After careful consideration of the chief religious, educational, niedical and administrative problems of the missions of China, tha conference of delegates from America and workers on the field which was organized by the Federation of Women's Foreign Mission Boards adjourned late on Thursday afternoon, after a four days' session.
President Ellen F. Pendleton of Wellesley College, chairman of tie collegiate education commission and Miss Charlotte Conant, chairman of the secondary education commission, will sail for the United States on January 16. Miss Helen Calder, chairman of the religious education commission and secretary of the Congregational Women's Foreign Board, leaves on Saturday for Indix; and Miss Nellie Prescott, chairman of the Administration Commission and secretary of the American Baptist Women's Foreign Board, will sail for home on January 24.
The conference was especially significant, both because of the distinguished women who were numbered among its delegates and be cause of the fact that it included the first interdenominational_ deputation of women to visit China for a study of mission problems As practically all the recommenda. tions are national in scope, the findings of the body will probably have a large influence on the future policy of women's mission work.
The commission on religious education, which first presented its report, laid special emphasis on the combination of social service and evangelism. It was recommended that all evangelistic workers he given a training that will ft them for community service, and that every church member be expected to express his Christianity by some definite gift of time and help. Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich, of Peking, pointed out that it is extremely difficult to enrol! yang women, either in China or at henie as evangelists, but that many would volunteer for that form of work if social service were included.
The conference also snegested that a movement similar to the rident Volunteer Movement be invitiated in mission schools, the apneal for service being made work meetings, as well as stant emphasis on responlity:
Endorsement of the plan to introduce ce-education _at the Shanghai Baptist Colleze was offered during the meeting of the late education commission. The resolution also suggested that mission colleges be encouraged to become ce-educational wherever there seemed to be a demand in that direction. Other—_recommendations advised the sending out of a home economies expert by the Federation of Women's Foreign Mission Boards, the education of young women in China, rather than abroad, except for post-graduate work, and the standardization of admission requirements for all mission colleges.
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