In ce-operation with other misslonavies and Chinese leaders, Dr.
Christian Educational Association, hoping and endeavouring to formulate a system of romanization, which would be equally intelligible all Mandarin-speaking people, with a view to making the Bible and Christian books available to the illiterate, especially in the church. He was' also responsible for or-/ganizing, in the summer of 1907, a language school at Kuling for Y.M.C.A, workers, Chinese teacher were secured from all dis tricts where foreign Y.M.C.A. secretaries were residing, and intensive work was begun in the nataral method of language study, which fasted for three months.
A period of ill-health about 1911 jcumpelled Dr. Lyon to spend several years in America. After his re-torn to China in 1915, he began to give his major attention to the work of secretarial training. Since then, he has been travelling exten-very not only in China but also in Japan, Korea, and the Philip-(pines, conducting training institutes retreats, organizing classes and lecturing on the principles and methods of Y.M.C.A. work and on religious subjects in general, Born in 1870 in China, Dr. Lyon took his B.A. degree in' 1891 and his M.A. degree in 1894, from the College of Wooster, Ohio. In 1916 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from his alma mater, In recognition of his high scholarship and his meritorious service in thie country, he was elected in 1928 as an alumnus member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
According to their present arrangements, Dr. and Mrs, Lyon and their daughter, Elizabeth, will sai for the United States on Friday January 17. In their honour, a ten reception will be held by the National Committee on Tuesday in the National Committee building, 20 Museum Road.
Later in the even dinner wilt be held at the Shanghai Bankers" Club, under the joint auspices of all the Y.M.C.A.'
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