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Show Some twenty boys have been doing odd jobs about the school such as sweeoing and cleaning the rooms, oaring for the lamps, ^ t a k i n g . Charge of the selling of books and pencils, and learning the firftu rudiment s of carpent er work, and fro for this work they have reca e i t h e r part of or all t h e i r board, The f u l l charge of uhis school work together - n t h the.oversight of the city chapel school and t i n t or the several o u t s t a t i o n school? I must t h i s autumn- a t tempt *g&in to take over. For Mr. Houlding who has f a r t a e l a su t h r e e years been giving a l l his time to this work has JUfcTi aisled for- home, "Te had expected that the American Board woujta not leave us without help la this department , and haai asked for the. appointment of a q u a l i f i e d man who has ^ e n for wo y e , r , m th e Pekm g Lang urge School, But t he Board f e l t too hard pressed f i n a n c i a l l y to make this new appointment* Where i s one g cod ±raentt 'who will g uarantee t h i s s alary for the next two years V we w i l l, perhaps, be able yet to find a man, If we am get the money.- • ' * Tne evangelistic work has been pressed XTltb v1 ^, Bilic@ t h e r e l i e f work ceased". Despite deaths and revision of the roll the number of ohureh members has risen 'GO 7oj - ^ae only hinar-aico"""-to dc-ubliig this number within a year's time l i e s in the f . , r ¥rb Kv'6 of ^ c - a w those wao can scarcely re-ad /aid icnow ouu 11 L~ U of the essence "af a b r l s t i a n i t y to join to church before they have hid a real eeriod of preparation, So many of tnc.se who want to loir have learned onla thro the hearing of the ear-*and often th 1% is^'not s u f f i c i e n t , Some years age, for I n s t a n c e , I asked a man who _ a/as being .examined for- entrance into the oeuroh ho- Jesus came uo d i e . His repl? in Chinese . was, ! b - Lsiung t.a uh szu liao, Tais means "He was starred . to death byi his brothers, n , TTh-t had-been told him was, t! Bay asiu ng uh to jen szu li*D«< ThLS means,' Put to death at the Hinds of evil men, In Chinese the -e • i s enough s i m i l a r i t y m the sound so that he had g o t t e n . i t mixed^ Every year there are . l i t e r i l ly hundreds who j o i n . o n prcoaulon, ^ w th Ink they have learned enough of the rudiments to oe given a * < ^U But there always seems to be. g reax dxf f i c u l t y r in -«.i., p.+ c~ „ 0 " m r d within- the next year or so art. being.bagfcise4 I n . o x i i membership. We h wo so few workers t h ^ . we cannot f o l i o them ail i n t . , t h e b ho.me v i l l a g e s xnd g ive th en he , hexp. xmd ^ ™ e * f * l r they need. Many of them are too poor or too bus; earning -h e » d a i l y bread to' come to t h e c e n t r a l station . and studj for •• W.K6AJ.J - . ,v,., c hnanii.qp of Tiers ecu ui on u month or mere in a^atechr umen - c l a s s * Others, oecguse 01 p e . . „r e S8 for one reason or anotaer -_ft>c cold, -and adw no a U « ^ to O ? " * - o n ' . i n t o the church; xet despite these d i s c o u r a p i c n t . v . e . c. u a • - . • f . , ~,<*w fufl mvirp-pf! ^.7^ h ' ^ e , ana aouempw-forward doing the best wo can t a a ^ a s workers we M B - I , - ^ i n 3 t o give to every one -horn we b .p-tiae not * i . f e n o , c. p •80 that h e himself may be saved, but enough t raining no t hat he may he able to win otaers. How with t h e ' adopt ion by tne Chinese .Government- of the phonetic olph * e t ,M on can be ,eam ed b y - i l l i t e r a t e s in so maoh short er - period t ha., the symbol w r i t i n g there is real ' hope in .sight..' if we a | caur * M V W p a r t in knowing theoawc htxoo ,r; oai dt iatn d , de; matnhdaint g tthhea t ncoh urcohn e o£x* » o«aew -----o- h-u .^ .« °b j ^ w i l l ' be a Bible reading church,^ ^ s t ynE;o e day ,n our oau.oh s e r v i c e hero we hod a report of our d e l e g a t e ,w.teh^ been in attendance on i Sunday School Instltut. e. * * * * * b ^ ? e children Phonetic were the two main s u b j e c t s . He oola of l i " * * * . ° ^ 1 1 ^ T , of eight who loomed the Ph o r o t i c and r m . tano w t W '»• ' Parent s md "older brothers mad s i s t e r s , of ol,, women o i c x ^ n v j ... r-ho ie»mfed I n s i d e of one month's time -co rexu oho ,hon,,tic newspaper! -Surely here is an i n s t rumeno 01 -,Toa o prc\iJ...nto which -^e • aiusa use more zealously,: . . . ,-fa t h o « a l l -J . • T have ao ove referred oo oae saiu. ^ ing of Mr. Kpalding. He' shall g r e a t l y miss J ^ * ^ ? !* ^ ^'°1 "' m a b l e v l f e . . But as they were only _ on three ?«ar ^po,ntmo.. , i - are h e a r t i l y in accord wit h his desire to get HofSe JBA * ^ e s J S* r o s t of his Seminar course now. He plnns to en ber UaJ.cn_Semln..ry t h i s autumn; • end may be able to ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ T ^ l h e r e Z two Oolumb i a Teacher's College.- He should sradua e .here in two years, after which he hopes to return, xo Llntsmgi e -•->- o l n t - ( l i s s i i n are urgently requesting the Board to mdto? Buch .ppoinu m c n t " • " - •'• '.7e ,-j3-, ;<iso :ose p o t h e r family soon. Pr. -«d tin. . H e l l i ^ l l 'have r esigned fTrom^ ^ ^ ^ ^ f ' ^ and will liltely - be s a i l i n 3 fro their home in Can«4n ^ u a , ^m Ontober ' Po-'-W.ftt elv Dr. Cooke is here in oharg e ct one rrniTln.Jn Hosw* t a] - and will ^e able to give some supv.rvao_.un tSe'Hena^wo-rk^-but wo a r o looking - ^ ^ ^ 1 1 ^ ^ «* Doctor,' and hope , ^ ? f ' ^ t o f c f a t , C T did,te ^ sending him to us. If yon a 3 % " 1 s W - U Boston, wi t h the •Msmme to t he American Boara, 14 Besicon Sxre^o, e ^ ""' Tb M-aestion that he would do Per the vacanx po- . at lan.tslns.; me opnSrt un?ty here for the right max la sim.ply xremenaous^ |