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Show Peking WOMANS WORK 33 lost to us since the Boxer year. There has been growth also in branches of the church. Mrs. Ament has attended regularly the service of the North Chapel, and has led in the work for women there. The church has suffered great loss in the death of its pastor, but still the attendance has been good, and there have been many additions to the membership. Mrs. Ts'un, anew Bible woman placed there, has been very active. At the Ch'i Hua Men, twelve women came into the Church. The Sunday classes for the women and children have been kept up, and all have been well attended, as have been also the street chapel lectures on the first and fifteenth of each month. At Lan Tien Ch'ang, close by the Manchus' Encampment and the scene of the fair, a Chinese preacher and his wife have been stationed, and are gradually building up a little church. Six women have already been baptized. A school for little girls is growing steadily, though slowly. BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL In t h e s u m m e r o f l 9 ' 2 ' t h e great growth of school and college showed their need of the entire school building, and the part formerly used by the Bible School was handed over to them. The great difficulty now facing the Bible School is lack of a house. Last winter the school was open for three months, and the fifteen women who came to study were accommodated in different courts. The difficulties of this plan were so many that it does not seem advisable to try it again. Yet the women who came gained much. Mrs. Ti, from Fang Shan, loved to tell how Miss. Russell had helped her in giving up opium, and had brought her here to study. "Now" she would say, "my memory is better, and I can read more, and I do thank God that He has led me in this way''. Some of the older Biblewomen studied faithfully and went back to more earnest work. rOTIWTRV TOTTRS In October Mrs. Anient and Miss Reed made a trip to some of the more distant stations, including P'ing Chiug and Man Ming. They found the workers full of courage, and doing well. In April a trip was made still farther to the South. The Bible-woman in the southern field does her work with great faithfulness, and is much loved in her parish. This spring three places were |
