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Show FUTURE LEADERS OF CHRISTIAN CHINA 27 counties of the Fenchow prefecture, much has already been written. In the face of the threatening attitude of Japan, the drain of grafting officials, of flood and of famine, it will be years before the door of opportunity will be anything but cordially and insistently open to Christian institutions in the greater part of China. If China has been opened largely at the point of the lancet, it has been won to Christ, especially of recent years, in large INFLUENCE m e a s u r e through the Christian schools. One is OF SCHOOLS i m p r e s s e d w i t h t h e I e n § t n of time it takes to develop workers, through our schools, but after they have finished their work and can serve the church or their nation in other capacities, we have something worth while. Christian education is the bulwark upon which the future success of Christianity depends. TIENTSIN hopes to place schools an its out-station centres to develop a new generation of Christians. So far there is but one primary school for boys sustained by Board funds iu this station; but the atmosphere of friendship and the church-building brought about by the lame teacher in that small place show what the possibilities are. Experience has taught that a small school in a church does more to keep up its interest than almost anything which can be devised where a permanent preacher cannot be located. If the teacher is a graduate of a mission school, be can serve as teacher on week-days and preacher on Sundays. The teacher in the Chinese town or village is like the village parson of colonial days, and to keep the teachers alive and make them progressive is gradually to change the whole complexion of life about us. Such a teacher has recently renovated a village Day School Pupils, Lintsing church Jn ^ pANQ. KIACHWANG field. When our teachers go into government schools, their influence is felt strongly. A graduate of Pangkiach-waug girls' boarding school is teaching in one of the government schools, and has led her pupils to church many times. In |