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Show - 4 - cone those who some day will play the organ in churchfin street chapels nd village schools. Baby organs are not uncommon now. They can be bou-ght here for $20.00 gold and are most useful, bocauso they can be carried about so easily. Maybe some class in Sunday School would like to contribute one , for our use. If any of you have any music books for beginners that you are not using and v/ould like to contribute to our Chinese pupils, I am sure we could use them to good advantage. And I think they would add to the music of the sphorek. CO-EDUCA- Lately the nativo government has required a l l schools to register TION if they were to receive government recognition. So our boys and g i r l s schools have been united and registered. Of course, to those who remember the time \;hon the g i r l s did not stop into the street without a chaperon, whon they were not supposed to see any men except their fathers and brothers, this seemed a great change. The oldest missionary in our station can remember 5* years ago when schools for g i r l s were f i r st opened. "Do you want your l i t t l e g i r l to go to school?" the missionary would ask. "Oh! No!" the mother v/ould say, "A g i r l cannot learn to read". And with great difficulty were a few g i r l s collected for the f i r s t schools. The pupils were required to pay no fee -for board, book or tuition, and ono hundred cash was given every Saturday morning to the pupils with perfect records. Now the school fees nearly cover the running expenses and our schools are f u l l . ^Already for a year the school has prospered with co-oducation. There are about 500 students; and twenty-eight Chinese teachers at present who a r e graduates of Yenching University, Tungchow College, government normal schools and other educational i n s t i t u t e s . The principal is Mr, Yang Sheng Wu, of whom wo have told you a They recently have had games with other schools and the girls whose mothers had feet bound so small that they could hardly walk about to do their household duties are winning in basketball tournaments. So China has changed in the last fifty-three years and with a l l i t s problems we are glad, indeed, to beliving in this time. • "In an age on ages telling To be living is sublime." The papers will t e l l you that the National Government is planning a new war against Yen Hsi Shan. Just now no t r a i n s are running, but we go on doing our work trusting yet to see the day when "Wars shall cease, and swords be beaten into pruning hooks"/ We need your continued love and interest and prayers. |