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Show 52 NORTH CHINA MISSION Paotingfu Yang. The other of the country schools has had to be refused further help from us for lack of funds, but its teacher Mr. Chang has accepted less than a "living wage" from the patrons of the school and a larger success has attended his work. We hope that this school, in a distant part of our field, may grow to become a boarding school largely self supporting and serving a group of five of our outstations. EVANGELISTIC WORK f, Af e r t h e f * e v ° l u t ; o n a nd the subsequent Paotingtu outbreak, the evangelistic work, not greatly interrupted at any time, was soon on a normal footing again. During the summer we had a force of \6 men in the field. Eight of these were college and theological students giving only their vacation time. Special gifts from friends made it possible to employ these men. We were highly pleased at the testimony that came in showing that all of them had labored faithfully and well in the Master's work. Over our whole vast field the evangelistic efforts of the recent months have met with very encouraging and increasingly fruitful results. With great joy we listen, every time we see one of our country workers, to eager words relating to the increased interest on the part of the groups for whom he works. Sadness comes with the joy when we think of the utter inadequacy of our means for meeting the opportunity. There are at least twenty distinct centers iu our country field in which there is excellent promise that the work would go forward with large fruitage could a man of consecrated spirit and good training give his whole time to the one place and the nearby villages. It is pitiable to have to ask one man to divide his time between four or five of such centers. Mr. Price has toured widely during the year, visiting nearly all points where there are Christians.. He has also conducted station classes in several places with very encouraging results. Mr. Ewing, as he borrowed his time from his Tientsin field in our behalf, helped not a little in this line of work, as well as in other lines. An advanced station class was held for one month iu the early winter at the central station. To this were invited only deacons and leaders in the various local branches of the church. The 40 men enrolled did good faithful work and went back with new ideas and inspiration to impart in their own loc- |