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Show A NATION RIPENING T O HARVEST 21 meetings have been held once a week in five different homes They reached a good many of the poorer neighbors about the mission who cannot as yet be persuaded to attend church services, but who w i l l - i f invited every time-attend a meeting in a house near by. In PAOTINGFU, similarly, the women and older school girls gather at the church on Sunday afternoons to pray for the Master's blessing, then divide into groups, some going •into the city and some to private homes iu the South Suburb" In TAIKUHSIEN, a weekly prayer-meeting has been started for the church women, who sit as silent listeners in the regular •church prayer-meeting, but in this meeting of their very own are learning to get used to the sound of their own voices. It is hoped that out of this meeting may grow similar evangelistic work. What of the churches? Are they becoming acclimatized or are they still manifestly exotic? Tlie editors aie embarrassed, not by lack of evidence, but by the abundance roRANEVAN-0f *' „We m i g h t e ' l l a r g e 1 1 P ° " " P r e c i o us GELISTIC Island," the Confucian stronghold of the CAMPAIGN ? TUNGCHOW field, where twenty men last summer signified their intention of becoming Christians. Or of that little church where preacher and student-helper started to prepare for an evangelistic campaign in the autumn, and drew seventy men into the church while they were getting ready! So well did they prepare for the autumn campaign that in the neighboring villages in each case the village mayor received the evangelistic party, and there was an abundance of willing hands and backs to help iu all needed effort, even to the extent cf carrying the preachers across a river one night after a meeting, " p i c k a b a c k . " One might dwell on the mat-shed half-way between a camp of 5000 soldiers and the school preparing students for study iu America, to which the students ;go to lecture to the soldiers. In the PAOTINGFU district, there is the group which struggled into the light, largely on its •own initiative, who keep the occasional itinerating evangelist busy answering the questions they have stored up since the last itime he was there. They are a hungry, eager group of believers, |