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Show J8 NORTH CHINA MISSION from a distance, and are used to good advantage especially in reaching the women. Sometimes rapt attention proves to be mere curiosity about the foreigner's collar, and how it is got into! But many kind and earnest words are heard, and many copies of a hymn and of the Gospel Story are bought to take liome. Of course, none of the women can read, but perhaps the cover attracts the baby, or there is some one at home, her son or a neighbor's boy or the village teacher who can tell her what it is about. Hundreds of women each day come, are met and talked to. The street-chapel preaching and work, which fonierly consisted mainly of a rambling monologue, are being supple- T H E MAN uiented by lectures, museums, and snappy short ^ _ j »r«iTp talks, well advertised, and self-advertising STREET In TUNGCHOW, the work of St. James Hall has been described in previous reports. This year, Mr. Frame took four of the preachers to Tsiuaufu, Shantung, to study the work in the " I n s t i t u t e " there, with a view to adapting the methods there used so successfully to the chapels of his field. Thursday night has been reserved for lectures by members of the college faculty and by interested friends in the city. Saturday night has been kept for debate and discussion. The remaining nights of the week have been given to preaching, and the whole program is producing results, manifest in the steady stream of men joining the church on probation, among them an increasing number of educated and self-suporting gentlemen. Iu PEKING, a band of seven preachers visited sections of the country field with lectures and preaching, reaching 30,000 people, visiting neighboring villages daily and lecturing nightly B? at the centres. In PANGKIA-CHWANG, the missionary visited five centres, with a series of three lectures, one dealing with the European war, C r o s s i n g ^ Ferry, Lintsing 0„ e w i t h pa t r i o t i s n i , and One with The Hope of China. These were given iu buildings borrowed from the government for the most part. One found the deepest |