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Show 50 NORTH CHINA MISSION Flood Prevention! Placed on the dike to protect the city women have not been as well attended as in former years, because, forsooth, women are now more free to go to other places, and there are many other entertainments for them in the city which formerly did not exist. What can be done about it ? In ancient Sinim, every piece of land is a graveyard, so a hundred or more graves were removed from the plots of land in TECHOW after purchase. Many were unclaimed, and it was our privilege to show the Chinese that we too respect the dead, even though unknown. All remains were encoffined wherever excavating unearthed a grave, and in one instance, an old grave was found under a road We were told it would never do to bury the men and women together, (unless unearthed together), so it became the doctor's gruesome task to examine all bones to determine whether they were men or women ! The Chinese, including non-Christians, seemed much pleased with the burial service we held in August, when nearly fifty unclaimed coffins were interred. So that the satisfactory solution of this gruesome problem was of direct apologetic value. How are you going to build up a strong, self-supporting church when your present constituency, aside from those employed by the mission, is almost made up of uneducated COI^TITU f a r m e r s . s o m e of whom have money, but no ENCY ability as leaders or any power to be attractive forces for Christianity in their communities? This is the problem that LINTSING is facing, and they believe that at least a partial solution will be found in special work for the "neglected higher classes." What would you do if only one-seventh of the members of your church were women? Rejoice? Not much, when it means that we are definitely failing to reach the women n ! ? F W r w ' I E S '" t h e SamC Pr oP°r t i o n a s t l i e men- Education FORWOMEN f ° r g i d s 'S StiU lai'§el>' l o o k e d uPon as being quite useless,-all they need is to learn to cook and sew. They must stay closely at home, with feet tightly |