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Show Paotingfu GENERAL WORK 53 alities during the winter months of comparative leisure. The several evangelists each deserve particular mention. Deacon Lang, with his donkey no less faithful than himself, a wide traveller with the gospel message; Mr. Teug, not so talented as some but doing a work that bears good fruit; Mr. Li wdiose one year with us has already endeared him to his field where the work has greatly revived; Mr. Wang, fresh from school at Christmas time with a zeal that has carried contagion, greatly quickening one of the outstations; Mr. Sun and Mr. Ting whose ministries in central church and street chapel but partly measure their wide influence in the cause they serve. There is much that could be told of the earnest labors of each of the above but I hasten on. I must take a little more space for appreciation of Mr Wei Yung Ch'ang, who has just parted from us to be clothed in immortality. He was for twelve years faithful to the sacred trust of the gospel ministry. His it was to show a well balanced judgment, an earnest purpose, an exhaustless patience, and a deep consecration. He was happy iu the past years work, in seeing the far brighter promise than ever before. He was at a new center where a remarkable new interest had arisen, when he was stricken with the fever that took his life. With the love of Christ deep in his heart he had ministered with a love that could be firm on occasion as well as indulgent. I can but mention in passing Mr. Price's helpful supervision of the work of colporteurs, and say that the sales of scriptures have increased in our field as everywhere else in China. To meet the new opportunities for Christian work within the city of Paotingfu we have joined hands with our sister station of the Presbyterian Board in a union work along Y. M. C. A. lines. Response to this work was immediate and generous. Lecture course, Bible study classes, reading room, and an English class have all drawn students and others of the better educated classes. We hesitated long about actually organising a city Y.M.C.A. because the National Committee felt in no condition to assure any attention to new work, and the demands of such an organisation must be heavy on the local missionaries if they must undertake to supervise it. But the call for the Association became so genuine and urgent that it could not be resisted and |