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Show - 106 - The dispensary work has been largely in the hands of Mr. CHINESE Tsui. We were very sorry to lose his services when he went MEDICAL to Kalgan to assist Mr. Heininger. He had been with us for ASSISTANTS eight years, and he was always trustworthy and reliable. In his place we have Dr. Fan Fu-Iin, who graduated in the first class from the Union Medical College. This is Dr. Fan's native place, and the community tendered him a hearty reception on his arrival. He has taken hold of the work in a way that has given satisfaction to all. A committee of womsn visit the women's waiting room daily for religious work, and a man has been secured to speak with the men patients. If securing a Chinese pastor but depended on the amount of EDUCATION IN balloting, Tungchou would have worthily achieved it, months CONGREGA- ago. The church itself, upon suggestions from the Standing TIONAL Committee, decided that such a call should be extended, METHODS and furthermore, that it would have direct primaries. By the time the final vote was taken, its business-like use of this weapon of democracy was a thing to see. Even the old ladies with canes solemnly received the sacred bit of paper as their right, though it required more than one balloting for some of them to quite believe the amanuensis' whispered reassurances that they really might choose as they very well pleased. But in spite of all the balloting, two invitations to become our shepherd were refused. But hope is not dead yet. The annual meeting of the church caused widespread interest and the varied reports seemed to arouse more enthusiasm and ambition than ever before. It has become quite an American fashion for various meetings A HINT FOR to convene synchronously in some one city. We of China ANNUAL would suggest combining the annual meeting of a home MEETINGS missionary society with a big temple fair and theatre as most felicitous. For four days last June in Fragrant River, Chinese and foreign preachers, Bible women and Christians in general, successfully managed a continuous performance, | dramatic terms seems most suitable!) in three sections. During most of the daytime, some one was preaching spiritedly to the curious crowds gathered in the new street-chapel; other men and women took turns talking to the constantly-shifting but always renewing throngs in the mat sheds put up near the theatre; and all the while, with earnest prayer and consultation, the reports of the year's work of preaching and teaching in the out-stations were being given and discussed in a quiet room back of the crowded chapel. Between sessions, the missionary meeting resolved itself in toto into a preaching band in chapel, temple court or mat shed. A theatre and a missionary meeting, -and the missionary meeting winning out! Many signs there are in the Tungchou field this year of the NON-CHRIS- new open attitude toward the gospel. In the city the church TIANS HONOR services are thronged. On children's day it was necessary to THE CHURCH invite the college students not to attend, that there might be room. In a town where the Christians were all killed in 1900, representatives of twenty of the surrounding villages and the leading |