O}' TH}:

NOI{rrH CHINA MISSION

HEL}) IN PEKING, MAY H-lH, lH!Jl,

MINUTES

OF THE

~wentietf? ~nnuar ~aeefing

UF THE

NORTH CHINA MISSION

OF THE

HELD IN PEKING, MAY 13-18, 1891.

SHANGHAI:

PJuN'l'BD AT THE PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS.

1891.

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NORTH CHINA MISSION

OF THE

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

OR.GANIZED 1869.

Bishop J. N. Fitzgerald has Episcopal Sttpe1'Vt·sion.

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Missionaries.

1867 Hiram H. Lowry, Oh·i,B. 1870 George R. Davis (in U. S.), Det1'o1:t. 1870 Leander V{. Pilcher, Deirol:t. 1873 Wilbur F. Walket·, North Indiana. 1873 James H. Pyke, South East Indiana. 18~0 Marcus L. 'raft, Net/} York, East, 1881 Fl'ank D. Gamewell, New((,de. 1882 William T. Hobart, Minnesota. 1886 Frederick Brown, Ohio. 1886 Nehemiah S. Hopkins, M.D. 1887 William H. CUI·tiss, M.D. (in U. S.) ] 889 Miss Hattie E. Davis. 1890 Thomas R. Jones, M.D. 1890 Isaac T. Headland, Pittsbu1'Y'

Assistant Missionaries. Mrs. Pal'thie E. Lowry (in U. S.) Mrs. Louise K. Taft.

" Maria B. Davis (in U. S.) ,,:Mary P Gamewell. " Mary H. Pilcher. " Emily .M:. Hobart. " Flora M. Walker. " Agnes Brown. " Belle G. Pyke. " Fannie H.' Hopkins. " Florence G. Curtiss (in U. S.)" Stella. B. Jones, M.D.

Missionaries of the W. F. M. S. 1880 Annie B. Sears, Cincinnati. 1883 Charlotte M. Jewell (in U. S.), New York. 18~5 Anna D. Gloss, M.D. (in U. S.), North-7Veste7·n. 1887 Edna G. Terry, M.D., New England. 1888 Mary Ketring, Oincinnati. 1888 Lillian G. Hale, New E11gland. 1889 Frances O. Wilson, Desmoinf1s. 1889 Anna E. Steere, NOTth-'lcestern. 1890 Racbel R. Benn, lvLD .. Philadelphia. 1890 }.II. Ida Stevenson, M.D., l.hlJeka. 1891 Celia}I. Fry, Oincinnat-i. 1891 Effie Young, New York.

Native Preachers. I.-ELDERS.

Ch'eu rra-yuug, Nortb Indiana Conference, Te J ui, "" " Wang Ch'eng-p'ei, Obio Conference, Wang Ch'ing-yun, Detroit Conference,

lI.-DEACONS.

Shang Ohling-yun l Ohio Conference, .. . Li Sbao-well, Japan Conference, .. .

When ordained.

1883 1883 1891 1891

1889 1889

III.-RECOMM!£NDED FOR ELECTION TO DEACON'S ORDERS.

Yang Ch'un-bo. New Jersey Conference, ... 1891 Sun Chiu-kao, Japan Conference, 1891

lV.-FuLL CONNECTION.

Wang Ch'ing-yu, Northern New York Conference, ... 1890

Y.-ADMITTED ON TRIAL.

Ku Ch'i, .E'oochow Conference,

YI.-RECOMMENDED FOR ADMISSION ON rrRIAL.

Sung I, Japan Conference, Lin Chi-Iun, Japan Conference, .. ,

Kung 1'e-li'll, N. S. Hopkins, Lio Te-hsin, Ohoo Hsiieh-shen, Wang' Ohung~lin, .,

VII.-LoCAL PREACHERS.

1888 1889 1891 1891 1891

Chin Ch'eng, w- H. Curtiss, Chang Rsi-t'ung, Chang Pai-lin,

1891

1891 1891

1888 1889 1891 1891

Li Lien-heino, Chn Fo-haing, Y Rng Fo-ch'ien, .. . Li Chung-yuan, .. . Hoo Wan-yU, T'ien Wen-hsiu, ... Chang Tzu-sheng, Wang YUeh, K'on-ying, ...

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VIII.-ExHORTERS. 1882 Wang Pao-t'ang, ... 1887 Chang Koei-lin, 1888 Wei Kuo-shun, 1889 Li'l'sai.hsiang, 18~O Chang Yii.ch'ellg, 1891 'r'ien Well-chi, 1891 Ke Ch'ing-yiin, ... 1891 Yang Kuei-sheng, 1891

Officers of the Twentieth Annual Meeting. pIj'esiding Office?', English Secreta'ry, Chinese " Statistical Secretaries,

Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell. W T. Hobart. Li Shao-wen. F. Brown, Te J ui.

Committees. STANDING.

1883 1887 1887 1890 1891 1891 1891 1891

Missions, W, F. "\Valker, Chien Ta-yung. Church Extension, L. ""V. Pilcher, Ku Oh'i. Bible Cause, I. T. Headlalld,Shang Oh'ing-yun. Sabbath Observance, T. R. J Olles, Wang Oh'ing-yiill. Sabbath Schools, M. L. Titft, Sun Chiu-ku,o. Education, ... N. S. Hopkins, Li Shao-wen. Self-support, F. Brown, Te J ui. Tempe1'ance and Anti-opium, J. H. Pyke, Yang Oh'un-ho.

SPECIAL.

Nmninations and Anniversary P?'ogramme, ...

To ?'eceive J.lfissionary Collection, To print -,-~finutes, On Preachers' Orphans, ...

On Chinese Course of Stu ely,

F. D. GcLll1ewell, ""Vang Ch'cng-p'ei.

J. H. Pyke, Chien Ta-yung. The Secretaries &; L. W. Pilcher. Te J ui, '\Vang Oh 'ing-yun, Yang

Oh'on-ho. L. "\V. Pilcher, "\V F. Walker, W.

T. Hobart.

Fraternai Letters. ~po Foochow Conference, " Japan " " Cent1'al China Mission, " West China ... iJfission, ... " Corea Mission, " O. W. Willits I:; G. B. Crews,

H. H. Lowry. 1. T. Headland. L. W Pilcher. F. D. Gamewell. W F. Walker. Li Shao-wen;

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Annual Meeting Examiners. For Exhorter's License, ... " Local Preacl~er' s License, " Renewal of License, " Admission on Trial, ., Continuance on Trial, ,~ ])eacon's Orders,

J. H. Pyke, Te Jui. W. T. Hobart, Sun Chiu.kao. F. D. Gamewell, Sung I. L. W. Pilcher, ChIen Ta-yung . F. Brown, Yang Ch 'un-ho. W.F.Walker, Shang Ch'ing-yun.

Delegates to Annual Meeting of American Board Mission. L. W Pilcher, Li ShaD-Wen.

Peking Schools, Tientsin " Tsunhua " T'ai-an "

School Examiners. H. H. Lowry, Shang eh'ing-yUn. W. F. Walker, ChIen Ta-yung. J. H. Pyke, Te Jui. Wang Ch'eng-p'ei, Liu Ohi-Iun.

Executive Committee of Church Extension Society. P·resl.deut, Secretary, TreltSu,rer, Other Membe?'s,

H. H. Lowry. Li Shao-wen. W T. Hobart. Te J ui, Oh'en Ta-yung.

Officers of North China Mission. S'Uperintendent, Secretary, Lib1'arian, Historian, Treasure?' ,

H. H. Lowl'Y. N. S. Hopkins. W F. Walker.

H. H. Lowry. W T. Hobart. F. D. Gamewell. L. W Pilcher. H. H. Lowry.

Committees. BuiLDING.

FURNI'fURE.

F. D. Gamewell. W 1.\ Robat·t,.

J. H. Pyke F. Brown, W. '1'. Hobart.

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EU.lIINATION OF NEW MISSIONARIES IN CHINESE.

Fi.rst year, Second yea'l" , Third year,

F. D. Gamewell, Miss A. B. Seat's. W, 1'. Hobart, W. F. Walker. L. W. Pilcher, N. S. Hopkins.

Anniversary Programme. 1892. Sunday preceding Annual Meeting.

10.30 a.m. Sermon Yang Ch'un-ho. 7.30 p.m. " Shang Ch'iug-yiin.

FIRST DAY.

9.00 a.m. Communion, coud ucted by 4.30 p.m. Praise Meeting 7.30 p.m. Social Reunion.

SECOND DAY.

.l. H. Pyke. Wang Ch'ing-yun.

4.30 p.m. Temperance Anniversary Ch'en'ra-yung. Read Reports on Temperance and Anti-opium.

7.30 p.m. English Prayel' Meeting N. S. Hopkins. 7.30 p.m. Chinese Prayer Meeting Ku Ch'i.

THIRD DAY.

4.30 p.m. Missionary Anniversary W. F. Walker. Read Reports on Missions and Church Extension.

7.30 p.m. Sabbath School Anniversary L. W. Pilcher. Read Reports on Sabbath Schools and Sabbath Observance.

FOURTH DAY.

4.30 p.m. Anti Foot-binding Anniversary, Wang Ch'eng.p'ei. 1.30 p.m. Self-support Anniversary M. L. Taft.

Read Report on Self-support.

SABBATH SERVICES.

9.00 a.m. Love Feast 10.30 a.m. Annual Sermon (Chinese)

7.30 p.m. Annual Sermon (English) Alternate

7.30 p.m. Chinese Sermon ...

F. Brown. W. F. Walker. Presiding Bishop. I. T. Headland. Te Jui.

Disoiplinary Questions. I.-ANNUAL CONFERENCE.

1. Who al'e received by transfer? None. 2. Who are admitted on trial?

Ku Oh'i, Fooehow Oonference.

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3. Who remain on trial ? None. 4. Who are admitted into full connection?

Wang Ch 'ing-yU, Northern New York Confel·ence. Yang Ch'un-ho was recommended to NewJersey Conference. Li Shao-wen" " " Japan Conference.

5. What Traveling Preachers have been elected Deacons? Yallg Ch'U1I-ho was recommended to New Jersey Con­

ference for election. Sun Chiu-kao'was recommended to Japan Conference for

election to Deacon's Orders under the Missionary Rnle; 6. What Traveling Preachers have been ordained Deacons?

None. 7. What Local Preachers have been elected Deacons? None. 8. What Local Preachers have been ordained Deacons? None. 9. Who are Traveling Deacons of the First 'Class? None.

10. Who are Traveling Deacons of the Second Class? Li Shao-wen and Shang Ch'ing-yUn.

n. What Traveling Deacons have been elected Elders? Wang Ch'eng-p'ei by Ohio Conference. Wang Ch'ing-ylin by Detroit Conference. Li Shao-wen was recommended to Japan Conference for

election. Shang Ch'ing-yliu was recommended to Ohio Conference

for election. 12. What Traveling Deacons have been ordained Elders?

Wang Ch'eng-p'ei and Wang Ch'ing-yun. 13. Was the character of each preacher. examined?

This was strictly done as the name of each preacher was called in the Annual Meeting.

14. Have any died? None. 15. Have any been transferred and to what Conference?

Sun Chiu-kao was recommended to be transferred from Japan Conference to Foochow Conference.

Li Shao-wen, Sung I, Lin Chi-Iun were recommended to be transferred from Japan Conference to the Foochow Conference.

16. What are the Statistics? (See Statistical Report). 17. Where are the Preachers stationed 1 (See Appointments). 18. Where shall the next Annual Meeting be held? Peking.

H.-DISTRICT -CONFERENCE.

To inquire concerning Local Preachers :-1. Are there any charges or ·complain ts? None. 2. Who shall·have their licenses l'enewed?

Sung I, Kung Te-lin, N. S. Hopkins, ChiuOh'eng, Lin Chi-Iun, W. H. Curtiss.

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a. Who shall be licensed' to preach? Liu 're-hsiu, Chang Hsi-t'ung, Chou Hsiieh-sb.;II, Chang

Pai-lin, Wang Chung-lin. 4. Who shall be recommended for ordiuution? (Seo a.bove). 5. Who shall be recommended for recognition of Ot·ders?

None. 6. Who shall be recommended for admission into the Travel­

ing Connection? Sun Chiu-kao, Sung I, Liu Chi-Iun were recommended to

the Japan Conference for admission on trial. 'fo inquire conceruing Exhorters :-

1. Who shall have their licenses renewed? Li Lien-hsiao. Chang Kuei-lin. Wei Kuo-shun. Yang Fu-ch'ien. Li Chung-yuan. Li Tsai-hsiaug.

2. Who shall be licensed as Exhol·ters ? Chang Yti-ch'eng. Chang Tzu-sheng.

• '1"ien Wen-hl'liu. Ke Ch'iug-ytin. Yang Kuei-sheng .

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Chu li'n-hsing. Wltng Pll.o-t'llng. Hon Wau-yii.

T'ieD 'Vt~ll-ch'i. \;Vang Yiieh. K'un Yiug-.

A.PPOINTMENTS

-0 1891 0-

Daniel A. Goodsell,-P'J'esicz.ing Bishup. Hiram H. Lowry, -Superintendent.

PEKING DIs'rRIC'r-W '1\ Hobart, P. E., P.O., Peking.

Oh'ang-p',ing-chou ...... ...... (to be supplied), (*'l"ieD Well-hsiu). Han-ts'ut/, ..................... Sung I. Huang-ts'un .................. F. D. Gamewell, Chin-ch'eug. Pek'ing-Asbury ............. L. W. Pilcher.

-Feag-cMn ......... (to be supplied}. -Hua1'h-shih ....... (to be supplied). -Southern Oity ..... M. L. Taft, Li Shao-weu.

K'u,-pei-k'ou ................... (to be supplied). TU1~g-an Hsien ................ Chon Hsiieh-shell. . _ Ya1IJg-ko-ohuang .............. (to be supplied), (* Wei Kuo-shun). Yen-ch'ing-clw'u ............... (to be supplied). YU1lJg-cT.'i'l'1/ Hsiell, ........... (to be supplied), (* 'l"itlll Weu-ch~i).

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PEKING ME'fHODIS1' HOSPI'!'AL :-W. H. Curtiss, M.D., Super­ill'l-tendent; Thomas R. Jones, M.D., Phys·ioian in aha.rge.

PI~KING UNIVERSI'fY :-L. W. Pilcher, Deall .. of Oollege of Libe'ral Arts; F. D. Gamewell, Dean of College of Sciertce; Isaac T. Head­land, Professor of Mental and Moral Soienoe; Hattie E. Davis, .FnstrulJtor ';'11, English Language and Literature and Pri'ncipal of Prima,1'Y Sohool.

H. H. Lowry, Dean of JViley Oollege of Theology; M. L. Taft, P'rojessor of Eroegesis all,d SystellUlti.c Theology.

W. H. Ourtiss, M.D., and Thomas R. Jones, M.D., P.rofessors irb College of Medioine.

W. F. M. S. :-Anuie B. Sears, General Evangelist'ic Work and Prin,cipal of Peking Gi'rl's Boal'dillg School; Mary Ketring, Celia M. Fry alld Effie Young, T~ache1'$ in G'irl's Boarding School, (to be supplied) Woman's Training School.

'l'rENTsIN DISTRlCT-W F. Walker, P.E., P.O., Tientsin.

Nan-k'ltng .................. ... Sbang Ch'ing-yun. [Hsi-t'ung). Pai-cltlltg .. : .................. Yang Ch'un-ho (*Wang Pao-t'ang,*Chang Tientsi1t-Circuit ......... ... (to be supplied), t*Chang Yu-ch'eug).

-East Gate ........ Ch"en Ta-yung (*Li Lieu-hsiao). - Wesley Ghapel .. (to be supplied.) - West Oity ........ (to be supplied.)

Ts'allg-cltou ...... ........... Lin Te-hsin. W F. M. S. :-Anna E. ::;teere, Ge1~e'ral Evangeli.stic WO'fk

and Wuman's Traininq Ol(~ss; Frances O. Wilson; Bvamgelistio ,Work aud Girl's Day Schools; Rachel R. Bellll, M. D. and M. Ida Steveuson, M.D., Phystcians ,in Charge of Isabella Fisher Hospital and General Medioal J.vo-r!c. Chadotte M. Jewell and Anna D. Gloss, M.D., absent in U. S.

SHAN-TUNG DIS'l'RlCT-F. Brown, P.E., P.O., ~rientsin.

An-oJl'i~t-chuang ............. Wang Oh'illg-yu {one to be supplied.} ahi.r~il1g-clw1J, ............. ... (t.o be Bupplied.) Ning-yang Hsien ........... Wang Oh'eng-p'ei. T'lti-(&1L Fu ...... ............ Liu Chi-Iun.

Tt:lUN-HUA DrSTRIC'f-Te Jui, P.E., P.O., Tientsin.

P'-i'ug-an-ch'eng and } Ch P' r Liany-tzu,-lw...... ...... ang Rl- In.

Ts'un·lwa-Oirc·uit .......... '1'e J ui, (one to be supplied.) -Oity .............. (to be supplied.)

Yti-t'len and Feng-Je1b ..... Wang Ch'ing-yun. N. S. Hopkins, M.D., Supe'rintendeJbt Ts'un-lt'utt Jlethudist

Hosp,i,tL"l; G. R. Davis, absent in U. S. *' ExhOl'Wl' t10tiug a helper.

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W F. M. S. :-Lillian G. Hale, TS1.t.n·ll1la atrl's Boarding School; Edna G. Terl'Y, M.D., Oeneml Evangelistic Jrork and

Physician in cha1·ge of Woman's Hospital.

LAN-CHOU DISYRIC'l'-J. H. Pyke, P.E., P.O" 'fient.sil1.

Oh'a11g-li Hsien ...... ............ '" ... (to be supplied.), (* Wu Ch'i.) Oh'ien-an Hsien ..... .................. Kung 'fe-lin. Fu-ning Hsien ........................ .. Wang Chung-lin. Lan-chou-Oircuit ..................... (to be supplied), (*Hon V{o.n-yti.)

-Oity ............. ............ Sun Chin-kao. Lao-t'ing Hsien ... ...................... (to be supplied), (* Hon Tien.) Shan hai-lcua1z, ............ ............... Kn Ch'i.

• Exhorter acting as helper.

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FIRST DAY.

PEKING, CHINA, Wednesday, May 13th, 1891.

THE Twentieth Annual Meeting of the North China Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, opened in Asbury Chapel at 8.30 with a prayer meeting led by F. Brown, followed by the administra­tion of the Lord's Supper by W. 1\ Hobart. At its close Bishop D. A. Goodsell took the chair. H. H. Lowry waH chosen interpreter. W. T. Hobart and Li Shao-wen were elected English and Chinese Secretaries respectively. rfhe Bishop made an opening address, after which the roll was called and tbe following members respond­ed, viz.:-H. H. Low['y, G. R. Davis, L. W. Pilcher, W. F. Walker, J. H. p.Vke, M. L. Taft, F. D. Gamewell, W. T. Hobart, F. Brown, N. S. Hopkins, Miss H. E. Davis, 1. T. Headland, Miss A. B. Sears, Miss E. G. Terry, Miss M. Ketring, Miss L. G. Hale, Miss F. O. Wilson, Miss A. E. Steere, Miss R. R. Benn, Ch'eii 'fa-yung, Te Jui, Wang Oh'eng-p'ei, Wang Ch"ing-yun, Shang Ch'ing-yiin, Li Shao-wen, Yang Ch'un-ho, Wang Ch'ing­yii, Sun Chiu-kao, Ku-ch'i, Sung I, Kung 1'e-lin, Ohin Ch'eng, Liu Chi-Iun, Li Lien-hsiao, Chu Fu~hsing, Wei Kuo-shun, Wang Pao­t'ang, Li Chung-yuan, Liu Te-hsin, Chang Hsi-t'ung, Li Tsai­hsiang. F. Brown and Te Jui were chosen Statistical Secretaries and J. H. Pyke and Chen Ta-yung to receive the missionary collections. The Standing Committees were chosen as recommended, except that N. S. Hopkins was elected to replace G. R. Davis. The Seoretaries, with L. W. Pilcher, were appointed a committee to print the minutes. Te Jui, Wang Gh'ing-yiin and Yang Ch'un-ho were reappointed as a Oommittee on Prea(:ber's Ol·phans. The Committee on Fraternal Lotters were continned as last year, exoept that I. '1'. Headland was appointed in W. H. Curtiss' place. The Anniversary Programme was refel'red to L. W Pilcher and Te Jui for revision. The daily sessions were fixed from 9 a.m. to 12 m. F. D. Gamewell and Wang Oh'eng-p'ei were ohosen a Committee t.o prepare the Anniversary Programme for next year. The Oommittee to revise this year's Anniversal'Y Programme reported recommending that each day's progl'amme, as it appeared in the printed list, be changed to the day previous.

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The names of the following Elders were ca.lled :-H. H. Lowry, W T. Hobart, F. D. Gamewell M. L. Taft, L. W. Pilcher, G. R. Davis, Te Jui, W. F. Walker. Nothing against them. All, except the last, presented reports of their work. 'J1he report of the school work of the W. F, M. S., in Peking, was presented by Miss A. B. Sears and read by tlie Secretary. A motion to adjourn was carded. Announcements were made, and the session adjourned with the Doxology and the Benediction by Wang Ch'eng-p'ei.

SECOND DAY.

Tl~u1'Sday, May 14th, 1891.

The morning prayer meeting was led by Kii Ch'i. The business session opened at 9 a. m. The minutes were read both in English and ,Chinese and, after suggestions, approved. 'fhe following Elders were called :-F. Brown, Ch'en Ta-yung, J. H. Pyke. Noth­ing against them. They read their reports .

. Miss R. R. Benn, M.D., read a report of the Tientsin Medical Work.

The name of Ku Ch'i was called. Nothing against him. He read his report. On motiou the Secretary was iustructed to report his examinations to the Foochow Conference.

Yang Oh'un-ho was called. Nothing against him. He read his report. He was recommended for admission into full conuection, and for election to Deacon's Orders.

Wang Ch'ing-yu was called. Nothing against him. He re­ported his work, and it was announced t,hat he had been recei ved iuto full connect,ion in Northern New York Conference.

Sun Chiu-kao was called. Nothing against him. He reported his work. Recommended to the Japan Conference for admission on trial and election to Deacon~s orders under the missionary rule and for transfer to Fooehow Conference.

Li Shao-wen was called. Nothing against him. He )'epot-ted his work. Recommended to the Japan Conference for admission into full connection and election to Elder's Orders and transfer to Foochow Conference.

Shang Oh'ing-yiin was called. Nothing against him. He repOt-ted his work. Recommended for election to Elder's Orders.

Wang Ch'eng-p'ei was called. Nothing against him. He re­ported his work.

Wang Ch'ing-yiin was called. Nothing against him. He reported his work.

The lith qnestion of the Discipline WaS taken tlp Rnd an­swered. Have aDY died P NODe.

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I. T. Headland was called. Nothing against him. He gave a verbal report. N. S. Hopkins reported the Tsun-hua Medical WOl·k.

W. H. Curtiss' report was read by H. H. Lowry. Miss Dr. Terry's report and Miss A. E. Steere's report were read by the Secretary.

L. W. Pilcher, W. F. Walker and W- 1.'. Hobart were ap­pointed a Committee on the Course of Study for Native Preachers. Adjourned wit,h the Doxology and Benediction by Bishop Goodsell.

THIRD DAY. ,

Friday, May 15th, 1891.

The morning prayer meeting was led by W. F. Walker. The business session opened at 9 a.m. The minutes were read both in English and Chinese and, after correction, approved. Moved to print the same number of .minutes this year as last, The reports of Miss Hale and Mrs. Gamewell were read by the Secretary. The following local preachers and exhorters were called :-Sung I, Kung l.'@-lin, Ch'in Oh'eng, Liu Ch'i-lun, Li Lien-hsiao, Chu Fn-hsing, Wei Kuo-shun, Yang Fn-ch'ien, Wang Pao-t'ang, Li Chung-ynan, Lin Te-hsin, Chang Rsi-t'nng, Li Tsai-hsiallg.

Are thet'e allY charges at' complaints ? None, Who shall have their licenses renewed? Snng I, Kung Te-lin, N, S. Hopkins,. Chin Ch'@ng, Liu Ch'i-Iun, W- H. Cut,tiss.

Are there any l'ecommended for local preacher's license? Lin Te-hsill, Chang Hsi-t'ung. Ex. 74 % Required to briug up the Four Books and the Discipline-Liu Ch'i-lun, 95 %; Chou Hsueh­sh@n, 99 %; Chang Pai-lin, 94 %, Wang Chnng-lin, 93 %. Who are recommended for ordination? See journal of yesterday.

Who shall be recommended for recognition of Orders? None. Who shall be recommended for admission to the rl't'avelling

Connection? Sung I, Liu Oh'i-lnn. Recommended to the Japan Conference for admission on tt·ial and subsequent transfer to the Fooehow Oonference. What exhorters shall have their licenses renewed P Li IJien-hsiao, Chang Knei-lin, Chu Fu-hsing, Wei Kuo-shnn, Yang Fu-ch'ien, Wang Pao-t'ang, Li Chung-yuan, Li Tsai-hsiang, Hon Wall-yii, Ohang Yu-ch'eng. Ex. 95. T'ien Wen­bsiD, 80 %; T'ien Wen-ch'i, 7G %. Required to make up geo­graphy-Chang Tzu-sheng, 90 %; Ke Oh'jng-yun, 86 %; Wang Yueh, 84 %; Yang Kuei-sheng, 72. Required to make up geography-K'nn Ying, 90 %

It was annonnced that Li Tsai-hsiang had made up his geography-75 %. Where shall the next meeting be held? Peking.

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What is the statistical report for this Conference year. The report was read and accepted. See Report.

Rev. W S." Ament, Fraternal Delegate from the North Ohina. Mission of the American Board, was introduced and addressed the Annual Meet,ing.

F. Brown reported having sent a letter of greet.ing to the North China Mission of the American Board at theil' last meeting. The Committee on Course of Study reported recommeuding that unemployed Exhorters or Local Preachers be required to pass on three years of the coarse only, but that all others shall take the full course year by year till completed. Adopted. It was voted that unemployed Exhorters or Local Preachers shall be examined at their stations by their Presiding Elder, who sha.ll report, on the same to the Annual Meeting.

The following reports were read and adopted :-Education, Educational Funds, Sabbath Observallce, Self-support, Church Extension. Moved to adjouru. Announcement~ were made and the session adjourned with the Doxology and the Belledictioll by Rev. W. S. Ament.

FOURTH DAY. Saturday, May 16th, 1891.

The session opened with a Sermon by Bishop Goodsell at 8.30, interpreted by L. W. Pilcher, after which the business session opened. The Ohinese minutes were read. Moved and carried that the examination averages include all required studies. The English minutes were then read and both approved.

The following reports were read and accepted :-Bible Cause, Nomiuations and Anniversary Programme, Missions, 'rempel'Rnce and Anti-opium, Sunday Schools, Treasut'er of Church Exteusion. Carried that leaders of Anniversaries prepare I5-minute ad­dresses. Carried that hereafter the l'eports of Standing Committees be read and discussed at the Anniversaries. A letter from Foochow on the time of Annual Meeting was read, and the following resolutions were adopted :-

"Whereas a communication has been received from the Foochow Conference, complaining that the time now fixed (Ma.rch) for holding their Annual Meeting is, in every way, unsatisfactory; that because of the heavy rains and floods, common to that season of the year, travelling is difficult and dangerous to life, so much so that two of the members of the Confel'ence were drowned in attempting to reach the last meeting; that some were prevented from attending, and others, who reached the place of meeting, suffored g~oat inconveuience in going to and frow the meeting. "Thel'efore, be it resolved by thi~ meeting :-

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1. That we deeply sympathize with our brethren of the' Foo­chow Conference in their difficulties, and are disposed to make any changes in time, consistent with the interests of om' own work.

2. That, our first preference of time for holding our Annual Meeting is the month of May, and that we would recommend to the consideration of the Board of Bishops the following dates for holding the Annual Conferences and Mission Meetings of China Japan and Corea, as one likely to meet the wishes of all concerned, viz., Foochow-November or Decembel'; West Ohina-Januaryor February; Central Ohina-March or early in April; North Ohina­the latter half of April or May; Corea and Japan-as at present. This arrangement would allow the Bishop to spend more time in each mission, which is greatly to be desired.

3. Our second prefel'ence and the only other time pl'acticable for holding our Annual Meeting is September 20th to October 20th, and we would respectfully snggest the following arl'ange­ment" viz., J apan-J uly; Corea-August; North China-Oct,ober; Foochow November ; West Ohina,-J anuary or February; Central Ohina-March.

4. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to each of the Oon­ferences and Missions above named and to the Board of. Bishops." F. D. Gamewell, Marcus L. Taft, J. H. Pyke-Oornmiltee.

The vote in ravor of the spring stood 25 to 6. Moved to ask the G~meral Conference to pass an Enabling Act, permitting the organi. zation of au Annusl Conference within the next Quadrennium, provided the conditions can be made. The Examining Committees were appointed by the Bishop. Yaug Ch'un-bo was asked the Dis­ciplinary Questions for admission into full connection.

The Committee on revising the Discipline reported their work done. A Fraternal Letter from the West China Mission was given in Chinese. Carried that when we adjourn, we adjourn to meet on Monday at 8 a.m. Announcements were made and the session adjourned with the Doxology and the Benediction by Bishop Goodsell.

FIFTH DAY.

J-Ionday, May 18th, 1~91.

The session opened at 8 a.m. The devotions were led by J. H. Pyke. The minutes in English and Chinese were l'ead and appl·oved. '1'he certificate of ordiuation to Elder's Orders waij read as follows :-

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This is to certify that OIl the sevent,eenth day of May, in the year of our LOl'd one thousand eight hundred and uinety-olle, I ordained, assisted by Elders Wang Ch'ing-yun. under the election of the Detroi.t Conference, and 'Yang Clu3'ug-p'ei, of the Ohio Confel'ence, as Elders in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

D. A. GOODSELL. Done at Peking, China.

The following resoluHon of thanks to Bishop Goodsoll was passed by unanimous vote :-

"It is not, as a. ma.tter of fOI'm, but ag an expression of deep fraternal feeling that we desire to aSSUl'e Bishop Goodsell of our high appreciation of his character as a Bishop and brother beloved; and of the loving sympathy as manifested in all his dealings with members of this Annual Meeting; for his patient investigatioll of all matters affecting our interests, and for his able alld faitllful labors in sermons and addresses since his arl'ival in our midst. vVe regard his visit as Do benediction, the inspiration of which will be felt in all our future history.

We can but express our hope that the present method of episcopal supel'vision of these Chinese missions, which gives us periodically the benefit of the counsels, advice and experience of one of the General Superintendents of the Church, and which forms such a strong bond of union and sympathy between us and the Chnrch at home, may not be changed for anotller form of administration. We are satisfied that the highest interests of the mission are met by these episcopal visitations.

It has greatly jncreased the pleasure of this visit that :?\Irs. Goodsell has accompanied the Bishop. Their society has been so enjoyable and helpful that we regret the necessity that so soon t.akes them from us, but we recognize the claims of the other eugagements which they must meet. We shall not cease to pray that the richest blessings our Father can bestow shall rest upon them, giving them pleasant journeys, bringing them to their home ]n health and safety, aud prolonging their lives many years for service in the Church." E, H. Lowry, J. E. Pyke-Committee.

'!'he Chinese Secretary was inskucted' to write letters to O. W. Willit,s and G. B. Crews, nrging their return. The Committee OR

Preacher's Orphans reported verbally regarding Chou Yen-fang's children. Moved and carried that after the reading of the minutes, devotiona.l exercises and reading of the appoiutment;;, the Annual

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Meeting stand adjourned sine die. The hymn, "Blest be the tie that binds," was sung; prayer offered by Bishop Goodsell and H. H. Lowry; the appointments were read, and the Annual Meeting stood adjourned.

W. T. HOBAR'f,

Secretary.

DANL. A. GOODSELL,

P1'esidi'ng.

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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORTS. THE work of the past year has been canied forward under

peculiar difficulties, but the results are full of encourngement, and the prospects of the future were never brighter.

The chl1nges in our foreign force have been greater tha.n during anyone year of our history. The health of Bro. Willits was not sufficieutly improved by his trip to the States to justify his return, and his family followed him in the early autumn. Our best wishes go with them to the native land, and our prayers shall be for constant success upon their efforts thet'e, as we are assured their interest in China will not cease by change of field of labor. We learn with pleasure that the health of :Miss Greer has improved, but regret that her return to the mission is still a. matter of uncertainty. Dr. Osborne has retired from mission work and will go home within a few months. Dr. Curtiss a.nd family have just left for America on account of the ill-health of 1\Irs. Curtiss, but he hopes to resume his work in the autumn. Dr. Crews 13 still at home, and it is not certain when he will be able to return. Bro .. Davis aud family have been granted leave of absence and will start in a few days for the United States.

While our working force has been depleted by these necessary cbanges, we have been strengthened by the arrival of some l'ecruits. Bro. Taft and family have come back, and with them came Dr. and Mrs. Jones and Mr. and "Mrs. Headland. We were, however, soon called to mourn the loss of Mrs. Headland, whose death from typhoid fever occurred within a month of her arrival. She was peculiarly fitted for her position by education, force of character and the endowments of grace, and we hoped many years of useful­ness wet'e before her, but the Mastel' called her to higher service.

Scarcely less have been the changes in the representatives of the Woman's Fot'eign Missionary Society. Miss Cushman has returned to the States, where she is continuing her labors for the Society. Mrs. Jewell and Dr. Gloss, on account of ill-health and overwork, were obliged to take a vacation, and are now at home, Drs. Benn and Stevenson have arrived as reinforcements, and, without opportunity for study of the language, have been compelled to assume the onerons duties of dispensaries and hospital.

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I have mentioned theRe changeR in detail to call attention to one of Mle difficultieR under which our work, during the year, haR been conducted. These necessary changes involve the Society in considerable ext,ra expense, but the financial consideration cnnnot. be compared with the serious int.erruption of the work which is thus made unavoidable. rfhe large extent of our field, containing over one hundred Reventy millions of people, presenting, in the pro­greRsive changes now occurring and others contemplated, unpa­ral1eled opport,unit,ies for large plans of work, the various forms of work already successfully undertaken. besides the ordinary diffi­cu1t.ies of the lallgunge, the prejudices of the people and the opposition of long-intrenched forms of religious beliefs, call loudly for a large increase in our working force, but instead of the inspirat,ion of a hearty response to the call, we are compelled to go forward with our ranks broken by sickness and overwork, and to thrust our recruit.s into the work before they have had opportonit.y for preparat.ion, or to adjust themselves to their llew surroondings in a foreign land and among all the repulsive sights and Rounds of a strange people. If in any place in the world t,here is special value in continuity of labor, it is in missionary work. No matter what the ability and qualifications of a missionary, if for any cause he is compelled, after a brief period of service, to leave the field, his work cannot be regarded as a success. And yet these are t.he conditions under which our work must be carried on.

The clements also seem to have conspired against ns dudng the year. The unprecedented rains of last summer, besides t,he damage to property and the effect upon the heaHh of some of our members, made the roads impassable for some months, thus hinder­ing our work. Especially were the districts to t.he South so much oVArHowed that they could not be reached by cart till the ground froze at the approach of winter. Famine followed the floods. Although we were able to do something towards relieving the distl'ess of the people by the ,contributions that came to us from val'ious sources, we were compelled to cease receiving people into the Church, lest we fill our rolls with inquirers, whose leading or only mot,ive should be to secure relief from st.arvat.ion. With prudence and careful work, however, we hope t.his exhibition of Christ.ian benevolence may turn out to the furtherance of the Gospel.

Our work bas also, perhaps more than any former year, been cllecked by lack of fonds with which to take ad vantage of the positions gained by long waiting and patient toil. EoI' two or t.lll'ee years there has been no actual reduction in the amount a.ppropriated, except as affected by the depreciation of silver, but meanwhile our lines have been extending, more chapels and school houses 1ul.ve been demanded, and this has necessitated a larger native force to care for the ext.ending work. Bot instead of being able to increase

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our number of colporteurs, teacllerR and other native ngentR, we l}R.ve been compelled t,o dismisf' several already employed, and, in other ways, contract OU1' work, in order to keep within our appropriations.

No change has taken place in tIle number of native preachers; none have been laid aside by sickness, and t.heir rauks have not been broken by death. When I reflect on the work 8.nd opport,unil ies of these men and their vital J'elation to lIle progress of CIll'iRt.'s Kingdom jn China, my prayer is that the IJord will selld forth more such laborers into His vineyard. Present success and the future permanency of our work, under the Divine blessing, depend upon the character of the native minish'Y, and for some years we have looked with concern upon the fact. of no incrense jn th~ numbElr of helpers. A suggestion made by one of their number may, be worthy of onr conRidel"ation. He said that of late years we seemed too strict in the requirements of admission, and that, if we had been equally stdct in the beginning, many who now are among our most successful workers could not have entered. It is cert.ajnly our duty to exercise great cautiou in this matter, t.hat unworthy men may be excluded, but it is possible to keep out others who might develop into vain able helpet's through our system of discipline and examinations. We are glad to note that several young men will come before t.bis meeting for admission. After another year we expect ~everal recruits from the first graduating clURS of t.he university. Judging from the work of some of our yonng men who have spent only a few years in t.his school, we feel a good degree of confidence tlJat these graduates will become men of power in t,he work of t.he ministry. Their usefulness has already been tested by their work during the long vacations and in the various revival services where they have been engaged.

It is gratifying to note tbat, notwithstanding the unfavorable conditions already referred to, the repot:ts will show subst.ant.ial progress in all departments of the work. '1'he increase in the number of members and probationers is beyond our expectations, and is a rebuke t.o our lack of faith. There is good evidence that there Ims been a growth of spirituality and more interest tflkell in efforts to build up and develop an independent nat.i ve Uhurch. Several successful revival meetings have been held, l'esult.ing in a large nnmber of genuine conversions. It is an encouraging sign that, in two instances, tl1ese meetings were conducted entirely by native evangelists, without l1elp or suggestion from the foreign missionary. In one of t.hese meetings there were fifty conver. sions, in the oUler over twenty. Special meetings were held in Peking, Tientsin and in several places on the Lanchou district, conducted by Bros. H.obart and Pyke, with most encouraging results. It does not diminisll the importance or det,ract from the value of the results of these services that. most of those reached are

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already members of the Church. When we are able to bring all our members into conscious relationship to a personalSavioul', we shall expect to see the Church of ChrlRt exalted among the heathen.

Another evidence that the members are gl'owing in grace, is the increased amount contributed by them for the missionary caURe and other Church collections. NotwithRtanding the floods and the loss of crops, the collections from the native members are in ad vance of any previous year.

The educational and medical work and the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society are as vitally connccted with the success of the mission as any already mentioned, but these wj}l be fully rept'esented by special reports, and need not be dwelt upon in this connection.

We close another year with gratitude for the success that has attended our labors, and with renewed courage enter upon the work still to be done. Our positions have been strengthened, our plans enlarged and our prospects were never so full of promise. In reviewing the past and in prayerful consideration of the future we may well inquire, Are we able to possess the land? Stat.esmen and business men are watching with intense interest the movements of this ancient and conservat.ive people in their slow march toward Western civilization. Are these changes of no importance to the Christian? Shall God's messengers regard wit,h indifference the possibility of making these changes turn to the advantage of the cause of Christ? The youth of to-day will be the mem occupying the positions of responsibility ill t,he new nation that political seers discern in the near future. We should see to it that these young men shall naturally seek their education and preparation for the new order of things in our Christian schools. We should plan that through act.ive and intense evangelism the decaying idolatry and superstition shall not leave the na.tion atheistic 01' infidel, but Chris­tian; and that the principles of the Gospel of Christ shall rule the society of the modern China. This is the work- before us, and, in His name, we are able to accomplish it.

The General Conference of Missionaries in Shanghai a year ago made au appeal for one thousand ordained men to be sent to China within five years. Shall not our own Church respond to this call by sending her proportion of men? We trust Ule call will be answered with speedy reinforcements, and that songs of victory may soon be heard in all parts of this great empire.

GENERAL EVANGELISTIC WORK. PEKING DISTRICT.

Several charges on this district will be reported by others, so I need speak only of those under my immediate charge.

The work at the south of Peking is divided into three circuits. The whole region suffered frolD the Hoods last summer, aud the fall crop was a total failure, not even fuel being saved. As a result, the whole sect·ion has been ou the verge of famine. We have distributed among them about $600, received from the U. S. and $2,000, received through Rev. G. W Clarke of the China Inland Mission of Tientsin. 0 vel' $600, collected in Peking, was divided among the foul' missions represented here and distributed by them .. This haA been sufficient to relieve oue owu members and help a few of the poorest in the immedinte vicinity of our work. But it is impossible, without seeing it, to realize t,he distress. Most of the people are eating roots, gL'ass and the leaves of b·ecs. Whole families are down with famine fever, and the mortality must be very great.

At Pe·i yin we have rented more rOOlD, but the place is still too strait for us. Our little chapel hardly affords standing room for all who come. There are many inquirers, but I have not ventured to take any ou probation at present. For many probably come hoping for "loaves aud fishes."

At Han-ts'1I/1! the attendance has doubled, numbering now about 200, but of these how many will stand, the future will reveal. We trust some wheat will be fO.lnd. But, while the numbers are large, the general state of piet.y is low, and some cases may require discipline.

About ten miles from Han-ts'un, to the west of the Hun river, quite an interest has developed, and a place has been rented at Nan­kuan, a little over a mile south of Y uug-ch'ing HsieD. rl'wen~y 01'

mOl'e probationers bave been received, and more than as many mOt'e are attending service and desirous to join. We have also all open­ing at Kung-chia-ying, twenty miles S. W. from there. With a. colporteur to work in that region we could easily develop a good work.

Huang-ts''lm has been without a helper this year, but the mem­bers have held together, and a few more have joined. Our place there is too small, and we ought to have a better. We call buy but cannot rent a suitable place.

We have just succeeded in renting a little place at Yen-ch'ing­chou, outside the Gt'eat Wall. A strong party has tried to keep us from renting and to drive us out of the city. We rented one place before, but they forced the landlord to bring us back our money and refuse us the place. Still we have kept a colporteur there all the year and have several probationers and inquirers. If we can hold the present place, our work can go quietly' forward.

At Yang-ko-clmang there has been trouble among the worket's and members, so our work has not prospered as I hoped. Still .there have been a few additions.

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At Shilz-hsia-erh the old members hold on, and a few new ones are reported. We have no place as yet, but will probably Deed to 1'ent one this coming year. One inquirer at K'u-pei-k'ou wishes to enter the Church.

Our collections will show quite a decrease. For the famine at the South, where most of our members, outside the city, are found, bas made it impossible for most of tbem to contt·ibute.

rrbere are four day-schools on these circuits, but the attendance is small at each.

Spiritually the membership is on a low plane. Some pruni.ng has been done and more must be. The question of wine drinking among our members must be dealt with and much instruction must be given along the lines of practical Ohristian living. But God is ou t· strength: God is with us and Christ will yet draw this people to Himself.-W. 1\ Hobart.

PEKING.-ASBURY CHAPEL. At the last annual meeting, Rev. O. W. Willits was reap­

pointed to this charge; but continued iU-l1ealth prevented his return from the United States, whither he had gone in search of needed help, and I was asked to assume the responsibilities of the work until this annual meeting. Bro. Lowry has kindly shared in the labors of the charge, aud Bro. Hobart, during the month of February, conducted a series of special meetings. Dnring the time when the training classes of men and women were in session, the chapel building proved far too small for the congt'egations that attonded the morning preaching services and, by no possible means, could it be made to accommodate the crowds that assembled for the afte1'l1oon Sabbath-school. This overcrowded condition of oUt' chapel aud the cousequent confusion has, to some ex.tent, interfered with the orderly conduct of the services, but, for the most part, good order has been maintained, aud all who came have been able to receive spiritual instruction.

The average attendance at the Sabbath school has been between foul' and five hundred. Of this number the larger part has been women and girls, many of whom came from heathen families. The large class of heathen girls, conducted last,year py Miss Oushman, has been under the charge of l\{rs. Gamewell, and the attendance has increased to o\"'er a hundred. This large class is conducted ill a room by itself and constitutes one of the most interesting depart­ments of this very interesting work. They gather iu ft'om the entire surt'ounding neighborhood. They leaI'D to sing and to repeat Scripture verses, and they listen to the stories of the Bible, pictorially illustrated, and who can tell what fruitage may yet be gathered from this sowing.

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There has been a steady growth in membership, both on pro­bation and in fnll connection. The native assistant pastor has been supported by the Church and liberal contributions have been made toward the incidental expenses of the chapel and for bene­volent causes.

We review the work of the past year with a sense of profound gratitnde and shall go forward iuto the year with renewed courage.­L. W. Pilcher.

PEKIN G.-SOUTHERN CITY CHAPEL.

After a refreshing visit to the }lOme-Ialld, it was especiu.lly pleasant, shortly after OUt' return to Peking, to take chat'ge again of the work in the southern city, which had been assigned to me before my departure to the United States.

Rev. F. D. Gamewell had kindly had the oversight of this wOl'k during the curl'eut year, until J took charge, and, beflides, by giving magic-lantern exhibitions in the chapel, he has brought this work into prominence in the neighborhood. Mrs. Gamewell also, by the training class for women and school for girls, caused OUt' public religious services to be well represented by women and girls. By that means, also some women were brought iuto the Chul'ch.

The general state of the work is without any remarkable in­stances. 'rhe Sunday services have been well attended, and the Sunday school has of late been rendered mOl'e attracti ve by illus­trated charts, drawn by one of the students of Peking university. While regretting that unavoidable interruptions have prevented more thorough work, it is with gratitude that we contemplate the steadfastness of some of the members of this Church, who apparently a.re endeavoring to follow out the injunction, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life."-Mal'cus L. 1.'aft.

CH'ANG-P'ING CHOU CIRCUIT.

Ch'ang-p'ing-chou is situated about 25 miles north-west from Peking. During tho Ming dynasty the city was of considerable importance, owing to its proximity to the Ming tombs, but from the beginning of the present dynasty it has waned in importance.

At the present time its walls, the circuit of which is three miles, contain not more than eight thousand inhabitants. 1.'here are upwards of thirty-five large temples and an almost indefinite number of small temples. We gain better a.ppreciation of these

figures by Rupposing a town at borne of eight thousand~ inhabitants, supplied with thirty-five Churches, that is to say, a Church for every two hundred inhabitants.

Ch'ang-p'ing-chou is a place of considerable official import­ance, having over five hundred and eighty places under its juris­diction. The official importance of the place makes it the rendezvous of a large number of yamen attendants, whose pernicious influence :is the more perceptible, becanse of t,he comparatively sma.ll popUlation. Our work has suffered from unfortunate location. Several years ago we had quarters in an inn, but these could not be retained, and a part of a temple was rented. We occupied rooms on one Ride of the temple court and the other sides were occupied by gamblers and as an opium den. It is a quest,ion as to whether it would not be wiser t.o abandon temporarily a field, rather than, by such associations, to seem to justify the reports which are so constantly circulated against us, and which so seriously embarrass our work. After several ineffectual efforts we have. Recured tem­porary quarters in nn inn, where our meetings are held.

At T'ai-p'ing-cl!uang-tzu, four miles from ChIang-pIing-chou, one of 0111' mem hers, Mrs. H ao, died in peace; her funeral being the first Christian burial that has occurred in that locality.

Passing over t,he many discouragements of the field and of our unfortunate location, we would mention with gratitude the com. mendable zeal shown by a portion of our membership at T'ai-p'ing chuang-t,zu in t,heir at,t,endance on Sabbath services at Chtang_p'ing_ C11OU. Several of our members rarely miss a service, going a .distance, to church and return, of eight miles, freq Ilently walking .both ways.

There is good bope that l1egotiations, which have been begun, will result in OUt' renting an eligible place in ChIang-pIing-chou, and with bett.er surroundings we may hope for better l'esults.­F. D. Gamewell.

TIENTSIN DISTRICT.

Nan-kung.-Nan-kung circuit is the first that appears on the list of this rlistl'ict. The year has been a quiet one. An offer has been made to buy us out at Tuan-Iu-tsu at a good advance on the price paid by us last year; no active oppoRition, however, has arisen. Ou fair days the llat.i ve pl'eachet' opens a part of our place as a street chapel, and has interested hearers, A number of inquirers have presented themseh-es, and one young man has joined on .probation, but, Nicodemus-like; he comes only at night.. In other villages adjacent tho old members seem revived; candidates for probatiolJ have heEm received, and for the first time in yeal's the in­dicat.ions are that we are on the threshold of a brighter day.

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The work at, Sung-an-tR'un, Reventy l1' west of Tunn.In-t,'ou, bas also sbown signs of now life. New probationel's have united with us, but this point is so far removed that it is difficuItfor tbe native pastor to give it the at,tention it needs, besides the pInoe for meeting is wholly inadequate to the use of t,he members all'eady enrolled, and what to do for them is one of the problems that confront us.

Tai-ch'eng circuit is part of what has been known as the Tien­tsin circuit. Its centre is fifty miles soutb-west of Tientsin, aud has been manned by exhorter Ohang Hsi-t'ung. '1.'he country is low and Hltt, a land among rivers. The historic twelve days' rain of last year Hooded the entire area, submerging some of it to a deptb of ten feet, totally destroying the fall crops; there has, in consequence, been great and widespread f:mfiering. The Chinese government distributed relief in most of the towns of the distriot, but in quantities entirely insufficient to meet the need. In one instance the inspeoting officer passed by several families of native -Christians, because they bad posted Christian calendars on the wfllIs of their homes. This caused the missionary to make specilll effort for the relief of the villages where our converts were. A gl'ant of more than taels three hundred was obtained from the rl'ientsin Relief Committee. Thirt,y-three dollars gold were received from the Methodist Episcopal Ohurch of Carthage, Missouri, and othel' smaller contributions from other parties, which were dish'ibuted among the needy. The distress is still great, and cannot materially abate until after the wheat harvest in June.

The religious interest has been considerable, the exhorter in charge not being able to multiply himself enough to meet the demands npon him. The statistics show that we have baptized seventy-three during the year, that. fifty-six are in fnll member­ship and oue bundred and eighteen on probation. In addition there are fOUl' or five hundred inquirers, in not less than fifty different villages. Some of these are doubtless drawn by the pro­spect of famine relief. Others have been brought in by friends who were already Christians, and still others are companies of people who were members of secret sects, forbidden by the govern­ment. We do not hope to be able to save all these, but whatever the motive which prompted their coming, we mean to do our best to lead them to saving faith in the Christ; their names have been taken, t.hongh not placed all our Church Records. In some in­stances leaders have been appoiuted to teach t.hem the catechism and lead them into the truth. Two small places have been secured by pawn for Church uses, but they are ridiculously out of pro­portion to the needs of the people who meet there for worship . . The last visit the missionat·y made into this region, in one place, the congregation divided itself, the women going into the house -and filling it, while the men and boys sa1i on bencbes, poles a.nd

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the ground in the yard, the preacher taking his stand just outside the door of the ·house and so facing as to preach to all. Two Bible women from Tientsin have been doing good work among the women for two or three months past. One day-school has been opened and 80 Christian teacher placed in charge. Several bright boys have also been sent to our school in Tientsin and one to Peking.

Tientsin Oircu1:t.-Tientsin circuit has been under the care of a Bible colporteur, who has gathered the names of several candidates for Church fellowship in towns adjacent to Tientsin. In the city of Yang-liu-ch'ing, only ten miles away, there is prospect of work asking especial attention in the near future.

Wesley and East Gate chapels have continued under the supervision of Bros. Brown and ChIen, and it is unnecessary for me to attempt a detailed account of their work, as Bro. Brown would embody the same in his report. They have had a good year with growing interest and large congregations. The literati made an attempt to compel us to evacuate our East Gate chapel pre­mises, but negotiations failed, the floods came and the gentry were obliged to contribute so largely to the relief of the poor, that they have not pushed us farther, and we remain in quiet possession.

Tientsin-West Oity Ohapel has been another year without a pastor. Wben at home the Presiding Elder has filled the pulpit; when absent Bros. Brown and Ch'eu have kindly looked after it. The congregations are larger than they have been; the room used for a chapel being quite filled and the last few Sundays of the year it has been packed. 'rhere has also been an increase in member­ship, and the day-school for boys is large and flourishing. The dispensary work, carried on by Dr. Stevenson, cau but be productive of great good in removing .prejudice and opening the way for Gospel truth. Mrs. Richard, of the English Baptist Mission, rendered valuable assistance to Dr. Stevenson as interpreter, and has been a faithful worker in teaching the boys and gir Is to sing, also as teacher in the Sunday school and as guide and instructor to the women. Since she discontinued her visits, our ladies of the W. F. M. S., who are everywhere abundant in labors, have cheer. fully taken up her work.

Ts'ang-chou circuit began the year with Wang Pao-tang, an ex.horter, in charge, but complications with a family of brothers in the town where our chapel is located, necessitated his removal and the appointment of another in his place. One member had to be excluded, since which the sky has been clearer. In other villages nel\r a few probationers have been added, and we look for better days in this vicinity.

In the city of TS'ang-chou itself we have had preachers and colporteurs at work for two or three years. This year we attel1Jpt­ad. renting a. chapel and residence for the native preaoher. We

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succeeded in getting two places, paid our fit'st quarter's rent and received our rental papers, but a storm of opposition broke out, the proprietors became alarmed and refused to give up the keys, 80

that to the present time we have failed to get possession. The magistrate and a. few of the wealthy literati seem to be the obstructors, as they are usually wherever the Church encounters opposition. However we still have friends in the city who, despite official interference, are ready either to rent to us or sell. A few names have joined us here, and we expect victory, because God fights for and with us.

Our foreign staff has undergone some changes. During the year Mrs. Jewell and Miss Dr. Gloss, of the W F. M. S., left us for a well-earned furlough to the United States, while Misses Dr. Stevenson and Benn arrived, entering almost immediately upon their dut.ies as medical missionaries. We rtlcord with gratitude a good degree of health among nathe and missionary workers. Difficulties have been encountered, but every department has had its blessing, and there is more occasion to sing doxologies than to be discouraged. 'I'he totals of membership, including probationers, show a growth of fifty-three per cent over last year j wany of these are weak and ignorant, but if God is able out of the mouth of babes to perfect praise, He is also able to use the weak things of this world to confound the mighty, and by His grace these weak ones shall yet become a mighty people.-W. F. Walker.

TIENTSIN.-WESLEY AND EAST GATE CHAPELS.

We have no exciting news or special success to chronicle on the Wesley and East Gate Charge. The usual routine has been followed.

All the regular agencies have been in full swing, pastoral and evangelistic, though much valuable time has had to be given to the business needs of the mission.

The regular preaching services for the Christians, in w hioh they have been built up and encouraged, and the more irregular services for bringing in tbe heathen, have taken much time and attention. The East Gate Chapel has. often been crowded with an attentive congregation. As the large doors have been thrown open day by day, all kinds and conditions of men have been our listeners; being a clean and respectable place in a good position, we have had the proud well-dressed lit.erary graduate, and by his side the poor depraved outcast; we have had the petty official, and the poor beggar; each and all fiud a welcome. "Whosoever will let him take the water of life freely." It iii a significant fact .that

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perhaps the only plnee in China where the official and" beggar can meet on equal terms, is on the benches of the lfIS f.ij~, "Jesus Hall." The fact has now been fully demonstrated in our mission tha.t if we want anything above the coolie clasR as listeners in our street-chapels, we must have a cleaner and better class of chapel tha.n in the past. The results of the year's work will be seen by reference to the stat,istics. Some of t.he q uestious asked will at once show the need for the Gospel. "Which are the most numerous, gods or men"? "Can it be that some of our Chinese gods are false"? Some hear, I believe, and are saved; others doubt and pass on their way. We need faith in this work, by which to sce the presence of the Invisible.

The floods have interfered with our work somewhat during the year, and still they have not been an unmixed evil, for we have seen how anxious the Church-members have been to help their more unfortunate brethren iu this- time of affliction.

Special services have again been held with success. Bro. Pyke came as evangelist, and was ably assisted by one member of each of the missions working in Tientsin. The membership of each Church was represented, aud Congregationalist and Me­thodist knelt at the same altar, praying for pardon and a clean heart.

The Sunday school has taxed the capacity of the largest building we have on the charge. The past year has seen the opening of our Boys' Boarding School, under the name of .Ii ~ ,. m, Ch'eng-mei Hstio-kuan. The stndents are bright and have done good work. We have 81RO thirty-five day scholars. Christ­ian books are the most prominent text-books taught, and a number of the boys have intimated their desire to join the Church.

We must give thanks to our Heavenly Father for the many tokens of His favour vouchsafed to pastor, officials and people during the year.

We are also grateful to all the members of onr own mission who have helped us in varioDs ways, but especial1y to the Rev. Timothy Richard, of the Baptist Mission and editor of the qj ¥It, and to the Rev. G. W Olarke, of the China Inland Mission, who have both rendered us valuable assistance.

We believe the Church is healthier and purer than it has been for the last three years at least. All its agencies are in good working order, and finances compare favourably with any previom; year. With the blessing of God its influence should spread till it permeates the lump. of moral corrnption which surrol1nds us on every side; with a knowledge of God, that knowledge which transcends al1 other knowledg~, and without whioh all other know­ledge is valueless and vain. We pray for the time to come Boon, when "moving China" shall have moved towards Jesus our

"Saviour.-Fi·ederick Brown.

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TSUNMHUA DISTRICT.

Doring the past year thirty new members have been baptized and received into foIl membership, and fiftyMfour taken on probation on this distriot. A few have been lost by death, bot a far larger number, having ceased to aUend the regulnr services, have been dt'opped, and still others have been expelled. For these reasons t.he roll of membership will show but a slight increase over that of last yeaI'.

The year has been one of quiet steady work over most of the district. The death and prot,raeted funeral services of the mot,her of one of the preachers, kept him away from his circuit a much longer time t,han was deRit'able. On another circuit the preacher was ill so muoh during the winter that the work was serioosly hindered. At, no one point has thel'e been any very remarkable interest, yet at several places a number of vel'y promising pro­bationers have been received, and some new places have been opened, where we now have gr'owing Sabbath cOllgregations.

After many years of watching and wait,ing, we have been ahle to secure a place in the walled city of Yu-t'ien Hsien, not by any means such a place as we would like and onght to have, but such as will serve for a place of worship for a rapidly growing class of ChriAtians living in that vioinity, as well as for school and the me­dical work until such time as we call obtain a more suitable pla(!e.

The large market town of ShaMliu-ho, midway between the cities of Feng-jeu and Yu-t'ien, where we have had rent,ed premises for the last two years, is the real cent.re for working the region known to us as the" Feng-jen and Yii-t'ien circuit." It has the largest and most important fair in this entire district. For preach:­ing the Gospel and for medical work no other place offers so many advantages or promises greater results. The building used for street chapel is a very inferior one in every way, but no better site for our work could be found iu the place. The chapel, so called, is far too small for the crowds that come on market days to hear the Gospel and receive medical treatment at the hands of the foreign physician. It has been impossible thus far to rent such a place as we need. Here, as elsewhere, owners of suitable property dare not I'ent to foreigners. The odium of such an act would be too great to bear. Such places can be bought, but then we have no money. We are obliged to be patient and content with inadequato and often disreputable looking places in begiuning work, bide 001' time and opportonity for better things.

Last year we called attention to our great need of a domestic chapel in connection with our Tsun-hua city station. The past year's experience only emphasizes our need. The rooms, no,"' used, belong to the hospital and, while admirably adapted for medioa.l work, are far too small to serve for chapel purposes. Doring the .autumn thel'e were over eighty pnpils in the schools centered here,

a very large class of women in the Woman's Tl'8ining School, beside a large nnmber of resident members. All could not attend the services at one time, for lack of room. When the women come, the school girls must stay away, and t,he reverse at the next service. Besides being too small, the accoustic properties of these rooms are very poor. Not even so fine a speaker as our native elder Te Jui can be heard understandingly by those sitting in the room that has been used for women and girls. To hold Sabbath school, after any orthodox fashion, has been quite out of the question. And on quarterly meeting occasions we have been obligea to limit the numbers at­tending from the outside classes of the circuit to the stewards only. This ought not to be. For several years we have seen the item for new chapel either cut off from the list by the estimating committee here, or put in the supplementary list of estimates, only to be served the Bame way by the Board at home. But now our work demands that this item for a chapel be treated in a more kindly way.

It will not be necessary for me to write of the medical work or of the Girls' Preparatory Boarding School. Others, well qualified, will tell of their flourishing conditions. We have endeavored to

.. CB.l'l'y on the Boys' Preparatory School according to t he plans advised at last annual meeting. During the autumn and until Ohinese New Year we had over thirty boys, but the increased cost of living, consequent npon the failure of the crops, together with the low rate of exchange, compelled us to decline a number of promising boys and, at the examination, to drop all who did not pass credit­able examinations, thns reducing the number to twenty-two. With this number and living expenses reduced to the minimum, the appropriation for this year will be quite exhausted by the close of this school term, leaving nothing for the autumn term. The teacher, Chang Pai-lin, has been most faithful, giving great satisfac­tion. In ordinary years a good preparatory school, not exceeding thirty boys, might be carried on with $450 (gold); with a less number of boys, and without some such sum the school will not be very satisfactory.

The year has been a trying one to the people of this region. Though not extensively flooded the crop was not more than one-third the usnal size. Many of our people are very poor and have required considerable help. We have urged upon our members the necessity of helping one another, and the money collected and ordinarily applied toward the salaries of the native preachers, has been used for the benefit of the poorer members.-G. R. Davis.

LAN-CHOU DISTRICT. 1'0 understand the geographical position of this district, we

have only to imagine a triangular plain, one side of which is bounded by the great wall, the other by the sea, the acute angle at

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their junction and the base R. line at t *JtQn(P, r&n~1n~ d~; South from the wall to the sea. The greatest idth-i81Lbout eigMy miles, the greatest length near one hundred and ten miles. Add to this a strip a few miles wide and sixty-five mileH in lengtb ~lo~g the great road from Shan.hai.kuan to lIioukden and th~ boundary is complete. The area is about 7,000 square miles; tit" population between two and three millions.

Distribnted at nearly equal distances over this t,erritory are eight large wallod cities and fifty to seventy large market towns. The villages are innumerable.

On the west of this district lies the Tsun-hua district. At the south-east the Methodist New Connexion has a station. They also have a work in one of the cities. On the eastern extremity t·be Presbyterians (Scotch and Irish) have a flourisbing work.

Work on this district waR begun seven years ago, with wbat results will appear in part from this report and the statistical tables.

The plan has been to occupy the cities. and larger towns, wherever property could be secured by rent or purchase, as rapidly as the means and native assistants at our disposal would permit. From these centres the Gospel would be preached and scriptures and tmcts distributed through the regions round about.

From the beginning we have been embarrassed for want of funds, efficient native preacbers and By the determined oppositiQn of the literati. But we will not speak of the difficulties. The results have been greater than were anticipated, and the reasons for thanksgiving, for help and blessing received, and for hope for tho fntnre, are many.

The Church is now securely planted in two of the la1'gest cities wbere property is owned by the missionary society. Bach city has a num bel' of organized societies and regular appointments within a radius of twenty·five mileR.

In a third city we have property rented and a memhership of thirty-five in the suburbs and adjoining villages. In two others we have colporteurs stationed. Property is offered at reasonable rent in one of these, and four members are reported, while in a village within ten miles of the city, there is a society of twenty.one members. In still another city we rented property last year and had a school in operation. This year we have removed to a larg~ and busy town ten miles distant, where we have a number of members and where the promise of immediate results is much greater. In another city, sixty.five miles beyond Shan-bai.kuan, there is a family of Christians, and we are urged to vi~it the place and begin work. The want of men and means i~ all that ha! prevented us from accepting the invitation. Seven of the cities ha.ve been mentioned. The Methodist New Connexion have, for some y~ars, ha.c} rer,tted p.ropel·ty and a f~w members i.n the eighth

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We have good hope that all these cities msy become powerful centres of religious influence.

The Society owns two chapels; has the lease of a. third, and rents five. Regular Sqndsy services are held in twelve different places. Including probationers and baptized children, there is a membership of three hundred and eleven. Seventy-eight adults and eighteen children have been baptized during the year. Two have been received by letter from the PI'esbyterian Church at Moukden.

Notwithstanding the crops were greatly damaged and in many places destroyed by the heavy rains and floods of last sum­mer and the sufferings of Ule people have consequeutly been great, the collections for' self-support, missions and t.he poor al'e considerably in ad vance of last year; besides the amounts reported this year were all contributed by the natives, which was not t he case last year.

Three special revival services wel'e held during the year. At one, conducted by the native preachers, the presence and power of the spirit were manifest. The Church was deeply moved, and forty to fift,y conversions were reported. It would be too much to say all wel'a genuine and thorough, but there is good reason to believe that many were both genuine and deep. The results of the other tWIJ meetings were encouraging. The Churches were refreshed and a number were converted. These meetings are more than profitable. The spiritual life and growth of the Ohurch depend upon their frequency and success.

At both Lan-chou and Shan-hai-kuan, a number of substan­tial ~usiness men have come into the Church and made good class leaders and stewards. They have taken hold of the local affairs of tlJO Ohm'clI with hearty goodwill and give freely of their time and money.

Seven of these men, during the winter, spent two months, at their own expense, in studying the Scriptures and doctrines of the IJhul'oh, under the instruct.ion of the native preacher. Three of them llave been l'ecommeuded for exhorters' license. They have already begun to make themselves useful in holding services ill the absence of the preacher. We hope they will prove themselves worthy of local pt'eachers' license and render efficient service without compensation. We think we get a glimpse of daylight here on the question of self-support.

For tIle prosecut,ion of the work throughout this region the mission is now employing one ordained preacher, two unol'dained and three lay preachers, eight school teachers and twelve other helpers. '1'he aggregate of their salaries is something over $100 per month.

The appropriation for the entire district is $1,399, which is too small by several hundred dollars. Our estimate was $2,199. Swall as it was this was cut down to $800. To keep withiu the

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appropriation the present force must be reduced, some of the plnces now occupied must be given up and our pIau of extension must be changed for one of contraction.

We have worked hard to secure what we have. Every inch bas been contested. From what points shall we withdraw? Sha.ll the schools be closed? From these one hundred boys now studying Christian books a.nd being taught to believe in the Savioul' of men and wOI'ship the only tme God, the Church may hope to reoruit the ranks of its itinel'ant preachers and intelligent earuest laymen. Then consider how cheaply these boys are being trained. Not a cent is paid for board j only the salaries of the teachers are paid, and several of these furnish room, furniture and fuel. 'rhese school moms become chapels on Sundays and in the evenings, when a few Christians meet and inquirers come for informution. Thus rent is saved and no chapel keepcr is needed.

Shall the force of "other helpers" be reduced? This has and will be done to some extent, but we must have men to occupy and hold the places we bave secured. Some of these are chapel keep­ers, some colporteurs, some are acting as supplies, some are itinerant evangelists. We should have to cut off a lat'ge number at $3.40 each per month to gl'eatly reduce the expense.

In short we do not see how we can retreat. Retreat means defeat, demoralization and disaster. A few hundred dollars more would ena.ble us to hold our present position and make some advance.

We assuredly believe God has called us to come over int.o this region and help. He has guided us, blessed us aud wrought de­liverance for us, too often for us to doubt that he is with ns a.nd will be. Where He manifestly leads by His providence, let us loyally follow with our prayers, our labors and our gifts.- J. H. Pyke.

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~bucationar ~orft.

PEKING UNIVERSITY.

1890-1891.

The two words "healtlifltl growth" amply express the COD­

dition of this institution since the last repol't was made. 'rhe assets of the schools are larger, the number of pupils ld

greater, the grade of studies pursued has been higher, the appliances for instruction are more numerous, the department of the students bas beeu better and the spiritual results of the work are in advance of any previous year.

At the formal organization of the Board of Trustees in New York, Bishop E. G. Andrews was elected President of the Board; Rev. S. L. Baldwin, D.D., Secretary; Mr. Charles H. rl'aft (P. O. Box. 1116, N. Y. Oity), rrreasurer, and provision was mage for a Board of Managers resident in China.

Through the efforts of Rev. M. L. Taft, a fund amounting to over ti ve thousand dallal'S, has been raised toward the purchase of a college campus. A part of the land has already been bought, and negotiations for more al'e in progress, At the last meeting of the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, & generous grant of six thousand dollars was made for the erection of dormitory buildings. There is a productive endowment fund, including several scholarships, aggregating about three thousand six hundred dollars. And the land and buildings, now in use for the Preparatory and Industrial Departments in Peking, are valued at ten thousand dollars. 'rheae sums, together with the value of illustrative apparatus, sUJell the present available assets oj the University to 'Ii'bore than tWe!nty-jive thousand dollars.

Through the kindness of friends in England, America andt China, several new scholarships have been started, making a total of twenty-two annual scholarships now being applied to the education of needy but worthy pupils.

By donations, a considerable addition has been made to the number of books in the library, which now comprises over one thousand 'Vol~£'lnes, besides a large collection of pamphlets. A reading room has been opened and supplied with a good assort­ment of periodicals in Ohinese and English. This has been well patronized by the students, alld many of their essays and debates bear evidt1llce of judicious reference to books ill the library.

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Among the additionR t.o the illustrative apparatus of the in­st.itution are a Bell telephone, au Edison phonograph, telegraphic instrnments aud a considerable amonnt of othet· apparatus, 0. plU·t of which were manufactured in our own shop •

• The Industrial School has been enlarged by the addition of a Bhop for working in metals, and a large numbel' of pupils have been admitted to this depnrtment. Some of the pupils have nlready acquired skill ill carpentering and, by their work, are beginniug to l'eimburse us for the outlay incident to their earlier apprentice­ship.

Kindergarten methods among the smallest pupils in the Primary Department, have been successfully used by Miss Davis, and the display made at the close of last term was very oreditable, giving promise of even better things in the future.

Something has been done in the way of systematic physical exercise, and a number of the students have acquired considerable skill in the use of the Indian clubs, but the Chinese disposition, as well as their costume, is avel'se to violent exercise of any kind, and much remains to be done in this line.

Three Literary Societies have had regular weekly exercises with occasional union meetiugs, to which guests wel'e invited. And each term has been closed with a public literal'y entertainment, largely attended by native friends and foreign residents.

Interest in the work of the Y. M. C. A. was revived last autumn duriug tho visit of Mr. Wishard. '1'he college association was reorganized, and several worker's Bible classes started, whioh have continued to hold their meetings to the present time. The membership of the Association comprises all the older students who, in addition to the regular work of the Association, have been active in all religious and Church work.

In the class work of the various departments, four native instructors have been employed for the more @lementary studies, These ha.ve been assisted by five of the older pupils, who have devoted a portion of theil' time each day to teaching in the Primary School.

The work of the Theological and Medical Departments has been cal'ried forward by the membel's of the mission, in addition to their other work. In the College of IJiberal Arts, the corps of instructors has been increased by the arrival, last a.utumn, of Rev. I. T. Headland, of Boston University who, while studying the Chinese language, has had charge of one of the English classes. Mias Davis, also, in addition to her school work, has had to give much time to study of the Chinese. And ;both Mr. Gamewell and myself have had regulal' circuit and chapel work. No member (!)f the mission has been able to gi ve undiv~ded time to eduoational work.

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Large classes have been carried through a thorough element­ary course in physics and chemistry; a number of the students have learned much of the science of telegraphy, and'the junior class has completed a text book in astronomy and found much enjoyment, as well as instruction, in studying" the open face of the heavens." These studies have been taught in English-classes in the Old and New 1.'estament Scriptures, elementary mathematics, geography, and the native classics have been conducted in the vernacular.

An unusual amount of sickness prevailed in the city during the year and materially affected the healthfulness of our sohools. Two of OUl' pupils died of typhus fever and several more oame very near to death's door. A few weeks ago an epidemic of sore eyes prevailed among the boys in the Primary Department, and at one time threatened to break up the soh~o1.

Auxiliary sohools at Tientsin, Taun.hua and T'ai-an are now established, and a good olass of pupils, from eaoh of these districts, is being prepared for the more ad vanced courses in Peking. The organization of these feeders to the University constitutes one of the most important ad vanced moves in our educational work made during the year.

Applications from native soholars, to pursue special studies at odd hours, are not infrequent. We have not, however, the time nor a sufficiently large corps of instructors to meet this demand. Until we can do this, we shall not have attained the full measure of our mission. We should have an institution in which a student may pursue, at any time, any study, leading to any profession 01'

branch of learning which he may desire. To do this, undel' Chl'istian auspices, will insure an entrance

for Gospel trut·h into every department of Chinese life and be of inestoimable value to the snccessful prosecution of evangelistic work.-L. W Pilcher.

TRAINING-CLASS. The annual gathering of the members of tobe Training. Class,

from far and near, took place shortly after our arl'i val in Peking, and this work was assigned to me. As the students were divided inta three classes and numbered as high as forty, the instruction could not be carried out without assistance, which was very kindly rendered by Bros. Lowry and Gamewell, as well as by the Chinese preacher, Li Shao-wen.

. The usual studies were pursued, being Old and New Testament Histal'Y, Evidences of Christianity, Elementary Geography, Ex­egesis of the Epistle to the Galatians.and Sheffield's Ohurch History. - .. i

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That the idea of having these men gathered at Peking from the various out-sta.tions, some from points several huudred miles away, for the more thorough study of Christianity, is excellent, 110

one can reasonably deny. Here they see work cal'l'ied on iu differ­ent evangelistic methods; here they attend the crowded Sabbath congregations in Asbury Chapel; here they 118.\"e the opportunity of participating in the uuion meetings of the week of prayer; and here they thereby develop that "esprit de COl'PS," which is in­valuable, especially among such people as the Ohinese.

Still, frankness compels us to state that, as at pt'esent COll­

ducted, there are certain sel'ious defects, which might aud should be rem edied.

1st, More Oareful Selection of Oa.ndidtttes should be strenuously iusisted upon. It was conspicuously malJifest that some members of the class this yeat' came to Peking, not fOl" the purpose of study, but for free bed and board, One man, although warned, after persistently neglecting his studies, had to be discharged. Anothet' member, a venerable looking farmer, innocently informed me that the native prea.cher told him that since the drought destroyed his cmps two years ago, a.nd the floods last year, he would recommend him as a candidate this year, and he did! By some plan the foreign missiollaries should supervise the selection of candidates. Let the Chinese clearly understand that there is a wide diffel'ence between a Training-Class and an Alms-house.

2ndly. More Work slwuJd be obta'ined from tlte St~tdeu,ts.-Dl', Nevius, of Cbefoo, gives the men, who study with him, enough work to keep them busy from morll till eve, with only necessary intermissions. How more work can be obtained from these three different classes, with the present limit~ corps of illstl'Uctors, is the jn'oblem demanding solution,

It is OUt' firlIl conviction that with carefully selected students, all doing thorough work, the ad vantages of this branch of our work will form an exceedingly valuable adjunct to our regular missionary operations,-M, L. 11aft.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

Duriug the past year the" Josephine Scholarship" of $600 has beeu completed to the memory of t,he sainted wife of the donor, a civil engineer, who paid $200 a year for three yeal's, not being able to pay more at Olle time without fillancially embarrassiug himself, This scholal'ship does not appeal' ou the following list, since the woney for it has 1l0t yet been t"8.11sferred .from New York.

$5,000, 'IT. S. coin, have been received for tbe purchase of new premises, which are now being expended in acquiring tbe property.

As may be seen from the appended list the Dr. Josepb Edkins' Scholarship of 420 Taels is nE~arly completed, and already· steps have been taken t.owards securing a permanent scholat'~bip in honor of our genial visiting Bishop, Daniel A Goodsell.

Twenty-two annual scholarships, at $30 each, providing one student with tuition and board during one year, are supported by the following donors :-

Mrs. Bishop H. W. Warren, Denver, Col. ~:Ir. W C. Iliff, " " Mrs. Cornelia A.I MiHel', Joliet, Ills. Hon. J. Rhein, Netherlands Consulate, Amoy, China. Miss Mansfield Thorburn, Leith, ~cotland. Epworth Leagne, Union M. E. Church, St .. Louis, Mo. Rev. William T. Hobart, Peking, China. Captain James E. Pilcher, ~:I.D., U. S. Army. Leander W. Pilcher, D. D., Peking, China. Wyoming Seminary (2,) Kingston, Pa. William H. Curtiss, M.D., Greencastle, Tnd. Dr. Dumm, Columbus, Obio. Wilbur F. Walker, D.D., Tientsin,Ohina. C S Add' E {H.&S.B'kingCorp.,

" IS, ~q., Calcutta, India. George B. Crews, M.D., Denver, Col. Miss Ella J. Douglass, Bath, Me. Miss Hat.ie E. Davis, Peking, China. Methodist Episcopal Sunday School, Marblehead, Mass. Rev. Frederick Brown, Tientsin, Chiaa. Rev. W H. Rees, London Mission, Hsiao-chang, China. ~frs. Jessie Durbin, Denver, Col.

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The appended statement wilJ farnish speoifio iufoJ'mdion concerning the funds iu China :-

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

To fi,'e Chinese Govern· ment Bonds,

" Deposits in H. and S. Bank,

" Investment . .. Draft from 'l'rea.surer of

Board of Trustees in New York, £1,031.9 Stg.=

'118. ets. By Tung Jen Hospital,

1,270 29 " Lowry Med. Scholar· ship, -

921 77 " Summerfield Scholar· 500 00 ship,

Joseph Edkins, D.D., Scholarship,

4,362 08 " Bishop D. A. Goodsell Scholarship,

" Sir Robert Hart Prize Fund,

$7,054: 14

" Sill. Sek ·ong Prize Fund, Walter R. Lambuth,

M.D., Prize Fund, " Chapla.in McCabe " " Re,'. James Mills

Scholarship, " Reuben Robinson Me·

morial, " Land Purchase,

RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 1890.

unel0 J

o ct. 17

" 28

N

A

ov.26 1891. pro 8

" 13

M ay 12

1891. M &y 12

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TtB. cis. 1890. To Balance from Oct. 28 By W. H. Curtiss

last year, 2,467 28 (two h08pi· " Int. on Bonds, 41 08 tal beds),

" " " Dero, " " " W. H. Curtiss sits (Fixe ) 55 00 (Lowry Med.

" Check W. H. School), Curtiss, 34 93

" " " L. W. Pilcher " Interest on (Summerfield

Bonds - 4.1 27 1891. Scholarship), " Draft of Feb. 14

" L. W. Pilcher

£1,031.9 Stg.,· 4,362 08 (Sia Sek·ong " Check, 143 00 Prize),

May 12 " Balance· ----$7,]44 64

To Bal. brought forward, - 7,054 14

E.&O.E.

:11-8. cu. 783 52

44100

44100

35506

14300

]0500 7350

1350 7350

180 93

2105 4,36208

1$7.OM114

I

$

'Its. eta.

42 00

21 00

24 00

3 50 7,054 14

7,1«: 64

Audited and found cOI'rect, L. W. PILCHER.

MARCUS L. 'l'AJ'T, Treasurer in Ohina.

Ii'&ED. BROWN. PEKING, May 12tJ" lSgl.

gfCebicaf ~"rfi. at

PEKING METHODIST HOSPITAL.

The Peking Medical Work has be-en carried on during the ten months ending March 31st, in about the usual manner, wit.h good results, better in some respects than in previous years, hut with some disappointments and trials and a know­ledge gained by experience of where the work can be im­proved in the future. Preconceived notions of how such a work should be carried on, vanish more and more the deeper one gets into it. The Chinese, onr antipodes in so many ways, are none the less so in their manner of dealing with the foreign physician, and all cases cannot be approached in the same manner. Patience and tact are the two elements to be most cultivated in onr intercourse with them. Some come with a great sense of risk in their contact with us; ask all sorts of questions, s.ensihle and foolish, and eye every movement of doctor and assistants with suspicion. Others have been known to flee at the sight of a thermometer case, while still others are willing to submit to almost anything, in fact having a faibh in our power that makes ns feel somewhat small.

In times of weariness, trouble and anxiety about the work, we have more than ever learned the necessity of entire dependence upon Him" who doeth all things well," and of sinking self out of sight and doing the work, because it is for His honor and glory.

In .the hospital we haye treated seventy-six patients. Of these twenty-seven were opinm cases, twenty-eight surgical and eighteen medical cases. Of the remaining three cases the records were lost through carelessness of assistants in charge. A disease, dreaded in all hospitals, appeared two or three times this year, i.e., erysipelas. With our limited accommodations we cannot set aside a special ward for such cases. Thongh amenable to treatment this may become extremely dangerous when attacking a wonnded surface. To avoid this danger several cases were refused admit­~nce, because all other rooms were occupied, and it would have been orisking a good deal to have pnt them into a r.oom known to be ·infected. Another thing which makes us feel more than ever the need of larger and better quarters is that persons of a better class, after inspecting the only accommodation we can offer them, refuse to come. They cannot have the privacy they d~!!Iire, nor are the ftCcommodatioDs of the style that they are accustomed .t.or

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It will be seen that the proportion of opiuPl cases has been less than usual with an increase in the surgical and medical cases. While we regret the falling off in one we are much pleased at the inorease in the others, showing that the people are perceptibly imposing more confidence in us. Five women have been included a.mong the in-patients. This number could be greatly increased had we the propel' place to offer them.

Six charity beds are again being supported this year. Their names and donors are as follows :-" My Neighbor," by Dr. Crews; "Inasmuch," in Memory of Mrs. Crews' Sister; "Arthur D,avis," by Mrs. Sleeper Davis, of Boston; "Faith," by Ch8.8. Denby, jr., 2nd Secretary U. S. Legation; and "Hospital Endowment, Nos.l and 2," by interest from Hospital Endowment Fund. We shall endeavor to keep a record of patients occupying each bed during the year to submit to the donors thereof.

Besides the above gifts we are pleased to acknowledge dona­tions from F. D. Cheshire, Esq., Interpreter U. B. Legation, of $10; M. 1'allieu, $5; and $9 from 1!". D. Gamewell, from sale of Chinese cash in U. S.

One death has occurred in the hospital. A man who had come from Do distant province as an official follower, was admitted with a well mat'ked case of ulcer of stomach. After he became ill he was, to all intents and purposes, deserted by those to whom he had rendered service. We took him in with lOany misgivings as to the result, but he improved under treatment until one mornillg some solid food was surreptitiously conveyed to him from the outside, one portion of which was sufficient to break the weak tissues already' almost dissolved, and he died as a result of perforation of the stomach and escape of its contents into the abdominal cavity.

One other sad case was that of a child brought to the clinic in the last stages of diphtheretic croup. The face already showed signs of carbonic acid poisoning. After a superficial examination and while preparing for a more thorough one, the cllild fell back into its mother's arms, breathless. Assistance was summoned and every e:ffort made, including tracheotomy, to resuscitate the child, but all to no purpose. This is only one example of many of the difficulties to gaining the entire confidence of the people. Cases are allowed to linger along until the last gasps are being taken and until only God could restore life, when our aid is solicited.

The number of outsiders in attendance at dispensary is con­stantly increasing. We always }lave a few from the schools. If any comparisons are made wilh numbers given in last report, it must be remembered that 1,000 were seen on country visits last year, whel'eas this year ouly one trip was made, and that by Dr. Jones, in company with Bro. Lowry in distributing relief funds, when he saw 225. The dispellsary for women alld children, opeped a yea.r and a half ago, was discontinued at Chiuc:le New

Year. The assistance hoped for in keeping this work open we were disappointed in, and by a little crowding the women and children were given a separate waiting room at the hospital dispensary, where the attendance is about -as usual.

Altogether 4,773 patients were treated in the dispensaries, and this does not include a few visits to homes nor practice among foreigners. Besides the operations on hospital cases, we have treated fractures and ulcers, opened abscesses and pulled teeth at clinics.

Six cases of opium poisoning have been treated, foul' of which recovered, two died and one the result unknown.

This has been an unnsual year in the number of fever cases and inflammatory diseases of the eye.

We were again in tho autumn and ea.rly winter visited by that great "globe trotter" -influenza. In the first epidemic the disease in the compound was limited 00 Chinese. In the second visitation few natives were attacked, but the foreigners felt ts grip. Very few of the foreigners escaped some form of illness during the year.

We still feel that God is leading and directing in the work . .our greatest desire is that we could do more for Him. Besides the necessity felt for a new hospital, we would like to see some arrange· ment made for more systematic. dispensary preaching. It is im· possible for the assistants who haye studies to keep up at the same time to fiU the three positions of assistants, students and preachers. Until the beginning of the training class the native preacher was very regular in attendance, and we know of one nt least brought into the Church during that time. After the preacher gave up the work, some of the larger boys in the school were asked to take turns in talking to the waiting patients. They were quite faithful for a short time, then became spasmodic and finally ceased altoge. ther, and for the past two or three months we have been most of the time without any help in this direction.

11100 the hearts of all we wish and endeavor to cast thoughts of the healing power of the Great Physician. These thoughts, like the seed of the sower, has partly fallen upon stony ground, but other has fallen upon good ground, which has bronght forth fruit to the salvation of their souls and to the bonor and glory of God. This number we know is few, but who dares place a value upon a sonl. rro Him who marks the spal'row's faU, a soul saved is a. priceless jem.-W- H. o ut·tiss, M.D.

TSUN-HUA METHODIST HOSPITAL. The Tsun-hua medical work now consists of a hospital and

five dispensing stations, open regularly for the distrihution of medicine, besides many out-villages, where irregular visits are made and medicines dispensed from the homes of Church members and othel's who invite U8. .

Kuang-ohi Hospital, has accommodations for forty patients, and is divided into surgical, fever, ulcer and trachoma wardA, which have been open all the yeaI' for the reception of patients.

A daily clinic has been held in the Hospital Dispensary with an average attendance of twenty.

The City Ohapel Dispens(J7'Y is an innovation of the past year; work was carried on here before the hospital was built, but has been closed since that time. As a means of attracting numbers to chapel preaching and bringing onr work more prominently before the people, this work has been reopened on market days with an average atteI!dance of more than sixty patients.

It has been our purpose for two years to open a dispensing station at 8lLa-liu-"'o, one of the busiest market towns north of Tientsin, but the failure to secure Rnd repair suitable property has detained DS. Last summer the successful removal of a very large tumor from the back of a merchant, gave us some reputation and brought repeated invitations to visit the place. With these encouragements and the opening of the street chapel on rented property, the first visit was made ,January 13th, since which time this place has been visited by me or my assistant every ten days, with an average attendance of 242, and if the sun would but stand still, as it did on one memorable occasion, as many more wonld apply for treatment. Although the accommodations are poor for onr work, and Sha-1in-ho is thirty miles from Tsun.hua, each trip taking three full days' time, we are far from discouraged with this station, and hope, with increased faciIi ~ies, a larger chapel and a special room for dispensing, this work may be made a power for God.

Ping-oheng-tzu, sixteen miles distant, has been visited every ten days with an average attendance of 130. This is the third year work has been carried on there with no abatement in numbers or in­terest. The work has not been followed up as carefully as we could wish, on account of illness of the helper in charge. But the seed, sown in this busy market town is, we trust, not lost, but will bear fruit to change their hearts as it has already their manner toward us.

Hsi-cltuang-tzu, ten miles from Tsun-hua, has also been visit­ed every tenth day with an average attendance of 50. This work has beeu done in connection with the street chapel preach­ing and has added to the congregation of listeners and called the attention of the people to onr work. Two trips have been made during the year over the Lan-clww and Sltan-hai-lcu,an districts, in company with the presiding elder, dispensing medicine for some days at Shan-hai-kuan eacL trip and £01' shorter periods at other stations.

The work has been made as far reaching as our limited force could make it, and the opportunities afforded in hospital a.nd dispensaries of acquainting the people with Ohristian tl'uths, has Dot beciu allowed to pass unimproved. It is alwlLys our custom to

receive these patienlis in the cha.pels and engage them in religious conversation till the time for opening the dispensaries, and ask them to buy ODe of our books which are exposed for sale. When allowed to select for them, we choose a. copy of the catechism, and on subsequent visits give other books as they are able to under,;, stand them. In this way many books are disposed of each year and testimonies are often received of awakenings following the perusal of t.hese books. Work among the hospital patients has also many encouraging features. We are able to get nearer to them here than in any other part of our work, and many have promised to study God's Word and give up their idols. A reqord has been made of these cases, but they are so widely scattered that no trace can be kept of them. We have long felt the need of a colporteur in the employ of the hospital, who could follow up these cases, visiting them in their homes. We have found one who has proved himself capable and honest to undertake this work the coming year, and good:results are hoped for. . No. of in-patients during the year

" "visits made to homes " " out-patients in dispensaries

Total

No. of opel'ations performed in hospital "" " " " dispensary ...

Total

94 81

11,509

... 11,684

99 192

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Contributions to our work have been received during the year from friends in China and the home land. The Church at Wellfleet, Mass., supporting a bed as in the past.

The past year has been a busy and encouraging ODe, though like every such work, it has also had its discouragements. Many cases might be cited of much interest, both from a physician's and Christian's standpoint. We leave the year with its mistakes, re­grets and encouragements with God, turning toward the Dew with fresh courage and prayet· for renewed power and "strength for the day."-N. S. Hopkins, M,D.

W. F. M. S.-PEKING. Boarding Sohools.-Owing to the fact that far more than

half of our pupils come from country homes more or less distant, and that the roads in every direction from Peking were rendered almost impassable during the summer and early autumn by the floods of the rainy seaSOll, but few were on hands for opening of school on September first. And mOl'e than & mont.h elapsed

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before claBses could be regula.l'ly organized for tbe term, with sixty pupils in attendance. In November Sarah Wang arrived from Sbang-tung, bringing eighteen more from An-ohia-ohuang and Tientsin.

Our eurollment for the year has beeu one hundred and three. Of these eight, two of whom were married, have, for various reasons, returned home, leaving ninety-five now under iustruction. Many more applioations for admission have come to us than with our limited number of workers we have felt able to graut; and for the same reason our work for those already in charge has been greatly lacking in satisfaction to ourselves.

Since the New Year's vaoation, Mrs. Gamewell has kindly afforded us most grateful assistance, much lightening our care as well as labor. Our promised aid from Amerioa is eagerly anticipated for our coming year's work.

Our school has consisted of two departments, designated as the" High School" and the " Primary School H respectively.

The High Sohool has been constantly under supervision of a foreign lady, Miss Ketring, Mrs. Gamewell and myself so arranging our recitations as to successively occupy the school room. The primary department has been nnder the direct control of Miss Sarah Wang, assisted by Mrs. W u, the Bible womau and one of the older school girls. Aud the abiHty she has here shown is one of the best evidences we can afford of the value of work done in our school in past years. We have also had most gratifying testimony to this from the work of our former pnpils as teachers and helpers elsewhere and in other departments of our work.

The progress of pupils, in prescribed studies, has been satisfactory with but very few exceptions.

The spirit of the school has beeu good; the Christian influence of the majority of the older girls giving help to the entire school. During the year fifteen pupils and the new matron who came to us in the autumn, have been baptized. and received into the Church.

Although during the year we have had one case each of small pox, pneumonia and dipththeria, and several light cases of malarial fever, yet the health of the pupils in general has, we think, he en ahove the average, and no death has occurred, which has been cause for great thankfulness.

The Day School, nnder Mrs. 1'8 instruction, has had an enrollment of· thirty-five pupils, and the attendance has been

. reasonably regular; the number decreasing as the warm season has advanced. The pupils have been regular in attendance at Sabbath School. In addition to catechism, Scripture, Christian books and hymn singing formerly taught, the older pupils, girls from fifteen to eighteen years of age, have studied primary geography and mental arithmetic, showing interest and making good progress. '

Han-ts'un SchooZ.-After it was decided impracticable to open a. school in Shan-tung, on account of Mrs. Jewell's illness and return to America, it was decided necessa.ry, because of our limited number of workers in Peking, to recall Sarah Wang to our aid and abandon thought of school work there until a foreign lady can be at liberty to establish and visit it from time to time. We, therefore, decided to venture upon the experiment of opening a school at Han-ts'uu, distant but forty miles, and thus within visiting distance from Peking, without too long absence from our work here. Accommodations were most kindly provided by the M. E. Mission a.nd the school given in charge of Miss Sung Su-chen, a pupil of our school and daughter of the native preacher stationed there. Food, fire and room, but no bedding or clothing, were furnished the pupils, who came from the surrounding villages. The number is limited to twenty pupils, and it is required that all unbind their feet upon entrance. Owing to lack of explicitness upon this point at first, the school was filled with girls, whose feet were bound; and when the req oirement was definitety made, the school at once disintegrated, but was, within a few weeks, again built up of girls, a large part of whom had been there before, willing to meet the requirement. At my last visit in early April I was assured that if all the girls now there should be removed, there were as many more eagerly waiting to come into their places. Two visits of inspection a.nd examination were made during the year. The pupils were remarkably neat in appearance, bright faced and polite in manner, and gave evidence of having been carefully taught; the pattern of her Peking training having been as closely adhered to by the t~acher as her circumstances would permit. 'l'he school has beeu maintained at an expense of about $1.25 per month for each pupil, and the avet'age for the year may prove even less.

An industrial class was organized and conducood for a few weeks; but pressure of other work compelled that it be dt'opped until a more convenient season, which we hope may soon arrive.

Save for improving such opportunities as have incidentally fallen in our way in pursuit of routine work, there has been no opportunity for evangelistic work.-Annie B. Sears, Mary Ketring.

WOMAN'S TRAINING SCHOOL. Thirty-three women were received into the school between"

the months of September and March. Half the number had been under ins'truction in this school

last year. The others were neady all poor old women who had Buffered at home from the floods and came to school for food and shelter duriDg the winter.

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We received them all 85, with one exception, they were probationers or members of the Church, and tried to teaoh eaoh one the Gospel, according as she was able to receive instruction.

The unpromising ones were sent home as soon as the warmer -weather made it possible for them to go, without sending them to suffering or perhaps death.

Twenty.fi ve were in school at the close of its session in March. The classes were of four grades. Besides these there were two

old women, who did not succeed in learning any characters, but they listened intelligently, and we thought they absorbed from constant hearing enough truth on which to begin a saving faith. These old ladies made themselves useful in the kitchen.

The studies pursued were as follows :-A Scripture primer pl'inted in large characters, that delighted the old ladies, because tlO big and so few of them! The ca.techism, Bible history, a simple rendering of Christia.u doctrine aad Evidences of Christianity.

I employed an old man and a woman who had been educated in the American Board l\lission 8S teachers of the Chinese characters.

l\irs. Hobart and myself had daily recitations alld general lessons besides. In this way the school was so ordered as to bring the women under constant instruction, so that even the very dull, who could not learn to read, might learn by much hearing.

In order to give all the time possible to the women for study, I established a kitchen and provided food instead of giving money to them and letting each provide for herself.

In making this change the fact developed that the money fOl'merly given, small as the amount had been (seven cents pel' day), was inducement enough to bring women to the school with the object of saving money. To such the change was very distasteful. I started an industrial department, which I hope may develop sufficiently to afford employment to needy women of the Church whom we wish to help over hard winters.

I am sorry to find that the women who have been two or three years under instruction, are discontented, because not put into paying positions.

I hope they may so catch the spirit of the school that they may gladly take Christ's words for their motto, "Freely ye }uLve received freely give."

I have thought the name of the school may have something to do with creating wroug impressions as to its object.

Perhaps "Woman's Bible School" 01' some like name might be a better designation .-Mary Porter Gamewell.

TIENTSIN. We all know only too well the loss the womunJs work in

Tientsin has sustained through the necessary l'etnt'n to Amel'ica of Mrs. Jewell aud Dl'. Glass, without its being enlarged uPOIJ.

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here: The arrival of our two new doctors a few days -before her departure, gave Dr. Gloss the comforting assurance that she was leaving her work in oompetent hands. .

Our Reference Committee decided to ask Mrs. Richard, of the English Baptist Mission, to assist us half of each day, and to her we tender our heartfelt thanks for her faithful and efficient work in the Training School, among. the women and children of the west city and the patients in the hospital. We also owe Mrs. Walker a debt of gratitude for her earnest e:B!orts ill the Training Sohool and her care for our woman's weekly prayer­meeting.

Although distance has made it difficult to look after our west city work satisfactorily, an increased attendance at Church and Sunday School and ever increasing interest among the women and girls, as well as the fact that a number have joined the Church, make us feel that the work has not been in vain. Even through the mnd have they goue to get an opportunity to hear more about the great God.

I am sorry to be obliged to state that, owing to the teacher being without interest, the west city day school languished and died a lingering death. Miss Wilson visited it unexpecte!ily a numbel' of times, and found no one but the teacher, wbo was engaged in household pursllits. The hospital patients have manifested much desire to heal' about tbe doctrine, and many of them have learned to read a little; the children, when able, attending the day school, and we hope our efforts on their be­half will spread much farther than the hospital walls. . One patient, afflicted with an incurable disease, begged so hard to be allowed to remain and attend the Training School, that pe~mission was granted. She was baptized a few weeks ago. ReI' face has changed in a very marked degree. Wben I first sa.w her a year and a half ago, her face was an index of a va.cant mind. But now the love of God which passes all understanding, makes it radiant. A family in the city asked that. B.ome one might go to their home and tell them more about Jesus. The Bible woman made a number of visits, when the parents were taken into the Church, and the daughter, a girl of fifte~n, came to the day school. She had only attended a few days when she appeared one morning with her feet unbound. .

1'he Tzu-chu-lin day school, under Miss Wilson)s direct supervision, has been very prosperous. Three of the Training School women have taken turns teaching it, Sili N a-Ii doing the teaching before the opening of the Training School. Two of the girls have come into the Church. Day schools in Tzu-chu-lin are all small, owing perhaps partly at least to the fact that there are five not far distant the one from the others. Our maximum attendance was fourteen, the 1al'geat, I believ.e, of any; this, howevel',

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included four children of the Training School women~ The Church members have been visited in their own homes by Miss Wilson and the Bible womll'D, thus helping them to feel that a personal interest was felt in their welfal·e. The number in the Training School averaged twenty-six women and one boy, a brother of Lin Chi-Inn, who came as a patient and studied with the women all winter. AU with perhaps three exceptions, made very excellent progress in their books. ·A remarkable freedom from quarreling, and a wonderful spirit of love, characterized their stay with us. At the close of school one woman said, "I have learned the great lesson of love this winter." Indeed I tbink 'many of them learned that lesson as they had never known it before. The genuine Ohristian example ever before them of their teacher, Sai Na-li, went far toward proving to them the real value of a close walk with God .. One of our women is now working in the Tai-ch'eng district, where many, many women are seeking a better way: the loaves and fishes inspiring zeal, without doubt, in some hearts. as they certainly did last fall when the Training School opened, when it would have been far easier to have a school of one hundred than twenty-five. Owing to other ca.res, our industrial class is still a hope, and as a hope puts forth many buds of promise which we may be able to gather another year.-Anna. E. Steere, Frances O. Wilson.

The Isabella Fisher Hospitctl.-During the past year Tientsin medical work has suffered the loss of Dr. Gloss, and, altl.lOugh two of us came to the work shortly before she left,we are not yet a.ble to fill her place. Our not being able to speak Chinese has put dou­ble work on Miss Steere and Miss Wilson, who have kindly and patiently interpreted for us, riding long distances and staying out nights when necessary. During the winter Mrs. Richard did the interpreting at the Hsi-t'ou dispensary, also spending some time each week in evangelistic work among the patients in the hospital.

Religious teaching has been given all who have come within our walls. We trnst much seed has been sown that will bear frnit­age in the future. A number of children have had their first lessons in reading while in the hospital, several becoming day school scholars, some who came to US fat' bodily healing, have felt the touch of the Great Physician and have, we believe, become spiritua.lly whole.

The dispensary work has been very satisfactory; also the out practice. The hospital work has not been so enoonraging; many who have been in need of operations 01' careful treatment, have been unwilling or unable to come into the hospital.

. It is with regret that we close the work for the 'summer, for rest and study, believing that our future usefulness will be greater by so doing.

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The number of patients treated is as' follows :-Number of new ·patientstreated ~nAispensa1·~. 3,768

.....!llMld number~L9'~I-~~ 6,812 . PatientB treated in war$, ... ... ... ... ... 90 Visits topatients at their homes since Nov. bt, 1890, 497 Fees received siuce Nov. 1st, 1890, ... ... $99.55

.-10[. Ida Stevenson, ltD., Boobe) R}::2'tlD'j ! ! 6 )7

TSUN-HUA.

In reviewing the record of the past year, in the boarding and day schools, I find very little that shows for all the busy days and weeks, and yet we know that unles8 this daily routine work is faithfully carried out, our work will amount to nothing in the end.

The Boarding School has been crowded with forty-three pu­pils, and it takes a good deal of planning to get them all seated in a two chien school room. A change was made in the teachers, and Hui Fang, one of the Peking girls, has proved a real blessing with 80 sunny disposition and always willing to work.

Mrs. Hopkins has very kindly taught the girls singing, and marked improvement has been made during the year.

Nearly all the girls have done well in their studies, and Po class of five are ready to send to the High School in Peking. One was expelled for misconduct, and another, after a thl'ee years' trial, is still unable to pei (repeat) the catechism, and will be dropped.

The outlook for self-support is not very encouraging here in Tsun-hua. Applications have been many and frequent to sup­port the families at home as well as the children in school.'

The Day School was started three years ago by Doctor Terry. Nearly all the same pupils still attend, and good progress has been made, as the la~t examination showed. Fourteen attended until recently, when small-pox visited the school, and the number was greatly reduced.

Two things are greatly needed: First. More buildings. We hear that Mis~ Cushman is meeting with good success in raiSing the money for this purpose, and we hope by next year to be settled in better rooms. Second. A new lady is needed to assist in the work. It is impossible fo~ one to do an the work well and study the language at the same time.

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The spirit of the school has been good. We div ided the girls into three classes and have found that we got nearer to them than in one general meeting. .Some wa.nted to unite with the Chnrch, but I thought best for them to wait.

It has been comforting to know that God does not expect impossibilities from us, but only that we be faithful in all things.-Lillian G. Hale.

Woman's Work.-When the Master sent ont the disciples, His first command was to tell the glad tidings, and the after oharge was to heal the bodies of men. In looking over the two-fold work of the year-evangelistic and medical-the first always rises in import­once as the great work to be done, and as suoh, demands attention first in making a report of the year.

Ont' training school for women opened this year about the middle of November. Eleven women, who were in the school last year, re-entered this year, and eighteen new ones were received. Theil' general progress in study was satisfaotory. Some who studied last year, have finished the Gospel of Matthew, and one has read Luke and part of John. Of those who entered this year, two had been in t,he Tientsin training school under Mrs. Jewell's instrnction, and were well advanced in study. There were but two women who were unable to finish the catechism.

The progress of one woman is worthy of special mention. She is fifty-eight years old, Bnd has been for years a servant in a Chinese family. She entered the training school about a month after it was opened. DOl'ing the first two weeks she read the Scripture Primer, and two weeks later she finished the catechism. Then followed the "Talks with Women," which she read under­standingly, and at the close of the term she had read nine chapters in the Gospel of Matthew. It was Q pleasure to watch her intel. lectual progress, but more to see her readiness to grasp di vine truth. As the plan of redemption was unfolded to her, the truth found a glad response in her heart, and her face would light up with joy as she talked of what Christ had done for her. The strong reliable character which this woman seems to possess, makes us hopeful that she may be of use to us as a worker in the future.

Some of the women came from Christian homes and were quite well instructed in the first principles of the faith. One woman would frequently say, "0 yes, I understand that, my husband has explained it to me." There were others, however, who were very ignorant and needed to be taught. The whole object of the teaching was to try and give them a clear idea of the way of salvation and impress upon them the importance of right living.

The Medical Work shows some increa.se over last year. The dispensary in the city has never been largely attended, but the country olinios ha.ve always been good. It is difficult for the

women to come long distances to be treat.ed, but they Bre glad to come to the foreign doctor wheu visits are made to their villages. At the beginning of the year I planned to make a country trip each week, but the pressure· of work at home has often made it impossible to carry out this plan. An exceedingly interesting work might be carried on at the countl'Y stations if one had more time to attend to it, fOL' beside giving medicine thel'e is always opportunity to talk to the women, and in the places where we have chapels and a Church membership, the women are always willing to meet together for a· short prayer-meeting.

Beside the outside work a number of patients have been received and treated in the hospital.

The following are the statistics :-Total number of prescriptions, 3,000; obstetrical cases, 8;

total number of in-patients, 21; entropium, 10; dysentery, 3 ; bronchitis, 2 j amputation of three toes, 1; unclassified, 5.-Edna G. Terry, M.D.

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EDUCATION.

Although the Act of Incorporation was filed in 1889 in the office of the Justice of the Supreme COU1·t of the State of New York, on account of a recent law of the State of New York, the final incorporation of the Peking University was nnavoidably deferred until 1890, with the following BOA.RD OF TRUSTEES, residing in New York and vicinity :-

Bishop E. G. Andrews, LL.D., P'l'es1'dent; J. M. Buckley, D.D., Vice-President; James H. 1.'aft; Mercein Thomas; Lewis S. Pilcher, M.D. j John M. Reid, D.D., LL.D.; Henry C. M. Ingraham; Charles H. Taft, T1'easurer; S. L. Bald win, D.O. Secretary.

The By-Laws provide for a BOARD Ol!' MANAGERS in China, according to Article V, which reads as follows: "The Trustees shall elect a 'Board of Managers', not exceeding twenty-four in number, from among the American and other foreign l'esidents in China; all the members of said Board shall be Protestants of evangelical faith, and at least one-fourth residents of Peking or vicinity." During the present annual meeting it is intended to complete the nomination of this Board.

The industrial depart·ment has grown considerably during the year, so that carpentering and working in iron, exercise the muscles of many students.

Additional premises, adjoining the 'present mission compound, are now being purchased, and $6,000.00 towards building the $10,000 dormitory, have been granted.

Preparatory schools have been established at the main out­stations of -Tientsin, Tsun-hua and 1.'ai-an, which 81'e intended as tributary to the central institution at Peking.

The corps of instructors has been increased by the arrival of Rev. I. T. Headland and Dr. and Ml'S. Jones; the former for the College of Liberal Arts and the latter for the medical de­partment.

The instrnction in the Primary aud Preparatory Schools and in the College of Liberal Arts has been carried on as usua.}. In the scientific department the telegra.ph and the phonograph, under the skillful instruction of Prof.· Garnewell, have attracted con.

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siderable attention. Outside of the regular recitations Prof. Gamewell has also formed a class in journalism; the newspaper studied this term being The Ohristian Advocate of New York.

The examinations in both English and Chinese at the close of the first semester, were quite satisfactory, evidenoing thorough work by both teachers and taught.

Now that the Peking U riiversity has been legally incorpo­l'ated, new premises are being procured, and the prosoribed course of study is being systematioally pursued; it is of primary import­ance that each and every student be allowed to complete the prescribed course of study.

What .our work imperatively demands is devoutly consecrated and thoroughly trained men in the theological, medical and scien­tific pl'ofessions,"as well as in business life. Our most crying need to-day is not for incompetent native assistants, but for thoroughly qualified nRtive preachers. It is gratifying to see that those in charge are beginning to realize the nr~nt importance of each capable student finishing his course. Detaching faithful bright students, before finishing their regular course of study, is suicidal to the best interests of our mission. Let us, for any merely tem­pOl'ary urgency, deprive no promising student of the privilege of completing his course of study, so that each of them may prove to be a "workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth "! Let us rather eagerly do our part in raising up, for Christ and for China, competent consecrated cultured leaders of the Paul, Luthel' and Wesley type.-Marcus L. Taft, Ku Ch'i I OO7n1nittee.

MISSIONS.

The command of the Master was to " go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every crea.ture." In obedience to this command, nearly all branches of the Christian Church have organized missionary societies to Ca1'1'Y forward this work.

The Gospel has been preached in China by Protestant mis­sionaries since 1807. There are now in t.his empire ovel' thirty­eight thousand Christians; there are more than three hundred and fifty thousand patients treated in the hospitals and dispensa.ries annually, and about thirty thousand taels are contributed for the support of the Gospel.

It,is gratifying that, notwithstanding the floods, and famine, and general distress, the missionary collection this year is forty taels in ad vance of last year, besides a large increase in t.he other cpllections.-H, H. Lowry, Sun Chiu~kao, Oo'¥nm'Wee.

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SELF-SUPPORT.

In the line of self-support considerable advance has been made on the results of previous years. 1.'wo nat,ive preachers have been entirely supported by locnl contributions, and several mOl'e have received a. part of their salaries from their native brethren. The statistics also show comparatively large contributions for other local Church purposes.

The native Chu rch is beginning to realize that tIle food of babes is not sufficient to nourish those of mature growth, Bnd tbat the dependence upon the gifts of the Church in foreign lands. while indispensabie to the beginning of Church work here, may prove harmfnl to mature growth in spiritual things.

This and kindred questions in anI' Church economy must be worked out at an early day, and we do well to give it prominence in all onr miuistrations~-L. W. Pilcher, ChIen Tn-yung, Oommittee.

CHURCH EXTENSION.

At each qnarterly conference the qnestion is asked, to How much has been collected for church extension," and it is the duty of the preacher in charge to see that some one is appointed to take up a subscription fOt, this object. The Bible t.eaches that we should prepare a Ruitable place in which to worship God. At present we have chapels, some owned by the mission, while others are rented fo1' us wit.b mission funds. We now believe it is time the members should undertake for themselves in this matter. Our efforts may be feeble, but if they are united, we might at least be able to rent one new place each year. A committee was ap­pointed last yeal' to manage the funds, and although little notice was taken of the resolution passed last year, we have to report a collection of gold $4D.76; this can be increased if members will take heed, and we will soon be able to look with pleasure on chapels of our own, because built with our money.-Frederick Brown, Te J ui, COllwn"ttee.

NOTE.-A translation of the Chinese report.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE.

Many and serious problems confront us on the mISSIOn field in securing the obeervat.ion of the Sabbath by native Christians. There is the case of Christians employed by heathen masters; the

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pressure ever upon a people whose lives are a hand-to-mouth -struggle for existence; the absence of a Christian literature, and the illiteracy which would render such a literature unavailable ·did it exist. , At the General Conference of :Missionaries, held at Shanghai last year, two views found expression. Fit'st, that the observance ·of the Sabbat,h should be enforced as a law; the Fourth being -equally binding with the other commandments; and, second, that ,the observance of the Sabbath should not be enforced as a law, but recommended as a privilege; emphasis being placed on the blessings growing out of its observance. . We believe that tbe observation of the day will be secured ouly by our teaching that its observation is not only a privilege, but is binding as a law, dealing with individual cases of a peculiar nature as they arise. 1'his is the course that has been pursued by our missions.-F. D. Gamewell, Shang Cb'ing-ytin, OOlnmittee.

THE BIBLE CAUSE.

A glance into the history of mau, 1'e\7eal8 the fact that all nations have had theh' sages, and each sage his instructions for his fellow. China bas its Four Books and Five Classics, which are regarded as a precious minor, the confidence of all Chinamen. But in exa.mining their origin, it is discovered they are only the produc­tion of men, and since they are of man, they can contain nothing beyond man's thought. The Bible, howevel', commends itself to us, because God, through men, has revealed unt,o the world His will .concerning the race. In it are infinite mysteries. Its teaching is incomparably beyond the thought and teaching of the sages. The best of these latter but indicate some of the simple dnties of man in this life. Of the future, with its rewards and punishments, they are without testimony or knowledge. If, however, we turn to tbe Bible, we learn of man's gnilt, God's compassion, the merit of :Jesus Christ, tlle influence of the Holy Spirit, the way of escape from sin, the path of righteousness and the distinct,ion between a heaven of bliss and a h'eB of misery. Altbough the Bible is so invaluable, its value depends on its faithful alld wise use; it is not to be bidden away or shelved, else we like the sick man grow WOl'se with medicine in easy reach, Jesus says, "Search the :Suriptm'es, for iuthem yethiuk ye have etet'nal·life." 'VVe, therefore, as disciples of ODt' Lord, ought systematically to study the pages of God's work, because He has seen fit to nse man as His medium £-01' reaching other men, and would that his truth through us may ueach OU1· fellow-mell. Jesus says "FI'e~ly ye have received.,. freely give." If, as His disciples, we recognize this as a duty, the~

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we should be rea.dy, with our substance, to assist in the circulation of the word, t.hat men everywllel'e may have opportunit,y for its study.

Paul says, " I have plllnted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase." If in this work we use our best. endeavors in planting and watering, God will give the growing grain and future harvest, some thirty, some sixty, some an hUlldl'ed fold. Our work cannot he in vain, and e\'ery ChristialJ should feel iu d ut.y bound to speed on the cause.-'V F, Walker, Wang Oh'eng-p'ei, Cummittee.

TEMPERANCE AND ANTI-OPIUM.

That wille and opium are poisons which, tnken in largo .quantities, destroy life, are facts known to every Olw. 1'aken in small quantities -they act as n stimulant to all the fUllctions of the body, which effect is followed by a cOl'l'esponding depression of the physical and mental powers, calling for an increased dose to pro­duce the effect desired. Thus the habit is fixed, the cords are woven and day by day we see man-made in the image of God­.dragged down till he has lost that image and trampled undel' foot every law of his beiug and hi" Maker.

Many effort.s are made to sa \'e this cluss, but not all of them are wisely directed. For if the patient wishes to be cured frOJD any other mati ve than that, the habit is sinful and illjurious, efforts for his relief are quite sure to result, ill failure. 'l'hat t,he babit is an expensive one alld injurions t.o business interests: are motives too low to carry him thmugh the fiery trials that lie between him and a cure.

Year by year adds to the hist.ory of this work many interest­ing facts, and the most apparent aIle is that the diseased center-tb~ heart, is left. unchanged, and much of the effort to reform is a failure; oue prominent missionary worker, having treated nearly Dve huudred cases of the opium habit, speaks of his discouragement in strong terms, saying that of this large number he could not guarantee more than ten who had lIOt returned to their old habit. A return to the old life and sUl'l'oundillgs are too much for them,

God's method for saviug thp, lost is to fit'st bt·jng them to feel their !leed of salvation, and at theil' askiug, give them a clean heart. Unless we can point them to the Gl'eat Physician and bring them to believe on Him with saving faith, it matters not whether he is treated with opium pills 01' locked up ill a room away from temptation till the craving is past. Experience shows that ninety­-five out of every hundred are llOt improved. Let us bring this class to God, asking Him to begin the work with a clean heart., when we, with anti-opium remedies and Christian sympathy, can help him to establish liilllself in llis new position.

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Knowing our inabilit,y to combat this great evil in our own strength, let us lean more heavily on Him who is able to Bave~ Trusting rather in a regeuemted heart than in any resolution to keep them.-N. S. Hopkins, Li Shao-wen, Committee.

ANNIVERSARY AND OTHER SERVICES.

Though the business sessions of the twentieth annual meeting did not begin until Wednesday, May 13th, t.he first of the devo­tional meet.ings was held in Asbury Chapel on the Sabbath preced­ing, Pastor Ch'eo, of the East Gate Tientsin Chapel, preaching. On Monday Ilnd Tuesday a number of the examillillg' committees met and exammed candidates pursuing the conference course of study.

Tuesday afternoon and evening were devoted to public literary entertainments provided by the pupils of the Girls' Higb School and of the Peking University respectively. The former entertained a large audience of native Christians with music, essays, recitations, calisthenics, etc. In the evening the young men were also greeted with a crowded house. The orations were in both English and Chinese and covered a wide range of topics. Sir Robert Hart, Inspector-General of Customs, kindly loaned his brass band for the occasion. The students also provided several songs.

Every morning session of the annual meeting was preceded by a half hour s~ason of prayer and praise. The first session was opened with the administration of the Lord's Supper. Missionary, self-support, Sabbath school, temperance and anti-foot-binding -anniversaries and meetings occupied the afternoons and evenings pf several days.

During the interim of the business sessions, cabinet and other meetings were held for the discussion of matters not appertaining to the annual meeting. DOl'ing these meetings the appointments were discussed and the estimates for the work of 1892 were decided upon.

Bishop Goodsell preached to the native brethren on Saturday morning fl'om the Text-U He that goeth forth and weepeth, bear­ing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him." The love feast on Sabbath morning was rich in testimonies of faith. The annual sermon in Chinese was preached by L. W. Pilcher from the Text-" We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not tIle grace of God in vain." In the evening of the same day Bishop Goodsell preached t,o a lltrge audience of foreign re­sidents at the union service beld in the chapel of the American Board.

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Annual Meetings of the North China Mission of the

Methodist Episcopal Church.

No. TIME. PLACE. I PRESIDENT. SECRETARY.

I !

Organized. Sept. 1869 Peking by Ca.lvill Killgsley 1 Aug. 28, 1872 "

I L. N. Wheeler H. H. Lowry 2 Sel,t. 1, 1873 " I William II. Harris L. W. Pilchel' 3 Aug. 81, 1874 "

H. H. Lowry. " 4 S('pf. 8, 1875 " "

W. F. Walker 5

" 7, 1876 "

I G. R. Du.vis J. H. Pyke 6 Oct. 30, 1877

" I Itlaac W. Wil{'Y L. W. Pilcher

7 Sept. 9, 1878 " H. H. Lowry J. H. pyke

8 " 1, 1879 " "

L. W. Pilcher 9 "

20, 1880 " Tho~lIs Bowman O. w. Willits

10 " 29, 188]

" L. W. Pilchel'

11 " 7, 1882 ., H. H. Lowry

" 12 "

4, 1883 " Stephen M. Merrill

J. H. P~'ke 13 Oct.. I, 1884 " Isaac W. Wiley

14 Sept. 1O, 1885 Tientsin H. R. Lowry M. L. Taft 15 Oct. 7, 1886 Pekillg G. R. Davis

" 16 Sept. 26, 1887 "

Henry W. Warren " 17 Oct. 10, 1888

" Charles H. Fowler W. T. Hobal't

18 Ju~e

15, 181'9 "

Edwal'd G. Audrews " 19 1O, 1890

" H. H. Lowry

" 20 May 13, 1891 "

Dauiel A. Goodsell "

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STATISTICS OF THE HORTH CHIHA MISSION FOR 1891.

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~I~I~ ... ~ ~ ···;·!i:::[4 .~~~. 1771'~'1l1 ~;~ I··~~· i~I~~l~~il~! 2~~ i71;~~i~1 ~~.,~ ~:;~ 4 I·~ ;:~ooi~.;~ 28492,~.~ :;~;9 3;'-;~ ;;·;.·~8 TIENTSIN DISTRICT:- :, 'I I I , I" I I

. , 1 ' Ii' I I i1:~~:r~a!:~:~~t~~te, :~:II~: :::~:: :::~: :~:::i~f: ;.~~II' ~g:25 .:~ ... I~ :~YI/:;26: .~.' .:.ll~ .. 1 ~!~~ 1 1~ [2 7:~ ... 1..5. 16:000 ~:~:~7;:~ :::::: 129::90 ~~:.:~I~::

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l's'ang-chou Circnit, ........................... ! 11"':~ 34 28 23 30 1 II'" ... ' ..... :::;::: ... ::: II 8 I 30 1 150 ..... 1150! ...... 3.31 ...... ..... ...... 5.75 ¥:i~~t~:;gr" "I" .,...... ...... 1 ...... 11 ... 2 42 26 25 40 I 6 2 ...... 1...... --I .. ...... I: 2 .... , , 1 560 ..... , : ...... ...... I ...... 6.94... ... .. .. , ...... . .... .

" ........................... 11 ... I 561118 400 350 i3 ..... ·,. .. 1' .. ", ........... II 11 ... ..... ..... ......... : ............ !~ _= _...... .... ...... .. .. ..

'fotal, 212:4--22='!,71~8 239 252 473/600 103913;'W- 11,21Oi7ilO6-a 250i-4' 8,010 -11-6 16,150\ 6,500 91.671 ~ 129.90 13.30 19.39

SRAN·TUNO DlSTRWr,- 1 1 , I I! . I I I I'! I An-chia.-chuang Circuit, ...... ...... ........ I 3 ... 3 144 134 100 140 22 19 ...................... 3 ~ 40 1 60 I :~ ...... I 1 2 200 ...... 7.95...... ...... ...... 2.50 ~~~~~:~g~~h~~C~~~Uit,- ...... ...... ......... I 1/'''1 2 53 29 50 651

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34:1 6 1 :2 20 .... / ...... I t 21 I" ..... I ] ...... : ...... ...... ... ... ...... 4.75 ...... ...... ...... 2.45

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2. 5.~. ~ ~g I' 1~~, ... 112::003 1 ". 16:°.°01

.8:0.00 12f:~~ ::: ::: .8'..77 .S. .. 3' .28:.61 all-ch'ellg Circuit, "J ... · .. 1...... ........ 1 .....

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3 60 14 ..... 70 I. 9 4. .......... ...... ....] 2;j' 2 500 1 i ...... ... ••• ...... 4.32 ...... ;j.US ...... 7.03 Liallg-tztl-ho amI P'iIlO'- \ 1 I ' I

Yii-t'iell& Feug-jeuCh'enit, ~ ~~i'~ = ....:.:.i_I_-=- ~i':';~I~ ~ ~!~ ~ ~ '~II~ .~JI~ ~I-=- ~I~ __ =I'-~I-=-i= ~ ~ 6.60 ~: __ i.95 ~ 12.20 Total, :~ 3 I 2 ....... I! 2 6 1 18 208 96 20 325' 30 6 ] 2 29 2 5 64 5 5:~ 3 liO 3 3,000 I 6 5 Hi,OOO 8,000 ]37.:~0 ...... I 98.40 5.34 47.84

LAN-CHOU DISTRICT:- iii, ill I I ! Lau-chou City, _ • , ... 1 ..... 11 1 1 4: ... : 8 105 1 38124 40: 42 9 1 11 7... .. .... 4 47 1 50 11 112,500 Ii 4 ...... ...... ...... 28.16 14-.45 26.82 ...... 11.76

Shun-hai-kuullCircuit,, __ =:.~,~~_:j __ l_~"":':'!~~i~~~1-371 ~~~=~~=~~ 65 !.. 15,_1_' 500 -=-= ~~ 11.83 ~ 5.30 ~ 11.15

REC::l~LATI0N BY ; , ... "·1·· ... ! II "IS ... /112 160,105 39 120 1 7(/ 18 I I 7 ~ ... ; ........ ·r 8 ]]2 2 65/ 2 [ 3.Ooo! 6 ... ... .. ... ...... 39.99 14.45 32.12 ...... 22.91

DISTRICTS. I ii' , 1 I I : i I I , :' I ,: ,I

Peking, 10; 81 2 2 3 :3 !) ... ' -t- 422 ]77 211 571199 7 2 5 73 2 11 22317 106 5 6321 [): !l,';'OO 3 I 8 33,0001 12,{)00 284.92 5.28 ]74.19 31.12 111.68 Tieutsill, 2121 4 2 2 ...... 7 ... i 812:~9 252 473 400 103 9) 3 26 1 2 10 7 106 3 250 I 4 8,000 I U ](j,150 u,500 91.67 ...... 129.90 13.30 19.39 Shan-tung, 1 ... ,1 .............. 1, :2 4 ... ; 5 198 165 150 205 57 25 1 2 20 ._ .......... ,141 61 I 60 4 ...... : I 2 200...... 12.70 ...... .. ... , ...... 4.95 Tsun-hua, :3 3 2 ...... 1 2 6 1 i 8 208 96 ...... 3251 30 6 1 2 25 2 :5 64 51 53 3 170 :~ 3,OOOi 6 5 16,000

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8,000 13'1_30 ...... 98.40 5.34 47.H4 I.-au-chou, _ _ ~I~==!..I-=-~~!~I~ 105 ~ 1201~~~!.._7 ~1~~1~1~-=-~_2 3,000

1_6 =~_._,,_,,_. 39.9914.45 32.12~ 22.91

Gralld Totals, _ 15/13 1' 8 4 S I 9 ,134 1 371227 795 873 1621J 368 65 5 13,151 5 18 29i i31/438 14 Il7il' ]8 23,7001 17 21 65,35026,500 566.58 ]9.73 434.61 49.76 206.77 Lltst Year, _ _ 15 14 9 4: 6 1 8 27 38972 672 34 993 26~ 84 2 6 5j 4 14 26':l127 332 12 907 14 231. II , 18 21 65.20023,300 511.43 14.52 304.12 25.54 78.20

Note.-By Assistant ~Iissionaries is meant the wives of Foreigll Missionaries; the wives o£ Na.tive Preachers are not here reported. Pl'opel'ties and the Value thal'eof, amI Collections, are included those also of the \V uman's Foreign Missiouary Society. "Other Helpers" Col POI' teUt'S, Chapel Keepel's, and wi\'es of natives specifically employed. By Adherents is meant the Christian community belonging to ;\:Telllhel's and Probationel·s.-Fl'ederick Brown, Te Jui, Statistical SeC'l'irta7-ie.~.

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In Schools, Pupils, aU embraces Bible Readers, us, in addition to the