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Show 68 NORTH CHINA MISSION Lintsing riculum, tuition to be charged, etc. Although for this spring term the tuition fee was considerably in advance of the previous term (it is now almost enough to cover the cost of board), yet forty-eight boys have been enrolled as against twenty-three for the preceding term. Four boys from Mohammedan homes in the city have attended as day pupils. The teaching has all been done by the three Chinese teachers, even to the classes in English, the teachers in turn receiving some coaching from the missionary. Nearly all the new pupils have come from non-Christian homes, some them from wealthy homes, to carry back as they go now to their homes for the summer vacation, not alone a knowledge of arithmetic, geography and history, but, let us hope, also a knowledge of the Jesus religion which will in time permeate the whole home. , , „ » „ , T , „ A „ T T _ _ _ Among new plans and methods used NEW FEATURES. ... , .. , .. this vear can be mentioned the pnnt- NEEDS. . . . . ing and distribution to the teachers of monthly report blanks. Each worker in the outstations isexpect-ed to fill out one of these blanks each month and mail to the foreign pastor. After examination these reports will be left on file in the reading-room and open to inspection of those who care to know what others are doing. A list of the conditions on which one may join the church either on probation or as baptized members is being prepared and will also be printed so that copies may be given to all inquirers. Our needs are many, our hopes and plans for the future more numerous still. The Medical work now that Dr. Tallmon has gone on furlough is left entirely in the hands of the Chinese physician just last year out of Medical College. The most pressing need is that for a foreign physician, either someone temporarily supplied for the furlough period, or better yet the new man physician already promised by the Board and the Mission, but money for whose support must per the Board's decree all be raised "outside the regular appropriations of the Board." Next in order comes the need for an unmarried lad}- missionary either to take charge of the great untouched country work for women and girls or to release another for this purpose. The Girls' School building remains yet to be built, but the first requisite is the money with which to build it. |