Arizona republican., 1911-12-10
STARTLING CONDITIONS
 REVEALED IN ORIENT

Not community in America but there is in it some particular friend ot Christian missionary work in China Few communities there are that havs Tot furnished one or more of the all most 5000 missionaries now in that country The missionary societies re- port that nothing in the present up
 rising in China seems aimed at for
 eigners, while there are many reasons why rebels and lOyalists alike will pro-
 tcct them. if for no other che than tc
 prevent intervention by American or
 European powers and possible division
 of their empire.
 The committee of reference and
 counsel of all foreign missionary so- cieties of the United States and Can
 ada, the Rev. Dr. Arthur ]. Brown oi
 the Presbyterian board chairman, has
 just sent to churches in both countries
 requests for microscopy prayer by
 Christian people. giving as reasons
 many startling facts. These facts are
 under three heads:
 1. For the people of China. a great and virile nation which, awakened from the torpor of ages by the quick ening forces of the modern world. is ccnvulsed by civil war at a time when all its energies are needed for the leg islative, economic, educational and moral readjustments which the new era involves. Flood. famine and pes tilence are intensifying the tragedy of in, -nal strife. Vast areas have been inundated in the provinces Of Ngan- hwei. Kiang-su and Human. the two former facing desolatiOn and famine for the third time in five years. The Yang-tZse river is forty-five miles wide 25O miles from tn sea. and thous- ands of villages have been submerged. Five hundred thousand families must be aided through the winter at an av- craze cost of $15.0O per family. or ten times more people will die of starva- ton than of wounds in battle.
 9 For the Chinese Christians. who share in full measure the privations and sorrows that are the common lot of their countrymen, and often the despairing reprOaches of their nOn- Christian neighbOrs. who imagine that tEese multiplied calamities are due to the wrath of the spirits against those who have abandoned the ancestral faith. Hundreds of Chinese pastors, teachers and evangelists, who have been supported wholly or in part by the Christians on the field, cannot now be maintained by their impoverished people Churches and schools have been swept away by floods, families have been scattered by war. and mul titudes of Christians are without food and shelter for the winter.
 3. For the missionaries. who are in positions of extraordinary difficulty With myriads of ruined and starving Chinese looking to them for provisions and employment. with throngs of the sick and injured daily brought for with Chinese and foreign CTS alike expecting them to perform the herculean task of purchasing and food. they must incessant- ly toll in circumstances of almost un- bearable physical and mental strain.
 Tn addition to the special burdens which revolution and famine entail, tEere are increased responsibilities for the great anu varied lnlSSlOndTN WOTh under their care, a work which is now by 4,299 foreign mission aries, 11,611 Chinese ministers, teach CTS and evangelists. 3.4S5 stations and 2,029 primary schools, L. 116. academies, colleges, industrial, medical. nurses. and normal schools, TO hospitals. 14 orphanages, 16 leper asylums, homes for untrained chil- dren of lepers, II institutions for the blind and for deaf mutes. : rescue homes for fallen women, 100 opium refugees, industrial homes. one asy- lum for the insane. 2.341 churches with 27S,62S members, a Christian of 75O,O0O. and property valued at millions of dollars-all this not including the missions of the Ro- man Catholic church.
 Christian work" says the commit tee, has been greatly prospered, the growth in a decade having been 175