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 Report of the ubilee year of the Foocho 
 
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 HIS Eeport for 1896-7, commemorates the Jubilee of 
 the Foochow Mission I Fifty years ago, January 
 2nd, 1847, the first missionaries came to Foochow, 
 China. It took one hundred and seventy-five days 
 in sailing vessels for these early missionaries to 
 make the journey from New York to Foochow vid 
 Cape Horn. They waited for years in Siam before 
 they could even enter the Middle Kingdom, and then their faith 
 was tested for ten years without a convert. Their work was to 
 patiently sow the seed, day by day, by the highway and the river 
 banks, in the hovel and the hall. Then the Lord sent the raia 
 and the sun a.ud the dew, and one by one the seed germinated. 
 One by one the elect heard His voice and came out on the 
 Lord's side. Chapels began to spring up. Then came children of 
 Christian parents, and finally grandchildren. " The wind bloweth 
 where it listeth ; we can hear the sound of it, but cannot tell whence 
 it cometh, or whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the 
 Spirit." To-day we see thousands of Christians in scattered groups 
 far and near. We cannot trace the influence of sermon, or chance 
 word, or tract, or kind deed, that caused any one of them to seek 
 salvation ; much less can we know the goodness of God that gave 
 them power to be born again. 
 
 We cannot trace the wind of the tree tops in its farther flight ; 
 no more can we foresee the influence of the Church of To-day on the 
 Kingdom of To-morrow. Bat faith comes to our aid, and in perfect 
 trust we can do each day's labor, waiting for His glorious appearing, 
 knowing that in His own good time "every knee shall bow . . . . 
 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." Fifty years 
 ago I It seems a long time, but how quickly past ! Fifty years to 
 come ! How far distant, but quickly passing I What it will mean 
 for China no man can tell. Let us labor and watch and pray. It 
 may be a remnant that is to be saved, it may be that right here in 
 China is destined to be the grandest manifestation of God's redeem- 
 
 ing grace that the world has yet seen, 
 patiently labor and confidently wait. 
 
 God knows. We can 
 
To-day we rejoice in the great things that the Lord has already 
 done. The publication of this Report is for ti:ie purpose that you 
 may have knowledge of the work already accomplished, rejoice with 
 us and plan with us for the future ; that you may pray for us and 
 with us for oar converts ; that some who read it may consecrate 
 their lives to service with Us in the Foochow Mission. 
 
 The Jubilee Annual Meeting of the Native Church was held 
 November 7-15, '1896. The Jubilee of the Missionaries was held 
 January 2-6, 1897. The statistics are correct to March 31st, 1897. 
 The picture of the missionaries was taken on Mr. Hartwell's 
 seventieth birthday, December 19th, 1895. Beginning on the left 
 in the rear are Mrs. Peet, Mr. Beard, Mrs. Kinnear, Mrs. Beard, Dr. 
 Kinnear, Mr. Peet, Mrs. Gardner, Dr. Nieberg-Goddard, Mr. Gardner. 
 Ill the middle row are Miss WoodhuU, Dr. Whitney, the late Mrs. 
 Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell, Mr. Walker, Mrs. Whitney, Dr. 
 Woodhull. In front are Miss Chittenden, Mr. Goddard, Mrs. 
 Hubbard, Miss Newton and Dr. Bliss. Mr. Hubbard is the only one 
 who was on the field at the time that is not in the picture. In the 
 group of the men, the pastors are seated in the second row from the 
 front, beginning with the fourth man from the left, Pastor Ling of 
 the city church. Ling of Geu-cio church. Ding of Ha-buo-ga church, 
 Ciong of Ing-hok and Lau and Ling of Diong-loh field. The third 
 man from the left in this same row is Deacon Sing, a teacher in the 
 Scientific Institute and the third and oldest living Christian to be 
 baptised in Foochow. The rest are preachers, colporteurs and 
 teachers. 
 
 In the group of women, in the front row the second from the 
 left is the kindergarten teacher, the next the matron in the woman's 
 school, then come three wives of pastors and three of the teachers in 
 the Girls' High School. The others are Bible women, wives of 
 preachers, students in hospital and woman's school. The Map 
 shows the relative size and location of the difi'erent stations of the 
 Mission. Particular attention is called to that of Shao-wu. In all 
 that vast region, as large as the State of Maine and unlimited 
 toward the west, the American Board missionaries are the only 
 ones at work, and of them there are but three men and one wife. 
 Of these, the health of one is broken down to such an extent that he 
 returned to America, and it is doubtful if he can ever do up-country 
 touring again, even if he returns to Foochow. Two of the other 
 three have been in service for seven years, and are waiting to be 
 relieved that they may have a vacation in a year or two. Do you 
 wonder that we are praying for two ordained missionaries with their 
 wives, an ordained physician and two single ladies for this field. 
 Perhaps the Lord is calling you for this very work. Just as urgent, 
 
also, is the call for another man for evangelistic work in Foochow 
 and for four young ladies to work among the women in Diong-loh, 
 Ing-hok, Po-na-saug and Foochow. As General Devans said in a 
 wonderful plea for volunteers during the Civil War, " I do not say 
 to you, go, but come." We do not urge you to go, but do plead with 
 you to come and share with us in the harvest. 
 
 DwiGHT GODDARD, 
 
 Committee on Fublication. 
 
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FORMER MISSIONARIES. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Date oJ Arrival. 
 
 Date of Departure. 
 
 Rev. Stephen Johnson 
 
 1847 
 
 1852 
 
 Mrs. Caroline (Selmer) Johnson 
 
 1849 
 
 1852 
 
 Hev. Lyman B. Peet 
 
 1847 
 
 1871 
 
 Mrs. Eebecca C. Peet 
 
 1847 
 
 *1856 
 
 Rev. Seneca Cummings 
 
 1848 
 
 1855 
 
 Mrs. Abbie M. Cummings 
 
 1848 
 
 1855 
 
 Rev. Caleb C. Baldwin 
 
 1848 
 
 1895 
 
 Mrs. Harriet F. Baldwin 
 
 1848 
 
 1895 
 
 Rev. William L. Richards 
 
 1848 
 
 *1850 
 
 Rev. Justus Doolittle 
 
 1850 
 
 1864 
 
 Mrs. Sophia A. Doolittle 
 
 1850 
 
 *1856 
 
 Mrs. Lucy E. Doolittle 
 
 1859 
 
 1864 
 
 Mrs. Lucy E. Hartwell 
 
 1853 
 
 *1883 
 
 Rev. Simeon F. Woodin 
 
 1860 
 
 1895 
 
 Mrs. Sarah L. Woodin 
 
 1860 
 
 1895 
 
 Miss Jane S. Peet 
 
 1867 
 
 1868 
 
 Miss Adelia M. Payson 
 
 1869 
 
 1879 
 
 Dauphin W. Osgood, M.D. 
 
 1870 
 
 ♦1880 
 
 Mrs. Helen M. Osgood 
 
 1870 
 
 1881 
 
 Mrs. E. A. (Claghorn) Walker 
 
 1872 
 
 *1896 
 
 Rev. Josiah B. Blakely 
 
 1874 
 
 1880 
 
 Mrs. Isabella Blakely 
 
 1874 
 
 1880 
 
 Miss Alice B. Harris 
 
 1882 
 
 1884 
 
 Miss Emily S. Hartwell 
 
 1884 
 
 1887 
 
 Mrs. H. Jennie Kinnear 
 
 1889 
 
 *1893 
 
 * Died on the field. 
 
 
 
MEMBERS OF THE MISSION. 
 
 Address — Foochow, China. 
 
 NameB. 
 
 Date of Arrival. 
 
 Stationa. 
 
 Rev. Charles Hartwell 
 
 1853 
 
 City. 
 
 Mrs. H. L. (Peet) Hartwell 
 
 1859 
 
 )5 
 
 Eev. Joseph E. Walker 
 
 1872 
 
 Absent in America. 
 
 Henry T. Whitney, M.D. 
 
 1877 
 
 Pagoda Anchorage. 
 
 Mrs. Lnrie A. Whitney 
 
 1877 
 
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 Miss Ella J. Newton 
 
 1878 
 
 Po-na-sang. 
 
 Miss Elsie M. Garretson 
 
 1884 
 
 Absent in America, 
 
 Rev. Geo. H. Hubbard 
 
 1884 
 
 Pagoda Anchorage. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen L. Hnbbard 
 
 1884 
 
 )) 5) 
 
 Kate C. Woodhall, M D. 
 
 1884 
 
 Absent in America. 
 
 Miss Hannah 0. Woodhall 
 
 1884 
 
 )? )» 5) 
 
 Miss Caroline (Keener) Feet 
 
 1887 
 
 City. 
 
 Rev. Lyman P. Peet 
 
 1888 
 
 )j 
 
 Rev. G. Milton Gardner 
 
 1889 
 
 Shao-wn. 
 
 Mrs. Mary D. Gardner 
 
 1889 
 
 1) 
 
 Hardman N. Kinnear, M.D. 
 
 1889 
 
 Absent in America, 
 
 Edward L. Bliss, M.D. 
 
 1892 
 
 Shao-wn. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen J. Kinnear 
 
 1893 
 
 Absent in America. 
 
 Miss Caroline E. Chittenden 
 
 1893 
 
 City 
 
 Mrs. F. E. (Nieberg) Goddard, 
 
 M.D. 1893 
 
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 Rev. Dwight Goddard 
 
 1894 
 
 •)•> 
 
 Rev. Willard L. Beard 
 
 1894 
 
 Po-na-sang. 
 
 Mrs. Ellen L. K. Beard 
 
 1894 
 
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 Miss Emily S. Hartwell 
 
 1896 
 
 City. 
 
Ibistorical SFietcb. 
 
 tHB Foocliow Mission was commenced by ttie Rev. Stephen 
 Johnson and Rev. and Mrs. L. B. Peet. They had labored 
 previously in Siam, the former twelve and the latter persons 
 six years among the Chinese who had immigrated thither from the 
 region of Amoy and who spoke the Amoy langnage. Mr. Johnson 
 landed at Foochow on 2nd January, 1847, and Mr. and Mrs. Peet 
 on 7th September of the same year. They were able at once to 
 begin the distribntion of books and tracts in the book language 
 prepared by others and themselves, but were obliged to learn a 
 new spoken language — one not previously learned by Protestant 
 missionaries — before they were able to preach. 
 
 Foochow was one of the five ports first opened by treaty to 
 commerce and the residence of missionaries. They fonnd it an 
 important field. Although at first by treaty rights their labors 
 were restricted to a circuit with a radius of about thirty miles, 
 within such a limit they found a popnlation probably of three 
 million people. The place also was comparatively salubrious and 
 noted for its fine scenery. Mr. Mott, at the time of the Y. M. 0. A. 
 Convention, held here last October, told the present writer that in 
 his travels aronnd the world, in his estimation, he had seen no city 
 more beautifully situated than Foochow, excepting Stockholm. 
 The people, however, though comparatively literary, were fonnd to 
 be proud, high spirited and disinclined to receive instruction from 
 foreigners. 
 
 The way in which the Mission has been reinforced by foreign 
 laborers, can be learned from the list of members and dates of their 
 arrivals already given, but a few words may be of additional interest. 
 In 1848 the Mission was strongly reinforced by the arrival of five 
 persons from America. In 1849 a Swedish lady, who had taught at 
 Ningpo, joined the Mission as Mrs. Johnson. In 1850 two more 
 workers came from the United States, and in 1853 two others. 
 But the depleting of the missionary force had already begun. In 
 1851 the Rev. William L. Richards, a son of Rev. William Richards, 
 of the Hawaiian Islands, died at sea on his way to America. Near 
 the end of 1852, on account of his failing health, Mr. and Jlrs. 
 Johnson left for U. S., and in 1856 Mrs. Doolittle and Mrs. Peet 
 died at Foochow, and the Eev. Seneca Cummings died in America. 
 
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 While therefore iu 1850 for a few months there were eleven 
 merubers of the Mission, men and women, on the ground, in 1858 
 there were only three persons in the field, and the number for both 
 the Foochow and Shao-wn fields never again rose to eleven uotil the 
 arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Blakely in 1874. Since then the number of 
 workers has increased, but it has often been and is now quite 
 inadequate to meet the demands of the work. Some of the 
 forty-eight persons who have been connected with the Mission 
 during the past fifty years, for various reasons, have filled but 
 short terms of service, but others have been permitted to labor 
 many years in the field, and the average term of service has been 
 quite good. In this Jubilee year of the Mission there have been 
 fifteen men and women at the Foochow city, Foochow suburbs and 
 Pagoda Anchorage stations, and three at Shao-wa. 
 
 At first all the missionaries lived on the island in the river 
 between the bridges, and the Chinese would have been- glad to 
 restrict their residence to that locality. But in 1849 Mr. Cummings 
 succeeded in renting premises on the south bank of the river, where 
 he built a house. In 1860 Mr. Richards, after a great deal of 
 trouble, rented premises at Po-na-sang, in the large suburb north of 
 the river, and a little over a mile from the city gate. There two 
 houses were erected, one of which is still occupied as a missionary 
 residence. After the opening of the port to the tea trade, from 
 1853 and onwards, the Mission houses on the island and the one on 
 the south side of the river, were sold to foreign merchants, and more 
 suitable locations were sought elsewhere. In 1861 land was secured 
 inside the city proper, on which two houses were built. In 1S76 
 premises were first secured for a mission residence at Shao-wu, two 
 hundred and fifty miles up the river. Previous to this, for two 
 years or more, chapels had been rented at two other places connected 
 with this station and occupied by the native helpers from Foochow. 
 In 1890 a house was purchased at Pagoda Anchorage, which was 
 first occupied as a mission residence by Mr. Hubbard in 1891. The 
 Chang-loh district, with its three to five hundred thousand people, is 
 adjacent to and connected with this station. "Work was begun at 
 Chang-loh city by the Mission in ISOL*. This district and the 
 Yung-fuh district have, by agreement with the other missions, been 
 left for our Mission to evangelize. Work was begun by Mr, ^Voodin 
 in the latter district or county in 1865, and Mr. Goddard is hoping 
 to occupy it as a resident station soon. 
 
 The first baptism connected with the mission occurred in 1856, 
 when Mr. Doolittle baptized the Chinese teacher employed iu his 
 boarding-school. In 1857 six more were baptized — the wife of the 
 teacher just mentioned, four pupils and a second teacher in the 
 
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 school. Of these the first church was formed at the suburbs 
 station. Since then there has beeu a gradual but steady growth ia 
 the native membership. In 1866 twelve members were received to 
 the church, and the whole number reported was sixty-four. In 187(5 
 fifteen were added by baptism, and the whole number of members 
 reported was one hundred and seventy-one. In 1886 thirty-four were 
 added to the churches, and the total of members was three hundred 
 and thirtj'-four. In 1896 the number of members received has been 
 five hundred and thirty-eight, and the total membershij) is fourteen 
 hundred and forty. In 1866 the Mission reported five native 
 preachers and four other helpers. At present there are three 
 native pastors wholly sujiported by their churches, four other 
 ordained men partly supported by tlieir churches, thirty-three nnor- 
 daiued preachers, twenty-eight theological students, ten Christian 
 medical students, eighty-seven Ciiristiau teachers in boarding and 
 day-schools and thirty-three colporteurs, Bible women booksellers 
 and other helpers. 
 
 Medical work for the Mission was begun by Dr. D. W. Osgood, 
 who arrived at Foochow in January, 1870. Although sent out 
 esjiecially to aid in opening work in the interior, after visiting 
 Yen-ping, Shao-wu and Kien-ming prefectnral cities and otlier cities 
 of less importance, without finding a good opening at the time, he 
 located at Foochow, and succeeded in opening the Po-na-sang 
 hospital at the suburbs station. Dr. H. T. Whitney arrived in 
 1877, and opened medical work at Shao-wn. He has since engaged 
 in this work at Foochow suburbs and at Pagoda Anchorage. Dr. 
 Kate C. WoodhuU arrived in 1884, and opened our medical work 
 for women and children in Foochow city. These physicians have 
 been succeeded and aided in their work respectively by Dr. H. N. 
 Kinnear in the suburbs, Dr. E. L. Bliss at Shao-wu and Dr. 
 Nieberg-Goddard in Foochow city. 
 
 Education has received a good share of attention by the Mission 
 from the beginning. Messrs. Johnson, Peet, Baldwin, Cummings 
 and Doolittle, and Mrs. Cummings and Mrs. Doolittle opened 
 day-schools as soon as they were able to accomplish it, to which 
 they gave most careful supervision. In 1854 Mr. Doolittle opened 
 a boarding-school for boys, and Mrs. Doolittle took three girls as 
 boarding pupils under her special care. Subsequently there were- 
 breaks in continuity in the boarding-schools. The boys' boarding- 
 school was started again inside the city by Mr. Woodin, and 
 subsequently it was in charge of Messrs. Baldwin and Hartwell till 
 1889. In 1890 Mr. Peet took charge of it, and in 1891 introduced 
 an English department, since which time it has grown to be the 
 present Banyan City Institute with its one hundred and forty 
 students. The Girls' Boarding-school, started again by Mrs. 
 
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 Baldwin, was afterwards in charge of Miss Payson till early in 
 1879. Since then, under the charj^e of Misses Newton and 
 Garretson, it has developed into a school of ninety pupils. The 
 day-schools have been fostered by nearly all the members of the 
 Mission, but more especially by Mrs. Baldwin and Miss Chittenden. 
 As to Biblical and. theological training of native helpers our first 
 preachers came largely from the Boys' Boarding-school, where 
 they had been thoroughly instructed in Biblical knowledge. These 
 and others were also iustrncted iu special classes, taught by Messrs. 
 Baldwin, Woodin, Hnbbard and Hartwell. In 1896 Mr. Beard 
 secured premises for enlargement in this branch of the work, and is 
 laboring to promote it. A boarding-school for educating women 
 was begun at the suburbs station iu 1885 by Mrs. H. L. Peet. 
 The uext year it was removed to the city, and has been for the most 
 pari in charge of Miss H. C. WoodhuU. Since her return to U. S. 
 on fnrlongh it has been in charge of Mrs. Dr. Nieberg-Goddard. 
 Station classes for women have been held at the suburbs station in 
 charge of Mrs. Woodin, Miss Newton, Mrs. Kinnear and Mrs. 
 Beard. Kindergarten methods have been introduced somewhat at 
 the city and suburbs stations. 
 
 At the Shao-wu station, in the Shao-wu language, the educational 
 work has not advanced so far as at Foochow. But preachers and 
 theological students have been instructed in classes by Messrs. 
 Walker and Gardner ; a few boarding pupils have been taught 
 women have received instruction from the missionary ladies 
 medical students have been taught by Drs. Whitney and Bliss 
 and Christian day-scliools have been opened at a number of places. 
 
 In literary work most of the members of the mission have 
 taken a part. Messrs. L. P. Peet, Baldwin, Doolittle, Woodin aud 
 Hartwell shared in the early tentative translations of portions of 
 the New Testament or of the Old. Messrs. Baldwin and Hartwell 
 were on the committee for a common version of the New Testament, 
 and Messrs. Baldwin and Woodin were on that for the Old 
 Testament. Dr. Baldwin also did a large share in the final revision 
 of the whole Bible. Mr. Walker has prepared portions of the New 
 Testament in the Shao-wu Colloquial, which have been published. 
 
 Dr. Baldwin did a large share in the preparation of the 
 "Alphabetic Dictionary in the Foochow Dialect," and Mrs. 
 Baldwin and he prepared the " Manual of the Foochow Dialect." 
 
 Members of the Mission have prepared books and tracts in the 
 Book Language, in the Foochow Colloquial and in the Mandarin 
 and Shao-wu Colloquial. Dr. and Mrs. Baldwin, Miss Newton, Mr. 
 Walker and Mr. Hartwell have prepared hymns in the languages 
 used by the Mission. Miss Paysou aided in starting the GkHd's 
 
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 Paper iu the Foochow Colloquial in connection with ladies of the 
 Methodist Mission, and Miss Newton, Mi-s. Hubbard and others 
 have shared in conducting it. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard and Mr. and 
 Mrs. L. P. Peet have started the Banyan City News in the 
 Romanized Colloquial, and the same persons, for about ten years, 
 have conducted the Romanized Press, and have published Scriptures, 
 books and tracts in this form for use in schools for women and 
 children. 
 
 At present all departments of the work are prospering, and 
 although the Mission is straitened in the lack of workers and of 
 funds, the outlook during all the fifty years has never been brighter 
 than it is now. 
 
 Chas. Haetwell. 
 
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 3ubilee annual flDecting. 
 
 tHE 1896 Annual Meeting of the missionaries with the native 
 pastors, preachers, helpers, teachers and church-members, 
 was held November 10-18, inchiding one day for the Y. P. S. 
 C. E. Couveution. The program was a specially full one, as we were 
 celebrating our Mission Jubilee. Fifty years of work being nearly 
 finished we anticipated the full time by only a mouth and a 
 half, for the first missionary of the A. B. 0. F. M. arrived January 
 2ad, 1847. Onr Rev. Stephen Johnson had the honor, also, of 
 beiug the first Protestant missionary to begin work in Foochow. 
 Heaven seemed nearer as we listened to the recital of the deeds of 
 those early missionaries, especially one afternoon, when Mr. 
 Hartwell asked, " Do you believe that those who have passed 
 beyond this present life, have knowledge of what we do here?" 
 and the hearty response from the audience was, " We do." 
 
 Yes, there must be reward for patient service. And as we 
 think of Johnson, Peet, Richards, Cnmmings, Doolittle and their 
 wives, Mrs. Hartwell and Mrs. Baldwin, the pioneers in this field, 
 some early, some lately called home, of their hardships, of their 
 endurance, of their faith, of their love to God and man, — of Mr. 
 Woodin, Dr. Osgood and Mrs. Walker who came later, but have 
 already joined those who "fought the fight of faith," earlier, — we 
 praise God for the lives they were enabled by His grace to live. 
 
 From Wednesday to Saturday the morning sessions of the 
 Woman's Meeting were held at the Suburbs Church, while the 
 men's sessions at the same time were in the City Church, Great 
 Peace St. The afternoon general meetings were held at Po-na- 
 sang Compound, where from six hundred to eight hundred gathered 
 daily for a week, to listen intently to all the speakers and to joia 
 in the hymns of praise culled from oi;r hymnal of over 200 hymns, 
 which shows the growth of Christianity in fifty years to be infinite in 
 thought if not in number of converts. Yet more impressive was it, 
 when, with heads bowed reverently prayer was ofiered at the Throne 
 of the Universe, and the assembled company joined heartily in the 
 Amen ! Forty years ago in all this region there were but half a 
 dozen natives to thus express " the desire of the heart," — now 
 what a coutrast ! 
 
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 Oar senior missionary, Mr. Hartwell, saw the first convert 
 baptized, and could testify tliat the vision of Isaiah was being 
 falfilied in his life. " A little one has become a thousand," with 
 the assured probability that before another fifty years have rolled 
 by "the small one shall become a strong nation." 
 
 As a sketch of the Mission by air. Hartwell, and individual 
 reports of the various members, give the substance of the afternooa 
 addresses, it will be the main object of this paper to give some of 
 the good things expressed in the morning sessions. 
 
 Like Europe in its early history, China has at length opened 
 her doors to the Gospel, — and why ? Because of the patience of 
 ,,„, , missionaries and the many branches of work es- 
 
 " Ihe reasons why . ■' 
 
 so many during tablished by them for the benefit of the people, such 
 the present year .^^ hospitals, schools, relief work in the time of 
 
 have come tor- . 
 
 ward to embrace famine, — all these have helped to open the hearts 
 Christianity. ^^ ^^^ people. Again, in cases of real persecution 
 the government defends the Christians. It also is beginning new 
 work in the matter of building ships, rail-roads, forts, colleges, etc. 
 Then, too, the recent war with Japan made the people realize their 
 weakness. Bu.siness in China is dull, and the people are poor. Yet 
 it was Christ Himself who said, " Blessed are the poor." Now the 
 people know that the doctrine is good, and hence it is our harvest 
 time. A most important reason is, the earnest cry for the outpouring 
 of the Holy Spirit which has gone up to heaven from the hearts 
 of the many Christians scattered through the country. 
 
 Mr. Hartwell said : God has special times set for bestowing 
 great blessings. It is now the time for receiving the Holy Spirit 
 in greater measure than ever before. Formerly He had not the 
 material ready to work upon as now. 
 
 One of our oldest prea.chers said : In the early years the 
 miracles made a deep impression upon the hearers. The people are 
 now in expectancy. Let us be on the lookout for what will benefit 
 the people, then they will come more and more to us. 
 
 Pastor Ling Banq-ho. 
 
 There should be prayer by all the members for God's help. 
 
 We must not separate and leave new comers out in the cold. It is 
 
 How shall we in- necessary to go frequently to the homes of enquirers 
 
 struct the New to help them discard idolatry. It will be possible to 
 
 learn their real motives there and the feeling of the 
 
 family. We must be careful to teach them what are the ways of 
 
 the church in purity, love, good works and righteousness. They 
 
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 should be examined carefully with the nearest Christian neighbors 
 present. Enquirers should be taught to go to the nearest church. 
 We must not be deceived by enquirers offering to contribute largely, 
 for such will wait till after they have entered the church and then 
 present their troubles. 
 
 There should be a longer period of probation. The truly con- 
 verted will not be harmed by a little delay in receiving them into the 
 church. Those received should know to pray and keep the Sabbath. 
 If the first received do not set a good example, those that follow will 
 be like them. We are laying the foundations of the Church in 
 China, hence should be exceedingly careful. 
 
 Ding Long-go. 
 
 The New Testament teaches us that those who believe are to be 
 
 baptized. For example, there were those who joined at the first 
 
 What are satisfae- Christian Pentecost, and the Ethiopian Eunuch, so 
 
 tory evidences that all the apostles taught and practiced. But the present 
 persona are proper ,. ' , ,.™ , -„ , , , 
 
 subjecta for bap- time and place are diiierent. We must know what a 
 tism? man's life is. The renewed heart will produce the 
 
 fruits of the Holy Spirit. It may be necessary to examine some 
 three or four times. There should be, at least, two examinations 
 before administering baptism. 
 
 Ling Nik-sing. 
 
 It is impossible to prejudge the heart of a man. I wish to 
 have no trouble, but it comes. Men rely upon force, upon the crowd 
 What is the extent *'° ^^.ck them, and church members suffer. There 
 of our duty in the are many public crimes and lawsuits, petty thefts 
 
 lawsuits and trou- -• e t ,• -« r i i • 
 
 bles of our Church- ^°d lalse accusations. Much money and time are 
 members? wasted in such cases. The relatives of the Christian 
 
 cut him off, and thus the door is opened wide for trouble to enter. 
 When in trouble they, of course, turn to helper, pastor and 
 missionary. If we leave them to bear their troubles alone our 
 hearts cannot be at peace. It must be so. 
 
 How shall we defend our church ? There must be mutual 
 confidence between leaders and members. We should use the Bible 
 more to explain our position, to teach us how to love our enemies, to 
 do good to them that hate us and to pray for those that despitefully 
 use and persecute us. Believers must suffer persecution. Per- 
 secution is the Christian's ladder to heaven. He must ascend the 
 " Hill Difficulty." Without trouble it would be impossible to get 
 rid of the root of wickedness. 
 
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 How many have prayed for officials as Paul teaches us iu 
 Timothy ? [Nearly all present raised their hands]. We must not 
 be ever talking about the officials being corrupt, and must not 
 because of a little trouble be ever running to the magistrate. It 
 takes too much time from Bible study and preaching. We must 
 stop where study ends. But continuous yielding will never stop these 
 troubles and bring peace. "When it comes to the extreme, missionary, 
 pastor and church member are all in distress. We are like the 
 farmer who has no leisure. There are weeds, worms and weather 
 to guard against. He fears there will be nothing to harvest. 
 
 Then if you do for one you must for others. Persecution is 
 worse in the country than in the city. Sharing the ancestral fields, 
 contributions for the idols and theatres occasion a deal of trouble. 
 If we have no church members there will be none to trouble us. Bat 
 with church members we must bear and share burdens. It is, 
 liowever, best to elect some of the church members to examine into 
 all cases of trouble. Nine out of ten cases will melt away to nothing 
 with such treatment, and only the important ones will come to the 
 pastor or missionary. 
 
 Hu Maing-keng. 
 
 " Our annual meeting is of great profit in all its sessions," 
 
 We should remember the things spoken. If each one is fitted for 
 
 his work he can accomplish his part. We meet to 
 Sunday Morning , , , 111 i ■ 1 ^ i ,, 
 
 Sermon. I. Coi° learn better methods by which to advance the 
 
 3. By Ciong Ging. kingdom of Heaven. We must have the help of 
 
 the Holy Spirit. Oh ! for the gifts of the Holy 
 
 Spirit! 
 
 The Corinthians were depending upon very wise teachers, so 
 quarrels and factions arose. It is for Paul to plant, ApoUos to 
 water, but God by His Holy Spirit giveth the increase. 
 
 You are God's temple, be hoi//, this is the necessary thing. 
 If not holy, the Holy Spirit will be quenched. Noble men keep 
 company with noble men. If one is to receive the Holy Spirit he 
 must prepare for his coming. The heart must be cleansed. The 
 Chinese heart is like their houses, intolerably filthy ; all sorts of 
 animals and vermin are harbored therein. 
 
 What is the witness of the Spirit in the heart .' Purity, 
 humility, sincerity, the fi'uits. Gal. vi. 22. We must cry for the 
 Holy Spirit. Humility will cause the church to spread. Pride 
 makes trouble. Look to Jesus, His character. His birth. In His 
 youth humbly doing the Father's business ; His meat to do the 
 will of Him that sent Him, 
 
 Behold Him ! accused, tried, crucified ! 
 
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 The discussion of the subject of Self-support 
 
 Self-support. brought forward intuiy interesting tlioughts from our 
 
 native brethren. Scripture read : I Cor.,9t,h chapter. 
 
 Abraham gave a tenth to Melchizedek and Christ paid tribute. 
 Matt. xvii. 24. We are poor, bec^iuse we do not use God's gifr.s 
 rightly. We spend beyond our means or use them wrongly. We 
 have never heard of any oue becoming poor, because he helped the 
 church too much. It is because of wicked doings that men are poor. 
 
 Christ iu seeking the lost, began this work. Then the apnstles 
 continued the work in Judea, Samaria and Galilee, and afterwards in 
 foreign countries. Begianiiig at Jerusalem the Gospel has spread till 
 it has reached Foochow. We have churches, but who supports the 
 work? Christ told His disciples it was not necessary to take money 
 in their purses. The laborer is wortliy of his hire. But in heathen 
 countries this is at first impossible. Hence the need of foreign inin- 
 sionary societies. We have to thank them for the beginnings of the 
 work. Now we ought to prepare for our own. 
 
 What then will be the gain ? (1) It will leave the foreign 
 missionary society free to go to other places. It the money is used 
 here they cannot go to new places with it. ( 2) It will free us from 
 the accusation of our own people that we are followers of Western 
 country doctrines for pay. (3) It will free the Christians in foreign 
 countries from feeling that Chinese Christians are " rice Christians," 
 doubting us as selfish. The merchants vilify Chinese Cliristians iu 
 this very way. (4) If we prepare for these home expenses after- 
 wards we can form foreign missionary societies. The people will see 
 that we are bearing fruit ; and thus the Gospel will be more widely 
 preached. 
 
 It is profitable for each 07ie to give. Three years ago we helped 
 the opium smokers to quit smoking, teaching them in evening 
 meetings and charging each ten cents for oil. At the close we had 
 a balance in hand of 8,000 cash, and used it in starting a school. 
 This was the beginning of work in Cieng-muang and Sa-huong. 
 Mrs. Baldwin said: "This is your school, you should look after it." 
 
 The first contributions should be for salaries and afterwards for 
 other expenses. The day is nearing for us to accomplish this. 
 Believers ought to give the food for the soul to their own people. 
 This is the meaning of individual responsibility. Then with one 
 heart we should exert ourselves as men do in battle. The oeneral 
 cannot battle alone. We must not be like the Pharisee, whose lips 
 spoke exceedingly well, but who would not lift his little finger tip to 
 help. 
 
 The church-members fearing the contributions will not be 
 sufficient to meet expenses, will seek others to become members to 
 
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 assist them. The church will come together move frequently to 
 discuss these matters, and will seek more earnestly the best methods. 
 
 We are causing the vegetarians to wiike up and repair their 
 temples. By working diligently we shall become rich, and if faith 
 is great the gifts will be larger. Better not subscribe if you do not 
 pay. If the native Christians support the preacher he has nothing 
 to be ashamed of, and he will be more careful to work for them. 
 
 During this session a shipwrecked Gorean found his way into the 
 church and presented a written petition for help to return home, 
 1'he boxes were passed in his behalf and came back loaded with cash 
 sprinkled with dimes and half dimes. He was unable to speak his 
 thanks, but could read the character on the tablets back of the pulpit, 
 namely, the Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer and Apostle's Creed. 
 He first bowed toward these, then to Mr. Hartwell and afterwards to 
 the audience, thus expressing his thanks as best he could. 
 
 The Testimony Meeting conducted by Pastor Ding Cung-sieng, 
 
 was a precious season,— a time when heart drew near to heart, and 
 
 we could feel the presence of the Divine Heart in 
 
 The Testimony our midst. After a moment of silent prayer by all 
 
 Meeting. ^he audience the leader voiced our petitions and 
 
 thanks, then gave an invitation to speak as follows : 
 The earlier laborers bore the burden and heat of the day. To-day 
 we rejoice in their labors. Their work excites our gratitude. We 
 should learn of them. The past few days you have had no opportu- 
 nity to speak. Now you can give us the expression of your heart. 
 
 In a brief space of time twenty-two persons took part. Here 
 are some of their thoughts : " We have heard so much we ought to 
 come to some decision now. We must not be like a boy with a tied 
 mouth. We should not be like Peter afraid of a servant. I will bear 
 the cross and follow Jesus. My heart is warm. Each one's part 
 done well will make the com[)leted whole beautiful. ' Young men, 
 awake ! Be whole-hearted ! ' was given in clarion tones. Say the 
 ■word, do the deed ! Be courageous, be careful. The Kingdom of 
 Heaven is near, I am weak, but I want to climb to the top of the 
 mountain. The vegetarians said of Robert Stewart : ' If we kill him, 
 there is no one to follow.' But they were mistaken. The wood of 
 the cross is rough, but I will wear it straight ahead and not pray 
 for a different one. The use of the Jubilee is to teach us young 
 men to be as faithful and earnest as were the first workers. Pray 
 for me I want to give myself wholly to the work. Our people 
 reioice in the dragon boat races, but I am glad to pull in Christ's 
 boat. I went to Shao-wu, came home again, and fell away from 
 
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 Christ. I am glad now to be back again in the fold. Young men, 
 don't do as I did and fall away." 
 
 Three of onr faithful, well-known workers, passed 
 Memorial Service, beyond the vail during 1896, to enter upon their 
 everlasting Jubilee — Rev. Siraeon F. Woodin, Mrs. 
 Harriet F. Baldwin and Mrs. Adelaide C. Walker. 
 
 " Do they know what we are doing ? If the repentance of one 
 Binner is reported in Heaven, then the angels surely also make 
 known our work over there, and our former fellow-laborers must 
 rejoice with us." 
 
 It was interesting to hear the testimony of the native Christians 
 respecting these dear departed workers : " They went to any one's 
 house. They did not refuse to enter because the house was dirty. 
 They were always ready to speak a good word." 
 
 "Mr. Woodin embarked for Cliina in 18.59, and came via Cape 
 Horn with Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Baldwin. They were between three 
 and four months on ship board. At that time there were only a few 
 missionaries and Christians here. He was a good student. He 
 established the boys' school in the city. He toured in the My-hok 
 field through all his year of service. He was very patient. He would 
 sit two or three hours, or, if need be, half a day, listening to the 
 Chinese rehearsing their troubles without sign of weariness. He was 
 always glad to hear how all were faring. "When thinking intently 
 he had the habit of running his finger through his hair. They could 
 tell thus how anxious he was to give them best advice. He went to 
 many places preaching, even where a road was scarcely to be found. 
 He sometimes had to climb the mountains till the darkness gathered 
 thick about him. He used to say : ' No labor for Christ is lost.' 
 'Jesus loves me much more than I do myself.' He was gracious in 
 his love. We praise his amiability. Himself a hard student he 
 was ever ready to teach others." 
 
 "In 1896 he went to the United States in hopes of renewing 
 his strength and to meet his children after nearly eleven years of 
 separation. But his body was weak from long service, and almost 
 before the loved ones about him knew it, his soul passed without 
 apparent pain to its well-earned reward." 
 
 A helper, Cing Hiong, said he himself was intent to go to 
 Formosa, and although Mr. Woodin did not approve he at length 
 acquiesced and gave him a little help. The man, after a month, 
 came back unsuccessful, but Mr. Woodin did not upbraid him. 
 His words were : " Now do the work of Christ your whole Ufa 
 long." 
 
 Pastor Ding Long-go spoke : " What Mr. Woodin said was 
 never useless talk. A sentence from him one day became fixed in 
 
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 my heart and was the occasion of my conversion. It was this : 
 ' Since God's doctrine is so good why will you not accept it? ' " 
 
 Mr. Woodin and this pastor were the first to visit the upper 
 part of the province. " The Tai-ping rebels were still scattered in the 
 mountains. Mr. Woodin's question was, ' Are you willing to go ? ' 
 I could talk a little in several dialects, and was strong in body. 
 When we reached Kien-ning city papers were posted against us, 
 saying : ' The foreign devil has come. A Cantonese has led him 
 hithen Seize him first and kill him.' The officials were afraid, and 
 came incognito, wearing coolie hats to get a look at us. But Mr. 
 Woodin still pressed on. Some said : 'The foreigner carries pistols.' 
 Others said : ' No.' Mr. Woodin simply said : ' How do you know I 
 do not ? ' The crowd pressed into the tavern, smashing tha tables. 
 We went bravely into the street, selling books till the whole bag was 
 sold out, meantime longing to see a Foochow man. Seeing a boy, 
 who looked like a native of Foochow, we enquired the way to the 
 Tamen. His reply was : ' They are going to kill you, and you enquire 
 the way to the Yam6n.' We finally took refuge in a house, although 
 the owner said : ' They will pull my house down if you do not leave.' 
 Nevertheless, we passed the night there, but rose early in the morn- 
 ing to go to the boats, while the crowd was gathering again with 
 beating of gongs and cries, 'Beat them, but do not kill.' Afterwards 
 we went to Shao-wu and explored that region." 
 
 Mr. Woodin went everywhere preaching the Gospel, sleeping in 
 lofts as being the best place for the night. He was willing to 
 endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 
 
 In one of the afternoon sessions we were glad to welcome among 
 „. ., our visitors Bishop and Mrs. Joyce and Rev. G. B. 
 
 Miner, of the American Methodist Episcopal Ciiuich, 
 ■whose Foochow mission work began the same year as ours ; only a 
 little younger, but now of larger growth. Happy, hopeful, earnest 
 and quickening were their words to us, causing us to feel that we 
 are brother laborers under the same Master. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 G. H. Hubbard, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 Moman's annual flDeeting. 
 
 tHE sessions of the "Woman's Annual Meeting were held in the 
 forenoons of November 10th-14th in the Church of the Saviour, 
 which proved none too large for the occasion. It was inspiring 
 to see the place filled almost to the doors with women, whose earnest, 
 intelligent faces testified to the Christian life wiihiu them, — preach- 
 ers' wives, school-teachers and unofficial church members who 
 came from what seemed to them a long distance. 
 
 One could not but feel specially glad that these women, who so 
 seldom have a chance of meeting with other Christian sisters, could 
 at least once a year get spiritual help and comfort from fellow- 
 workers in this wide field. 
 
 Bach session opened with a fifteen-minute prayer-meeting, led by 
 dWerent native sisters, then followed the special program for each day. 
 
 Eeports of Christian work attempted during the past year, came 
 thick and fast, and it was gratifying to see growth in the idea of 
 personal responsibility for the salvation of neighbors and friends. 
 One preacher's wife said : " Last year I had to find my hearers for 
 the Gospel message; this year many women come to my house to 
 listen." " The women are very willing to listen ; our lack is in 
 workers and money." Some from the Woman's School voluntarily 
 gave their time to teaching their neighbors to read the Bible in the 
 Romanized Colloquial. 
 
 Very earnest were the prayers offered from time to time, 
 confession of sins, renewed consecration and for more workers in 
 this portion of the Lord's vineyard. Not to be forgotten was the 
 prayer in tones of emotion, " Oh ! Lord, help us to do great service 
 for Thee, even though we are only women." 
 
 The Open Parliament was a new thing to many of the women, 
 yet brought forth discussion on various questions, among others, 
 The best time of a prayer-hour for and with our children ; also. 
 How shall mothers train their children to be useful workers iu 
 the church. 
 
 In regard to the first some thought the " morning watch " was 
 the best time, and so be prepared the better to meet duties and 
 temptations of the day. Yet sometimes it is impossible to secure that 
 particular time ; then we can just lift our hearts in a moment's prayer 
 to God and tell Him so, for He does not simply regard what is done, 
 but what is the purpose and desire of our hearts to do. 
 
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 2n3. If you can teach your children while yet very young to 
 follow the example of the Child-Jesus, always to do thus, and so 
 because they wish to he like Jesus, then will there be no difficulty in 
 later years about their engaging in all kinds of Christian work for 
 each, and everything will be done " for Jesus' sake." 
 , The Question-box on Friday produced a lively general discussion 
 upon bhe various questions which had previously been handed in. 
 Some of the points touched upon were : — 
 
 Faithfulness in trifles knowing that God sees. 
 
 Christian uses of the tongue, — to exhort, to teach and to 
 comfort those about us who may be in need. 
 
 Let the tongue bear witness to our heathen neighbors that our 
 words in the family circle are flavored with harmony and love. 
 
 How shall we show our Christianity in the matter of dress ? 
 By not using either paint or powder, which the heathen are very fond 
 of doing; nor by a great display of ornaments; nor by indulging 
 in long Jinger-nails, thus aping the leisure of the lazy class and 
 making it more difficult to properly perform our daily tasks. 
 
 The Closing Session Saturday morning was occupied by Miss 
 Newton, who gave us a heart-searching talk on the topic — The Holy 
 Spirit. The question. Have we received the Holy Spirit ? could not 
 but come with much force to those present, and each one realized as 
 never before, perhaps, the need of a special baptism for her own 
 form of work. 
 
 Let those who see our faces, hear our. voices and know our daily 
 lives, recognise that we are sealed unto Christ ever to be His and to 
 do His work. 
 
 Sitting there during that last hour, and listening to the earnest 
 soul-stirring words of the leader, it seemed as if the past three days 
 had been spent in the Court of the Tabernacle, as it were, but now 
 we were in the Holy Place, and no heart could fail of receiving such 
 a spiritual uplift and inspiration as would make her more zealous 
 and faithful through this coming year of work for God and 
 humanity. 
 
 Who shall say of how much worth such an Annual Meeting 
 may be to those true Christian women gathered together for a few 
 days of mutual conference upon things spiritual. 
 
 Mrs. N. L. P. HoBBAED, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 Sbao^wu annual fiDecting. 
 
 fHE Anunal Meeting of the Shao-wa Station was held December, 
 1896. We had an excellent meeting, and as many came as 
 were permitted to come. There were perhaps between one and 
 two hundred that were told not to come, as there was no room for 
 them in the chapel. On Saturday there were numbers that went 
 home, fearing that they could not get in to the chapel on the 
 Sabbath. The chapel was crowded every day, but when the Sabbath 
 came there were so many that services could not be held in the 
 chapel, and we adjourned to the yard. Notwithstanding the number 
 that were told not to come, and the number that went home, it was 
 estimated that four hundred were present. 
 
 Nearly every preacher from the field reported tens and hundreds 
 of inquirers. I have had letters from Ku San and long Keu, telling 
 of a great revival ; reports from there confirm it and speak of an ad- 
 vance all along the line. At Chiu-kau-chai land has been donated and 
 a hundred taels or more subscribed to build a chapel. At a place 
 called Kieu-tea a similar amount is being subscribed for the same 
 purpose. At Ku-san five hundred inquirers are reported as definite 
 and three hundred more not quite so. The man whom we expect to 
 send there as preacher, estimates that from three hundred to six 
 hundred taels can be raised there to build a chapel. At another 
 place a man has given a good-sized house fur chapel and subscribed 
 ten loads of paddy a year toward the support of a preacher, if we 
 will only send one. An odd thing has occurred near long-keu. I 
 plan to give an account of it when I learn all the details. A well- 
 to-do Buddhist priest having heard the Gospel, at once opened his 
 heart and gave a house, which he personally owned, for a chapel. 
 
 Our great lack is trained men to put into the centers to teach 
 and prepare the thousands of enquirers that they may be stable 
 and received into the church. It keeps heart, mind and body busy 
 to care for all this great work. There should be at least four clerical 
 missionaries here. Last night it was between twelve and one before 
 I was through with the last Chinaman. This was, however, only a 
 spasmodic affair just after annual meeting. Nine new names have 
 been presented for entrance into the theological school next year. 
 I have not yet dared to answer them, not knowing what we can 
 do, and yet I am afraid to refuse when shepherds are so greatly, 
 needed for these thousands. 
 
 Most sincerely, 
 
 G. Milton Gaednbk. 
 
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 Jfourtb annual Convjcntion of tbe Jfuhien 
 IP. p. S. C. )£. 
 
 'tj^HE first Y. P. S. C. E. in China was -organized through the 
 1^ instrumentality of Rev. Q. H. Hnbbard in 1885. The first 
 Eodeavorer was Mr. Ling Muk-.^ek, teacher in the Girls' 
 School. The first convention was held in November, 1893. Seven 
 societies were reported. The second convention was held in Novem- 
 ber, 1894. Eleven societies were reported. In November, 1895, 
 it was clearlj' seen that no church in Foochow could accommodate 
 the numbers who would wish to attend. The Badeavorers of the Geu 
 Cio Dong Society arranged to have cotton cloth stretched over a 
 portion of the A. B. C. F. M. compound in the suburbs of Foochow 
 and here was held the third annual convention. It was most en- 
 thusiastic and inspiring. 900 persons attended. &87 meml>ers were 
 reported. The addresses were full of power. The consecration 
 service at the close gave evidence of the usefalness of the Society 
 in helping the young people to testify for Christ. 
 
 November 18th, 1896, the fourth annual convention was held on 
 the same grounds under a tent constructed of bamboo matting, with 
 a seating capacity of over 1,000. Endeavorers and their friends from 
 the Church Missionary Society and the American Board Mission, 
 to the number of 1,200, gathered here from different parts of the 
 province. Nearly 40 brilliant silk banners, with characters in gold, 
 adorned the stage. Three Chinese young ladies presided at the 
 organs ; and the singing was led by the President of the Foochow 
 Local Union, Mr. Ling Muk-gek. He also presided at the sessions 
 of the convention. 
 
 Reports from 34 societies were read by regularly appointed 
 delegates, who brought their reports carefully written. A literary 
 man attempted to report for his society, but was called down. 
 It was found that the society's delegate was "only a tradesman," 
 and the literary man feared he would not honor his society snfB- 
 ciently. The tradesman reported for the society. These 34 societies 
 reported 576 active, 501 associate and 135 honorary members. Six 
 junior societies were reported with a membership of 83 active and 
 91 associate. Missionary offerings during the year had amounted to 
 $29. Eighteen societies in Foochow and the suburbs have a well 
 
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 organized Uuion, aud are holdiag meetings regularly once a quarter. 
 At cue of the recent meetings tlie spealcers were chosen eutirely 
 from woi'kiiig nien ; teachers, preachers and literary men were 
 happy to listen. 
 
 The afternoon session was devoted to addresses and to the con- 
 secration service. The Holy Spirit was made the subject of the 
 session. One speaker was a watch-maker, one a clerk, one a pastor 
 and one a missionary. The Foochow Endeavorers cannot be accused 
 of leaving all the speaking for the ministers. Rev. W. Banister, o£ 
 the Chnrch Missionary Society, spoke very feelingly of the sympathy 
 from all parts of the Christian world at the time of Ku-cheng 
 massacre, and expressed the hope that we might extend onr 
 sympathy to the suffering Armenians. Mr. Ding Miug-uoag, first 
 assistant in the A. B. 0. F. M. Theological Seminary, offered a 
 series of resolutions conveying our sympathy to the Armenians, and 
 m-ging the intervention of the governments of the United States 
 and Great Britain. A collection was taken and forwarded to the 
 Bible House, Constantinople. 
 
 The presence of the Holy Spirit was manifest in the consecration 
 service at the close. The 900 persons present realized that these 
 were sacred moments. Perfect quiet reigned. Prayer, testimony 
 and song followed in rapid succession. At the end of 4'l minutes 
 more than three times as many persons had borne witness to the 
 transforming power of the Gospel. Rev. and Mrs. Chas. Hartwell, 
 who forty years ago took part in the service when the first native of 
 Foochow openly confessed Christ, praised God for this army of live, 
 earnest, enthusiastic, working young Christians. 1,386 young people 
 endeavoring to do Christ's will, means more for the future of Christ's 
 Kingdom iu Fukien than we at the present time can realize. 
 
 W. L. Beaed. 
 
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 jubilee fiDeetino of tbe HIMssionanea. 
 
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 ^N the afternoon of January 2nd, 1897, tbe mentibers of tlis 
 Mission met to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 
 arrival in Foochow of the first missionary. Rev. Stephea 
 Johnson. 
 
 It vyas a family party. Fifteen adults vcere present, comprising 
 our entire force from the city, suburbs and Fagoda Anchorage 
 stations; the members from Sbao-vcu being too far away to meet 
 with us. 
 
 Rev. C. Hartwell, whose term of service covers all but five of 
 the fifty years of our Mission history, presided, and, after appropriate 
 opening exercises, gave some interesting reminiscences of early years. 
 
 It is difBcult for those who have come to China in later times to 
 realize the privations and difficulties and discouragements with 
 which the pioneers were surrounded. The story of the ten long yeara 
 of waiting for the first convert, stands out in bold relief against the 
 record of 251 new members received to our churches during the last 
 year of the fifty. 
 
 We recalled the names of brave men and women who have gone 
 to their reward, and listened to messages from absent ones, extracts 
 from a few of which are given below, and vee took time to think how 
 much Grod has done for us and for His church in Foochow. 
 
 The message that touched all hearts most deeply was a poem 
 written by our beloved Mrs. Baldwin, which was found among her 
 papers after her death last July, It was so appropriate that ib 
 seemed as if written for the occasion. 
 
 We were mutually helped and strengthened by our informal 
 Jubilee, and separated with brighter hopes and stronger courage to 
 enter upon the work of a new half century. 
 
 Ella J. Newton. 
 
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 lEytracts front Xetters reab at tbe 3ul)ilee fin»ee ting, 
 
 January 2nd, 1897. 
 
 Dear Brother Haetwell : — 
 
 Among my first, and perliaps 
 
 best thouglits, comes that of God's most wonderful providence over 
 our Mission. It would be easy to write a chapter showing their 
 number and directness, tbough in early years the work seemed so 
 slow, still there were never wanting abundant proofs of the Diviiio 
 oversight and guidance. We were never at a standstill and never 
 once beat a retreat. It was soon apparent, however, that we must 
 encounter a legion of difficulties in order to secure a minimum of 
 advance or even to hold our own. Of course, you now know all 
 about it. To mention one of such obstacles, take the amazing 
 duplicity of the people, their tergiversations, iu which, like the fox 
 they doubled again and again on their track, to throw off the scent 
 of too keen pursuit. The other day I was looking over an old 
 journal, dating from November 3rd, 1847, when we first left our 
 home for the East. We arrived May 7th, 1848, and were soon at 
 ■work on the language. The journal says about two weeks after that 
 date that I wished to get a Chinese inkstand, and my teacher brought 
 one, for which he asked four dollars. He finally accepted two, when 
 I told him that he might take it back. He probably got a bargain at 
 that. I have reason to think that this old journal could tell worse 
 tales than this, if called upon to yield up its secrets. This single 
 one may suffice as an index to a host of otliers which would show how 
 the very life has been worried out of us by such woeful experiences. 
 
 Another thought is about our getting the language. A hard 
 job as you all very well know. We had with us at the head of 
 Dong-ciu our good friends of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, Dr. 
 and Mrs. White, Messrs. Collins and Maclay and Mr. and Mrs. 
 Heacock, and there was soon an effort, to settle on an English 
 orthography. This, as finally agreed upon, has continued essentially 
 the same to the present time. The principal changes being in the 
 initials and simpler forms of the diacritical points. The subject is 
 alluded to here simply to introduce the thought, the inestimable 
 value of these systems in learning a hard language. These helps to 
 the mastery of such an uncouth tongue (delightful though when you 
 once get hold of it) deserve at least a half hour's notice aud thought 
 
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 daring the Jubilee meeting. It is also a matter of devout gratitude 
 to God that during this half century our own and the other missions 
 have carried on the work so persistently. So far as I recollect there 
 was never a hint of giving up in any department. There have beeu 
 delays and changes, but always with a view of renewed efforts and 
 better hopes under better methods. I think that no figures can do 
 justice to the amount of actual work done with its far-reachiug 
 influence in city, town and village throughout the Fookien Province. 
 God has led us on to victory, and we feel sure that the truth of 
 Christ is fixed in its seat of power never to be overthrown 
 
 The increasing wisdom and skill in dealing with questions about 
 churches, chapels, schools; about pastors, evangelists, teachers, 
 colporteurs ; about inquirers, backsliders, wine drinkers and opium 
 smokers, and in a word, all those experiences relating to a growing 
 and multiform work, — all these give abundant reasons to thank 
 God for the gracious help which has brought our Mission thus far 
 fn safety. If I were only with you ou this joyous occasion, and 
 called on to make an address, I would perhaps refer to Zech. iv. 10 
 and xiv. 6, 7. 1 would say that the prophetic sentences refer to the 
 advance of the Christian church and its grand millennial triumphs. 
 Then I would read the verses as they stand, " For who has despised 
 the day of small things? And it shall come to pass in that day 
 that the light shall not be clear nor dark ; but it shall be one day 
 •which shall be known to the Lord, not day nor night, but it shall 
 come to pass that at eventime it shall be light." And then I 
 should venture to apply this to our own Foochow work, merely 
 borrowing the sentences for accommodation sake, using preterite 
 and present tenses in place of future, and read thus: Who now 
 •despises the day of small things ? It came to pass in that earlier 
 day that the light was neither clear nor dark, but there is one 
 day to the Lord, not day nor night, and now it comes to pass that 
 at even time it is light. Does this seem fanciful? By no means. 
 All prophecy, sooner or later, is to become actual history in the litrie 
 spot called Foochow, as well as throughout the whole world. We 
 believe that the Spirit of God is working mightily to this end, 
 changing the future to preterite and present. Prophecy is being 
 now fulfilled, and poor heathen Foochow is becoming a part of our 
 Lord's glorious inheritance 
 
 How gladly would I be with you. If you could only find 
 enough to pay my steamer fare one way, and telegraph one word, 
 "come"! 1 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 C. C. Baldwin. 
 
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 Deab Friends : — 
 
 I've been asked to give some reminiscences of the first days 
 of the Mission of the American Board in Foocbow. I do this 
 gladly, for that Mission holds a very tender and affectionate place in 
 my heart. I remember quite well when we welcomed Eev. C. 0. 
 and Mrs. Baldwin and Rev, S. Cummirigs and Mrs. Cummings to 
 Foochow. We lived on the island of Tungcheu, in a house which 
 belonged to a Chinaman, and was partially adapted for our use. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin lived in a similar house next to ours. The 
 back verandahs of both houses looked on the River Min. The lower 
 part of our house was a large courtyard, and this my dear father 
 used on Sabbath afternoons for a place of worship, and I well 
 remember, as a little girl, being asked by my mother to go to the 
 neighbours living just outside our front door to invite them to come 
 to the service. I would lead an old lady by each hand and sliow 
 them to a seat near the speaker's table, so they might hear every 
 word spoken. In those early days the missionaries suffered many 
 privations which we know nothing of now. In the matter of food 
 I remember quite well my mother not being able to get beef or even 
 bones for soup from the natives. They refused, saying, ""We don't 
 ■want you here among us; you will bring some great evil upon our 
 households. Our idols will not listen to our prayers, and they will 
 become dumb," etc. There were no banks where we could draw our 
 money for mission work, etc. My father, being treasurer, had to 
 make a long trying journey to Sharp Peak in a small boat and get 
 the money from an opium captain, whose ship was anchored there. 
 At these times my dear mother would spend the whole nighc in 
 prayer that he might be returned to us in safety. One of the 
 missionaries connected with the Swedish Mission, a Mr. Fast, lost his 
 life while returning with money from the same ship. His boat was 
 boarded by pirates, and he, in trying to defend himself, was pushed 
 overboard and drowned. After this sad event we were very an- 
 xious for dear father's safety when returning with money, but the 
 Lord heard my mother's prayers and our childish pleadings ; so he 
 never was hurt in any way. So our days went on ; in a few years 
 more we were cheered by the arrival of Rev. .Justus Doolittle and 
 Mrs. Doolittle and Rev. 0, Hartwell and Mrs. Hartwell. Ifc was a 
 very happy day in our home when these friends came to us. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hartwell at once went to live with Mr. and Mis. Oummings, 
 and Mr. and Mrs. Doolittle soon went to a house in Po-ua-sang, which 
 he had prepared for them. Those of you who reside in Foochow, will 
 remember that the River Miu rises to a great height during the 
 spring rains, and sometimes does very great damage to houses built 
 on its banks. One year it rose very rapidly and dislodged a large 
 
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 raft of timber, wliicli was some distance up the river. My father 
 and I were on the verandah, looking at the rapid current as it swept 
 by our house, when all of a sudden he saw coining down a large raft 
 of heavy timber, and he had just time to grasp my hand, and 
 as he stepped on the threshold of our sitting room the raft struck 
 the verandah with great force, and at once it parted from the house 
 and floated down the river. For a few moments none of us spoke a 
 word; at last my father broke the silence by saying, " Thank God we 
 are all safe." My dear motlier was full of sorrow, for in a room built 
 on this verandah she had several boxes containing all our clothing 
 for the winter and all her letters from loved ones far away. Those 
 boxes were all fldating down the rapid tide; though not unnoticed, 
 for the Chinese were watching their opportunity to seize the boxes 
 and appropriate the contents. We were able to secure a few 
 of the garments by paying large sums of money for them. The dear 
 letter^, though reclaimed from their watery grave, could not be 
 restored ; though many plans were tried by dear mother. Those 
 were days of trial and privation, and many were the sad hours passed 
 by those noble pioneers. I can remember as if it were yesterday 
 how my father went daily to the little chapel not far from our home 
 to tell "the old, old story" to a crowd of curious open-mouthed 
 listeners. Rain or sunshine at eleven o'clock in the morning he 
 wended his way thither. The seed then sown did not bear fruit till 
 ten long years after, and is now bearing fruit which you dear 
 friends are gathering and seeing manifested in the lives of the 
 Christians in your midst. Grand was the bright light which ever 
 shone from the lives of those veterans of Christian truth in that 
 dark place, [t gradually influenced the opinions and conduct of the 
 people around, so that in a few years their presence was hailed with 
 joy. Truly there is nothing that will mould the character and make 
 it bright and noble as the love of Christ in the heart. The early 
 days of trial and patient seed-sowing are now bearing rich fruit iu 
 the turning of many to love and serve our Master. 
 
 The oldest child of the Mission, 
 J. S. Macgowan. 
 
 Deak Fkiends of the Foochow Mission : — 
 
 Twenty-two days ago to-day 
 
 Mrs. Blakely and I sailed from San Francisco on our way to China. 
 The sky was clear, the sea was smooth and our hearts were light. 
 With us on the same steamer, the Colorado, were other missionaries 
 of our Board— Rev. and Mrs. J. H. De Forrest, Dr. and Mrs. Adams 
 and Rev. J. H. Neesima, our lamented Japanese brother, all ou their 
 
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 way to Japan. We reached Foochow on December 14th, 1874, with 
 no accident, or serious detention. The Japan going out two 
 weeks later than the Colorado, was burned when within eight hours 
 of Hongljong. We well remember our first interview with Dr. 
 Baldwin, who even then presented a quite venerable appearance as 
 he met us on the steamer Yesao at Pagoda Anchorage. In a few 
 hours we were in the Mission compound at Po-na-sang. 
 
 Although permitted to labor but a few years with you we deem 
 it a great privilege to have had the opportunity of forming most 
 pleasant acquaintance with missionaries of our Board, and to some 
 extent with those of the Methodist Mission and the Church Mission- 
 ary Society. We also have very pleasant remembrances of many of 
 the native helpers and Christians. I think that it was during our 
 first year's residence in China that the first two native pastors were 
 ordained in the Mission — Rev. Nga Nguk-sing and Rev. Ding Long- 
 go 
 
 The present year has witnessed the removal by death of three 
 valued workers from the field, with all of whom we were personally 
 acquainted. Our hearts feel sad for you. In February, 1875, I 
 went with Mr. Woodin on a short tour out to Inghsok and back. 
 Then in April and May of the same year with him and Mr. Walker 
 up to Shao-wu-fu and other places, on what was to me a tour full of 
 the most exciting interest. We were gone nearly seven weeks. It 
 did not seem pructiciible to go up there with our families until the 
 autumn of 1876. So far as we know Mrs. Walker and ilrs. Blakely 
 were the first white women ever seen in the "up river region."' 
 Josephine Walker, then between two and> three years old, and our 
 Clement, about eight months old, were the first children seen there. 
 
 How many trips up and down that river among its rocks and 
 rapids, have since been made by missionaries and their children? 
 We cannot but believe that they were objects of God's protecting care. 
 
 After a few weeks in Shao-wu we heard that we were to have 
 a missionary physician for our station. In due time we were glad to 
 welcome Dr. and Mrs. Whitney. Notwithstanding the attainments of 
 native physicians, the Doctor found scope, even in Shao-wu, for the 
 exercise of his medical skill. I remember with gratitude his efforts 
 on behalf of Mrs. Blakely in May, 1879, when she was dangerously 
 sick, and I was away from home. We are glad to hear that God's 
 blessing has been on your labors to a marked degree since we left. 
 I judge that there are, at least, four times as many communicants in 
 your churches as when we left in March, 188U. Jlay God increase you 
 more and more. Chiang-ang the brethren in our name ... 
 
 Cordially yours, 
 
 J. B. Blakely. 
 
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 My Dear Friends : — 
 
 I tliiok so mud) of the picture 
 
 of tbe Poodiow Mission iu tlie May Herald. I Imvo almost worn it 
 out looking at it. Last evening- I re:ul Miss Newton's telegram to 
 the W. B. M, I. It always brings tears to my eyes when I ibink 
 how much you need help over there. 
 
 May God keep you from tiie horrors of treacherous men. You 
 can imagine how greedily we devour any news from the Foochow 
 Mission and always rejoice with you in I he progress of the last few 
 years. If I may be a little personal I will say that Mr. Blakely has 
 never been a well !nan since he left Sliao-wu in 1879, on account 
 of his health. I do not think that he has been as well for the last 
 year and a half as he was before. . . 
 
 As you will have so many letters to read at your Jubilee I will 
 not write except to assure you of our love. Yes, I really believe I 
 love the Foochow missionaries, even those 1 have never seen, better 
 than those of other fields. They seem like my own folks. My 
 parting admonition is, please do not break down. 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Blakely. 
 
 Dear Friends : — 
 
 No event, however, stands out 
 
 more vividly iu my mind than that of my arrival at Foochow, Ja- 
 nuary ]8i,h, 1869, so of that I will first speak. I well remember the 
 twinge of home sickness and loneliness as my sturdy chair-bearers 
 jogged along through the crowned thoroughfare between Nan-tai and 
 Po-ua-sang amid sights and sounds so strange and unfamiliar, and 
 odors, which to say the least, were not airs from Araby the Blest. 
 This passing home sickness, however, was soon dispelled when the 
 big gate of the Po-na-sang compound swung open and I was received 
 with the kindest of greetings from the missionary group gathered 
 there. I see them now iu spite of intervening years ; parents 
 and children standing there beneath the clear and sunny sky, with 
 roses in bloom on either side. The wee ones smiled their greetings, 
 and the elders although looking somewhat careworn and weary 
 from bearing the burden and heat of the day, wore counteuances 
 full of calm content, and were most cordial in their reception of the 
 stranger who had come to cast in her lot with them. 
 
 The school girls and their matron, curious to have a glimpse of 
 the new teacher, soon appeared on the lawn with flowers in their hair 
 and a shining welcome in their happy faces. My long journey had 
 been altogether a prosperous one. A father's loving care had attend- 
 ed me all the way. His Land iu benedictiou seemed resting upou 
 
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 me and upon the work whicli I was about to undertake. Tliat night, 
 as I lay down to rest, my thoughts were full of praise and thanks- 
 p;iving. Ot the numerous pupils who sooner or later came under my 
 care I recall the form and features of none more vividly than tliosa 
 of the little waif who was found one chill November morning', not 
 long before my arrival, lying louoly and forsaken on the liill side. 
 Blind and ill Gang Mang-muoi, as she was called, seemed to have 
 been brought providentially into the school that she might there 
 learn of her Saviour's love and so prepared to he transplanted, as she 
 soon was, to "the heavenly gardens where angels are the wardens." 
 
 I behold in memory's mirror with perfect distinctness the coun- 
 tenances of Mi-hing, Chaiu-chaiu, Muk-Iang, Nguk-cio, Oui-kaang 
 and others, then little girls of eight or nine years, but known now by 
 other names and settled long ago in homes of their own. Some of 
 them, I am sure, surrounded by sons and daughters, who have already 
 almost attained to adult years, I rejoice in the fact that so many 
 of that bright-faced band of girls have become such useful members of 
 society as Christian wives, mothers and teachers. Especially do I 
 praise Grod for the active beneficent career of Chaiu-chaiu. Forfeit- 
 ing her life as it would seem in lovino attendance on a suffering 
 patient, she is surely wearing now a martyr's crown as her reward. 
 
 My thoughts have often reverted to the weekly afternoon prayer 
 meetings of the Mission, held in turn in the different homes, to 
 which the children even looked forward with pleasure. They were 
 usually enlivened by the interesting reports of one or more of the 
 brethren of the mission, who had just returned from a visit to the 
 interior, where the natives, as I remember, were far more ready to 
 renounce idolatry and to accept the teaching of Jesus than were the 
 people of the city and suburbs. These reports telling of sinners 
 reclaimed, and sometimes of many "added to the church of such as 
 should be saved," were most cheering, often changing our prayers 
 of supplication only, into words of praise and thanksgiving. The 
 monthly concerts of prayer, attended by the families connected with 
 the three missions at work in Foochow, were larger, and consequently 
 more inspiring even than were the weekly gatherings 
 
 Very numerous are the changes that the passing years have 
 brought, not alone to the three missions, but to the little group that 
 welcomed me to Po-na-sang, as also to the several families, whiohj 
 during the next few years, composed the Mission of which I was a 
 
 member I rejoice that two of the then 
 
 children have found it in their hearts to return to Foochow and 
 consecrate their lives to the work that was so dear to their father's 
 heart We grieve for the vacancies 
 
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 made here on earth, bub rejoice that the absent ones were so devoted 
 to the Master's cause, and did so much for the upbuilding of God's 
 Kingdom in China. Especially can this be said of Mrs. Baldwin, 
 whose life, for nearly a half century, was occupied in loving service 
 for those she loved. Mrs. Walker also was active and untiring in 
 her labors for the Chinese, and will assuredly be greatly missed in 
 the far away out-station with which she was for so many years 
 identified. 
 
 A. M. Payson. 
 
 Deab Beothers and Sisters of the Foochow Mission : — 
 
 How glad I should be to be with you in dear old Foochow to 
 celebrate the 50th Anniversary of our Mission! As this cannot be, 
 it gives me pleasure to feel that I am, at least, still akin to you, and 
 that my heart can be with you, though my body cannot. Surely it 
 is a time when " he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice 
 together." I have often tried to picture to my mind the condition 
 of things in the early history of the Mission — the hardships our 
 senior missionaries must have endured when it was so difficult to get 
 comfortable or even healthful places of residence, and when they 
 were much farther removed, in space of time, from all communication 
 with home friends and the world at large ; and all this when their 
 work lacked the stimulus of any or very little result from their efforts ! 
 
 Some one has said that Christ's presence, not our success, is to 
 be our comfort in proclaiming the Gospel, and it must indeed have 
 been His presence that encouraged them, when the field seemed to 
 yield so little fruit. Fifty years of seed-sowing, and now cometh the 
 heginning of the harvest ! I am glad that Mrs. Walker, Mr. Woodia 
 and Mrs. Baldwin lived to know something about the ingathering 
 before they heard it from their Master's lips. I thank God for 
 any little part He has allowed me to have in the work; and as you 
 unite your hearts in prayer for this blessing on whatever service 
 He may still have for each one of us to render, please include me ia 
 your prayer, and know that I too shall be praying for you. 
 
 Very affectionately yours, 
 
 Elsie M. Garretson. 
 
 Dear Friends : — 
 
 It would be a great pleasure to be present in person on this 
 occasion. But there is joy and thanksgiving in my heart that God 
 has permitted me to have even a very little part in bringing the 
 knowledge of Christ's love to the people of China. Our Jubilee 
 
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 year finds ua with many causes for encouragement, and at the same 
 time the responsibility was never 'so great. How are all these new 
 converts to be instructed? How are they to be helped to grow from 
 babes to full grown men and women in Christ Jesus ? 
 
 The Chinese see much under the name of Christianity to perplex 
 and bewilder them. lb is the work of the missionaries to be bright 
 and shining lights, to show by precept and example that the 
 teachings of Jesus Christ are the only true guide to happiness for 
 individuals and nations. This we can do only by magnifying more 
 and more the importance of prayer and a knowledge of God's Word, 
 
 Our hope for usefulness in the future lies in a renewed conse- 
 cration of ourselves to " Him whose we are and whom we serve." 
 And our service will be effective in helping to establish the kingdom 
 of Christ in China only as we learn with childlike faith to look con- 
 tinually for Divine guidance in all the details of our work. 
 
 May we have such a vision of the glory of Christ's kingdom 
 that all the power of heathenism shall not be able to discourage us. 
 May the joy of the Lord be our strength in this great battle against 
 evil, in which King Immanuel is our Leader, 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Kate C. Woodhull, M.D. 
 
 Dear Friends oe the Foochow Mission: — 
 
 You are indeed to be congratulated that you are in Foochow 
 at this time to take part in the celebration of this glad day. But 
 thank God there is something swifter even than the electric telegraph, 
 so that we who are so far away can be with you in heart thought 
 and mutual rejoicing. While I am truly thankful that I too can 
 claim a little share in the work done, I realize that for us, who 
 have come in at the ninth hour, to boast of what we have done, would 
 be as ridiculous as if that little maid, who a few years ago was 
 permitted to touch the button that opened New York harbor, should 
 have thrown up her hands and shouted, saying, " My father has been 
 working here all these years, wasted a great deal of money and ac- 
 complished nothing. But see as soon as I come how things fly." 
 
 We are apt to laugh and say after the manner of the Chinese, a 
 thing once begun must forever go on in the same way. But here is 
 a work begun fifty years ago, which is to go on and on until China's 
 millions shall be numbered in that great multitude of all nations 
 which the Prophet John saw in his vision on Patmos. All honor be 
 to those brave men and women, who, like faithful Abraham, hearing 
 
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 God's call, marclied boldly forth into the unknown field and staggered 
 not at the greatness of the undertaking, and again all honor to those 
 who for so many years labored patiently on with such discouraging 
 results. 
 
 To-day they who have gone before, and we who are reaping 
 the white harvest, can rejoice together aud say, Behold, what has 
 God wrought — to Him be all the praise. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Hannah C. Woodhull. 
 
 My Deak Beothees and Sisters in Fooohow : — 
 
 Being away from you so long has served to demonstrate to me 
 better than anything else could have done, how much my heart is 
 really in the work in Foochow. 
 
 In teaching others of the importance of the Mission work and 
 the wonderful 'success already attending it, as I find much reason 
 and many opportunities of doing, my own faith and courage is finding 
 new stimulus, and the fact that all men shall have the opportunity 
 to hear the Gospel in good time, never seemed so clear. 
 
 I am not surprised, but am sometimes pained, to see so much of 
 indifference to foreign missionary work among the members of our 
 churches, and I am fioding more and more evidence that it is largely 
 the result of ignorance and misinformation. This state of things is 
 less marked among the young people I think, for the Christian 
 Endeavor idea that a Christian is a working unit and not merely a 
 temple, is taking hold. Among all classes, liowever, I am finding 
 much real interest and much seeking after information, so that any 
 description of the work that is being done in Foochow, any descrip- 
 tion of what it means to be a Ciiristiau in China, surrounded by un- 
 believing neighbors, or of the chaijoirig attitude of the peopli', always 
 wins close attention. Pray with me that ohe American churches may 
 be made alive to the fact that they have a part to play in the 
 greatest undertaking of the age, not only as church organizations 
 but as individual Christians, and that wo of your number, who are 
 now in America, may be given wisdom to say just what ought to be 
 said as opportunity is given us to do so. 
 
 With my magic lantern and slides I am introducing a number 
 of my Chinese brothers and sisters to American audiences and 
 telling what I can of what such lives and work mean in China nud 
 I am frequently told that the life-sized and life-like pictures are 
 impressing them with the reality of these things more than anything 
 else has done. 
 
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 We bobh feel keenly that it is a deprivation to be away from 
 the semi-centennial meeting. What histories and reminiscences of 
 the past will come to your ears and what inspiration you will all 
 derive from seeing what God has already wrought. How a com- 
 parison of the beginnings with the present will make all things 
 seem possible and bring new courage to you all. 
 
 It was my privilege to attend the annual meeting of the Board 
 at Toledo, to see, hear and converse with the men whose hearts and 
 brains are the life of its great work. One of the papers I heard read 
 there was entitled, "No backward step." It seemed encouraging 
 coming as it did at a time of anxiety and financial distress, but that 
 is too negative to be our motto as we face the coming half century. 
 Remembering that our commander said, "All power is given unto 
 me," etc., we can but take Forivard as our motto, knowing that 
 whatever can come nothing can stop God's own work in China. 
 
 May God grant us, each one, that baptism of His Spirit which 
 will fit us for His use here and for praising Him hereafter. 
 
 Mrs. Kinnear joins me in all good wishes to you. 
 
 Yours fraternally, 
 
 H. N. KiNNEAE. 
 
 Extracts were also read from private letters from Mrs. D. W. 
 Osgood, Mrs. S. P. Woudin, Rev. J. E. Walker, Mrs. G. B. [Harris] 
 Smyth and some others that space forbids being printed. 
 
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 ^be Dicing Cbristian. 
 
 This poem was written by Mrs. Baldwin a short time before her 
 death, but not found until afterward. 
 
 I wander in the valley, 
 
 The way seems dark and drear ; 
 I cannot see my Saviour, 
 
 But sure He must be near ; 
 For He His help has promised, 
 
 His word — it cannot fail ; 
 And oft the soul He cheereth 
 
 Crossing the darksome vale. 
 
 O the clouds are breaking ! breaking ! 
 
 I see the azure sky. 
 The radiant land beyond it. 
 
 The blessed home on high ! 
 Jerusalem, the Golden ! 
 
 Thy walls with jewels bright. 
 Thy battlements and towers, 
 
 Are bursting on my sight ! 
 
 holy, wondrous city ! 
 Thou'rt passing fair within, 
 
 Thou hast no shade of sorrow. 
 
 Thou hast no thought of sin; 
 Zephyrs from Life's pure river 
 
 Float round me even here ; 
 And songs of the countless ransomed 
 
 Pall on my listening ear. 
 
 1 see the holy angels, 
 
 I hear their chorus grand ; 
 O sweet, rapturous music 
 
 Of that thrice blessed land ! 
 There dwells the loving Saviour 
 
 His pitying face I see. 
 And 0, He kindly looketh, 
 
 He looketh down on me ! 
 
 Farewell all doubt and sorrow, 
 
 Farewell all anxious fear, 
 Enough for me that Jesus, 
 
 That Jesus sees me here ; 
 Farewell my precious loved ones, 
 
 Now threading sorrow's night, 
 O say you'll surely meet me 
 
 In the blissful world of light ! 
 
 Now the angels wait around me 
 
 To bear me to the sky. 
 To the radiant land of glory, 
 
 The blessed home on high. 
 Jesus ! I'm coming, coming ! 
 
 O sweet, O heavenly day ! 
 Ye loving, waiting angels, 
 
 Now bear my soul away ! 
 
 Mrs. Harriet F. Baldwin. 
 
Meek of prater. 
 
 In connection with the Jubilee of the Commencement of Missionary 
 Work in Foochow. 
 
 January 3rd-10th, 1897. 
 
 All Meetings and Services will commence at S.OO p.m. 
 
 Sunday — Jan. 3ed. 
 
 Historical Sermon at British Cliuroh, by Rev. C. Hartwell, American 
 Board Mission. 
 
 Monday — Jan. 4th. 
 
 Subject. — The Work of the American Board Mission, by Rev. L. P. Peet, 
 at Po-na-sang. 
 
 Tuesday — Jan. 5th. 
 
 Subject. — The Work of the American Methodist Episcopal Mission, by 
 Rev. ]Sr. J. Plumb, at the residence of Rev. 6. S. Miner. 
 
 Wednesday — Jan. 6th. 
 
 Subject. — The Work of the Church Mission Society, by Rev. LI, Lloyd, at 
 the residence of Archdeacon Wolfe. 
 
 Thursday — .Jan. 7th. 
 
 Subject. — Annual Meeting of the North Fuhkien Religious Tract Society 
 and address on Christian Literature, by Rev. G. H. Hubbard, 
 at the residence of Rev. J. H. Worley. 
 
 Friday — Jan. 8th. 
 Subject. — Schools and Families, by Rev. G. B. Smyth at Po-na-sang. 
 
 Saturday — Jan. 9th. 
 Subject, — Praise Meeting, by Rev. F. E,. Bland, at his residence. 
 
 Sunday — Jan. IOth. 
 
 Sermon by Rev. J. Semister, at the British Episcopal Church, 
 followed by the Holy Communion. 
 
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T^epor^s from ihs QUtj Station, 
 
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 IReport of levangelistfc MorFi. 
 
 ■who has had oversight of the church under its 
 Dative pastor, Rev. Ling Nik-sing, in the city, reports that 
 " the city church, with its branches at the Water Gate, 
 Se'ng-s^ii, and the Ch'ieng-miiaDg district, has had a prosperous year. 
 There have been 132 additions, of whom three were from the institute, 
 making a present total membership of 342. The contributions for the 
 Chinese year, including the Sabbath contributions of the foreigners, 
 amounted to about |170." 
 
 The work at the branches has been in charge of Mr. Hartwell, 
 though the membership has remained connected with the central 
 church, to enable the people to assume the whole salary of the 
 pastor, |12 a month. This they undertook from April of last year, 
 and have paid in full. The pastor has done good work, having a 
 daily Bible class of young men from the institute, besides his other 
 duties. He is not strong physically, having injured his health 
 apparently by the great strain that came upon him several years ago 
 in connection with bis labors in reforming opium smokers. 
 
 At the Water Gate chapel we have only given employment in 
 part to a bookseller in charge of the place. The preaching on Sun- 
 days has been mainly by Mr. Hartwell and the city pastor. Evangel- 
 istic services have been held six evenings in the week most of the 
 year, conducted by the bookseller, school teacher and four private 
 members in turn. At the beginning of the year the chapel could 
 not hold all who came to the Sunday services, and in June aa 
 additional shop was rented alongside, so that the seating capacity 
 has been increased about three-fold. This year the school teacher 
 for the past three years, who was educated in the institute, is pub 
 in charge as preacher in part and superintendent of day-schools for 
 the city station. Thirty-two of the persons received to the city 
 church during the year, were reckoned as from this chapel. 
 
 The Se'ng-s^n chapel, three miles from the city, has been occu- 
 pied by a preacher. His wife, educated in the girls' boarding-school, 
 taught a small school for girls and women. Besides this there have 
 been seven day-schools in villages around this out-station, the 
 farthest being a mile-and-a-half away. Twelve persons were received 
 from this field to the city church. 
 
 In the region north of the city, from four to nine miles distant, 
 there has been a preacher and family at the Ch'ieng-mfiaDg chapel. 
 
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 He has also been in charge of the work at Paong-ka, the farthest 
 centre. There has also been a preacher and family at Sien-sang. 
 The wife of this preacher has taught a small school for girls and 
 women. Besides this school there have been eleven other day- 
 schools in that region. The work has not advanced as much as we 
 bad hoped, but twenty-eight persons were received to church mem- 
 bership from that section during the year. 
 
 In May, 1896, Mr. Hartwell succeeded in renting premises for 
 a new chapel inside the city, a full mile north of the city church. 
 A man previously assisting at 8e'ng-seu was put in charge, and Mr. 
 Goddard's personal teacher went to reside there and preach on the 
 Sabbath. This latter person is the eldest son of our Ha-pwo church 
 pastor. He graduated from our boys' boarding-school under Dr. 
 Baldwin in 1831, and subsequently studied medicine under Dr. 
 Whitney. He is an able preacher, and remains there this year. 
 During the latter part of the year under review the work at this 
 chapel has been in charge of Mr. Goddard. The location is a very 
 desirable one, and we trust that a new church may be organized 
 there in due time. 
 
 Charles Haetwell. 
 
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 Ban*^an Cfti^ Scientific institute. 
 
 p) AN-TAN CITY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE.— We are glad to 
 '"^^ once more report progress in the number of students connected 
 with this Institution. The first term of J896 saw a member- 
 ship of one hundred and thirty-four (134) ; the second one hundred 
 and forty-two. With the beginning of ]897 this number was increas- 
 ed to one hundred and forty-six (146). The increase might have 
 been much greater, but for our limited accommodations. As it was, 
 the receiving of one hundred and forty-six was made possible only 
 by excessive crowding, putting from three to ten persons into each 
 sleeping room. Verandahs, halls, dining room and gymnasium have 
 been turned into recitation rooms. This may be the last year that 
 progress in the line of members can be reported unless additional 
 accommodations can be provided. We thank God for this grand 
 opportunity of influencing for good the minds of the young, and 
 would appeal most earnestly to Christian friends at home to provide 
 the means whereby Gospel truth may be brought home to the hearts 
 of many more here in the capital city of Fukien province. Care 
 must be taken not to underestimate the Christian school as an 
 evangelizing agency in China. It is in the Christian schools that 
 thousands are hearing the Gospel who would hear of it in no other 
 way, and these thousands are not only from the poorer classes, but 
 also from the literary and official chisses. It is safe to say that a 
 preacher could find no more cosmopolitan audience than is to be 
 found Sabbath after Sabbath and day after day in the assemblies of 
 these students for worship or religious instruction, to whom to preach 
 the Gospel of salvation ; and the Christianizing influence which must 
 emanate from the weekly prayer meetings and Sabbath services and 
 from the daily religious worship and Bible instruction, must thus 
 extend over • an area of territory whose size is by no means to be 
 despised. 
 
 During the past year students have been received not only from 
 Foochow and adjacent outlying districts, but also from Amoy, Canton 
 and the provinces of Che-kiang and Kwei-chow. The interest 
 manifested by these in the acquisition of religious knowledj^e, has 
 been not an unimportant factor in the creation of that feeling of 
 encouragement which has been so universal in the hearts of Christian 
 workers throughout this province during the past year. Wo have 
 Been tho literary graduHte paying good heed to the exposition of the 
 
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 Holy Word, not only in the class room, bat ia the chapel services, 
 and showing that interest by presenting points not understood by 
 him and asking for more light. We have witnessed the same in the 
 case of sons of official and influential families. When therefore we 
 realize the wide extent to which Christian influences exerted in this 
 institute may spread, we feel like saying, " God forbid that the 
 work of such an evangelizing agency should be crippled by the lack 
 of needed funds." 
 
 But not only has progress been made in the number of students 
 received, but also in the amount of contributions from native sources. 
 The entire cost of the Institute for the last year ending December 
 31st, 1896, was $3,572.31. 0£ tbis amount $2,763.85 came from 
 native sources. The correspundiug figures for 1895 were $1,816.13 
 and $985.47. The amount received in 1890 was $80. 
 
 The Institute has also made progress in popularity. As proof of 
 this we would call attention to the fact that at the last Commence- 
 ment a goodly number of the literati and official class assembled ia 
 the chapel to witness the closing exercises of the Institute. His 
 Excellency Lo Feng-lob would have been present but for important 
 * business. He and others sent presents to the students, thus also 
 testifying to their good will. The provincial and local authorities 
 stationed here in Foochow, have also shown their appreciation of 
 what we are trying to do, by sending us a gift of $400 Mexicans for 
 the purpose of enlargement. This act was the result of a representa- 
 tion made to them through our Consul, Mr. Hixson, of our extremely 
 crowded condition and the urgent necessity of immediate enlarge- 
 ment. With the aid of this money so generously given we have 
 been able since January 1st, 1897, to purchase a small piece of 
 property adjoining the Institute building, which will as soon as 
 possible be utilized for dormitories. -In this connection we would 
 repeat our appeal made in 1896 for $5,000. With such an amount 
 for needed enlargement, enough paying students could be received 
 to put this work on a self-supporting basis, at least so far as native 
 agency may be concerned. We acknowledge with gratitude the 
 various scholarships of from ten to thirty dollars, which have come 
 from time to time from the home friends, to be used for the benefit 
 of deserving students. Such gifts, we feel sure, will in the future 
 yield a hundred-fold in lives of usefulness in the Master's vineyard. 
 Our thanks are also due to our Consul, J. Courtney Hixson, for his 
 annual contribution of $25, which is to be awarded as a prize at the 
 end of each year to the student having the highest stand. 
 
 It is a matter for which we are devoutly thankful that the 
 students who have gone out from the Chinese department, are holding 
 positions of trust and usefulness. Some are teachers in our day- 
 
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 schools; some are studying medicine with Dr. Kinnear; and one 
 has this year been appointed a preacher over one of the suburbs 
 churches, it being thought unnecessary for him to take a course in 
 the theological school, considering the training he received in this 
 Institute, together with the experience he has had during the last 
 two or three years in teaching. We take pleasure in saying that he 
 seems to be filling this most lofty and responsible position with 
 credit, and bids fair to do a good work for the Master. 
 
 During the fall of 1896 Miss E. S. Hartwell joined the teaching 
 force of the Institute, and with the beginning of 1897 Mr. Hartwell 
 rejoined the number of those who are able to give a portion of their 
 time to the work of instruction. There are now ten natives giving 
 daily instruction in Bible, Chinese classics and composition, mathe- 
 matics, history and the sciences, together with an instructor in man- 
 darin, and eight pupil teachers or tators. Beside these there are 
 five foreigners who give a lesser or greater portion of their time to 
 teaching, some in English and others in Chinese, and it is largely 
 due to the faithful labors of these that the Institute has attained its 
 present dimensions. 
 
 Mention should be made of the organization, last fall, of a 
 Y. M. C. A., consisting of about thirty members. The Association 
 holds its meetings every Saturday evening, and the inspiration received 
 from one of these meetings is not soon forgotten. The spiritual life 
 of the school is good. A fair proportion of the students are members 
 of the church, three having joined the last year and more are 
 members of the C. E. Society. We bespeak for this Institute the 
 earnest prayers of all God's people and the practical support of all 
 lovers of Christian education. 
 
 This has continued to furnish work to needy students. 
 The Press. There have been 426,922 pages of printed matter sent out 
 during the past year as against 329,019 pages last year. A 
 " professional " pressman has been employed at ^6 per month. We 
 ackndwledge with gratitude the appropriation of $150 Mexicans from 
 the American Board to aid in setting the Press on its feet. A Press 
 Committee, consisting of Messrs. Hubbard and Goddard, Misses 
 Hartwell and Chittenden, has voted the expenditure of this sum 
 as follows : $50 for a job press ; $25 for job fonts of type ; $25 for 
 additional Romanized type and $50 toward a new font of Roman- 
 ized type for the proposed printing of the Old Testament in Roman- 
 ized Colloquial. The British and Foreign Bible Society has decided 
 to issue the Old Testament in this form in memory of the late Rev. 
 •E. W. Stewart, and the work is to he given to our Press as soon as 
 the type is in hand. The type we are now using is too large for the 
 purpose, so a new font, costing $250 gold, will be necessary. The 
 
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 Press seems to be meeting a most important and imperative need. 
 Not only does it supply work for needy students, but it is putting 
 the Bible and the hymns of the Christian Church into the hands of 
 the wives and mothers of this province, and we therefore earnestly 
 hope the appropriation which has been given this year, will be 
 repeated next year, and that earnest prayers may follow the dis- 
 tribution of the printed page. 
 
 Lyman P. Pket. 
 
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 Scientmc 3n0titute. 
 
 tHE late departure of Mr. Peet and family on furlough, leaves 
 but a few things for me to report. The small piece of property 
 mentioned as bought by him has since come into our posses- 
 sion, making it possible to admit a few more students, so the number 
 is increased to 153. This Summer we plan to hold a Summer school 
 as was held last year for the first time, giving an opportunity for 
 additions in the middle of the year. 
 
 We have great reason for thanksgiving that in this time of 
 reduced numbers in the missionary circle, multiplied strength and 
 vigor is given Mrs. Peet Hartweli, so that, at the age of seventy-four, 
 beside a multitude of household cares, she is able to teach three 
 hours and half a day. Also that Mr. Sing who is the earliest received 
 of living church members in Foochow, although obliged long since 
 to give up preaching on account of seHous lung trouble, is daily 
 present fulfilling his arduous duties as head teacher in the Chinese 
 department, vsrhich position he has filled with great credit for over 
 thirty years. We are thankful not only for continued but for 
 renewed blessing. The recent revival has reached all classes, and we 
 greatly rejoice in the addition to our corps of instructors of three 
 men of literary rank, two gathered recently into the church at 
 Po-na-sang and one here. Statistics just gathered show that about 
 half of the students are church members, while all but thirty of the 
 remainder have expressed active interest in Christianity by becoming 
 associate members either of the Y. P. S. C. E. or Y. M. C. A. Of 
 these thirty some are held back by most bitter opposition at home. 
 Others have no associations with Christianity at home making the 
 step doubly difficult. Some of our most earnest workers have how- 
 ever come from darkest homes, and we ask for most earnest prayer 
 that the Spirit may be manifested in great power to lead many to 
 fully surrender themselves to Him who gave His life for them. 
 
 Emily S. Haktwell. 
 
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 Ba^-0cbool0. 
 
 »Tn)ERHAPS no form of missionary effort seems more often like 
 JM^ " bread cast upon the waters" than the day-school work, yet 
 even here the promise is fulfilled, it is " found again," though 
 often after many days. 
 
 Last Fall at the Fukien Christian Endeavor Convention an 
 elderly man rose to report for the newly organized Society at the 
 newly opened chapel near his home, who proved to be the son of a 
 day-school teacher employed by Rev. L. P. Peet in the early days of 
 the mission. As a boy in his father's school he had often listened to 
 that faithful missionary's earnest words, words which sank into his 
 heart and have borne fruit after all these years. The young preacher 
 just installed there is himself a former day-school boy who studied at 
 the Banyan City Scientific Institute (our mission Training School) 
 under Rev. L. P. Peet, (son of the pioneer) ; and has for the past 
 three years been a successful teacher in the day-school adjoining our 
 First Church, as well as an earnest worker in the various enterprises 
 that center there. 
 
 Such instances give us courage to press forward in what some- 
 times seens discouraging work, sure that God's Word will not return 
 to Him void. One of the most beneficial results of these schools is 
 the bringing of that Word into so many homes where the Gospels, 
 hymns, and simple books explaining Christian or scientific truth are 
 not only read, but studied and talked about, by the children of those 
 homes : who, child-fashion, are eager to tell " what happened at 
 school to-day," and so plant many a seed of truth in hearts to which 
 neither teacher nor missionary has access. 
 
 Over a thousand copies of these primers and Scripture portions 
 have been sold to pupils during the year, beside many hundred sheet 
 tracts containing the Commandments, Prayer and Creed, or favouite 
 hymns, and a good number of Geographies and Arithmetics. 
 
 Sunday-school lesson leaves have been furnished the pupils and 
 at the twelfth-month examinations books of illustrated Bible stories, 
 copies of an advanced Geography, and back numbers of an illustrated 
 child's paper bound in pretty covers, proved attractive prizes. In a 
 land where there seem to be no children's books, these little volumes 
 have a greater educative value that we can easily measure. 
 
 During the past year over five hundred homes in twenty villages 
 and five city neighborhoods have been touched in this way through 
 the 531 pupils • enrolled in our twenty-eight schools. Some fifty of 
 
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 these were children of Christians, and ten were themselves received 
 into church membership, some from heathen homes. It was from 
 such homes that the majority came ; and one or two known instances 
 where parents have been led to Cbrist through their children who 
 were pupils in our schools give us faith that in many more cases 
 trusting children to our Christian schools will prove but the first step 
 in a whole household's "turning from dead idols to serve the living 
 God." In two newly opened schools little ones died during the year, 
 but not, we trust, without a glimmering hope in the Saviour of 
 whom they had so recently heard. Let those whose faithful use of 
 God's trust funds made those schools possible rejoice with us that 
 their opening was not delayed ! 
 
 One object of these schools is to prepare pupils for entering the 
 mission training-schools, either the Girl's High School or the Insti- 
 tute. Last year some ten or fifteen were thus promoted ; five little 
 boys coming from the single village of Au-puo, where the teacher 
 was a former Institute student, one of an increasing number who are 
 going out from that center to engage in this work ; more and more 
 frequently, we trust, as one member of the class of 1896 has done, to 
 teach in the very schools where as pupils they first learned of Christ. 
 
 The comparatively small number promoted is due to the fact 
 that many parents send daughters direct to the preparatory depart- 
 ment of the Po-na-sang School ; and to the four year's course of 
 study required for admission to the Institute. Tha entire membership 
 of the Classical (Chinese) department of that school is now drawn from 
 day-schools in various parts of the field and we trust its numbers 
 will grow as interest in " Western learning " becomes more general 
 and intelligent. Another cause is the transitory character of our 
 day-school coustituteiicy, which beiog drawn from the hard-working 
 middle class, necessarily changes much from year to year, as 
 older pupils are obliged to leave their books for the workshop or 
 farm. Of a hundred such cases into which inquiry was made at 
 the beginning of last year, twenty-seven had gone into native and 
 seven into other Christian day-schools; thirty were farming; and 
 twenty or more were in trades including tailors, printers and paper- 
 makers, bakers and restaurant keepers, native druggists, weavers, 
 shoe-makers, barbers, silver-smiths, carpenters, black-smiths and 
 peddlars ; all with seed-truths in their hearts which will, v?o trust, 
 bring forth abundant harvest. 
 
 Beside bringing Christian books into so many homes the regular 
 exercises of the schools have impressed Christian ideas upon 
 pupils and parents alike. The required daily Bible lesson and 
 prayer, the observance of Sunday and the lessons of Christmas and 
 Easter are influences not easily estimated. The grandfatherly old 
 
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 teacher, who regularly buys calendars for his pupils, "so fchey will 
 taow whea Sunday comes," is giviag them, something of as much 
 greater value than those sheets of gay red paper as the sense of 
 kiaship with little children in the far-away mysterious "Land of 
 the Flowery Flag," is more precious than the picture cards seat for 
 Jesus' sake by American Junior Eudeavorers and Sunday school 
 pupils, for which dancing black eyes peer into the missionary's 
 basket and tiny brown bands are stretched out so eaaerly oa 
 examination days. 
 
 Often as we ride in our open sedan chairs in and out among the 
 villages little brown legs go scampering away, and when their owners 
 are at a safe distance from the " outlandish '' foreigner shrill little 
 voices pipe out, " la-se-neng ! la-se-neng J " ("Why, she's human, 
 too!") Surely those who have begun to realize that all peoples of 
 the earth " are human too " are better fitted to believe in and worship 
 the one true Father of us all. Dear friends at home, especially 
 the little ones who owe their knowledge of a real childhood to the 
 child of Nazareth, will you not remember for His sake that these 
 Chinese boys and girls "are human too?" If you do the money 
 needed will not fail ; and best of all it will be •prayer-ae'o.t money, 
 sure to bring blessing. 
 
 Many villages which asked for schools have had to be refused 
 this year, because some people at home forgot to send money for 
 more. Do you know who they were ? Will you tell them what a 
 difference it makes to the children they might have reached, all their 
 lives long, and on, on, into eternity? 
 
 Fifteen dollars in gold will rent a school room, pay the teacher 
 and provide the furnishings needed. The children bring their own 
 desks and stools (such high ones, their poor little swinging feet 
 "go to sleep" unmercifully) and pay a little tuition to the teacher. 
 
 If you can, beside the money, ^end us all the bright advertising 
 and other picture cards you can gather, especially those with pictures 
 of children, animals or foreign ships and houses. The large ones 
 that often come with packages of spices or coffee are special favor- 
 ites. In these dingy houses, even the smallest, are rare treasures. 
 
 And best of all, do not forget to pray for these children, their 
 parents and teachers and the missionary who takes care of all the 
 schools ; for she needs God's constant guidance, and they have 
 temptations which only Jesus can realize and help them bear. And 
 so we who have sung "Jesus loves me" in such different languages, 
 shall join together in the " new song" with that great company " out 
 of every nation, and of all tribes and peoples and tongues" gathered 
 at last in our Father's house. 
 
 Caboline E. Chittenden. 
 
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 Ibospital for Momen anb CbiI^ren. 
 
 'VjOHB medical work for women and children was commenced in 
 "h^ the city twelve years ago by Dr. Kate C. Woodhull and 
 carried on by her, except; when, on furloughs in the States. 
 Not long after her arrival a native house was fitted up for a hos- 
 pital. A few years later it was appropriated for other use in the 
 mission work and the present hospital built, which is not large, but 
 of a plan well suited to the needs in China. A medical class of 
 four students, all very intelligent women, have already completed 
 their course of study, which covered a period of six years. 
 
 As in the beginning of any new work there were many ob- 
 stacles to be overcome. It was my privilege to come later when 
 foreign medicine was well introduced and much of the prejudice 
 and superstition in regard to it overcome. They often delay send- 
 ing for us until native means have been tried, but when they do 
 send they are no longer afraid of us, but welcome us into their 
 homes. 
 
 Dr. Woodhull left in March, 1896, and her departure made 
 some changes in the work. The outside dispensaries, which were 
 principally my work, had to be given up one by one, as the time was 
 all needed for the hospital work, the medical care of the scientific 
 institute, woman's school and foreign patients. 
 
 We have many applications to become medical students, but 
 receive none but graduates from the girls' boarding-school. The 
 medical students at present number six, and they receive daily 
 instruction from medical text books, from the large clinics and at 
 the patients' bedside. As we visit the wards in the morning each 
 student is required to be present and report on the cases under her 
 charge, to attend to the ventilation of the rooms and various other 
 duties. After we have finished the visits to the wards we all go to 
 the dispensary room, which we usually find filled with waiting patients. 
 Each student here has special duties assigned, changing in turn each 
 week. One is seated beside me at a stand, and as the patient enters 
 the consulting room she records their name, sex, age, new or old 
 case, place of residence, etc., while I do the same in English. While 
 we are doing this the patient counts out his small fee of thirty cash 
 (less than two cents), and we try to obtain a history of the case, 
 which is most difficult, for they seldom tell the truth. One patient 
 after another is examined, and treatment is given and ulcers dressed, 
 
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 etc., all o£ which it is the duty of two of tlie students to assist in. 
 The patient is then sent to the door of the drug room, where two 
 students are in readiness to deal out the medicines prescribed. 
 The remaining student is in the waiting-room, where she receives 
 the women, ofiering them tea and giving them the message of the 
 Gospel as they wait to have their cases attended to. Among our 
 patients are often men who have been beaten by the officers, and 
 they come with limbs greatly swollen and large places denuded of 
 skin. How much we wish such unnecessary suffering might be 
 avoided. 
 
 The work among the in-patients is much more satisfactory. 
 One especially bright woman, with an incurable disease, was with us 
 several weeks, and afterwards came to the dispensary for medicine. 
 I asked her if she remembered the little prayer she learned while 
 with us, and if she read her Bible every day. "Yes," she said, 
 "I cannot work now, and have uothiiis to do but read my Bible and 
 think about its teachings and to pray." 
 
 We are called to families of the highest class and to the lowest. 
 Several times during the year we have been in the high official 
 families. 
 
 Among the outside visits was the case of a little boy suffering 
 with severe pain in his arm (together with other symptoms). I found 
 a large worm bound around it with a black cloth, which they said 
 was to relieve the pain. They seemed to understand the foolishness 
 of it, and immediately took it ofi and threw it on the floor. 
 
 Another little child I was called to see had been bitten on the 
 leg by a dog. Around the wound a circle was drawn and in the 
 centre of it the character for tiger was written. The idea being 
 that the tiger was so much stronger than the dog it would coun- 
 teract any bad efiect of the bite. 
 
 Through the generous support of friends at home we have been 
 able to have a free bed for the needy patients who come in. Among 
 its occupants this year was a woman suffering from dyspepsia, and 
 who was much emaciated from the long existing trouble. The 
 family came occasionally to see her, and one morning brought the 
 youngest child, a little girl, who was too weak to stand or even sit 
 alone. We feared she would die, but with good care and nourishing 
 food she soon began to improve, and when she left us was in a vevj 
 good condition. On inquiry we learned the cause of it was really 
 starvation. She was only a girl, and during the mother's absence 
 the family had given her but one small bowl of rice a day, and she 
 soon reached the condition in which she was brought to us. It was 
 pitiful indeed to witness the sadness of the mother and to watch her 
 tender devotion for this bit of humanity so dear to her. 
 
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 The hospital evangelist spends most of her time in teaching the 
 patients. The patients who are not confined to their beds are 
 ■gathered together in the chapel room each afternoon and taught the 
 truths of the Bible. Teacliing is also done nt the bed-side, and the 
 patients learn to repeat hymns, a little prayer, etc., which they repeat 
 at the regular evening prayers after the Scripture lesson is finished. 
 Much of the evangelist work is also done by the students. While 
 we do not see many direct results we know the teaching is not in 
 vain. We keep on sowing in faith that the harvest will spring forth 
 in due season, remembering that " the preparation of the heart is 
 from the Lord" and the sowing of ihe seed our part. 
 
 The year closed with the graduation of one of the medical 
 students. She belonged to the former class, but owing to two years' 
 absence she did not complete her studies until this year. All of the 
 former class have died since graduation, and the friends of this 
 student tried to persuade her not to return and finish her course, as 
 the "wind and water" influence was very bad. In the face of 
 opposition and superstition she returned and graduated safely. 
 This student is earnest in doing Christian work; we feel as she goes 
 out that she will be able to do a good work, not only in relieving 
 suffering, but in carrying the Gospel to sin-sick souls. We try to 
 impress upon the students that we use the medical means only that 
 we may gain opportunity for something higher. We are looking 
 forward to the return of Dr. Woodhull, whose wise counsel and 
 loving sympathy have been greatly missed this year. 
 
 Hospital dispensary patients, 5,636; outside dispensary, 852; 
 in-patients, 122; out visits, 839; foreign visits, 98; obstetrical, 18. 
 Total, 7,565. 
 
 Frances B. Niebeeg-Goddaed, M.D. 
 
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 Woman's Scbool. 
 
 N Miss Woodhull's return to America the latter part of May 
 1 assumed charge of the woman's school. At this time 
 there were twenty women and half as many children, coming 
 from the Diong-loh and Ing-hok regions, from the villages on the 
 plain about the city and from homes very near us. Tbere remained 
 but a few weeks of work before the close of the term and the se- 
 paration for the summer vacation, so my work was mainly to see 
 that a way was provided for the women to reach their homes safely. 
 
 At the re-opening of the school in the autumn twenty-four 
 women were admitted, of ages varying from twenty to forty-four 
 years, and with them thirteen children (most of whom attended the 
 kindergarten while their mothers read.) Among the number there 
 were ten new women and fourteen old ones, and they formed 
 an unusually interesting school. 
 
 Soon after the beginning of the term a convention of Christian 
 workers was held, in which Mr. Mott and Mr. Lyon took the leading 
 part. Through the courtesy of Miss Bonafield, of the Methodist 
 Mission, it was possible for a number of the women to attend all of 
 the meetings. The first class was selected to go. They were greatly 
 benefited, and returned to their work with a new inspiration for 
 prayer and Bible study. They sat up very late on the evening of 
 their return, giving to the women who did not go some of the good 
 things they had received. 
 
 The annual meeting closely followed in a few weeks. It, also, 
 was very helpful to the women, and its influence has been manifest 
 in the efforts of each one trying to do faithful work and to give as 
 little trouble as possible. It was especially helpful to the new 
 women who testified of its interest and benefits. 
 
 Of the women who entered the school thirteen had bound feet. 
 At the close of the year not one remained whose feet were not 
 unbound, or in some stage of the process. 
 
 They learned from experience the great privilege of being able 
 to walk around easily and without pain. 
 
 One woman said, "Now that I have unbound my own feet I 
 can persuade others to do so." 
 
 One young woman, whose mother-in-law was much opposed to 
 her entering the school, and who had been treated very unkindly at 
 home, said, " If she will not allow me to return next year, now that 
 
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 I have unbound my feet, I can arise early in the morning and run 
 away." 
 
 This woman soon learned to love Jesus, and in speaking of her 
 troubles always showed a cheerful and hopeful spirit. On her return 
 home for the vacation her mother-in-law received her with open 
 arms and set before hor the best white rice (the others eating poor 
 rice), and afterwards said she had improved very much since she had 
 been to the "embrace doctrine" school. 
 
 Four of the women entered the church during the year. They 
 all have shown an earnest Christian spirit, and one has suffered 
 persecution because of it. 
 
 It is the aim. of the school to enable the women to read the 
 Bible and to prepare some of them for Christian work among their 
 own people. It would be impossible for most of the women to ever 
 learn Chinese characters enough to read the Bible, because of their 
 age and circumstances, but by the use of the Romanized system they 
 are enabled to do it in six months. 
 
 The Bible is the principal text book, but other Christian books 
 are taught, and geography and physiology are taught orally a short 
 time each day. The women are soon able to read the Romanized 
 newspaper, which gives them quite a fund of information. 
 
 In fact, they sometimes surprise the literary men, who scorn the 
 Romanized, by giving them fresh news of the outside world. 
 
 Two of the older women left the school at the close of this 
 year to be made useful in the work ; one as a Bible woman, the 
 other as a teacher in a school, for women and children, in her own 
 village. 
 
 During the summer one of the women was employed as a Bible 
 woman. She did very efficient work, giving me a weekly report of 
 the number of people who listened to her and of the parts of 
 Scripture she read and explained to them. It was very common 
 in her report to read, " The people were very much pleased to 
 listen." In one case an old lady became very much interested, 
 and the Bible woman helped her to church several times, but the 
 distance was too great, and her little bound feet could not endure 
 the exercise. 
 
 In only one instance did the Bible woman meet with a rebuff, 
 when a woman, who is known to be very bitter toward the Gospel, 
 told her she had better go home, for she had " no ears to listen to 
 her words." 
 
 During the vacation I visited one of the women in her home 
 and found her in most miserable surroundings. 
 
 The room, with its earth floor and worn out furniture, was bare 
 and cheerless. 
 
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 She was on a bed of sickness ; lier husband had deserted her, 
 and there was no food in the house except a little that one of the 
 neighbors had brought in, 
 
 I tried to give her a few comforting words; her face brightened 
 up, and she spoke very hopefully of her circumstances. She said 
 that whatever God brought upon her was for her benefit. I came 
 away helped and thankful for her beautiful spirit and for the peace 
 and joy the Gospel had brought into her sad life. 
 
 lb is remarkable that we can pub so many women and children, 
 most of them strangers to each other, and only a part Christians, 
 into such crowded quarters. Yet they live very peaceably together, 
 and only once during the term was there loud talking, which indi- 
 cated a quarrel. 
 
 It makes us very happy to see that they learn to love one 
 another so quickly. The women fully realized that my time was 
 much occupied, and showed in many ways that they tried to make as 
 little trouble as possible. It has been very interesting to watch the 
 development of the women and to know how they were helped by 
 the services on Sunday. On Monday at prayers they are asked 
 what they remember of the sermon of the day before. The thoughts 
 that they are impressed with are always helpful ones, and show 
 earnest attention. They never forgot each morning at prayers to 
 ask God's help for me, and their prayers were indeed answered. 
 
 Feances B. Nieberg-Goddaed, M.D. 
 
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 Tkinbergarten ant) (Sirls' Da^^^scbool, 
 
 "TiT^TB can begin the report in no better way than to quote from 
 ^TyT a plea sent out two years ago for funds that the kinder- 
 garten and girls' day-school might be established per- 
 manently. This was heartily responded to by the home friends, and 
 the greater part of the money is now in hand. 
 
 "In the autumn of 1894 Miss Hannah C, Woodhull started 
 the kindergarten school. One of the Christian women had expressed 
 the desire to teach a mission school, but her husband was unwilling 
 to have her do so. At this time, however, he had lost his position, 
 and the family were reduced to sore straits. The wife came to us 
 asking for work. Miss Woodhull felt that this was her opportunity 
 to carry out a desire she had long cherished, namely, to gather in the 
 little children from the streets and do something for the girls who 
 would not come to our day-schools. 
 
 The first term there were 22 little children in the woman's 
 school. The mothers cannot come to learn to read unless they brino- 
 the children with them. The medical students have children, and 
 children sometimes need to remain in the hospital for months for 
 healing for themselves or their mothers. All these children could 
 be better taken care of in a kindergarten than anywhere else. 
 
 This Chinese lady could read Chinese character and could teach 
 embroidery, "rales of politeness" and other things the Chinese 
 consider important. She had become interested in the kindergarten 
 system, when Mrs. Baldwin a few years before was teaching 
 several children in the 1'ai-bing-ga day-school, and had shown a 
 good deal of originality in teaching her own children. 
 
 Mrs. Baldwin had to give up her class for want of time and 
 strength. But what she had done gave us courage to undertake a 
 regular kindergarten. 
 
 "We did not know what success we should have in getting hold 
 of the very little children, but the results were better than we dared 
 hope. We succeeded in gathering in a class of ten, just the age for 
 
 kindergarten teaching, and ten older girls 
 
 The Chinese are such a practical people we did not know as they 
 would appreciate kindergarten teaching, but there is something in 
 the system which appeals to the hearts of the people of every nation. 
 The parents of the children were much pleased, and on examination 
 day we had quite an audience. Even the college boys were anxious 
 
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 to know the time so they could be present, and all seemed delighted 
 with the performances of the little ones. The children were so 
 happy they could hardly keep their feet on the floor. They were 
 quite transformed from the dirty, neglected children who used to 
 run in the streets all day. As we listened to their sweet voices 
 repeating the action songs, saying we must not strike, nor say bad 
 words, must not smoke nor gamble, but eyes and ears and hands and 
 feet must be used to please God and make others happy, and then 
 heard them recite the hymn " Jesus loves me," we thouoht, yes, 
 Froebel was right — be careful of the very little children, teach them 
 to do right, and you will have good men and women. We who are 
 working in China are prepared to appreciate this. When tlie boys 
 and girls are large enough to come to our boarding-schools they have 
 already imbibed much of superstition, very much that they need to 
 unlearn. Alas ! that is not an easy thing to do. First impressions 
 on the minds of children are very hard to erase. Is it not wise for 
 us to make an earnest effort that these impressions shall be of the 
 right kind ? 
 
 One of the first girls pursued her studies under difficulties. Her 
 parents were very poor, and they were anxious for her to earn money. 
 She made stockings very nicely, and so helped to support the family. 
 She wanted to come to the school so much that her father told her 
 she might go, if she would take her stockings and sew. The native 
 stockings are made of fine cloth, and the soles made double and finely 
 stitched. So she would sit in school with an open book befure her, 
 learning characters between the stitches. We were very glad to have 
 her come, even in that way, for she could listen to the Christian 
 teaching and thus receive the seeds of truth into her mind. She 
 came until Chinese New Year, when the trade in stockings was so 
 lively she had to stay at home, because her mother said she could 
 
 not sew as fast in school 
 
 It is such children, dear friends, that we are asking you to help us 
 save from the tempter's snare and polish them as jewels for the 
 Savior's crown. 
 
 After the starting of the kindergarten the few girls who at- 
 tended the Christian day-school near by came to this school, and 
 together with the larger girls from some of the neighboring families, 
 formed the girls' day-school. 
 
 Hitherto these families had taken no notice of our schools, but 
 as this one was for girls, and rather select, they sent their daughters 
 to it. Several pupils have gone out from this school, prepared to 
 enter the girls' boarding-school. 
 
 During Miss WoodhuU's absence in America the kindergarten 
 has been mainly in charge of the Chinese teachers, Mrs. Qoddard only 
 
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 supervising. This year the average attendance was over twenty, and 
 though this is not as large as the preceding year yet the success of 
 the undertaking is already assured, and only waits for some one to 
 give it their undivided attention. Some of the children are so eager 
 to attend that they do not wait for the teachers to have their break- 
 fast. At the noon hour they eat their dinner in a surprisingly short 
 time, and are back. 
 
 Each morning the children in the woman's school are gathered 
 together and accompanied to the kindergarten by one of the 
 teachers. 
 
 There are three teachers in the two schools, one of them giving 
 her time wholly to the little ones, teaching them to arrange the 
 blocks, work the perforated cards, sing the movement songs, and in 
 general the same as in a kindergarten at home. The other two 
 teachers devoting most of their time to the older pupils, teachiug 
 them the Chinese classics and the Christian books in both the collo- 
 quial and classical character. 
 
 Another of the pupils, with an especially interesting history, 
 went to the girls' boarding-school this year. She is from a very 
 poor family, who concluded they had no means for the further sup- 
 port of their little girl, and looked about to sell her. A Bargain 
 was made for |32.00, and she was to be taken to her new home 
 to be the slave of her future mother-in-law. When she arrived 
 at a suitable age she would become the wife of the, now, little 
 son. On the day she was to leave home she was dressed in her 
 beat gown and her hair combed with special care, a new flower in it 
 and her face painted and powdered. She was told she was going to 
 Bee her aunt that day, but came to the kindergarten first, and her 
 unusual appearance led to some inquiry as to its meaning. It was 
 soon discovered, and measures- were at once taken to prevent it. 
 After much persuasion and the payment of some money and furnish- 
 ing of clothes the parents decided to keep the child a while longer. 
 This happened about two years ago, and this year again the parents 
 began to complain about providing for her. 
 
 We secured their permission to allow her to attend the board- 
 ing-school by furnishing the necessary expense of tuition and clothing. 
 We feel now she is safe for some time. 
 
 Christmas is always a delight to the children and to us as well 
 in seeing them so happy. They fully understand its meaning, and 
 when asked why we ought to be happy answered, "Because Jesus 
 came to save us.'' It is interesting to watch them as they receive 
 their gifts^both little hands extended and sometimes reaching out 
 to take what is intended for their neighbor, so anxious do they 
 become. 
 
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 "We want to thank the home friends who have helped with dolls, 
 cards, pencils, writing tablets, handkerchiefs, work-bags, etc., in mak- 
 ing them happy at this time. "We would hardly know how to provide 
 for our large family without your assistance. 
 
 One of the Chinese boys, who is studying English, had occasion 
 to use the word " Kindergartea " in his writing. He had probably 
 never seen it in print, and from the sound of it wrote " Kitten- 
 garden." If you could see the little tots at play you would notr 
 say it was a mis-nomer. 
 
 We desire to thank the friends who have contributed to the 
 fund for the erection of a building for the kindergarten and girls' 
 school. The land will be bought as soon as a suitable place can be 
 found. The erection of the building will be delayed until the return 
 of Miss Woodhull, or a special kindergarten teacher. 
 
 The number of children in the kindergarten will necessarily be 
 limited to those from the woman's school and the families in the 
 neighborhood, but it is hoped from the kindergarten together with 
 the girls' school department will develop a boarding-school which 
 will prepare students for the girls' high school. This will meet; 
 a long felt want, for there is now no place for the girls from the city 
 and the plain and mountains on the north-east. 
 
 We are looking forward to the return of Miss Woodhull, bring- 
 ing with her a young lady who can devote all of her time to the 
 kindergarten and girls' school, as the woman's school demands all of 
 Miss "WoodhuU'a time. 
 
 FXANCESE. NiEBEKG-GoDDAKD, M.D.- 
 
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^Q'poTisfrom the ^o^na^sang Z'^ation. 
 
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 lEvangcIistic Mori?. 
 
 tHE past year, the Jubilee of mission work in this field, opened 
 in the Foochow Suburbs Station with the most wonderful 
 interest in Christianity that the history of missions here has 
 ever witnessed. Every church and chapel was crowded at every 
 service. The pastors and other Christian workers were allowed 
 no rest from talking with people about the Gospel. From difierent 
 sections of the suburbs, and from villages all over the plain, came 
 requests for Christian preachers and teachers, always accompanied by 
 a promise to bear a part of the expenses. This new attitude of the 
 people toward the Gospel made necessary a complete change in the 
 methods of work. Instead of seeking opportunities to present the 
 plan of salvation we could accept only the most promising of the 
 invitations which came to as ; instead of going out to find those who 
 were willing to listen and learn the Truth, it was impossible to properly 
 teach those who came to the churches, asking the privilege to learn. 
 Of course these large numbers joining the ranks of Christians, decreas- 
 ed the worshippers at the temples and shrines, and as a result 
 persecutions followed. Our treaty with China absolves the Chinese 
 Christians from the payment of money for idolatrous purposes. 
 Many seeing the pecuniary benefit of this sought to join the church 
 for the money it would save. Twice I have been told frankly, when 
 I asked the man his purpose in wishing to unite with the church, 
 " I want to make more money." This made necessary the most 
 careful watchfulness on the part of all the examiners that only 
 those with a true purpose were admitted to the church. Each 
 communion season brought from fifty to eighty to be examined ; 
 not half of this number were ever received at one time. 
 
 Thus far the character of those admitted bears witness to the 
 good judgment and firmness of the pastors and others who constitut- 
 ed the Examining Committee. Admissions to the churches have 
 been 50 per cent more this year than during any previous year; the 
 excommunications no more. 
 
 One interesting case of discipline has occurred during the year. 
 In a quarter of the city in which previously no mission work had 
 been established a great interest arose at the beginning of the year. 
 Nearly every Sunday thirty or forty men walked two and a half 
 miles to Geu Cio Dong to worship. Twenty were admitted from 
 this place. I was unsuccessful in trying to rent a chapel here. 
 
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 because every one witli a house to rent was afraid of renting it to 
 a foreigner. The Christians themselves at last found and rented 
 a small room on a back street. Here they held services dnring the 
 summer with a theological student to preach, all coming to Gea 
 Cio Dong to communion. In August and September the people 
 of Foochow, fearing that the evil spirits were about to bring a 
 terrible sickness upon them, made torch light processions two or 
 three times a week ; the people in different sections taking turns. 
 When it came to the section in which our Christians were, seven of 
 them could not withstand the pressure, which was strong from all 
 sides, and they joined in the festivities. The members of Geu Cio 
 Dong heard of it and met to consult. The seven men were called, and 
 they admitted the act, confessing their sin. The church was divided 
 on the question of punishment. Some wished to excommunicate and 
 some merely to suspend. The men were earnest, and seemed to be 
 sincere in their confession. They promised faithfully never to 
 repeat the offence. The church at last decided to suspend them 
 from communion for the rest of the year. It is with pleasure that 
 I am able to report that six of these men are to-day faithful. One 
 has not returned. 
 
 At the beginning of the year there were two churches, Geu Cio 
 Dong and Ha Puo Ga, and one chapel, Au long Die, in this station. 
 
 Geu Cio Dong. — The audiences have been even larger, if such 
 a thing were possible, than they were last year. Stools fill the 
 aisles and vestibule. And after these are all occupied many people 
 stand. This is the usual order at the Sunday service. The best 
 of attention is given to the preaching. This of course is true, 
 because the audience is composed almost entirely of Christians. 
 Every Sunday the janitor stands at the door and admits only those 
 whom he knows to be interested. There is no room for the crowds 
 that would come in if the church were larger. The Sunday-school 
 and Endeavor Society are both alive and doing good work. This 
 church has taken the lead of the churches in the mission in self- 
 support. It has paid the pastor's salary and the incidental expenses 
 for the whole year and the janitor's salary for the last three quart- 
 ers. These payments have been met promptly, and no debt has been 
 incurred. It is an interesting fact that the salaries of both pastor 
 and janitor have been larger than they were when the mission paid 
 the major part of them. At the beginning of the year, when these 
 promises to pay their own bills were made, forty of the best paying 
 members lived at An long Die. The contributions of these forty 
 were counted on. But in May these members took letters from the 
 mother church and organized a new church at An long Die. This 
 was a discouragement to Gen Cio Dong people, bat they faced the 
 
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 difficulty bravely and came off victorious. This church has raised 
 duriag the year one hundred ninety-two dollars and ninety live cents 
 ($192.95.) New members added are sixty-four (64). 
 
 Ha Puo Ga. — Here the audiences have been perceptibly larger 
 than last year. The church is often crowded, and the average 
 audience of oue hundred and fifty nearly fills the church. Recently 
 a very interesting series of evening meetings have been held here. 
 The pastor aud leading members united in prayer for the outpouring 
 of the Holy Spirit several days before the opening of the meetings. 
 The first service was held on Monday evening. The church was fall, 
 and the closest attention was given the simple, plain Gospel. On 
 Tuesday evening the crowds could not get into the church. The aisles 
 were full, and men were leaning on the pulpit railing. All were so 
 interested in the preaching that I could distinctly hear the ticking 
 of the clock most of the time. All came to listen. Many came 
 from a distance with their torches prepared to stay late. The 
 interest was sustained during the week. At nine o'clock each 
 evening the service was announced to be closed. But the pastor 
 did not bid the last man "good night" till after eleven p.m. Scores 
 remained to listen and to ask questions. But Chinese literary and 
 business men do not allow emotion to turn them at such a time as 
 this, nor do they decide these questions in a hurrj'. The seed, 
 however, has been sown. The reaping will come in His good time. 
 Is it necessary for me to add that the doors are wide open here in 
 Foochow ? The harvest is ripe. But 0, where are the reapers ? I 
 have been compelled to stop these meetings in order to preserve 
 the health of the workers. Not only on my own account, but for 
 the sake of the native workers as well. Does the Christian Church 
 in America realize this condition of things ? And that it has come 
 about as the direct answer to her own prayers ? Does the respon- 
 sibility to come and reap the harvest rest elsewhere? "Were the 
 commands "Go," "Preach," "Teach" meant for others? Were 
 the Romans the only ones to whom Paul was speaking when he 
 wrote, " And how shall they preach except they be sent ?" 
 
 Last year this church raised a little over eight dollars. This 
 year the contributions have amounted to seventy-seven dollars and 
 thirty-seven cents ($77.37). Twenty-eight new members have been 
 added. 
 
 Au lONG Die. — In May the preacher at Au long Die, who 
 came from the south, and who can speak the southern dialect, was 
 asked by four men, who speak the same dialect, to go to the Fish 
 Market street and open a chapel. They offered to pay his salary 
 and to help fit up the chapel. The offer was accepted. This left 
 Aa long Die with no preacher. But the members themselves, with 
 
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 the h-elp of the janitor, took charge of all the services, except the 
 Sunday preaching. This was doue by teachers and other preachers 
 till the end of the year, when the church called a man to be their 
 preacher, promising to pay half his salary, forty-eight dollars ($48). 
 The mission pays the other half. 
 
 In June thirty-nine members of Gen Cio Dong took letters and 
 formed a new church organization here. On the Sunday when the 
 church was organized six new members were admitted. Since then 
 ten more have joined, making a total of sixteen for the half year. 
 During the year this church has raised fifty-two dollars and thirty 
 cents (|52.30). The coming of the new preacher has greatly inspired 
 them, and the work here is very prosperous, and promises to yield a 
 rich harvest of souls for the kingdom. The little chapel will seat 
 about sixty. It is full every Sunday three times a day. The mem- 
 bers now number fifty-five, and the learners forty-two. It is unneces- 
 sary to add that the problem of larger accommodations is facing ns 
 again in this place. This church promises to pay the preacher's 
 salary in full next year. 
 
 Sang Tung Gio. — This is the location of the new chapel already 
 referred to as started in the Fish Market Street. Services, were held 
 regularly during the summer from about the middle of May. The 
 church was not organized till October. At that time six men united 
 with the church. One hundred and twenty-seven dollars ($127) was 
 given by the natives for repairs, furniture and preacher's salary. 
 
 Au Haeng. — I have referred to the interest that began in May 
 in a section of the city, and to the fact that I could not rent premises 
 there but that the church members themselves succeeded. This is 
 a chapel at which services are held regularly, except on communion 
 Sundays, when the people come to Gen Cio Dong. The people 
 connected with this chapel have contributed to the support of the 
 mother church seventeen dollars. To meet the expenses of their 
 chapel they have given twenty-one dollars ($21). 
 
 Au Ciu. — In June the church members who come from a 
 portion of the suburbs called An Ciu, spoke with me about opening 
 a chapel there. I told them if they could raise the necessary funds 
 among themselves I should be very happy to help them plan, and 
 hoped that I might be able to assist them financially next year. But 
 I could not give them any money this year. They said they could not 
 undertake it. I considered the matter settled at least for this year. 
 What was my surprise on returning from the mountain in Septem- 
 ber to be invited to visit this place and to see a fine chapel furnished 
 and ready for use, conspicuous among the other buildings on the 
 street for its perpendicular posts and clean paint. But I was 
 further surprised to be told that I was expected to help pay the costs 
 
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 to the extent of fifteen dollars. This of course I could not do. 
 After a few days of discouragement the people began to work, and 
 within a month the money was all raised and the chapel opened. 
 The whole amount raised was eighty dollars ($80). Arrangements 
 have been made for a preacher to locate here, and a separate church 
 organization will soon be formed with twenty or more members. 
 
 At the beginning of the year six new day-schools 
 Day-schools, were established, and three old ones continued. In 
 these schools the native books are studied half the 
 time and Christian books half the time. Arithmetic, Geography 
 and the Romanized Colloquial have been introduced to some esteiit 
 during the year. AH the schools, with one exception, are near a 
 church or chapel, and are in the houses of church members, and 
 were called for by church members in order that their children 
 might be under Christian instruction. This one exception is in a 
 village on the plain four miles from a chapel. A church member 
 living in the place asked for the school, at the same time bringing 
 the names of thirty pupils who wished to study and who promised 
 to pay about half the expenses of the school. Two hundred and 
 eighty-seven (287) pupils have been enrolled in the schools, making 
 an average of over thirty pupils to one school. The average attend- 
 ance has been one hundred and sixty-three days (163). The amount 
 contributed by the pupils is two hundred aud nine dollars and thir- 
 teen cents ($209.13). It is impossible to estimate the value of these 
 schools in mission work. They are each under the direct supervision 
 of a pastor, and I have visited each once in about two months, and 
 examined each with my teacher, a First Degree Graduate, twice 
 during the year. The pupils attend Church and Sunday-school 
 regularly, and they are taught the Bible each day. Nearly every 
 one of these two hundred and eighty-seven pupils have repeated for 
 me the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's 
 Prayer, besides several hymns. This seed sown in the mellow soil of 
 the child's mind will not be lost. Several pupils from the oldest 
 of these schools have joined the church this year. 
 
 The native contributions this year have amounted to $738.75, 
 the number of additions to the church is 114. 
 
 The most pressing need in this branch of the work in this 
 station is for the enlargement of the Geu Cio Dong church. This 
 has been before the public before. But the need increases, if this 
 is possible, as time goes on. Sunday sees the church full. This is 
 true at the present time, although nearly one hundred members have 
 gone from this church during the past year to form other churches 
 
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 in their own villages and sections of the suburbs or city. Moreover, 
 there is no building for a union meeting of the mission. Even union 
 meetings of the Endeavor Societies of this station had to be discon- 
 tinued for the want of a room large enough to accommodate the 
 numbers who wished to attend. Last autumn the annual meeting 
 of the mission was held in a tent. The communion service, at which 
 about seven hundred had gathered, was broken up by the rain. 
 So this enlargement is not only a station need, it is a mission 
 need. Two thousand five hundred dollars (|2500) gold will build 
 the church. 
 
 Since Dr. Kinnear's return to America on furlough 
 
 Hospital ^^^ evangelistic work in the men's hospital here has 
 
 Evangelistic been in my care. Prayers have been conducted daily 
 
 at nine a.m. I have been able to attend only a few 
 times. The attendance at these times was about ten, besides the 
 evangelist and the students. The evangelist has been very success- 
 ful in his personal work, as the additions to the church due to his 
 efiorts testify. 
 
 The chairmanship of the Committee of Arrangements 
 
 Conference of for the Conference of Christian Workers, under the 
 Ciiristian , , _ 
 
 Woricers. guidance ot Messrs. Mott and Lyon, which was held 
 
 in Foochow, October 14 to 19, 1896, fell to me. The 
 correspondence necessary to make the convention a success was no 
 light task. As there was no building in Foochow large enough to 
 accommodate the numbers who wished to attend, a tent was erected, 
 which took both time and strength. Over one thousand students, 
 preachers and teachers, attended. These came from all parts of the 
 Foochow-speaking section of the province. The influence of the 
 convention in the lives of the students, has been very marked. Two 
 flourishing Y. M. C. A.'s, one in the Scientific Institute and one ia 
 the Theological Seminary, are doing good work. References to 
 the words of Messrs. Mott and Lyon are frequent. The impression 
 made on the minds of the students of the importance of Prayer 
 and Bible Study is indelible. Three persons in our mission have 
 asked to enter active Christian work as a result of those meetings. 
 November 5-7 I attended as delegate of the mission the gathering 
 at Shanghai at which the National Y. M. C. A. of China was estab- 
 lished. At that convention Mr. Ding Miug-uong, my assistant in 
 the Theological Seminary, was appointed as delegate to the first 
 convention of the World's Student Christian Federation, to be held 
 in Williamstown, Mass., July, 1897. Mr. Ding is now on his way to 
 America. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 W. L. Beard. 
 
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 foocbow ^beolooical Seminary. 
 
 FACULTY. 
 Rev. W. L. Beard, President. 
 Mr. Ding Minq-uono, First Assistant. 
 Mr. Gong Sik-sonq (First Degree), Second Assistant. 
 
 TtjffNTlL the present year the mission has never had a building to 
 ^^ojP be used as a Theologiciil Seminary. The young men who have 
 studied for preachers lived in the lofts of the chapels and met 
 ia one of the chapels for recitations. By this method only a limited 
 number could be accommodated, and the influence of the teacher was 
 weakened to the same degree that it would in the United States 
 under the same conditions. In 1895 the supply of preachers fell far 
 short of the demand. The constituency of the mission was increasing 
 very rapidly. The calls for preachers were numerous, but could not 
 be supplied. The mission was a unit in agreeing that the number of 
 trained native preachers must be increased. It was also agreed that to 
 do this we must have a building. But the funds for this were not at 
 hand. In 1895 a lot adjoining Geu Oio Dong church was purchased 
 for the purpose of enlarging the church. A native building, 24 x 70 ft., 
 stood on this lot. As the money fur enlarging the church was not 
 yet at hand the mission decided that tin's building should be repair- 
 ed at a nominal cost to be used temporarily as a Seminary. Accord- 
 ingly it was fitted up and has been used this year for that purpose. 
 
 Another requisite to the success of the Seminary was felt to be a 
 competent Chinese teacher to assist the foreigner. For this position 
 the mission was most fortunate in securing Mr. Ding Ming-uong, 
 the second son of our oldest pastor and a graduate of the Anglo- 
 Chinese College of this place. He is a thoroughly consecrated 
 young man. The work he has done in the class room during the 
 year has been in every way satisfactory. But of even more import- 
 ance than this has been his personal influence on the young men. 
 They have caught his consecration and enthusiasm. The native 
 books have been taught by a graduate of the First Degree, Mr. 
 Gong Sik-song, who had previously united with the cliurch and who 
 has done excellent work. He gives promise of valuable service in the 
 Master's cause in the future. 
 
 At the begiuuiug of the year over twenty young men ofiered 
 themselves as students. From these ten were selected as promising 
 young men for preachers of the Gospel. One was taken ill after a 
 month of study, and has not returned. The other nine have studied 
 during the year. Of these seven have done good work and given 
 
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 promise of great future usefulness as preachers. The other two will 
 make good colporteurs or assistants in some of the places where the 
 Work is too heavy for one man. Such places are waiting for them. 
 
 The class have, dining the year, taken a thorough course ia 
 Biblical Geography, have read Genesis and Exodus, translating from 
 classical into colloquial, explaining the meaning and learning the 
 outline. They have learned to use the Romanized Colloquial ia 
 reading and writing ; have mastered the Colloquial Geography ; 
 liave taken a course in Physiology, studies in the Life of Christ, 
 and have spent one hour a day in reading the native books. 
 During July and August they helped in the evangelistic work in 
 the various stations. The last month of the year they made a tour 
 of the mission's field, except Shao-wu, holding meetings in various 
 places, selling books and tracts and talking with the people. 'J'he 
 money for the expense of this trip was raised by the young men 
 themselves without calling on the missionaries to help. In addition 
 to their studies each student has conducted one evening meeting 
 a week in one of the churches, taught a class in Sunday School and 
 helped in the Endeavor Societies in the smaller places. They have 
 also held services in some of the day-schools on Saturday afternoons. 
 
 There were twenty-five applications for the new class to begin 
 this year. From these eight were selected. The character and 
 history of each applicant was very carefully examined. Each man 
 was atked concerning his family, business, conversion. Christian life, 
 object in studying for the ministry, education and the forms of 
 Christian work in which he has engaged. The Committee of Exa- 
 mination consisted of Rev. Chas. Hartwell, Rev. G. H. Hubbard, 
 three of the ordained pastors, Mr. Ding Ming-uong and myself. Ia 
 their knowledge of the character these eight men passed a very 
 satisfactory examination. The standard here is far above that of 
 any previous year. Their record as Christian workers is also very 
 pleasing. Both missionaries and pastors testify to their efficiency 
 and usefulness. Some of them, as business men, have already con- 
 ducted evening preaching services in the chapels. Through their 
 personal efforts many have been led to the Saviour, one man having 
 brought ten of his friends into the church. 
 
 As to vocation one is a school teacher, one a beater of gold 
 foil, one a dealer in kitchen utensils, one a seller of silk one a 
 carpenter, one a farmer and one a colporteur. 
 
 These men were every one in positions where they were making 
 a good living, and some of them were making money. Bach one is 
 dependent on bis own labor for food and clothing, and some of them 
 have parents, some brothers and sisters, some families of their own 
 depeudent on them for support. They have all given up their former 
 
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 position and are devoting their whole time to study and to active 
 Christian work. The mission does not promise to support them, but 
 we promise each about twenty dollars ($20) gold a year to help him 
 during the time he is studying. In other words, twenty dollars 
 ($20) is sufficient to enable a young man to pursue studies in the 
 Seminary for one year. 
 
 A trained native agency is the most important factor in the 
 success of mission work. If the missionary force is depleted the work 
 suffers a serious loss. But when the ranks of the native preachers 
 are reduced the work stops. Therefore whatever affects the train- 
 ing of the native agency, affects the whole work of the whole mis- 
 sion. And no material cause should be allowed to obstruct the 
 giving of the very best training to these men who are to be the 
 saviours of their people. 
 
 At the last annual business meeting of the mission the question 
 of a new building for a Theological Seminary was thoroughly dis- 
 cussed. It was there unanimously agreed that the present quarters, 
 temporarily fitted up, would answer the purpose as long as they were 
 available and as long as they were large enough. The ground on 
 which the present building stands is needed to enlarge the Gen Cio 
 Dong church. The mission agreed that if the church should need the 
 ground, or if the building should be inadequate for the use of the 
 Seminary, the most urgent need of the whole mission would be a new 
 building for the Seminary. 
 
 The building which we are using is crowded with only two 
 classes. Every sleeping room is full and the one recitation room is 
 too small for all to meet together for prayers comfortably. This 
 year we are imjjrovisiug a second recitation room, so that the two 
 classes may recite at the same time. Id will not be possible to put 
 eight more men iuto this building next year. Nor will it be possible 
 to provide another recitation room for the third class in this build- 
 ing. The work of training the native pastorate must suffer, unless 
 we have a new building within a year. If we are to give these 
 young men who are preparing to tell God's Plan of Salvation to 
 the dying millions here in Fukien province a three years course of 
 study in the Bible and other necessary books ; and if we are to 
 receive a class of eight or ten men each year, both of which the mis- 
 sion ought to do, we must have a building in which to work. 
 Under the present condition of prices and exchange one thousand 
 dollars (1 1,000) in gold will buy the laud and erect the building. 
 This should be done next fall. This work is in the care of the 
 churches of America. We are their agents. This is the condition 
 of their work. We await their orders. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 W. L. Beakd. 
 
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 Zl)c (5irl0' Ibigb Scbool. 
 
 ^ ,. . , fMiss B. J. Newton. 
 
 Ladies in charge | ^^ g jyj g^rrbtson (in America.) 
 
 {Mr. Ling Muh-geh. 
 Miss Ling Muh-cie. 
 „ Ding Nguh-ung. 
 Mrs. Ngu Nguoh-hua. 
 
 No. of pupils— lat Term, 87. 2nd Term, 83. 
 Total under instruction during the year, 96. 
 
 tHE Girls' High School is situated at Po-na-sang, in the southern 
 suburb of Foochow, and the building would be a prominent 
 object, if it were not so shut in between high mud walls and 
 Chinese houses. It contains the home of the ladies in charge, of 
 wliom, alas! there has been only one for three years past, a 
 pleasant school-room, recitation, dining and sleeping rooms, whose 
 accommodations are strained to the utmost. 
 
 This used to be a charity school; everything being furnished 
 the pupils, of whom there were few, and quite a proportion of these 
 from heathen families who often put their daughters here to be fed 
 till they were old enough to be of use at home. 
 
 We had no course of study, comparatively few good text books, 
 and no well trained native teachers. In short, there was very little 
 enthusiasm among teachers or pupils, and it was all up-hill work. 
 
 Changes come slowly in China, but ours has come at last, and 
 our present opportunity is limited only by lack of money and of 
 workers. 
 
 Thirteen years ago Mr. Ling, our Chinese teacher, brought to 
 us good natural ability and the training he had received in the 
 Boys' School. He has grown since then in intellect, in tact and in 
 spirituality, and so identified himself with the interests of the 
 school as to make his services extremely valuable. It is largely 
 owing to his faithfulness, and that of the young lady assistants, that 
 the present degree of success has been attained. 
 
 Thus far only twenty pupils have completed the Course of 
 Study and received diplomas. All of these were professing Christ- 
 ians, and all have become either teachers or medical students. 
 One is a very sucessful kindergarten teacher at one of the out- 
 stations, and some are doing excellent work as assistants in the 
 
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 Boarding-school. Of the three who graduated at the close of the 
 last year one is teaching in the new Preparatory School at Pagoda 
 Anchorage, one a day-school at Ing-hok, and the third married a 
 young man, who was called to the care of a new church in the 
 suburbs, where she teaches a Station Class of women and has 
 general charge of woman's work there. 
 
 We are gradually gathering a better class of pupils who are 
 willing to defray a part of their own expenses, and a larger pro- 
 portion of them come with the definite purpose of completing the 
 course of study. The graduating exercises, which are held in the 
 church, attract much attention and awaken fresh enthusiasm each 
 year. 
 
 While mental and physical training occupy much of our thought 
 and attention the real aim of the school is to develop Christian 
 workers, and only so far as this is attained, can it be called a success. 
 To this end Bible study takes the foremost place in our curriculum, 
 while morning Bible talks, prayer meetings and two flourishing 
 C. E. Societies, are important agencies in developing the spiritual 
 life of the pupils. There is much enthusiasm manifested in the 
 monthly missionary meetings, and a generous donation was sent 
 at the end of the year to aid in the erection of a new building 
 for the Girls' School in Madura, while the Armenian orphans were 
 not forgotten. 
 
 The voluntary Evangelistic Band does excellent work from 
 house to house and in several diSerent Sabbath Schools. Eight of 
 our number have united with the church during the year, making 
 twenty-six church members in all, and others are active members 
 of the C. E. Society, but it seems best to give them further 
 testing. 
 
 The Self-government Society was organized three years ago, 
 and has done much to develop the consciences of the pupils, as well 
 as their sense of responsibility. A little incident will illustrate this. 
 One of the older girls asked one day to be punished for the omission 
 of some duty, lest her example be a stumbling block to the 
 younger ones. 
 
 In the early part of the year an epidemic of fever broke out, 
 which prostrated nearly half our number and seriously interfered 
 with work, but, with that exception, our health record has been 
 good in spite of our overcrowded condition which brings additional 
 strain on teachers and pupils. 
 
 Nearly twice as much has been received this year in fees from 
 pupils as a year ago, but this amount is less than one-sixth of the 
 total cost of the school. At the present rate of exchange seven 
 dollars in gold will cover the cost of a scholarship, but, as this rate 
 
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 is not likely to contiaue, it is only safe to state the price at 
 ten dollars. 
 
 An event which will long be remembered was the visit, in 
 March, 1896, of Miss Abbie B. Child, Secretary of the W. B. M., 
 and her sister. It was the first time we have ever been visited by 
 one of the Secretaries, and it established a new bond of love and 
 sympathy which we believe will be of lasting benefit, and which we 
 trust will result in the sending to us of the lady workers for whom 
 we have been pleading so long, and the $4,000 for our new school 
 building, that our work may be properly graded and prepared to 
 fill the place which its increasing importance demands. Let any one 
 who feels that we can wait a little longer ask Miss Child for the 
 letters the school girls sent by her to the young ladies in America, 
 and put their plea beside your list of expenditures for the year, and 
 see if you are quite satisfied about it. 
 
 Ella J. Newton. 
 
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 Hbo^na^sano Station Cln&s, 
 
 fHE Po-na-satig Station Glass was one of the first organized 
 efforts of our mission for the Christian instruction of women, 
 and has just closed its fourth year. 
 
 After a careful sifting of candidates, the class this year opened 
 with twenty names on its roll. Two of these dropped out before 
 the close of the first term. After the summer vacation the roll was 
 thoroughly revised, old members being dropped and new ones receiv- 
 ed, making a clii?s of twenty, seventeen of whom continued to the end 
 of the year. Nearly all of this number have done good work, 
 
 A woman who formerly studied in the class, and has a fairly 
 good knowledge of the character, has been employed to teach (the 
 character only), being paid by the Chinese Women's Home Mission^ 
 ary Society. The more important part of the instruction was 
 assigned to more competent persons. Bible esegesis was taught 
 by Mrs. Lau, one of the Bible women; explanation of Hymns 
 and general instruction, by Mrs. Ding, wife of one of the pastors ; 
 the Catechism, by Mrs. Beard ;■ and the latter half of the year 
 a study of the Christian Doctrine, prepared by Mrs. Beard and 
 taught by Miss Ding, a teacher in the Girls' High School. Tlie 
 more advanced pupils have completed the reading of the Hymn 
 Book and the New Testament. All have committed to memory 
 the Ten Comandments and the Lord's Prayer. 
 
 Some of these women have bound feet, and show their sincere 
 desire to learn by their willingness to walk through the streets to 
 the class daily at such a disadvantage. As most of the women are 
 obliged to earn all or a part of their support, they cannot give up 
 the time for study without some compensation. To meet this diffi- 
 culty the mission grants to each pupil the sum of two cents gold 
 for each day's attendance, which enables them to avail themselves 
 of this opportunity. This allowance is kept at the lowest possible 
 figure in order that money may not be a motive. 
 
 The aim of this work is to fit the women for more intelligent 
 worship in the Sabbath services; to raise them to a more intelligent 
 and more spiritual daily living; and to make them more efficient 
 Christian workers among their neighbors and friends ;— ^wilh the 
 hope that some among these may become sufficiently proficient, 
 tactful, spiritual and earnest to be employed by the mission as Bible 
 women. This hope baa been realized in part. At the close of the 
 
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 year two of the women, whose three years' study had rendered them 
 fairly qualified for Bible work, were takea iato the employ of the 
 mission. 
 
 Christian instruction for the women is an important branch of 
 the work, but is far behind other developments of the mission. We 
 realize there is room for much improvement in methods and quality 
 of work donOi There should be a class in connection with each 
 church or chapel. This would necessitate the organization of several 
 more and makes more manifest the need of missionary recruits, as 
 each class should have the supervision of a foreign lady who can 
 give a part of her time to direct teaching in the class. The women 
 need contact with a strong Christian character to enthuse and stimu- 
 late them. 
 
 Eespectfully, 
 
 Ellen L. K. Beard. 
 
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 po^na^sang flDissionar^ Iboepital. 
 
 -*«o«- 
 
 fHB American Board began medical work in this mission January; 
 187Q, twenty-three years after the foundino; ol: the mission. 
 Dr. and Mrs. D. W. Osgood, of Nelson, N. H., were the first 
 to undertake this branch of the work. Soon after their arrival in 
 January, 1870, Dr. Osgood, in company with Rev. C. Hartwell, made 
 wliat was then considered a long tour of 140 miles by boat up the 
 River Min as far as Ten-ping, a very anti-foreign city. They sold 
 bonks, explained Ohristiau truth and treated about ISO patients, 
 including some minor surgery. After this trip medical work wa-s 
 eanied on in the city for a few months, and in October dispensary 
 Work was also started in the suburbs at Po-ua-saug. Later a native 
 biiildino was secured near there and converted into a hospital, which 
 was used for seven years, till the way opened to build a new hospital. 
 In 1872 a new dispensary was opened at Ha-puo-ka, about 15 
 minutes' walk from Po-ua-sang, which was continued till 1887 and 
 then transferred to the new hospital, on account of being more 
 coavenieut and economical. The new hospital was built at Po-na- 
 sang in 1878 and the old one turned into an asylum for the cure of 
 opium patients and used thus till 1883. 
 
 The facilities for carrying on medical work were very inadequate 
 at first, and there was much prejudice and anti-foreign feeling. But 
 upon better acquaintance this gradually subsided and the facilities 
 also improved with the development of the work. The first hospital 
 report, covering a period of two years, recorded 6,579 patients 
 and about 270 surgical operations. The subsequent reports show a 
 perceptible annual inci'euse more or less regular, reaching the largest 
 number in 1'879, in which 9,578 patients were recorded, including 
 560 operations. The ninth, a decade report, and the last before 
 Dr. Osgood's death, gives a general summary of his 10^ years' work. 
 The total number of prescriptions recorded were 78,697, of which 
 51,838 were first visits. The whole number of surgical operations, 
 major and minor, were 4,015. At the death of Dr. Osgood, August 
 17th, 1880, this work was carried on by Dr. Whitney till the latter 
 part of 1888, except while in U. S. on furlough, when Dr. T. B. 
 Adam, a community physician, was secured to take the medical 
 oversight of the hospital. At the end of 1888 Dr. Whitney removed 
 to Shao-wu, and Drs. Adam and Rennie were secured to make 
 somi-weekly -yisits till Dr. H, N. Kiunear, of Kingsville, 0., arrived 
 
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 and todlc clmrgs at the beginning of 1890, after a year's preparation 
 for the work. He then carried on the work till March, 1896, 
 when he relumed to the U. S. on furlough, and it was again put in 
 charge of Dr. "Whitney. 
 
 The total number of treatments since the opening of the work 
 in 1870 amount to 257,016, of which over 2,000 were opiuiu 
 in-patients and 8,325 hospital in-patients, and including 15,013 
 major and minor surgical operations. This large number of patients 
 included artisans, beggars, boatmen, coolies, farmers, laborers 
 literati, raeroliants, officials, priests, soldiers and yamen attendants, 
 representing nearly every class and province in China. Men, women 
 and children shared the benefits of this work. From 1877 to 1883 
 the cure of opium patients was made a special feature, and over 
 2,000 were cured, of whom perhaps 500 remained free from the habit, 
 and some of them also became Christians. 
 
 As medical work could not be carried on to advantage without 
 Chinese help, the most suitable young men available were selected 
 to receive instruution and aid in hospital and dispensary work. 
 About thirty in all have been received, and at least iialf of thera 
 retained and taught from three to five years, and a few of them even 
 longer. Several have gone out to practise for themselves, and have 
 met with reasonable success. 
 
 The teaching of medical students also required text-books in 
 Chinese. These were very few and meagre at first, but were ma- 
 terially improved in the course of years. So Dr, Osgood's most 
 valuable aiid enduring work was the translation of Gray's Anatomy 
 into the Chinese classical, or book language. It has already passed 
 through two editions, and a third is in preparation. Being iti 
 classical form it can be read by all Chinese scholars in all parts 
 of Ciiina or wherever the Chinese lanouage is used. It has thus 
 found a wide circulation among the more intelligent of the Chinese 
 people. When we consider the hjw state of medicine in China, and 
 remember that anatomy is the foundation of all intelligent practice, 
 we can readil)'' comprehend the utility of such work, 
 
 Dr. Whitney has also prepared two Physiologies in the Foochow 
 colloquial language, one for use in the numerous common sciiools 
 and one for the boarding-schools for boys and girls in the different 
 missions. Intelligent Chinese can also read them with profit. 
 
 Report of Medical Work for 1896. 
 
 Dr. Kinnear returned to the U. S. on furlough in April, and his 
 work was put under the care of Dr. Whitney, but as be lived 
 at Pagoda Anchorage, ten miles away, he could only make weekly 
 visits to ibu hospital. Ho that most of the treatment of patients 
 
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 devolved upon the three native assistants. But notwithstanding 
 this there were 120 more in-patieiits than U\st year (1895) and 
 nearly as many dispensary treatments and a few more surgical 
 operations. The average daily clinical attendance was 44, and the 
 monthly hospital attendance 27. Tliis is a very gratifying result in 
 the absence of n resident physician. The routine of medical work 
 affords but little that is new or striking from year to year, hence 
 there is notliing speci;il to add in this brief report, '''he hospital 
 evangelist has continued to labor both for ttie in-patients and the 
 large number attending the daily clinics, and as far as known he has 
 done fnilhful work. 
 
 The native assistants also have done good work as shown by the 
 results. W"e have not been able personally to give them instruction, 
 but Mr. Chang, a former student of the Tientsin government medical 
 college, has taught them some. The whole number of dispensary 
 patients treated was lo,SU5, of whom 3,479 were second visits and 
 1,843 were women. Surgical o[)erations, 784; in-patients, 325, 
 making a sum total of 14,130. 
 
 H. T. Whitney, M.D. 
 
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 Ibospital Sunbai^ Scbool. 
 
 "^^"TpTHEN Dr. and Mrs. Kiunear left for a furlough in America 
 ^»^» the fiourisliing little Sunday School which they had insti- 
 tuted in couuL'ctiou with the evangelistic work among the 
 patients at the Hospital was couiinitted to my care. Although 
 composed largely of the children who play about the streets in the 
 vicinity of the Hospital, yet the invitation is broad, " Whosoever 
 ■will" may come. A good number attend regularly, and quite as 
 many more come only occasionally, while at every meeting strange 
 faces appear with which we never have further opportunity to be- 
 come acquainted. As the sound of the songs floats through the 
 open doors out into the noisy streets many a passer-by cutcliing 
 the unfamiliar sound, follows it from idle curiosity ahme and hears 
 the wonderful truth, perhaps for the first time in his life. 
 
 With so variable an audience, including as it does so many 
 children who cannot read and whose parents cannot teach them, 
 tbe use of quarterlies is impracticable. Consequently the Scripture 
 lesson is taught from a large Bible lesson picture hung where all 
 can see. On another scroll are written in large characters a selected 
 list of hymns and the Lord's Prayer, which the children are learn- 
 ing fi'om week to week. 
 
 The Hospital evangelist and the three medical students con- 
 stitute a valuable corps of helpers, the former with two of the 
 students teaching the older persons and the other student talkiuo 
 to the children. At the close of each session each child receives a 
 picture card with a verse of Scripture pasted on the back of it. If 
 he learns the Scripture text to recite on the following Sabbath, he 
 receives in addition to the one regularly given a larger picture. 
 This induces many of them to commit to memory one text every 
 Sunday. These cards are sent us by friends of the work in Ame- 
 rica, and comprise all kinds — Sunday School, holiday, bygone 
 artistic, calendars, and even advertisement cards on which the 
 illustrations are of a good moral tone. The reader can hardly 
 appreciate the delight these cards afford. They are such a novelty 
 to the Chinese boy and girl. Nor can he fully understand how 
 much the large Bible pictures help us in making clear to them this 
 story of the Saviour of the world. 
 
 As to the progress and results of the work it is impossible to 
 make even an approximately correct estimate. We know that the 
 
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 audiences have been steadily increasing, and now average about one 
 hundred and forty, that there has been a marked growth in the in- 
 terest and attentiveness of the listeners and that the pupils have 
 learned something of the Gospel story in prayer, hymn and narra- 
 tive. But to how many thousands of souls hardened in sin, falsity 
 and superstition, these fragments of Scripture may go as beams of 
 light, we can never know. Nor how much of the seed sown in the 
 mellow soil of the young heart will spring up and bear fruit unto 
 eternal life. We can only hope that these children will seek to know 
 the Truth, and that the Truth will make tliem free, and that they 
 may grow into the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
 and trust the results to God. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Ellen L. K. Beaed. 
 
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 Cbinese Monian's flDissionar^ Societi^. 
 
 tmS Society still continues its good work and influence, although 
 we are not able to report definitely the number of visits for 
 personal work made by its members during the year, but it 
 is certain that there is an increasing realization of the value of 
 souls and of individual respoosibility for giving them the knowledge 
 of a way of salvation through Christ. 
 
 One of the four sessions for women of the Annual Meeting last 
 November was given to reports from this Society, and much en- 
 thusiasm was manifested. 
 
 As this was our Jubilee year an effort was made to secure a 
 larger attendance than usual, and never before in the history of the 
 Mission has such an audience of women filled the suburbs' first 
 church. 
 
 A social gathering, combined with a business meeting, was held 
 later to elect officers and plan for the coming year. It; was voted 
 to continue the support of the same workers as last year, i.e., the 
 kindergarten teacher at Uong-puo and the teacher of the Woman's 
 Station Class in the suburbs. Special collectors were appointed at 
 different places in the ciiy and country to awaken deeper interest 
 and increase contributions, hoping to secure sufficient funds to pay 
 the traveling expenses of delegates attending the Annual Meeting 
 next year. 
 
 Mrs. Ding, the Senior President, wife of our oldest pastor and 
 mother of Ding Ming-uong, who has been sent to America as the 
 delegate of the Chinese National Y. M. C. A., is an indefatigable 
 worker, walking many miles to collect money, as well as to carry the 
 Gospel message. Probably no other woman, Chinese or foreign, 
 within the range of the Foochow dialect, has told the story of 
 Jesus and His love to as many people as this same plain, unpolished 
 Mrs. Ding, whose heart is all on fire with love to souls. May God 
 raise up many more such women to follow in her steps ! 
 
 Ella J. Newton. 
 
T^epor^ fT0T3X ths Jn^^ho^ ^iation. 
 
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 iBvangeUstic Wlorfi. 
 
 fHIS District lies for a hundred miles alotis: the Ina;-hok river 
 to the South West, and is reserved to the American Board to 
 evangelize. It is a beautiful mountain region with no very 
 large cities but hundreds of towns, villages and hamlets. The 
 District city is about in the center, and has perhaps a population of 
 15,000 souls. Forty miles farther up the river is Sung-kau, an 
 important market center, with about the same number of people. 
 This place is reputed to be the home of many rich and literary 
 families. Other important towns are Nang-seu, at the mouth of the 
 river, and Gak-liang, twenty miles up. 
 
 The first preaching was done in this district by Rev. R. S. 
 Maclay in 1857. The first believer was baptised in 1864, and he is 
 still with us faithfully preaching the Grospel. In 1865, when the 
 Province was apportioned between the three missions, the Ing-hok 
 District was reserved to the American Board, and Eev. S. P. Woodia 
 was placed in charge of the work. For thirty years this faithful 
 missionary traversed this difficult field, scattering the seed from the 
 Word of God. Slowly but steadily the work developed and before 
 he left for America, expecting to return shortly, he had the satis- 
 faction of seeing nearly a hundred members enrolled. After his 
 departure for a needed vacation, which came too late, however, for 
 the Lord called him home before he could return, the district was 
 placed in the joint charge of Messrs. Hartwell and Hubbard. In 
 January, 1896, the oversight of the work was committed to Mr. 
 Goddard. 
 
 During the past year the Lord has wonderfully blessed the 
 preaching of the Word. The gladness of the harvest days had come 
 to cheer and reward the laborers. A year ago there was cause 
 for regret in the condition of the district ; this year there is cause 
 for praise and thanksgiviug. The church membership has increased 
 from 118 to 206, and the native contributions have increassed from 
 |48 to |28ii.81. We were enabled to have regular preaching at 
 eleven places and Christian day-schools at three others. During 
 the past year the missionary in charge has made seven trips into the 
 region, visiting it every month, except the hot months. For this 
 purpose he has traveled mainly on foot, or by boat, over a thousand 
 miles. A cause of especial gratitude was the re-opening of the work 
 at Sung-kau in May. Work was begun here in 1876 by Mr.Woodin, 
 
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 which, owing to lack of interest and opposition, was abandoned" 
 after seven years. Before the end of this year the Li)rd had blessed 
 the undertaking with many learners, six of whom were received into 
 membership. 
 
 The main interest of the year centered about G-ak-liang. Here 
 a great awakening took place the last part of last year and the first 
 part of 1896. Under its stimulus over eighty entered the church. 
 But the Lord, to whom all hearts are open, thought best to sift them 
 and for six months a distressing persecution took place that tested 
 their faith. Through it all they generally stood firm, and only eight 
 were dismissed from the Church for returning to their idolatry. 
 Such fortitude honors the Ohurch of China. Before the VHfir was 
 ended the magistrate had rendered decisions that settled the Christ- 
 ians' right and title to the land that they had bought for a church 
 and to the undisturbed liberty of worship. Through the kindness of 
 the Christian Endeavor Society of the Congregational Church in 
 Seneca, Kansas, and other friends at home, nearly enough. money has 
 accumulated for the erection of a church and parsonage on the lot 
 that the natives bought for that purpose. Its erection has been 
 delayed by the persecution, but is now under way. 
 
 We have continued our search for laud in Ing-hok City, upon 
 which to erect a home for the missionary's family and the young 
 lady missionary, when the Lord shall see fit to call her. The 
 Mission and the Prudential Committee of the American Board 
 have authorized this, but owing to the stringency of income have 
 thrown on the missionary in charge the necessity of raising the 
 required money. It must be patent to every one that to thoroughly 
 evangelize a district a hundred miles long there must be a resident 
 missionary. This requires a house. Then because of the peculiar 
 value placed upon women th'ere must he a lady missionary, and that 
 she can do her work well she will need a small girls' school. The wife 
 of the missionary in charge is fortunately a physician, and if she 
 goes there to live the sick will inevitably throng her, and to save 
 her nerves and strength a small hospital is imperative. These will 
 cost, the house, school and hospital about |3,500. If the Loi-d has 
 entrusted any of this money to you the work is waiting. So far 
 the opposition and cupidity of the natives have prevented our pur- 
 chasing the land, but there are now excellent plots " offered," one 
 of which we hope to secure. Pray that we may recognize the Lord's 
 leading. 
 
 The two day-schools, taught by graduates from Miss Newton's 
 Girls' High School, deserve especial mention, because of their success 
 under teachers who understand Western methods of teaching and 
 who have a sincere purpose to win their pupils for Christ. Their 
 
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 success makes more obvious and imperative the need for lady mis- 
 sioQaries for evangelistic work among the women. Because of the 
 seclusion and subordination of the women of China special means 
 must be employed to reach them. The oversight of male mission- 
 aries has resulted in only thirty per cent of the Church members 
 being women. For this work and the training and oversight of 
 Bible women and girls' schools lady missionaries are indispensable. 
 The work in the Chong-ha region was under the care of Rev. 
 Chas. Hartwell until November, when it passed under my care. 
 Under his labors interest was maintained and preaching had also 
 been resumed at Nano-seu. Work had been begun here as long 
 ago as 1860 by Rev. W. C. Burns and others. Thanks are hereby 
 extended to friends in America for financial aid that made it 
 possible to do so much the past year. I especially desire to thank 
 the C. E. Societies of Soneca, Kansas ; Hope Church, Worcester, 
 Mass.; Grace Church, Holyoke, Mass.; Mrs. Northam, Mrs. Youngs, 
 Mr. F. Beebe, Miss WoodhuU, Rev. H. W. Pope, Mr. J. R. 
 Morris, Mr. A. MacLarty. The Lord has wonderfully blessed the 
 work the last year, and that means there was much prayer ; for this 
 also I thank the kind friends. 
 
 DWIGHT GODDAED. 
 
"^Q^OTis from ike ^Aao^toxc Station, 
 
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 Ibtstorical SJietcb of levangelisttc MorFi. 
 
 ■X(X*??7"HEN Chinese New Year came, 1873, as I had no teacher 
 V^T for a few days, I set to work to compose a little speech 
 in Foochow. I would recall some test of Scripture which 
 had in it the expression I wished to use, and copy it out from 
 the Foochow Testament for my use. On Friday, January 1st, we 
 had a farewell meeting with six of our helpers, whom we were about 
 sending to the Interior to try and rent chapels at long-k'au, Chiong- 
 lok and 8hao-wu. Mr. Woodin preached from Matth. xxviii. 20, and 
 as a very brief pari of the exercises I read my little speech. These 
 helpers were successful in renting at long-k'au and Ohiong-lok, 
 but not at Sieu-u-hu ; and thus was begun the work which has 
 meant so much to me, and mine. 
 
 It was on the 8th of October, 1873, at quarter past 4 in the 
 morning that Mr. Woodin, Dr. Osgood and I started out from 
 Po-na-sang for up-river. On the following Sabbath morning the 
 boat started to go on before we were up, but Dr. Osgood's warning 
 voice soon brought them to a halt. At Ten-ping, on the 1 3th, we 
 visited the Methodist chapel, and saw the ruins of the Anglican 
 chapel which had been sacked by a mob. We were at long-k'aa 
 from noon of the 16th till noon of the 23rd, and there on the 22nd 
 Mr. Woodin received the first man to the church in our up-river field 
 
 On the evening of Saturday, the 25th, we reached Ohiong-lok, 
 and remained there till the morning of Alonday, November 3. On 
 the 2n4 Mr. Woodin received the second man to the church. About 
 noon Dr. 0. took a bowlful of pus from the hip of a boy, and 
 in the afternoon was called to see a man with right arm and right 
 leg shattered. The only hope for the man was in amputation, and 
 to this his family would not consent. It was a hard and exhausting 
 case for the doctor. 
 
 Monday we started by boat toward Kiong-ning-kaing. Were 
 on the boat a little over two days. Waited in Chinese inn through 
 Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday morning started on with 
 two chairs, each one in turn walking while two rode. Mr. W. 
 was heavy, I heavier, and Dr. 0. heaviest, and the coolies soon were 
 manoeuvring to make Woodin's walks short and Dr. O's long. We 
 entered Kiong-ning-kaing after dark, were refused entrance to an 
 inn, sat in ancestral hall, gazed at by an ever-increasing crowd. 
 It was then a, novel seaaatioa to me to have folks holding a light 
 
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 up to me while they scanned me over from head to foot. After 
 a time we were taken to the YiimeQ, kindly received by a magistrate 
 who had read of Washington, and soon taken to an inn. The 
 subordinates in the Yamein were Foochow people, and were the 
 only Pooehow people in the city, and they treated us like brothers. 
 Monday we had a fine sale of bpoks, and Tuesday started toward 
 Shao-wu, Wednesday noon came to city of T'ai-ning, small and poor. 
 Sold books there that afternoon. We reached Shao-wu Saturday 
 forenoon, and put up at an inn at the East gate. Monday Mr. W. 
 and I went on by chair to Kuong-tah, 80 li, where that evening 
 Mr. Woodin saved the life of our host's wife, who had taken opium 
 in a fit of anger. Tuesday we sold out our books and returned 
 next day by boat to Shao-wu. Dr. 0. spent the whole week at Shao- 
 wu, treating such cases as presented themselves. Mr. Woodin and I 
 sold books, and Saturday afternoon I came down with dumb ague. 
 Monday we started for Kiong-iong by chair, but the day before had 
 been a great day for weddings, and our coolies were all fagged out. 
 We reached Kiong-iong Wednesday, 11 a.m., sold books there that 
 day and started by boat next morning for Kiong-ning-hu. Reached 
 there Friday, 10 a.m., went to the Prefect's Yamen, where soon 
 various officials gathered, and with one voice urged us to go away. 
 After much vigorous protesting and arguing we had to give in. We 
 were escorted to a boat, in chairs, and left by boat that afternooru 
 We spent a good part of Saturday at Nang-wa selling books, and also 
 remained there through the Sabbath, I feeling very poorly. Monday 
 evening at Yen-ping I had a chill, Thursday morning we found 
 Ku-sang in sight, and it did look good. That forenoon our boat, 
 which had been impressed by the Kiong-ning officials, landed near 
 the home of the men below the upper bridge and on the wrong side 
 of the river. A small boat ferried us across, and we struck out afoot 
 for Po-na-sang, arriving there at noon, Dec. 4, having been absent 
 57 days. Mrs. Walker had been staying with Mrs. Osgood, and 
 during my absence Dr. and Mrs. Baldwin and Alice and Agnes had 
 returned from the U. S. A. We gave up our house to them and shared 
 the West house with the Hartwells. I had charge of the Ch'ong-ha 
 field, but my health was not good that winter. Our Ch'ieng-kino 
 (Oh'ieng-wang-king) came to us on the 15th of March. That Spring 
 Mr. Woodin and Mr. Ohlinger started up-river, the former to visit 
 the up-river out'Stations, and the latter to go overland to Kiukiang. 
 
 October 20th Dr. 0. and I started for the up-river field. On ac- 
 count of head wind we were three days getting to Chui-k'au. We 
 were gone 60 days, and visited long-k'au and Shao-wu, Sino-siano- 
 and Nang-hung in Kiang-si, Kiong-ning-kaing and T'ai-ning-kaing, 
 Shao-wu again, Chiong-lok and long-k'au again. When we reached 
 
Ohui-k'au, eager and hopeful to be home next morning, a roaring, 
 tearing head wind kept us near there all night. It was during this 
 tour at Nang-hung that Dr. 0. received a blow on the head, from the 
 effect of which he never fully recovered. It may have been one of 
 the remoter causes of the fatal termination of his last illness. 
 
 On our return we found Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Blakely, who had 
 come out to help in opening the Shao-wu Station. 
 
 Friday, April 9t,h, 1875, Mr. Woodin, Mr. Blakely and I started 
 for up-river. Were absent fifty days. Of this time twenty-four days 
 were spent in our rented chapel at Shao-wu, in vain attempts to 
 purchase premises. After our return both Mr. B. and I were noD 
 well. He had the shakes, and I was troubled off and on with 
 bronchitis. 
 
 In September I had an attack of bronchitis, which proved so 
 severe and protracted as to prevent my going to the Interior with 
 Dr. 0. Mr. B. also had been troubled with ague all summer. So 
 Dr. Baldwin volunteered to go ; and on this tour he and Dr. 
 Osgood succeeded in purchasing premises at Shao-wu. They left 
 October 18th and returned November 25th, Thanksgiving day. 
 Under December 31st, 1875, I find it recorded that "the Board has 
 cut down our appropriation for this next year to about 2,000 
 dollars." Some diiierence between then and now. A part of the 
 business at that mission meeting pertained to the rebuilding of the 
 Keu-chio-tong, which had been burned. 
 
 The next Spring Mr. Blakely and I made the round of the 
 up-river field, and bargained for the erection of a small house at 
 Shao-wu, East Gate. Then came another delightful summer at 
 Sharp Peak. The question came up, Shall we, Blakelys and 
 Walkers, or shall we not, move to Shao-wu in the Autumn ? The 
 opposition was quite strong, especially from outside of our own 
 Mission. The Blakelys wavered for a time, but Mrs. Walker backed 
 me up in saying, " We will go whether others do or not." 
 
 It was about 11 a.m., November 1st, that we took our departure 
 from the city station. We had lunched at Dr. Baldwin's, and then 
 sung, " Ye Christian Heroes," and Mr. Woodin had led in prayer. 
 Our trip up was a long, slow pull up the numerous rapids of the Mia 
 Biver. The Blakelys were once or twice in some danger of being 
 wrecked, but at last the evening of November 22nd found us only 
 one mile from our house in Shao-wu ; and we went thither early the 
 next morning by chair. The ladies had the pleasure of being wel- 
 comed in good Foochow by the mother of a man then employed as 
 a helper. Liu Siong, his wife, and their daughter had come up 
 with us from Foochow in a third boat, on which also were the doors 
 and windows for our house. 
 
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 We were soon saddened by the news that our faithful brother, 
 Muk-ko, stationed at Chiong-lok, was dead. Later on our own faith- 
 ful cook, Ch'wang-ko's brother, Chai-chai, was taken from us. We 
 had come up with the intention of spending the wiater, and then 
 return to F., but we all said, "After such a job of getting here we 
 are not going back in a hurry." That winter the sickness of 
 Liu-siong's wife and daughter compelled their return to F., and soon 
 Mr, Blakely's cook hiid spitting of blood, and returned to F. So 
 came the trying matter of servants. Mrs. W. tried thirteen dif- 
 ferent ones during our first stay at Shao-wu. 
 
 In the Spring of 1877 we Were gladdened by the news that 
 Dr. and Mrs. Whitney were coming to join us. At the Thursday 
 evening prayer meeting, May 17th, we learned that Dr. 0. and the 
 Whitneys had been attacked by robbers. Next morning I started 
 down the river, and met them 30 Zz' below 9hao-wu, and was reliev- 
 ed to find no one seriously hurt. The robbery had occurred forty 
 miles away, and it took five days for the news to reach us at Shao- 
 wu. We were then three families in one small house, and the hot 
 weather at hand. But Dr. W. ordered the Blakelys to Foochow 
 on account of the babe's health. A new house was building, into 
 which the Whitneys moved August 22nd. 
 
 That summer we had some ingathering, but not any that proved 
 valuable. Several men had been gambling and were in debt, and 
 they had heard that we paid f 2 per month to any one who joined 
 us. Out of 5 or 6, two held on and united with the church, but 
 never made consistent Christians. We were troubled to secure 
 helpers. At long-k'au, Ko-ch'ung rendered valuable service for 
 two years or more; but ill-health compelled him to return to 
 Fooebow. At Shao-wu, leu Nu-ling became a valuable man ; and aC 
 long-k'au, K'uok Hwak-sung, first on his own tea farm and after- 
 ward at the chapel, brought in members. But the work at Chiong-- 
 lok dragged along miserably for years, and finally was abandoned. 
 
 In 1878 Mrs. W. and myself, with our daughter, spent a few 
 months at Foochow, and then went to Shanghai, and from there up 
 the Yang-tsz river to Kiukiang. From there on the evening of the 
 Srd December we started in the M. E. yacht Stella across the 
 Poyang Lake. That night I had dumb ague, while Mrs. W. had the 
 first one of those severe attacks of internal pain, from which she 
 suffered so much during the rest of her life. Before this she had 
 sufiered much from severe attacks of head ache. We were on the 
 yacht 5^ days, then nine days on a native boat, and then nearly 
 four days by chair to Shao-wu, arriving there December 21st^ 
 The Blakelys had been there alone since the 1st of September, as the 
 Whitneys had been compelled to- come ta Foochow on^ account of 
 
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 his health. Thus the Blakelys were the first family to live alone 
 at Shao-wu, and the strain on Mr. Blakely prepared the way for his 
 breakdown the next summer. 
 
 The summer of 1879 was a hard one. First Mrs. B. was dan- 
 gerously sick with gall-stone about the last of April. May 6th, Mrs- 
 W. had another of her attacks. But May 18th, Dr. Whitney made his 
 maiden effort in mandarin, just two years after landiug at Shao-wu. 
 May 20th, Mrs. B. gave birth to a son. .July 18th, Mrs. Whitney 
 gave birth to a daughter. That nighc Mrs. Walker had a severe 
 attack of what we called neuralgia of the stomach. For a time 
 laudanum seemed powerless to assuage the pain. Through the whole 
 miDnth of July the heat was intense, and August was the same. Oa 
 the 22nd July Mr. B. and I started out to hunt for some monastery 
 where we could go for a time with our families. Wo found several, 
 not very high, but spent a night in one, fully 4,000 feet above sea- 
 level, but more than one day's journey from Shao-wu. Oa our way 
 back on the 25th Mr. B. suffered a partial sunstroke, which resulted 
 in so injuring his brain that he has never been able to resume the 
 work of the ministry. Daring our absence Mrs. Walker had liad 
 another attack, another August 2nd, and auother August 7th, which 
 was very severe ; it required repeated doses of morphiue to assuage 
 the pain. On the 14th a slight touch followed ; and oq the 21sfc 
 a not very severe attack. August 29th, the Blakelys and Walkers 
 started for Foochow, the Blakelys never to return. September 14th, 
 I had an attack of what I thougbit was dumb ague, but which proved 
 to be typhoid fever; but December 4th the Walkers started back 
 for Shao-wu. Mr. Blakely's health showed no improvement, and 
 Mrs. B. also suffered for some time from a stubborn attack of chronic 
 diarrhoea. The Whitneys and we were together at Shao-wu till 
 February 24th, when the state of Mrs. Whitney's health compelled 
 them to return to Foochow. That summer we were at Sharp Peak 
 and Foochow from July 9th to October 20th. The last prayer meet- 
 ing that Dr. Osgood led was on July 22ud, and his subject was Elijah. 
 It was Monday, August 9th, I believe, that he insisted on going up to 
 Foochow to work ou his " Vocabulary." Just before he started Mrs. 
 
 0. faced him in the door with her hand on his shoulder and playfully, 
 yet earnestly, besought him not to go. I joined him at Po-na-sanc 
 on Wednesday. That day he finished his job. Hest morning he 
 went over southside, and came back, looking flushed and overheated. 
 He called it malaria, and took a dose of quinine. About the middle 
 of the afternoon we started for Sharp Peak oa the steam launch. 
 On the way down he tried ia vain to start the perspiration. Of the 
 unavailing battle with death that followed others can tell as well as 
 
 1. He died on Tuesday, at 2 a.m. It was a terrible shock to his 
 
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 wife. He had always seemed like a tower of sfcrengtli to us all, and 
 especially to lier. 
 
 We started back for Sliao-wu, October 20th. We had a steam 
 launch to tow us to Cliui-k'au, and the Woodins escorted us thither. 
 That winter we had the whole Shao-wu field entirely to ourselves. 
 AVe three — Mrs. Walker, Josie and I — saw no other white person 
 from October 21st to March 11th, when we arrived at Foochowwith 
 ourselves and household goods in two boats. One of the two boats 
 on which we started from Shao-wu, was wrecked just below long- 
 k'au, and many of our things badly damaged. 
 
 We returned to U. S. A. with Mrs. Osgood and her children in 
 the Spring of 188 1, and were absent from Shao-wu just two years. 
 Daring our absence Mr. Hartwell and Dr. Whitney visited the 
 up-river field once, and Mr. and Mrs. Hartwell once. It was during 
 this time that Dr. Ting csme out as a Christian, and began his 
 wonderful work for Christ. The work had thus gone ahead during 
 our absence, yet in some resjiects had retrograded. We had been 
 calling for reinforcements, and still kept calling. 
 
 A physician in Boston, whom Dr. Clark had had me consult, 
 had forbidden my going back to Shao-wu to live; but there was no 
 help for it. On our return we began in a rather tentative manner. 
 Mrs. W. and I went up there in the Spring of 1883, and were 
 gone about 2^ months. Oa our way down we were near being 
 wrecked on a rock in the river; but the lightness of our boat saved 
 us from serious damage. That summer we helped around every- 
 where. Dr. B. is not a crafty man, but he came near it when ha 
 sucsrested in the most matter of fact manner that I undertake the 
 revision of Proverbs in the Foochow Colloquial. It was a tough job. 
 We did not start back for Shao-wu till December 6th, and we three 
 went by chair from Chui-k'au to long-k'au. We spent one night 
 in an inn at Yen-ping, when the city was full of literati attending 
 the examinations. The magistrate gave us a guard of soldiers, and 
 was delighted to have us make a very early start next morning. By 
 the way it was during our trip to Shao-wu, December, 1879, that Mr. 
 Sites accompanied us as far as Yen-ping, and was assaulted there the 
 Sabbath after we left him, and narrowly escaped being murdered by 
 a hired mob. When we were alone at Shao-wu sometimes Mrs. W. 
 and Jose would accompany me on my tours, and sometimes remain 
 at Shao-wu alone. 
 
 In December of that year Mr. Woodin and I started for the 
 round of the up-river field. We left December 23rd, and were absent 
 from Foochow till March 28th, While at Shao-wu purchased the site 
 on Crystal Hill. May 16th I received word that the men who had 
 sold to us were being persecuted. May 26th, Charles 8. Hartwell 
 
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 and I started for Shao-wu, and after ranch bother and delay got 
 things righted there, and arrived at Foochow again July 3rd. 
 
 November 11th, 1885, "we three" started again for Shao-vra, 
 and had the Worleys for company for eight days, when on account 
 of Mildred's health they felt compelled to turn back. Then again we 
 had things all to our selves till the next April, on the third day 
 of which we were again back in Foochow, to do what we could to 
 make ourselves useful there. Yet this was in many respects an 
 unsatisfactory way to work. The Sbao-wu field especially could not 
 be half cared for. But the Lord gave us men there who did good 
 work right along. 
 
 The following November the Whitneys went with us to Shao-wu, 
 and remained till March 18th of the following year. April 4-7 " we 
 three" made our first visit to the Ne-ske-tu region, where Dr. Ting 
 was the means of beginning a good work among the mountain vil- 
 lages, and where we afterward sometimes found refuge from the 
 summer heat. The people there are more industrious, frugal, and 
 also more stingy than the Shao-wu folks. We were at Foochow 
 from May 6th to November 2nd. On our return Mr. Hubbard went 
 with us to Shao-wa to help us in many ways. He was separated from 
 his family from November 2nd till about March 21st. That Spring 
 the work on out new house on the hill was so far advanced that we 
 occupied a part of the house in June, aud did not leave for Foochow 
 till July 16th. 
 
 When we returned to Shao-wu that Autumn the Whitneys went 
 with us, moving up to Shao-wu, where they resided till the summer of 
 1891. In the Autumn of 1889 we were at last reinforced by the 
 coming of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner. About this time we began to have 
 additions to the church from a class of men, literary men who could 
 begin a course of study in theology and Bible without preliminary 
 study of the Chinese character. The reinforcement from home and 
 the coming in of this new material on which to work were in God's 
 good providence timed just right for each other. 
 
 But by this time it was becoming urgently needful that our 
 daughter should be at home pursuing her studies ; so in the Spring 
 of 1890, as Dr. Whitney was coming down to Foochow to go to the 
 Missionary Conference at Shanghai, Mrs. Walker and Jose came with 
 him, while I remained at Shao-wu till the summer of 1891. I 
 rejoined them at Oberlin, 0., in September of this latter year. 
 We sailed again for China from Tacoma, Washington, my native 
 state, late in November of 1892, and did not reach Foocho%y till 
 January, 1893, There we fouud Dr. Bliss waiting to accompany 
 us to Shao-wu. 
 
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 We entered hopefully on our third term of service with usual 
 health and very encouraging prospects. The growing work called 
 for long and longer tours. We could none of us cover the ground 
 before us, but did what we could, trusting in Him who could feed 
 five thousand with five loaves. Mrs. Walker's old enemy at times 
 renewed its attacks, but Dr. Bliss seemed successful in bringing it 
 under. In 1895 the Gardners and Dr. Bliss had gone to Foochow. 
 We two alone on Crystal Hill, had passed a delightful July, almost 
 like a second honey-moon, and about the middle of August had gone 
 up to the mountain village of Black Rock Flat, when on the 17th 
 we received word from Foochow of the Hwa-sang massacre. If Mrs. 
 Walker felt nervous she said nothing about it to me. I will confess 
 that I did not enjoy the situation, but I said nothing to her. We 
 spent a very pleasant Sabbath with the Christians, returned Monday 
 to Shao-wu and started down the river on Wednesday. Little did 
 we dream then that that was the end of all our years of mutual toil 
 in the Shao-wu field. But the triangle is brokeu. Never again can 
 "we three" work and play, and joy and sorrow together at Shao- 
 wu. majestic mountains, beautiful valleys and winding river of 
 Shao-wu, little need has she of a tomb stone ; her name, her memory, 
 is engraved on a hundred lovely scenes, and holds a unique place 
 in many a grateful heart. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 J. E. Walkek. 
 
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 IReport of tbe jEvangelistic anb lebucational Mork 
 for tTcn HDontbs enMng 3anuari5 3l0t, 1897. 
 
 xl/illB evano'elistio work consists of the East Gate Ohapel, Shao-wii 
 (j^L tlity, as a center with surrounding villages and the following 
 out-stations distant from Shao-wu, as follows : Tie-lo-haug, 
 15 miles; Na-keu, 27 miles; Sui-keu-tsai, 50 miles; lang-keu, 80 
 miles; and Uang-tai, 100 miles. These places are situated on or 
 near the river south-east of Shao-wu between Shao-wu and Foochow. 
 
 South of Shao-wu are the following out-stations with their dis- 
 tance away: lang-chin-ken, 20 miles; E.-shi-tu, 30 miles; Chu-ken, 
 40 miles. 
 
 The out-stations Ku-san, 15 miles away, and Fo-pin, 25 miles 
 away, are south-west of Shao-wu. These out-stations are strategic 
 points, each a center of the surrounding country. Besides the out- 
 stations we have a large number of occasional preaching places 
 connected with these out-stations. 
 
 During the first three months the field was divided between 
 Mr. Walker and Mr. Gardner. Mr. Walker having returned to 
 America the field has been in charge of Mr. Gardner alone the past 
 seven months. Owing to the Ku-tien massacre and other circum- 
 stances the missionaries were able to be at Shao-wu only four months 
 out of the ten. Two of the months were in the first part of the year 
 when Mr. Walker, Mr. Gardner and Dr. Bliss made an evangelistic 
 tour of the field from Foochow, returning the first part of June. 
 
 In November Mr. Gardner with his family and Dr. Bliss re- 
 turned to Shao-wu to resume active labors. 
 
 Three new out-stations have been opened, — Uang-tai, Na-keu, 
 Ku-san. Our first visit to Uang-tai was in June, having received 
 a letter from several men at that place asking us to come there and 
 establish a church. We found there several enquirers led by an 
 elderly man holding a military officer's rank. From this place and 
 vicinity there are reported one hundred to two hundred enquirers. 
 
 At Na-keu there has sprung up a work during the last part of 
 the year, and an ancestral hall has been secured for a chapel. 
 
 Ku-san has been opened as an out-station, and a preacher is to 
 be sent there at once. We have had a few Christians here for some 
 time, but in the past few months, through the earnest labors of one of 
 the theological students, a large number have come out for the Lord. 
 
 The opening of the work in this locality we feel to be a great 
 advance upon the strongholds of pride and sin. Ku-san is considered 
 
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 next to the proudest locality in the district ruled over by the Shao- 
 wu magistrate, aud the truth seems to be getting feold of some of the 
 highest literary men in Ku-san. 
 
 Notwithstanding the long enforced absence of tlie missionaries 
 from the field the work has been going forward with great bounds. 
 Hundreds of new enquirers are reported in various places. 
 
 At Uang-tai, as above mentioned, 100 to 200 enquirers. 
 
 At lang-keu, between two and three hundred. 
 
 At Siu-keu-tsai, 100. 
 
 At Na-keu, 100. 
 
 At lang-chiu-keu and vicinity, 100 to 200. 
 
 At Tie-lo-haiig, 50 or more. 
 
 At R-shi-tu, 30 or more. 
 
 At Ku-san and vicinity, 500 to 800. 
 
 At Fo-pin, 100 or more. 
 
 From these many enquirers we hope for a good harvest, but 
 they must be first taught and grounded in the truth. Some may fall 
 away, but we hope many may, after proper training, be received into 
 the church. 
 
 The actual numbers received into the church the past tea 
 months have not been great, owing to two causes . First, the en- 
 forced absence of the missionaries from the field for so long a period 
 and the inadequate supply of preachers to train the numbers coming 
 forward. The exact murubersof those received into the church cannot 
 be given, as the numbers Mr. "Walker received are not at hand. 
 We are now making every effort to ground these enquirers in the 
 truth. Preachers are to be placed in three or four out-statioos, and 
 other out-stations are being supplied on the Sabbath by students 
 from the theological school. 
 
 Several new chapels have been established, or under erection. 
 
 At Tie-lo-chang, an out-station established two years ago, the 
 people have subscribed three hundred dollars ($300.00), and work 
 has been going steadily forward on a new chapel. At lang-keu we 
 have had a small chapel for several years. Having become too small to 
 accommodate the large increase of enquirers the Christians subscrib- 
 ed three hundred dollars ($300.00) for a new chapel at this place, 
 and work has already begun on a chapel to seat several hundred. 
 
 At Siu-keu-tsai land has been donated, and the sum of about 
 one hundred and forty dollars (|140.00) subscribed toward a new 
 chapel. Work has not yet begun. 
 
 At Na-keu, a new out-station, an ancestral hall has been rented 
 for a chapel, with the expectation that it will ultimately be donated 
 to the church. 
 
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 Preparation was made for the enlargement of the Shao-wa East 
 Gate Chapel, but it-has subsequently been deemed wise to rebuild aa 
 entirely new structure. 
 
 Unlike many other places the Gospel has taken hold of all 
 classes in the Shao-wa field. A large number of the literati have 
 come out for Christ. No fewer than fourteen literary and military 
 first degree graduates have united with the church in the Shao-wu 
 field, besides which there are a large number of enquirers from the 
 literary class. The preachers feeling the pulse of the people at Shao- 
 wu city and vicinity, say that more than one-half like the Christians. 
 
 The present outlook for the coming year seems most promising. 
 We are planning for a general move all along the line — 'the 
 strengthening of the present out-stations and the opening of new 
 out-stations. We plan to open immediately a new out-station in one 
 of the busiest parts of the city of Shao-wu and at Sa-ki-kieu, seven 
 miles from Shao-wu. We expect also that a chapel will be erected 
 at Sui-keu-tsai and a new chapel at Shao-wu East Gate, and that 
 at least we shall see the beginning of a new chapel at Ku-san. 
 
 Our Annual Meeting, held in the first part of December, proved 
 to be the largest and most interesting we have ever had. 
 
 Unfortunately our chapel accommodations were so small that a 
 large number had to be bidden not to come. Ou the Sabbath of the 
 Annual Meeting, notwithstanding the absence of those who were 
 forbidden to come, and the return of many to their homes, there were 
 so many present that an open air meeting had to be held. The 
 preacher at East Gate, seeing the numbers, said he " believed such 
 a gathering possible, but now his eyes had seen it." Summary. — ■ 
 Number of new chapels, three; number of new out-stations, ^/iree; 
 number of new enquirers estimated, 1,.500; number of new out- 
 stations in prospect to be opened, tioo ; number of new chapels in 
 prospective, three. 
 
 G. Milton Gardner. 
 
 Educational Work. Theological School. 
 In charge of G. MiLTON Gardner. 
 This school was started in 1892 with two students under the 
 care of Milton Gardner. In 1893 there were three students, in 1S94 
 three students, in 1895 five students, in 1896 eight students, and 
 during the coming year there will be eleven students. In the 
 past few years there has been a great demand for preachers in the 
 outlying districts. The Theological School while growing as fast 
 as men and means will allow has still been unable to supply the 
 demand for preachers, and the students during the past summer 
 
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 were all sent out fco supply. Their labors resulted in much good. 
 The most marked was the blessing added to the work of the student 
 who was deputed to Ku-san. Some of the students were sent to 
 help preachers who were hard pressed in their work. 
 
 The studies pursued by the eight students were — Natural 
 Theology, Church History, Systematic Theoh)gy, Old Testament 
 Exegesis, New Testament Exegesis and R')rnaiiizBd Gulloquial. 
 Of the eight men three were educated in the Mission Boarding- 
 school. Three were literary men holding the first degree. The 
 remaining two men, while not holding degrees, one is an excellent 
 scholar and the other man comes from a very literary family. Two 
 men are just finishing their three years' course, and are to be sent 
 immediately to out-stations as preachers. 
 
 The personale of the five new men who are to be received is as 
 follows : — 
 
 Two are military first degree graduates, another is an advan- 
 ced first degree man holding a rank between a first and second 
 degree. The pther two are well up in literature, though not holding 
 any degree. Having no trained native teacher to aid has required 
 the missionary to give a large portion of his time to the actual work 
 of teaching. It is hoped that one or more of these trained students 
 may be spared to assist in teaching, 
 
 "i'his Theological School has now become one of the most im- 
 portant parts of our work. We are in great need of a suitable 
 building for the students. 
 
 Day-schools. — There have been seven day-schools under mis- 
 sion care. Eive of these were more or less supported by Mission 
 funds, and two were wholly self-supporting. 
 
 Pleas for New Workers. 
 
 It needs but a cursory glance at the above general facts and 
 character of the work in the Shao-wu station to convince one that 
 there is an imperative need of more missionaries. The present 
 clerical foice consists of Rev. Mr. Walker and Mr. Gardner, the 
 former of whom is in America on a furlough, leaving only one 
 clerical missionary to care for all these growing interests. Upon 
 Mr. Walker's return Mr. Gardner must have a furlough, again 
 leaving one man. Nowhere else are such heavy labors placed upon 
 one man. At least from three to four clerical missionaries should 
 constantly be on the field. It is impossible for one or even two men 
 to bear the constant strain of the heavy burdens for any period 
 with impunity. Cannot one or more missionaries be sent out at 
 once to carry forward the work ? 
 
 G. MiLTOK Gardkee. 
 
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 Ibistorical Sketcb of tbe fiDe&ical TKIlorK. 
 
 tHIS is the extreme north-western prefectural city nf the Fuh- 
 kien province, and is situated on the right bank of the middle 
 branch of the River Min from 30 to 60 miles from its two 
 sources and 250 miles from Foochow. Its population averages 
 about 17,000. It embraces five district cities and a large number of 
 towns, •villages and hamlets. These, with the adjacent portion of 
 the adjoining province of Kiangsi, makes an estimated population of 
 about one million people belonging to the Shao-wu field. This 
 region was first visited by Dr. Osgood, in company with others, in 
 1873, 1874 and 1875, who treated several hundred patients and per- 
 formed quite a number of minor operations. In November, 1876, 
 Messrs. Blakely and Walker, with their families, moved to Sliao-wu 
 and opened it as a separate station of the Foochow mission. The 
 following May, 1877, Dr. and Mrs, H. T. Whitney joined the station 
 and began regular medical work, and made dispensing tours in the 
 surrounding country to a distance of 80 miles from Sliao- wu. In 
 1878 he built a small hospital and dispensary, and in 1879 first began 
 to receive in-patients. 
 
 But ill-health soon made a break in the work, and at the death 
 of Dr. Osgood in 1880 he was called to take charge of the Po-na- 
 sang work, thus leaving the Shao-wu field without a physician. 
 He, however, spent the winter of 1886-1887 there and treated 
 about 1,100 patients. And after waiting eight years in vain for 
 another physician to he sent out to supply their field he again return- 
 ed there with his family in 1888 and carried on medical work till 
 the summer of 1891, when this station was again left wiihout a 
 physician till the arrival of Dr. E. L. Bliss, at the end of 1892, and 
 he has since then carried on the medical work in that field. 
 
 The nature of the work there was much the same as in other 
 interior stations. The people were fearful, suspicious and pre- 
 judiced at first, but the influence of the medical work, among other 
 influences, gradually changed all this to confidence and friendliness, 
 and thus the way opened for the entrance and acceptance of Christ- 
 ianity. Four medical students have been trained for that work, 
 three of whom are now at work in that field, one as a preacher. 
 The fourth, who was the first one trained, is in practice in the 
 lower Min. 
 
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 The demand for foreign drugs was small, at first limited mostly 
 to quinine, santonine, ointments, eye lotions and digestive powder. 
 But the demand gradually increased, and at present foreign drugs 
 are in very general favor and the medical work is exerting its 
 proper influence. Aside from the general benefits of the work quite 
 a number have also embraced Christianity as a direct result of this 
 agency. 
 
 H. T. Whitney, M.D. 
 
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 IReport of flDebical Mork. 
 
 WING to enforced absence from fcbe station tbe pbysician baa 
 been able to do but four months' work tbere during 1896. 
 In that time he has treated 1,562 dispensary patients, made 
 out-visits, performed 32 minor operations and treated 800 while 
 away from the station, 'i'he whole number treated since bis arrival 
 there in 1803, is 10,309; he has made 924 out-visits and performed 
 229 minor operations. The daily averaf^e has been about twenty 
 patients. It mast be remembered, when considering this record, 
 that the medical work at this station has suffered and is suffering 
 under many g eat disadvantages, and that during this time the 
 physician has acquired a knowledge of the language. The only 
 remedy for tbe many ititerruptions that have attended the medical 
 WDik at this station, since its beginning, is the appointment of two 
 physicians, so that in ease one is obliged to be away, as is fre- 
 quently necessary, tbe work can still go on. When both are present 
 tbere is more than one physician can do in attending to tbe dispen- 
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 are • hundred miles from Shao-wu city. The medical work in 
 connection with tbe development of the relif<ious and educational 
 work, is really in more need and worthy of generous support than 
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102 
 
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 ^VAu^ORK in this field was first begun in Lang-buo in 1862 by 
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 Diong-loh city. In 1867 three other places, viz., Ging- 
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 Baldwin. Kang-cheng was opened in about this time by Rev. C. 
 Hartwell. In 1882 work was started at Sharp Peak island, the 
 place where the missions' sanitariums and the E. E. Telegraph Co. 
 are located. In 1889 Tang-tou was opened, and Au-uok, near by, in 
 1890. In 1891 a house was purchased at Pagoda Anchorage, and 
 it was opened as a separate station. 
 
 In 1893 Lau-gie and Hong-no and To-kang were opened, and 
 in 1896 work was extended to Dai-liang, U-nang, Liu-hung, Gau- 
 deng, Gu-kaing, Chang-chong and Ka-mui, Pagoda Island, near 
 Pagoda Anchorage, Au-ang, Giek-cio, Cong-keng, Kang-muong, 
 Liong-gang. Most of these places include also school work, as 
 well as preaching. Schools and occasionally religions services 
 have also been held at a number of other places on the outer bord- 
 ers of the field. This station includes an estimated population of 
 300,000 to 500,000 people, condensed on an area about 35 miles long 
 and from 20 to 30 miles wide. It was worked for 25 years from 
 Foochow, tea miles from the nearest part of the field. After the 
 first few years most of this field was under the care of Rev. C. 
 Hartwell for about 20 years, and a part of it, known as the " Seven 
 Le" region, was under the care of Rev. C. 0. Baldwin, D.D. After, 
 ward until 1894 Messrs. Hubbard, Hartwell and Whitney each 
 shared in looking after the work. In 1895 the field was divided be- 
 tween Messrs. Hubbard and Whitney. This field has always been re- 
 garded as a hard one to work, and the visible results have been few 
 until within the past few years. About two years ago there was a 
 general interest and awakening over a considerable portion of the 
 field, and the Mission's resources were severely taxed to find enouwh 
 suitable native help to meet all the demands. In less than a year at 
 least 20 places called for either preachers or schools, or both. Most 
 of the really needy places have been supplied in a way, although we 
 would be glad of more of the first quality help, so rare in China. 
 1895 was a very unsettled year, but the past year crystallization has 
 
103 
 
 been going on, and we are better able to estimate the amount of real 
 progress made. The " Statistical Table " will give classified results 
 unnecessary to refer to here. 
 
 During the last mission year now reporting eight new chapels 
 have been opened in the field in my care to become centers for the 
 development of separate churches. Four of them have already be- 
 come such. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 H. T. Whitnkt, 
 
104 
 
 Evangelistic WovK 
 
 ^TATION, Pagoda Anchorage. Field, northern villages of Diong- 
 oh District, lower Min, Inner and Outer Clieii-li, reacliing 
 from the sea inland about 25 miles with an average width 
 of 10 miles, equals 250 square miles with a populatioa of nearly 
 1,200 to the square mile. Chapels, preaching plHces and schools in 
 this wide extent have numbered 20 during the year. The whole 
 number of native workers under his supervision has been 24 (twenty- 
 four), 3 (three), of whom are women. These may be classed as 
 follows: one pastor, seven preachers, five colporteurs, eleven school 
 teachers (rhree of the preachers have also taught school). 
 
 The 14 (fourteen) schools enrolled 262 pupils, of whom 229 were 
 boys and '66 were girls. Nearly all these have read and committed to 
 memory the Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, Apostle's Creed, a 
 number of Christian hymns and a small three-character book in 
 which the principal truths of the Christian religion are given in 
 rhyme. Many of the pupils are from non-Cliristian homes, so these 
 children become little evangelists with, the Grospel message for the 
 family. 
 
 Hundreds have had their names enrolled as learners at the 
 14 preaching places, and 48 have been received to the church 
 during the year. The sale of New Testaments and hymn books 
 was large in 1895, and the demand has continued in 1896. The 
 attention of the people is directed as never before to Christianity as 
 the only door of hope. In the ' overturning ' which the reception of 
 the Gospel into a heart, home, or hamlet, is bound to make, mis- 
 sionary, pastor, preacher and teacher have had to meet the return- 
 ing waves of opposition, malice and envy. Inculcation of doctrine, 
 cultivation of Christian life in the soul and withstanding the 
 enemies of Christianity, have given them abundance of work, taxing 
 time and strength to the utmost limit. 
 
 The Reward : the realization that it is worth the while and 
 that life is worth living iu the wiauing of precious souls from death 
 uuto the eternal life. 
 
 Eespectfully, 
 
 Geo. H. Hubbabd. 
 
105 
 
 ©a^^scbools. 
 
 JpN 1896 we had uine schools with 233 pupils, of whom 179 were 
 JC boys aud thirty-four were girls, fifty-two were frum Christian 
 families. Ten different kinds of Christian books were taught 
 and fourteen kinds of Confucian books. Of the Christian bonks five 
 of them (reading, writing, arithmetic, geography and physiology) 
 correspond to our school studies at home. The others were religions, 
 including the Bible of course. The Confucian books taught are 
 what the Chinese consider very essential their children should learn, 
 and when taught in connection with Christian books there is no 
 special objection to them. The pupils ranged from seven to eighteen 
 years of age, though the large part of them were between eight and 
 fourteen years old. The average of one-fourth from Christian 
 families is fair for the newer regions and one-sixth girls is also 
 encouraging for schools of this kind. Four of the teachers were 
 women, wives of helpers, and were formerly under training in the 
 Girls' Boarding-school at Po-na-sang. The five male teachers bad 
 never been connected with our training school, and two of them had 
 never taught before; so that we could not expect the same results as 
 from those going out from our Boys' Boarding-school. But most 
 of them did fairly well, and will do better another year from the 
 experience of the past year. Most of these schools were taught in 
 connection with out-station chapels, and so aided materially in 
 furnishing a larger and more regular congregation as well as having 
 a due influence on the heathen in their vicinity. 
 
 Two of the schools, taught by inexperienced men, have now 
 become out-station centers, with preachers located, and three addi- 
 tional schools to each center have been opened for 1897, showing 
 not only the advantage of teaching in connection with preaching, 
 but also how work spreads more easily in some places than others 
 with the same amount of labor. While some are inclined to decry 
 our present system of day-schools I think most of us recognize their 
 utility, though equally ready to improve them as fast as, and in 
 every way, possible. 
 
 H. T. Whitney. 
 
106 
 
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 vE* weekly clinics were begun, and at the end of 1893 Dr. 
 Whitney returned from the United States, and has since 
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 stations. The opportunities for doing medical work are good, but 
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 but the ordinary dispensary work being done. 
 
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 been done at the station village, except during the iiot months, and 
 some have been treated when away in the country visiting the out- 
 stations. The record shows 1,065 patients seen, with 80 operations. 
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 been seen altogether. The physician's time is too much employed in 
 religious and other work, and native help and insufficient means also 
 prevent doing the amount of medical work that might and ought to 
 have been done at this station. A foreign physician and three 
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112 
 
 Statistics of Educational Work. 
 
 
 Name. 
 
 Tf.achebs. 
 
 Pupils. 
 
 'o 
 
 
 Q 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 hi 
 
 S 
 
 Native. 
 
 
 «5 
 s 
 
 i 
 
 
 Income 
 
 Clash. 
 
 'rt 
 
 
 FROM 
 
 Native 
 
 SOURCKS. 
 
 Boarding. 
 
 Banyan City Scientific Ins. 
 Girls' High School, Foochow 
 Ponasang Theological Sem, 
 Shaowu ,, Class 
 Woman's School, Foociiow. 
 Kindergarten, Foochow 
 Ponasang Jvledical School 
 City Medical School 
 Shaowu Medical Class 
 
 Total 
 
 5 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 s 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 "i 
 1 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 "s 
 
 2 
 2 
 
 13 
 
 5 
 4 
 2 
 3 
 4 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 
 139 
 
 "9 
 8 
 
 12 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 96 
 
 40 
 18 
 
 "e 
 
 141 
 
 96 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 40 
 
 30 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 
 
 2,763.85 
 177.00 
 
 ' 5.00 
 
 
 14 
 
 16 
 
 7 
 
 37 
 
 172 
 
 162 
 
 334 9 
 
 2.945.85 
 
 Day. 
 schools. 
 
 City Station 
 
 Ponascing ... 
 
 Inghok 
 
 Pagoda ... 
 
 Shaowu 
 
 Total 
 
 
 24 
 9 
 5 
 
 21 
 
 7 
 
 3 
 
 2 
 3 
 
 27 
 9 
 
 7 
 24 
 
 7 
 
 456 
 
 270 
 
 74 
 
 413 
 
 70 
 
 74 
 19 
 11 
 69 
 20 
 
 530 
 289 
 
 85 
 482 
 
 90 
 
 27 
 9 
 
 / 
 
 24 
 
 7 
 
 31.3.20 
 209. 13 
 
 29.90 
 221.77 
 
 14.00 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 8 
 
 7t 
 
 1283 
 
 193 1476 
 
 74 
 
 788.00 
 
 Day Class. 
 
 Ponasang Woman's Class 
 
 1 
 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 
 20 20 
 
 1 
 84 
 
 
 
 Grand Total 
 
 13 
 
 S2 
 
 18 
 
 115 
 
 1455 
 
 375 1830 
 
 1 
 
 3,733.85 
 
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 Patients. 
 
 
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 Ponasang Missionary Hospital 
 
 13,805 
 
 
 325 
 
 14,130 
 
 785 
 
 492.51 
 
 City Hospital for Womeu and Children 
 
 6,475 
 
 968 
 
 122 
 
 7,565 
 
 230 
 
 2S2.04 
 
 Pagoda Anchorage Medical Work 
 
 1,0G5 
 
 
 
 1,005 
 
 80 
 
 (;) 
 
 Shaowu Medical Work 
 
 2,424 
 
 
 
 2,424 
 
 32 
 
 (?) 
 
 Total 
 
 23,769 
 
 968 
 
 447 
 
 25,184 
 
 1,127 
 
 774.55 
 
113' 
 
 Romanized Press. 
 
 Tracts issued, 18,155. Pages printed, 396,722. 
 
 Societies ia Affiliation. 
 
 Chinese Woman's Missionary Society 
 
 College Yoaiig Men's Christian Association 
 
 Yoimi^ Peoples' Society of Christian Endeavor 
 Junior „ „ „ „ 
 
 Temperance Societies ... _ 
 
 Anti-foot-binding Society 
 
 Girls' Evangelistic Band [ Giria' High School ] 
 
 Total 
 
 .. 1 Society, 
 
 25 
 
 Members. 
 
 • 2 „ 
 
 104 
 
 
 30 
 
 1,258 
 
 
 6 
 
 144 
 
 
 8 
 
 325 
 
 
 1 ,> 
 
 122 
 
 
 1 
 
 18 
 
 
 49 Societies, 1,996 Members. 
 
 These Societies are officered and managed almost wholly by 
 natives. Their avowed object is to do personal and aggressive Oln'ist- 
 ian work. The Woman's Missionary S.)ciety, during the four years 
 of its existence, contributed over seventy dollars for home mis- 
 sionary work under their own direction. The Christian Endeavor 
 Societies sent an offering to the Armenians of thirty doli.irs this 
 year, besides other missionary offerings for use near at home. The 
 TouDg Men's Christian Associations contributed to the expenses of 
 the national society toward the expenses of Ding Ming uoiio, the 
 Chinese national delegate to the International Convention to be held 
 at Williamstown this year, and to other local causes. The Girls' 
 Evangelistic Band go oat by twos on Sunday to private homes to^ 
 read and explain the Bible to the women and children. 
 
 Native Contributions. 
 
 Object. 
 
 1895. 
 
 1896. 
 
 Increase. 
 
 . For Preachers 
 
 ,, Buildings and Repairs 
 
 ■ „ Education 
 
 ,, Miscellaneous _ 
 
 I 
 
 Total ... 
 
 $.3=74.18- 
 121.85 
 
 1,772.85 
 826.70 
 
 $832.11 
 
 1,041.99 
 
 3,1547.65. 
 
 467.19 
 
 $467.93 
 
 920.14 
 
 1,774.80 
 
 [-359.51] 
 
 3,095.58 
 
 5,888.94 
 
 2, 7 93. ,■50 
 
114 
 
 I89S-I896. 
 
 Increase all along the Line. 
 
 
 1895. 
 
 1896, 
 
 Inckbase. 
 
 Pee Cent. 
 
 Number of Preachers 
 
 33 
 
 39 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 „ Preaching Places 
 
 36 
 
 63 
 
 27 
 
 75 
 
 „ Members ._ 
 
 1,102 
 
 1,540 
 
 438 
 
 40 
 
 ,. Admissions 
 
 251 
 
 548 
 
 297 
 
 118 
 
 ,, Pages printed 
 
 329,011 
 
 396,722 
 
 67,711 
 
 21 
 
 „ Day-schools 
 
 49 
 
 74 
 
 25 
 
 51 
 
 ,, „ Scholars 
 
 1,215 
 
 1,476 
 
 261 
 
 21 
 
 Total Number of Schools 
 
 57 
 
 84 
 
 27 
 
 47 
 
 „ „ „ Scholars 
 
 1,473 
 
 1,830 
 
 357 
 
 24 
 
 Native Contributions .^ 
 
 $3,095.58 
 
 $5,888.94 
 
 12,793.36 
 
 90 
 
 " There failed not ought of any good thing wlich the Lord 
 had spoken unto the hoase of Israel ; all came to pass." 
 
 Number of Missionaries on the Field. 
 
 Steady Decrease. 
 1895 27; 1896.«» 23; 1897 16. 
 
 " Say not ye, There are yet four months, then cometh the 
 linrvtst ? behold, I say unto ye, lift up your eyes, and look on the 
 fluids ; for they are white already to the harvest." 
 
 " I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and 
 wlio will go for us P Then said I, Here am I, send me." 
 
115 
 
 Cost of the General Work ot the A. B. C. F. M. 
 
 Departments. 
 
 Jan. to June. 
 
 July to Deo. 
 
 Total. 
 
 Native Agency 
 
 Education 
 
 Buildings 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 81,632.68 
 
 750. .53 
 
 1,935.84 
 
 1,001.56 
 
 $ 890.41 
 
 938.39 
 
 1,696. .34 
 
 1,344.50 
 
 
 Total 
 
 5,320.61 
 
 4,869.64 
 
 $10,190.25 1 
 
 Cost of the General Work of the Woman's Boards. 
 
 Departments. 
 
 Jan. to June. 
 
 JcLY TO Dec. 
 
 TnT.AL. 
 
 Native Agency 
 
 Educiition 
 
 Buililiiigs 
 
 Miscellaneous 
 
 $ 15.00 
 
 1,599.30 
 
 118.47 
 
 570.38 
 
 $ 19.00 
 
 2,100.96 
 
 41.40 
 
 634.09 
 
 
 Total 
 
 2,303.15 
 
 2,795.45 
 
 $5,098.60 
 
 Po-na-sang Theological Seminary, 
 
 By Repairs 
 
 ,, Furniture 
 
 ,, Students 
 
 ,, Teachers 
 
 S 
 
 445 
 
 70 
 
 270 
 
 200 
 
 cts. 
 16 
 40 
 00 
 00 
 
 To Appropriation 
 
 s 
 
 985 
 
 C'3. 
 
 56 
 
 $985 
 
 56 
 
 $965 
 
 .5 i 
 
 Ban-yan City Scientific Institute. 
 
 By Food 
 
 ,, Salaries ... 
 
 ,, Oolicr Expenses 
 
 ,, Balance ... 
 
 $ cts. 
 
 1,050 60 
 
 583 
 
 10 
 
 1,689 
 
 26 
 
 456 
 
 60 
 
 $3,779 
 
 56 
 
 To Cash f or vv II r d ... 
 ,, Apprnpiiiilion ... 
 ,, Kaiive Receipts 
 ,, Gilts, etc. 
 
 $ 
 
 ct-. 
 
 142 
 
 40 
 
 84-.:: 
 
 16 
 
 2,76.-; 
 
 85 
 
 3i 
 
 15 
 
 56 
 
 $3,779 
 
116 
 
 Po-aa-sang Qlrls' High School. 
 
 
 9 
 
 cts. 
 
 
 t cts. 
 
 By Teachers 
 
 166 
 
 00 
 
 To Appropriation 
 
 1,126 80 
 
 „ Service 
 
 43 
 
 68 
 
 ,, Native Receipts, Tuition, 
 
 
 
 „ F.ioi) 
 
 728 
 
 62 
 
 etc. „ 
 
 177 
 
 00 
 
 „ Wo d 
 
 62 
 
 00 
 
 .^^^ 
 
 
 
 ,, .Meil! a' Attendance ... 
 
 31 
 
 30 
 
 ^^^^^^ 
 
 
 
 „ Furniture, etc. 
 
 177 
 
 78 
 
 ^^^^,^ 
 
 
 
 ,, lialaime 
 
 94 
 
 42 
 
 ^\ 
 
 
 
 |1,,'?0.3 
 
 80 
 
 $l,303l 80 
 
 Woman's School. 
 
 By Teachers 
 
 ,, Books .. 
 
 ,, Expenses 
 
 ,, Building Cistern 
 
 « 
 
 348 
 
 4 
 
 14 
 
 30 
 
 cts. 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 42 
 
 00 
 
 To Appropriations 
 
 $ 
 396 
 
 cts. 
 42 
 
 $396 42 1 
 
 $396 
 
 42 
 
 Po-na-sang Missionary Hospital. 
 
 
 $ 
 
 cts. 
 
 
 « 
 
 cts. 
 
 By Wages 
 
 160 
 
 
 To European Subscriptions 
 
 369 
 
 80 
 
 ,, Drugs 
 
 305 
 
 61 
 
 ,, Chinese ,, 
 
 404 
 
 2S 
 
 ,, Currsiit Expenses 
 
 99 
 
 73 
 
 ,, Hospital Fees and Sales 
 
 88 
 
 23 
 
 ,, Land Riut and Insurance 
 
 81 
 
 25 
 
 ,, Appiopriation 
 
 100 
 
 00 
 
 ,, Priming 
 
 28 
 
 53 
 
 — ^„___^ 
 
 
 
 ,, Balance 
 
 287 
 
 19 
 
 ^^-^ 
 
 
 
 $962 
 
 31 
 
 $962 
 
 31 
 
 Poochow Hospital for Women and Children, 
 
 
 * 
 
 ds. 
 
 
 $ cts. 
 
 By StUilents and Servants 
 
 203 
 
 50 
 
 ToNative Fees from Out-vis. 
 
 178 26 
 
 ,, ."Sanilr es ... ... ..^ 
 
 92 
 
 SO 
 
 „ ,, ,, ,, Dispeu. 
 
 S7 53 
 
 ,, VsooV.-, ;.nil Printing 
 
 61 
 
 78 
 
 ,, Wood Receipts 
 
 161 25 
 
 ,, M'dicines 
 
 891 
 
 12 
 
 „ Gifts 
 
 102' 27 
 
 ,, I'fat ve SnppUes 
 
 79 
 
 31 
 
 ,, Appropriiitiuus 
 
 934! 18 
 
 ,, Hcpaira _ 
 
 14 
 
 76 
 
 27 
 
 ,, Balauce _ 
 
 24 
 
 78 
 
 $1,343 
 
 ?1,343 
 
 27 
 
117 
 
 plea for Morfters. 
 
 Open Lettee. 
 
 Foochow, China, Jan. 29th, 1897. 
 Rev. JuDSON Smith, D.D., 
 
 Secretary, A. B. 0. F. M., 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 St^BAR Dr. Smith : The members of the Foochow Mission in 
 jl -J/ joint petition for worjjers call for the following recruits and 
 believe it is in the power of the churches to send them. 
 God is willing, the men and women for the work are willing to go. 
 Will the churches complete the trinity that makes mission work a 
 success by saying, ' We will do our part and send them 1 ' 
 
 The number is the number of Christ's disciples, twelve, twelve. 
 We need these to complete the celebration of this .Jubilee year on 
 ■which we have now entered. We would distribute them among the 
 stations as follows : — 
 
 (1). Shao-wu, — one clerical missionary and wife, one ordained 
 physician and wife, two single ladies. 
 
 (2). Foochow city and Po-na-sang, — one clerical missionary 
 and wife, one lady physician to take Dr. Nieberg's place, one lady 
 for kindergarten. 
 
 (3). Pagoda Anchorage, — one lady. 
 
 (4). Ing-Iiok, — one lady, 
 i.e., three clerical missionaries, three wives and six other women. 
 
 The extraordinary development of our work during the past 
 year makes this addition to our force imperative. The different 
 departments of our work, if properly supervised, need these. 
 
 We place Shao-wu first in the lisc as it is of first importance. 
 This station is practically another mission, because its work cannot 
 be done in the Foochow dialect. Theological and other schools they 
 must have of their own, and at the head of these there should he 
 foreign missionaries. 
 
 Mr, and Mrs. Gardner should return to the United States in 
 the Spring of 1698. It is probable that Dr. Bliss will need to 
 return with them. This will leave this important station with but 
 one worker, Mr. Walker, and he, as pioneer in this field after twenty- 
 five years of most trying service, has not the strength to tour as 
 ioemerlj. It is doubtful whether he be able to undertake agaia 
 
118 
 
 such work for any considerable length of time. If they come in the 
 Autumn of 1897 with Mr. Walker they will have a year of com- 
 parative quiet for study under conditions much better than any 
 former missionaries have had at that station. They would have the 
 benefit of Mr. Walker's experience, which would be invaluable. 
 
 Tiie encouragement he would receive from tliem would be 
 invaluable to him. The thought that so many are almost ready to 
 take up the work, would be a continual inspiration. If these are 
 denied him, when it is in the power of the churches to send them, 
 can you imagine anything more depressing ? A man will have 
 courage to die in the front rank if he realizes that there are others 
 pressing close behind to grasp the falling colors from his hands and 
 carry them on to victory. 
 
 Foocliow City. — The departure of Mr. and Mrs. Peet to the 
 United States in April, 1897, leaves their house in the city vncant 
 for a clerical missionary and wife. And as Mr. and Mrs. Goddiird 
 pliin to go to lug-huk the two new lady missionaries could board with 
 Dr. and Miss Woodhull. These four could, if they wish, spend 
 an hour or two a day in teaching in some department of our work 
 with advantage to themselves in learning the language. Moreover, 
 this work is imperative it we would improve our opportunity to 
 make these institutions open doors through which to enter the homes 
 of the ruling classes of China. Here we undermine the walls of their 
 conservative education and build in its place a fortress of Christian 
 truth and verified science. We have a fine situation. Foochow is 
 pre-eminently a literary centre. Her scholars become officials iu 
 all parts of this great empire. China's recently appointed minister 
 to Great Britain is a Foochow man, Lo Feng-loh, interpreter to 
 Viceroy Li Hung-chano wlien on his world wide t(»ur in 1896. 
 
 Tlie lady for Ing-lmk could first have a year of study at Po-na- 
 sang, and it is Iioped that by 1899, when she has the languiige 
 somewhat upon her tongue, the Ing-hok residences will be reiidy. 
 At least, it is certain that; the new church and parsonage, now 
 building at Gak-liang, will make it possible to spend considerable 
 time in the Ing-hok field. 
 
 The Girls' Preparatory School and Dtiy-schools of the Pagoda 
 Anchorage Station will greatly need a lady superintendent. May 
 she come speedily. 
 
 Wo beg that our petition may be presented to the Prudential 
 Committee and the churches with all the emphasis the need demands, 
 and pray that the blessing of God may bo upon this and all your 
 efforts to send helpers in response to these Macedonian cries. 
 Yours in behalf of the Foochow Mission, 
 
 Gko, H. Hpbbard. 
 
Fhl4 of tbt Foocbow Missha, Fooklea P( 
 
 ioabssiO milea, 
 
Fookien Proviace, Cblaa,