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Show - 79 - The Guardian of our Alley. A Christian poster has replaced the idol in this shrine paste up forty of one kind in the city each month, to the end that wherever a man goes, his eyes will strike the one same short sentence. Four hundred a month would be none too many, but forty is a distinct advance over what we have been able to do before, and we are very grateful. A recent grant from the Christian Literature Society has enabled us to mingle a liberal supply of their posters with the others. "We have also been making efforts, not very well organized as yet, toward covering the fairs and theatres with preachers and booksellers, so that when the clerks attend they will once more have a chance to learn something more about Christianity. The most notable effort was last November, when for three weeks a preaching tent was maintained at the big tenth moon fair, with an average daily attendance of between three and four hundred, who stayed on an average about ten minutes. No conversions have this year been directly traced to this preaching, but we believe in it as a part of the process of distributing information about the good news which in the end will have its results. Another occasion that has been utilized for several years is the blossoming of a large shrub peony in a temple near the foreign residences in the south suburb, when hundreds of people come out to see the beautiful sight. Irregular preaching has been carried on in the street chapel ever since it was reopened after 1900, and this year Sunday night lectures have been added, of the general nature of Christian Association addresses at home. But so far this branch of the work has not been highly successful, and we are planning to place Mr. Sung Fu, one of the organizers of the Peking Evangelistic Society, in charge of the street chapel preaching and the fair preaching for the coming year, with large hopes that new life may be developed, and returns commensurate with those in other parts of the country be made. • "It is easy to see, however, that with the large majority of the population in shops, with little time to spend on the streets, we shall not make much headway by waiting in the chapel for any large number to drop ,n. This year has been marked by the possibility of closer attention to the work on the part of the foreigner in charge, and also by more definite attention to the problem of attracting people to hear the gospel. Mr. Liu Fa-ch'eng, in charge of the work The Tenth Moon Fa W l ithin the city, has developed a new field this year in the establishment of a essful class' in English, which has had an enrolment of over fifty and an average attendance of about half that number. This class has been about |