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13th QUAHTERLY KEPORT, r'""'-- OCTOBER 1 - DECMER 31. 1907. CLR J 0 ions ARTHUR RUGH, SHAITGHAI. -- tv AOK, ------------------------------------- FOH fi tifi. The first two weeks of Octoher were spent in coining down from Kuling and preparing for the year's travel. Some time was given to the General Conmittee's finances, five weeks were spent visiting Horth China and Manchuria, one week was given to Soochow and Mngpo, four weeks to Hangchow and the Yangtse Valley, and about one week in the office ""between trips. Secretaria.1 Co-operation:- In the Spring Mr. Shen Wen Ching agreed to become National Chinese student Secretary, and we hoped that the long hunt for a man for this place.was ended. Ho/ever, during the summer he decided not to take up the work. As a compromise we a.sked him to give one month to visiting the schools in his section a.nd at the same tim^e choose"" four other men in different sections, and asked the missions interested to release these* men for a period long enough to visit the schools of their respective sections. In every case the man has ""been granted, ha,s Ei,ccepted the work, and in the case of the three men who have a,lready been used the plan has proven satisfactors'"". We are convinced much more satisfactory thaji our original plan of having one na,tional Secretary would have been. This plan gives us a man in each section, who speaks the right dis^lect, knows the customs and traditions of the schools, and in most cases knows the Missionaries. It gives us a man who is him-