Educational Progress in the Chinese Mission
By A. C. Selmon
Some Results of the First Year's Work
THE group of Chinese young men and women shown in the accompanying photograph are the first to enjoy the blessings of our new school buildings. We have sixty-one in attendance at present. The majority of them have been in the work in the capacity of evangelists or colporteurs. Some of them will not have the opportunity of being here in the school more than this present year. The demand from the field is so urgent that we must do the best we can for them in the shortest possible time, and then send them out into the great harvest-field; for there are mission schools to be taught, and there is evangelical work to be done. If we had two hundred in school, there would be places for them all in the field. We have had a very successful school year thus far. A good spirit is manifested on all sides; and we can see that most of the students have made progress not only in their various lines of study, but in their Christian experience as well. One young man and his wife are here from Manchuria. He is full of enthusiasm, and will make a most efficient helper for the brethren who will go to Manchuria this fall to open the work there. We regret he can not stay for another year or two in training. The photograph tells its own story of the intelligent class of young men and women that are embracing this message. And they have a strong purpose in their hearts to join in pushing the work to its completion. These are some of the fruits that not only encourage our hearts here, but that we know must encourage the hearts of the self-sacrificing brethren and sisters in the home land who are sustaining us in these outlying fields.
A. C. SELMON.