. Life and light for woman. task is little more than begun. China has not yet, in the massof her life, clearly broken with her past. The great body of her peoplecling dully to the old ways. . At Nanking the Young Mens Christian Association, following upcertain ministrations of aid rendered after the revolution to the abandonedliterati of that ancient educational center, opened for them some Bibleclasses, sending invitations to those whose names they had. Out of 600so addressed 300 were on hand the first Sunday; the number has nowgrown to 500. The teachers are Chinese students in the Union Theo
. Life and light for woman. task is little more than begun. China has not yet, in the massof her life, clearly broken with her past. The great body of her peoplecling dully to the old ways. . At Nanking the Young Mens Christian Association, following upcertain ministrations of aid rendered after the revolution to the abandonedliterati of that ancient educational center, opened for them some Bibleclasses, sending invitations to those whose names they had. Out of 600so addressed 300 were on hand the first Sunday; the number has nowgrown to 500. The teachers are Chinese students in the Union Theo-logical Seminary connected with Nanking University. This universityhas another large group of these literati enrolled in its normal school,where under Christian influences they are being prepared to teach agamin Chinas new day. It is such reports that one gets everywhere hegoes—definite facts as to new lines of approach, new influences set inmotion, a fresh zest to the old task. I9i4\ The Golden Anniversary Gift 279. l^Otk
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