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Show Paotingfu WOMANS WORK 57 to come often. Miss Phelps has necessarily devoted much time to language study during the past year. In addition to this, she has had charge of the City Bible women's work; has gone on Saturdays to hold evangelistic services in the city or to call in the homes of the women; has co-operated with the Presbyterian ladies in arranging for, and ushering at, the general lectures for women which have been given in the city; has taught calisthenics in the girls' school; has had charge of the church music for Sundays and special occasions; has taught in the Sunday school, and has made one country tour of a week. Several lectures have been given in the city during the past year, to which women were invited, this being the first season that they have had such privileges. The newly organised Y.M.C.A. has kindly decided to admit women to the galleries for their lecture course, and has already done so twice. Mrs. Goodrich's lectures at the church and iu the city were most helpful in arousing the Chinese to a realization of the evils of the tobacco habit. Temperance societies were formed among the women of the church and in the girls' school, while practically every pupil in the boys' school signed a pledge. SPECIAL NEEDS Since, I a s t , y e a f r ' S ^ ^ ^ increased rather than diminished. We need money for new buildings for our Girls' Boarding school. We need money to enlarge the force of Bible women, since our vast country field is about 150 miles long by 60 miles broad, with over 1,000 villages and a number of cities. We need money to start more village schools. We need money to open day schools in the city of Paotingfu, including a kindergarten. We need money to open a social and lecture hall for women in the city, where religious meetings may also be held. Must wide open doors of opportunity be closed because no one can enter them ? God grant that some who read these lines may hear the Macedonian cry which we send forth; "Come over and help u s "! Compiled from the report by Mrs. King. |
