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Show ST. JAMES' HALL vear s work is that which has been 40 NORTH CHINA MISSION Kalgan Utangrftxm Italian General Report PERSONNEL „ ^ / M ^ £ ''^ff S^'' Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Smith, Missionaries at Large; Dr. and Mrs. James H. Ingram, Medical; Rev. and Mrs. Howard S. Gait, College; Rev. and Mrs. Lucius C. Porter, College; Rev. Murray S. Frame, General WTork and Language Study; Miss Mary E. Andrews, Miss Jessie E. Payne, Woman's Work; Miss Delia D. Leavens, Language Study and Woman's Work; Mr. Ernest Shaw, College. The outstanding feature of the ye carried on thru the winter and spring at St. James's Hall, the rebuilt and renamed city chapel at Fish Market Corner before the Drum Tower. This special work was begun as soon as Mr. Frame's health permitted him to devote himself to work. With characteristic vigor he threw himself into that work and thru the long months of the winter and spring was the main spring that kept the wheels busily working. In Mr. Chou T ' u n g I he found an able and versatile assistant who has shown increasing willingness to accept the responsibilities of management which it is hoped can be more largely turned over to him next year. If this is possible it will enable the foreign workers to develop still other plans for making the church and its message a more effective force in the city life. The special work was inaugurated with a general meeting on Oct. 26th. Invitations personally delivered to all the principal shopkeepers brought out a crowded house full. After an address by Mr. Kung on the general relation of the church to civic life, other speakers outlined the details of the new plans. These plans set forth a Sunday school for children, regular preaching three nights each week, later extended to a fourth evening, a weekly Thursday lecture, a course in the study of English, and an evening for informal disscussion. The Sunday school was under the careful, trained guidance of Mr. Corbett, with college student assistants. Mr. Corbett gave much time and strength to the work, not only taking the Sunday schcol but also having a regular evening for preaching thru out the winter and spring and sharing in the lecture work. II is help and advice were |