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Show A NATION RIPENING TO HARVEST J5 A City Gate Tientsin Field finds that it has twenty out-stations, almost all iu villages whose population numbers from 200 to 3ooo'while there are at least a-score of cities with population from 10,000 to 40,000 in hardlv any of which we have work at all. The past years, they have felt that the time was fully ripe for the occupation of these cenlers-but have lacked the means. During the autumn, campaigns were carried on in two of these centres, by which the congregations in village centers within a radius of ten milts were linked together in an effort to establish a-strong work in the county seat. These campaigns succeeded beyond expectation. Men of influence in both cities-have expressed welcome to the leader. There are oppoi tunities now as there have not been in past years to get a hearing from all classes of people. They heartily wish that they had the means to push immediately ahead on this policy, and open at least five other cities of strategic importance. Our work would be warmly welcomed in all these places. There are college and seminary graduates whom the station has had to pass on to other stations because of lack of funds to employ them, but who are ready to accept calls-back to their own district, if only the means could be found. In FENCHOW, as in Lintsing, the whole field has been divided into five districts, with a superintendent in charge of each with full authority to develop his field along any lines it may seem. best under given conditions, and in one of the fields, a woman has been appointed to supervise the work for women. The year has seen the inauguration or the successful contin-nance of several lines of new work, efforts- FXTENSION t0 Pr e s e , l t t u e g°°d news in a way adapted to particular classes of the population, PANGKIACHWANG has aroused great interest amoug the leading educated men by means of the post office, through which gifts of papers and books were sent to them, and is-planning to supplement this work by means of monthly or bi-monthly bulletins sent out from the central station, giving |
