The New York herald., 1877-10-21
CHINA MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.

CHINA MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.
Three hundred Chinese have boon rocovod as MEN,
bors OF tho Protestant churches or California and In
addition 10 those church moinbers thero 100
Cinnamon in Christian associations tor learning Chris
tan doctrine. Seven hundred and hfty Chinese at
tend tho mission schools OF San Francisco About
one thousand 20 every Sunday tho sunday schools
rho Baptist MISSIONS in china have had long period
or ploughing and seed sowing, and they aro look
ing for harvest tmc For several years buck there
has bcen steady increase a. some OF the stations
The mission at Bangkok has increased wonderfully.
For moro than hall dozen years worry nearly every
communion season at Swatow has been attended with
baptsms. Mr.. Partridge, missionary, lately visited
tho Kiet-Ine district and found 100 pcrsons repro.
sen,ing twenty villages, anxious bo admitted INTO
tho Christian Church. Ho examined many OF them
and satisfied OF their fath In Christ In tho
Swatow region, but lttlo larger than good Congrcs
Bional disrict among thcro 800 ana VII
lugcs, only hall dozen Of which occu pied by mis-
siunarios China Is tho most promising mission neld
In tho bcathcn world to-day It's roigIuns found
IN books, aud IN this respect Christian missionaries
Is 10 get other h0athon who have religious books TO
do low mouths ag0 the Protestant miss nuries
and requested Christian people throughout tho world
~ set apart tho first Sabbath IN October day Of
special prayer for tho dvno blessing upon missionary
work III CHINA These brethren, who At great per-
sona sacrifice have devoted themselves the OF
our Lord and Saviour in u land popuous and nilu.
ential ana promising as China certainly have claim
upon American Christians liberal giitg aud earnest
prayers. IL IL 70 be hoped that In AZ churches
anu IN every household tho day may 10 suitably
memberod.
In Tche- e-Kiang the district OF Ououtchon couple
Of Catholic missionaries wcro executed last tall
falsc cuarge VI incitng IN uprisng against the gov
ernmcnt. Tho Aandnrins did ali IN thor powor to
save the lives OF the missionaries, believing them to
bo innocent but the altitudo Of tho rabDlc demanded
their blood, and " given, after whIcn
the excitement quoted down. China's millions, If
cvor converted 10 Christianity. must DO converted
largely by the labors o Native pastors and Christians
Already Chinese Christians craving the privilege
Of cxtcnslvo lubors tor Chrst among thor country.
men. The Methodist Episcopal East Cnina Mission,
with only Six missionaries has IS native proachors
and !, 723 Church mmDers, and with thom selfsup-
port has already begun. Thus already whole nations
have been Christian Zodthe GrcouAndcrs tho Karcns
IN burmah tho sandwich Islanders ana tho Fiji
lslandors Thoy not only support religious worship
among themselves, but givc beraly TO send the Cos
with only ~ missionaries, havo sos native helpers
and 70, $50 native Cpurch niemberA ur. Angus
proposes 10000 ioroign missionaries for ten years,
with $I5OvOOOO year Tor their auppori, and The Cos
pei DO repeatedly preached to every soul earth,
This vast SUN only 81 ~ each ior tho members VI
tho evangelical churches IN Europo and America
rbo nrst Protestant mission Ia China founded IN
Canton IN 1907 by Dr. MorrisoD, Of tho London uis.
sionary Society Since then great deal OF mlssion-
ary work has been dono III Canton. Tho American
Board in 1920 scnt Mr. Bridgman the first Protestant
missionary IRON America to China TO that city, and
the MISSION was continued until 1897, whom II was
closed. The Southern Baptist Convention entered tho
Held IN l64b, tho Presbyterian Board OF Foreign MIS-
In ls4T. the British Wesleyan Foreign Society IN
1893 and the Rhenish Missionary Society IN 1906.
Most oil tho societics have had medical missions, tho
results of which cannot be accurately measured by
statistics. Tho latest reports, however, show that
something has been accomplished IN tho sixty SIX
years work IN Canton. Thero are about thirty CHAP
cis ten churches anu -four stattons There
all about eighty workors In Canton aud cons,d-
orably loss than ,OOO mcmbera