. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . from Soochow to take her place. Mrs Espey has alsobeen aiding in the teaching, both at the Girls School and at Lowrie Silsby has also done some teaching at both these schools during theyear. Nantao Institute now; has good day and evening schools, with anattendance of 40 in the former and 80 in the latter. Among the womenMrs. Perry has had classes in cooking and in music. Mrs. Espey conducts aclass in English. Nantao Christian Insti
. Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . from Soochow to take her place. Mrs Espey has alsobeen aiding in the teaching, both at the Girls School and at Lowrie Silsby has also done some teaching at both these schools during theyear. Nantao Institute now; has good day and evening schools, with anattendance of 40 in the former and 80 in the latter. Among the womenMrs. Perry has had classes in cooking and in music. Mrs. Espey conducts aclass in English. Nantao Christian Institute.—We place this work in a separatecategory because it is a new work of particular interest and promiseat the present time. Mr. McKee and Mr. Pao, with the help of Chinese secretaries, werecarrying on the work until January. Since then Mr. Montgomery hastaken over the schools. Mr. Pao has given much of his time to the pro-mpting and raising of funds for the new piece of land so necessary for thesuccessful work of the Institute. The campaign resulted in some $20,000Mex. being pledged and so far about $2,000 has been collected. Four promi-. Womans Class in NingriM>. Cliina, 1919. Women engaged in a writing lesson. K^^^SSk ^^ \ ^^^H r *^y iikM-l This shows why some of themembers of the class cannot keepvery still during the sessions, butthe little ones do not keep themothers away from the are so eager for the Bible. CENTRAL CHINA—SHANGHAI 105 nent Chinese underwrote $10,000 of the sum, but the death of one of themand subsequent failure in business of another has made the collection ratherproblematical. Mr. Silsby, through patietit and continued personal work,has raised over $2,000 Mex. in cash from business people about town forland and current expenses, truly a remarkable achievement for us. The work of the Institute has consisted of the day and evening schools,classes for Bible study on Sunday, lectures in the building on Sunday even-ings, preaching, sometim
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