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Show WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF 55 teachers' living rooms, a branch dispensary and equipment for the above. We would thus hope to be able to draw a better class of men and women, for, until we win the educated classes, we shall find that the church progresses very slowly. " (PANGKIA-CHWANG) " Within Peking is the Imperial City and its 70,000 population is a part of the legitimate field of our church. There are two Protestant Christian homes and a single individual Christian in three widely separated localities of this great region. In one of the homes the young wife, who is a daughter of one of our early church members, instructed a short time in our school, volunteers to give her time as a teacher of a school for little girls. A neighbor favorable to the Gospel offers a free school-room in his house. Desks only are solicited from us, together with monthly visits to examine the school. But so inadequate are our funds and personal supervision, etc. " (PEKING) " In Fragrant River the Christians did good service. One of them, who belonged to a large market-town, eight miles away, became so interested that he went back to his home where there is no church, and found twenty men all of whom knew something of the Gospel, who signed with him a petition to the evangelistic committee in TUNGCHOW to send them a preacher. I wish we could do so." "We have barely touched the circumference of the problem of evangelizing this population of 375,000. There are fourteen to eighteen centres, important market towns or larger villages, each one the natural hub of a population of from six to twenty-eight thousand people that should be opened as outstations. To open three new outstations each year would be a reasonable and conservative program, and would be to attempt the evangelization of our field in this generation." (TAIKUHSIEN) We have already called attention to what support for additional staff would mean in the case of Paotingfu. (p. 13) In LINTSING, it is possible on the present appropriations to have a preacher in many places only for two months of the year. This condition prevails in a county-seat city, where, when left to themselves, the local people do not feel that they can keep up services. The loss from work carried on in this manner is apparent, but the same old question comes up when you try to remedy it: where will the money come from? And is it therefore any wonder that the missionary sometimes makes comparisons with the standard of expenditures at home, and those that are possible here ? A college |
