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Show - 102 - Five of the classes in the city were held in our Station Class rooms under the faithful, patient teaching of Mrs. Ch'iang. The sixth was held at the home of Deacon Sui, a well-to-do man who was anxious that his wife should have the benefit of such teaching. He not only furnished the rooms but also all incidental expenses, asking of us only a teacher for the class. We were glad to release the Bible reader, Mrs. Chang, from other work for a month of teaching there, and the class was a very successful one. Of the foreigners Miss Andrews has done the greater part of the work in these classes, though Mrs. Corbett, Mrs. Porter, and Mrs. Gait have also given much help. The country classes were visited by Mrs. Frame and Miss Leavens, but they were taught almost entirely by the Bible readers. As usual, the most interesting class was that of the Bible readers themselves, in which others of our best educated women joined, so that the class numbered twenty-one. Mrs. Sheffield assisted in the teaching of the class, and nearly all of our Mission circle helped with the lecture course. Out of a blunder,-wisdom! And as the result of an oddly. GRADED matched, rather heterogeneous class of men gathered in from CURRICULUM the out-stations for a month's study in November, (due to a FOR MEN'S misunderstanding, it must be said,) came the decision on the STATION part of the executive committee of the home missionary CLASSES society of the church to prepare a curriculum including several grades, from which the Bible-class students in the out-stations must graduate before they could attain the distinction of a month's advanced study in Tungchou. Two out-stations have already proved the practicability of the curriculum by pass ng thorough examinations by the foreigner in the various subjects. After a year's good work, the Richly Instructing Girls' School THE LITTLE held its pretty closing exercises of music, essays, and fancy SCHOOL gymnastics in the church, before a large and appreciative AROUND audience. As a grade was to be added in the fall there THE CORNER was no graduating class. Of the large audience of women, a few went over to the school afterwards for tea, and to see the girls' work in drawing and writing, which was displayed in the large school room. Last summer for the first time the Y.W.C A. held a summer conference at the Western Hills, to which three of our girls and two of the teachers went. Even the train ride to Peking was new to two of the girls, and they came back bubbling over with enthusiasm, filled with a desire to do things for others and with an appreciation of the fact that Christianity is something real and vital, something more than singing hymns and reading the Bible. They have tried to give to the other girls something of this inspira- THE GIRLS tion. They were very much helped by a visit from Miss Paxson IN SCHOOL about Christmas time, The Cabinet met her and asked many questions, and have been trying to keep up to the standard then set for them. Since then, monthly meetings of the little group of leaders have had most interesting, and to the teachers, illuminating discussions of the spiritual welfare of the School, from the question of why the little girls do not always love to say their prayers at night, to methods of making meetings interesting. |
