Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-06
TELL OF mission
WORK NOW Being
DONE IN China
Mr.. and Mrs. WiCkes, Contra
Union Missionaries, Send
Interesting Letter

Writing especially with. regard to
| the work of colleges and other educa-
| tional institutions in North China, Mr..
and Mrs. Dean r. Wickes, Central
Union church's missionaries in the
big republic, have sent an unusually
| interesting letter to the officers OF
| the church.
, In full the letter is as follows:
Our North China Union College is
one of five institutions of the North
China Educational Union, which COM
prises the American Presbyterian
mission, the London mission and the
Womans Foreign Missionary Society
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, be-
sides the American Board mission.
Its present field is the provinces OF
Chilli, Shansi and Western Shantung,
and it is the only college of arts and
sciences for the men in the Chris
tian communities of the missions in
the union. ".- F.: 49,. = .
AT present it has also students from
two OF the Manchurian provinces,
Kiangsu, five from Fukhien and one
from remote Yunnan. The two upper
years of the American Board Academy
for Chilli province are still associated
with the college in the same buildings
and use to large extent the same in
structions. The academy boys room
with the college boys, probably to
the advantage of both.
Each dormitory room has from two
to four boys. At the beginning of this
school year there were SO students in
the college and SO in the two years of
academy. Of the college students all
but three were church members, and
of the academy all but seven, and of
these 10 five had already taken steps
toward joining the church. The col
lege is thus a place primarily for the
developing of Christian character and
of power for Christian service.
Besides what is done for these in
the classrooms there are chapel
exercises of 20 minutes each morn
ing, led for week at time in turn
by the members of the faculty. On
Sundays all attend the Tungchou
church service, led largely by the
same men, but with others taking a
turn. The faculty comprises six
Americans, one Englishman and three
Chinese professors, besides three
teachers of Chinese language and
literature and librarian.
ION Wednesday evenings are college
prayer meetings, which, though volun-
tary, are attended by most of the stu
dents. On alternate weeks each class
meets by itself under the direction or
care of a member of the faculty, who
remains their adviser through six
years in the institution. There is a
vigorous Y. M. C. A. and a volunteer
band numbering 40 last June of those
who have decided to give their lives
to the Christian ministry.
Under the auspices of these the
students do much evangelistic work,
going to the city and surrounding vii
lagos each Sunday for preaching. Last
spring vacation the volunteer band
sent out four groups of four or five
men each to assist in this work in
the Tungchou field, with very encour-
aging results.
Similar work is also done during
summer vacations, the expenses being
met by contributions from students
and other persons interested The Y.
M. G. A. arranges for weekly Bible
classes, which enroll a considerable
portion of the students. Courses in
the Bible are also required during the
tow academy, freshman and sophie
more years, and Christian evidences is
taught to the junior class by the presi-
dent
'.As to the fields of work of the
graduates, of the class of 1913 for ex-
ample, one member met death during
the summer after graduation, and Of
the other % four entered the theo-
logical college, three the medical col
lege, four the class in education in
our own college, three went into Y.
M. c. A. work in Pekin, six entered
teaching in Christian schools and two
took up preaching.
"The physical development of all the
students is emphasized, with view
to their future usefulness, and ath-
letics are encouraged largely from this
point of view This year there was
an interesting series of inter-class con.
tests, with banners presented to the
winning class in each of several
UTdUGu6S, SuCHE DIS JIdCh, DdSh6l-Ddii,
soccer football and tennis. The school
is member of the Pekin Athletic
Association and of a triangular league
with Tsinghua College tthe American
indemnity schooD and the (Methodist(
Pekin University
1T won first place in basketball
last year In track and field athletics
Tsinghua, with its larger numbers and
special coach, usually takes first place,
though Tungchou won more points
than any other school in the first ALI
China meet two years ago. At the
Far Eastern Olympics last May one of
our runners won the Quarter-mile and
another won second place for China
with a sensational finish in the modi-
fled marathon. The result of general
participation in athletic sports is to
be seen in vigorous bearing and self.
reliant attitude quite in contrast to
the slow and STOPPING walk of the
old style scholar. The ravages of