The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-04
Chinese Deuelop Their O.un Mission Workers and Are
 Helping to Finance Cause
Miss Britain Returns for Vacation Saying Orientals Are Taking Hold With Interest, Sending Chinese Young Women Who Are Trained Into
 Districts Inaccessible to Others

Perhaps the happiest home in Birming tain, when their daughter arrived last Saturday, who had spent the past five years in missionary work in Ranking, China, and who after weeks of journey ing, is here for years furlough in America.
 Such an honored visitor needs in troduction to the people of this, her na- tive city. Many of them have known and loved her since her first birthday. when her mother sent the name of Ruth l. Britain to the secretary for enroll ment member of the Womans Mis- sionary Society of the North Highland Methodist Church. From that day to this Ruth of the blue eyes and sunshine heart has been a missionary. With this life purpose firmly fixed in her child heart, all the nickels and pennies that were hers found their way to the missionary box, and all available missionary literature was read with eagerness. In after years, as student at Randolph Macon Wom- ans College, Miss Britain attended large missionary meetings, became a student volunteer, and conSecrated her life to the foreign work.
 The happiest day of her life,' I re- member her father said to me soon after she left Birmingham five years ago, was the day she started for her chosen field of labor across the world. And now that she has come back, she has but returned to friends who rejoice to welcome her. of whom a prominent missionary secre- tary said: "She is one of the choicest spirits and enc of the leading mlSS1on- aries of the orient"
 It was under the auspices of the Wom- ans Missionary Council of the Southern Methodist Church, at the hands of Bishop Hoss, that Miss Britain received her ap- pointment to work in Ranking, China, where she is now dean of the interde- nominational school known as the Bible Teachers Training School for Women
 ''Our school has a unique place in the Christian movement of the orient Miss Britain said to me. Located in city which was once the capital, and IS now not only politically important, but is ths educational center of China, the Bible Teachers Training School serves as a feeder to the entire nation in sending out educated young Chinese women trained as Christian teachers and leaders.
 NTERDENOMINATIONAL
 The Ranking school is also a signifi- cant example of interdenominationai achievement. It is union institution supported by the American Baptist For eign Missionary Society, the Foreign Christian Missionary Society, the North : ern and Southern Presbyterian Missions, by the Methodist Episcopal Mission, the Southern Methodist Mission and the American Friends.
 saThe Bible Teachers Training School was organized for the purpose of estab- fishing a center where educated young women might be trained for places Of leadership in the Chinese church. ex- plained Miss Britain. Several consider ations made the establishing of such a school a necessity if the church is to conserve her resources in capable young women and meet obligations arising out of constantly enlargng opportunities. The social and political changes that have raised in the heart of the Chinese woman the hope of venturing out beyond the walls of the schoolroom into more active