ies Assumed That Chinese women are rapidly coming to the front in various spheres of influence previously closed to them is shown by numerous social developments. The National Christian Conference which met in Shanghai last May recognized this fact in electing} women as well as men as delegates! and by choosing 21 women, Chinese and foreign on the Council which} will represent the different interests' of all the Christian organizations all over China. Twenty-one members of the Council were elected as! ay Executive Committee, three! of these being women—an excellent beginning.
The three women members of the Executiva Committee are Mrs. F. T. Sung, formerly President of the Peking Young Women's 'MISS FAN YN-JUNG, Secretary National Christian Council.
Christian Association, Miss Margaret King, of the China Inland Mission, Yangchow, and Miss Fan Vu-jung, formerly travelling secretary of the city department of the National Y. W. C. A. Miss Fan, however, will resign her position inasmuch as she has been, appointed as one of the four executive se-cretanes to carry out the work planned by the Executive Committee of the National Christian Council. Her place will be filled by another woman.
As one of the fowr_ secretaries who are commissioned _to advance the purpose of the Council by making Christianity indigenous in China by self-government and self-support and by, removing all unnecessary barriers to Christian unity,' Miss. Fan holds a very re-
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