The New Honan Training School
By H. W. Miller, M.D.
WHEN it was decided to make a beginning with this central training school for workers, we thought perhaps we could get eight or ten who could be put in training for evangelists and medical workers. When the day came for the opening of school, only three of those whom we had counted upon were present. School had continued but a week, when a house-boat arrived from Ying Shang Hsien, one hundred and forty-five miles to the east of us, with seven bright young men as students. A few days after, another boat arrived, having on board four men, and an aged lady, the mother of one of the men. They had come a distance of about one hundred and forty miles, having never met one of our missionaries, only having seen a native evangelist. This mother, over fifty years of age, was as earnest as her son to learn and receive training. Altho reared from childhood in ignorance, in a home without order and system, she was prompt at her classes, and observed the regulations of the school as did younger pupils. We believe that she will make a valuable worker. The coming of this party at the time of the opening of school, having heard nothing of such an enterprise, and their demands being met in the establishment of the school, was to us an indication of the approval of God in the inauguration of this training school. We had many other experiences throughout the school year, assuring us that God was leading in the enterprise. We opened industrial work for the boys. This consisted mostly of selling literature. A four-year course is offered for evangelists and Bible workers. One year is added to complete the medical course, the students for the latter course working in either the laboratory, the dispensary, or the hospital. Our hope in reaching the Chinese is centered in our Chinese brethren; we must develop every one of talent who gives promise of becoming a worker, and urge such into the work of soul saving.