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Show A NATION RIPENING TO HARVEST *? interest, and the leading men of all classes attended. Over three hundred signed cards expressing a desire to know more of the truths of Christianity. Iu the summer, in response to special calls in the adjacent villages, a large number of women attended a lecture in the chapel. The day was oue of the hottest, but when with red faces and weary feet the guests arrived, the hosts felt the genuineness of a friendliness which would not let the invitation go unheeded. Tea was served and everything done for their comfort. In TAIKUHSIEN, the street chapel work includes an English night-school, and monthly lectures, to one of which came the superintendent of police, with a detail of twenty-five men in uniform. Where church-members and inquirers are scattered over many villages, and the staff is limited, groups of them are RELIGIOUS gathered occasionally for a week or two of study EDUCATION °f U l e B i b ! e a n d C 1 , r i s t i a n t e a c l l i n g - Women U gather cross-legged around the tables on the big-brick beds, and labor to acquire one or two characters of the "precious doctrine." In TUNGCHOW, " H o w to behave in c h u r c h " has been the topic of some practical instruction, in question and answer. For instance, " I t your friends come in during the service, what should you do? I should not stand up and greet them, but should sit quietly until after the service." Or, "Keep your children quiet. Do not let them run about and t a l k ! " In LINTSING, twenty women studied for a month, and each paid sixteen cents of the seventy-four necessary to provide her millet gruel, and bear.-flour macaroni, with assorted condiments, such as salt radish, and ash-berries. To train enough women to conduct this sort of class, and to lead the women of the church in evangelistic work, is the problem that the Angell Memorial Bible School is trying to solve. Such classes are held each year iu all the stations, and it is difficult to over estimate the value of this form of work in deepening the spiritual life of the churches. This is the intensive work, the turning from the general to the particular, from the mass to the individual. These weeks spent iu definite daily Bible class work in one of the gospels, or in an epistle like Romans or First John will do more to change men's lives than a wdiole year of sermons. Even thorough Christians need to be carefully taught. Our |