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Show 86 the Bible. An interesting innovation was a series of lectures on airships and other physical wonders, given by a Tungchou student at home on vacation, with apparatus borrowed from the college laboratories; these followed by straight Gospel talks. The calendar year 1913 closed without debt. In the budget for 1914, the extra money accruing to us from the erstwhile Kalgan funds, brought encouragement. It enabled us to invite both the Shihs to work which before had not been a certainty, also to raise the sa'aries of all the workers to the new " Mission schedule," a slight advance in most cases. The scale is very low still, bjt these m;n know tha": the proV.em is for us all to face unitedly. WHAT Little Huodjuangdz, far from city and railroad, stars again in THE SHIHS our story of beginnings. The Girls' School increased from DID FOR 11, last Spring, to 24; the young teacher has given herself HUODJUANGDZ to making education for girls popular in her native place. With tears of disappointment she learned the Board could not build immediately a school room, but before long a room in the village temple court was loaned and put in use. Only the first six girls came from Christian families. Three of the oldest girls will enter the central school at Hsiku next fall. There also was opened a little Boys' School, locally supported. These schools and the evolving church are the fruit of long years of prayer and endeavor on the part of the original Christian family, the Shihs. The North Villages show one new Christian school, for girls, ONE SCHOOL managed by a Christian layman in his own home. The Boys' MORE Boarding School, started last year, is full, despite troubles with teachers. People are getting used to the idea of paying tuition fees. The older Girls' School has remained small, but its teacher is a lovable, womanly mother who has sent a choice group of girls on to the Stanley Memorial School. That School has passed through straits again. Attendance WOLF AT has been cut to the least possible, and new pupils denied STANLEY entrance. Only 21 are enrolled, whereas our buildings, S-HOOL DOOR, well constructed and equipped, will accommodate 40 boarders. The teaching force need be no larger for more than that number. The pupils are from poor homes and self-support can hardly be realized immediately. The girls pay 33' , of their cost of living. Shall we continue to shorten the school year from 9 1 2 months to 8, and refuse the advantages of the school to promising new pupils? The Girls' Day School has greatly prospered, though a tuition fee of $1.00 has been charged. The tiny room is so crowded now that the door can be opened only half way I The Boys' School in Hsiku goes well under the continued WANTED! headship of Mr. P'eng Chin Chang. It is now crammed to MORS ROOM capacity with 37 boarding and 11 day pupils. We need more dormitories and classrooms. Tuition at 50 cents a month is charged; many boys are helped, but 63' . of the food expense is met by food fees. Despite limited equipment, the boys do well in athletics. There is a sound morale and a wholesome spirit in the school. Most of the older boys have already become Christians, and some are useful Bible teachers. |