y.C.A . .A sanitary survey of thEi! buildings a.nd (;ompound was made. A case of typhoid ha.d occurred in t.he. schooll just. previou8 to our arrival a,nd the water supply was suspected. Samples were· taken from the cistern and the fift~ foot surface well and sent to the Shanghai La,bOl'a.toI"Y. Ana.lysis showed the c.istern to' be safe but. the WElill was grossly pf}llut.ed, At the beginning 00 the third month, with the, addition ofa Chin~ woman physician to ort1I' Unit., we weJre arbia to start health work in thr~ other prima.ry schools. We agroolll to give hea.lth elXamina.tiOons to their new students and trachoona. treatments to all whu requiItd it, provided the teac;her would 68 :attend our Healt.h Class regularly, and spend at least thirty minutes a week ilL imparting' health teaching' to. their s.tudents . .A sanitary sUl'vey was made of each school and in more than .Some Results . . The result of this wO'l'k with 500 st.udent.s was quite satis !factory; 75% of the tTac:,hoona caSes were cured and the other :25% grea.tly iniprO'V('lId; some of the other defects were co.r reeted. A word of erxplanalt.ion in regard to the, high per-C(:l}] t - :alge {)If cured cases of t.rachoma" will sa;y t.ha,t mOire than one half of thelsel eases were kinde,l'g'arten and primary studem.ts ·whO' ha.d very mild infections. As t·reat.ment was made· com -pulso-ry by t.he principal, we had better control a.nd mOire favorable cases t.han co-uld be found in almost any other grou.p in China. Also, they may he' only t.empo'rary cures as wei fear t.he inst.ruction to keep e-very thing tha,t. is not, surgically clean out of the eyes has not y~t. b~ome automa,t.ic with the-m. In -the beginning nOtt morel thall 15% of t.he studelnts owned tooth brushee., ?t the end 98% owned and used them. OneenteI"-l prising t,eacher opened a batill. room a.t his Q1wn home fo.r his studentls and weekly bathing was added to the curriculum. The ehildre-n e,n:jo~e:d the classes SOl mu.ch that the Health Con -science ()if the school~ was aJ.·ouse:d which we' hO'~ ma,y extend to eve'ry hom.el represe,nt.ed. :M:any of them proved that. jll this la.nd of "GREAT' EXPECTORATION" He1alth Hahit -4'1 do not spit" ca.n be kept. For the coming yetiI' the Union Girls' School has. se(mred the 'lervices od: a Chinese woman physician and also a, nurS€I, so we- anticipate a, great reductiOin in tr~choma, incidencel wi t.h a high pereenta.ge {)If cOITection of oth~r defects. 'Lecture to Association of Primary Teachers. Just, beforel the close of my stay in HangchQlw I wag asked to speak a,t, t.hel hj-monthly meet.ing O[ t.he Christian Primary 'Tea,chers Associa.tion which wa,g ma.d~ up of the t.eachers fro'm the eighte€lll. mission schools in the city. They a.&ked me to visit each Otf thelir schools to a,dvise, them, hut, as the: end of the school yeacr was n~cr. t.he health te'a.ohing would halve to be dela.yed until autumn. 69 Dental Hygienist. Il1 February while in Peking, I was asked to' speak .to t.he nurs~s in training at. the Sleepe(l' Da,vis and the P.U.1tLC. HospitaJs, to tdl th~ a,bout my work in H;l.D.gchow and to a.sk for vOllunteel'S fQlr help in this wo'rk. One young man who was taking Postgraduate work in the P.D.M.C. said he' would he very glad to take up t.he' work, so after t.alking with him. he dee-ided to' take training to hecom~ a d€lntal hygienist. A China Medical Board s<.:,holarship was secured for him and after six mont.h~, t.raining l1nder Dr&. Anderson and Wang,. he is rea.dy to clean t,he t€-€th of the student.s in what.eve!1' school the U ni t begins wQlrk this fall. The Chihli~S'hansi Educational Association. The Ohihli-Sha.nsi Christ.ian Educat.ional Associa,t.ion is· unique; in t.ha.t it. has had the t€13.ching of Hygiene in its cur riculum fOIl' three yea,rs. I was invit.ed to speak at their annual meet.ing in Peking; aft€l1' which they asked me to give· a· COUIIW' in Health Education in each of thelir six Institutes fo~ Primary Teach€Ts to bel givetll in t.he summer. Only twO' of them ma,terialized, on.e at Ch'angli and the Q1t.her a.t Pa.o tingfu. At the fcurmer J3{} teache,rs, mem a,nd women weTe' present and at th~ la,tte!I" 25. Before t.hey were asked to te'uch health, it. waB thought best to give each one a. health examina, 't.ion, so t.hat he might know the physical status of his own body and if defects werel present, learn how to OtveT'co'me, t.hem in order to. bel an example of pooitive: health t.o' the st.udents.. Of the 100 'womell teachers examined the finding wel'e as fol lows: Ages ranging from 17-38 yeaJ's. 30% had Tl'aehoma -44% errors of refraction. 99% needed tee,th cleaned 34% had €l1lla,rge,d thyroid~ 15% pyorrhoea -·--15% infected tonsils. 46% were froill 10-35 Ibs. belmv normal weight. fOlr height and age. 100% kn~ nothing about a, balanced diet. Lanhsien District Preac,hers Conference. Physical exa,mina,tion of the 27 preachers attending showed: 70 Ages from 20-76 years. 50% had en'ors of refraction. 99% needed te€th cleaned. 7% had trachoma. 21 % defective hearing. 3 % high hlood pressure. 3'"% lesions in both lungs. 82% be,low normal welight. for age and height. After a talk on Health ha.bits they discussed H.H. NOI. 7 and a. resolution was passed that each pastol' would exhort his pa.rishioners to. try to' keep tha,t one. ai:. least. As cuspidors we'Te not in universal usel in theci.r c.hurches each ma.n promised to see tha,t his orwn wa.s supplied with at least one spittoon! Conclusion. In the' lignt of the.se findings, does it not. seeJm wise to put forth every effort to: have the Kinde'rga.rten a.nd Primary students examin£ld when they ente·r school and if defeds are found, urge t.he parents to have them corrected so tha,t when the~ reJach Middle, School and CoHege their increased efficiency in he·alth a,nd schola.rship may fully justify the iilItel aLd energy e,xpended on t.he·m? With hearty co-opetration between the teache·rs and medical workers, can we' not in a. few years, open our schools only to those students who, are able to pass a healt.h examina.tion. as wen as t.hose· who p-a,ss the mental intelligence tests? 'W'hil~1 working fOol' the, health of our students the r:! ission aries should not be fo'rgotten. Surely the time has come when ervery missional'y~hould .ha:ve a. through physical examin.ation oncel a. ye·a.r, Vi~hich, with the advic~ necessary and ahund a·nce 0 1£ health litera,t.ure, now a,vailahle, should greatly increase the, physicaJ efficiency of our missionary body. Let us _practie~ what we preDch. Shall we not strive for healthier, ha.ppier and hetter Christ.ian workers in China? ·71 APPOINTMENTS. Council 'on f' ublic Health Education Representative ...... IvA M. }IILLER, M,.D. Peking U nive:i·sity~CoUege of Arts and. Sciences for Women IuEiructol's.,...... ~ ...... ELIZABETH HOBART C·AMILLA. MILLS RuTH STA.HT, Union Training School for Bible Women ...... GERTRUDE Gi:LMAN Mary Porter Game,vell School and EJementa:ry Schools Principal ...... ~ ...... MyRA. JAQUET English Department ~~~ ...... DORA C. FEARON Mathematical Department ... LoUISE HOBART Normal Department ...... : .. MARY WATROUS. ,.u Instructors ... ~ ...... ·...... EIVELYN B. KRAUSE t 'i!!!~ - (pa.rt time) ~;1tt'! < YANG KUEI LAN TIRZAH StrAHL Superintendent of District Primary Schools ...... Lo[)ISE HOBART N ankou School ...... KE Wu K UEI Yu Superintendent at Kindmvgartens. ELIZABETH HOBART Assistant ...... CtH'EN HSIU J UNG Clity Eva.ngelistic Work ...... MRs. OHARI.OTTE M. JEWELL P" ANG OHENG Su Y ING . District Eva.ngelistic Work ...... :UONONA OHENEY Assistant ...... Ts' AO TE CHEN ;W and district ...... 0 ...... BMMA MI. KNOX School of Nursing Superintendent .. 0 ...... 0 ... 0 .. ALICE M. POWELL 72 Instructors ...... MINNIE STRYKER, M.D. . FRANCES R .. WILSON, R.N. RUTH M. DANNER, R.N. E·LIZABETH M. CARLYLE, R.N. t "';l,,~ tI~ •• Sleeper Davis Hospitai Superintendent ...... FRANCES R,. WILSON, R.N. Treasol'er ...... ~.~.RUTH M. DAm'ER Physicians ...... :M:INNIE STRYKER, M.D. OIJARA B. WHITMORE, M.D. . . (part nine) TIENTSIN DISTRICT. Keen School and Elermentarj:' SchoolS' Acting Prinrcipal ...... IDA F FRANTZ Vice Principal ...... ·.,rOYCEV\il..U.KER J nst.ructors ...... LYRA BAHRENBURG (until Feb. 1925) RILLA SCHER] CH .' (half time nfter Jan. 1925) Supervisor of Elementary SchaolsRrrH p, NUZ1!M Supervisor of Kindergartens ...... EDITH SHUFEI,T City Eyang'e]j~tic \y Ol·k ...... 1.J:LI.IAN HALFPE~:KY . ~ '1,:1 LI H TIl CHIEH .H~I~H.:W"ANG WEN KUEI District Evangelistic and Educational Work ...... LILLH.N HALFPEN~-Y Isal)ella Fisher Hospital Superintendent ...... :::.... EVA A. 'GREGG, R.N. Physicians ...... ' ...... "VIOLA L.HffZ, M.D. L!AUIL-t YANG, M.D. Isabella Fisher Hospital School of Nursing:- Sup€l'intendent ...... LoRA I. BATTIN lnstructors ...... ' ...... VIOLA LANTZ, M.D. . . '. '~"I,'AURA Y. .\.NG, M.D. EVA A. GRE,GG, R.N. Station Treasurer & Instructor... Rl.?l'H CAl.DWELL TSINANFU. Shantung· Qhristian U lliv€rsity Medical School Instructors ...... : ...... F.RANcES J. ,HEATH, M.D. ~JULI.\ lIORGAN, M.D. T'AIAN AND YENCHOU DISTRICTS. Maria Brown Davis School Principal ...... E,FFIE G. YOUNG Vice Principal ...... ElLSIE L. KNAPP N orm.al Department and City (Ta'ian) Element.ary schools ...... NORA lL DILLENl!ECK District ,Elementary Schools ...... E'DITH P' ANG Dist.ric,t E·vang€'listic Work ... , .. LII~ T.IAN P GREER D~ble Training School and T"aian Cit.y Evangelistic Work ...... MARIE ADAliS TSUNHUA DISTRICT. Evangelistic & Educationa.l Work CLARA PEART. DYER LANHSIEN DISTRICT. E,Yangelistic & ~Educat.iontll Work M'ABEI. R. NOWLIN 81HANHAIKUAN DISTRICT Changli Alderman :Memorial School, City Elementary School & Normal Department ...... PANSy PEARL GRIFFIN J nstructor ...... BIRDICE E. 1MWRENCE Thompson Memorial Training' School Principal .. " .. , . " ...... BUtDICE E. LAwRENCE Vice Principal ...... MRS. ESTHER CHOU City Evangelistic Work ...... HAO CHOU MEl TE MRS. }[AltK BROWN Shanhaikuan 'Primary Boarding School ... \VANG JUI FANG Evangelistic Work ...... MRS. YANG Ju ]'ANG Woman's :Medical Wlork .... CH'ING LIU L~ YING, M.D. District E'Vangelist~c and Educational Work ...... IRMA HIGHBAUGH STUDENTS· OF LANGUA·GE. R.illa Scherich J UI,IA IIORGAN , M.D. Minta Stahl Edlah Anderson 74 APPOINTMENTS OF BIBLE WO'MEN. PEKI NG' CITY DISTRICT l-IRs. YEH LIU MRS. PI CHOC LIEN CH'ING MRs. KAO Tu AI TE MRS. CHIA Su SHIH CHING iVIRs. Ruo OEnN MEl JUI MRS. YANG YANG lIRs. SUI KUAN Lu TE lilts. CliAO 'VEl Fu CHEN PEKING COUNTRY DISTRICT 1-1Rs. 'VANG LI TS'UNG HSTEN MRS. YANG WANG WEN CHEN lIRS. v\ ANG 1..1 :PO CRIA TIENTSIN DISTRICT ~1:RS. In: AI TE WANG KUEI P'ING MRS. J.o WAKG WEN Fu HSIAO WEN PAO CHI LI SHOU CHEN SHANHAIKUAN, LANHSIEN, AN D TSUNHUA DISTRICTS. MRS. CHANG Ia:u .TUI OH'UAN MRS. YANG HSIr YING ~IRS. YANG HUI Ju MRS. ].AU 'V\!tEN Gll' IN G MRS. 'VANG Lr KUEI FEN ~tRS. Lrli Yu LAN ~{RS. YANG SAl NA MRS. CH'U LAN YING lviRS. ':rUNG SHU HUA Mus. 1VANG CH'EN MRS. iWIANG SHU JUNG MRS. Ruo L[ !IRs. lvIA HSIAO RSIEN MRS. OHANG SHU HSIEN M.RS. MA SHU .T UNG MRS. Fu RHOlT HsrEN MRS. CHENG LAN HSIANG MRS. CHANG Lr MRS. WANG MALIA MRS. rfr TAIAN AN'D YENCHOU DISTRICTS. :MRS. "VANG WANG K'A LL~ MRS. HUANG SHU CH'EN lIRS. J.JO CHING CHEN MRS. }IENG CHIlt T'rNG Mns. YANG SHU KUEr 75 EDUCATIO'NAL APPOINJ.'MENTS O'F ASSOCIATE ME~IBEnS. PEKING DISTRICT. MARY I)ORTER 1YOl\IE,K '8 TRAINING GAl1:EWELL SCHOOL. SCHOOL YANG Y F LmN TSENG HAN FENG Yu eH'E TS'UI Cli'ING CHIA SHIH HANG Itl'~NG YUAN CHEN YANG RUEI HSIANG T'IEN I ..u 'IE liSIA 1-YEN Yu 1..1 CHUN YEN CHING CHAO DISTRICT LANG FANG\ BOARDING SOHOOL YIN CHEN CHU TIENTSIN DISTRICT. Kfftt.i;N SCHOOL WILSON SGHOOL CHANG .MEI TE H'Su KUEI Ju YANG CHAO Lv TE lIA Yu Pu 'Vu CHANG CH'UN CHn!:. t;~lj-T'l: M,EI TE 1.1 YUN LAN LI Yu }{ET, Assistant Supe'l'visof' of Pri111a,ry Schools . .AI YU SCHOOL SHENG HUA SOHOOL SIU Ho Tf-.:'.u Cn'ANG AI JIJNG LAN-HSIEN D,ISTRICT. J.JI Yu HSIANG TSUN HUA DISTRICT KENG \VEN IleA 7G SHAN HAl KUAN DISTRICT. ALDERMAN :SCHOOL 1..1 'l'S'Ul Yu W AN ~Il';r YUN P'ENG KUE! CHEN T'AI AN FU DISTRICT. :MARIA Bll0,VN SCHOOL ~lA K DEI L.\N KDO Yu I.JIEN LI H~nD YING CHANG Yu CH'ENG CHAO KUEI P'ING \Y.lNG HSIU YUAN E,DNA TE,RUX TR,AINING SCHOOL Hsu CHIN HSIAKG CHAO Yu CHEN Lr WANG RUEl P'rXG, ~4ss'ista.n.t Supe1'viso'l' of Pl'i11U17'Y School.'). 77 MINUTES OF NORTH CHINA WOMAN~S CONFERENCE, September 1924. FIRST SESSION-'YEDNESDAY SE;p1~E}IBER, 31'd. The 32nd session of the N ort.h China 'Yoman's ConfeI' ence was opened ()n "\Vednesday, S~pt.. 3rd, 1924, a.t 9.30 a .. m. by the Pl·o~ident. Miss Ida Frantz. T'he meeting was beg'ull with a hymn, '-'lforfi I..ove Thee 0 Ch'l'ist" and pra:vers h~' 'Vang Kw~,i P~ing and Miss Dyer. Ron Call. 21 activ,~ mem:bers and 17 associate members responded t()I th~ roll eal!. Greetings were e~tended to lIiss Irma Hi'ghba.u~h a.nd Dr. .Mill~ returned fro·m furlough, and tOo .Miss Julia Dona,field, our t~asurer from Shangha.i. Reports of Standing Committees.* Evangelistic Committee': .Mrs. J~i Hui Chieth gavel a· partial repo'rt which was accepted. The Educat.ional Committee r~port was given by ~{iss Louise Hobart. It was acc~ted. The Field Properrty Coonmit~ repo,rt was given by Yang Kuei Lan, ill which she told of the Training School Building at Ch'angli. It was approved. The Programme report given. by Miss Eliza.heth Hobal"t was approved. She suggested that. if there a,rel any sugges tions for t.he prog1'l;unme that. the new c0111miUee be notified. 'rhe Publication's Commit.tee, report was givetn by Ya.ng Kuei Lan and Miss Dora Fearon. A partial report of t.he Membership C01l1mittee was gl'ven by Miss Dye·l". The- list. nf new membea:-s was to bel read later. A report 0.£ the N ational Christi~n Council was given hy Mis~ Mable: Nowlin. The slogan of the COo\lncil is "China for Christ." The committee is composed of fifty m~n and fifty women to include ten Chine-se wOomen and ten fQtl·eigll *See Re'ports of Standing Committees Page.- 78 wO'meu. The twO' Woman's Foreign Missionary Society r~ presentatives a.re Missl lfahle Nowlin and Miss Wu. SpeciaJ emphasis is to be placed this yea.r Q1~ Ob..rist"ian home life. September ~8t.h has beeu set· a.sidei as a special Sunday for pI eaching and prayer aga,inst the opium evil. Prayer: That we, might. have more, power to win China fQlr Christ. New Business: Miss Wa,ng Kuer P'ing moved tha,t, a committee cQlmposed of the Misses Hsiao WOOl 1)30, Tsao T'e Chen, 'Vang Hsi'll Yuan, Yang Kuei IJall, Mrs. Ma!Tk BrOlwn, and ~fiss E,mma. Knooc as representa,tive of the Evangelistic Committee and ehairman be chosen to gather ma,terial for evangelist.ic me-etings and pro'grammlS. A committee was sot chosen and a,pprorved. The· Committee on AppoiIlltm~nt of C~Hnmittees was rea,d by the p,resident as {oHows: l'he Misses Dora Fearon~ R.uth Caldwell, Pansy Griffin, a.nd ~{arie Adams. Devotions. The Noon t.ide: pI'a'3~er was lead by Miss Wil son. rfhe me€lting wa.s clos.ed with prayer and sQlng. SECOND SESSJON-WE·DNESDAY 2.30 P.M. The second session of ther conIe-renee was ()'pened at two thirt.y with song and pra,yer. Th~ Chinese and English minut.e-s w€l1"e read and apPI'IO·ved. Reports of work.-A l"epmt of the l\ientsin W The fourth session of the cOinfere~ce was opemed with t.he song "Holy Ghost. With Light Divine;." Mrs. Krause, led in prayer. The Chinese and English minutes we~'e read and approved. Reports of Work. The report ()If the work in C'hangli was giVea:l in the form of a discussion led by Miss Dyer. 'l'he Eva.ngelistic ",V ork and th~ ])a~ Sc.hools on the' Lan' Hsien, Shan Ha,i Kuan, and Tsun Rna. Dist.ricts, Alderman School, anlI ThompS()n Tra.ining· School werre presented. : 80 The Changli male qua,l"t,ette rendered a special number. New Business: A m.otiom. was made t.hat as many ()If the (lId committee as are heret he retained to collect the retiremen.t :fund. Mrs.• T ewell gave a partial report of the funds colleeted to date. Reports of Committe~s.-A further :report olf the! EducaL.. tiona.l Commit.tee was given by Miss Louise! JIohart. T'h~ report was discussed but because' of lack of time it was moved that tihe Elducat.ional Committeel have a moot.ing to reframe the suggestjons ma,de a.nd report, laJter. Carried. The Commit.t~e' on Appoint.ment. of Committees read the following name~ to act on the new memhership oommittee. The ~E8ses Clara P Dyer, Wang liuea P'ing, Wang Jui Fang, Li Femg Ohao, Mary Watr()IUs, Effie Young, Lillian Greer. Devotions. The closing devotions were led by MT'S. Kao Bihle W Q1ma,n fQlr t.he Sle,eper Davis Hospital. FIFTH SESSION-F'RIDAY 2 P.M. The :fifth session of t.he' conference was o'pelned with a song and prayer by Mrs. Li. • The Chinese' a,nd English minute~ were read. and approved, Reports of wO·rk-Peking. Miss Ho read ihei reports fQlI' the Sle-epeq Davls Hospital and School of Nursing. The repo[l'ts of Gamewell, City Day Schools and Kinder garte'l1S were read hy Miss Yang Kuei Lan. Mrs. Chao roo.d thel report Q1f the Union Bible Training School. Miss· Knox had he,r women pre·sent aoo asked the' qu~stion : ""Vhy are. yQlu happy?" The reaBOns given: made up the re port of the Bible Woman's Training School. Wei we;re delighted wi.th a song by six Gamelwell S~hool Girls. New Business: Mis'S Jaquet read as a &uggestio.n. the foL lowing ammem.dment to the fourth Article of the Constitution.: Any active mE~IIl}Ib~r Q,f con,~erence whO! t.emporarily discon tinues her work for t.he mission for the- purpose of furt.her study shall remain a· member during :the time of study. Any active member of conference who t.emporarily discontinues herr. 81 work for ilie mission and enters o~th~r Christ.ian Work shall remain a member for two years. At. the €Ind of this lI:ime her membership ceaBeS unless sh~ ret,urns :to wOll"k in the confer ence. A motion was made tha,t we accept the amendment but no yot~ could be tak'en because t.h€ll'e was nOot a qUOlrum present. A motiO'll was ma.d~ and seconded that, the matter be laid on the tabl~' until th~ n,ext. sessiOin. Carned. Beca,~ of :the reports of committees :to com'e later Miss .1Vang Kuei-P'ing gave her report. on the Thousand Character CP'Df~ren;c~ at this time. QueBttions were asked and hel piul discussion followed. . Greetings were extended to' Miss Huth Danner and Miss l:va Gregg on t.heir retuIn frOim furlQough. The session closed with prayer. SIXTH SESSION-SATURDAY 9 P.:M:. The sixth sessiQon 01£ t.lle confell"en.ce opetlled wit.h a song and pra,yer by Yang Kuei Lang. The Ohinese and English nlinutes were read and approrvoo . Reports of Committees.*• The EducatiQonal Committee fur- ther reported ; We recommend that hig'h sohoo1 graduates who have given six yeal~ of continuous service in educational work may be gTanted a year for study wit.h full salary. This salary tOo be pa.id by the, departments whel!"€ sh~ has taught jn p,ro portion to th~ y~s of servic~. A moHon was madel that it. b~ accepted with this amend ment; T'hi~ is to be· granted wit!h :the understanding tha,t after the y~ Q1f study sh~, ~~ willing tOo return and to ~, appo\inted b~ the North China, Conference. Carried. The Ed uca,tiona,l Commit,tee further re.ported that: In case a student in deht, i.Q' ()l~1 school d~ires WI bel transfe(l'red to another schoul in the conference· she' shall not be, admitted unt.il the first school is willing to rele'ase h{!tl" from heT deht 01' postpone th~ paym~t Qof the same. .A motion was made that it be, accepted as read. Oarried. The amme,ndment. to the fourth a.rt,iclel 0.£ :t.he cQoll8titutio'll was read again. *See Reports of Standing Committees. .A mOot.ion was m,ade, t.hat it. be acce'pted as read. Ca,rried. There was a. further re'port nf the Evangelist.ic Commit.tee. I twas Ino,ved and seconded t.hat the report be accelpt~. CalT:ed. A eomplde l'eiport. of the R.e;i~rement Fund committee was given by ~fl'S. Jewell. J:>eking ...... 1,587 dollars Tientsin ...... 170 , , T'hre'e Eastern Districts ...... 100 Chillg Chao Dis.hiet ...... 75 " " Gift Oof 3, friend ...... : ...... 275 , , This anwunt added to t.he· amo,unt previously l'aised bl'ings the total to five' t.housand dollars ($5,000) Because tht: total a,mOonnt h3.d been raised we sa,ng thel dcxoJogy. New Business: It. was< In Devotions. Tlhe meE'~ing was closed with a song and pra.yer led b~ Mrs. Jewell. 83 SEVENTH SESSION-SAT'URDAY 2 P.M . .A t the sev~th S~SSiO()Il 0'£ th~ confere;n~1 a memorial ser vice was held lor Mjss Hu, Mrs. Li, Mrs. T'sui, Dr. R()Ihbins and Frances Gra~ HayelS. Wtoo-ds of appreciation were spoken about each. (ne for the lives t.hey had givt'n in Hi.s service. The service was closed with pra~er by Mrs. Hoba;r1:. New Business: A mot.i Miss Ca.:milla lIills gave a, ~pleru.did talk on. "The PeJ.'fect Christian Home in China.." A help·ful discussion followed. Miss Caldwell taught us a. ca,tchy Chinese sOong "Forward C'hrist.ian Soldie.rs" usable in school and Evangelistic Work. T'hElJ meeting was closed with prayer. EIGHTH SESSION-MONDAY 9 A.M. The eighth session of conference WaS opened with song and prayer at. 9.30 a,.m. Mrs. Hobart acte:d as President. Reports of Committees: ~['he report of the Membership. Committee was rood by Miss Dyer. She read t.he names of those coming int(}l lull membership. It. was morved and 8i~ond ed thai the: report bel accept«l. Can-ied. The Committee on Appointment. of Committees read the names for the nelw ~ta.nding commlittees. It :was moved and carne·d that the repp'ri. be accepted. '.rhe report. of Hie ResolutIons Commit.tee was l'ead by ~fiss 'firzah Stahl, and Wang J'ui Fan,g. It, was accept~. New Business: A motion was made tha·t an. assistant be elected f()1' t.he Chinese· Secret.aJ:Y. Can-ied. A motio·n was made. and ca,rried tha,t tho..~ who write fraternal letters should get suflicieint funds fO\f pape\f and postage from the treasure. A motion was ma.d~ that one hundred reports of t.he, C'hin_ e-se minutes he printed. Oa,Tried,. A motion was made that. the programme committ~e pre pal'e l'eg'lstrat.iolt hlUllk:, £01" l1e~t year t.o ta·ke- the place of theo roll call. Carried. 84 A motiO'n was ma.de t.hat ~{r8. Hohart ask Bishop Warne to lead a. conseeratioll sel'yiee for uS to' come whenetver co.nven ient. for him within the next t.wo da,ys. C~,rried. It was voted that we! invite Mr. Sa.nders of Shanghai to. 'Speak on Religious E,dueation. He talked of the wO'rk that. the Relig'ious Edu.cat.iOOl De... parlmet1lt of the National Christian Council is hying t9' dO' and invited our help and cOl- REPORT OF REFERENCE COMMiTTEE. Se'ptemher 12, 1924 a, comm:unicat.ion was J:eceived from the T" aian Fu St.-a tion asking' that, although there could be. no offwia,l W'.F.M.S. l'epreseuta,tion a,t thel East Asia Conference in FoocholW, th~ Nort.h China Conference! send Miss Orlha. I.Jane a.nd tha,t heT ~xpenses be paid from the profit. and loss a,CC{)Iun t of the, North China. Treasury. A vote Was taken through the! reierence eOlllmit.t~e, but, lost beca.us~ Miss Lane did not choose, toO gO! to Foochow. 'J..1he Educational Exe:cuf.i'e committee at its OctoJ)eQ' meet ing asked the W }\ M.. ~. to send Miss Clara, Pe"dl"l Dyer as ih~ represent.atiYe to i he East Asia Conference' in Foochow. The request was disfa,voul'ed by a, vote, of ten to fifteen. In December 1923, the sta,ft of Sle'e;per Da,y-is Hospital appealed to the N. C. conference through t,he re·£erence com mittee for permission to form an affilia,tion with the! :K urses' School of Peking U niecn ~Iedica.I CoUegel IIOt~p'itaJ to prolVide a hroader clinieal espe:riH1C'e for its student. nUTses. PeTmis sion was llnanimously g)·a.nt.ed . .J a~ nary ~;j, 1924, the Finan ce C("llllllitrtee of the Gellwral Board request,ed tluit the- "r F- M. S. of the North China. Conference appoint three m;embel's too join with three me-mbe,TS {)If their confe,renc~ fm'lnillg a permanent com.mit.tee Q.f six to deal with property matters which come up bet.ween t.he Boa.rd and Societ.y. In large property ma.fterl's this OOIll mittPf"S dcr~isions would llot Iw final hut w0,uld he referred to thel Refe~~, Committee and thel Filla,n.c:'..e Cmnmittee. lIisses Wa,trous, Nuzum and Nowlin were appointed. Ea,rly in Fehl'ua,ry Dr. Lydia Schaum wag yo-too permjs sion to take, ·an eaJ.-ly furlough. On F'e!bru31'Y 6th, 19~4, the Conference Educat.ional Com mit.we' requested tha,t. a. let.ter be, sent to the Society a,t home explaining OUl' relation to and benefits derived Ironl the Chihli 87 .shan~i Educa,tionaJ associat,iOon and request.ing again that there be a.n: a,ppropria.tiDn to h~l p in the: financial support, Oof the! .Association's e·xecut.iv~ 8ooreatary. The: vote as taken' resulted in ::;even against and t.we:nty-thr~ fO'r the' measure. In ~\1dreh, 1924, the T'aian ]'u station through Miss Youne: requested t.hat "Sinc~ thel agr~m~llJt between the: Bishop- .and the Appo.intment. GOoJIlmittoowaoS t.ha.t Miss Tirzah Stahl should be loaned to 'I'aian Fu untill-Iiss Hig-hbaugh's return, we ask that Miss Highbaugh .come immediately t.o T'ajan Fu upon .arriva.l in China,." By a v{)Jtel o£ 2'1 pe'rmission was granted for Miss Highbaugh tOo gOo to T'aian Fu unt,il conferrence tjme 1924 provided conference was held at. the usual tim'e-S~pte~ OOT. By virtuel of a. gift of lO,OOOdoUars gOlld from the W F. M. S. to the Peking Union Language School, the,'North China ":"muen's Confere,nce is entitled to' a representa,tive on the ~BooJ'd of Managell's. By a vote taken through t,he Reference Oo-mmitt-ee in April 1924 Miss Knox was appointe,a as ~Hlr repre~entat.ive on this Board. During the sf-ring t.he Estima.-res for 1925 were prepared ·and a.ft:eT being approved by t,he' Executive CDmmiUee 0'£ i.he 'General Boa.I'd well'e sent tOo Shanghai t.f) he pnni.ed. EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE REPORT. The fdlowina persons were chosen as our T€opresent.atives -on the Bo·ud 01£ Eldu(,ation of the O.B.G.E.A. Misses P'ong, Dyer, ]'rantz. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR. SALARIES: J uniol' Jf.igh School gradua,t€s shall reerove4 12 dollars ;-a month or 13 if they have had Normal T·raining. Senior High School gradua.tes shall l'eceive 17 dollars 'a month or 18 i:£ i.hey. have had Normal Trajning. Those who have had two YOOl'" training he~ond H.S. Shall -roc.eive ~2 dollar5. All lnrc.reas66 in salaries shall he made evel'Y two years :according t~ t.he following schedule: ,Junior High School ...... 2 d.ollars a month. Setnior H~gh School ...... 3 " " " Two ye·~rB traIning beyond H. S. 3 ,~ ,:t ;, 88 Those who al'e graduates of t.he old courses shall be paid according to t.be o]d sc.bedule, hut iu(;rease,s in sal:ny shall be a.ccording to the new ~ch€ldul€'. Students under financial obligation to·· our ~Iethodist Schools shall be' required to meet these obligations according to the following scale;:- Intel'mediate granda-tes ...... a dollars a mont.h. tT unior High School graduates ... 4 "" Selnior Hig'h School graduates ... 5 " " " Two yeJ.1'S t.raining- beyond H:.S. 6 ,4 ,. " We l'ecommend that High School graduates who have g-iven six years of continuous service in educational work may be granted a year £0(1' study with full salul'Y. 'I'his salal'Y is to be' paid by t.hel depart.ments where she has taught in pro portion to the years of sel'"dee. This i~ to be grante,d with the understanding' that a.Her the year she will ret.urn and be a.ppointoo by the N o11h China Conference. In ease a E.tudeut In deht. to' one sehool desires too be tI'ansfclTed to. another in the conference, she' shall not be ndmit.ted until thp first school is willing to l'ea.] eaSE' her from her debt or post-pone the payment of the same. REPORT OF THE FIELD PROP~RTY COMMITTEE. Pla.ns fOol' th8 addition tH the Bible Tl'ailling School and t.he new Kidergalten builJillS' in Gh'angli were ac<;epted by the committee. REPORT OF EVANGELISTIC COMMITTEE. 1. Study hookf:' for 19~-19:'::4, "Nehemiah" and "St.udies for Personal \Vorke1"~" ha:vel helen: used. 'Ve recomnlend the following to be st,udied for 1924-192;,). "Stories and Emblems" hy I.JOeihr (published hy Chris tian Literature Society). "The H(Ime-makers" ...... by MiSE: White (Christian Literature Socie.ty.) ":Phillipians" ...... for, which Miss Gilman is asked to p-repare an outline· lor study. 2. We recommend t·hat the Conference: consider having a committee to colloot mate.rials. t.hat have,. been transla,ted, son!r', mi:-,siouary !llat.erial~ete. 3. We re·commend that this year's Institutes and sta.t,ion classeo emphaSIZt, "TJleHome for Ghrist." 4. ",Ye recommend t.hat the subject for missiona:ry societies he, "The Horne in M'any IJands." 5. W €o· recommend that we ha.ve a uniform system of monthly reporls 101' Bible 1Vomen. 6. 1Ve Iecommend t.hat each Bihle woman have a magazine, such as "Morning- Star" -or a similar mont.hly periodi cal. 7. Scale of Salaries. ",VoIDelIl of little: 'braining •••• A. G dt)llars Illinimum Women. holding Lower Primary Diplomas ...... g ,Woinen holding Pe'king Union Sehool }'u K'e dIplomas", 10 t, ,WOmen hold] ncr Petkincr 1) nion '=" ~ School Cheng K' e diplomas ]~ ,. " 'Vomen holding- Ginling Union School l~".l K'e diplomas ... 1-4- ., " Cheng- K'el diplomas 20 , , " Summer volunteers ...... 5 dollal's-travel money 8. ,'Ve leeommellO t.he following as henefieiaries of the Retirement }'ulld.-Mrs. Liu Li, ~1 J'~. .Fn Li. Mrs. Sung and )11'8. Cheng Yu. 9. "\Ve recommend the following' to the l)f'kiug U njon Training ~ehoul Cheng' K'e--Misses Chou Hsiu Wen, Wang Ch'un }lei, Chou Lan Ying and Huang Jui Ying. '.fo the I)eking Ur.ion TntlniI!g- School }'u K'e-Misses Tsai J ui C:hen, Eang Ling, ~Ia Ohen Ying, .Mesdames ·WtuKuan, Ohao.Chang Mei JUl, Liu "Yang, Hsuan Chen Hua, Yang Ch'u .Jung. 10. We recommend t.hat the confenmce discu8s a me,thod hy which the delegates to tite Peltaiho Unlon Eivangelistic meetings he chosen by t.he E.vangeli~t.ic Coinmittee. 11. We recommend tha.t the stat.us of Bible women be dis cussed. "\Ye offer t.he foilowing suggestions: Graduates of lower primary grade Bible schools (3 years eourse) be f;tiven the title "Ch'uan Shih" 90 Oraduates of higller pl'irual1Y gl'ade Bible Schools be gIven the title of "Shih YUllg' Ch'uan Tao Ti" Graduates of eit.her t)rpe of school who pass the C~mfer ence examinat.iolls for local preachers license shall be "Pen 'ri Ch'uan t.ao ti~' Only women holding, dIplomas from schools \)£ Highel' PrimaJ'Y grade 01 atbove shall be: :('onsidEred as Bihle women and Al'sociatre }Ie'lllbeTs of t.he conference. 12. WeI ecommt'nd that hegllllling ",jtlt this year the new Hames added to the list of aSROCiate ',Members do not include those holding only lower Primary diplomas. ItEPORT OF P1TBI~ICAT'IONS COMMITTE,E 1923 COKFEH.ENCE. l~ rin ting (500 copi es) ...... , ...... , .. $275.00 Euve'lope.s ...... $ 1.75 Postage ...... $ 14.20 $290.98 By sale of ~rl11~tes ...... $ 39.~O :Balan~e paid by Ml'~' ..Tewell ...... $251.78 $290.98 The printing wa.s done by t.ht' Salyatlon AI'my Press, and a.lt.hOough mOore' e,xpensive, than last. :vea,l', the work wa,s vel'y :sa,tisfactol"Y. Thanks arel due- to lIiss Eliza.het.h Hobart., t.he Assistant 8elCl'eta.l'Y, and alsQ to Mis .... Knox for a.dvice, h;elp in iproof leading aud in sending- out the hOllle (~opies. DORA C. FEARON) SF.'C'Y. 91 RESOLUTIONS. Resolved: That we extend our most. cordial welcome, to oui- I'e'turned and new missionaries. T'hat we extend our greetings to each of our worke,rs now in the ho-'ne land. ' That we Gxtend OUl" heartfeH sympathy to Doctor Emma Martin and Doctor I..Iydia ~:cha.um, who ar€1 home on sick leave, and pTay for their. speedy recovery and hasty return. That inasmuch" as God has called to higher Service MI'S. Frances Gray HavC"s and Doctor Robbins, we bow our hearts in hum.bIe s~bmis~iQ!n to thE) wIll of Him who d.o€lth all things WE'll, and IJray that God in His uwn way will ('omfort a.nd sustain those ncare~t and dearest. That we rejoice with Shant.ung in their program of ad ,"anCemellt, hopIng t.hat our loss may be theiT g-ain. That we express our syn~pathy a.nd pledge o'ur prayers and loyal aid t.o t.hose' .suffcll'illg' iroH! the effects of the' re,cenU floods. 'That we ihank our. hosts and hostesses who have so graci ously e'ntert-ained us during the conferellce. That we t.xpress our sincere thanks to Bishop Warne, who has come to us from afar with his winnIng smile a,nd deeply spiritual messages. That we express our a.ppreciation to the Women's FOl €.ign lIissiona.J'Y Society at hnme, for their untiring efforts~ whieh have made possible our work in this land. That we express deep gratitude to our He:.avooly Fathe·r for His constant love, continued guidance, a.nd numherle·ss hlcssings which He has bestowed upon us during the past ·year. 92 SlfANDING C()MMITTEES. RelfeTe~lC€ : }II~SES GREGG, CALDWELL, GnIFFIN, ADAMS, "'TII~SON, GIL~:I:;~S. E,vangehstic : ~lI~SES JfALFPENNY, NOWLIN, ADAMS, R~ox, P'XNG Yux Hsu.XG, 'l's' AO TF CHEN, MRS. LI HUI CHIEH. Educational : MISSES L. HOBART, FRANTZ, DYER, DILLFNBECK, JAQUET, YANG K C"EI LAN, LI Y t" lIE!. Field PrJ'p2Jrt\": 31rssEs DA!\~'ER, L:~""RENCB, YOlTNG, NUZUM, WALKER, P' A~G Y liN H'SU.NG, MRS. GH'ING. Prog-ram: lIIS~ES Gl{EGG, H.U.:Fl>ENNY, HSIAO ",YEN PAO, CHANG }IEI TE. I)ublications MISSES SHUFELT, GIl EN Hs]u JUNG, NUZUM. W.-L~G RUEI P'ING. Statistics: MISSES CHENEY, LAWRENCE~ GREER, DR. LA.NTZ, LI TS'UI Yu, LI YUN IJA~·. LI V\ ANG RUEI P'ING, O'HE T's'tTl CH'ING. Membership: liIsSES DYER.. Lr :FI':NG CH' AO, WANG J UI FANG, WANG RUEI ll'rxG, YOFNG, GREER, WATROUS, YANG RUEI LAN. Medical: DR. STRJ:I{ER, Du. LA~'TZ, DR. }[ORGAN. Fraternal Let.ters: :MISSES HIGHBAUGH, }£" HOBART, KE Wu RUEr Yu. R.e]jgious Educat.ion : MISSES HIGHBAUGH, NUZUM, JAQUET, EDITH PANG, T'SAO TE CHEN. 93 LANGUAGE STUDY COURSE. The same as that ()tf the North China Union Language. School, for which ~e their catalog. ~ l:b 94 CONSTITUTION OF THE WOMANS' CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NORTH CHINA. ARTICLE I. NAME. rfhel OIrganizat.ion shall he called 'CTlllhe W ()lIUaJlS' COInfer ence OIf t.he Methodist Episcopal Church in N o,rth China,." ARTICLE II. PURPOSE. ThB OIbject. of this organiza,tioiIli is a, united efforl for advancing t.he Kingdom of Christ aJUong woomen' and children in North China" and supplement.ing the efIori.s OIf houle mis sionary wOIrkelJ."S in inter-€Isting the church at large in our missionia.ry field. ARTICLE III. RELATION TO THE MISSIONARY AUTHORITIES OF THE CHURCH. T'his Co:mereillce shall wo,rk in ha,rmony with the Nort.h China Conference according' to t.h~1 Const.itut.ion of the "\Vomans' Foreign If.issiotDlary Socielty. ARTICLE IV. MEMBERSHIP. There s,hall be: two kinds orr membell's 0:£ o:ur Conference, active and associa,te" as follows: (1) Th.el Active membeT8 shall be an rEpresenta.tives of the "\YomaJ1Js' Foa-eign Missionary So ciety who. have, he!en {)In the field OInel y~,r; such wQlmen {)If the Gelnera.l Bo.a,rd as are engaged in "V.F.M.S. wOIrk; all Ohinese women. who. aJ.?e now eng'aged in Conference work, who ha.ve bel€ln engaged i'll Miss,ion work fOil' a.t least. twO! years ()[Le 0.£ t.he twO! years having been in the Nort.h China, Conference), and who. haiVel had at le'ast t,wo years' study in SG'me institutiOln abOlVe high school: all Chinese wOOll"en now e11!gagoo in COIfi fe:rence wo,rk who have heem engaged in Mission work for at least five yea.rs two of the five yetal'S having been in the N ()rth 95 China Conferencel), and who are high schOtOtl gTaduat.es; and all Chinese women IliOW engaged in Conference; work who ha,ve been- engaged in Mission work for at least. ten years, and who completed the former course of GameweU 9r its equival€lnt. These shall const,itute the vot.ing me'mhe:rship. (2) The: A~ S'ocia.te· members shan be all Bible. women: teache1rs ho.lding high school or training school diplomas; gradua.t.e nurses a.nd doctors in activ~ service wives Otf pre1achers be'}~ing to Con ference if such wcm,en a,re in active servicel ; represent.a.tives of thel W.F.M.S. whOt ha,ve been on the field less than one year; and womeln Otf the General Board who are not, ill W,.F .:M.S. work. Associate memh6T,s ma.y be apPQlinte·d on committees, and their names ma,y be, included in the list of appoint.m..ent.s, said na.mes to be decided Q1n by the Appo:n1-me·n.t Conlmittee subject. to apprOlVal by the ~fission. AmelIlrunelut I.--,Anv aetice l11€'mbetr nf (>A>nfe 1l 1ence who tem.porarily discontinues ",her work fur- the mis.~ion for the pur pOse! of f~.l"thell' study shall re'main a member during the time of study. Any active member of conference who t,(:',mporaTily discontinues her work for the mission and etnters other Chris tian Work shall J'lemain a. member for two years. At the end of this t.ime her member-ship eelase'S unle,ss she rdurns to work in the eonrel'e:nce. ARTICLE V. OFFICERS. Thel officers Q1f t.his organization shall be a Pre'S.i de'll t ~ V ice-President, Secrert,ary, and Custodian. Q1f Conference Funds. to he elected annually by ballot and tOo ret.ire upon the election of their successors. ARTICLE VI. CHANGE OF CONSTITUTION. The Const.itutiolJl may be changed at any Annual :Mee,ting by a two-thirds vote or t.he members present. 96 BY=LAWS. I.-This Conference shall convene at the same t.ime and plaICe when pract.icahle, as the North China Annual Conference. 11.-The' Order of Bu~iIless shall be as follows:- 1. C311ing of Roll by Se'cretary :2. Appo iniment of Committees 3. Reports of V\T ork 4. Miscellaneous and Unfinished Busines.s 5. RepOl~ts of Treasurer 6. Appointment ot Standing' Commiiit'les 7 H.E-ports of Committees shall be given daily after reading of :~Iinutes s. E1ectj on of Officers. IlL-The R.ules of Order shall bel as follows:- 1. E,aeh session shall open and close with prayer 2. Resoluiions 1'0 he discussed must be submitted In writ.ing. Iv.-rrhe Standing Committees shall be appointed by a com mittee chosen fOl- this purpos.e and :ire as follows:- 1. Field Reference:- This Commit.1.ee ~hall consist of six (6) memihelI's, each station having a repres€lIltative thereon. This Oommittee· shall meet or eonfell' in ihe spring ,to prepare estimat.es for the following year. All business pertain.ing to the work or the ConfeTence, u.]'lsillg in the. illterim 0'£ it& se85io11, shall be deeidE:!d through this Oommittee hy a majority vote of thel women of th€' W.F.lLS.; and no npre.sentat.ion 0'£ s1.(('h bllsiness toO the authorities at home shall (he considered oftiiCial unless endorsed. by the Committee. 1~e Chairma.n of t.his Committee shall be Official CorrHspondent, and shall copy in a book provided for the purpose oU oorre~p(lndc'lleE:'- with the home authorities, a,nd all business transactions of -the Committee. 07 2. Evangelistic:- This Committee shall consist of seven (7) me·mbers, 3.lt loost two (2) 0.£ whom shall be, Chinese. Its duties shaH be: to formulate policiE*' for the ",rO'llla.n's Training Schools, Institutes, und Stat.ion Glasses, arrange iheir curricula and make pla,as for their adva.nc€1m€'D.t and unity; to a.rrange for special institutes 01' confen'nces whose aim shall be thp.> jruspira t.ion and instruction of ChristIa.n worke'rs; to fix the salaries and ma.ke the Conference appointme:nts of Bible- 'VoIDen; to apply the interes't of the U.et.irement }"'und fo,l' Bible women; to select the delegat.es to UnIon Eva.nge.JisfilC :Meeting-s at Pei taiho or else where; to make out a Course of St.udy fO'r Bible 'Vomen. 3. Educational:- This 001nmittee ~ball consi.5t of se'ven (7) me·mbers at Ita~t two (2) of whom shall be Chine'se" whose dut~ it shall be to investigate ihe condition of the! schools of the ConferellJCe and to make and presemt to() thIs body any plans for the· adva.l1lCe> ment and unityorf its f)ducational work, al1Jd to a,ppoint associate members for teachers. Three (3) members of the out-going Oommittee sha.ll be appointed to the new Committee each year in ordelr that more continuity of effort the secured. 4. Field Propert~:- ~rhIB Committee sha.ll consist ().£ seVen (7) members, two (2) of whom a.t least shall be Ohi nese , and all plans for building or extensive repairs shall be suhmitted to and apprQIVed by this Committee before being pres€'nted to the Building Committee of the General Boa.rd. The chairman of this Committee shall reeord in a hook provided I()r the purpose a copy of the plans of all new huildings with cost of the s:ame and SUCth other data as shall be of use iIi fut.ure building operations 5. Pvogram:- This Committee shall consist 00 four (4) melDl,bers, two (2) of whom shall be Chinese, whose duty it shall be to p!l~par8 a progra.m for the Annual Meeting or the Wlomans' G'Onference. 6. Publication:- This Committee shall consist of the English and Chinese Secretaries of the Conference with an assistant to' be chosem by each, whose duty it shall hel to edit and publish the Minutes. 98 1. Sta tistics :-- This (\)Jllmittee' s'hall consist. of four (4) foreign and four (4) Chinese, whose duty it. shall he to compile a statistical r€lpori to be presented at the Annual Conference,· and published in t.he Minutes. . 8. Medical:- This committee shall (~onsist of three (3) membelTs, whose duty shall be to appoint associate membeJrs and decide, otber matters pertaining- to medie::al work. V.-Duty of Officers :-- I.-The President. shall pl'e.side, at all meettings of the Oonf erence. 2.-In tihe ahselIlce of t.he President, t.he Vice-President shall preside, and shall ac,t as interprete,r in the Chinese meetings when necessary. 3.-The Secre,tary shall k0e'p a fun record of all proceed ings and forward a report or same t.o the Official Corres,ponden t of the "\V oma.ns' F~reign Mis;;ional~T Socieiy. 4.-The Custodian of Conference Funds shall have chaJ'ge of all funds collected in the Confell'ence, a~d dj sburse. the same by order of ... he Oonference. VI.-A majority of the \oting membeTs a.tte!llJi~lg t.he Confer en(:€! s.hall ('onstitute" a quorum. VII.-Chauge of By-I.. aws:- The By-Laws ma.y hP :ehang·ed a,,t any .. Anl1ual ~feeting by a two-thirds 'vote of the members present. 99 CHRONOLOGY. Present and Former Members of The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of North China.·-(9ontinued). NAME. YEAR. REMARKS. BRANCH. STATION. HOME ADDRESS. ------1·------1-·--··-----1------·1------Mary Q. Porter ...... 1871-1882 Mrs. F. D. Gamewell, Dec.... Western ...... Maria Brown ...... 1871-1884 Mrs. G. R. Davis, M.E.M .... New Engla.nd M. E. Mission Peking ...... Melrose, Mass. Lucinda. Combs ...... 1875-1878 Mrs. Strittmatter ...... Philadelphia...... Philadelphia., Pa. Letitia. A. Campbell ...... 1877·1884 Mrs. Coleman, Dooeased ...... New Engla.nd Leonora. H. Howard, M.D ... . 1880·1889 Mrs. A. King ...... New England Land. Mission Tientsin ..... Tientsin, China. -8 Clara. M. Cushman ...... \ 1878-1922 Retired ...... N ew En~land ...... Gardner, MaSS'. Annie B. Sea.rs ...... "j 1880·1895 Decea·sed ...... Cincinnati Elizabeth U. Yates ...... 188Q·1885 Retired ...... New England ...... Round Pond, Maine Estella Akers, M.D...... 1882·1885 Mrs. H. P. Perkins ...... New England ...... Claremont, Cal. Charlotte M. Jewell ...... 1883- ...... New York Peking ...... Etna Mills, Cal. Anna D. Gloss, M.D...... 1885- ...... Northwestern Peking ...... '1322 Augusta. Ave., Dekalb, Nellie R. Green ...... 1 1886-1890 Retired ...... New England ...... ,. Sa~l.Fra.ncisco, Cal. Edna G. Terry, M.D .... · .. 1 1887-1913 Deceased ...... New England Ma.ry Ketl'ing, M.D...... 1888-1893 Transferred to West China ... Cincinnati ...... Napoleon, Ohio Lillian G. Hale ...... 1 1888·1894 Mrs. A. Welday ...... ,New England ...... Richmond, Ohio Frances O. Wilson ...... 1 1889-1915 Retired .... _...... Des Moines ...... > ...... Clifton Spring,!, N. Y. Anna E. Steere ...... 1889-1905 IDeceased ...... Northwestern M. Ida. Stevenson, M.D. . .. \ 1890-1911 /Retired ...... ICincinnati ...... ILO;t~~each, Ca1., E. 1st. Present and Former Members of The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of North Chlna.-(Continlled) NAME. YEAR. REMARKS. BRANCH. SIATION. HOME ADDRESS. ------1------1 ------ Rachel R. Benn, M.D. · .. ···1 1890-1907 Retired ...... Philadelphia ...... Meredith, N.H., RF.D.2. Celia M. Frey ...... \ 1891-1894 R€tired ...... Topeka ...... Willow by , Ohio Effie G. Young ...... 1892- ...... N.ew England T'aianfu ...... Waltham, Ma.ss. Ella E. Glover ...... 1892- ...... New England ...... 14 Centre St., Watert Emma M. Knox ...... 1907- ...... Northwestern Peking ...... 1 Alice M. Powell, R.N...... 1907- ...... New York Peking ...... 576 W. Caldwell St., Wash. I ington, D. C. Cl". P. Dyer ...... 1907· ...... IN Estie T. Boddy ...... 1908- IRdil'ed ...... JDffi Moines ...... :l 5240 Booklyn Ave., Seattle, . t Wash. Myra A. Jaquet ...... 1909- ...... ,...... 1 N ort.hweatern Peking ...... 1] 54 l'orLlar..d Ave., I St. Paul, Miilll . Minne Stryk.er, M.D ...... 1909- ...... Philadelphia Peking ...... :Philadelphia, Pa. Iva Miller, M.D ...... 1909...... Columbia RiverlTieutsin ...... :North Yakima, Wash. Ida Relle Lewis ...... 1910- National Educational Work ... Des Moines IShnnghni ..... :2040 St. Albin Ave., Sioux ,. City, Ia. Josephine D. Fearon ...... 1910-1915 l\hs. E. J. Winans ...... Cincinnati M. E. Missiori Tientsin .. , ..~lronton, Ohio Jennie B. Bridenbaugh ...... 1911- ...... Des Moines Ch'angli ...... :419 So. 37th St., Billings, 'I Montana Grace Anna Meek ...... 1911·1914 Retired ...... ~illl.leapo~is ...... Albany, Ind. Dora Fearon ...... 1912- ...... CInCInnatI Peking ...... Ironton, Ohio Elsie Knapp ...... 1912- ...... Northwestern T'aianfu ...... IIda, Mich. . Frances Gray ...... 1912-1923 Mrs. T~. Newton Haves,-dece.lsed New York I Mary Watrous ...... 1912- ...... : ...... New York POking ...... Iwalton, N. Y. Eva Gr€gg, R.N ...... 1912- ...... N ol'thwestern Tientsin ...... J Bozemau. M out. I Frances J. Heath, M.D. 1913- ...... : New York Tsinan ...... :·1426 W. York St., Philadel· phia, Pa. Georgia A. Filley, M.D. 1913-1918 Itl'tired ...... North western ...... Battle Creek, Mich. Nora M. Dillenbeck ...... 1913- ...... 'New York T'aianfu ...... ,Avoca, N. Y. Louise Hobart ...... 1913- ...... ""1 N orlh western IPeking ...... \ Peking, China . 1 Present and 'Former Members of the Woman"s Foreign Missionary Society of North China.·-·(Oontinued). NAME. YEAR. REMARKS. BRANCH. STATION. HOME ADDRESS. ------I-----·I--~·---~------~------1------1------Frances R. Wilson, R.N .... 1914.- ...... Topeka Peking ...... 823 Chape St., Baldwin, Kans. Ida F. Frantz ...... 1914- ; ...... Cincinnati Tientsin ...... New Carlisle, Ohio M. Lillian Halfpenny ...... 1914- ...... Pacific Tientsin ...... Ontario, California Elizabeth Hobart ...... 1915- ...... North western Peking ...... Peking, China 'Marie Adams ...... ; ...... ~. 1915- ...... North western T'aianfu ...... Fortville, India.na Elizabeth Marvin ...... 1915-1917 Retired ...... Pacific ...... 120 Haight" Sr,., San Francisco, Cal. Mabel R. Now~in 1915- ...... Des Moines Ch'angli ...... Kan!!as City, Mo., 5~4 Cypress Ave. Clara E. Sauer, R.N...... 1915-1917 Hetired ...... Northwestern ...... Madison, Indiana Mary E. Bedell ...... 1917- ...... Columbia RiverTientsin ...... 4551-8th Av. N.E., Seattle, Wash. Ruth M. Danner, R.N ...... 1917- ...... Northwestern Peking ...... Hemet, Cal. I.Jillian P Gr'f'er ...... 1917- ...... Topeka T'aianfu ...... Winfield, Kans. Irma Highbaugh ...... 1917- ...... Topeka Ch'angli ...... 808 W. 9th St., Coffeyville, Kans . Ethe,l L. Leonard 1917-1920 Hetired ...... Padfic ...... 2220 Hillcrest Drive, Los Angeles, Cal. Ruth L. Stahl ...... 1917- ...... Cincinnati PBking ...... Dayton, O. R D. 7. Joyce E. Walker ...... 1917 - ;...... North western Tientsin ...... ~630k-Sa. 7th St., Spl'ingfield, I Ill. Monona L. Cheney ...... 1918- ...... Northwestern Peking ...... Barron, Wis. Present and Former Members of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of North Chlna.·-·(Oontinued) . I Birdice E. Lawrence ...... 1919- ...... Northwestern iCh'angli ...... J1612 Coleman Ave., Lansiug, I Mich. Ortha Lane ...... 1919- ...... Des Moines Peking ...... 509 Grant St., Iowa City, I Iowa Minta Stahl ...... 1919- ...... Cincinnati Tientsin ...... Dayton, Ohio R.D., No.7 R. Isabel Luce ...... 192Q- Contract Teacher ...... Northwestern Tientsin ...... IWilmol'e, Kentucky Lora Battin, R.N...... 192Q- ...... Northwestern Tientsin ...... 612 Illinois Ave., Peoria, Ill. Eliza,beth Carlyle, R.N...... 192Q- ...... Columbia River Peking . , ...... Forest Grove, Ore . Lydia Schaum...... I-' M.D. 192Q- ...... , ...... Topeka Peking ...... Eustis, Neb . 0 Viola Lan t.z , M.D...... 192Q- ~ ...... 4! ...... Pacific Tientsin ...... Route B, Box 31Q, San JOEe, Cal. Pansy P. Griffin ...... 192Q- ...... , ...... Philadelphia Ch'angli ...... De Golia, Penn . Edith Shufelt ...... 1921- ...... Minneapolis Tientsin ...... 1002 Lowry Av., Minneapolis, Minn. Tirzah Stahl 1921- Cincinnati Peking ...... Dayton, Ohio -R.D. 7. Ruth Nuzum 1921- .... ~ ...... New England Tientsin ...... ~ 8 Eldridge Ave., Worchester Mass. June Patte,rson ...... 1921-1922 Mrs. Geo. Ken ...... Nort.hwestern Shanghai Camilla Mills ...... 1922- ...... Columbia River Peking ...... ForelSt Grove, Ore. Ruth Caldwell ...... 1922- Contract Teacher ...... Northwestern Tientsin ...... Sheldon, Ill. Julia Morgan, M.D ...... 1922- ...... Philadelphia Tsinan Rilla. Scherich 1923- ...... '" Topeka Tientsin I ! I! : STATISTICS GENERAL Summary Women in the Church DISTRICTS Pekin~ City ...... 17 2 1 1 49 2 82 ~88 III 62 209 70 l'l 1 3 15 N. © S. Peking Districts ...... 2 16 18 531 136 47 286 199 4 4 3 35 Tientsin City .... . 14 2\ 33 49 286 105 42 68 70 4 2 5 5 75 Tientsin District.. I 10 11 86 68 12 30 38 2 1 Shanhaikuan 3 30 3 36 322 56 14 62 23 5 Tsunhua ...... 1 24 25 449 90 42 184 212 7 lIS 332 Lan Hsien ...... 1 30 31 446 19 19 41 6 8 9 1 T'aian ...... 7 1 20 1 281 349 153 79 35 88 3 57,690 Yen Chow ...... 10 10 124 87 II 25 86 2 1,150 1 Tatal ...... 46 3 3 1 222 6 2903181 825 328 940 792 47 9 8 11 142 I 1 I ----~------~~--~------~- ~ L YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 1IIII ~III ~~ IIIII~ ~IIIII~ 1111111111111111111111111111 3 9002 10638 6726 Educational Statistics c N umber of Pupils E '" Property and endowment I4come Expenditure .~ '0:: teachers (Day and Boarding) ~'Q. (Use locaf currency) (Use lo~al currency) (Use local currency) '" ::I I'm ::l .... , 0~g, • 1 i i ~ ] ~ ., 0 ~ ~ ~ >. tn 0 ·E :§ '0 '0 '0 ~ B .~ ] ~ ~ ~ Name and location g E t.2 '" bO ..c '5 aJ "0 aJ 'of Scbool "5 ~ D ~ E.2] ~"O ~ ~] 5 ~.g .5 ~ ~ ~ i ~ .~ .~ :~ i] '0 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ .g~ ; .~.; ~ g 1 ~c ~ ~ ~ rI5~ t t ~ a. c aJ ~ Q.. ': ~ ,~ ~ 1 1 39 -=.-- 100 880 :,+:,= 676 11 pe~~~c~ii~g COflege~~=~.~ 1-; -:- -:- -=- --1- -=--=- :J:--:- -=- -=--=r-=-p-:: :::I--=- 4S00~::I:2"201 Met~odist Gamewell School ...... 1 36 F 4 11 -- 62 164 --- 226 i148 166 3 620002400026000'- 4484,5578 601- 47718799 - 1043/14220'15263 - 256 Day Schools ...... ; ...... 5 40 M F _ 9 - 245 - 1- --- 245 - 1'107 -- -'1 --1 910 - 40,-1072 4122 - 116 3435 3551 - 245 Kindergartens ...... :L 32 M F _ 2 54 ------54 - 44 -- .- 300'- 228 - ,05,- -- 633 - 89 669 758 125 54 School of Nursing ...... 1 34 F I 8 7 ------46 46 46 46 1 40000 - -1- 4601713 1,00------1 5000 - 46 Union Bible Training School I 32 F 8 5 - - - - - 60 - 60 54 60 --- I 600,- 95 1 678 00- 219 2992115500 500 300019000 - 60 Bible Training School...... 1 36 F 1 4 - - - - .- 37 - 37 32 37 1 12000 1000 ---- 2 00 - 386 3260 834 91 2490 3415 155 45 1 N. a: S. Peking Districts Cii DflY Schools ...... 9 34 F _ 9 - 153 ---- 'u 153 I 35 80 4 3575 449/ 200- 6 56 3fi5 - 428 3925 2000 52 1729 3781 - 185 Bible Training School...... 1 36 F _ 2 - - - - - 15 ~ 18 I 18 17 --- 200 - 20 149' IP20- - 1189 204 50, 925 1179 - 23 1 ~~~ I 1 ~ I 1 Keen MemoriaL ...... I 36 F 9 13 - 34 110 1132 - - 4 280 "202 'r1l0 2 99000 -- -I155J!9239 1,30-456526685 637 4282228123346 -, 380 1329 Day Schools ...... 5 38 F _ 9 - 244 13 I = -- - 257 ! - i - 3 9000.5600040000 - 1 - IP4011- 190 2759 - 75 3000 3075 - 257 241 Kindergartens ...... 2 36 M F _ 1 37 - --- 37 - 'I - 2 HmOOj5000 250- 1- ~40- - 881 - -/ 800 800 - 37 School of Nursing ...... I - F - - - - - i ------4000 4000 --- ..------ TieDntsinSDhistrilct 40 F 120 _ - - - 120 - I 50 2 - I 191 47 6 - 90 884 - 12 ay c 00 s ...... 8 - 8 - -! 750 190- - 170- I 12 0 I 794 0 Shanbaikuan District I r I ' Alderman Memorial ...... II 3S F I 8 - - 135 ---- 135 il37 I 3 37000 340() 5000,- 80i2570 4l60- - 7010 - 378 5332 5710 - 14d Day School-Ch'angli ...... 2 40 F =I 5 - 72 ----- 7211 15 22 2 7462 4000 3001- 28! 3301 60- 160 878 - -I 850 850 - 113 - Boarding School...... 1 36 F 4 12 70 ----- 82 33 13 5 5000 3000 4001 140. 545 25 - IH 1555 -- - 1746 1746 191 95 ~h~m~~~~oIBib'I~"T~~i~i~g"" 6 40 F - 7 - 115 ----- 115 6 17 2 ]821 512 400 -- 80- 98 778 312 50 650 1012 - 139 1 -I 1 School ...... I 36 F 1 3 _ - - - - 25 - 25 25 25 2 14700 5260 2000- 12 1 524 1~00- 58 2394 43001700,2066 8066 - 34 Lanbsien Dish'ict I Hoft Boarding School...... I 36 F - 4 _ 67 12 ---- 79 41 50 ----- 90, 940 ,25 -- 1755 97 1921 20]8 263 79 Day Schools ...... 16 36 F _ 18 _ 314 ----- 314 63 119 ----- 85 -1 1,20- 436 ?341 342 88 2135 2565 224 314 1 Tsunboa District [ 1 Boarding School ...... I 35 F - 3 _ 36 ----- 36 30 i 24 3 2600 3000 300 - 99 674 50 - 132 1555 100 2711273' 1400 - 39 1 ,1 1 Day Schools ...... 11 38 F - 12 _ 208 ----- 208 23 61 ] 1300 840 201- 7 116 I~OO- 98 1605 - 55 1434 1489 - 280 Woman's Elementary School 1 35 F - 1 _ - - - - 12 - 12 12 Ii 8 2 1200 1400 40- 5 - ~ - 805 926 475 56 396 926 - 15 T'ahudu I 1 Davis School...... 1 32 F 4 9 _ 89 70 17 --- 176 168160 2 20000 5000 2000,= 1861327 4',,80- 120 61131 -- 5406 5406 - 176 Terry Training School ...... 1 32 F 1 2 _ - - - - 20 - 20 20 20 1 15000 500 21 267 160 329 1577 -1- - 1941 153 20 T' alaDlo Distrlet .. Boarding School ...... 1 32 F - 3 _ 85 ----- 85 55 30 1 2000 500 100- - 296 1,50- 536 9821' - 64 918 9R2- 85 Day Schools ...... 9 32 F - 9 _ 160 ----- 160 - 50 1 1000 200 50-1 -- ,00 108 808 - 78 730 808- 160 ;]!i~c~~!~~~ ...... 7 32 F - S - 170 ----- 170 -- I - - -1- -- ,- --I -I -1- --- Unlon Medical School ••••••••. _ - - - - 1------30 - BOO 200 150 -1 -- 11S0 -121421 3292 2150 144 998 3292 -I 170 1 1 1 lOG MEDICAL STATISTICS. Summary. Peking Tientsin Ko. nf HOispitals ...... ; .. . 1 1 Fo-reign Physicians ...... 3 1 N a,tive Physicians ...... 3 1 FOireign Nurses ...... 3 2 Native Nurses ...... 3 2 8t.udent Nurses ...... 31 15 Other W orkelI'Sr-Forerign ...... 2 1 Native ...... 1 Hospital. N n. Q1f Beds ...... 70 35 K o. Q1f In-Patients ...... 1,125 442 X 0'. of Patie,n.t DUlys ...... 12,049 6,748 Average Days per Pa,t.iernt ...... 11.6 18.5 No. of Ma.jnr OperatiOIlB ...... 150 44 N n. of :Mino}' Opera.tio,ns ...... 110 Ohstetrical Ca,sels ...... 139 98 Out- Patients. Ob3tetricaJ Cases ...... 163 49 First Visits ...... ; .... . 40] Re,turn Visits ...... 418 N (). of I t·ineTary Tr€la.t.ments ...... Total Out... Pa.tient Treatment.s ...... 1,144 819 Dispensary. First. Calls ...... 3,658 4,382 Return Calls ...... 8,466 7,247 .N 01. oI MinOT Opera,tions ...... 500 202 No. 0.£ Preventa,t,ive Inocula,tions .. . 157 146 're-tal Dispensary T·reatment.s ...... 12,124 11,u29 Property. La.nd-extent (Acre,s) ...... Ii No. of Buildings ...... 4 3 Est.imat€d Valus of Larud ...... $19,486 $16,000 Estimated Value orf Buildings ...... 118,400 84,000 Est.imated Value Q1f Equipment ... 9,000 107 Income. Hospital Patients ...... $13,303 $5.437 Dispensary Pa,tients ...... 4,161 3,021 Out-Patients ...... 6,349 4,101 Appropria,tions ...... 4,450 2,600 Sale of Drugs and Supplies ...... OtheT So,urces ...... 793 Tofal Income ...... 28,263 15,952 Expenses. SalaJ.·ies and Wages ...... 3,833 1,927 Drugs a,ud Supplies ...... 4,877 4,173 GeneTa-l Upkeep ...... ~,470 4,682 Repairs ...... :2,283 ExteILc;io,ns-Land and Buildings .. . Other Ex~nses ...... 6,85:"5 2,097 Total Expenses ...... 20,035 15,162 N oTE.-All valuations given in Mexica.n DollaTA. 108