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Show - 21 - into some thirty classes each with its teacher. A weekly training class for teachers is held. The lack of classrooms is a hindrance to the best work. The Sunday School as thus conducted accomplishes two important ends. It reaches effectively a large number of people who would not be reached thru the other services of the church and for that reason this arm of the service should be largely extended throughout the city and suburbs. The second end achieved is the training of workers. As one studies the religious situation in the Chinese 'Church, he cannot escape the conviction that greater emphasis must be placed upon the training of youth and children in actual Bible-teaching service, if we are ever to reach practical efficiency in the use of lay agents', and the Sunday School is pointing the way to this end. The literary work of the year is perhaps noteworthy. This 120,000 PAGES has amounted to over 120,000 pages printed on the mimeo- BY graph and includes, 1. a monthly pamphlet giving the results MIMEOGRAPH of the month's work in Bible Study for the Bible Study Circle among the Gentry. 2. A similar booklet bi-monthly on educational subjects for the teachers and schools of the field. 3. A pamphlet for the preachers and other -workers in the church. Some of these men are working in places of peculiar hardship, isolation and loneliness, and we try in this way to carry to them aid in their spiritual and intellectual life and growth. 4. An interesting work has been done in scattering popular songs thru the • city. Street songs in China are vile in the extreme. One worker conceived the idea of suiting -words to these same tunes and scattering them throughout the city. The words were not always those of Gospel songs, but clean and helpful in their nature, either written by himself or adapted from other sources^ in some instances they have been taken up well, in others no result seems to have come 5. Many helpful articles in papers or magazines on Christian, social, or health subjects have been copied and scattered thru the country field as tracts. We believe this line of work is one of increasing importance. The actual intellectual grapple with entrenched evils and long regnant systems of thought will take place thru the printed page pre-eminently. Sermons and lectures do not afford time for that deep, long-sustained logic and criticism by which error can be adequately exposed and truth expounded. The printed page, too, goes where the human voice cannot hope to reach. To take up our Christian propaganda in earnest and give it to the whole nation, requires us to make use of the press far beyond anything we have yet planned or striven for. The work for the literati has been carried steadily forward FOR MEN OF thru the year, meeting weekly for study. The first course LEARNING taken up was one in Christian Evidences, followed by a short course in Christian Ethics, when the class decided it wanted to go direct to the Bible, and since September they have been making a detailed study of the Gospel of Mark. The results of the month's study are brought together and printed in pamphlet form and sent to all members of the Circle which now includes men from far distances, from whom most appreciative letters are received. The Chinese papers have in many in- |