11 in utes of the Twenty-First Session of the North China Ann ual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church fl'

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2 W. S. LEWIS

3 11 in utes of the Twenty-First Session of the North China Ann ual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church fl' Held in Peking, Septenlber Eleventh to Sixteenth Nineteen f1 undred Thirteen Methodist Publishing House Shanghai, China

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5 CONTENTS Mission Directory Conference Roll A ppointmen ts Annual Meetings. In :Memoriam Former NIembers of the Mission Conference Offcers Conference Committees Conference Boards Anniversary Program. Disciplinary Questions Conference Journal. Course of Study for Missionaries. Courses of Study for Chinese Preachers. Evangelistic Reports Lanhsien District. North peking District Shallhaikuan District. South Peking District. South Tientsin District T' aian District. Tientsin City District. Tsullhua District. Yenchou District. Ed ucational Reports Peking University High Schools a. Peking Preparatory School h. T' aian High School Pages I '.'l ~~ ()o () Kt II0

6 11 CONTENTS Pages Intermediate Schools 105 Ch'angli 105 Peking 108 T'aian Tientsin. lid Tsullhua... II2 Day Schools.. North and South Peking Lanchou and Shanhaikuan South Tientsin Day Schools. T'aiall... Tientsin. Tsunhna Yenchou Yenchow Day Schools 1rledical Reports... Ch'angli " Peking.. T'aiall " Summary Women's Work. Reports of Standing Committees Conference Board of Stewards Report. Conference Treasurer's Report. Statistical Report.. Property... Workers and Membership. Churches, Sunday Schools, and Contributions Ed ucational Medical 113 TI3 IIS IIS II6 117 Il8 II8 II9 II

7 Came to Chma Entered the! Mission ' 1907 I9II ~86 19II Ic)II 19I MISSION DIRECTORY. NAME EPISCOPAL Ba5hfor<l, Bishop James W., D.D., L.L.D. \ Bashford, Mrs. James V". Lewis, James, Secretary to. Bishop Bashford. Lewis, Bishop Wilson S., D.D. \ Lewis, Mrs. WilsClIl S. Peking Peking Peking Foochow Foochow FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ~AME Baldwin, Jesse H., M. D. Davis, Rev. George L. Davis, 1trs. George L. Davis, Rev. George R. Davis, Mrs. George R. Davis, Rev Walter \V. Davis, Mrs. Walter \V. Dobson, Rohert J. Dobson, ~rs. Robert J. Felt, Rev. Carl A. Felt, Mrs. Carl A. GamewelI, Rev. Frank D. Gamewell. Mrs. Frank D. Gibb, Rev: J. McGregor, Jr. Gibb, Mrs. J. McGregor, Jr. Hanson, Rev. Perry O. Hanson, :Mrs. Perry O. Hobart, Rev. Willi~l111 T. Hobart, l\tr". William T. Hopkin~, :r\ehtmiah S., M. D. Hopkins. 1\-1 r5. Nehemiah S. Johnstone, E. 1\'1., M. D. Keeler, Joseph L., M. D. Keeler, Mrs. Joseph I,. Kent, Edwill M., M.D. Kent, Mrs. Edwin 1f. King, Rev. Harry E. King, Mrs. Harry E. Korns, John H., M. D. Korns, Mrs. John H. Krause, Oliver J. Krause, M.s. Oliver J. Lowry, George D., M. D. Lowry Mrs, George D. Lowry, Rev. Hiram H. Lowry, :Mrs. Hiram H. Pyke; Frederick M. Pyke, Rev. Jam e_s_h_. RESIDENCE T'aianfu, Shantung T'aianfn, Shantung T'aianfu. Shantung ISO-5th Ave., New York ISO-5th Ave., New York Peking Peking Peking Peking Peking Madison, ~ ew Jersey Shanghai Shallghai Peking Peking T'aianfu, Shantl1ng T'aianfu, Shantung Pekin~ Evanston, Illinois Peking Peking T'~ianftl, Shantung Tientsin Tientsin Ch'allgli Ch'angli Peking Peking T'aiantu, Shantung T'aianttl, Shantung Peking Peking Peking Peking Peking Peking Tientsin Tielltsin

8 -2 - MISSION DIRECTORY, Continued. Entered the) Mission '19II 1902 I *1893 t Pyke. Mrs. James H. Rowland, Rev. Henry H. Rowland, Mrs. Henry H. St. John, Rev. Burton St. John, Mrs. Burton Terrell, Miss Alice Verity, Rev. George \V. Verity, Mrs. George W. Winans, Edward Jones POST OFFICE AnDFt.ss Tientsin Ch'angIi Ch'angli Tientsin Tientsill Peking Ch'angli Ch'angli Pekillg Entered the/ Mission oj 19I I ** C) I8g2 WOMAN:S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. NAME Baugh, V Evelyn R. Boddy, Estie T. Bridel1batt~h, Jennie B. Cushman, Clara M. Dyer. Clara P. Fearon, Josephine D. Fearon, Dora Gilman, Gertrude Gloss, Anna D., M. D. Glover, Ella E. Gray, Frances Gregg. Eva A. Hobart, Louise Jaquet,!\'lyra, A. Jewell, Clla rlotte :\1. Knapp, Elc;ie L. Knox, Emma!\1. Lewis, Ida Bellc Manderw:~, M.!\'label, :M.D. Martin, Emma E., :M. D. Martin, Elizabeth E. Meek, Gra('e A. MiUer, 1 va M., M. D. Powell. Alice M. Pvke, 1\1 ildred Stevenson, M. Ida, 1\1. D. Stryker, Minnie, M. D. \tvatrous, ~\1arv Wheeler, L. Mentde Wilson, Frances O. YOl1ng, Effie G. POST OFFlCE ADD1,I';SS Feking Seattle. Wash Ch'allgJi Tientsin Ch'angli Peking Pl:"killg Peking Peking North Thetforo, Vt Peking TientSin Peking Peking Etna Mills, Col. T'aianfu, Shantung Peking Tientsin South Bend, Incl. Otterheili, Ind. Otterbein, Ind. T'aianfu, Shantung-. Tientsin Peking Tientsin In America. Peking Ch'angli Tientsin Tientsin T'aianfu. Shantulfg *Came to ChinR as a Missionary in IF90 t **

9 Entered Traveling Connecti:m CONFERENCE ROLL AND DIRECTORY. ELDERS I--B-r-o-w-n-,-r~~-re-d~e-.r-i-c~k Chang Pai Lin Ig05 Chanl{ Tzu Sheng 1895 Ch'en Heng Te 1895 Ch'en Wei P'ing 1902 Ch'en Yii She! Chin Ch'cng Davis, George L. Davis, Ceorge R Davi". 'Walter W. i Felt, Carl A. Gamewel1, Frank D Gibb, John McGregor Hanson, Perry O : Headlalld, Isaac T Hobart, William T Hopkins, Nehemiah S Hou T;en 19 J9 Kao F,-ng Sl1a: Kao Fu Ch'ing Kao If siu Shan 1894 King, Harry E Kuo Ying 190~ Li Wei Ytlng 1895 Lin Chi Lun 1908 Litl Ching CiI'ing 19[5 Llu Fan!! 1905 Lit! Kua-n[; Ch'ing 1!)05 Liu Kuan Tzu 1895!.iu 11a K'e 1909 Lin Shao T'ang 1908 Litl Yueh 1867 Lowry, Hiram H Pyke, James H ' Rowland, Henry H. 19C3 St. John, Burton 1893 Sun Chill Kao 1906 Sun Heng K'llei 18~2 Taft, :VlarCllS L Te Jui Tseng Kuo Chih 1887 Verity, Gc:orge W. 19D9 Wang Ch'ang T'ai 1905 Wang Chao K'e 190~ Wang Chill P?ing 1906 Wang En Chao 1905 Wang He Nan 1905 Wang I Heng 190, Wang T'ien Hsiang 1906 Wen lung T'ai 1903 \Vu Ch'i 1805 Wu Hsi K'ao.Lg05 Yang Ch'un He POST OFFICE ADDRESS ISO-5th. Ave., New York Tiehch'ang Pench'eng Lanhsien Iso-5th. Ave., New York VVangclJiak' ou Yangiil1ch'ing T'aianfu Tientsin Pekin!:? Pck n~' : Shangh?.i Peking T'aianfu ISO-5th. Ave, New York Peking Peking Niut'o Peking Ankechuang P'mganch'engtzl1 Peking Chiningchotl Ch'ienwei Taichenghsien Tsunhnachou Peking Tit:ntsin Fengjenhsie!l Tientsin Shaliuhe, Shihmenchai Peking I Tientsin Ch'angli Tientsin Peking Huaijouhsien Goodground, New York Shanhaikuan Tientsin Ch'angli Feich'enghsien I Shihhsia ; Peking Hsin:.!ch'eng II Funinghsien Laot'mg! Ch'angli ' T'aiallfu Chiupaihu \ Anchiachuang Nanp'i

10 19II II Chou Fu CIl'uan Li Ch'nan Hsun Tu Wen Yu Yang Ching Ch'un Yang 1 DEACONS 3rd :\'ear 4th year 3rd year Compleled 4th year!?eking N ingya'nghsien I Yiitienhsien I MiYllnhsien Ch'angp'inghsien PROBA TIONERS Class of the Second Year II HSll Ching P'ing Hsu Yt1l1g Chen I K'ang Yung Kuei I Li T'ien Lu t Liu Chih Kno I Liu TS'.1l1 Sheng Meng Te ] l1l1g Wu I K'un 1 2nd H'ar 2nd year ~nd year 2n,1 ~'ear. 2nd ~'ear! 2nd vear I 21,d :"ear /2nd year t N anp'ihsien i Yench'ingchou Haidn~ In Am~rica Lao'ting Pench'en!! i Tientsin - i Ch'ien;!l1hsien Class of the Firs t Year <) I Chou Li Yiu Ch'ing Shou, Han T'ien Ying I Li Yii Feng! Liang En Po Liu Shell En Pyke, Frederick 1\1- Sun ]ung Sun Yueh T'ang Yung Tu Yu Ch'i VVang Shou T'ung Yang Hsueh Shih 1st year 1st year l~t year 1st year 1st year 1st year 1st year 1st year 1st year I [:-;t year list year I 1st year I 1St year ~-- i Changch'eng 1 Lanhsien Shahhe / I Ch'am!1i Tungp'il1gh~ien Nintonnai I Tientsin i Peking I Pekino ' I "'. i M atonymg, Hantsl1l1 Huaili Tsoub::itl1 I

11 CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS. LANHSIEN DISTRICT. District SU},H::rintendt'nt... CHEN H(NG TE (Lanhsien) Missionary in Charge.... JAMES H. PVKE (Tientsin) AIl7.. r(~i'uang... K:\o Fu CH'ING Ch'';cnanit8ien Vu. I K''I(.fI. Chicnch'angying Supplied by TI YUNG HSINC Hsiangslwiliou.... " CHIA CHIEN HSI~ Yaltgtientzll " HAN CHUN I Chentzuchen Circuit... " "LIU WEN YUAN Paitaotzc.... ' To b<: suppliej lvankllanlling.. '... Supplied by T~Ao \VAN JUNe Chil~Jlaihll Cir(luit Wu C'HI [nn Tl) be supplied j)ci( hia,tien.... '... " " Shallo... " " Lallh~i(,ll CinJuit... Ch'iflg Sholl.Lmic1uwng...,... Supplied DV KUNG CHING CHfA Laot'ing Circuit : WANG r HENe; [{II il; ".. Snpplieci by Hu FENG Cll'UN MatouII'ing 'l"IlIl!1 1'//11.1/ 'I'ulIgrhiaho... '...Lill Chili Kuo }'cli/~"ochltang. Supplied by PAl KUEI FEN H.'iilH'hai..... '.. To be supplied Pellcll'enfl Cin uit CHANG Tzu SHtNG Hul;peh'lal1g l~i-ii 'I'j;1I11 S1I('l/.fl./i1i1l llchai..... To be supplied if u.n[1anchicltj ",' " Uenpeiticil Supplied by TS'AO 'WAN CHENG 'l'oli Suppli( d hy Lw Yo CHO.-superilltendent ot Da!J Sdwols '".HENRY H. ROWLAND Lanhsicn Intenne(liatr School..... To he supplied LI/('lI iflho Intermediate School.... " " Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Woman's Work and Girls Day }C P D'~ Schools [.ARA. i.r NORTH PEKING DISTRICT. District Superilltendent... SUN CHW KAO (Peking) Missionary in Charge..... \\'lllia!\[ T. HOllART (Peking) Ch'anflP'ingksien YANG,~.. Shake Han 'licil l'lng Nalll;;'ou, To be supplied rang/ang Supplied by SHIH WAN K'v Hllaij()u,hsien.'... '" Kaol-iying.... SUN ~ENG K'UF.I..... Supplied by CIIANC Yt:i CH'ENC NiltZanskau...,...,. "CHIA CH'ING YUN 'l'u."gl~echuan!,..., To be st~pplied

12 - 6-- Huailai Circuit.... Wa'~f} Sl/,Ou T'ung Yulin Supplied by Tu WEN K'UEI Shach'eng "._,,, CHAO CaIN CH'UN KupeiTc'o'l :..... LIU MING SHAN Lao('hunt'a,ng..... "Cf{'EN Yu LIN Miyunhsien..... YANG CHING CH'UN Peking A.sbury Church '" ~.... LlU FANG Shihhsia... "v" ANG CHAO Kt Yuench'ing'lz"ftien...,... HS1i Yung Chen' Peking University:- President '. j -HIRAM H, LOWRY Vice President... ~ HARRY E. KING Miss ALICE TERRELL, Mrs. H. E. KING, JOHN l\lcgregor GIBB, WAT.TF.R \V. DAVIS, CARL A. FELT, Professors...( ~ WILLIAM T. HOBART, NEHEMIAH S. HOPKINS. GEORGE D. LOWRY, ROBF.RT J. DOBSON, WAl\lG CHIH P'ING, KAO reng SHA:\', EDWARD J. 'WINANS Itt i ChOU. Fit Ch'uan, Sll.n Ju.ng, Sun 11.8 rue or8 1 Yueh Superintendent of Education Of} ~he!f~thodist Episcopal Church FRANK D. GA~EWELL In Chtna Superintendent of Day School8.. :. \V ALTER \V DAVIS (Peking) Peking Medical Worlc:- Phys';'(lian in Charge... NEHEMIAH S. HOPKINS, M. D. A.. s8ociate Physician in Oharge.... GEORGE D. L0WRY, M. D. Ill, America,..... "... '... ISAAC T. HEADLAND, Li T'ien L1t Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Mary Porter GamewelZ Sc:hool :- PrinCipal.... GERTRUDE GILMAN Instructor.... V. EVELY~ B. BAUGH Students of the Language and{~yra. A. JAQUET, FRANCES GRAY JOSEPHINE FEARON Instruotors... "... "... DORA F(ARON, Sleeper Davis Memorial Hospita1f ANNA D. GLOSS Physicians..... "... " "... " "... 1 MINNIE STRYKER Union- Woma,n's Medical COuegCr ANN" D. GLOSS Instructors.... ". " !\IINNlE STRYKER Union Training School jar ;YU'1'Se8:{ ANNA D. GLOSS Instru('tors... "... ".. ~IINNIE STRYKER Su,perintendent of Hospital... ".. ALlCE M. PCWET.L Student of the Langltagc.. ""... ".. " LOUISE HOBART City WOlltan'.~ Wode and Girl's I E M K x Dall Schools... "... "... ~D{A." NO Country Woman'.s WOI'1.; and Girl'S} TIl' 1 Day SchooZs... "... 0 Je supp :ec SHANHAIKUAN DISTRICT District Superintendent WANG TIEN HSIANG (Changli) Missionary in Charge... J. L... KEELER (Changh), Ch' ann l'h"e t Sf n."... ". i Yll Feny. C Kepo.... "."."... "Suppliet.l by CR'INTLTEN RIA Liltshollying... ',. CHU len YUAN

13 (Jh'ienmei Oircuit... " LI WEI YUNG Ihet' Itn...,......,.. To be Supplied P uninghslen...,..,... WANG HE NAN T'q.iyinfJ...,...,... Supplied by WANG PAO TSUNG ShuangZina....,.,... '. '. To be supplied Hai!lang and Ohinll'angtao.,...,'... ICang YUllg Kttci Shenho...,...,... Supplied by Po MIN Niut'onnai and T'lU'hai... '. ".... l~iu Shen En Feishihchllan!l..,... '......, To be supplied PaichnanfJ "...,,. ' " Jhanhaikltan.,..., " ",..... TF. J UI Ohicl~SO......,... Supplied by LIU CH'ING HSIANG Shihkec/Ulan'l OircuJt...,..,...,.. ~l1pplied by LI YUNG Ohiall,(Jl~ec7wang. '.,.".,,'.,." To be snpplieo.shihmcncha'i.., LIU YUEH Ohut'.'Jaoying To be supplied H langtttying...,..., Supplied b," LIlT YUN':; SHENG Medical WorTc. '"...,,. '"...,.. I. DWIN M, KENT, :\1. D, Principal of the Intermediate SchoolHENRY H. ROWLAND Superintendent of Day S~hools.". HENRY H. ROWLANU Donterence EI)angelist.....,... (:EORGE VV' VE:UTY, CHANGI,I (Jonterence M c(lical Evangelist..... JOSEPH M. KEEr..E{, ~I. D. In America,.....,...,.,...,.vfARCU<; L. TAr,'T Woman's Foreign Missionary Society A.tderman Snhool "rincipal '"... JENNIE B. BRIDENBOUGH Instructor andstlident of Lang- t M Y \V T 0 nage and City Day School.... I 1 AR A R us Thompson Training Sehofll, WO-} man's 'Nork and Girl's Coltntry. CLARA P. DYE!{. Day Schools....,. 'City Evangelistic lvorlr... FRANCES W. VERITY Kindergarten MILDRED A. ROWLAND SOUTH PEKING DISTRICT District Superinten:!cnt... CARl, A. FELT. (Pckin~) Hant'8 m... 1 l'tt Y-ii Ch'i Langtang To be supplied Peiyin Supplied by 'vvang '1"1 CH'ING Huangt sun..... '..... Supplied by Lm CH'ENG ~V[EI P'ang/"eahnan.'l... S'lpplied b~' LIU H~l Yitfa "...,... '1'0 be supplied Kuanhsien Supplied b.,' YEN C'HAO CHUNG Lihsien To be sudplied Niltf'o Hou TIEN Gh ilwlt ' Supplied by TUNG SHIH K'UEI Pahsien St1ppli~d hy SHIH PIN;; HE Pe7dng, Southern Oity:- Ohushinl,,'oll,..... SUN CHIU KAO Assistant... To be sl1pljlied Hlloshilz. " Supplied by CHAO Tzu HENG Shltnchihmgn Sripplicd by HAo TE AN 7 1 t S I' d b J E. 1. WINANS and ang mgmen... upp Ie Y t PAi KUEI LIX Superintendent of Day Schools... \V W DAVIS, (Peking) In England..... '.. "... FREDERICK BROWN

14 8 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Olty Woma.tl's Work and Girltsl E ":\1 K' Day Schools MMA -. NOX. OountrJl Woman's and Girl's Day To be sl,pplied Schools SOUTH TIENTSIN DISTRICT District Superintendent l.m CHI LUN (Talch'eng) Missionary ill C:large "..... BC'RTON ST. JOHN Ohinghai Oircnit... "... To he supplied Ohingsien... "... To be stt[>plied Litan.....,. Supplied hy LIANG SHIH T'SAll Tafnh'enghsien Lw CHI LUN Nanp'ihsien.... Hsii Ohing P'ing Oltia oheh.. ~ien...,... Supplied bv CH'RN YEN T'I Shechiall"o... ' t S l' d b L C S ' Sis/tmentsun upp le y IU HUN AN Wangchiak'ou... CH'EN YU SHAN Shentang... To be supplied Yangliuch'ing... CHIN CH'ENG Superintendent of Day Schools..... BURTON ST. JOHN Reti1'ed...,... YANG CH'uN HE Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Woman's Work: and Girl's Day ~ T b I' d Schools... S 0 e supp le T'AIAN DISTRICT District SUDerintendellt... GEORGE L. DAVIS (T'aianfu) A.nchiachuang... Wu HSI K'AO Ohant?cheng " ) Ohao L i Yiu LlianJen... I Hsia hsieh... Supplied bv YANG PEr HENG Heckalc'ou... To be suplllied H~ia?m.en } Supplied bv HE TSUNG CII'ING I.Jwhtatten.... Feich'engh8ion... WANG CH'ANG 'r'ai Ohuzu, St1pplied by LT T'SAI T'JEN Yenm,achuang Sttpplied by vvu HENG HSIANG T'aianfu WEN J UNG T' AI Fanchiachuang...,... Supp!ied by LIANG YUEH CHANG- Maotzlf " LIANG HSING T'ANG K'outsz " YANG SHUN SIHtchang Oircttit " YANG P'Er HUA Tungah " " "CHANG 'fsaj SHAO Tu1t.gp"inghsien Circuit... Lia,nrl En Po Lichia~o... Supplied by LIANG HSING T'ANO Shaheclltan... " TSUI YEN Lr Wangliiutien.... " "WEI PEL FANG T'a;ian Inter~nei!iate and High} PERRY O. HANSON Schools, Prmc1pal A.ssistant Principal.....'... WEN JUNG T'AI 8ufJerintendent of Day SChools... GEORGE L. DAVIS

15 T'aian Medi(:al Work J ORN H. KORNS, M. D. Physif'iun ill Oharge and Student of Langlta ge ERNEST M.JOHNSTON, M.D. A.8soeiate { Physican in Oharge and Student ot Language. Woman's Foreign MisaiDnarv SDciety Maria Br%n Davis School Principal. Ertr.IE G YOUNG I n.<jtrnctor and Student ot the } ELK Lan{}1f.age LSIE. NAPP lvoman's Trainin!! School, country} Worl~ and Girl's Day SclwZs and GRACE A. MEEK St'udent of the Language.. '.. P"i8ciUa Bennett HospitaZ PhysiroianTo he supplied Et'angelisti(1 Work.... To be supplied TIENTSIN CITY DISTRICT District Superintendent JAMES H. PYKE (Tientsin) Tientsin Wesley Ohltt'ch.. '.. Lw MA K'E Tientsin We8t City TSENG Kuo CH1H Tientsin Intermediate School Prin- tr 1. l M P l CTientsl'll) cipal... J 1 rec ertc c. y I'e Superintendent of Day School.... BURTON ST. JOHN Te;~~~~l in.~~~~~~i.n:.~t~~~r:~l~~~~~~ }MCI1Y Te Jun[l III Llmerica... GEO!{GE R. DAVIS; CH'E~ WEI P'r;-;c Conference Self Support Se('1'etary.. BURTON ST JOHN Conference Su.pervisor of Day tburton ST. TOlIN S('hool.~ , J Ohine:;e Christian OhuI'dl.... '". Lru KU'\:1\G CR'ING. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Keen S(~hool :- Principal.... CLARA M. CUSHMAN A.ssist[Lnt Principal..... L. l\l A UDF, WHEELER Instructor....'... IDA BI<;LLE LEW1S i~~:; ::~~~~. ~~~.. ~~~I~l.e:'.t.. ~~.~'~~ }MILDRED PYKE OitY, aid's Dar Srlwol~ and West 1 FRANCES n. 'WILSON Ody WomaH..'$ Work.... } 1'ztlchulin Woman's WOl'lv.... CLARA M. CUSHMAN Isabella Fisher Hospital Physiciall.. h'a M. MILLER Superintendent of Hospital and E\"A. A. GREGG Student ot the Lang'lwge... 1 Oou,ntt'y Woman's Work and GirZ's lto be supplied Day Schools S TSUNHUA DISTRICT District Superintendent.... LIU 1" A K'E (Tientsin). Missionary in Charge... OLIVER J. KRAUSE, (Peking) Fengjenhsiell Oircuit... LlU KUANG Tzu Laoch,uangtzu..,.. '... Supplied by YAO JUNG SHENG

16 10 - Hsingch'eng..... ~.. \""IANG EN CHAO Hsinchi... :... Supplied by Fu HAl Sahech'iao... ; :..,,""" LI LIEN PI Santunying " "Hsu Fu LIN P'inganch'engtzlt '... KAO HSIU SHAN Liangtzuhe... To be Supplied Tu.nghsiunchu,ang... :... Suppli~d by Ll HSIN Mashenchiao... '" ". TsUI LIEN SHENG.Shaliuhe... ;:... Lru SHAO T'ANG Tan-gu l Supplied CHANG HSIEN WEN Lochiayu... ;... ".. f by Wolelcu.... Supplied by LJ K'UN Yahfll1gck'iao... : ,' " CHANG \VAN SHAN Tsunhllahsien..... '... '...,. Lw 'CHING CH'ING 'l"iehoh ang Snpplied by YANG KUANG TE Yllt'ienhsieh T'/t TVen Yn Lillnan-tsang... To be supplied Pienshan...,... To be supplied. TSltnlma Interm.ediate School.... Tn bp. snpplied S uperijltenclcnt of Day ;.~chools... B URTON ST. JOHN (Tientsin) Supenwmerary......,CHANG PAl LIN Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Woman's Worlc and Girl's Day }To b l' I Sehools e StWP le( YENCHOU DISTRICT District Superintendent... PERRY O. HANSON (T'aianfu) Ohinin.qchou.... Kvo Yr~G Ningyallghsien... Li Ch'u,an Hsun Kuanchuan[1..,... '... Supplied by Hsu KUANG Lu Hu.shltlc olt ,.. " " JEN CHAO CH'ANG Szushui... To be supplied Ts'a-ochiMs'ttn.,...,... Supplied by WANG WEI KE Wenshanghsien " MA Yu LIN Kaihe '... '... To be supplied Yenchouflt...,... Supplied by LI HSIAO Lv Oh'1tfuhsien... ~o he supplied Lochiatien...,.., " Tsouhsien... '...,. Yang Hstteh Shih Hsiangch'enfl...,.,... Snpplied by CHANG YIN CH'ANG,Superintendent of Day SChOO~8... PERRY O. HANSON (T'aian.fu) Medical Worlv... JESSE H. BALDWIN, M. D. (T'aianfu) Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Woman's Work and Girl's Schools.. To he supplied

17 " - II - ANNUAL MEETING. North China Mi ion. Number { Time _P_l_ac_e_1 President ----I"S-e-p-t Peking 'Calvin Kingsley 2 Aug L. N. Wheeler 3 Sept. I, 1873.' William H. Harris 4. Aug. 3 r. lr74 H. H. Lowry 5 Sept. 8, , 1876 G."R. D~'v;s 7 Q(.'t. 30, 18/i' I saar W vviley 8 Sept. 9, 1878i H. H. Lowry 9 I, 1879: 10 20, 1880 II 29, ]83( TI;~ma s 'Bowman 12 7, 18~21 H. H. Lowry 13 4, Stt phen M. Merrill 14 O~t. (,18341., Isaac VI "Vilev 15 Sept. 10, 18S5[ Tiel\tsin H. H. Lown-. 16 Oct ~ Peking G. R. DIVIS 17 Sept. 25, 1887i Henrv \Y. \~,rarrei1 18 Oct. 10, 1833 Chal ies H. Fowler 19 IS Edw~rd G. Andrews 20 J~~l1e 10, 1890 H. H. Lown 21 '.fav 13, 1801 Daniel A. Go~dsell 22 Apr. 27, 1892 H. H. Lown' 23 S.![)t. :~o, 1892 \V. F. Mal1aliell 24 28, 18;)3 \ Randolph S. Foc;ter Session IO II North China Conference. Time Place President ISept. 29, Peking Ralldolph S. Foster 'OCL 1,18941,. WIlliam X. Ninde Se,r,lt. 20, Tientsin John;"l Walden I 21, 1895'1' Pekil1~' I..,aac VV Joyce " IS, 1897 " I".. Oct. 5, I 18g81.. tear: Cranston I :\1"a y 28, 189Y Tientsin I" " 31, 1900 Peking James H. Pykt~ JU"ne 21, 190I 1, Tien~<:in IDavid H. Moore 19, 19 I 02 1 Pek1l1g I " I,. " May T I, 1904 H. H. Lowr\' 26, J. \V. Bashford ci~t. 3, 1916 Henry Spellmeyer Sept. IS, 1907 J. \V. Bashford Oct. 7, t,,, Sept. 30, 1909,' IvVilson S. Lewis Oct 5, ' Sept. 6, 19II J. ''V Ba;h ford Oct. 31, I ' " Sept. II,1913. Wilson S. Lewis Secretary H. H. Lowry L."W. p;icher vi: F.\V~lker J. H. Pvkc IL. W. Pilcher J. H. Pvke L. W. Pilcher O. W. \Villits L. W Pilcher 'J J.'H. P\'k~ Marcns' L. Taft I W.'T. Hob~rt L 'w Pil~'her M~rcus L. Taft Secretary IMarclI'; L. Taft!I: T. Headland I,,, {Fred. fiayner II. T. Headland B~rton ~rt. John C~r1 A. F\'lt B~rton St. John ~ ~ ~~--~------

18 NAME IN MEMORIAM. "NOT DEAD, BUT GONE BEFORE." ARRI\'AL IN CHINA DATE OF DEATH CONFERENCE RELATION OR CALLING Leander W. Pilcher 1870 Nov. 24, 1893 Effective. La Cledt' Barrow 1892 July 24, 'IR94 ]. E. Scott 1892 Mav 28, 18g6 Phy~'ician. J. Fred. Hayner 1873 Oct. I, 1901 Effective. Elltered Conference Ch'en Ta Yl1ng 1883 June 22, 1900 Effective. Wang Ch'eng P'ei 1891 July 23, 1900,. Chou HSl1eh Shen 1895 July 30, 1900 Li Te Jen 1897 Tune Prob~tioner. Lin Chi Hsien 1898 July 23, 1900 Kung Te Lin 1895 Apr. 10, 1902 Effective. " Yang Ch'ao 1902 May 16, 1903 Cheng Chao Chen 1903 Aug Prob'ationer. Ch'in Lung Chang 1895 JaIl, 13, 1907 Effective. Wang Ch'ing Yon 1891 July 7, 19II " Li ShaD Wen 1892 Apr " Wang To 1906 Apr ,.

19 - 13- FORMER MEMBERS of the North China Mission. Entered the Mission I~ lr g2 189 ] <) R NAME Barrow. Rev. LaClecie Barrow, Mary L. (Mrs. LaClede) Brown, Rev. Frederick Brown, Agne& (~{rs. Frederick) Crews, George 8., M. D. Crews, Katherille V. (Mrs. George 8.) Cmtiss, \Villiam H., M. D. Cmtiss, Florence D..(~flrs. William) Curtiss, Lulu M. (Mrs. William H.) Denny, L. D., M. D. Denny, Anna R. (~Irs. L. D.) Ensign, Charles F. M. D. Ensign, Mrs. Charles F. Gamewell, Mary P. (~1rs. Frank D.) Greer, Miss Vesta O. Harris, Rev. Sylvanus D. Harris, Tildie K. (Mr. Sylvanus D.) Hayner, Kev. James F Hayner, Mabel S. (Mrs. James F.) Headlalld, Anna Eckt-rt (Mrs. Isaac T.) Heaclanc1, Rev. Isaac T. Headland, Miram S. (\1r5. Isaac T.) Jones, Thomas R, M. D. J ones, Stella B.( Mrs Thomas R.) Keplel, Rev. C. 0 Kepler, Mary 1. (M:-s. C. 0.) Lambulh, "Valter, M. D. Lambtlth, Minnie T. (Mrs. \Valter) Longden, Ke\', Wilbur C. Mullowney ]. J.,M. D. Mullowney, Mrs. J.]. O!>horue, D. E, M. D. Osborne. Isabel O. (1\1 rs. D. E.) I Pilcher, Kev. Leander 'vv. Pilcher, Mary H. (Mr~. Ll'ander W.) Scott, Julian F., M. D.. Scott, Lillian H. (Mrs. Julian F.) Taft, Emily L. (Mrs. 11arcus L.) Taft, Rev. l\jarclls L. Taft, Mary Vi. (Mrs. l'.'farcus L.) Walker, Rey. \Vilbllr F. Walker, Mary F. (Mrs. Will~ur F.) Wheeler, Rev. Lucius N. Wheeler, Mary E. (Mrs. Lucius N.) Willets, Rev. Oscar \V. Willets, Caroline T. (Mrs. Oscar W.) ~-- Connection Severed IRSo S I8iS 1901 IljOl 1890 ] ]893 J H)I ~

20 CONFERENCE OFFICERS 1 nterpreter..."...,... GEORGE L. DAVI~..Jssis.tant Interpreter.... "... \VANG CHIH P'ING English. Secretary B URTON ST. JOHN A.8si.sta-nt E-nglish Sem"etarv.... Chinese Secreta1 Y A.8si8tunt OhinelSe Secrctar1l.... LIU KUANG CH"ING Statistical Secretary... WALTER \V. DAV15 Ohinese Statistical SecTetanl.. WANG CA' ANG TAl TrCaSU1"C FREDERICK BROWN HENRY H. ROWLAND WANG T'IEN HSIANG CONFERENCE COMMITTEES. STANDING COMMITTEES FOR F. M'. { W. W. DAns, LlU KUANG CH'lNG, SUN orc1.gn 'tsswns 1 CHIU KAO H 'M ' { N. S. HOPKINS, TSENG Kuo CHIH, CH'EN orn( 1.8S1,OnS..., HENG TE, G. L. DAVIS. it E at' i B. ST. JOHN, CH'EN TSAI HSIN, H. H. u-ut" wn... t ROWLAND, \ive:\ J UNG T' AI. LID FANG, WANG CH'ANG T'AJ, CH'EN Self Support J HENG TE. TE JUI, CH'EN Yu SHAN, L LIU MA K'E, P. O. HANSON. (\V. T. HOBART, P. O. HANSON, CHAO Fu Sunaay Schools ~ CH'UAN, TSENG Kuo CHIH, G. W. L VERITY, J. McG. GIBB. Tract Soc'et ~ 't y... l Kuo CHIH. 5 F. BROWN, \VANG T'lEN HSIANG, TSFNG. Official Oorrespondent.... H. H. LOWRY. OOllference Relations. f H. H. LOWRY, TE Jur, LIP MA K't, G. L.... "1 DAYIS, w. T. HOBART. Reporter for Ohinese Papers.. WEN JUNG T'AL Resolutions.... B. ST. JOHN, TE JUI. Joint Se.'1sions... F D. GAMEWl<:LL. SPECIAL COMMITTEE Oommittee on Anti-Tobacco and Anti-Alcoltol CH'EN HENG TE, C. A. FEI.T, n.l. DAns, WANG T'IEN HSIANG, LIU CHI LUN, P. O. HANSON. SUN CHIU KAO,

21 - rs- CONFERENCE BOARDS. STEWARDS. P. O. HANSON, T JUI, WANG T'IEN HSIANG, J. H. PYKE, F. BROWN. E1Itt'allee. First Year Second Year Thit'd Year Fourth Year Registrar EXAMINERS, P. O. HAKSOK W. W. DAns G. W. VERITY H. H. LOWRY L.DA\'ls W. T. HOBART Lm RUANG eh'ing. CH'EN H NG TE. SUN CHIU KAO. TS NG Kuo CHIH TEJUI TRIERS OF APPEALS H. H. LOWRY P. O. HANSOK, ]. H. PYI a:, TE Jur, CH'EN BENG TE,. LUI FANG. Sunday 9 a.m Sunday II a.m. First Day 8 p.m, Second Day 8 p.m. Third Day 8 p.m. Fourth Day 8 p.m. Fifth Day 8 p.m. Closing Day ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM. LOTe Feast Sel mon. Missionary Self SUPPO? t Education (Sunday) Ev(tngel1stic Sunday Schools OOnlmtlnion LIU FANG TH PR SIDING BISHOP f W, W DAVIS, Lm l RUANG CH'rNG. f LIU MA K'E, \1' ANG l CH'ANG T'AI. I B. ST. JOHN, W"tN 1 JUNG T'AI, \V T. HOBART. TSENG Kuo CHIH. THE PRESIDING BISHOP.

22 1'6 - DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS. 1,-18 thi.~ Annual Oonference Incorporated :lccording to the Reqllin:. ments of the Discipline1 No incorporation is possible ullder the laws of China. 2,-Who have ljeen Received by 'l'1'ttn8,fcl', ami 11'om 'what Oonference! None. 3,-Who have been Readmitted! None...f.-Who ltat;e been Received Oil 01'edellHals, a 11(1 11'om 1Oha t Ohu1'chesY None. 1).-Who hat1e been Received on 'l'rial! (a) In Studies of First Vear. CHAO LI YIU, WANG SHOU T' ANG, CH'ING SHOU, YANG HSU H SHIH, HAN T'nm YlNG, LI Yu F Nr., LIANG EN P'o, 1.10 SHEN EN, PYRE, FREDERICK M., S1:K JUKe, SUN YUEH, T'ANG YUNG. (b) In Stlloies of Third Year. None. ().-lvlw hare l)cen Oontill1ted 011 Trial ~ (a) In Studies of First Year. None. (1) In Studies of Second Year. Hsu CHING PING, Hsu YUNG CnE'J. K'ANG YVNG KUEl, LI TIEN Lu, Lru CHIH Kuo, LlU T'SUN SHENG, ~leng TE JUNG, \ivu I K'UN. (0) In Studies of Third Year. None. (d) In Stuoies of Fourth Year. None. 7.-Who haee been Discontinued? WANG LIANG 8.-Who have been Adm.itted into /I'1tll MClIIlJer8hil)? (a) Elected and Oroained Deacons this year. CHOU Fo CH'UAN, Tu \V N Yu, Y.\NG I (b) Elected and Ordained Deacons predously. None. 9.-Who,t Members a1'e in Studies of 'l'hil'fz Year? (0) Admitten into Fulll\1embership this year, CHOU Fu CH'UAN, Tv WEN Yu (b) Admitted into Full Membership previously. None.

23 What Members arc in Studies of Fourth Year! Lr eh'uan HSUN, YA~G I 11.-lf7mt Members ha~ e Completed the Conference Oourse of St/HIl1? (a) Elected and Ordained Elders this year. KAO FENG SHAN, LIU SHAO T'Al\"G, \YANG CH'ANG T'Al (b) Elected and Ordained Elders previously. None. (c) Not yet elected to Elder's Orders. YANC CHING CH'UN 12.-Wllat others have been Elected and Ordained Deacons'! (a) As Local Preachers. CH'EN T&AI HSIN, Lw "VEN YUAN, SHIH PING HE ( b) U rider Missionary Rule. None. (c) Under Seminary Rule. None. ls.-what others have been Elected and Ordained Blders! ( a) As Local Deacons. None. (b) Under Missionary Rule. None. (c) Uuder Seminary Rule. None Vas the (fhuracter of each Prc(whcr exaillincd 1 Yes, as their names were called in open Conference. 15.-Who have been T1"an8fe1"l~ed, and to what Oonferenees? None 16.-Who have Died? LI SHAO WEN, WANG 'fo 17.-Who have been Located at their own Request? None. 18.-Who hare been Located? None. 19.-Who hal:e Withdrawn? None. 20.-Who have becn pm muted to Witltd1 aw under Charges or Oomplaints! None. 21.-Who 1 at:e been E:rpeUed,! None.

24 - IS- 2,2.- What other personaz Notation should be m.ade! None. 23,-Who are the Bilpernumerary Ministers, and for what ltumuer 01 years col1.secltf'll/elv has each held this Relafiullf CHANC~ PAl LIN 24.-Who arc the Retired Ministers! YANG-CHUN HE 25.-Who are the 'l'r'iers of Appeals! HIRAM H. LOWRY, PERRY O. HANSON, JAMES H. PYKE, CH'F,N HENG TE, TE JUl. Re.~e-rres:-V\T1LLIAM T. HOBART, LIU FANG What i8 the A.nlmal Report of the Conference Board of Home Mi.ssions aud Chzt1'c/t E.vten!Sion? See Report 21.-What is the Annu(l.l Rep')r!. of the Conference Boa I'd of Ji'ol'eif) n Missions? No Conference Board of Foreign Missions 28.-What,is the Statistical Report? See the Statistican's Report 2D.-What is the Conference Treaiwrcr',<; Report! See the Conference Treasurer's Report 30.-What is tho A...{}{}l'egate of the Ben(?-IJOlent Collections ordered by the General Conference, as 1'cported bj) the Conference Trcn.<Jurer? $ 2175 Silver $ 1087 U, S. Gold 31,-What are tlte Claims on the Conference ""und? $ 522 Silver '$ 26r U. S. Gold 82.-What /tas been Received on thes(! (,laims, and limo has it been Applied! $ 1601 Silver. See Report of Conference Stewards. 3S'-Whla is the Five PCI' Cent of the amount raised for the Support of Cunference Cla.iI1",ants, and paid by 'the Confercnce Treasurer to the BoaTd ot (}onfc1'ence Claimants for ConneGtional Relief'! $ 3,00 Silver 34.-What amoltnt has /Jeen a,ppo/ tioned to the Pa'Jtol'al Chal'fles within the Conference to be miiwd jor the. Flltpport 0/ Confcrence Claimants! No apportionment made, 95.-Whel'c are the Preachers Stationrdr See List of Appointments. 36,-Where 8hall tl~e Ne:et Conference be "'eu' Peking

25 .- 19 ~ JOURNAL FIRST DAY Thursday, September 11, Assembly.-The twenty-first sessiotl of the North China Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church convened at Asbury Church, Peking at 8:30 a.m., Thursday September II, 1913, Bishop Wilsoll S. Lewis presiding. Devotional Service.-After singing, Bishop Lewis. with G. L. Davis as interpreter, addressed the Conference on "Prayer." Te Jui led ill prayer Roll Call.-The members of the Conference answered to their names at roll call, except the following: Elder Li Shao Wen and Deacon \~?ang To who -have passed to their reward during the year: Elder Li Wei YUllg. excused on motion of G. W. Verity Oll account of the death of his father: Elders Ch'en Wei P'illg, G. R. Davis, I. T. Headland, H. E. King, M. L. Taft, and Probationer Li T'iell Lu who are 111 America: Elder Vv T T. Hobart who is en 10ute to Chitla: Elciers Chang Pai Lin, Kao Fu Ch'illg, Yang Ch'un He, and Prouationer ~.rang Liang who were not accounted for. Bar of the Conference.-On motion of Lin Fang, the bar of the Conference was fixed at the first eight rows of the left tl)f~e sections of the seats. To Sit with the Conference. -On motioll of P O. Hansoll ; Dr. T. H. Ch'ell, Professor Robert J. Dobson. Dr. G. D. Lqrwry. Mr. Fred Pyke, Proie~sor Alice Terrell, Dr. J. L. Keeler, Dr. E. M. Kent, Mr. O. J. Krause all(l Professor Ed\-\"ardJ ones Will~ns, were invited to sit within the bar of the Conference and to take part ill the discussions. Organizatjon.-The following officers of the Conference were elected aud assistants appoi11ted :- lllterpretel.. George L. Davis Assistant illterpreter. Wang Chih P'ing English Secretary... Burton St. John Assistallt Euglish SeC/dalY. Henry H. Rowland Chinese Secretaly.. Wang T'iell Hsiang Assistallt Chi1lese SeC/'dalY. Lin Kllang Ch'iug Statistical Secretarv Walter \AT Davis Chinese Statistical Secretary. Wan g Ch' a 11 g '1" ai T,easurer Frederick BroWll

26 - 20- Standing Committees.-By COllllllO.n consent the following substitutions in Standing Committees were made :- COlllmittee 011 Sunday Schools'"; 'Chou Fll Ch' nan for Li 1"ien Ln. COlllmittee on COllferellce Relations; Liu Ma K'e far G. R. Davis. Committee on Joillt Sessions; F. D. Gamewell for G. R. Davis. Conference Boards.-By comlllon COllsellt, Lilt Kuang Ch'illg was substituted for Li Shao \Vell as an examiner for Elltrance to Conference. By appoilltlllent of the Bishop, F. Brown was substituted for G. R. Davis as a Trier of Appeals. The Rev. John F. Goucher, D.D., LL.D.-Dr. John F. Goucher was presented to the Conference and was invited to a seat Oil the platform. He spoke briefly to the Conference telling of his comillg" to North China at the request of the Board of Fore.igll Missiolls ill the interests of the educational work of the Con ference. Reports of Pastors.-On motion of Te Jui, the members of the Couferellce were asked to report on the 1lumber of members, the 11umber of probationers, the amount of the collections, alld the increase or decrease for t he year on each of these items. These reports were made after the passing of the characters. Effective Elders. - The names of the following effective elders were called and their characters passed :-Ch'en Heng 1~e, J. H. Pyke, \\Tn Ch'i, Wang I Heng, Cha1lg Tzu Sheug, Suu Chiu Kao, H. H. Lowry, Liu Fang,.H. E. King, 1. T. Headlalld, John McGregor Gibb, \V \V Davis, Waug Chih P'ing, W. '1'. Hobart. F. D. GameweIl, N. S. Hopkins, G. W. Verity, \Vang T'iell Hsiang, Li \Vei YUlIg, \;Val1~ He Nan, Te jtll,' Liu Yueh, H. H. Rowland, C. A. Felt, F. Brown, ROll Tien, G. R. Davis, Chill Cll' eng, B. St. JolIn, and G. L. Davis. Lanhsien District.-Ch'en Hellg 'l'e presented his report as District Superintendent of the Lallhsien District. J. R. P);ke pre,sented 'his report as Missionary in Charge of the Lanshien District. The report was read by the Assistant Chinese Se.:retary North Peking.District.-SlIll Chin Kao preselited his report as District Sl!peril1tel~del1t of the North Pekillg District.

27 - 21 Shanhaikuan District.-G. \V Verity presented his re}jort as District Superintelldent of the Shanhaikuan District. The report was read by the Chinese Secretary. South Peking District.-F. Brown presented his report as Missionary in Charge of the SOllth Peking District. The report was read by the Assistallt Chillese Secretary.. ~outh Tientsin District.- The report of G. R. Davis, Dlstnct Superintendellt of the SOl1th Tientsin District, who is absent ill America, was presented and translated by the Interpreter. T'aian District.-G. L. Davis presellted.his report as District Superintendent of the 'raian District. Anniversary Program.-On motion of CIt'en Heng Te, the hour for the AlIlIiversary :Meeting was fixed for 8 p.m. Closing.-After the annoullcements, the doxology -was snng. The benediction was pronounced by Dr. Liu Ma K'e. SECOND DAY Friday, September 12, 1913 Devotional Service. After singing, Dr. Liu Ma K'e led in prayer. The Bishop addressed the Conference on "Spiritual Food" Dr. Gamewell led in the closiilg prayer. Final Roll Coli. The roll was called of the four members not accouuted for, and the reasolls for their absence explained. Journal. The JoufIlal ill English and in Chinese was read and after corrections was approved. Lanchou-Lanhsien. By order of the Bishop, the ua'me of the Lanchou District was challged to the Lanhsien District, to conform to the change of the name of the city., Joint Session. F. D. Game\-yel1, Committee 011 Joint Sessioll, reported, alld, all his motion, the time of the sessi<:>ll was fixed for 9 a.m. Saturday. This action was later recollsidered, and all 1l10tiClll of W W. Davis, the honr was fixed for 9 a.nl. Monday. Memorials. On motioll of Lin Fang, G. L.. Davis and Ch' en HenO' Te, were made a COlllmittee to arrange for a memorial s:rvice to Elder Li Shao Wen, Deacon vvang To, Mrs. Sun Chiu Kao, alld Dr. Edna Terry. The honr of the service was fixed for 8 p.m. 011 Sunday. The motion was carried by a standing vote, after which Liu Kllang Ch'illg led in prayer-

28 ' Committee on Anniversary Program and Nomination of Standing Committees:-On motion of Liu Fang; J. H. Pyke and Lin Ma K'e were made a Committee on Anniversary Program and Nomination of the Standing Committees. Effective Elders. The names of the following effective elders were called and their characters passed:- Wang Chao K'e, Wal1g Cfl'ang T'ai, Wl1 Hsi Kao, Liu Ma K'e, Tseng Kl.lO Chih, Lin Kllailg Ch'ing, Ch'en Yu Shan, Wang En Chao, Kao "Hsiu Shan, Lin Ku"ang Tzu, Liu Ching Ch'iug P. O. Hanson, Lilt Chi LUll, Kuo Ying, Ch'en Wei P'ing, M. L. Taft. This completed the list of effective elders. Tientsin City District. J. H. Pyke presented his report as District Superintendent of the Tientsin City District. The report was read by Tseng Kuo Chih. Tsunhua District. The report of G. R. Davis, District Superintendent of the 'I'sunhua District, who is absent in America,,vas presented and read by the Interpreter. Yenchou District. P. O. Hanson presented his report as Missiollary-in-Charge of the Yellchou District. Li 11 Ch i Lun prese1l ted his report as District Superintendent of the Yenchol1 District. Local Deacons. On 111otion of P O. Hanson, tile COlllmittee on Entrance to Conference, Wen Jung T' ai substituting for P. O. Hanson, was made the Committee to examine candidates for Local Deacon's Orders. Travelling Deacons. The names of the following travelling deacons were called and their characters passed: -Kao Feng Shall. Li Ch'uall Hsun, Liu Shao T'ang, Wang, Clt'ang 'f'ai, and Yang Ching Ch'uu. Li Ch'uan Hsun was left as II deacon in the studies of the fourth year. Yang Ching Ch'l111 was left as a deacon, with the course of studies completed. Election to Elders Orders. Kao Feng Shan, Lilt Shao T'ang, and Wang Ch'ang T'ai, having completed the course of studies, were passed fr0111 the fourth year course and elected to elder's orders. Probationers Third Year Class. The name of Yang I was called and his character passed. Having completed the thirci. year studies, he was passed to the studies of the fourth ye&r.,

29 - 23- Probationers-Second Year Class. The names of Chou Fu Ch'nan, Li T'ien Lu, and Tu Well Yu were called and their ch,aracters passed. Chou Fu Ch'uan and Tn Wen Yu, having completed the second year work, were advanced to the third year. Li Tien Lu, who is in college in America, was left in the studies of the second year. Probationers-First Year Class. The names of the following probatiollers 'of the first year class were cal1ed and their characters passed. 'rhey were conditioned 011 H01110Jetics and Civilization, and advanced to the studies of the second year. Hsu Ch'ing P'ing, Hsu YUllg Chen, K'ang YUllg Kuei, Liu ChihKuo, Liu 1'sun Sheng, Meng Te JUllg, and Wu I K'un. On motion of Ch'en Heng Te, the case of Wang Liang was referred to the Committee on Conference Relations. Admission to Conference and Election to Elder's Orders. Chou Fu Ch'uan, '1'u Wen Yu, and Yang I we:re admitted to the Conference in ftt)] colll1ectioll and elected to Deacon's Orders. Order of the Day. On motion H. H. Lowry, a discussion of Self-Support was made the order of the day for Saturday morning immediately after transacting the remainder of the business connected with admission on trial and election to orders. Preachers Aid Society. The Annual Meetiug of the Preachers Aid Society was snbstitnted for the anniversary meeting for Thursday night. Closing. After the announcements, the doxology was 'lung, and Te Jui pronoullced the benediction. THIRD DAY Saturday, September 13, 1913 Devotional Services.-After singing and prayer, the Bishop addressed the COllferellce on "Christian Patience." Liti Fang led in the c10sing prayer. Journal.-The J ourl}al in English and in Chinese was read and approved. Introductions.-1 he Rev. Spencer Lewis, D.D., of the 'Vest China Conference, now engaged in Bible translation, was presented to the Conference.

30 R. A. Bolt, M. D., of the Ching Hua College was presented to the conference. Conference Relations.-J. Ii.,Pyke reported for the Committee 011 Conference Relations ill regard to the case of Wang Liang, and 011 his 111otion this brother was discontinued from his relation as a member on trial. Reception On Trial.-The foilo\".. i.ng candidates for reception 011 trial were called and were addressed by the Bishop:-Chao Li Yin, Ch'ing Shon, Hail T'iell Ying, Li Yu Feng, Liang En Po, Lin Shell Eu, Sun Jung, Sun Yueh, T'ang Yung. Tn Yn Chi, Wang Shon 1"ung, Yang Hsneh Shih. Local Deacons.-On motion of Suu Chiu Kao, Ch'en 1'sai Hsin was elected to Local Deacon's Orders. 011 motion of Ch'en Hellg Te, Liu Wen Yuan was elected to Local Deacon's Orders.. On 111otion of F. Brown, Shih Ping He was elected to Local Deacon's Orders. Candidates For Deacon's Orders.-'I'he candidates for Deacon's Orders:-Ch'en Tsa1 Hsin, Choll Fll Ch'uan, Liu Wen Yuall, Shih Ping He, Tn \\Ten Yn, Yall~ I, were called and signed the lisual pledge. J. H. Pyke led in prayer, after which they were addressed by the Bishop. The Bishop thell put the questions required of those who euter the COllference ill full connection. Fraternal Letter.-A fraternal letter from the Rev. G. T. Candlin, D. n., of the United :Methodist Mission was read. Dr. Candlin had been appointed fraternal delegate from his mission, but was unable to attend the Conference 011 account of illness ill his family. Self-Support.-According to the order of the day. the topic of Self-Support was presented to the Conference for open discussion. Lin Fang, Chairman of the G011l111ittee 011 Self-Support, led the discllssion. F. Brown, Ch'en Heng- Te, H. H. Lowry SUllChili Kao, J.H. Pyke, Wang I Heng, O. J. Krause, and Dr. Jolin F.' Goucher of Baltimore also participated in the discussion. The Bishop addressed the Conference -briefly on the subject. Ou motion of H. H. Lowry, the follovdlig resolution was adopted: Resolved: That a c0111l11itt'ee be appointed of an equal number of Chinese and foreigners for the promotion of self-support. - I. To prepare a budget each yea,r for the work of the churches.

31 To consider the feasability of.combining ill a fund the approptiation from the Missionary Society, and the contributiolls of the Chinese church, to be disbursed by this colllmittee through the District Superintendents. 3. 'I'o determine as far as practicable the amount to be contributed by the Chinese church (said amollnt to be increased annually). 4. To consult on the problem of snpport of the Chinese preachers who are not in self-supporting churches. Closing.~After the an1l0llllcements and singing the doxology; H. H. Lowry pronoullced the benediction. FOURTH DAY Sunday, September 14, 1913 Conference Sermon.-The Conference sermoll was preached hy Bishop Lewis in connection with the morning service at Asbury Church. The text was Matthew VI 25, "Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the raiment?" Ordination Service.-In the presence of the congregation, Bishop Lewis, assisted by the District Superintendents, the Missionaries-in-Charge, and Dr, John F. Goncher, ordained the candidates for Deacou's and Elder's Orders. THIS IS TO CERTIFY That Oil the fourteenth day of of September, 1913, under the election of the North China Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I ordained the following as Deacons:- Cll'en Tsai Hsin Liu Vlell Yuan 'I'll Wen Y 11 ChOll Fu Ch'uan Shih Ping He 'lang I Presiding Bishop

32 ----: 26 - THIS IS TO CERTIFY Tbat on the fourteenth day of September 1913, under the election of the North China Conference of the Methodist Epi!copal Church, I ordained the followi11g as Elders:- Kao Eellg Shall Wang Ch'aug T'ai Liu Shao T'ang Presiding Bishop Closing.--The benediction was pronounced by G. L. Davis. MEMORIAL SERVICE Memorial Service.-On Sunday evening at eight o'clock a memorial service was held, Ch'en Heng Te and G. L. Davis baving charge. The service was in memory of Elder Li Shao Wen, Deacon Wang To. Mrs. Sun Chin Kao, and Dr. Edna Terry, all of whom had passed to their reward during the year. Eulogies were given by Liu Chi Lun~ Chang Tstl Sheng, Ch'en Heng 're, and G. L. Davis, respectively. Mrs. Chou also spoke in eulogy of Dr. 1.'erry FIFTH DAY Monday, September 15, 1913 Devotional Service. The Devotional service was led by G. L. Davis. After a season of prayer, l\tit. Davis addressed the conference on "Come over to Shantung and help us" Temporary President. The Bishop appointed G. L. Davis temporary President. He presided until the arrival of the Bishop early in the session. Journal. The Journal in English and in Chinese was read and approved. Woman's Christian Temperance Union. lvlrs. Chauncey qoodrich, President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Peking, was introduced and addressed the Conference on the question of the anti-tobacco campaign and other temperance movements.

33 - 2,- Joint Session. The delegates of the \Yoman's Comference were in attendance and presented their report for the year. The report was read by the Assistant Chinese Secretary. Disciplinary Questions. See the report 011 Disciplinary Questions. Reception on Trial. The names of the following candidates were called and their work reported :- Chao Li Yiu, Ch~illg Shou, Han T'ien Ying, Li Yu Feng, Liang En P'o, Liu Shen En, Sun Jung, Sun Yuen. T'ang Yllng, Tll Yu Ch'i, Wang ShOll T'ang, Yang HSlleh Shih. Frederick 1\1. Pyke also signed the usual pledge. These candidates were severally admitted to the Conference on Trial. Memorial Biographies. On motion of Ch' en Heng Te, Lilt Fang: and Dr. C. C. Wang were requested to prepare a memorial biography of Wang To; al1d Lin Chi LUll al1d the 5011S of Li Shao Wan were asked to prepare a memorial biography of Li Shao Wen, Effective Relation Restored. Kao Fu Ch'ing who had been located at his own request, was restored to effective relation on motion of Chen Heng Te. Supernumerary Minister. On motion of J. H. Pyke, Chang Pai Lin was given Superuumerary reation. Retired Minister. On motion of H. H. Lowry, Yang Ch'tlll He was put upon the retired list. Triers of Appeals. The Bishop appointed H. H. Lowry, P. O. Hanson, J. H. Pyke, Ch'en Heng Te, and Te Jui as Triers of Appeals; and W- 'I' Hobart and Lin Fang as Reserves. Statistical Report. W. W. Davis, Statistical Secretary, gave the statistical report by totals. Benevolent Collections. F Brown, Conference Treasnrer, reported a total of $2,175 Mexican, for the bene"olences ordered by General Conference. Conference Claimants. On the report of the Conference Stewards by G. W. Verity, an aggregate of $522 Silver was voted to the Conference Claimants. (see Report of the Conferellce Stewards).

34 -: On motion of F. Brown. J. H. Pyke was reimbursed for an over payment of six dollars on the account of Mrs. Wang Ch'ing YU11. all motion of F. Brown, J. H. Pyke was reimbursed for an over payment of twenty-four dollars to Cha1Jg Hsi T'uug. On motion of P. O. Hantion, the allowallce-to Yang Ch'ull He was made conditional all the decision of a committee composed of J. H. Pyke aud Liu M:a K,e. On motion of G. W. Verity, twenty dollars was allowed to the SOli of \\Tallg Pei Feng. Special Collection. On motion of Ch'en Heug" Te, a special subscription was authorized for the assistance of Wang Liallg until he may secure other employment. Conference Board of Education. 011 motion of F. D. Gamewell, \Vallg Chih P'ing and Ch'en Tsai Hsin were elected to the Conference Board of Education. Closing. After singing the doxology. the benediction was pronollnced by F. D. Gamewell. SIXTH DAY Tuesday, September 16, 1913 Devotional Service. After singing, Bishop Lewis addressed the Confet:ence on "Spiritual Warfare" Te Jui led ill pl ayer. Temporary President. By appointment of the Bishop, G. L. Davis was made Temporary President of the Conference during an absence of the Bishop. Journal. The J ollrnal in English and in Chinese was read, corrected and approved. South Peking District. The report of C. A. Felt, District Superintendent of the South Peking District, was presented. It was read by the Chinese Secretary. Changli Medical Work. The report of E. M. Kent, physician ill charge of the Ch'angli Medical Work \'\'a5 presented. The report was read by the Assistant Chinese Secretary. Peking Medical Work. The report of N. S. Hopkins, physiciall ill charge of the Peking '.J.'.,fedical work was presented. The report was read by the Assistant Chinese Secretary. Taian Medical Work. The report of J. H. Korns, physician in charge of the Taian Medical Work, was presented. The report was read by the Chinese Secretary

35 - 29- Peking University. The report of H. H. Lowry. President Jf Peking Unin:rsity was presented. It was read by \\ allg Chill P'illg. Taian High School and Intermediate School. P. O. Hanson, principal of the 'raian High and Inlermediate Schools presented his report. Changli Intermediate School. H. H. Rowland, principal of the Changli Intermediate school presellted his report. Peking Intermediate School. The report of \V \Y Davis, Principal of the Peking Intermediate School, was presellted. The report was read by the Chillese Secretary. Tientsin Intermediate School.-The report of Burton St John, Principal of the Tiellt-=in Intermediate School \'\'as Presented. It was read by the Chinese Secretary. Tsunhua Intermediate School.-The report of Yang Jung Mao, Principal of the '!':,;l1ni1l1a Illtermediate School, was preselltecl. It was read by \Vang Chih P'ing. Lanhsien and Shanhaikuan Day Schools.-The report of C. A. Felt as Superintendent of the Lanhsien alld ShanliaikuHn Day Schools was presented. The report was read by the Chinese Secretary. North and South Peking Day Schools.-The report of W. \V. Davis, Superintendent of the N ort11 and South Peking Day Schools was presented. It was read by the Assistant Chinese Secretary. Other Day Schools.-No special report of the Sonth Tientsin, Taian, Tientsiu City, TStlllh l1a allcl Yenchon Day Schools was presented. Conference Treasurer's Report.- TlJe report of F Brown as COllference Treasurer was presented. The report was read hy the Chillese Secretary Standing Committee on Education.-The report of the Committee 011 Educatioll was read ill Chinese by Ch'eli Tsai Hsil1, and ill English by J McGregor Gibb. The report \vas accepted. Standing Committee on Foreign Missions.-Tlle report of the Committee 0') Foreign Missiolls was presellted by P O. Hanson. The report was accepted. Other Standing Committees.-The Committees 011 Self Support. 011 SlIlIday Schools, 011 HOl11e IVlissiolls, alld Oil Tract Society made 110 reports. Committee on Anniversary Progr.am and on Nomination of Standing Committees.-The report of the Com mittee

36 Anuiversary Program aud on the Nomination of Standing C01ll1llittee~ was pre::;enled ill English by J. H. Pyke, and in Chillese by Liu Fallg.. The repo{t,,,as accepted, giving the Committee power to make a few alteratidns. State Religion.-Ch'en Tsai Hsin presented a special resolutioll against the establishment il1 China of a state religion. The Bishop addressed the COllferellce' on the question. On 111otioll of Li 11 Fang the resd} ution was adopted. Anti-Tobacco and Anti-Alcohol.-Oll motion of H. H. Lowry. the District Superilltellc\ellts were made a ~pecial cd111mittee au auti-tobacco and allti-alcohol. The Bishop addressed the COllference on this subject. This action took place witli" ll1111s11al euthusiasm. Lanhsien and Luchiahe Interlnediate SchooIs.-Ch' en Heng 'fe preseutecl a request from the Lanhsien District Conference urging the recogllitiou of the IlJtermediate Schools just beiug estaulished at Lanhsien and Luchiahe. This action was takell 011 lljolidu of eh'en Heng Te. Yenchou and Anchiachuang Intermediate Schools. On lllotiou of P. O. HausDu, the Couference recdgnized the Yeucholl and Allchiachuallg Intermediate Schools. The Next Conference.-Ou 111otiDI1 of Tsellg Kuo Chih, Peking was selected as the place of the llext Conference. Conference Claimants Fund.-The:. Bishop aunounced that the t1ivideud for the Couference Claimants Fund had 110t yet arrived. The five percent of collectidns for the general fund amounted to three dollars. Oll llldtidll of J. H. Pykc, it was ordered that the financial year for tht:: Confelence Claimants Fund should regularly begin with Octo bet I. Printing the Minutes. - On 1110ti Dn of eb' en Heng 'fe, the secretarit's ""ere made aee11111litteeoll printi-llg the English and the Chinese millutes. 011 motion of Tseug KllO Chih, printing of 500 copies of the Chinese milll1tes was ordered. Official Minutes.-Oll motion of P. O. Hansoll, the English minutes were made the official minutes Missionary Collection. On motion of H. H. Lowry, the "missionary collection was divided as previously. Journal. The J oujnal for the cnrrent day in English and in Chillese was read and approved.

37 -31 - Closing. After an cemellts, the doxology was sung aud J. H. Pyke prollouuced the benediction. FINAL SESSION Tuesday Afternoon, September 16, 1913 The Conference Members of the Board of Managers of Peking University. 011 Illotion of H, H. Lowry, G. D. Lowry, W. T. Hobart, Lo Cb'i Millg, and Burton St. John were nominated for electicll to the Board of Managers of Peking University at its coming election. Report of the Committee on Resolutions. The report of the Committee 011 Resolutions was presented ill English by P. O. Hallsoll and ill Chinese by Lin Ching ell'jug. The report was adopted 011 motion of B. St. J oh n. The Lord's Supper. Ch'en Heng 1'e conducted the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, assisted by Dr. John F Goucher, F. D. Gamewell, Te Jui, the District Superintendents, and the Missionaries-in-Charge. Appointments. The appointments were re~d by the Interpreter. Adjournment. After leading ill Prayer, the Bishop declared the Conference adjourtled. CERTIFIED MINUTES This is to certify that the above is a correct copy of the Minutes of the North China Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Peking, China, September eleven to sixteen, President. Secreta r)'.

38 COURSE OF STUDY FOR. MISSIONARIES. 1. For the first year all new missionaries shall be appointed to no other work thai! the study of the language and for the second year they sball be given no work involviug heavy responsibility, except by the permission of the examining committee. 2. The Bishops shall be requested to obsen'e this rule in making the appointment!]. 3. All personal teachers shall be employed and controlled by the examining committee. 4. After the first 1110nth regular exercises in writing shall be required of the candidate under the direction of one of the examillers. S. Increase of salary shall be dependent upon the completion of the cout-se of study, unless the candidate be excused by the mission to which be belollgs. 6. The examining committee sball publicly report the progress of each student at the Annual l\iissioll lvieeting 7. ~7herever possible a colllmittee sb~.ll be appointed in each mission, at least one third of whom shall be Chinese, to examine all candidates in the Conrse of Study. alld one person shall be chosen ill each mission station who shall meet the candidate before he begins his work and at least once a month durillg the first two years for help aild to ascertain progress. 8. A diploma signed by the chairman and secretary of the examining committee shall be givell to all students of the language completing tbe four years course of study. FOR EXAMINA'l'IO~: First Year. Gospel of John. Mateer's Mandarin Lessons, I to 50; or Baller's Primer Revised; or Hillier's Mandarin Lessons. Recognize characters in 50 lessons. Write the radica]s alld 300 phonetics. Draw a map of the province in 'which you live, l')cating prefectures, cotlllties, alld principal cities. Draw a lllap of China, locating prod~lces with capitals, and the great rivers.

39 - 33- FOR R!tADING. ( I " t\ ~._ Holcome: The Real Chiualllau.; Taylor:'.' Q;1;..Hsu: Martin: The Awakening of China; Bland and Backhouse: China uuder the ElIlpress Dowager; 'Valshe: \\fays that _-\ re Dark. Second Year. FOR EXAMINATION:- Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and the Acts of the Apostles. Mateer's :Mandarin LessoJls, 51 to 100 Pilgrim's Progress, Part 1. Christian Three Character Classic. Write the r ling phonetics. Fifteen minutes conversation iu Chinese. Sermoll to Chinese Christians. Titles of the chief civil and military officers of the province. FOR READING:-- Jernigan: China in Law and Commerce; :Vlacgo\\'an: Imperial History of China; Legge: Prolegomena to Confucian Analects; Giles: China and the Chinese. Third Year. FOR EXAMINATION :- Remainder of the New Testment, Genesis and Psalms. Mateer's :'.1 andarill Lessons, IOJ to 200. Sacred Edicts in Mandarin_ Martin's Christian Evidences ill Mandarin, Part 1. Pilgrim's Progress, Part II. Write 500 more characters fr0111 Shuang Ch'ien Tzu, or write John XVII, and review previous two years work in writing. Analects, Part 1. FOR READING:- Religions of China, Edkins; China in Convulsions, Smith; Prolegomena to Mencills, Legge. F ourth Year. FOR EXAMINA'I ION: Mencil1s, Part I. Analects, Part II. One book from the Wen Li Bible; or Making of a Man, Chapters I and II. Martin's Evidences of Christianity, ~1andarin. Part II. The Fortunate Union.

40 - 34- FOR RltADING:- Little: The Far East; TholllpSQll:. The Chinese; Broomhall: The Chinese 'Empire; Gibson: Mission Problems and Mission Mf:thods ill South China; Abbe Hue: Travels in Tartary and Tibet. LANGUAGE EXAMINERS. Changli:-Mrs. Verity and H. H. Rowland Peking-W- T. Hobart and M. S. Hopkins, M.D. Taianfu:-G. L. Davis and Miss Young. Tientsin:-Miss Wheeler and J. H. Pyke. Registrar:-W. T. Hobart

41 - 35- COURSE OF STUDY FOR CHINESE PREACHERS 1. FOR TRAVELING PREACHERS Admission on Trial FOR EXAMINATION I. Genesis and Exod us 2. Matthew, Mark, Luke 3. The Discipline. Parts I and I I 4. Complete Geography, By H. L. Zia, First half 5. Martin's Evidences of Christianity 6. Written Sermon 7. Thorough preparatioll in the Course in Romanized prescribed for Exhorters To BE READ I. Mrs. Sites' Life of \\Tesley 2. Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation. Translated by W. M. Hayes 3. History of the Jews from Cyrus to Titus 4. Gulick's Health Lectnres, Translated by H. R. Caldwell 5. Myer's. General History, First balf First Year FOR EXAMINATION I. Levi ticns, Numbers, Deuteronomy 2. Acts, 1. and II. Peter 3. The Discipline, Part III. 4. Complete Geography by H. L. Zia, Second half 5. Ohlinger's Homiletics, first half 6. On Civilization, First half 7. Written Sermon To BE READ I. Wesley's Sermons 2. Richard's Protestant Missionary Pioneers 3. Autobiography of Rev. Hu long Mi 4. Myers' General History, Second balf Seoond Year FOR EXAMINATION I..J osbua, 1. and II. Samuel 2. John. Romaus 3. Discipline, Parts IV. and V. 4. Ohlinger's Homiletics, Completed 5. On Civilization, Second half 6. Sheldon's Essentials of Christianity 7. Written Sermon

42 To BE READ 1. Life of Christ. V(ll~. 1. II. III.... Williatl1S0))'S Comparative Religi<?ns 3. Richard's Benefits of Christianity 4. History of Religious Progress. Third Year FOR EXAMINATION 1. I. and II.- Kings, Proverbs, Ecclesiates Corinthians to Colossians inclusive 3. Disciplille, Part VI. 4. Church History, Part I. by Dr. H. Corbett 5. Ohlillger's Pastoral Theology. first half 6. Marlin's Psychology 7. W ritte)) Sermon To BE READ I. Selby's Life of Christ, Vols. IV. V. VI. 2. A Leaf of the Bible; Bettex 3. Evolution its Ways and By Ways Fourth Year FOR EXAMINATION I. Isaiah, Daniel, Job and II. Timothy, Hebrews 3. Discipline, Part VII. 4. The Making of a Man, Lee 5. Mental Philosophy, Translated by Yell 6. Church History, Part II. by Dr. H. Corbett 7. Ohlinger's Pastoral Theology Completed 8. Written Sermon To BE READ 1. Selby's Life of Christ, Vols. VII. VIII. IX. 2. The Conflict of Christianity and Heathellism. Ohlinger 3. Discovered.Truths Compiled by Dong De Gi II. FOR LOCAL PREACHERS. Candidates for Local Preacher's License 111 tlst be examined on the entire course for Exhorters First Year FOR EXAMINATION I. Genesis, Exod us 2. Acts 3. The Discipline on. the Annual Conference 4. Graves' Geography of PalestinE',

43 To MEMORIZE I. Psalms, first and second 2. Isaiah, 6rst Chapter 3 Corinthians, 15:35-58 To BE READ I. How to Win Souls, translated by Miss Ruth Sites FOR EXA~HNAl'IO:'-; Second Year I. J os11 na, J lld ges, Thessalonl :';US 2. Biblical History, Part The Disciplille on the Central and the Gelleral Conference To lviemorize I. Genesis 1st Chapter, 2. Matthew 15th Chapter To BE READ I. Du Bose's Catechism on the Three Religions 2. Nevins' Mannal for Preachers FOR EXAMINATION I. Job Third Year and II. Corinthians and II. Timothy 4. The D~scipline on a Preacher'S Dl1ties 5. Biblical History, Part II. To MEMORIZE J. Psalm, 8th 2. Matthew, 6th Chapter To BE READ I. 'The Parables of J eslls Explained 2.,,7ho is J estls? by Sia Sek Ong Fourth Year FOR EXAMINATION J. Isaiah 2. Gala.tians, Philippians, James 3. Binney's Theological Compend, translated by J. W. Lambuth 4. The Discipline on Sunday Schools and Epworth Leagues To MEMORIZE I. Psalm, 90th 2. J Oh11, 3rd Chapter

44 To BE IUtAD I. The Three Important Thing,s" Martin 2. Illustrations of Christian Truth For Local Orders Local Preachers who are 'Candidates.for Deacon's orders lnust be re-examined on the entire course for Local Preachers. and re-read the books prescribed to be read. Local Deacons seeking Elder's orders must pass the examination for admission on Trial and peruse the books required to be read up to the end of the second year of tl1e coursejor Travelling Preachers, including the Life of Christ, Complete. III. FOR EXHORTERS. Examinatioll kv District or Quarterly CO'lljerel1ce. FOR EXAMINATION I. The Miracles of Jesl1s 2. The General Rules 3. The Shorter Catechism 4. Read at sight selections from John's Gospel To M~MORIZ~ To B~ I. The Apostle's Creed 2. The Decalogue READ I. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 1st half FOR EXAMINATION First Year 1. Parables of Jesus 2. The Discipline on Members and Exhorters 3. Read at sight Selections,from the Four Gospels To ' MF:MORIZ~ I. Psalm, 23rd 2. The Beatitudes To BF: R~AD _I. Pi1gri~l)s Progress, last half

45 FOR EXAMINATION Second Year. I. Mark 2. The Bible Picture Book 3. The Articles of Religion 4. Pilcher's Primary Geography 5. Read at sight and write from dictation selections from the New Testament To MSMORIZS I. Psalm 91 st 2. Luke, 14th Chapter To BS RSAD 1. The Gate of Virtue and Knowledge, Griffith J ohl1 FOR EXAMr~ATION Third Year. 1. Luke; the one Hundred Texts 2. The Discipline on the Fourth Quarterly Conference.3. The Larger Catechism with Illustrative Narratives, 1st half, trall~lated by Ohlinger 4. Read at sight a11d write from dictation fro111 the Newspapers or the equivalent To l'vh~morize 1. P::;alm 51st 2. Jolin, 17th Chapter To BE READ I. The Tongue of Fire, translated by Cornaby FOR EXAMINATION Fourth Year I. John 2. The Discipline on the District Conference 3. The Larger Catechism Completed 4. Read or write, anything required in Mandarin To ~IEMORIZE 1. Isaiah 83rd Chapter 2. Corinthians 13th Chapter To BE RSAD I. The Messiah

46 EVANGELISTIC REPORTS. LAN HSIEN DISTRICT. CH'EN HENG TE, Disf1ict Superintendent. Two years ago at the collference after the death of the Rev. C. Y. Wang I was asked to take the superintendency of this district, the largest in the North China Mission. On being consulted, I did not dare to accept the appointmellt when I considered my incapability as,,,ell as inexperience. To cope with such a work was, for me, a too difficult task. A t the last conference the same appointment was repeated. This time~ I thought it inexpedient to declit,le again, and conseqnently entered into office, rather against my will. After my arri,'al at Lancholt everything being settled, I started on my first ronnd of Quarterly meetings, The trip was one of continuous surprise and inspiration. The results of the fourteen year's labor of pastor Wang was indeed monumental. The motive then born within me was to cry out to God for guidance and help so that, day after day I. with the co-operation of my fellow-workers, might carry forward the vi'ork so well begun. Here below I shall ronghly sketch all outline of the condition of each of the churches under my superintendellcy in the past year. LANHSIEN. This is the headquarters on thi~ district. For a nutl1ber of years the church has been in existence; but formerly, our membership had been limited, with a very few exceptions, to peasants and country-people. Since the llew form of government came in, people have taken a new and different view of Christianity. One after another, inquirers have come from the scholarly class to learn about Christ. They now see in a different light the doctrille which they have heretofore despised and rejected. In such a state of affairs, Mr. Chillg Shou, a recent gradnate fro111 Peking University, came to respond to the call of the times. He is ill every way well equipped as a preacher. Through his incessallt efforts in preaching, many persons have been induced to become members of the church. ~.rith this influx of church members, the church had become too small to hold the audience. Needless to say that A.t a time of financial stringency. the Mission could not afford to spend money for building. Nevertheless, to enlarge the building must be done. At last, in order to meet the need, we had to resort to

47 local contributions. A fuud of five hundred alld fifty dollars was accordingly raised from among the local members and friends from other places. With this money we were happily relieved, and to the old-oui1ding, five more rooms were added, making t\1e buildillg big enough for a congregation of over three hundred persons. On Cliristmas Eve we were visited by a host of guests. Some girls fro111 the go\'ert11l1ent institutioll came to take part in the progral1l al1d colltributed a good deal to our enjoyment. In the spring, on the day of universal prayer for onr country. nearly all classes of people were represented at our church. They all showed a sel1~e of de\'otioll and earnestness ill prayer. Such things had beel! very rarely seen in times past. They served as a source of stimulus on one hand; on the other, they were manifestations that God had at least partially al1swered our daily prayer that "Thy kingdom come," which had betn sounding for years. The winter Bible class started as llsual. T\Iore tha11 twenty persons attended the classes, which were taught by Mr. Ching. He offered, also, classes in Geography and elementary Arithmetic besides the regular Bible classe!->. At the close of the school one persoll said to the teacller: "1\1 Y grandfather never knew a map: r 110W can draw Olle, isn't it fine." El\IICHUANG. Tbe church here was at first but a chapel on the Lanhsien circuit. Only recently it has been made a separate circuit. This was done for the conveniellce of the local Chri,:tians and in consideration of the independent capacity that the church has shown. The preacher is a faithful worker and a constant helper to the members ullder his care. He and the church members are working in harmony in bringing persons into light. Their united efforts help greatly to bring about the prosperity of the church, and, as a result, the church members have increased so much that a large building was required. To effect this they sold the old parsonage ill the spring. With the money obtained they bought a new one. \Vhat was lacking was supplied by local contributions. CHIUPAIHU. The church was established after the year In the past ten years only slight progress has been made. Th,e preacher here is in charge of four chapels. Each of these chapels requires one sentence or two to set forth its particular condition. At Peichiatien the chapel is in charge of a persall who has both to teach some twenty pupils and to preach. His teaching work is already, for him, a sufficiently laborious task. It takes him daily at least six hours. When this part of his

48 work is over, being entirely worn ont, he canllot be expected to do much evangelistic work. This is generally supposed to b~ tlje caust: of the weakness of the church. The churches at Ian and Liupaihll are twin-sisters, being an ill a moribund state. The causes for this are various and can be in no way easily told. Different in condition from these above-mentioned chapels is the chapel at Shahoi. which is promising and encouraging. Recently the church members have started a 'gi.rls' school. All the expenses are defrayed by themselves. PENCH'ENG. This circt:iit is the most exteijsive one on this district. It could have been divided into three. The church at Pench'eng has a long history but its long existence has added little to its prosperity. The obstinacy that has long been dwelling in the hearts of the people, has not yet been broken down, very few have accepted Christianity. The circuit superintendent, resident at Pench'etig, has the ()versight of four other churches, nnmely the churches at Lienpeiting, at Hukochuang, at Toli, and at KUllganchiao. All -of these churches have promising prospects. Lienpeitien is a town twenty Ii Oil the east of Pench'eng. The preacher and the members are united ill propagating the Kingdom of Heaven. On fair-days all testify the name of the Saviour with ardent zeal to the non-believers. Besides, they usnally itinerate from village to village. carrying with them a pavilion bought for that pnrpose. The result of their work is the estahlishmellt of a church at Tinglillho. All the necessary expenses of this ('hurch are defrayed by the members at Pench'eng. This action is more admir:lble when \Ve know that these church members are almost as poor as church mice. They are doing this at the cost of their own e.njoyments. The towjl Hukochuang. thirty Ii on the south of Pellch'ellg, was formerly anopulellt and thrifty town. Most people here were of well-to-do families. While they were rich they despised and opposed Christianity. Now their fortune has failed them; and with their wealth has fled their pride. They have now begull to learn the truth and to appreciate Christianity. Mr. Lin, the local preacher, is a very efficient worker. He has done his best to embrace the opportunity to proclaim the message -entrusted to him. Usually four or five days in a week, he, with the assistance of some earnest church members, itinerates ill the neighboring" towns and sea-coast villages. In a certaiu town, there have been enough converts to erect another chapel. But, owing to the stringent conditioll of the Mission funds, we could by 110 means gratify our desire even when being requested by the believers in that town. The church at Toli is in a flourishing condition. The condition of the church at Kun~anchiao is at

49 _. 43- present ill.no way favorable, but we have reasons to hope for its prosperity itl days to come. The thiurs pointed out as the causes of the unfavorable -condition are these: First, the church wants a resident preacher; second, it requires a larger chapel. Of these, the latter has been remm"ed by the intrepid action of Mr. Liu \Ven Yuan, the preacher at Chen Tzu Chen, and his younger brother. They own a house at the rear for the chapel. The elder first contributed his share to the church; so did the younger brofher his share, a few days later. Still later, the younger brother made a promise to contribute to the church his whole estate, which was twenty "mu" of excellent farm land, this to be handed over after his death. Thus the harder problem, having been solved, we believe the other trouble can be removed easilv. Douhtless their actiotls have been seen by our Father. Sou;e say their actions were done in imitation of the enthusiastic Christialls~in Western natio11s ; I say their actions were prompted by the love of Christ. Should all the Christians in China be so enthusiastic the Independent Church of the whole nation would SOOl1 become an accomplished fact. CHENTZUCHEN. This church is the crowli of the whole district. All the members and the preacher have joined hand ill hand in spreading" the Heave1lly message: particularly, a few have been preaching as volunteers, asking for no pay fro111 the Mission. From a financial poillt of view, they show in a unique way the feasibility of makillr the church a self-supportillg olle. The necessary expenditure of the church in every year amounts to but a little over'two hundred dollars, while the local colltributions are, this year, five hul1dred and ninety dollars, which is twice as much as the necessary fund. The other two chapels belol1ging to this circuit are at Paitaotzl1 and \tvangknallyillg. Both of these two chapels are from day to day approaching a better condition ANKOCHUANG. III the first days after I entered into the Ministry I had for some time preac1led here. In the year 1900 I came here again, this time ill!'.earch of refuge which I readily found. The condition of the church, then, excelled that of all the others in North China. The Christians distinguished themselves by their earnestlless in worshippin~ God and their generosity in giving financial aid to the church. Even theil, they provided for a good deal of the local expenses. In recent years, although their former zeal has not entirely vanished, yet the church is rather at a standstill. However, an outlook into the future of this church is not discouraging First, the Christians here are, for the most part,

50 44- of well-to-do families. Second, most of the young men here are being bred under Christian education of the highest type, snch as given in Peking University. All these prospects are desirable assets of the cit nrch ; they mean much to its future prosp rity. May the people here be so inspired that all their means and efforts may be, in the first place, for the completion of His Will! LAOTINGHSIEN. This circuit is composed of six churches including that at Laoting which is the headquarters. Rev. \Val1g I Heng is ill charge'. It is rather strange to learn that the church at Laoting, which is an old institution, is inferior in condition to the rest. Here, there are two schools, olle for boys, the other for girls. In the spring the teacher of the boys was suddenly attacked by a severe eye-disease. \Vithin ten days, he lost his sight. This caused pity and lamentation; for the teacher had an old motber at home \V ho trnsted for her support on her only son. As they bad 110t m l1cb property or fortune. the accident to her son left her helpless and deprived her of all means of livelihood. Beggary was facing them. Under these circumstances the members of the church assembled and resolved all raising funds to help them. Accordi1lgly more than one hundred dollars were raised immediately. Besides, other sorts of help were constaptly extended them. This was done partly in recompense for the service he had rendered. Fifteen Ii from the city is a chapel 'at Hui-li which is presided over by Mr. Hu, an earnest and assiduous preacher. The church has made rapid progress. This is largely due to tht: united efforts of the preacher alld the members ill the preaching, each shouldering his part of responsibility. Recelltly tbey have established another church at their OW11 expense as an out-post of this sub-circuit. Formerly their church was too small to afford sufficicnt room for women. Now two other rooms have heen added through the generosity of a local Christian, and the trouble has been thereby relieved. There is also a girls' school here. It is taught by a teiicher appointed by Mrs. Jewell. At Tangchiaho, a town twenty 1i from the city, there is another church. The influence of the church is daily increasing. For the purpose of enlarging the church building which has become too small, a sum of four hundred dollars has been raised from among the local members. This is an instance of their enthusiasm for the church of God. We now come to the third church on this circuit which is at Yenkocbuang. The local preacher is Mr. Pai Kuei Fen who, assisted by his amiable wife, has done much to infuse

51 Christianity into the hearts of the people. In the spring the parsonage was moved to another part of the town. This ne\\" house is situated right beside the market. The location of the chapel is exceptionally favourable to our purpose. In daytime hosts of people come to listen to the Gospel; at liight inquirers come olle after another to learn more about His teachings. On the liew parsollage we spent one hundred and fifty dollars for repairs. This expenditure was defrayed by local ocuutributions. Four Ii from this town there is a wealthy and enthusiastic Christian. He has established a hoarding school both for boys al.c1 girls. All the expellse is on his shoulders. Mr. Pai comes here weekly to preach to the pupils and the few Christi~ns in the vicinity. The teachers ill the schools who are Christians, also teach their pupils the Christian religion besides the other c1a~ses. This will help much to reveal the Truth and to elllightell the pnpils \vhile they are young. The fonrth olle is at Mat'ouying. Mr. 'f'ang YUllg is in charge. Mr. T'allg is all able man, especially fit for cultivating 11e\\' fields. The Church at Hsill-chai comes last alld ranks last. Wt: hope ill the time to collie \'\'e shall be able to remo,'e all the hindrances so that the progress of the church may be no longer -impeded CHIENAN. Mr. \\111 Yii KllIll, all efficient preacher. is in charge. Since he came here he h'as a:complished :t great deal. From day to day the church is ste:ldily advallcillg. Formerly Christianity had 110 access to the :-cholrl1'ly class; 1I0\\' frolll this very class of people, we have H large II llili her of COil verts. Since the transformation of the govertll11ellt the col1ilcil of the city has passed a resolution to 1 he tffect that all temples be used for schools and others sorts of public buildings. This has been accordingly carried out. Thei r main reason for this action was to blot ont all the stains of snperstition alld to extirpate all the traces of idolatry. It shows lhat they have already recognized their former folly alld are ready to take a new conrse of life. Surely they are )lot far from the kingdom of Heaven. One step more will bring them into the dominioll of our Lord. Other chapels are situated at Hsiallgshuik'ol1, at Snnchnang, at Y Hugtientzll, alld at Chiench' angyillg. All except the last one are at a standstill. The reasons for this are diverse, the chiefof which are these: first the churches are ~oo young; second the location of each of these chapels is not suitable. If we could move them to some place nearer the market their colldition would surely be challged.

52 -46- SCHOOLS. The educatiotj in this district has been under the control of Rev. Carl A. Felt. It is very kind of him to ha\ye uudertaken this burden which should-have fallen upon me, as he has already enough to do on the South Peking District. It is a ~licrifice for him but a benefit to otber. He has helped in. fostering more efficient workers in the future. All that lle has dolle' has surely been duly recorded ill Heaven: it is idle to. accord to him too much praise here. - For thirty years preachers have been incessantly coming ill to this district to proclaim the message from above. Our constallt desire and earnest pra~'er is, that He may speedily expejl the rife darklless, and thal His light may shine to the sky.. Throughout this year reasolls for thankfulness are numerous. We have been called to mollrtj the death of the Rev. Wang To, an excellent mall and all ardellt preacher. His work wa~ dolle alld he has been summoned up to Heavell to take rest. We pray that God llul)' bless his wife and children; guide them to walk after the foot pril1ts of the old pastor so that, when the time comes, they shall meet him in Hea\'en to sillg Halleluiah forever aud everlllore. LAHSIEN DIS frict. J. H. PVKE, Missiolla1'y ill Charge. I need add little more to the above report. It was written by the District Superintelldent, Dr. Cll'ell, and, as wonld be' expected, is in highly finished classical style. It was translated into English by his son, who has recelltly been graduated from Pekillg University, The. phraseology is easily intelligible and gives promise of higher efficiency. I have made a few changes, but ill the main, it is as written, The typewritten copy was made by a young lad of I7, son of lvr r. Lo Chi Millg. It is well. done and shows ullusual ability in one so young, not ouly in the use of the typewriter, but also in the matter of punctuation, cnpitals, paragraphing etc. The year has been a very short one, as the Annual Conference met last November, two months later than this year. The District Superintendent was early at his post and has been yery diligt:l1t. His appointment was very opportune; otherwise the work would have suffered greatly, as I was able to do very little conntry travelling. Besides Dr. Ch'en has accomplished certain things which I had 110t been able to do. One of the chief features of the year here has been the remodelling and making additions to several of the chapels, the purchase of a good rented property, and the exchange of two--

53 - 47- chapels for larger, better, and hetter located premises, providing ample accollllllodatioll for church, Sunday School, day school and parsonage. All this has been accomplished without any aid from the Missionary Society and very largely by local contributions, indeed in every case but one. The church in Liellpeitien has made a wonderful record. A year -last spring ll~ost of-the members were suffering from famine and we were obliged to raise money for their relief. This year they have so far recovered that they are not only able to take care of themselves but have opened a preaching place in a large town a few miles distant and have purchast-d a tent for preaching and with which they visit the many adjacellt villages. We have long needed a larger cbape1 at Lallchou but ha,'e never had money to spare for enlargement. ~Tith characteristic energy the new Superintendent took the matter up and said it must be dolle. Burdened with anxiety for the support of the preachers and fearing a deficit as 011 two former years, I urged postpollement alld the putting of all our strellgth 011 raising money for the snpport of the ministers, besides the plan was IIOt satisfactory. The purpose of the Superintendent, however. was 110t to be altered or deferred. A new plan was made-a much better one, a subscription was started, t\le money subscribed and the addition made. It certainly is a grt::at impron'llleut and without cost to the Missioll treasury. But it st'ems a little surprising that it is easier to raise liiolley for improvelllt:lits on buildings, opening new preachillg places and esta blishing shoals than for the support of preachers and teachers. The Lllchiaho Boarding Schools is a case in poillt. The Chao brothers are quite wealthy, and being eamest Christians J wanted to do something for the work of the Gospel. They have erected buildings for schools and dormitories, secured teachers and opened a boarding school with a large number of boys, whose only expense is to pay for food and books. They have also made arrangements for a girls' boarding school which is already in operation. All this expense has been cheerfttiiy borne by the Chao family. They now ask the Conference to select and appoint the teachers, one of whom shah also be a preacher who will conduct the daily opening services and preach on Sundays. They want the schools to be thoroughly religious, and so ask the Conference to take the control without assuming auy of the :financial burdens, they agreeing to provide al1 the necessary funds.. There has been greater activity in extending-tile work and opening new -stations and preaching -places than for several

54 years past, all of which is occasion for encouragement and thanksgiving.. Many of the preachers are supported ill whole or in part by kiud friend~ ill America'" JvIost of these are faithful and regular. Last year there was no deficit, but this year there bas been a heavy falling off, anq we have grave fears that \~e shall suffer serious embarrasment at the close of the year. 'ATe cannot here give the list of donors, but we.wish to thank all \",,110 have helped us and especially those who continue faithful; many of them through difficulties. Where failures have occllrred, in nearly every case it has been through sickness, death or finallcial embarraslllent, and we deeply sympathize \\'ith them. We need, greatly ljeed, many more gifts aud prayers. \Ve have a fine field, a1l earnest, faithful band of workers, allti the church is growing steadily. while the leaven of gospel truth is silently working. A great change has already taken place and the process ~hall continue until the whole be leavened. False religious and their gods have lost their illfiuellce,- ill one district all the temples ha\'e been taken for schools and other public purposes. The Government appeals to the Christian Church for prayer, and lllultitudes of representative men gather with the Christians to pray to the Lord Jehovah, Maker of Heaven and Earth. Lord of All. Sureh all the friends of Missions should take heart and renew their efforts when the final victory is so manifestly near, when the earth shall be filleq with'the: knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the great deep. Adults baptized. Children baptized. Full Members. Ordained preachers On trial in AllIJtlal Conferellce Local preachers. Exhorters Contributed for pastoral Support " Curn-llt Expellt'es.,. Foreign Missions " Home Missions,. " W. F. M. Society Chl1~chBuilding and Repairs. This year Last ~ 2I3 8I I o I t"cli" Total COlltributions..'$3200

55 -49- NORTH PEKING DISTRICT. SUN CHIU KAO, Distrid Supen"ntelldellt. The Sea is vast dark. The waves are rolling terribly. The people are fighting their way under such conditions. \~lhat would one do when he saw brothers and sisters going to be drowned! Would he wish himself at ease and watch his lo\'ed.ones die before his eyes? Would he not give up his amuselllents :and help to save them? Surely he would. Now China has changed from a despotic to a democratic governmellt the people have not yet attained peace and happiness. China is like Olle who has been sick a long time. She is faint and unable to endure more trouble, Chilla. is also like a new-born child that canllot grow without help fro111 others. But the sick man can recover if he has a good doctor, and the infant \'I.'ill grow if it is well nursed. Who is the -doctor and ''Who are the nurses? Christ is China's good doctor, and his followers are the nurses. Shall we the disciples ~f Jesus not give help to the people? One of the great men of China, Mo Tzu has said "If ten folks are living together and only one of them sows in order to support the others, how must he labor so that he can get enough to support them! Jesus said to his disciples, "The harvest truly is plenteous but the laborers are few." 0, Brothers, with what heart should we work -and pi-each His love for the people! When the burden of superintending the churches on the... North Peking District fell upon my shoulders the last year, I was afraid my knowledge is 110t sufficient to make the work a success. But by the blessing of God and the hearty help of working-brothers, every church on the District has progressed. PEKING, ASBURY CHURCH. Peking is the capital of China. Both Southerners and Northerners come here to stay. It gives ample occupation to the preacher and only as he is faithful can the church membership be increased. Pastor Liu Fang is such a preacher. He has again had charge. He is zealous in God's work and is diligent and faithful in his duty. From his work and the progress of the church we know that the Almighty God is with him. So it is 110 wonder that we see in one year so many people coming back to their Father, and 1110st of those recently added to the church are people in government service and -educated people. At new year's time the government allowed us to preach the -gospel in the Chinien Temple in the Temple of Heaveu. It is the first time that permission had been given to God's people to preach His doctrine there.

56 We are grateful to Dr. Smith who came and held revival meetings in Asbury churc,h., Both members, and students were helped to a better life and a stronger belief in God. God has shown his special- love to the church. Mr. Li An Su, a well known preacher and God's faithful servant, has come to teach in the Theological College. He has also done a great deal for the church and many have bf'en JDo~ed by his teachings. Surely he is a true disciple of Jesus. The Primary school of this church is self-supporting. The enrohment of pupils has been large. Mr. Liu Fang has done well. He is loved by the members of the church and by the unbelievers also. He is both faithful to God and to men. He is a preacber much wanted in such a large church. established in such an important place. CHANGPINGCHOU. Mr. Yang I is in charge. He is diligent in his duty and zealous in God's work. and now that place isprosperous. It is hard to bring the gospel to the ~eople of that city. Mr. Yaug is trying to lead the people from th-:, villages around back to the greeu pastures. It is VHy different from thirty years ago. Th~ church is going to grow because Mr. Yang is faithful in his work. South of Changpingcholl we have 8n outpost at SHAHE, where Mr. Han Tien Ying is in 'charge. This place is poor; the shops are small, and most of the people are Mohammedans. The church buildings are small and old. I advised Mr. Han to preach in the surrounding country. Through bis work the church is gradually grov\'lng up. In the southwest Mr. Shih Wan Ku is in charge of the YANGFA~G chapel. Several persons are coming back to God through his preaching. In the northwest is _ NANKOU where a railway station is established. This place may become an important point to our church. We hope the Conference will selld a man there.. There is a training school 011 the circuit in which seven men are stlldyillg the Bible. They are very thankful to Mr. Liu Fang for helping with a gift of twenty dollars fojithe Trainiug school. HUAILAIHSI~N. A Local Preacher, Crh~~n Te Lin has be~n in charge. Becall~e of hi~ wife's skklless he resigned alld left in March, so the cba}-it::l was without a preacher for two mollths. Mr. Chao Chin Cbun went there ill May; then Mr. Wang Sbou Tung was sent.there. He is a gradl1ate of Peking University and 1S popular among the members and waswelcomed by all classes. The local officers of that place often come to hear him preach. That church will certainly be prosperous if he can stay there longer,

57 SHACHE;NG is all outpost of Huailai. An old man, Ho Cheng Heng, is preaching there. He has been sick during the year and had to come to the Hospital for treatment. He is very old but has done very well this year. Mr. Chao Chin Chun was sent to help him dllrillg the summer. Through their earnest work several people were converted. Mr. Tu Wen Kuei, a diligent preacher from VUIN Church, often came to Huailai to help in preaching. The buildings at Yulin are 110t enough for our use, and we hope to have some new ones built next year. Four Ii from Yulin is the station of K'angchuang. If we could establish a chapel there we would be sure of success. A Primary school was established on the circuit. \Ve have to thank Dr. Hopkins for giving us $18, for the Training school. Both church me1l1be~s and students are interested in God's word. The Primary school is not very prosperous because the harvest has been poor and the people are 110t well to do. We pray for God's blessing on this place and hope for good results uext year. SHIHSHIACHEN. Mr. Liang En Po, a local preacher, is in charge. He is an active and enthusiastic worker. The members love him very dearly for his work in the gospel. He also takes the trouble to teach arithmetic in the school. For this we kllow he is earnest in educating the children and gives a good example to the Christians. Mr. Liu Ming Shan was appointed to preach in the KUUEIKOU chapel. That place is a small town and not very many come to the peaching, yet a few have joined the church. If we could open a chapel at LANPINGHSIEN, or FENGNINGHSIEN we could hope for good results. MIYUNHSIEN. 1\1r. Yang Ching Chun is in charge. He is faithful to his Lord and -kind to his friends. He has done an excellent work this year, and the church has kept growing and growing. He often talks the doctrine of Jesus to the learned lllt::ll Hnd they art:: pleased with his powerful preaching. His wife also was a great help to the church. So men and women are standing quite firm in the truth. There is a Primary school in which about thirty students are studying. This school stands hi~h among the Primary schools of North Peking District. The teacher is very diligent and the students are very much interested in their lessons. YENCHENGCHOU. 1'lr. Hsu Yung Chen has had charge. He has labored steadily and has been loyal to God. He is a man of eloquence and power. The great troubje in the year 1900

58 hindered the work there very much. Mr. Hsu has 'labored hard and many members who had go~l~.away have returned to the church, and thert are sigtls of great prosperity in the future. Mr. Hsu also took charge of LAOCHUNFANG church. For the building of a school house and Hew cll l1rch we borrowed $ ISO, a"lld the balauce was contrihuted iby the church"members. We thank Mr. Brown for his helpitlg hand ill the matter. We hope we may have a preacher sent there next year. There are more than sixteen pupils in the PI:1mary school. which is selfsupporting. Both teachers are nice and kim!. HUAIJOUHSIEN. l\ir. Sun, an 'elder, was appointed preacher there. He has worked hard and has shown forth a true Christian example in the church. He often comes to NIULANSAN to preach on Fridays. He has a difficult field, but the membership of the church has increased 1; lider his faithful ministry NIUALNSHAN. Mr. Chia Ching YUH is in charge. He is true to both God and men. He has done wel1 this year and has led some people into the presence of J esns. Mr. Challg" Yu Cheng has been in charge of KAOLIYING church. He is kind to everyone who comes to him. He helped the poor a good deal, and has dolle good work. The year has passed quickly by. I do not thiuk I have much frnit for God. I am sorry myself. The past has gone and the futnre will come. I pray God to forgive me for any thillg I have d<?lle wrong and to bless and help ill the remaining days to have ahulldred fold harvest. I wish to encourage myself with YOlt, my brethren, in God's work. Asbury Church, Peking. LIU FANG, Pastor. "Say not ye, there are yet four mollths and then cometh harvest? Behold I say unto you, Lift np your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already toharvest." We would lift up our hearts ill gratitude to Almighty God, the Lord of the harvest, for the wonderful fulfilment of these words of onr Saviour ill our Peking church during the past year, nor would we fail to be thankful for the faithful brothers alld sisters who have helped to Lear the burden and the heat of the day during this strenuous year. Probationers. This year there have been added to the ch nrch t \'-0 hundred and tvvellty four probationers. Two thirds of these al e from the official and student classes and 11I0st of the at hers from the

59 - 53- merchant class. Three of the l11unber were majors in the army. Of these Major Feng has since become a general. He has led most of his officers t.o become Christians, and 011 Sunday morning he may be seen regularly sitting in the church with these men. Very soon after accepting Christ he sent once a week a minor officer who understood Chinese music to learn the church hy11111s in order to teach the soldiers to sing. and. tn about two weeks. all the soldiers of his company were singing Christian hymns instead of heathen songs while they were drilling. There is a preaching service every Sunday for those who have joined the church and all interested since they were moved to San Chia Tien, a place ten miles west of Peking. Three hundred Bibles have been sold to the men, alld Bible classes have been organized; So that the regiment now seems to me like a small church set down in the midst of the Chinese army and my heart overflows with gratitude to God for these soldiers of the cross. One other probationer is the president of a government school and two of his teachers alld se\reral of his students have united with the church 011 probatioll through his illfluence. Baptisms. Gne hundred and fonr adults and thirty-four children have been baptised during the year. Visitation and,neighborhood Prayer Meetings. Twice a week I have made pastoral calls upon the ch nrch members and on these calls Mrs. Li u usually accolj) panied me. Two neighborhood prayer meetings have been held regularly in the homes of the church members which have not only been helpful to the members themselves but several outsiders have been reached and brought into the church. Every Tuesday evening- I give an hour or more to teaching the members to sing. OU1' Revival. You \Yill rejoice with us over onr gracious revival. We were fortunate in having with us the Rev. J. H. Smith from America for ten days early ill January. Both the students and the members were greatly q llickened and many made a complete consecration at that time. The students especially felt that they had never been through a series of meetings in which their Christian life had been so much deepened and strengthened. Sunday School. Our Sunday School is in four departments under the leadership of graduates of the University.

60 I. Adult Department. ".- 47 teachers 2. Junior Primary Special students li Total..131 teachers 868 studeuts Mr. Li Tien Lu was the superintendent but near the close of the year he resigned to go to America for further study and Mr. Chon Fl1 Chuan was elected to take his place. Both of these men as well as the teachers have rendered most enthusiastic and efficient service. The GO'llernment's Request for Special Prayer. Early in April came a request ullparalleled in history from our Government that the church of God in China would unite to pray for the new Republic that wisdom might be given her in drafting her Constitution and selecting her President, that a speedy recognition of the Republic might be brought about on the part of other nations. The first meeting here was a union of all the Protestant churches in Peking and was held in Asbury church on April 13th. Both President Yuan and the Minister of Foreign Affairs sent their representatives and many prominent officials from ot1ler Boards attended the service. C. T. Wang, the vice-president of the Senate,C. C. Wang and others offered earnest prayer. A second request came from the Government and a second meeting was held in our church when Mr. C. T. Wang gave a most inspiring address which was followed by earnest prayers on the part of the people. Children's Day. This was a l1ew feature in our church this year. Dr. T. H. Chen who has recently returned from America full of helpful ideas for the church proposed it in our Steward's meetil1g. The first of June was Children's Day. Between four and five hundred children, all dressed in their best, came with their parents. A bout sixteen hundred attended the service and the church was so crowded that the little ones had to sit in their mother's laps. Everyone) old and young, was delighted and I would recommend every church in China to have a Children's Day next year. The UniOfJ Evangelistic Society. This society is composed of the members of the different churches in the city and they have llow formed a Voluntary Preaching Band. These laymen have preached at all the fairs

61 - 55 whch have been held from the first of January to the middle.of August and have gladly given their time and money and :sacrificed their business. This has been without any urging on the part of anyone and through this volunteer service many have been led to Jesus. lntroducing themselves. In past years I do not remember that men have come tg me asking to become Christians, but during the past year several have come saying, "I would like to become a Christian but there is no one to introduce me to the church so I have come. mvself. From these instances we can well b-:lieve that there ar~ many who like the Greeks of old "Would see Jesus." Let us like Philip lead them to the Saviour. Several million copies of the Gospels were sold last year and I am sure that many of those who stlldy the sacred pages do not quite understand what they read, but, like the eunuch in Philip's day: are saying, "How can I understand except some man should guide me?" Oh, let us pray God to pour out His Spirit upon us; to open our eyes to see the wonderful opportunities He is now giving us, and to open our ears that we may bear the cries for help, and then let us according to the strength He gives us do all we can. The assistant pastor Mr. Liu Shen En bas done most faithful work and I am happy to say that all the members like him as well as I do and he in tum loves them. During my month's vacation he took entire charge of the church and was so successful that my absence was scarcely felt. I will close my report with the financial statement for the year. CONTRIBUTIONS. Self-support Missions Benevolences Miscellaneous. Total. SHANHAIKUAN DISTRICT. $ $ G. W. VERITY, District Superintendent. The Shanhaikuan District derives its name from the city of that name which is the eastern terminus of the Great Wall. About sixty miles of that famous old structnre, parts of four.colllities, and the highest mountain in this northeastern part of China, are within its borders. The district extends about thirty

62 miles inland and some one hundred miles along the sea-coast.. thirty-five of w~lic1t are outside the Great Wall in Manchuria and sixty-five within, or, to the south of it. The extensive plains, hillsides and mountain valleys, produce great quantitiesof grain aud vegetables, while in its far famed fruits there is a, lively export trade. At Ch)angli, forty miles below Shanhaikuan, onr institutional work is located, boarding schools for- boys and girls, Bible school and hospital for ~omej1, and hospital for men. The one hundred and twenty-six pupils filled the boys' school to its fullest capacity I and under the efficiellt management of H. H. Rowland and Tu Pu YUlI, excellent work has been done. Both the lack of room and fuuds barred 09t many applicants during the year, and ill the year just openitlg, about fifly pupils have been refused admittance. The girls' boarding school was very fortunate in securing Miss Ethel Pyke for the year while the Junior teacher was in preparation for the work. Her ability and consecration were equal to every emergency, and though the school was crowded with one hundred and twenty pupils, the work was carried on to satisfactory completion. The women's Bible school hai its full quota, too, of students, and though l\fiss Glover was laboring under the handicap of ill-health, with Mrs. Chou, her excellent assistant, thorough work as usual was done and the fifty-five women under their instruction are better prepared to live Christian lives and help others to do so. The men's hospital has been well patronized during the year. Dr. Kent by precept and example, has taught the' assistants the benefits of cleanliness alld by prompt and cheerful response to all calls, has become a most important factor in our station. A lady doctor, being unavailable for Ch'allgli this year, Dr. Kent enlarged his sphere of influence by treating the women patients also. We regret that sickness necessitated the homegoing of Miss Glover, one of our most efficient workers, and we hope and pray that she may be soon restored to her wonted vigor and beenabled to return to the work to which she has, without stint, devoted her life. We rejoice at the coming of Miss l\fary Watrous to fill up our depleted ranks and extend to her a hearty welcome. The lack of funds in our North China Conference has, much to our sorrow, compelled curtailment in the discontinuance of

63 - 57- several workers. For one. I am determined 110t to be a party to,an increase of our ipdebtedness. Otherwise the work has gone as usnal. The district is divided into eight circuits ill which there are' twenty-one places in which regular preaching services are held and some additional places where prayer-meetings are maintained. Five of the preachers are ordained men and the remaining fifteen are local preachers. While we have not made the progress ill' self-support that we desired and its importance demands, yet there is encouragement. (I) OUf lease at Liushol1ying expired this year and the local chl1rch was told that if they wished a place of worship they mnst themselves get under the burdetj and provide the relit., They protested their inability, but, finally securerl for $43 a year a better plac= than we formerly occupied. (2) At Shenhe, also, they were given to understand that the conditions on which they could have a place of worship were that the)' pay the rent, They, too, insisted that it was impossihle, but filially assumed the responsibility of the $24 a year. (3) At Shanhaikl1an the local church has, 011 its own initiative, and responsibility rented and fitted up a street chapel at a cost of $63 on the busy street inside the South Gate where daily preaching is maintained. (4) At Ch'imvangtao there are several members of our church with their families, who have been students in Peking University, and, had they but the right spirit, are well qualified for leadership, and there are numbers of inquirers, as well. I have visited the port several times hoping to get a church organized, but, alas, with aching heart, must confess to failure. Through the earnestness, however, of Li En Hsi, a class leader, an eight room property was built and the rent of $60 assumed by the local people. (5) At Niut'ollnai the monthy subscriptions for pastoralsuppo'rt was raised from $1.50 to $3 per month and at Haiyallg from $2 to $3 per 111onth. (6) In February my uncle, Rev. Jonathan Verity, a \Teteran of 78 years of age and 53 years an active member of the Cincinnati Conference, made us a visit, when we availed ourselves of his services and held an eight days revival meeting. Our cougregation is col1lposed of pupils, patients, and local members, some 500 in all.

64 One of the foremost families of an,adjoining- county I twelve -miles distance, had become much' iilterested in the gospel. It.consists of the aged parents, foiu married SOliS and their..children, all in one household. The eldest son has taken his first degree, and the third, his second degree, having, in addition,,spent some time in study in Japan. They were intensely patriotic and this Olle, who had beellabroad, was a member of -the legislatnre under the new government. They were much interested in ed'ucation and had made an inspection of our :schools and hospitals in Ch'angli, and one of them had been to Peking and Tientsin 011 the same errand. They came to see that the svurce of all that had been done for the last fifty years for the advancement of their people and country was the Christian,Church, and returned enthused with the thought that Christianity was what both, they, personally, and their country needed.and must have. The father had been for many years a devoted Buddhist and \'egetarian, visiting temples far and near to find peace of soul, and, while investigating Christianity. he had not yet abandoned his idols. aud. 011 their knees before him, the sons 'had besought him that, with them, he wol1ld accept Christ. At this juncture our revival meeting occurred to which they were invited. A Christian neighbor, a very poor mall, who had formerly been a servant in a missionary's home, and in whom they had great confidence, urged them to attend, saying, "Yoll..cannot get far in the Christian life till you confess your sins and pray." The father, three sons, grandsons, and some friends, fourteen in all, came and remained during the eight days. The last day the father came forward, and in public presented his idol, a -scroll picture of the Goddess of Mercy, to my uncle, thereby.severing, forever, his connection with idolatry. Those days will never be forgotten by any whose privilege it was to attend. For several days these friends, with three or four hundred others, knelt at the altar. inside, on the platform, or outside on tbe floor, in fact, all over the church, and with tears and sobs, prayed for pardon and peace. The promise, "seek and ye shall find," was again verified. At the closing meeting their testimony was, "We are 1I0t the same men who came here a few days ago. We are new men. This peace far surpasses all our fondest exrectations. We must go home and prepare, at.once, a place of worship." And several months later on a return visit, for a Sunday, they said, "This peace abides, and it is as sweet as at the first and, further more, it has pervaded otlr whole household. The whole atmosphere of OUf home has _hanged." As with most others of their class, they had been

65 - 59- addicted to the. use of. tobacco, ~igarettes, liquors, and opium, but they not only abandoned, in toto, the use of these themselves, but decided henceforth they would 110t provide them for guests, but would devote'their means, both men and women, to Christian -education. Old buildings were renovated and additions made for a chu:-ch, and on Angust seventh it was dedicated. It was.a great day for that village of three hundred families. Never had their streets been invaded by so lllany from afar; for from Peitaiho, the summer resort, only eight miles distance, 23 Christian workers. accompanied Bishop and Mrs. Bashford to the dedication. After the Bishop's sermon and some remarks by others, the third son, who is the' spokesinan of the family, addressed his neighbors thus, '0 Some years ago when we turned our village temple into a school house, you said we,,,ere crazed, but we were 110t. We were perfectly sane, and when, some months ago we became Christians, Illy friends in Peking and Tientsin, wrote me, asking me if I had golle clean daft. Again I assure you, we are not. Now we hhve prepared this church and want )'011 to C0111e and hear the gospel. Like others who have a little money, we formerly kept horses 3nd carts for a show. but we have sold them and want them no more. Now we are going to devote ourselves to education. We are abont to demolish the old buildings and erect a girls' school and propose to add a woman's school and a kindergarten; but while we are devoting ourselves to education, I want you to understand that first oj all we are Christialls. I say to you, onr neighbors, we can give up our property; I can forego my literary degrees; I can even give up my life: but give up Christ, we cannot." The blessed Gospel is still" the power of God unto salvation to all who believe." In the hill country of FUlling near the Great Wall, a man was possessed of a spirit of self destruction; twice he had jumped into wells and thrice iuto rivers to drown himself, but" Jesus of Nazareth passed that way," He heard his sweet voice, saying, "Come uuto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give YOll rest." He yielded himself to his power and now for four years, he has been happy in the Savior's love and protection. In another gully among the mountains near Huangt'uying, dwelt an old lady with her three grown SOllS and their families. For several years they hf!:d been Christians, and to the old lady, Jesus had become" the fairest among ten thousalld and the One, altogether lovely." As age advanced, her Bible and hymn book were her constant companions. Feebleness came upon her; the earthly pilgrimage was closing. Th~ sons began to mourn, but she said,,. Do not weep. Its all right. Array me ill my

66 - 60- (burial) clothes. Jesus bas come for me," and "she was not.. for, God took lier." For these tokens of the Lord;s presence among us and his blessings on us we " Thank God and take courage." We are grateful for the heip secuted by Brother Felt, enabling us to maintain twelve day schools. 'fhe one at Shanhaikuall of 27 pupils was so well managed that it became a model for au the other schools of the city. At Ch'ienso, the school opened in April. The boys, from seven to fourteen years of age, showed careful and diligent work on the part of the teacher, repeating the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, and the Catechism, readily. Seven student volunteers from Pekillg University came to our aid during the vacation, sowing the good seed. lviay it be watered with the dews of God's grace and bear much fruit. We thank the American and Scotch Bible Societies for the books and colporteurs they have so kindly given us during the year, and also those donors, whether on the field or at home, whose gifts have enabled us to support workers that would otherwise have had to be discharged and keep preaching places open that would otherwise have, of necessity, been closed. SOUTH PEKING DISTRICT. CARL A. FELT, District Superintendent. The time for the writing of reports again draws nigh. My first word must be that of thanks to the Father that He has vouchsafed to us his constant care during the year. He has done the best that could be done with the District; of this I am sure. I dare 110t say as much for the rest of us at work on the District. I wish "that I could, but I'm sure that He knows that we have tried, some of us a part of the time and some of us all of the time. Many plans haye failed of full fruition, but of the efforts and our successes, we will write, and perhaps of the failures. Those who know this part of our Conference and particularly those who know it best, wil1llot expect much. Added to the natural conservatism of the people is the remembrance of I900 with its horrors and, what is worse, the failure of our Christians in some cases to be g-ellerous when once their tormentors were overcome. Had a splendid Christian spirit prevailed, perhaps much of the batred would havebeell overcome, but I am sure that this would be asking too much of the Chinese Christians when we recall that saintly missionaries tell us that they were

67 - 61- :able to Wlderstand the ill1prec~tory Psalms as never before -during the siege. Gradually the spirit has been changillgand I thitlk this has -been the best year since that bloody time. The people are beginning to realize that the Protestatlt Church means good and only good for China. I cannot say so mnch for the Roman Catholics. As far as we are concerned, I suppose there are almost as many ex-protestant Christians who have been brought over and now em-oiled in the Catholic Church within the bounds of this district as there are now enrolled in good standing in our Church. You who read this report, may blame them, but, if you only knew the temptations which are placed before these, our newly won, and therefore slightly trained Christians, you would be gellerous. In 99 cases Ollt of 100 I do 110t condemn them; I rather put the blame where it belongs, on the Roman gold. During the year many of these have desired to return to us. I have told them that I would gladly receive them if they \vould first notify the priest of their intention and give proof of their determination to lead a llew life in Christ Jesus. None have dared to notify the priest for they say he will surely beat them, and I presume that he would: many. however, are constant attendants at our services. I have said that 1 believe there is a more hopeful outlook,in this corner of our Conferellce. Owing to Illy class-room duties, I have beell 11llable to visit the several churches as often as T have desired. I have, howe\'er, made from two to seven visits to each place and have attended to the affairs of the several circuits to the best of my ability. Where there are failures, I can only say that they have been made through lack of wisdom or experience or both. NIUT' DeHEN is the 1Iewest of our circl1its, alld yet I place it first in general efficiency as a working church. The pastor, Hou 'fien has done faithful work in the Street Chapel and in developing his people in living out the Christia1l truth they have learned. If they were 1I0t well grounded, surely some of them who have been severely persecuted during the year, could not have stood the test. One gave up an excellent position ill a store rather than de1ly his Christ. Another, all 'only son, was severely persecuted by his father. To e~cape the wrath of all irate father, he fled in the midst of tlie Ilight to the -Church, where he was kt"pt until 1ll0mi1lg', whe1l he was sent to,a neighboring church H1Itil the matter could be adjusted. Duri1lg the week following, Fallg Ch'j spellt his time developing '11is soul under the direction of sympathetic friel1ds, while the :father, t hinki1lg through his family affairs, was glad to declare

68 religious liberty for his household if (lilly his ~on \vould retnrli.. Pastor a1l(1 pt:op1~ were happy. They had earnest1y prayed for this and God rewarded them qilitldy and fully. This youth now expects to enter our Bible Institute this fall. and wboknows what may yet be wrought through him? The Niut'()" Church is only five years old, but it has already furnished two faithful worker~. Mr. Cheng Ch'ien, the Day-school teacher at Ha1ltsull a1ld Mr. Tung Shih Kll'ei who is al Ch'ikou, a new point recently opened at tlrat important fair towll, some twenty li from Nil1t'o. PAHSIEN is the second charge in poillt of results and of genera] efficiency. Mr. Yen has been diligently following up the good beginning made last year. He reports twenty-two baptisms for the year. In January, I sp~nt several days there in special meeti11gs; on the last Sunday I baptized tell persons and received them into full membership. Twenty-two were received into probation the same day. The work has continued, and I feel that Pahsien gives good promise of developing into a strong and vigorous church in the 110t distant future. I do not want to close this report of the Pahsiell Charge without a word of praise for Mrs. Yen. She is diligent 8nd fruitful in good works. HUANGTS'UN with Mr. Lin Ch'eng Mei in charge, stands third. Mr. Lin has had a busy year; it has also beelj a successful olle. The extreme proverty of the people, owing to the crop failure, made the temptation to eat Catholic food and a collsequent acceptant of Catholic baptism and membership, seem a necessary step during the first part of the winter. OUf church member's extremity is the Roman Catholic Church's opportullity. Our extreme care 110t to make" rice Christians" has been the downfall of many a believer who might have developed into a stalwart Christian cha nlcter. For days there seemed to be 110 choice but to accept the Catholic food or starve. Our pastor pled with us on the one hand and with his foodless people on the other. His hope was to hold them firm until relief came. Finally they V'.rere rewarded, for Mr. Brown, as the representative of the Relief COlllmittee ill Tientsill came' to the rescue. Grateful indeed are we for the relief and the unselfish service of' Mr. Brown and of Mr. Chao Tzu Heng, who attended to the distribution. In connection with the H llangts'un Circuit. '\\'e have opened work at P'angkechuang and at Yufa, both large towns 011 the great road. The latter has been supplied by Mr. Chang Hsiu Ling', a student, during the summer months, and the former by Mr. Lin Hsi. The work at P'angkechuang is particularly-

69 encouraging. It gives promise of quick returns. During the' few months that Mr. Liu has been there, a goodly llumber have asked to be received on probation. \\i e need a church home here. Who will give it to us? HANTS'UN has had a hard year. During many m01lths they suffered dreadfully from famine. Here also 1\lr. Brown came to our relief. III this famille relief, as in all other, Mellg Te lung, who was appointed to this charge at the last Conference, was yery energetic. Large numbers were gathered in, but, just at the critical time, an urgent reqnest for Mr. l\,ieng came from the Tientsin Intermediate School. Though we had 110 one for the' place, we let Mr. Meng follow his own inclinations in the matter. After several l110ntbs, Mr. Tu Yu Ch'i was secured. His' activity and zeal promise great things for Hallts' lui. PEIYIN on the Hants'un Circuit, has beell for a liul1jber of years without an active pastor. At the close of the school year, Mr. Wang T'i Ch'ing took up tbis work. Already Peiyill, like Hants'un, has takell 011 new life. Last on the list is poor KUAN. She has suffered tllllcb in her appointments. Havillg lacked an efficient Shepherd, the members have not beelj led iuto the kno\vledge alld love of God, 110t being able to find a suitable mall, Mr. Liu Te Hsill \",'as continued for a few months. III March I was glad to secure Mr. Li Yu Feng for this place. He and his young wife elltered upon their task with joy and energy. My two visits to them were a genuine joy. Alas, the strain of the hard months of repairing were too much of a tax UpOll Mrs. Li. III July I found her far from well. We hoped a couple mollths at Ch'angli would restore ber, but disease had laid its hand too heavy upon her. I~ast week she passed away. The District SupeFintendent feels the loss to the work. We wish to express our deep sympathy for our brother in his bereavement. May God comfort and sustain him. Kuan is Ilot prosperous, but of this I am sure, M r. and Mrs. Li did their best. This kind is 1I0t cured but by prayer and fastitlg. By the grace of God we will lay siege to Kuan next year and get glory to the name of our God in that plclce-. The work in the Southern City has been under the personal supervisioll of M r. Browll. He will report his own work. The COLPORTER AGE work has gone forward remarkably iu spite of the famine conditions prevailing in so much of the District. During the year, onr several colporters, paid and unpaid, have sold or given away a total of 55,094 Testaments and portions. If only each were faithfully read! Many are

70 being faithfully searched and as a result there is h. ss of "Ullwilling ness to hear the prea<;hip.g; in fact, in most places, there exists an anxiety to know. We again wish to give hearty thanks to the Americali Bible Society and to the Natiollal Bible Society of Scotland for their generous support d uri n g allot her year. DAy-SCHOOLS: During the year there have been established lour schools, namely at Huangts'ull, Hants'un, Pahsien, and at Peiyin. In each of these places, we are already reaping a good harvest in some fine boys and girls who will enter the Intermediate :School this fall. In some instances too, parents are being drawn into the church. \Ve need more special gifts for this phase of.our task. Mr. Davis will report more ill detail concerning the schools. Properties have required considerable attention at every place, so I sljeak of them together. Extensive repairs,, ere necessary at Hants'un, Peiyin, Kuan, alld Niut'o. At Hllangts'ull and Pahsiell also considerable outlay was unavoidable. We are thallkful to report that because of special fullds granted, we are able to make many of the lieeded repairs. The rains held up some of the work. but allolher month will see it finished. \Ve are 110t only cleansing the outside of the matter, but are.diligently striving to clean the inside of the cup also. Some deficient workers have been dropped fro111 our lists. This is.difficult for all coljcerned, but I have felt that 1I0t to act was the worse of the two evils. III each case I have tried to go so slow that I should be snre of my groulld. Take it all ill all, we now have good hopes for a llew year..hard? Yes, this District is so considered, but I am sure it is 110t too hard for Him who sent forth Care, alld Morrison and who in His goodness has permitted me a S111;1I place in his large World-field. It seems to me that this year has been spent largely ill getting ready to do that for which we are sent, however there are some results which must be noted here. There is a better and more efficient group of laborers than a year ago, a1ld a decidedly finer spirit of devotion to tile Master and His Church. Fonr llew day schools have beeii organized with a total of 47 pupils. These schools are taught by four ;llle1j whom I love for their. good work and forthe fitle spirit they have manifested si11ce taking up their work. Our churches a11d parsollages have been repaired. They are I:OW as they were 110t before. fit places for Ol1r ChineSE> brothers to live in and respectable places iuto which to itlvite friends and i.lquirers.

71 - 65- Advallce~., have also been made in contributions ill spite of the famine conditions prevailing throughout the District up to harvest time. Lastly, we are grateful to report the largest increase in membership since 1900 Last year the statistical table shows a total of 151 church members; this year we report 239, an increase of 88. The total number of probationers is 222, an increase of I39. The loving care of the Father has been round abont us the whole year. He has raised up friends at home to help lls finallc'ially, to whom we wish to give our hearty thanks, and, what is more, the promised Comforter has been our constant assurance. r. Baptisms, Ad nits Children. Total Total baptized Christi ails Probat iollars Inquirers Self-support. Missiolls, Home, Foreign ",'vv. F. ~I. S. Superannl1a tes. Bishops' FUl1d. Repairs. Currellt expellses Other benevolences. Total STATISTICAL TABLE. FINANCIAL [ ~ (){) 5 5 ~ $297 SOUTH PEKI~G DISTRICT F. 131< OW N f JlIiSSjOIlCl,)' ill- Laarge The year began with mllch political unrest, yet the Gospel has been preached without intermission. Owing to the (ihstress caused bv the floods of last year ill the sonth of the district, it was nec;..,sary that some attention s:lould be given to Famine Relief work, and, to this, I was speciauy appointed by Bishop

72 - 66- Bashford. The Tientsin Relief Committee made liberal contributions and in the mission, nearly three hundred dollars was subscribed. I am g!ad to report - that several thousand people were helped, and many starving people are to-day alive and grat~ful for timely help givell~ I wish special1y to thank those who assisted to make this possible. After arranging this special work my time has been given entirely to work in the City; having charge of the aggressive Evangelistic work has meaut constant thougllt, and care, perhaps during 110 period in the history of the mission has there been a more earnest desire to bear the Gospel Message, and this fact has taxed the seating capacity of all our Chapels. Statistics of those who haye at fairs or in the Chapels listened to the preachers show that 300,000 have been counted as placing themselves within range of the Gospel 11essage. O\Ter and above this, the members of our staff have taken their full share of fair work. Peking is peculiar in that during the year. There is a constant succession of fairs held in different parts of the City and suburbs. The Peking Evangeh;tic Association usually erects three tents, one for men, one for \\"omen, and one for children. Preachers and leader.; attend from all the missions. On arrival, their names are entered on the platform list, and a constant succession of speakers are available during the daily service which usually lasts six honrs. To t he great delight and surprise of all, we were able to hold the first campaign in the 'Temple of Heaven.' The covered altar did duty as a platform, and for ten days preaching was carried on in this sacred building; the Chinese Holy of Holies. The Emperors of China had supplicated here for five huudred years but on January the first, 1913, the Gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ \1\'as proclaimed by an earnest baud of preachers and thollsands heard for the first time the message of salvation. Few more profoundly impressive events have taken place in all these clays of transformation. The second fair was held in the Ii Temple of Agriculture" and when the authorities were applied to for permission to erect our Gospel tents the reply was, "select any you care for." "You shall have your choice" anel this notwithstanding that there were 330 applications fro111 business men who were waiting for permission to erect stands. Another fair of great interest was held in connection with the Pan Tao Kung temple or the 'temple of the trained peach tree, this is a favorite shrine where may be seen the branches of a peach tree intertwined in the shape of a dragon and covered with imitation peach blossoms of paper. Since the dragou has been cast ont, may that which is symbolic ill this temple be destroyed by the power of the Gospel. In this temple it is said,

73 '" He who by his merit obtains the privilege of plucking a peach takes his seat among the immortal spirits." Many weary sinsick souls visit this temple seeking relief but finding none: to these it has been a joy to minister. At this fair we had the l1elp of Bishop Bashford one day, who thro11gh an interpreter preached to a great crowd. There are many other places beyond our chapels wherein we have preached, one more only I will mention. Tung Yueh temple; this is dedicated to the deity of Tai Shan where we ha"e an important work. For ten days in the third month thousands of pilgrims visit this shrine \\;hicl! was erected in 13 I4. All down through the centuries the people have been flocking for help but finding none. In the temple yard there is a bronze mule, and the sick in body flock thither to rub the portion of its anatomy which correspo1\ds to the position of their ailment believillg that tl1l1s they will gain relief. The sinsick soul seeks relief ill illcense and prostrations and to these the message of salvation has been preached, wit!l results stlch as have astonished even the wisest amongst 11S. Some hundreds have been taken on probation and passed on to the nearest church for instruction allq help. Besides the foregoing, our three regular Chapel services are held daily the year round. The first and lliost important is at Chushihkol1 or the 'Pearl market Chapel the wisdom shown in securing this site is constantly beillg justified, for the crowds push in daily, SOOI1 as the doors are opened and preachers mount the platform in order, for several hours the crowd listening with eager anticipation. The preacher ill charge is Shih Ping Ho, an able mall, who, but for his age, should be admitted to the regular ministry and into Conference. The year ronnd he has been at his post except for a short vacation, I pressed him to take during the summer. We began the year with a thorough renovation of the buildings and the installation of electric lights, alas; we could 110t enlarge the capacity of the building, but we prayed, and the result is that we have 1l0W secured on trust more land which will enable the mission in the future to extend the seatit!g capacity greatly About 400 people have recorded their names during the year as.inquirers. Of necessity we have to draw largely on volunteer workers for so large a work, and some of these have not been as wise as they might ha\'e been, either in length, or matter contained in their addresses, but we have adopted a simple remedy for this condition of our preaching force, by graciously handing up a cup of tea to the speaker, the effect now is like magic and is the signal for a speedy conclusion. The Rev. J. Verity accompanied me several times to this Chapel and always made a lasting impression.. The message delivered by a veteran

74 - 68 of 78 years had a wonderful effect. One' member of this Conference who was thinking of superannuation, seei'ng the' vigor of so old a man and listellilig to his message, withdrew:his proposal and decided to remain in the work a few years longer. A missionary fro111 JeIlo informed me a short time ago of a Mohometan who visits Peking frequently 011 business, this man was collverted in our pearl market Chapel and away off in this, far away place confessed to the missionary of his new-found joy. In a very real sense "ve are not only preaching to Peking people as our inquirers list shows, but as far away as Kan Su, Shensi and Shallsi, men are influenced by the work dolle iiere. A lecture course ill the evenings during t he winter was very effective in drawing in a different class to th~ ordinary streetchapel crowd. The lectures were given in Chinese on popular subjects snch as 'first aid, 'sanitation' and 'electricity' by professors and teachers from the university, thus Ollr Chapels ha,-e become ed llcational as well as evangelistic centers. 'N e are well aware that the true test of the effectiveness of the work is the prayer meeting, and the Suuday congregation. We Ilote with gratification that both here, and in self support, there has been marked progress. The melllbers have rented a bl1ilding for a boys' school and from this addition of youllg hopefuls to our Suuday congregatioll, some hm'e joilled the Church alld are influellcing their parents towards Christianity. Huashih or the 'flower market' Church has again been "ill charge of local Deacon Chao Tzu Hcng. Last year we reported that the building was too small for the congregations, and throughout the year we have worked at a disadvantage, but as the early preachers in the time of Wesley were 110t confined to buildings in which to do their work, so we have 110t been bound within the four walls of our Churches. The 1110st encouraging feature of this work is that the Church is filled with the bollyancy and vitali ty of young life. There are schools for girls and boys, mostly fro111 heathen homes seeking an education under the direction of the church. Morning and evening prayers are helel and numbers of these children are striving to live the Christian life, allc1 some have influenced their parents and have led them to the Savior. Saturdays are reserved forwomell olll,j' in this Church, the Bible women take the platform and preach to the crowds who come to listen, fiuding this a bright experience once a week and many are doubtless influenced thereby. M r. and Mrs. Chao are ever ready to help those in trouble. None surpass them in diligence and warm hearted devotion to their work. The third appointment SHUNCHIHMEN is the oldest work; but, by ea11S, the most promising. Situated ill a quiet 'part,

75 ~ 69- of the city it is not easy to get a large street congregatioll r but the work done by Mr. ehia, an exhorter, is worthy of praise, an inexperienced young man, yet ready to work and pray his way through. The reward is a very encouraging state of affairs the preacher in charge last year left things in rather a bad shape a1.1d was relieved of his office, so, when the Conference left it ",to be supplied" this year it added 110t a little to my anxiety, put we.are glad to be able to report progress. Our "system of preachers" plan has been used with s.nccess so that whatever happens during the week the Sunday preaching has been kept up.to a good standard, thanks to many helpers, including Dr. Hopkins, professors Gibb and Davis. While District superintendent SUll has al ways been ready to help-us while in the city. We are especially grateful to Mr. Davis for the help so freely given in Sunday school work. The Huashih ragged school which meets on Sunday afteruoon is a model of its kind. The wornall)::; work has been carried 011 with vigor by Mrs. Jewell, Mrs. Pan, Mrs. Li, Mrs. Cheng, and Mrs. Brown. In bringing this report to a close' I wish to recognize the loyalty of the workers, and thc blessing of God. A New Work but a regular Sunday appointment is just outside the Yungting gate, a vigorous cause but with miserable accommodation; nearest to the 'Temple of Heaven' we should have better premises and a thousand dollars would be well spent in buying a small building. We want to represent Christianity decelltly. but \'\'ith a small place 20 by 20 and a congregation of 60 or 70 crmvded inside we are endangering the lives of the pr.eachers, to say nothing of the people. May someone hear the call and respond towards the nearest Christian Church to the Temple oj Heaven. The year has' passed with its trials and triumphs and we are grateful for health and strength vouchsafed to all the \'l.torkers, the future is bright with promise, and we believe that a rich fruition will res nit from the work of the year. SOUTH TIENTSIN DISTRICT. G. R. DAVIS, District Superilliendazt. There are but seven charges on this district j divided into five quarterly conferences. These charges are,few but somewhat widely separated consequently req1 1irillgconsiderable travel to superintend. Four of these charges were badly : loaded last year, crops were lost and there was much suffering -among the people. It wasilecessary to,aid our 'people during :the winter months. The -cot1iitry,from Wallgchiakou to~ Tientsin

76 was one vast field of ice during the col9 season. Fish seemed to he plentiful and everywhere crowds of men and boys were busy fishing t11ro the ice. _ We were able to visit all these quarterly conferences repeatedly during the seven. working months after Conference. YANGLIUCHING. This charge is only 13 miles west of Tientsin, consequeutly frequently visited. Rev. Chin Cheng has been in charge and the work has been most encouraging. There have been a number of adults baptised and r~ceived into full relations with a llumber of probationers. During the year a day school for boys has been carried 011 in our premises. The new members together \'vith the school boys now crowd to overflowing the room we 111ust use for our Sabbath service. Our premises are too small and not advantageously located for our work; only r00111 enough for a parsonage and primary school. Our growing work here demands a better plant. At our earliest moment we should secure additional buildings on a central street which could be used for a street chapel on market days and for our growing congregation on Sabbath days. Brother Chin, now the only ordained member of onr Conference on the district, has been 1110st faithful and wide awake ill his work. This has been his 1110St prosperous year on the charge, 12 adults have been received into full relation, 15 have been received on probation and 3 children baptised. The contributions for selfsupport have been increased. WANGCHIAKOU. This large river mart is ahout twenty seven miles Sonth and West of Yal1gliuchillg. This large town suffered greatly from the flood of last year, the water was slow in disappearing. Our members suffered considerably. several families went elsewhere and several others easily drifted into the Catholic church where money ever seems plentiful and makes excellent bait in their fishillg for men. At our last Conference Rev. Li Shao Wen, one of the oldest members of our Conference, was returned to this charge with some hesitati.on. He had been seriously ill during the past summer and spring but he insisted that his health was sufficiently good for the work. At our first quarterly conference. his health seemed much improved and he was in good spirits. April 12th I reached there all my second round, that evening we spent several hours in conversation over the condition of his charge and his health. He seemed quite well. Early Sabbath morning I saw and talked with him for a few moments, a little later he came to my door and reported the arrangements of the services. for the day. All hour later the colporteur and chapel keeper came running in great excitement to my door saying that Li Mu-shih while at his breakfast had

77 -71 - been suddenly taken ill and had fallen to the floor unconscious. Vle placed him 011 his bed anti made him' as comfortable as we could. I saw at once that his whole left side had been paralyzed. He remained unconscious, never opening his eyes uutil 12:30 P.M., wh~n he passed quietly away. Bro. Li, w4ile not always a most wiuning preacher, was always very able, the ablest debater in onr Conference. He,vas a fine Chinese scbolar, was an earnest student of our scriptures with a firm belief in God and the Lord Jesus Christ as the only Saviour of men. Tbus equipped, be was a power in discussion either in street chapel or public fair. He had long and earnestly served the Lord and His church. One by one our older men are dropping their weapons of warfare, going to their rest, leaving a younger body of men to meet tbese changing times. Since bis death tbe charge has beeu served by a local preacher of some years experience in our traveling connection. Flood, famine and death have made a tryillg year for this charge and but few n~embers added while a large number have either left us or drifted elsewhere. For several years a small place in a village some miles to the West of Wangchiakou had been rented as a cbapel. The work has 110t been promising and onr financial condition forbade continuing to rent. The place was dropped as it can be easily supplied 011 occasions froill Waugchiakou. In another village we 0\\,11 a chapel building, which I fear serves the temporal interests of a few mangy sheep rather than any spiritnal good. TAICHBNG CIRCUIT. Early in the Conference year we united the three charges of Taicheng, Litall and Chinghsieu into one quarterly conference wbicb, with a few changes in the Board of Stewards, has been to the peace and benefit of the above churches. Almost the entire territory of these churches was. flooded with the consequent suffering from loss of crops. The whole region needed relief during the winter. A tlumber of our people drifted elsewhere seeking a livelihood, a few others found their way into the e\'er ready Catholic church. The Chinese anthorities, whenever distributing relief, persist in discriminating against Christial1R. The members of our Tientsin mission contributed towards the relief of our own people, we thus distributed $210. among Ollr most needy in the flooded district. It is always a difficult and thankless undertaking to distribute relief, as too many of the members think all ought to share. and share alike of the bounty of the church, whereas after careful study you find many are able to care for themselves without any great suffering. We aimed to help only the helpless. The spring saw the flooel >nlirely gone with fair crop

78 -72 - prospects all every hand. We have r:epeatedly visited this large circuitholdi11g quarterly conference services and distribnting relief. Despite earlier drawbacks there has been some prosperity over the entire circuit, some 9 adults baptised and received into full relation with I I by prob,ation. TAICHENG. Brother Wang Pao Tang, a local deacon, has been in charge for several years and has been faithful and diligent acording to his ability. At LIT,AN, Liang Sbih Tsai, a local preacher of some years experience has been serving his first year, his work has been acceptable to the members. Thns far there has been peace and harmony in the little church. It is not well to be too confident as trouble bas a habit of cropping out just about Conference time. At Chiughsien we have had only the services of chapel keeper and these services have been no great help to the small class of members. At Taicheng our premises are fairly well located, our buildings good; at Litan our premises are too large, buildings however too few and not suitable, our chapel needs slight changes to render it suitable for street chapel work and better adapted to our Sabbath services. Could we dispose of a part of our vacant land, build a new parsonage, the charge would be greatly improved. At both Taicheng and Litan we have flourishing day schools for boys. At Cbinghsien we have only a good parsonage, no building at all suitable for either street chapel or Sabbath day services. We need here a good chapel building. Chinghsien is central to the entire district and accessible either by rail or canal, the very place for much needed district conference work. The greatest need of both the Wallgchaikou and Taichiug charges is a real leader in their midst, a man of etlergy and experience filled with the spirit. Either of several of the men on the Tsnnhua district could find here a great field for his zeal, experience and leadership, I trust that some one of them will feel called to this needy field at our coming Conference. NANPI CIRCUIT. To the South of Chinghsien, 50 English miles is the not very prosperous city of N anpi, we have a small struggling church, greatly ill the need of help but 110t the help the people IllOst desire, viz.; help in their childish lawsuits, but the power of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, the mind of the Lord Jeslls ill their daily lives. Brother Hsu Ching Ping now on trial in onr Conference came to this appointment last Conference from the Tsullhua district. He has found,his new field rather discouraging but has been 1110St carefulalld. very faithful in preaching 110t only in Nanpi but ill many market towns ill that region, multitudes have willingly listened to the preached word and bought portions of the scriptures,bllt few

79 - i3'- ha\?e believed the word and to fewer still has the arm of the Lord been revealed. Patience and push on the part of the spirit filled preachers will win the day even here. Our funds being so short we have ceased to rent premises at the small Dlarket town of Shechiawo. There are very few members there and these not very promising. The pastor at Nallpi can easily minister to 'their wants. At Nallpi we have a day school for boys with an average attendallce of 20. These boys come from non-christian families wbom we hope to interest in Christianity. At first the parents were much afraid to have their boys attend religious!services; that fear has now disappeared. Our premises are owned by the church. We have a fair parsonage, a room for Sabbath services and a school room but the sun-dried mud building llsed for street chapel is a disgrace to Methodism and Christianity. As in Chinghsien we here very much need a llew chapel for our work if we would attract our 11on-Christian neighbors. CHAOHE CIRCUIT. To the South-west of Nanpi ~5 miles we reach another cnunbling country town, Chaohe. In this tow11 we have a small but slowly growing membership. At another place Ssu111entsllll, 9 miles distant, we have also premises and a slowly growing congregation. In neither of the'se places is our plant ideal, but ill botb the membership is growing in size and in the knowledge of the tbiilgs of God. Two adults ha\'e been baptised and received, while 15 adults have been added on probation. These small congregations have contributed more for self-support and other benevolences than heretofore. Brother Chen Yen 'ri, a local preacher, has been ill charge of this circuit the past year. At Sl1meutsull there is an assistant, a young exhorter of good report, very acceptable to his lirtle charge. Brother Cben bas some ability as a preacber but his zeal is not steady nor his judgement always good. 011 this district there is not that spirit of brotherhood and oneness of purpose as seen elsewhere, each one stands too much alone. It would work a great benefit to preachers and churches could we readily at some central point hold a district conference! once or twice a year, where the emphasis could be put 011 the need of the revival spirit. the unity of our work, and personal responsibility, until all could grasp the idea that loaves and fishes must be forgotten, that they were called to be fishers of men. While the conditions and outfit for work 011 this district are 110t ideal, the work is far from being hopeless. The whole region is in sore need of the saving gospel of our Lord Jesus. We will look to the hills fr:om which cometh all help, we must hope ill God and push ~he; batt,le"ti.> :victory. "

80 -74 - TAIAN DISTRICT GEORGE, L. DAVIS, District Superintendent. At the close of my first year as District Superintendent on the Taianfu District, I wish to thank the ever-present Lord for His watchful care and abiding presence in protecting the members of the District from harm and danger. It was with fear and trembling that I followed my wise and experienced predecessor. While there has been great progress in many parts of the Republic this past year, we are glad to report that Shantung has not been behind her sister provinces, and it is with pride that we announce that Indian Opium is 110 longer imported into Shantung. The British Consul made a most careful investigation and he was 110t able to find any poppy plants growing. The way that the province was sconred by soldiers, underlings, gentr)1 and officials, before the formal investigation, proved the determination of those in authority to put Shantung ill the coveted list. This year will show a marked increase in the number of women who have joined the ch urch, and in this way brought the entire family into the church. This is due to the fact that there were three \Vomen's Training Schools 011 the District. Our quarters are 110t adequate ill ally place for such a school, but at 'l'ungping the women really suffered. There was room for about ten with crowding, and twenty-two came, so it was necessary to build a shed, and they made one of corn 'stalks and mud in a corner of the yard. About five o'c~ock in the morning of December twenty-third, as I was packing my cart to leave, I noticed that the door was a straw mat that lacked a foot of reaching the top, and the,,,omen slept on some straw on the ground. Mrs. Wu certainly worked like a heroine for she not only taught a school of eighteen girls and looked after her own home, but also managed the Women's Training School; but the work was 110t in vain as one Sunday when I was there ten women joined the church and their ten babies were baptized, while the husbands that were present came forward and held the children and stood up with their wive~. The school at Anchiachuang had to stop at Chinese New Year's time as we started the Boys' Intermediate School there, but the most capable of the women where transferred to Yenchonfu to study there. At Feicheng the teacher, Mis,s Hsu, made a very good impression on the wom~l1 and taught them so well that the candidates for baptism passed extremely good examillati011s. One poor old woman who had lived in a remote coun~ry village, where we had never held a revival meeting, was so glad that at

81 -75 - last her prayers had been answered and she had been given a cbance to attend a revival meeting and feel the comfort of the Holy Spirit. It is no use to be discouraged as even the stupidest women can learu. Twenty-five years ago a young woman was sent from Shantung to Tientsin to the Training School and my dear mother was her teacher. After studying two weeks the incident where Jesus came walking on the water and terrified the disciples in the boat, the woman did not seel11 to comprehend anything, and when finally asked the question: "Was the water 011 the boat or the boat on the water?" she replied, '. The water was on the boat." The same woman was in one of the Schools this winter, and when I heard her pray and testify, I knew that her previous efforts had not been in vain, for now she certainly understood the Bible, and grasped distinctly spiritual things. She was also a great help to the other women. I hope the day will come when we will not take a man into the church who has 110t made an honest and determined effort to get his family into the church. There are six Circuits 110W on the Taianfn District. The largest is the Taianfu Circuit. Rev. Wen Jung 'r'ai is the Pastor, and his efforts have certainly 1I0t been in vain this year. He has 110t only been in charge of the regular Sunday services, but he has also been the Assistant Principal of the Boys' School, alld everyone has felt free to call upon him for advice and help. The stewards have held a weekly meeting and they have shown new zeal in t he Master's service. The Boys and Girls Schools added greatly to the attendance at church, so that we believe that the pastor puts in his time to good advantage ill the school. \Ve call but rejoice to see the marked advance in character over the past of lllany of the members who were formerly cold, but since Mr. Verity's meetings, have been active alld earnest. Bllt the most faithful attendant at the church services has been the old Mohammedan head-chair-bearer, Yang Hni Jung, who 1I0t only attended Sunday School, Church, Epworth League, Prayer Meeting, but even Sunday School Teachers' Normal Class, and in July he joined the church on probation. The Pilgrim season ill the city this year was unusually prosperous; the pilgrims had been kept away in 191 I by the Plague and in 1912 by the Revolution. Thi" year our tent in the temple in the city was filled every day for several months, and more than 5000 Gospels and Old Testament portions were sold, while fully 30,000 people heard the message. And so many of the city people were iuterested ill Christianity, that at the close of the temple fair we were obliged 'to put in a special man to carry out the fo~low-llp work, auddefinjtely invite the people who had been interested

82 to thechllrch. Mr. Hsu bas been.very successful and brought into actual'church relationship nearly all who were friendly, 'as well as bolding services in. several large shop~. This year our Sunday ~chool under Mr. Hanson's a:ble supervision. has grown until our 'accomodations are entirely too small. The increase has been drawn from all classes, students, farmers,,merchants, idlers and hoitse-wives, and. :as the crowds grew larger the enthusiasm increased and e.veryone worked hard to keep up the interest. We welcome.\fiss Knapp to our Station, and if her future success as a worker equals her ability to acquire Chinese, she will be a 1110st valuable acquisition to the Sister Society. In May Dr. Martin and Miss Boddy left us for wen-earned furlollghs, and we hope that they will find a much needed rest among friends and return as soon as possible to Taianfu. There are six out-stations in the Taiallfu Circuit. Koutze is 35 miles to the east of Taianfu and it is a most thriving market town. Liuchiat'ollg and Laiwuhsiell are connected with this appointment. This year one of the members in Laiwuhsien loaned us a house and w.e have' had regula.r meetings there all this year. There has been a good deal of interest shown on tbis circuit, but the preacher became interested in coal mines and other affairs so he had to retire. We must put in a very strong man here and do our best to make the eastern part of our work a success. Fanchiachuang is 60 1i east of Taianfll. We have had work here for years, but this year we have had a very good boys' school and the parents of the scholars have taken 8n interest, so that the church has a very much larger attendance than a year ago. Liang Yna one of our oldest Local Preachers, is in charge. Maotze is 60 Ii south-east of 'raian and Liang Hsin T'ong is the Pastor. This little church is now very well attended, as one family bas a boys' school of twenty-five that attends church regularly, wllile our local boys'scbool was moved to a village called Fangtsull I sli away. They held the schoo.! all winter in a cellar but in the spring the hole in the ground was too hot, so the local elders of the village allowed the~l1 to have one of the village temples while the Government School has the other. There will be 110 trouble about this temple as 10lig as the Christians are tactful and careful. There area large llumber of good market,towns all through this region and eventually we should have a very strong church here. At Hungho just 15 Ii south west,of the city.we have a boys' school and a few members; on all important occasions they come to'the city.. Feicheughsien is the center of the Feicheng Circuit. Rev~ Wang Ch'angT'lQ.i is the: uj,ost efficient pastor. He has been

83 - 77- able to reach a great number of boys th~s year, and every evening fr'omforty to one hundred and fifty chi,ldn:n gather in the church to sing and listen to gospel stories or to drill in the yard. Once a month they form a procession and march through the streets singing and in this way collect all the idle children 011 the streets and bring them to the chapel. The leading men ill the city are \re'ry friendly to fhe church alld quite a number sent their sons to the Intermed.iate School in Taianfu, and we pray for the day to speedily come when they may 110t only be frieudly but devoted servants of the Lord Jesus. There are two out-stations. Chusi. where Liu Chuan M u is ill Charge, is 20 miles south-west of Feicheng. Here we occupy a small rented property that is utterly inadequate to the needs, and twice this year property has come all the market that we could have purchased for $r Mexican, but we could not get the money at the right time. Yelllll3chl1ang has had a very prosperous year under Wll Hsiang. Nearly thirty have joined the Church on probation and in fllll membership. The members rebuilt the boys' school with very little expellse. It is with great sorrow that I record the fact that Brother and Sister Wallg CI1'ang' T'ai lost their dear little daughter. She had j llst reached the age whell it was her pride and joy to help her parents. but God in His Infillite Wisdom took her and they have comforted their hearts by striving with renewed energy to bring all the little ones around to the Master. Tungehsien is the western circuit of our work. Chang Tsai Shao is the local preacher in charge. He did not reach the work uptil the last of November, but he has been very ind llstriolls and the opposition of years has been broken down in the near-by country, and there are \'ery good prospects for an actl\'e work. The great fair lasts two 'weeks in the spring. All the members gave freely of tbeir time and olle old lady walked 2,5 Ii to preach in the temple. Over 2000 gospels were sold during fair weeks. This year the people in one village bl1ilt a ch urch of their OW11 and they long to have a pastor; it is 25 Ii fr0111 Tunge and Brother Chang goes there once a week but the people long for more services. Across the Yellow River is Ollr problem as the American Board Mission has practically withdrawn and we have 110t sent anyolle to wotk regularly until this summer when one poor student bas worked there regularly. III spite of the fact that more than one hulldred robbers have been shot ill this part of the col1lltry this past year, there are a great many people interested ill the gospel. TU11gpingcholl Circuit is ll11der Wl1 Hsi Kao. \Vhen I reached Tnngping the/thing that impressed me was the

84 wretchedness of the plaut for th~ amount of work they were trying to do. The first Sunday we held services in Mr. Wll'S sitting r00111 anel 85 people besides the furniture were crowded into a three-chien r00111 and the next time we gathered in the yard where the District Superint~ndent tried to make more noise than the big grey gander, so you can imagine the joy of all in seeing the new church finished, which will easi1y seat 200. Mr. Wu bas certainly been tireless in his efforts to r~ise money, and the members.now rejoice that they can invite people as there will be room for them. Mrs. \Vu has a thriving girls school and the \~701l1en's Training School was a great inspiration to the work. There are th ree ant-appointments. Shahechan is on the border of \\i"enshanghsien; here we have borrowed a house alld Tsui Yen Li sells books and preaches. At Lichiafoa where onr work was very prosperous the preacher proved himself so unfaithful that it was uecessary to drop him, and We sent Liang Hsin T'ien to take his place. \\TallgkutUll is all the border of the lake that,,,as formed go years ago when the Yellow River overflowed its banks, and the fields have never been planted. The people this year rejoiced when it was dry and actually they could plaut the fields again. A most magnificent wheat crop was all ready to harvest when very unexpectedly it railled so heavily that the fields became.a lake again and tile wheat,,,as taken out in boats. Still iu spite of their poverty this is one of the best organized churches we have. Hsucheng is the smallest Circuit as there is only one Church on the Circuit. Brother Verity relieved the Tungping Pastor of a great burden when he put Hsucileng off by itself. Yang Pei Hlla is the Pastor. He is a quiet seeker after men who makes no pretence himself and sees at once through the inflated selfrighteous ones who wonld make him their tool. The Hsncheng church has been through a boom when hundreds flocked to the church for the loaves and fi~hes, but when Rev. Yang had reached the appointment the bubble had burst and ollly a few faithful ones attended church. Five boy's day schools have been established so that more than 50 boys attend service regularly on Sunday. Mr. Yang has proved that when Mrs. Yang goes with him he has free access to the houses of the people. Your prayers are IllOSt earnestly requested for the Hsltcheng church that those, who once sought the.l\-1aster for personal gaill, may come seeking eternal life. vve rellt our present church property and it is utterly inadequate to Ollr needs. The Anchiach uang Circuit is the home of our work iu Shantuilg. There are 110\\' five out stations where regular services are held. The Training School took a great deal of the

85 - 79 Pastor, Wang Chao K'e's time, in the early fall, and the starting of the Boys' Intermediate School took all his time in the spring for several months, but in spite of these handicaps there has been a distinct increase in the membership. There is a great need for a ne\,\' Church as the old church is crowded to its utmost capacity \vith the seventy-fh'e scholars in the schools and the local members, so that on all special occasiolls 110t only the church but even the yard is filled. The Wang Memorial church is not a uew project but the enthusiasm had been allowed to die, so in February we invited 28 of the leading men in that part of the country to a feast and they came and agreed to pay about $10.00 each. Several have paid, but I regret to say that the robbers were so bad in the region of Anchiachuang that mall)' of those very men are 1I0W beggared, but the church \vi11 be built in time with the Lord's help. Hisahsueh is one of the older out-~tations that has always been a problem, but this year we of are glad to be able to report faint signs of life in increased attendance and collections. The work at Challgcbeng has made good progress and Chao Li Yu bas done very faithful work. Hsiaomen was self-supporting this year and there are several promising new Christians. I was surprised to see written ill black ink on the white walls of one yard in English: "Blessed are the pnre ill heart for they shall see God" The writer was one of our Intermediate School Boys. The bookseller at Allchiachiach nang has preached regularly 011 Sunday at Hechako. where we have a good boys' school. We want to thank most sincerely those friends who have sent special gifts for our work this past year; if it had 110t been for their gellerosity the work 011 the District \yould 110t only have been hindered, but actually stopped. Our needs are llumerotls. \Ve luust have:- A new church at Allchiachuang that will cost $ 1000, Mex. New property at Hstlcheng that will cost.,,800, New property at Changch'eng that will cost" 750, New property at Chusi that will cost....,,200, V\T e should buy:- Property at Taiyang that will cost. Property at Shahechan that will cost. Property at Yuchir that will cost Property at Shachang that will cost Property at Lote that will cost. Property at Laiwuhsien that will cost $ 500, Mex. " 500, " 600, " 4 00, " 5 00, II " 800,

86 - 8q- TIENTSIN CITY DISTRICT. J. H. PYKE. District 5,uperilltelldellt. There has b"eell very en~~u'raging growth ill both of the churches, though the per cent of increase will not equal that of last year, which fell but little bel'ow 50% (48'/,,). Wesley Chapel has had to contend with several difficulties. First, the pastor, Brother Liu was called to Tokio to meet an emergency. The official board rei 11 ct all t 1 Y COllsen ted a lld also very generolisly agreed to continue his salary. By request, I consented to act as pastor in bis absence, which we hoped;would not be more thal1 three months. A few weeks after his departure I was taken ill and confined to my r00111 for some two months. Through the kindness of many brethrell the Sunday preaching was well provided for and good leaders were secured for the prayer meetings. But no pastoral work could be done nor could special services be undertaken. In the late winter tbe old Mission Compound where we had lived, labored and worshipped for 38 years, was sold and with it went Wesley Chapel, leavillg the congregation without a place of meeting for church and Sunday School. The London Mission, however, very generously came to our rescue and cordially invited us to meet \1\'ith their people ill their large ~o1111ll0dious church two blocks away. The kiljd offer was gratefully accepted and the two congregations continue to meet together, the preachers alternating in conducting the moruing services, while Pastor Liu has entire control of the Sunday evening preaching. The official board hoped to find a new lot and build a new church this year and have it ready for the Christmas services and the winter's work. But the delay in finding a location and in getting satisfactoi'y plans was so great that it was necessary to defer beginning the work until the spring. A desirable corner lot in a central location has been secnred at a moderate price, $8470 for 4 lllu. Wesley Church undertakes to take three lllu which will be ample for church, parsonage, day school etc, and to raise by subscription the $6560 (Mex.) necessary to pay for their part and also enongh additiqnal to enclose the lot with a good wall. The W.F. M.S. take the remainder of the lot for a girls' day school. To build the church we have the money realized from the sale of the old cllllrch and lot, which is 110t more than two-thirds of the amount needed. We hope that generous friends may be found who will come to the help of this congregation so heroically struggling to get a church home, support their own work and workers and also do their part in sa\ itlg the unsaved multitudes of this great city.

87 -81- While this church will be located in Olle of the foreign COllcessions (or settlements), there is a rapid ly increasing Chinese population already runlling up into tens of thonsallds, bnsilles<.; me11, clerks and lahoring mell with their families, the very best kind of material for building into a strong aggressive church. Besides being near the electric car line from foreign settlements to and around the city, it will be easily accessible for union meetings and evangelistic services, as \vell as lect nres; hence the need of a large, commodions, modern building. Pastor Mark Liu is well fitted to carry forward this enterprise to completion. Besides he has the power to draw and hold large congregati01ls. The West Gate City Church has had a very good year with very encouraging growth, 1Iot only in numbers, but also in knowledge and Christian character. Pastor Tsellg has worked hard and had good success. His sermons have shown marked improvement in careful preparation and deli\'ery. as well as in evangelistic fervor and power. It has been an increasing pleasure to work with him.. Tientsin was highly favored in the VISIts of three widely kno\,\,11 Americall evangelists, the Rev. Joseph Smith, who for many years has had great success in all parts of the Ullited States, the Rev. Jonathan Verity of the Cillcinnati Conference, a prominent preacher and evangelist, and Mr. G. Sherwood Eddy of the Y. M. C. A. First came Rev. Joseph Smith and held ullion meetings for one week. Rev. Mr. Verity, who came during the week, continued the meetings for several days. The churches were greatly stirred and much good was accomplished. In March,. Mr. Verity retumed, spe1lding almost the entire 1110nth in the different chapels of the city, preaching twice daily to full houses of both Christians and noll-christians. 'The doctrille~ of sin, righteous11ess, judgment. repentance, faith, pardon, conversion, sanctification, and fnll salvation were clearly and fully stated and'illustrated. The effect, though the preaching was necessarily through an interpreter, was apparently as great as though!'peaking direct without interruption. During the three weeks and more spent in the Londotl Mission City Chapel and in our '\Vest Gate Chapel, near 200 were converted to faith ill the Gospel and asked to he received into the church as inquirers. Hundreds more bowed at the altar for prayer, and though most at first did 110t kljow how to rray or what to pray for, it was wonderful to see how soon they learned to confess their sins and cry for mel:cy. The first to come were the poor ano t1nleatjied hut soolpthe well dressed and educated appeared in the audiences, listened with respect and increasing attention. Before

88 - 82- long they too were bowing at the altar and praying earnestly alongside ti1e poorly clad and ignorant,-all distinctions broken down or forgotten. Many "'.ere from distant cities or other provinces, so that we were not able to follow up the good work begun with them. One was a mercbant.fro111 Shanghai, who had believed the Gospel for years and often heard the Gospel but had never believed unto salvation. Another interesting case was that, of a young Mohammedan. At first he listened with a look of blank wonder but wonld 110t talk or take any step. Somehow" Father Verity" was attracted to him, though ilone of us hoped, that, even if convinced, he would dare break with his people and endure the persecution.sure to follow. But the aged evangelist would smile on the young man, address a few words to him personally ""hen he had a chance, got him to shake hands and later to smile back. III the end he knelt at the altar and asked to be received 011 trial. The meetings were continued for'some tillle after the evall~elist left, with little dimi11ution of interest and many more accessions. Brother Verity also spent a week ill the L. M.S. Chapel in the Settlement where Pastor Liu and \XTesley Church peoplt= worship. He also held services with the stude1jts ill the Anglo,Chinese College and in the Keen Girls' Boarding School. Everywhere there was a deep impression made. Mr. Eddy of the Y.M.C.A. spent five days in the city, bolding two services each day ajld addressillg two or three thousand at each meeting. The adl~ission was by ticket. It was a great disappointment to large nunlbers who sought admission, that they could not be sup!jlied with tickets. There was a plain. faithful presentation of the whole Gospel alld its severe requirem':nts; but few left the hall when the audience was dismissed, remaining to the end of the after meetings. Over 500 students took the pledge to join a Bible class, study the Gospels, and if convinced, accept and obey the truth. While the statistics do not show that great numbers have joined the Mission churches, no one who bas long been in close touch with the people can fail to see that a great change has been and is taking place in the minds of all claases of the people. Only a few years (13) ago the Gospel and the Christian Church were despised, hated and persecuted, threatened with extermination; now they are held in high esteem :- the Government in sore perplexity and distress asking for the united prayers of the Christian Church to the true and living God, no mention being made or thought given to other faiths and their gods. What a mighty change has the leaven of the Truth wrought in the national thought, in society and in the homes of multitudes.

89 I need not speak at any length of the Medical and Educational work, as both will be fully represented by those in ~harge. Both are doing high grdde wo'rk, each in its own line and also contributing largely to the general evangelistic and ~hl1rch work especially in Sunday School and Bible teaching. There is a very general and growing desire among all denominations in Tientsin as elsewhere ill China for closer federatioii with a view to greater effectiveness. while some hope for organization. The Chinese Christians evidently desire a closer alliance among themselves and many would like a purely Chillese church with full power of self-government. So far the ollly result has been the organization of an independent church, ~allillg and supporting their own pastor and mana!?:ing their own affairs. The new chnrch has had a large increase ill membership since their organization; but, so iar, 110 connectional bond has been found for linking this to similar movements in other cities. It is in every sellse of the word an Independent Church. Personally I am ready to turn over all questions of organization, discipline, and government to my Chinese brethren as soon as they are ready to assume the respojlsibility a1ld liability. I shall gladly lay the btll den down as soon as some one is willing to take it up. The situation is fully of interest. I believe fully in the right and th~ ability of the Chinese to solve their reli!?:ious and church as.well as their national and social problems. What they need along all lines is sympathy, advice and help. The Gospel is the sovereign remedy for all their ills and the satisfaction of all their wants. They, as well as the rest of the worl(1, are to be saved by the foolishness of preaching or the thing preached. That is all we can do for them and it is enough. May the Lord hasten the coming of his Kingdom. The Missionary Society now has: Four Missionary Residences. Four families.. One large Boarding School building witb 8 teachers and over 200 pupils. Two cbapels. One self-supporting church in the Settlement with over 300 members, maintaining a day school and conducting Sunday services and Sunday School in a village near the Settlement. One church inside the city, with over 200 members, alld growing rapidly. Two ordained Chinese Pastors. One site for a chapel near the North Gate of the city. Two day schools with two teachers.

90 The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society has: Seven Missionaries. One residence. Olle hospital, two dispensaries with one physician. One Boarding School Building and~ Dormitories with Io teachers and I37 pupils. Three day schools with 4 teachers. TSUNHUA DISTRICT. G. R. DAVIS, District Superintendent. As I am on the eve of departing to the United States on a: vacation, and will be in the States when our Conference convenes, any report I can now make is incomplete, covering less than two thirds of a year's work or up to the close of our District Confe~ence held the last of }':1ay. From our last Conference until the time of the District Conference, I was able to visit and hold all the quarterly conferences. Also visited nearly all the churches large and small. The number of quarterly conferences remain the same as last year, also chapels and preachers much the same. Two new places have been opened to our work. We have been able, after many years effort, to enter the market town of Hsinchi,. Hsingcheng circuit and 1\1 ashenchiao, Pingancheng circuit. 'Ai e have had work in the villages near both these market towns for some years, but only this year have we secured suitable places and been able to begin preaching work in them. Our District Conference was held at Shaliuhe the last of lvlay. Again Dr. J. H. Pyke was able to be present and conduct special services. It :was the best and most encouraging one held since I have been in charge of the district. The spirit of our preaching staff was the '-"ery best I have met with in China. Reports showed more than usual progress, along all lines of our work save in one or two small charges. The members of the annual conference were greatly blessed during the meetings conducted by the Rev. Jonathan Verity at the Conference sessions and returned to their charges fined with a new spirit for the work of the l\laster. All pushed theirwork as never before. On several circuits special revival meetings were held on every charge of the circuit, greatly to the spiritual uplift of the members and a large ingathering of probationers from the outside. At the District Conference, reports showed the largest ingathering in five years. Among the preachers a spirit of brotherly love, Christian respect, eagerness to help one another

91 - 85- has prevailed over the district, especially manifest at the District conference. A new vision is coming to our native brethren, a new sense of oneness with each other and individual mutual responsibility before God for the sah'ation of the souls of their -countrymen. The "kingdom of God and his righteousness is for us and ours" The whole land is heaving with the spirit of.change, trembling with the leaven of liberty. The church too feels the mightv change on every hand, alive with the growing sense of larger personal liberty and individual responsibility. Yet we need not be too greatly surprised and discouraged if some in the church should be led into mistakes, accepting license without law for liberty with law and thus bring reproach on the fair name of the church. Old things are passing away in China, many things will become new. The land is throbbing with the excitement of political change, yet God and the Holy Spirit were never so manifestly ruling over and quickening the land. I am glad that so many of our leading preachers, while realizing this change to a larger personal liberty are more clearly realizing that ~'they are not their own but have been redeemed unto God with a great price," called to be sons of God, whose rule of righteousness is first and always to be their rule of life. THE OUARTERLY CONFERENCES. The circuits remain as last year, withbut little change in staff. Rev. Lilt Ching Ching came to Tsunhua, Rev. \Vang Tien Hsiang went to ChangIi and Brother Hsu Ching Ping to Nanpi on the South Tientsin District, a new local preacher coming into the active work at l\1ashenchiao. FENGJE~ circuit. Rev. Chen Yu Shan again is preacher in 'Charge of the circuit. There are but two places on this circuit where we have chapels-parsonages, and preachers residing. Fengjen city and Laochuangtzechen. There are si;~ other smaller ~churches or preaching places in villages At several of the smaller charges there are day schools, only one of which, however, receives any aid from Mission sources. Both Brother Chen and his assistant Yao J ung Sheng at Laochu3.ngtze have been faithful in their work The street chapel.:; at these two points have been regularly crowded on market days by quiet :attentive listeners. The Sabbath congregations increasing in size. In the Fengjen region there has always been a strong undercurrent of opposition to our work. This year the opposition bas been less apparent. Brother Chen is apt to be suspicious of the motives of his countrymen in these "piping times of peace." He is an able business man, cautious and safe in his work. At the District Conference he reported eleven new accessions to the' church by baptism, nine new probationers,

92 - 86- seven children baptised and all collections well kept up. Over fourteen thousand copies of the gospels had been sold within the b0unds of the circuit. HSINGCHENG circuit. This was formerly known as the Pocheng circurt. It is a mountain circuit to the Northea5t of the district along the Lan river. There are four towns in which we have premises owned or rented, Hsingcheng, Hsinchi, Sahochiao, and Santunying all large market towns. There are six other regular preaching places in the villages. Wang En Chao is the chief preacher in this large circuit; very ably assisted by Fu Hai at Hsinchi, Li Lien Pi at Sahochiao and Hsu Fu Lin at Santunying. Brother Wang is a man full of the Spirit, an indefatigable worker, a man growing in usefulness to the church. No member of our conference experienced a greater uplift than he from the revival meetings conducted by Brother Verity senior. As soon as possible after reaching his charge, he began special revival services at Hsingcheng and then held such meetings in au the other congregations throughout the circuit. In this work he was earnestl y assisted by the three assistant preachers of the circuit, and other zealous brethren. These services resulted in the quickening of all the members. the promotion of greater harmony, and the reaching of many of their neighbors. The little chapels everywhere are crowded on the Sabbath day. Instead of forty or fifty,at Hsingcheng on Sabbath morning we now have ninety to one hnndred. The wing used by the \\ omen and girls lisnally almost empty is now regularly filled. At our District Conference he reported 22 adults baptised and received,. 57 new probationers and thirty five old. Here, as elsewhere. it is difficult to report the baptised children on probation, because so many of these boys and girls are in our schools elsewhere, and are received into full relation while awav from their homes. At and near Hsingcheng there are two prim"ary schools for boys and' this year the ladies of the W F. :\1. S. opened a school for girls in Hsingcheng. These schools do much to attract the parents of the children. The ladies pay the girl's school teacher. The boy's schools are supporteq. locally. No circuit on the district suffered more from the aftermath of the 1900 Boxer troubles. no circuit is in a more hopeful spiritual condition today. New chapel and parsonage at HSINCHI -Hsinchi market town is nine miles Southeast of Hsingcheng. We have had a good work in some of the villages about this town. The residents of Hsinchi have been somewhat bitterly opposed to our getting a location there for church purposes. This year however all opposition disappeared. We secured a suitable place for church and parsonage in the very heart of the town. This church or

93 chapel building has been but recently opened to street preachng and is now regularly cro\\ ded on market days by quiet, respectful hearers. PIXGAXCHEXG'f:lE circuit is about the oldest work on the district, and includes the churches at Pinganchengtze. Liangtzehe, and Tunghsinchuangtze, Mashenchiao and Hsiaotaoti. Three of these are used as street chapels on market days. The other hvo are for Sabbath services in large yillages. Rev. Kao Hsiu Shan is in charge of the circult with Li Hsin at Liangtzehe and Tsui Lien Sheng at Mashenchiao, both capable. earnest, local preachers assisting. Brother Kao Hsiu Shan is a very able :md most zealous preacher, a fine Chinese scholar, deeply imbued with the spirit of onr :1\1 aster The work over the central and western parts of the circuit, tj..at is Pinganchengtze, Hsiaotaoti and 1\1 ashenchiao has been growing steadily. not only in numbers but in things spiritual. The Liangtzehe, Tunghsinchuangtze church Laodicean in character--just life enough to shm\" that it is not quite dead to things spiritual. Brother Li Hsin has worked faithfully this year, 'with but one adult baptised and two ne\\" on probation. For the rest of the circuit 9 adults had been baptised and received into the church while 44 new probationers had been received up to District Conference time. SHALIUHE circuit. Rev. Liu Kuang Tze, preacher in charge, with three local preachers as assistants, located at the market to,,1 of Tangyu ( Changhsienwen l. Yahungchiao (Changwenshan) and \Voliku (Likun". As usual Brother Liu has his work well organised, he has been instant in season and out of season, always affable, earnestly seeking the welfare of the church and to be at peace with all. His affability of disposition may lead him into the fault of too m~;ch leniency toward the faults of his members. Some of the members have shown by their spirit that their ideas of this new doctrine of personal liberty was too near akin to license without law. At Woliku, the Southern-most charge on the circuit, there has been considerable interest manifested for the first time since we secured premises in this busy market town. One had been received into full connection and ten on probation. The churches, at Luchia \ u and Tangyu have not prospered much for several years. This year the resident preacher has been working under difficulties. His wife died at the close of last year and he himself has been ill with "]ob's comforters." He has don~ little or nothing. After ye3 rs of watching him -elsewhere, I fear he has never been alive to his duty and opportunity. Brother Liu reported 22 adults received into the church with 20 new new names on probation at our District

94 - 88- Conference. Too much property in land was acquired by part of this our largest circuit after 1900 as Indemnity. The care of which church property as usual has not increased the spirit of harmony among the members, nor tended towards the spiritual development of the caretakers. If all such properties could be disposed of and the proceeds used to buy suitable premises, say in Yahungchiao and Wuliku, where we now pay nearly $200. per year rent, it would be to the benefit of all concerned both here and in AmeriCa in this time of financial stress and much cupidity allayed. TSUNHUA AND TIEHCHANG circuits. This has been Rev. Liu Ching Ching's first year at Tsunhua. He has shown much zeal and skill in his work. The small street chapel just within the South gate has been more than usually crowded with hearers on market days. V./ ere the building able to seat three times as many and made more comfortable it would be the part of economy and wisdom as it could be filled and many more hear the word. The Sabbath congregation has outgrown its hall for meeting, partly because of the large number of boys in the Intermediate school and because many students from the town have acquired the habit of attending our Sabbath services. I regret we cannot meet our growing need at this old but most important charge. Prosperity is coming to Tsunhua city. There is but one outstation where regular Sabbath services are held, the region round about has been neglected because of our lack of preaching force. We ought to have a strong local preacher there all the time. Our financial condition forbids that unless we drop the present chapel keeper, a man of doubtful value to our work, and send a local preacher as an assistant to reside at the street chapel premises within the South gate. Brother Liu has not only been diligent in his duties as pastor but has assisted in the teaching work in the school, so also his energetic wife, greatly to the benefit of the school. Brother Yang Kuang Te, an experienced local preacher has served another year at Tiehchang, one of our mountain charges. He too has been diligent in business. Mrs. Yang has been quite ill much of the year, unable to work among the women. Nevertheless there has been quite an increase in the number of women attending the services regularly. The congregation is growing, the collection for self-support increased, the spirit of the little charge hopeful. He reported only 2 new members baptised and received, with two new names on probation. A little charge with 34 members and 4 on probation, a lonely charge deep in the hills far from other Christian churches and sympathy.

95 - 89- YUTIEK circuit. There are only 1\;\'0 places on this our Southwestern circuit, where \\"e have chapels and preachers resident. Rev. Liu Shao Tang preacher in charge and Tu \Ven Yn at Linnantsang, both important centers. Brother Liu Shao Tang is not only an efficient minister of the Gospel, wise, careful, with his work well organised, but personally a delightful man. It is always a great pleasure to reach his station after pounding over the rough cart roads. He has been able assisted by Bro. Tu vven Yu at Linnantsang. There are several classes in villages where regular Sabbath services are held. The street chapels at Yutien and Linnantsang have been well filled on market days. And at both places the Sabbath congregations are growing. l\1uch of the Linnantsang region was badly flooded last year. Some of our members lost all their crops and were icebound during the winter~ suffered along with their neighbors but were able to tide over the winter thro help which came to them largely by the contributions -of our members on the more favored circuits. Some help came from other Christian sources. Every circuit outside of the flooded belt contributed to the relief of their suffering brethren. This new spirit of ready willingness to help their distressed brethern in times of calamity is one of the most hopeful signs of Christian prosperityi' the sense of oneness and responsibility for the whole church, not that contemptible spirit of eagerness to force everything on to the "Lao Chaio Hui" and then helping themselves out of the charity meant for the truly needy. Brother Liu reported I I new members baptised and received with 9 new adult probations. SCHOOLS. The Tsunhua Intermediate School. At the close of I912 this school was in a crippled condition, but 30 boys left after the class sent to Peking. The young man who had been in charge for the greater part of the year attempted to serve two masters. He attempted to teach both in the government school at a high wage and remain in charge of our school. At the close of the year we asked Mr. Yang Jung :Mao to take charge, his health permitting. He has faithfully gi\'en all his time, ability and strength to the development of the school, watching most carefully over the intellectual, moral and physical interests of the students. I am glad to report his health is much more vigorous than when he came, and that there has been great improvement in the school. The school has more than doubled in numbers; the order among the boys IS 100 % better. In this work he has been greatly aided by the efforts of his wife, who taught several classes daily. Also by the pastor and his wife, who have taught five or six classes daily. The school-board, consisting of the four older preachers on the

96 district, have greatly helped on the financial side of the work. They have' seen that parents and guardians of the boys paid up all dues. At the close of the school there were 61 boys, who paid in $960. besides $67 from other sources. Our needs: Vve greatly need another teacher on the staff for the English department, also better arrangements in our kitchen department, if we would attract boys from non-christian families. DRY SCHOOLS. There are but four day schools for boys supported in part by funds from abroad, one at Talingkungchuang on the Fengjen circuit with more than 20 boys in regular attendance~ a smaller school at Liuchiayu. Shaliuhe circuit, a large number of pupils in winter, fewer at other times. another at Liangtzehe, with an average of 10 boys and still ~nother and larger school at Hsiaotate, Mashenchiao circuit. There are four more schools for boys in connection with some of our chapels or meeting places supported entirely by local effort. We ha \'e most suitable quarters for primary or day schools at twelve other chapels on the district with no funds with which to carryon such schools. The W F. lvl S. have three schools f01- girls on the district, dll in a flourishing condition, one at Hsincheng, another at Liangtzehe and one at Hsiaoliuhe. Were there more suitable teachers with more constant oversight, several more could be established to the great advantage of the work. There are two Bible women constantly employed, Mrs. Chang and Mrs. Fu, both are zealous, busy and very helpful among the women. There were not as many temple fairs as usual within the bounds of the district. During three quarters of a year to the district conference session, 5 I,670 copies of the Gospel had been sold, since the district conference portions of the scriptures have been sent to the district. REMARKS. During the year a number of our members have died. A few have left us. It is with sorrow that I report the death or Liu Ching YUll, who died in the early spring. He was a graduate of Peking University, a young man of promise, who had been preaching less than two years. He was a son of our zealous, consecrated brother Liu Kuang Tzu. Without boasting, I think on the eve of leaving for a vacation it can be truly said the district is in a most promising condition, the outlook for steady advance along all lines most encouraging. There is but one cloud in our sky, our financial condition is in a serious condition, we have been running behind for several years, \Ve own a great deal of property used for our work, but in many places we rent only, in busy important market towns. In many places we succeeded in gaining entrance after years of work and watching. We have now established little churches, It would

97 be a great grief to all to be compelled to retire for want of funds to rent these places and dismiss some of our people. If the native brethren will give heed to advice I can see how by their efforts the Society can be relieved of some hundreds of dollars outlay yearly. \Ve can change our sub-circuits a little and use fewer men for preachers. I think the district can spare one of the more experienced preachers to work on another district in sore need of an able experienced man. As we must I am sure we can tide over our troubles by eating a little grief. Pardon me for a moment as I look back over fort\' three years of life in this }lission. Then we had only a feeble plant in Peking without a native preacher, with but one member and he from another l\1ission, 110t a chapel and no one with experience. Thro many mistakes and false leads, much discouragement, years of rough, hard pioneering, looking for the doors that would open to us, hated by men and beasts, worried by perennial epidemic, flood and famine.. pestilence, plague, war, revolution and the madness of Boxerism, we have seen our homes and churches destroyed, our membership wasted by persecution, thro all the years God has ~uided us, His presence has made us realise that He was "our shield and great reward" l\1any doors have opened to us. To-day we are a Conference with a band of Chinese Preachers not to be surpassed in this land. Churches, chapels. circuits, districts, a conference with schools, hospitals flourishing on every hand with this the best year, the richest harvest in all these vears, for I am sure our membership will pass the 11,000 mark.' I am not ashamed of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus in China. I am glad I have had a hand to help in this work. YENCHOU DISTRICT LIU CHI LUN, District Superintendent There are seven great cities on this District, namely, Tsiningchow, Yenchowfu, Tsowhsien, Ch'ufuhsien, Sushuihsien, Vl enshanghsien and Ningyanghsien. Besides these cities there are ten large towns where we have Day schools. The conditions of this District are as usual. The converts are not as many as we wish; the reason is that their obstinate disposition could not be easily moved, nay, those that withstand Christianity are many. and the believers are very few. The gospel seeds being scattered about are being covered over by the thorns. Two years have now passed since the Chinese Repub~ic was established, yet the customs of the people are not very different from what they were in the late dynasty. Threatening tales

98 have been commonly heard which made the preachers afraid and they did not feel that, they could go about so freely in the work. In spite of these hindrances they labored so well in the service that more baptized Christians ha\'e been added to the church this year than last year. There were 42 persons baptized while there were but 36 last year, so we thank God for having opened the way and having helped us to do His work with success. We pray that with God's help next year twice as many may be convert ed. Two months ago trouble began, for civil war commenced so unexpectedly that the people w~re terribly frightened. Furthermore the robbers also arose to si<;!ze and to plunder so it seemed best for the men to preach in their own towns rather than to go about from village to village. The robbers not only plundered the rich, but also tried to take the coats from poor travelers wherever they met them. \Vithin the last forty days the number of men who have been robbed or taken captive by the brigands is between four and five hundred. On the 20th of July the writer's father while going from home to Taianfu was seized by the robbers, who demanded Taels 20,000 as a ransom. Moreover the rumor ran that the robbers also expected to carry away Rev.,;Yang Cbao K~e. \Ve could do nothing but pray every day. Unbelievers also, invented tales and slandered us so vilely that we t:ould not bear to hear them. \Ve thank and praise the Lord who hears men's prayers. The writer's father after spendi,ng twenty day~ with the robbers escaped from them some way and returned home safely and, marvel of all blessings, without paying them Dne copper. Thus was our prayer answered and as St. Paul said "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.'~ Now the robbers have fled. some have been arrested and killed; the leader of the party has been beheaded. We pray God to cause the war to cease that we may embrace this opportunity to preach the word and scatter the seeds of the Gospel as well as look for the lost sht ep. We also hope that we may have an abundance of mopey in order to build a small chapel at Ch)ufu and at Sushui. Vve pray that God may send His showers of tender mercy on every man's heart and lead all to escape from the wrath to come and enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Thus the next year we shall have greater results. Baptized this year. Total Baptized members :Missionary collection Chllrch Collection \V. F. M. S $

99 - 93- YENCHOU DISTRICT PERRY O. HANSON, M issio1lar)' ill C ha1'ge. THE DISTRICT DESCRIBED. The churches in seven great cities of Asia salute you. These seven cities are the centers of ::>u:- work on the YenchO\vfu District. Our field is bounded on the North by the great Wen river, on the west by the Grand Canal, on the South and the East by the Presbyterians. It is a little district: forty miles wide and sixty miles long, and the' limits are definitely set. We are not in the real estate business, however, and so the amount of land we possess is not important;. but it is important to know that upon every two acres of our District there are three human beings, that one thousand people depend upon every section of land for their living, without a mine or a factory on the district. The population of an Indiana is crowded into these seven little counties, and of these three million people perhaps 500 know that Jesus Christ is their Savior. It is also worth while to realize that of these seven cities on our District one is the second city in size in the province and two are famous as the homes of China's greatest sages. Co.nfucius and Mencius. Shantung is called the Sacred Province of China; it is the history of the Yenchowfu district that makes this term appropriate. All China will be impressed when the Christian Church is well established in these places that are venerated so deeply. The Bishop appointed me Misssionary in Charge of these seven cities of Asia and at the end of the year it is possible to say in the words of one of old, "I know thy works," but it will be left for the District Superintendent to report in detail of the different places. OUR SORROWS. Two distressing incidents are to be recorded.. The old father of our District Superintendent, lvir. Liu, was captured during the summer by bandits and held for a ransom of Taels 20,000. Prayer was made continually for him while pressure was brought to bear upon officials, civil and military. In due time our friend was enabled to escape and returned unharmed to his family. The little daughter of the Rev. Kuo Ying was called to her home in Heaven during the Summer,. while :Mrs. Kuo and other members of the family have been seriously sick. A man of prayer like Mr. Kuo knows where to seek and receive Divine comfort in such times of tribulation. AnVA~cE STEPS. We can report two important forward steps during the year. We have stationed men in the city of Sushuihsien, thus taking possession in a small way of a great city hitherto unoccupjed. If we had $500. we could purchase a set

100 - 94- of buildings where schools ror boys and for girls could be organized and a street chapel opened. The second itnportant step is the opening of an Intermediate School 011 the District in the central city of Yenchowfu. It has been a real success from the first. Our buildings are small and the enrollment of 27 boarders filled every room. Further growth is imp()ssible until we are able to purchase adjoining property. A set of buildings can now be secured at a cost of less that half the amount that would be required to build new ones. If we had $1200 for buildings it would make possible a school of 100. boys. It is impossible to exert much influence upon a great city like Yenchowfu in our-present tiny quarters. The same condition exists in all of our seven cities. We have a village equipment in the midst of a great city. Put some little country church puilding in the United States in a metropolitan center and imagine the result. Our great 1vlethodist Church is surely in jest w'hen $340 is appropriated for the evangelization of my seven great cities of Asia with the hundreds of villages round about. The lack of material equipment is not the only hindrance. Ou" fai thiul workers are underpaid and constantly concerned ab:mt finding enough food for their own hungry months; thus they cannot devote themselves unreservedly to the preparation and distrilm tion of the Bread of Life to the multitudes. THE DUKE INTERVIEWED.,",ve had hoped to report a third step forward this year in the occupation of the sacred city of C'hufuhsien, Three times we visited the city and each time the Confucian Duke was not at home. Finally we chanced to be on the same train and an interview was secured with him. He was very cordial but insisted that it would not be possible to ~stablish our work in his city. Our earlier experiences have taught us that it is impossible to accomplish anything in that county against the will of the Duke. Some progress is being made;.. we have several boys fr0111 C'hiifu in our boarding ~chools and an influential alderman, the father of one of the boys, has joined the church 0n probation. It is possible that since the Board of Education has ruled the great sage's writings out of the Government schools the infl uence:'of the' duke will diminish Of ~ourse we will eventually have our work established in that city. but we 'pray that the day may be hastened when the Confucian star may become dimmed and the light of the Sun of Righteousness may flood that dark city. DAY SCHOOLS. Our hands have been tied so tightly with the bonds of appropriation and few special gifts that the work of developing Days schools has been seriously hindered. There

101 - 95- is at present a marvellous opportunity to take possession of village schools. New China has ordered the closing of the old.style schools but in not many places has anyone the energy or ability to organize new schools. If we are wise we will enter this open door. vve can capture the Primary schools in hundreds of villages and whoever gets the school today has the dominant influence in the village tomorrow. A great door and effectual is opened unto us but there are many ad versaries; not in Shantung.are these adversaries. but in the Homeland where our iriends will not believe our reports 'and continue to shut up their bowels of co:11passion and thus compel us to shut up Day schools. T~\I::-;-ING SCHOOLS OUf District united with the Taianfu District in holding a Normal Training class for the Day school teachers. \Ve hope to secure a qualified man to become Superintendent of primary schools. The two districts both had men in the Bible Training School at Taianfu during the \Vinter, while some work wa:; done at Ningyanghsien during the Spring for the men on this istrict. DISTRICT CO~FltRENCE. \Ve accepted the kind invitation of the Taianfu district and united for the District Conference which met in Taianfu in June The sessions were helpful and interesting. Report::; indicated progress at all points and satisfactory examination::; were passed by the men in the cour:-;es of study. Two men ',vere recommended for admission on trial in the Annual Conference. There was unusual care manifested in the renewing -of licenses, the Conference demanded that the candidate :;hould have done efficient work and that his character was strictly above reproach. DISTINGUISHED GuESTS. The new railroad brings an in,creasing number of tourists to visit the Temple and Grave of Confucius at Ch'u fuhsien on our District. It has been our pleasure during the year to escort Dr. Mott, :"1r. Hanford Crawford and his family, and member~ of the Sunday School Commission party, to the Confucian city. There was general agreement that this Holy Land of China is a strategic field for work and it should be occupied adequately and promptly. WHAT OF THE FUTURE" Our desires are not insatiable. Imagine seven great cities on our Western frontier in America, with populations from 20,000 to 200,000 in each of which but one small church was organized wilh a store building or a small re.sidence as place of worship. How long would the Home Mis-.sionary Society leave these places unoccupied? Not only our ',:Methodist church but every Denomination in the United States 'would rush men and money to those neglected cities A church

102 that is one of five in an Iowa town of 2000 inhabitants has just spent $15,000 in remodelling their church building which will be open for services part of two days every week. Give that amount to Y enchowfu District and we can provide adequate buildings for a Boys' School, a Girls' School, and a Church in the four cities of Ts:ningchow, with 200,000 population, Yenchowfu, with 80,000. \Venshanghsien with 30,000 and Ssushihsien with 20,000. Comparatively we need so little we cannot understand why our cries to God and our appeals to friends ar~ unheeded. We cannot report any great spiritual awakening on the District during the year. The work has progressed slowly but we hope that in the coming year every worker will be filled with the Spirit and will go forth earnestly seeking to evangelize this old HoI y Land of China.

103 - 97- EDUCATIONAL REPORTS. PEKING UNIVERSITY. H. H. LOWRY, President. This year completes the history of the first twenty-five years of Peking University. The first catalogue published contains this record, "The Cniversity is the outgrowth of a small day-school for bo~'s, started in This, after a few years, gave place to a boarding-school for boys, drawn from a rapidly increa~ing constituencv of Christian families. The institution soon arose to the grade o"f a high-school, and in 1884 during the visit of Bishop 1. W. Wile1y the subject of higher education in China was carefully considered, and the '\Viley Institute' was organized. During the following year a medical department was organized under the direction of Dr. \V R. Lambuth [now Bishop]. "In the autumn of 1888, while Bishop C. P Fowler w;;l.s visiting China, the \\ ork of the institute was thoroughly reviewed, and it \vas thought that its growth \varranted and that the times demanded a greatly enlarged scheme. After mature deliberation and a careful study of the resources at command, it was deemed advisable to give the institution a more comprehensive name, to create a department for the special study of the sciences, and to greatly increase the facieties for ill:::truction in the other departments. "Each of these departments enjoys the benefits of the material equipment owned by the.1\1 issionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including the grounds, buildings and the physical and industrial apparatus formerly used by the '\-Viley Institute,' to which each year witnesses many valuable additions. " Through the efforts of Rev. ::Vlarcus L. Taft, D. D., a fund amounting to five thousand dollars was raised among fr~cnds in the United States for the purchase of property on which to erect collegiate and other buildings. The fund has since been largely increased by the liberal gift of James H. Taft, of Brooklyn, New York, and others, and has been applied to the purchase of the fine premises formerly owned by the ltalian Legation and of several adjoining lots, forming altogether a splendid campus covering several acres in one of the most eligible parts of the city of Peking and valued at eleven thousand dollars.

104 "On this property a large building, designed for dormitories, has been erected with funds generously appropriated by the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Accommodatiuns are thus provided for one hundred new students with ample room for enlargement as the demand increases and the contributions of friends of the University will permit." Thus was inau-gurated Peking University to "meet the demands of the time'\ twenty-five years ago, and two years later it wa~ incorporated by the Legislature of the State of New York. It was hoped that the foundation then laid was broad enough to bui.d upon for many generations. In those days Western Education was not popular. Since then wonderful strides have been made in progress, and great changes in the attitude of the people toward modern ideas have occurred. Man-elous has been the transformation in the methods of education which had held sway in the schools of the country for centuries! China, like a new star, has risen in the political sky, rapidly growing into a first magnitude among the nations. A study of the principle forces which have placed the Republic of China so prominently before the astounded gaze of the world would be interesting, but this report must be c::mtined to calling attention to the new China in order to emphasize the new field and the enlarged opportunities that should stimulate us to the utmost efforts to meet the demands which the changed times make upon Christian Education. If twenty years ago it was thought then that" the times demanded a greatly enlarged scheme" how shall we adequately characterize the demands now, in face of the progress that has been made in less than one generation. We believe Peking University has made commendable progress toward meeting the obligations placed upon it by the founders in preparation for such times as now confront us. Many difficulties have been encountered, even to the entire destruction of our property, but the continuity of the work has not been iilterrupted and no class has failed to complete its work on schedule time. When all our fine buildings were in ruins, Chinese premises were secured temporarily and an old temple, enlarged by erecting a mat shed, served for chapel exercise until reconstruction furnished better accommodation. Riot, plague, revolution and mutiny added their dangers, but a kind Providence has protected us through them all, and it is with thankfulness we can record that each succeeding year of the twenty-five has shown substantial progress. \Ve have been unusually favored this year by the number and quality of the addresses that have been delivered by distin-

105 - 99- guished visitors. Among those who have delivered addresses are Dr. C. R. Henderson, of Chicago University; ~Ir. G. Rountree, a prominent architect in England who was en ronte to Ssuchuan to layout the grounds and buildings for the Chentu Union University; the Rev. Henry Haigh, D.D., secretary of the Weselyan Missionary Society; Dr W.H.P. Faunce, Pre:-;ident of Brown University; Mr. Hanford Crawford, one of the leading merchants of St. Louis; Mrs. H.V.S. Peeke, one of the first instructors of this University, but now for over twenty years the wife of a Missionary in Japan; Mr. J. H. Heinz, one of the successful business men of Pittsburg; Mr. J. W. Kinnear, a noted lawyer of Pittsburg; and.mr. Frank L. Brown, of Brooklyn; and we had the pleasure of three addresses at commencement, delivered by men of international reputation one by Dr. W.A.P. Martin the senior,missionary in China, and one of the honored charter members of this Board of Managers; and one by Dr. Paul Monroe, Professor of History of Education in Teachers College, Columbia University; and the other by Hon. James Bryce, a noted scholar and author, and for many years British Ambassador to the United States. At the end of the fourth year after the University was opened the number of students in the College and Preparatory Departments was forty-three. The same Departments now enroll 350. The number of students who have graduated are: Bachelor of Arts, 93; Doctor of Medicine, 37; JVlaster of Arts, 2; Honorary degrees conferred, one Master of Arts; three Doctors of Divinity, one Ph. D. and LL. D, and one Litt. D. Not only has there been a constant advance in the number of students in attendance, but there has been constant improvement in the facilities for increasing the comfort and health of the students. Better rooms have been provided, with better heating, lighting, and ventilation. Better food with regular and systematic exercise has also contributed largely to the improved physical condition of the students. Through the generosity of Mrs. W.C.B. Rawson, one of our staunch friends and supporters in America, a sanitarium has been erected at the Western Hills for the benefit of those afflicted with or threatened with tuberculosis. We are not aware that a similar institution has been provided for any other school in China. We hope this may prove a means of saving many promising students from the ravages of the "white plague" Including the students in the Intermediate schools which are under the supervision of the University there are over sixteen hundred in attendance. In the first years the students were all

106 roo - from this province, but now we have representatives from the most distant provinces of the nation. In the beginning we had to induce students to attend by farnishing tuition, board and room free, and in many cases we gave aid for traveling expenses and for clothing. Nothing now is given for these thing:;, and last year the receipts from students' amounted to $7,704. In the catalogue for r892 it is recorded that the "Campus covered several acres valued at SII,')QO." The land now belonging to the University consists of nearly forty acres, and, with buildings and equipment, is valued at $300,000 gold. The progress made along educational and spiritual lines has been even more marked than the material progress. The standard of work has be:n kept at a high grade of efficiency, so that our graduates are freely admitted tt) se\-eral of the leading Universities in the United States for graduate work. To quote again from the early record; "The right of every man to exercise freedom of conscience is recognized in all the religious instruction of the University, The teaching is practical but not sectarian. The aim is always the symmetrical development of the spiritual. together with the intellectual and physical nature of the pupil." This princ;ple of freedom of religious conviction and calling has been faithfully adhered to during the years, and yet we are glad to report that every student who has graduated has left the University a professing Christian. Thirtyseven of the graduates and seventeen others who studied in the University several years but did not graduate, have entered the Ministry, making a total of fifty-four \vho have given themselves to preaching. Thirty-four graduates have chosen the profession of teaching, nearly all of them in Christian schools, while thirtytwo or less than one-third of the alumni have clasen other callings. What of the future? We cannot prophecy, but we can face the future with calmness and hope. vve may not reach our ideals at once, but with the favorable environment and the growing influential constituency in this country and the United States, our progress should be much more rapid than in the past. The chief if no.t the only source of uncertainty is the question of endowment, and yet we have a good deal of confidence that the chief element in this uncertainty is one of time. Friends are certainly manifesting their interest in this University and that without any constant and pe'rsistant effort on our part. The time has come when this question must be met squarely, and a systematic campaign of education and solicitation must be inaugurated. Dr. Headland has recently intimated his readiness to devote his time to the interests of the University in the United

107 States or to return to his work here. It is our hope to secure his services to raise funds for the University. An increasing number of students are coming to us from the best families in the land. Among the..;e are the sons of a Tutuh. an Admiral, Cabinet officers, J ud~es of the Supreme Court, and teachers in the Government schools. The President of the Board of Education of the Province of Shensi has sent to us nine students whom he is to support until they graduate. Two members of the House of Representatives are taking a course in Constitutional Law in Peking University under Dr. King. A course in Political Science will be given next Semester. The lectures will be given by Prof. F. C. Goodnow, LL.D. of Columbia University, and Adviser to President Yuan Shih Kai on Constitutional Government. \Vith such responsibilities upon us and such splendid opportunities before us, the call of duty is clear, 1ve must do first things first. PEKING PREPARATORY SCHOOL. (See Report of Peking University. ) T AIANFU INTERMEDIATE AND HIGH ~CHOOLS. PERRY O. HANSON, Principal. The Principal reports that his main duties for the year bave been as follows :- 1. To send out I500 letters in an effort to stretch the $350. appropriation to cover the $3500. budget of the Boarding schools, and incidentally to try and get $500. for the Yenchowfu district. 2. To increase the enrollment 50 per cent over any previous year. 3. To organize two new Boarding schools. 4. To add two years to the course of study 5. To attend to the usual 57 duties as teacher, administrator.and disciplinarian. 6. To complete the purchase of the llew five-acre campus and build a ten foot stone wall around it. 7. To draw plans for new buildings and let the, contract for the first section of dormitories. 8. To frame a definite policy for educatioll in our Shantung work. 9. To take recreation jn tennis, in training athletes for our Field-days, as Superintendent of Ollr Sunday School, with 600 enrolled and in attempting the d nties as Missionary in charge of the Yenchowfu District.

108 - 102 The Taianfu Boarding school reports the best year in its history. The enrollment increased 50 per cent during the year. There were 24~ boys registered for Intermediate and High School work while 70 Primary boys have been in the same yards. It is difficult to indicate. in cold facts' and figures the increase in the school's influence on the community aud in its prestige on the two Districts. THE NEW SCHOOLS ORGANIZED. It is necessary l10w to refer to our. school in the plural, because two branch schools have been organized during the year. When the Winter term ended we were flooded with applications for admission to the school in the Spring term. There were forty bright boys who had completed onr regular primary course in the Day schools of the districts and who ought to be received into the Iutermediate school at once. There were sixty who were seeking admission from other schools of whom many were boys from influential families in villages on our districts where we have no established work. Anrl some had heard of the school and wished to come from distant parts of the province. Our new buildillg-s,,'ere still on paper and the old rooms could 110t be stretched. Six boys in a room ten feet square and four at one desk indicated that we had about reached the limit of onr capacity. Many of the applicants would have been willing to be the seventh in the crowded room or the fifth at the desk if only we would receive them. We knew that further crowding was impossible and yet we did not want to send away this large number of students. We repaired old buildings at Anchiachuang and at Yenchowfu, secured the necessary teachers, c:.nd wheu the new term opened there were seventy pupils enrolled at the new schools, while 142 were crowded into the Taianfu buildings; there were 70 Day school pupils in the same yards with these 212 boarders. The burden of the larger school work has been heavy indeed as there was no appropriation to meet the extra expense. Since the first of January the expense of the schools has averaged $200. per month. The semi-drought of the Summer with resulting high prices makes the Principal a little anxious as to the outcome of the year's experiment.,\ve believe that what we have done has been pleasing to the giver of all good gifts, and that He will help us through the year. A GOOD INVESTMENT. The Missionary Society is investing annually less than $1.50 for each boy enrolled in the school. Ten years ago when there were 30 pupils in this school the appropriation was the same as it is now with 240 enrolled. OUf

109 - I03- school is not old and the first of Ollr boys to graduate from college were in the Class of We point with pride to Yang P'ei Han, Liang Ch'uan Ling, and Ch'en Li T'ing ; we present them as evidence that the Missionary Society is wise to invest $350 in Shantung Boarding schools. Seven other students whose college work has been interrupted for the present are with us as teachers. STUDENT ACTIVITIES. The religious life of the school has had some encouraging features. All the boys have been enrolled in Bible classes, meeting every Sunday morning for stddy and testimol1y. A Young IvIen's Christian Association has been organized during the year and some satisfactory committee work bas been done. The speci~l services under Rev. Jonathan Verity were helpful to the boys. At the end of the school year ill June, at the suggestion of Mr. Davis, we asked the students to make pledges of time for volunteer Christian work of the succeeding six months. \7i,Te were pleased to receive pledges aggregating seven years and we know that many of the boys have fulfilled their vows most faithfully. Forty boys have joined the church on probation and 25 have been baptized during the Conference year. Definite Interscholastic relations have been developed during the year with the Government schools of the city. We have entertained students or faculties 011 our grounds or at the church several times during the year and we are encouraged to see a growing l1luuber of them present at our Sunday School and services. A considerable amount of definite village preaching has been done by the older students and during the Pilgrim season they relieved the regular workers in the Gospel tent 011 Saturdays and Sundays. We want our students to know that they are" Saved to serve.') The work of the Literary society has continued alld the practice gained there has been useful in preparing tht> members to take part in public meetings. The program at the graduation last June was rendered very satisfactorily. Twelve students finished our course and entered the third year at the Peking Preparatory school, vdlile a class of 23 finished the Intermediate course and will continue their work ill our High School where we have now added two years. So that hereafter oqr students will enter the Freshman college class. The purchase of the new campus has made it possible to give special attention to regular athletics. The results at the final Field-day were most gratifying, and we feel sure that some of our boys will soon be found competing in the Olympic contests. It cost the principal a great deal of time as Trainer and also some

110 money in providing the prizes that acted as a real stimulus to the contestants~ but this work is greatly needed ~Iilitary drill has been continued and ne\\' suits nlade of kahki have been provided so that on occasions the school makes a very fine appearance. Two public Field-days have been been held; one was in honor of the :-,unday School Commision party, when every school in the city was present; the other, at the end of the spring term when the attendance was also very large. The coming of tourists to visit the great Tai Mountain and the grave of Confucius, has opened a new line of work for us. We ha ve made arrangements \\'ith Cook and Son to furnish English speaking guides for t11e visitors and expect that many of the boys will be able to earn enough to pay their food money, because one day as guide will pay three week's board. NEW C,\MP{JS PURCHASED. \\le have completed the purchase of land for the new campus and have enclosed it within a ten-foot wall. \Ve have five acres of land and it is possible to secure additions on three sides. A more satisfactory site could not be found. Plans for all of the proposed buildings have been drawn and have been approved in general by the Building Committee. The contract for the first section of dormitories has been let and within two months after Conference 80 of our students will have wholesome rooms. The cost of this building will be.$2000. The best of material is being used. And a building both substantial and artistic is assured. Thus $100. will provide dormitories for four boys. Our present plans will accomodate three hundred students and when some one sends us $15,000 we will quickly produce the buildings, these will cnj.ble us to train the men who are needed to enter the work for Christ on these two Districts. AN EDUCATIONAL POLICY. Our plan for education in our Shantung l\iission does not contemplate work of College grade. The Peking University will receive our students who desire to take higher work. We do want a first class Preparatory school at T'aianfu with Intermediate Boarding schools at each of our twelve great centers of the Shantung districts. The Principal of each of these schools should be a college graduate. We have our own students in training for these positions at the present time and we believe they will do this sacrificing work for SI25. a year. Our men will be ready and we expect to establish these schools during the next five years. Hundreds of village schools may be opened as feeders for the boarding schools; these small schools may be manned by mel1 who have received less education but, who have 110 less piety and, devotion and 'who will be willing to work for about $50. a

111 year. This work cannot be made self-supporting at once. We pray that some of the Lord's silver and gold may be given us by His trustees in the wealthy West, that the work of our hands may be established and that we may see His I~.ingdom coming through the influence of these Christian schools. OUR FACULTY. \Ve have gradually developed a corps of teachers thoroughly able and devoted. The faculty was strengthened by the comin),!; of 11r. Yang P'ei Han at the beginning of the last term. Our old reliable ~Ir. Chao I Hsiu went to Yenchowfu as principal of the new school. \Ve will open this Fall term with another valuable addition in the person of 1\11'. Liang Ch'uan Ling, a graduate of Peking and of eh'ing Hua, who will be with us until he sails for study in America. \\-ith one exception all of the Chinese teachers are products of our own schools. 1'.lrs. Davis and :\lrs. Hanson will continue to teach. V\7F, Gln~ THAKKs. Our thanks are due to many \\'110 ha\'e helped us during the year. First we must mention Rev. G. L. Davis who carried on this work while we were on furlough and has continued to be invaluable as adviser at all times. He has col1tributed greatly to the success of the enlarged work. :\Irs. Davis has continued as an efficient teacher and gave valued help in preparing the graduation exercises. Dr. Korns and his assistants have prevented or healed the ills of the year, and we render grateful thanks. Mrs. Hanson has been useful as substitute teacher and as constant counsellor to the principal. Rev. J. T. vven has been faithful to his duties as Assistant Principal, giving a great deal of time to the school despite his heavy work as pastor of the church. The co-operation of all the faculty and the sympathy and help of our foreign colleagues in the station have been appreciated. Friends in the Homeland have made possible the greater work by their generous gifts, and we thank them heartily. We have been mindful throughout the year that our Father in Heaven was with us, making possible all that has been accomplished. CHANGLI INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. H. H. ROWLAND, Principal. During the first term of the school year there were enrolled in the school altogether 125 pupils, who brought for tuition and board the sum of $1509 l\1ex. The second term saw a tolal of 129 pupils, bringing $1685. The seating capacity of the large study hall is 126, so some places had to be vacated by the sick or

112 expelied before we could get this high total of 129. If we had had more r.oom, we might have taken under our wing six or seven more. Some of these last we had almost to drive away, evidently not being able to' make them understand why there isn't always room for one more. N ow we have discovered that we are violating correct sanitary conditions by having more than 100 boys in our study hall, so we are maki.ng the dining room also do service as a study hall. The teaching staff 'has done excellent work all the year. Mr. Tu Pu Yun as head teacher has been a splendid disciplinarian, ever alert, and at the same time, sympathetic in his attitude toward the students, a thorough teacher, a wise counselor, and last and best, such a good exhorter and example of the trusting, self-sacrificing Christian, that I can safely say that the great number of students who during the year became Christians, owe in large measure their change of life to his faithful, untiring efforts. ~lr. Sun.Mao Lin who joined us in the fall, some time after school opened, has illade himself, month by month, more and more indispensible, not only in t~aching, but also in the government, of the school. IvIr. Yang J en T'ang has done such good work on part time that we hope to use more of his time this year. Mr. Yang Jung :Mao, whom we all loved and admired for his excellent qualities, left us after Christmas to become principal of the Tsun Rua Intermediate School. Mr. Liu Yun Chih, who had a long period of sickness during the first term, was compelled to leave us during the second. term, lvir. Chao Fu Yuan acceptably filling his place until the close of school. Weare all, both teachers and students, glad that we are to have lyir. Liu with us again this autumn, for we all have a great liking for him. Mrs. Rowland has assisted in the teaching of English and helped in the music the first part of the year. She was succeeded in the latter department by 1\'1r. Verity, who all the time that he has been here, has worked most enthusiastically with the boys in the singing. At the close of the fall term the school graduated twelve students, and at the close of the spring term, fourteen. At the close of school in June, the Alderman School and the Intermediate School joined hands, as much as Chinese boys' and girls' schools dare, in a two day series of closing school exercises to which the gentry and merchants of Changli were invited. On the first day, we expected the city people, and on the second, the people from the country, but bad weather prevented many of the country folk from coming in. In spite of the weather, the church was filled both days for the boys' exercises in the morning and for

113 the girls' in the afternoon. Everyone we heard express an opinion, pronounced it a success. Outside of the glory which the participating students won, the credit belongs to ~1r. Verity for giving birth to the idea, getting the crowd, (in this Mr. \Vang, the county official. helped more than we can say) ~ and in drilling the boys and girls in the singing. Great credit must be given Mr. Tu for cho;osing the subjects presented, and for doing practically all the hard work of preparing the boys for their parts. How he found time to do it all without Lreaking down. T do not know. Mr; Sun deserves the credit for the splendid taste in the decorations of the church. and :'\1r. Yang gladly gave all the time he could spare to help. During the spring term \ve had many students taken sick; some having to go home, unable to finish their course. This set us to investigatin~' and led lls to put in a sewerage disposal plant at the cost of over $300; the work of which \",as most generously superintended by Dr. Kent, made us resolve to improve the quality of the food this next year and to guard against crowding. Spiritually, the best work of the year \vas done in a series of revival meetings led by Rev. Jonathan Verity, whose simple, loving, earnest gospel preaching, won many of our students to a closer walk with God. Soon after the meetings closed in February, there was hardly a non-christian in the school. The students have themselves managed the Y.?d. C. A., which had held meetings every Sunday afternoon, sent two delegates to the convention at Peking in December, the students themselves raising most of the money to pay the expense, and this summer they raised a good part of the money required to send a delegate to the student summer conference at the \Vestern Hills. Vie have tried to develop not only the spiritual and the mental side of the students, but the physical as well. Every day one period has been given to gymnastics or military drill. Several times during the spring, the entire school has taken a whole day for a tramp to the mountains, merrily marching out from the school yard in the morning and wearily dragging tired feet back at night. Under the head of casualties we may register one operation for appendicitis, several cases of measles, dozens of boils, three ejections of undesirables, besides innumerable minor diseases, caused by overstudy sometimes, and sometimes by the dislike of study. The dining room ledger records two unhappy meals. the first a breakfast that was oiled by a malicious student, already referred to above as an undesirable; and the second a lunch

114 which the students thought had been treated likewise, but which the teachers could find no fault with. Thanks to the splendid spirit of the students, both inoidents led to no further trouble. For the rest, you all know that in times of peace, there are no annals to write, and to make you think that we were happy and contented most of the time, this report will therefore end here, with the hope that all our good fri.ends will not forget us and our needs, which are a new school building, new dormitories and teachers houses, which we need for the acc01110dation of the 140 and more students and one new teacher who came to us this fall, many at present sleeping in,gate houses and servants' quarters. PEKING INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. W.W. DAVIS, Principal. The Peking Intermediate School, in spite of very poor and much scattered accommodations, has had a very successful year. At the opening of school in September we were able to get possession of a large group of buildings, with quarters for one married teacher and 110 boys. Altogether we occupied seven different courts scattered over the southeastern corner of the Northern City. This made the proper enforcement of discipline a matter of great difficulty. The year has been marked by a great increase in attendance. The first semester we had 156 regular students and I II special students or a total of 267. The second semester we had 230 regular students and 163 specials, a total of 393 There were 469 different boys in the school during the year, so most of the boys who enrolled for the first semester came back for the second. Last year the total enrollment was 194. The receipts for the year were as follows: from tuition $4764, from board $4561, and from room rent $194. or a total of $9519. Last year the total receipts were $1054. The expenses for were $Il883. Or the school was 80% self supporting, which is a great advance over the preceding year. vve are aiming to get that last 20% for this coming year. In January 17 boys out of a class of 19, finished the course and entered the Preparatory Department of Peking University. Follow,ng the example of Peking University another class finished the course in June. There were 40 boys who took the examination but 12 failed and 8 were caught cheating and therefore thrown 01,1t, so only 20 received their certificates of promotion. The number of boys coming for English has been very

115 large. Some 30 boys, graduates of Higher Primary ~rhools in the country, have entered our Third and Fourth Year Classes as regular students in order to get English. One boy had studied English 5 years in a Government Sdlool at \V ucho,," in l'-.uanghsi but had never advanced beyond the First Reader, because every year the English teacher was changed and each new teacher made the boys :'tudy a new Fir=-,[ Reader. The great majority of the boys come from Chihli Province. but \ye also have boy~ from the Provinces of Fengtien, Shantung. Shanhsi, Honan.. Kiangsu, Hupeh, Hunan, Yunnan, and Kuanghsi. \Ve started the year \\"ith 5 teachers but immediately had to add two more and in February we added -+ new teachers, but one of our old teachers left to complete his College Com::-:e. The success of the school is largely due. to the teachers, \\'ho have worked hard under difficult conditions and amid inconvenient surroundings. ~1y thanks in particular are due to ~Ir. Shih, the head-teacher, for his constant help and for the many responsibilities and burdens he has shouldered. Four of our teacher=-, are graduates of Peking University, one of the old Tenchoufu College and three of the Preparatory Department of Peking University while the other t'.\'o are gtaduates of (;OYC1'n111ent )J onnal Schools. '- The proper maintenance of discipline among such a large and heterogeneous crowd of boys has at times been difficult. It was necessary to expel several boys, but the majority of the boys have shown a good spirit and behaved well. Only about 50'); of the boys come frem Christian families but considerably more than that number are Christians. Special Bible classes taught by teachers and by students of the University were carried on throughout the year, and this past semester there was a religious meeting every Sunday evening. Special attention has been given to athletics and physical drill and during the fall the football team played matches 'with the teams of several schools. Both at the Temple of Agriculture Athletic l\leet in February and the Sunday School Athletic :Meet at the Temple of I-leaven in :May some of the boys distinguished themselves. During the second semester most of the boys ate under a mat-shed w,hich was also used as a chapel. The boys were quartered in 7 different compounds, one being at least five minutes walk from the Recitation Rooms. All our buildings are Chinese style, mostly old and some rooms are more fit for stables and pig-pens than for sleeping rooms for boys. There are no facilities for bathing and it was necessary to send the boys out to

116 public bath houses. The heating system is primitive, expensive and produces large quantities of unpleasant gases. The present course of study is unsatisfactory in several particulars. There is a great opportunity for a well equipped Intermediate School in Peking. If we had suitable buildings we could easily have a seld-supporting school of 400 boys and two feeding schools of about 50 boys each, doing the work of the first two years, one located to the north and the other to the south of Peking. Unless we can do something about securing a better plant during the next two years, the school will be unable to hold its own. WE NEED First; An ample campus, with space for building and a playground for 400 boys. Second; A School Building, steam-heated and electriclighted, with 4 large assembly rooms and at least 10 class rooms, all modernly furnished. ' Third; One steam-heated and electric-lighted Dormitory for 300 boys, or else two for ISO boys each, with dining-rooms, kitchen and bath-rooms. Fourth; Residences for 5 or 6 Chinese teachers. (Note. During the last 16 months only 4 of the teachers have married.) Fifth; A foreign Principal with no other work but the supervision of this school. If some one would give the school $100,000, the school would be well and permanently established. TIENTSIN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. BURTON ST. JOHN, Pli1lCipal. Average attendance Total registration (including 15 primary) Boarding pupils. Day pupils Total budget for year 19 I 2- I;:; Fees received from students $; 6,748 $ 5,981 The Tientsin Intermediate School can report another sllccessful year. The enrollment has reached the limit of the capacity of the present buildings. During both terms it was necessary to turn away many stude1lts for lack of accomodations. To do this has not been an ullmixed evil, for it has enabled us to raise the ~tandard of our work. On the other hand, it is 110

117 - I!I ~ pleasure to tell a promising student that he 111ust look elsewhere for an education. Had we the buildings, we might do equally good work, and accomodate a mnch larger number of students, with little additional expetlse. Constantly facing, as we do, the limitations of our equipment, inspires us to look forward to further advances. We have come to believe that we should soon begin a definite campaign for an additional $20,000 for new equipment. Should we respond to the pressure under which we are continually placed, and extend our courses through the high school, an additional $10,000 would be needed for rearrangement and added equip~lent. We are collvinced that within a few years we might have and ought to have a school of at least 500 students. Throughout the year \\'e have had the assistance of Mrs. J. H. Pyke, who has taught one of the advanced classes in English with more than ordinary acceptability. During the greater part of the spring term, Mrs. Crawford M. Bishop of the American Consulate, also taught oue of the special classes. To these ladies our most genuine thanks are due. Their help was doubly appreciated because of the illness of the Principal, which took him away from the class room for the greater part of the winter term, and greatly limited his capacity for work during the spring term. The Chinese staff of teachers have givel1 their usual high standard of satisfaction. \Ve have been delighted that Mr. M. L. Chang, the Assistant Principal, has secured his Arts degree from Peking University. The Chinese faculty has been materially strengthened, also, by the addition of Mr. T. J. Meng, who through the kindness of Mr. Felt and Bishop Bashford, was transferred to us during the year. These two teachers have condncted during the summer a snmmer school which has been of great value both to the school and to the students who have been situated so that they conld take advantage of it. During the year we have tried to make the school boys appreciate more fully the benefits of physical exercise. The work to this end has been divided between the members of the faculty, dded by the older students. During the spring we held an athletic meet for the school in wbich about seventy per cent of the boys took part with great enthnsiaslll. As the first attempt of its kind, it was a great success. The religious work has been carried on along the usual lines, except that because of the large influx of new students from non-christian homes during the spring term, we fonnd it advisable to put a very large number into special classes for the

118 study of the fundamental outlines of Christian truth. In addition to this, the regular Bible classes of the course were conducted. The student Young Men's Christian Association conducted special Bible classes on Sunday. \vith student leaders. Mr. R. S. Hall of the city Young Men's Christian Association conducted a normal class for these leaders. During the year thirty-four boys have been received into the church on probation, and ten have been baptized. Nearly all of the probationers were from Non-Christian homes. TSUNHUA INTERMEDJA TE SCHOOL. YANG J-q-NG MAO, Prillcipal. We look forward to the coming year with faith that \\'e can do better work than heretofore by improving its qllalily though we canllot greatly increase its quantity. \Vhel1 I was at Ch'angli last December, I was very glad to have Pr. G. R. Davis ask me whether I wished to take charg'e of the Tstlllhua Intermediate School work. I liked the work, so I accepted the offer immediately. My wife and I reached 'fsunhl1a oa the ninth of January. After some repairs on the dormitory and study rooms, the school was regularly opened on the fifteenth of January. Instead of ha\~ing the highest class go to Ch'angli, the school is required, under Dr. Davis direction, to ha\'e fonr classes. Sixty-three students were enrolled and we had a hard term because of the lack of teachers. Even so we carried on our work successfully with the help of Rev. and Mrs. Liu Ching Ch'ing and my wife. Without their help we do not know what we should have done. The School Board has given its constant help with spirit and vigor, working on the accounts an,d collecting money from the parents of the students. The prosperity of the school is largely due to them, Our Chinese teacher, Mr. Li YUH Ch'eng has done his part well. He is an A. B. and an lmdergrad nate of the Five-province Normal School, 'Tientsin.,\Ve have decided to have one more Chinese teacher, Mr. Li Shao P'u, the coming term. He was a teacher in this very school when Rev. \Yang T'iell Hsiang was principal. and then taught in the Middle School of the Anglican Mission, Peking. He is not only a scholar but a man of unusual ability in supervision. The religious life of the students has been deepened by a regul.ar meeting held every Saturday night. Rev. }\tir. Liu and I led in turn.

119 We have bought 23 maps for our geography class and we shah buy a globe as soon as possible. Another good thing that we bought, was a printing press that will, of course, facilitate the teachers work and bring new spirit into the classes. Tsunhu3 is a good place for a school. Pure air will save a hundred dollars on the athletic field. \Ve thank God for such a beautiful place. Not one pupil has been sick. NEEDS. We want a teacher of Chinese; bis salary will wholly rest upon the students and we hope the Finance Committee will give us oue English teacher. The city official and other prominent men in the city Illade a visit to the compound dllrillg the year. The official criticized our study room as too dark and not sanitary. This is trne, for the willdo'ws of that room are all on the Chinese plan. Therefore ventilation is nearly impossible. \\7e hope the Building Committee will decide to rebuild one of the ruins as a study and recitation hall. $2,500 (~Iex) will be sufficient for this purpose. Put this amount ill the buildi:lg and we can accommodate I20 students for a course in Christian education. We. would be able to receive more nou-christian students. Having constant conversation with government teachers and students, I have heard it said that "superstition may be rapidly replaced by an aggressive spirit of scepticism and materialism.' I This is becoming true. Unless the mission schools make rapid improvement and get thousands and thousands of young men educated in the schools, I am afraid that Christianity ill Chiua Illay go the way it has gone ill Japan. Wit h fervent prayer alld faith we hope our schools will be well-equipped aud up-to-date in the near future. NORTH AND SOUTH PEKING DAY SCHOOLS. W. W DAVIS, Sujerillfende71f. The year has been olle of marked progress. The benefits of the Normal Class for Teachers held durin g the summer of 1912 were quite decided. The schools in collnection with the Asbury and Huashih Churches have both continued to do good work, the attendance bas been kept up to the full capacities of the buildings and both schools have sent several boys up to the Intermediate School. At the Huashih some eight or ten of the boys have joined the church all probation and four or five have been baptized. The Yungtingmen School too has done good work aud a preaching service has been held in the school building every

120 Sunday afternoon. Here we are in great need of a bigger and better place. The prospects are excellent. The Shul1cbibmen School had a bad time for the first half of the year. The teacher Chao became so lazy that the school dwindled to two() boys. For about a month I sought him to dismiss him. But he would not come to see me and when I visited the school be had given the boys a holiday and 110 one was to be found. Finally one Monday afternoon early in December I found him at three o'clock asleep in the schoolroom, with a half-burned cigarette lying 011 his table and two small boys playing ill the room. He removed himself and bis be longings before I left the compound. His successor improved tbings a little but was not the man for the place and I was glad to receive bis resignation at Chinese New Year. Happily I secured the services of Mr. \Vang Fellg Shan, a graduate of the Preparatory Department of Peking University, and before tbe close of the year the school once more had un attendance of twenty boys. Late in March the Chushiskou School was re-established i11 a rooll1 in the temple-court of the Oil Guild. The Chushihkou church members have made themselves responsible for the rent and equipment of the school. This school has done very we1l and has had an average attendance of twenty-five boys. In connection with the Huashih, Chushihkou and Shunchihmell Churches there should be established Day Schools teaching Intermediate School subjects. \\-" e lack both mouey and space. On the South Pekiug District Mr. Felt generously raised the necessary funds and started schools at Hantsull, Hmmgtsun, Pacbou, and Peiyiu. The schools at Changpingchou, Huailaihsieu and Shihhsia were all small and as I had 110 money for them, I closed them all at the eud of June. Mr. He the teacher at Shihbsia bas continued to teach for 2 months without pay. The Migun-hsien School, has been moved into the town of that name and 110W has an enrollment of 30 boys and is getting 011 finely. At Chinese New Years it was necessary to change teachers, as the incllmbent was lazy, unpopular with the boys and could 110t get along with either the preacher.or the church members. The l1ew teacher cbas done very fine work. I have been able to give the Peking schools more supervision, than previously. I have insisted on physical drill every day and. the boys have taken to it eagerly. A Mohammedan teacher who.bas a scbool just opposite the Huashih School was so iuterested

121 - IISwatching the boys drill that he requested Ollr teacher to send over a boy to teach bis boys to drill. The conference Course of Study for Primary Schools adopted in 1907 is unsuited to the heeds of the schools and is hopelessly out of date. The Government Course now requires both Elementary Arithmetic and Elementary Geography in the Primary Schools, but our Course pays no attention to these subjects. There is a new Union Course floating around in the air, but it has never been presented to either the Mission or the Conference and so bas never been adopted. There is great need of prompt and definite action in the matter of a new Course. It might be well to adopt the Government Course, substituting the Bible for the books on Ethics. The total enrollment for the year has been 280 with 14 Schools. SHANHAIKUAN AND LANHSIEN DAY SCHOOLS. CARL A. FELT, Superintendent. During my two years at Changli one of my chiefest joys was the development of the Day Schools on the two contiguous Districts. At last Conference tho appointed to the work in Peking Bishop Bashford req nested me to retain these Day Schools. I was glad to do so tho I feared I would have little time to give to them. My time for this work proved to be even le'3s than I had thot. I have been but a collector of funds; the work has all been done by the District Shperintendents, Messrs. Verity and Ch'en. They will make the detailed reports ooncerning the work. My living so far from the work makes it impossible for me to know the conditions. The District Superintendents have lived and worked among them. For the success of the year I desire to thank them most heartily. SOUTH TIENTSIN DAY SCHOOLS. BURTON ST. JOHN, Superintendent. Number of Schools. 5 Average a ttelldance Total enrollment 95 The Superintendent has been unable personally to inspect these schools. Their supervision has been kindly undertaken by Dr. G. R. Davis. the District Superintendent. (See the District Superintendent's report of the Tientsin District).

122 TAIAN DAY SCHOOLS GEO. L. DAVIS, Superintendent. Although we have not received any aid from the Missionary Society this year, yet through the kindness of friends we have bad twenty five schools 011 the District. This includes the one in connection with the Intermediate School in Taianfu. Two of these are entirely self-supporting, one at Maotze and one at Hsiaomun.. Quite a number receive the main part of their support from the students, and only receive a bonus from us, so that they cannot be classed as private schools. The problem, that is before 11S, is to increase the standard of our teachers, and in order to do this we established a summer school this year in Taianfu and some of the teachers came, but it was impossible to compell them all to come. \Ve plan to have them all come next year for at least six weeks. In order to increase the efficiency of the teachers they must be compelled to use what they have learned, and we hope to arrange for some trained school man to devote all his time to visiting the schools, and showing the teachers their weak points and try to assist them to overcome them. Not only are the officials and rich men planning to open new schools and devising methods to make them more popular, but the spirit of the day has reached the Bnddhist priests, who hope to open a school in Feichengllsien within two doors of the church. We must do our best to surpass them even if we are 110t able to give our students free tuition and board and uniforms. The Republic has made one very distinct change ill the attitude of the city people. In all our work there were hardly any Christians to be found among the better class of city people, but now they haye become more liberal and gladly attend all school exercises, entertainments, and even lectures on religion. We must make the most of this condition of affairs and put in large plants where we can not only collect large crowds for popular exercises but for definite religions campaigns. \Ve hope the day will soon come when we can put an Intermediate School in each Hsien City with rooms attacbed that can be 11sed for reading room and game room. If we interest these people in school work and lectures, we can induct them to enter Bible classes and iiually make a stand for Christ. Two other denominations have bee1l so impressed with the opportunity that they have already put in new plants in several towlls, and one de-nomination plans to put

123 - IIi- $103,000 gold into tw::t1ty cities the next few ye~us to save the scholarly classes. Results canllot always be judged in school work by one examination, so that it is impossible to tell the exact yalue of our efforts, bnt when we realize that more than three hundred pupils hear the Gospellllessage every day; we know that they are being given ideals and thoughts that will be of even greater value to them than the knowledge of a few hundred characters, and when we see the difference between our regular scholars and the children 011 the street, it is easy to uuderstand the transformation that has taken place, and it gives ns a point of contact with a great Dnmber of people that we would otherwise never reach. When the women of the village see their wild small sons learning to obey and be respectful they immediately take an interest in the organization that is doing the good work. For ten dollars gold a year you can subsidize a native school of the old style and they will adopt our course of study and attend church 011 Sunday, so that for this small Stull ten or more boys \vill receive religious instrnctions for a year. We most sincerely thank our friends who have made possible the day school work this past year, and hope and pray that they may be able to carryon the good work. TIENTSIN CITY DAY SCHOOLS. BURTON ST. JOHN, Superintendent. Number of Schools.. Average attengance. Total enrollment The three primary schools of this District are located at Tillgchuang in the German COllcession, at Wesley Church (discontinued since June), and at the South Gate. The latter is the primary department of the Intermediate school. For this DO special report is needed beyond the fact that it should be separated fmm the Intermediate School as soon as a building can be provided. The Tingchuang school flourishes under adverse conditions. The average attendance of 45 crowds unmercifully the rented adobe hut provided as a school room. A proper sanitary school building should be erected for this school at an early date. The school at Wesley Church has been conducted entirely by the Official Board of that church. It has been self stlpporting and has been an important adjunct to that church.

124 :- TSUNHUA DAY SCHOOLS. BURTON ST. JOHN, Superintendent. N umber of Schools Average attendance 78 Total enrollment 95 The Superintendent bas been unable personally to inspect these schools. Their supervision has been kindly undertaken by Dr. G. R. Davis, District Superintendent. (See the District Superintendent's report for the Tsunhua District). YENCHOU DAY SCHOOLS. PERRY O. HANSON, Supermte1lde1lt. (See Report of Yen chou District.)

125 MEDICAL WORK CHANGLI MEDICAL WORK EDWIK ~I. KENT, ~I.D. PII)'siciall-ill Cha1ge Out of Qne hundred and seyenty four in-patients that were admitted to the ChangE hospital during the past year, one out of every dozen was conyerted and joined the church on probation. This represents work and prayer not on the part of anyone but of the whole staff. }'Iany thanks are due ~Ir. Verity for supplying the hospital \"ith preachers and to :;\l1's. Yerity for her hours of earnest talk and prayer with the women patients. The women from the Bible Training School have also visited the sick and worked among them. To the hospital equipment have been added a new operating table, a waste receptacle and an instrument table. These will increase the chances for the patients in the operating room but it would be of little use to get them safely through the operation should the wards fall on their heads later. We need new wards with walls that cave neither in nor out. Owing to the prevalence of robbers in near-by Shihkechuang the hospital has had a number of wealthy patients. And while it may 'seem strange to speak of robbers in connection with Changli Mission hospital, still it is true that the operations of the robbers at Shihkechuang have had a direct bearing on numerous operations at the hospital. It might be added that the robbers made their operations pay much better financially than did the hospital, possibly because the robbers had first chance. One day a voluble old man brought in a friend. He told of the hospital's wonderful reputation, "\Vhy," said he, everybody around here knows that you opened a school boy's abdomen last fall, took out the roots of his sickness and in ten days he was back in school again." -A smile went around the hospital force, that appendicitis case again! Recently affairs \~ere livened up by a 'prospective opium case. The man's friends sought out the physician and in hushed tones, informed him that they had a sick relative who would like to enter the hospital next morning. Asked as to the nature of his illness, they cdnfessed that he was addicted to the "big smoke." A little further inquiry revealed the fact that the man expected to be arrested the next day on charge of having the opium habit

126 - 120 ~ and so planned to get into the hospital and begin the cure at day break the next morning. But day break brought a pouring rain sufficient to quite dampen the ardor of the law. The dampness lasted for several days but. with the first clear _ weather, the patient was summarily deposited at the hospital in the evening when no one was astir and only ventured outside when he was able to pass the government opium test. The last few months the patients ranks have been recruited from Peitaiho. One, a lace merchant. was attacked by a laborer with a grass knife. The merchant refused to divide his cash and was badly cut with the sickle. A German lady found him by the way side half dead, put him on her donkey and took him to the nearest doctor where his wounds were bound up. He was then sent to Changli to the hospital where the two pence was duly paid. Another case is that of the apprentice of a money changer. This time the donkey instead of helping play the good Samaritan bit the boy on the arm, breaking both bones and nlaking a very painful wound. The youth soon began to improve, ho\vever. and is nearly ready to go home. And so they come and go--a steady stream of heathendom flowing through the Christian hospital touched by the sunlight of love as the message brought home by the Christian workers, then on and out back again to mingle with their fellows. How much of the 1ight penetrates the depths of the stream we cannot know but, here and there, a reflected ray gives added proof to the assurance, "It shall not be in vain, saith the Lord." PEKING MEDICAL WORK. N. S. HOPKINS, M.D., Physician in Charge 7:/'IC JJ.f ethodist Hospital in Peking, occupies valuable property, at the corner of Legation and the Hatamen great streets Its situation and structure make it one of the more conspicuous buildings of the city, and an ideal location to carryon a large work to influence its life. The building is a two story structure, with a full basement, which is used for dispensary work. Its upper stories are used for the Eye Clinic, Operating Rooms, First, and Second Class Wards. The Third Class patients are accommodated in Chinese buildings back of the main structure. The Hospital l/vork has been carried on through the year without interruption, 391 patients have been received, and have stayed with us a total of 7182 days, or about 20 years. Dr. Po the faithful House-Surgeon has added another year of consecrated service. \Ve are glad that he is one of us-not borrowed. For where would we get another like him?

127 M,. Yueh Jung-itsien, a graduate of the Peking University, has consented to act as Hospital Nlanager. He has taken control of the service of the Hospital, and greatly added to the efficiency of the work. Dispensary work is carried on at the Hospital with a branch dispensary at Chushihkou in the Southern City. In these two places treatments have been given to 76I3 people. The people who daily visit our dispensaries, appeal strongly to us, belonging largely to that class, who are submerged by poverty and misfortune. We believe that it would be a work of great value, to prepare tracts on Hygiene, and the more common diseases, for distribution. Hosea saw that his people were destroyed, and rejected, for want of knowledge. Is this not true in China today? The youth of China greatly need this education, that they may not sell their birthright to a sturdy manhood and responsible citizenship. The Ophthalmic Clinic has been well patronized thro the ~ year, and shows a growing appreciation of this special service. There has been an increasing number of private patients, and those who would call us to their homes, for private treatment. There have been an unusual number of interesting cases under treatment, and with good results. A merchant from the north of Peking who had been blind for more than 8 years, was sent away rejoicing, with restored vision, and ability to take up his work. A blind fortune-teller, hearing of our work, returned home to bring his blind father to us. This man was restored to almost perfect vision. It was pathetic to see the father as he beheld his son for the first time in 6 years, and with tears, looking into the sightless eyes of his son, There are some \vho formerly came to the Hospital feeling their way with canes who now do not need to do it, and still others whom we feel, have been saved from such a fate. The Lens Grinding Plant, run in connection with the Optical Department has been enlarged by adding new machinery, and bettered by experience. This has become a remunerative, as well as a necessary part of our work. In former years this work was sent to the home land causing long delay, Now equally good work can be done by our own workmen. This work we feel to be an active missionary agency, as it makes it possible to supply cheaply the needs of many of the mission schools in China. Medical Teaching has made heavy demands upon us. As members of the Union Medical and Woman's Medical School, we are pledged to supply two medical men on the teaching staff,

128 giving their full time to the work. To do this and keep our own work at a high grade of efficiency is an impossiblity. If we as a Mission are to fulfill our obligations to these colleges, two men should be set aside for this work. Medical Inspection of the students in the Peking University is a work to which we have given much time and thought. It has been beneficial in not only detecting and treating disease, but it has called attention to the fact, that healthy living and exercise, are also requirements of the College. This work should be made more thorough by adding to it, lectures on Hygiene and Physiology. Thro the generosity of Mrs. Ida Rawson, a tract of land has been secured at the Western Hills, and a Preventorium erected, which will accomodate 10 students. Young men, who have shown tubercular symptoms, in the past, have been sent to their homes, where lacking proper food, and surroundings, they have quickly succumbed to the disease. We have noticed that students quickly respond to pure air, and improved conditions, and we hope much for them, from this little home in the Hills. The Evangelistic ~VOr1l has been faithfully done by Mr. Liu, and others who have assisted him. We realize that without the presence of the Great Physician, our work is simply a humanitarian effort. We hope and pray, that those who come to us, may find that power, that will change the heart and life. 19 have united with the Church fro111 the Hospital, and many have gone to their homes, with a Bible and the gospel story in their hearts. In reviewing the work of the year, we have more decided opinions in regard to it than ever before. We believe that a work, well equipped, and properly manned, could be, in Peking, a power for good, and wholly self-supporting. We have a vision of a great field to be occupied. One which to the present time., has scarcely been touched. This field cannot be occupied by men who are making their medical. practice, a side issue of their regular work. It has been said, "that those who are not true to their visions, must be content to see ghosts." Our desire is to be true to the vision, of a wide, helpful service. New cases... Return Visits, Out Calls made. Hospital Patients. STATISTICS. Total 23356

129 TAIAN MEDICAL WORK. JOHN H. KORNS, PhJ 1 sicia1l in Cha1gc. Aside from the death of Dr. Terry, one case of pneumonia, some acute fevers and the rather precarious condition of the writer's little baby, the health of the Taianfu missionaries ami their children has been excellent. Taishan at the north, in summer, provides us with a retreat away from the plain's scorching heat, and in winter shields us largely from the cold wind and dust storms from the north. Dr. Terry worked among the Chinese ulltil within a week of her death, no one but herself knowing the nature or severity of her disease. The members of the station miss her kindly ways, her leve1-headedlless and her unselfishness. The Chinese miss her even more. Many of them considered ber an ideal Christian. It will be long before the infi uence of her life will cease to operate for good in their hearts.' It was a pathetic and yet beautful sight to see her house-woman, Mrs. Fu, during the last illness, kneeling at her bedside trying to induce her to take food. This is the woman who prayed that two years might be taken from her own life and added to Dr. Terry's. Mrs. Fll'S devotion is a proof, if any were needed, of the lovableness of Dr. Terry's character. The health of the school boys was as good as one might expect, situated as they are in unsanitary, crowded quarters. In early June there were three cases of typhus, all recovering. To isolate these we were obliged to use Dr. Martin's contagious wards, not having any ourselves. In the new school court provisions are being made for track athletics. If the boys as a whole will participate in some form of athletics, those who come to Peking to study will be less apt to return with tuberculo"is. The physician-in-charge realizes the desirability of careful supervision of their athletics with periodical examinations of bodies, and he hopes to be of more assistance the coming year than he was able to be last year in accomplishing this end. The general hospital work included the treatment of the usual types of cases. Fortunately there were no epidemics. Of necessity, contagious cases and nearly all snrgic[ll cases were excluded. It was only to relieve excruciating suffering that eight bladder-stone cases were operated on. Of these, in spite of the septic surroundings, there were seven perfect results, the eighth leaving the hospital before his wound was completely healed. During the year I was able to be of some assistance to Dr. Martin, and since her departure in May, have had general oversight over her hospital.

130 The evangelistic work, both for dispensary and in-patients was conducted by the two assistants, except during two summer months when they were relieved by a Bible student. The assistants, T'ien Wen Chung and Kao T:ien Lin, ha've shown a good spirit toward the patients, 'their daily conduct reenforcing all they said by way of exhortation. A feature this year has been daily evening devotions with the in-patients, the doctor nearly always attending. The hospital work has shown a healthy increase, 55% inpatients and 15% in dispensary patients, over last year. With our present antiquated, cramped quarters, we cannot expect, nor could we care for a phenomenal growth. In a room I4 x 20 feet all out-patients are examined, all medicines prepared, kept, and dispensed, all ambulatory in-cases examined and treated, all surgical snpplies prepared and sterilized and all operating done. It would be little short of a crime to attempt major surgery in such a place in the United States. As to wards, there are six Chinese buildings into which 20 patients can be stowed away in a pinch. These would be ruled out as unfit for us by the most modest hospital in the United States. It is no credit to Western Medicine and Christianity to maintain a plant snch as this. It has been called by one well-versed in Chinese affairs the worst in China. Is it any wonder we are planning, working, praying for a new plant? What is more, we expect it. Of the $5coo.00 (Gold) promised two years ago $IOOO.OO has been paid, and while we have been unable to ascertain why the full amount has not been forwarded, yet we have reason to believe that it will be forthcoming ere long. We hope, in fact, to secnre $ additional from this source. We plan for a $ (Gold) plant, and, to secure the balance, personal letters with literature telling of our growth and needs are being sent to friends in the United States. Dr. Johnstone, who is ill the States, also is attempting to raise funds. We should like very much to decorate a page of this Conference Report next year with a picture of our completed main building. The writer has b~en oscillating between medical work and language study the past year, feeling that he was doing neither well. Dr. Baldwin returned from furlough in March, only to be sent in April to Wuhu to fill the vacancy caused by Dr. Hart's death. Dr. Johnstone, who has been in the Uuited States throughout the year, has been further detained and may not be able to return for some months. A hopeful feature of our work is that local receipts are increasing out of proportion to the increase in the number of

131 patients. The total amount received this year from the Chinese ill gifts and for medicines and fees, exclusive for Red Cross and Railroad receipts was $867.93, "'hile last year it was only $457'93. During the spring some Chinese friends were invited t6 contribute to our work. Up to June 30th $ was secured in this way, Mr. G. L. Davis being instrumental in obtaining the greater part of this. '~lhile the dispensary aud hospital receipts will gradually grow, they canllot in the near future at least, cover the cost of medicines and other hospital supplies. The average patient is too poor for that. In the gifts from those who have money, I think, lies the solution of our current deficit. From American friends $315.Ci2 was received in gifts. In addition, a beautiful pair of dispensing scales was recently received from the South Bend, Illdiana, church that is supporting Dr. Johnstolle. Dr. Johnstone visited this church last Christmas season, and the church people, \yanting to send us a Christmas gift, at the doctor's suggestion, cho!se the scales. With regard, further, to our needs, none is so pressing as that for a new plant. \Vith 10 years of cultivation of the field, the time is ripe now for the new buildings. It is possible that among the hearers or readers of this Report there are those who themselves will invest money in the new hospital plant at Taiaufu. Such an iuvestment will bring relief to the suffering Chinese, and will bring the suffering Chinese into a Christian ellvironment where day after day they learn of a Gospel that melts the superstitions that torment their bodies and minds and brings truth alld light into their deceitful hearts.

132 SUMMARY OF WOMEN'S WORK. PEKING DAY SCHOOLS. RONDOUT SCHOOL has enrolled 106 pupils. It has had an average daily attendance of 44,%'.. Total tuition received was $30.84 gold. TORCH YARD SCHOOL has enrolled 75 pupils. It has had an average daily attendance of 202/5. The total amount received for tuition was $14.91 gold. CHIEN MEN SCHOOL has enrolled 21 pupils. Old lady Liu superintends this school, and gives' it and the teacher a place in her home. THE QUINE SCHOOL has registered 53 pupils. The average daily attendance has been II.%. The total amount received for tttition was $6.85 gold. YUNG TING l\1en SCHOOL has enrolled 16 pupils. The average d~ily attendance has been 6Yz. The total amount received for tuition was $4.c9 geld. T AR'!AR CITY SCHOOL has had an enrollment of 99 pupils, with an average daily attendance of 36. Re{!eipts for tuition were $33.77 gold. THE MARY PORTER GAMEWELL SCHOOL. During the year we have registered 258 pupils. Thirty-five of whom belong to the High School department, ninety-eight, t9 the Intermediate, ninety-five, to the Primary. The remaining thirty are doing elective work. There has been an increased number of pay-pupils from non-christian families,-merchant, military and official. The total recipts for board and tuition have been $ gold, the total expense for the year, $ Some of the students were in school but one term, a number for a shorter time, while one,-a preparatory medical student, -remained but one night. ~ This year we graduated but one pupil. The organization of the Young vvoman's Christian Association in the school is a prominent new feature. The need of an organization for distinct work for women and children, and one which would develop the girls into leaders and 1-espol1- sibilit}, bean'ng 'l\.'orkcrs has long been felt. The young woman's

133 Christian Association promised to best meet this need. To avoid multiplicity of meetings the Standard Bearers and the missionary department of the Association united. One Sunday evening each month is given to :Missions ; one, to Epworth League; and two, to Association prayer-meetings. The Extension Committee has sent girls to the. hospital daily to give a helpful word to the ~ick folks, it has provided speakers at the Gospel Tent meetings at the various temple fairs; it has provided leaders for the school mid-week prayer-meetings. ELIZABETH SLEEPER DAVIS HOSPITAL, PEKING. No. of House patients No. of Out-calls No. of Dispensary patients No. of treatments given in dispensary Total amount of fees and donations ,028.gold $3, WOMAN'S UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE. PEKING. Dr. Leonard, Dean of the College, and IvIiss Payne, the science teacher, returned from America, bring with them fresh hope and courage. Our third class entered in September with six students who came from four different provinces. 'fwo students have nearly finished the course and will graduate in a few months. Eleven students were registered during the year. We have been badly crippled for want of building and equipment, but we hope to build before the next class enters. The work is very difficult but we have every reason for encouragement. UNION SCHOOL FOR NURSES, PEKING. The school opened in September with eleven students. Three left for various reasons during the year. Une finished the course and remained to help for the remainder of the year. In I\Iiss Powell's absence on furlough very efficient servke was rendered by Nlrs. An, one of our graduates, who took charge of the hospital with Dr. :Manderson's help. A large class has applied for entrance in September 19I3, when we hope to.have NI:iss Powell with us again, as she has worked so successfully in building up this school. KEEN SCHOOL. During the year 137 pupils were enrolled and twelve teachers, seven Chinese and five American, employed. A Y. Vv. C. A. was organized with sixty members.

134 $2318 gold was received in fees and donations. We have turned away many girls for lack of room. All are self supporting. VV" e hope soon to erect ne'w buildings for 200 girls. TIENTSIN DAY SCHOOLS. Tl-nt SELF SUPPORTING school bui.1ding was this year enlarged. A part of the year there were more than sixty in attep.dance, and never less than fifty. Some of the children were from the leading families in Tientsin. A number have passed into the Keen Schoo1. From tuition and English lessons there have been received $2I8.96 gold. At the close of the year-june l4-balance on hand was $36.00 gold. TING CHWANG Tzu school had fifty in attendance. The pupils have bought their own books and paid a little tuition, THE WEST GATE school has had the iargest attendance in its history. The Sunday School work done among these children is an important feature. ISABEl,LA FISHER HOSPITAL REPORT. JULY This year promised to be a year of thanksgiving with two doctors'in the station, a nurse promised to come out during the year and the remaining funds for the new hospital to be forthcoming during the year. l\iiss Gregg, our nurse, came to us in December and is doing well at the language. In March Dr. IvIasters was called to America to care for her invalid mother. We are so encouraged when people come and ask for Bibles to keep for themselves. Some of them are fathers and brothers of our patients. We Cire rejoicing over the news that Dr. Georgia Filley has been appointed to Tientsin Hospital and wiil come out some time in December. STATISTICS No. of treatments in Hospital dispensary 3700 West Gate,t 43 1 r'otal' :: :: No. of Dispensary patients 2557,t Inpatients 102.,', " Outcalls Receipts, fees, gifts (Gold) $ Respectfully submitted. I VA 1'1. JYIrU4ER.

135 MARIA BROWN DAVIS SCHOOL, TAIANFU. The total enrollment has been one hundred and nineteen. There has been no illness among the faculty, and none of a serious nature among the girls. The country has been peaceful and the work has had no interruptions. Thirty of the girls have decided to live for Christ, and have joined the Church, twelve by baptism, and eighteen on probation. Over twenty new children came in the fall. As another year was added to the course of study for Intermediate schools the senior class could not graduate this year. They will return in the fall to take the added studies. V\T e report a year of progress along all lines. PRISCILLA BENNET HOSPITAL, T.\IAr-;. No. of In-patients No. of Out calls.. No. of new patients. No. of prescriptions Total receipts in gold $72.70 The hospital has to be left without a physician while Dr. }Iartin takes her furlough. CATHERINE E. THOMPSOr-; 1fEMORBL TRAINING SCHOOL. During the year fifty eight 'Nomen were registered in this school. 1ioney amounting to $50.00 was paid in, which with the proceeds of the industrial work helped toward their support. ALDERMANe BOARDING SCHOOL. CHANGLI. The enrollment has increased from 107 to 121, a nuiuber in excess of the accommodations. There has been a marked increase of applications for admittance from influential non-christian families. The total number of baptisms has been seven, of probationers eight, but these statistics do not indicate either spiritual growth or uplift of the services held by Rev. J. Verity. Miss Watrous did splendid work in the kindergarten. 11iss Meek gave faithful and efficient medical attendance to Uhe girls. MISS ETHEL PYKE, Supply Principal. LANHSIEN DISTRICT: No. of schools No. of pupils TSUNHUA DISTRICT: No. of schools No. of pupils DAY SCHOOLS. 9 IIO 4 4 0

136 13 - SHAN HAi~UAN DISTRICT: No. of schools,.. '... 3 No. of ~upirs. 50 EVANGELISTIC "VORK ON LANHSIEI>i, TSUNHUA AND SHAN HAI- KUAN DISTRICTS. Mrs. Chow reports several country trips, one on the Lanhsien District where a number of day schools were examined, and many women helped. Another point visited more than once is Tuchai, the home of the wealthy and influential Nieh family who have recently come into the church. She with others have held Saturday and Sunday cottage prayer meetings in the homes of Changli Christians and adjoining villages, also daily meetings in the women's department of the hospital. Mrs. '.Ch'en wife of the District Superintendent at Lanhsien. and Mrs. \Vang, the widow of the late District Superintendent Mr. Wang, report great interest in several wealthy families of that city. Requests have been made that the weekly prayer meetings be occasionally held in their homes. On these occasions refreshments were served. :rvlrs. Liu, wife of the pastor at Shihmenchai on Shanhaikuan District has visited twenty eight villages at least twice every quarter and reports many new members and great interest. Nearly all the Bible women and other workers report progress, greater freedom on the part of the women to follow their own conscience, and better Sunday attendance.

137 REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN MISSIONS. OUf membership should be given information concerlling the world-wide work. of the Church. We find that our people generally know but little of missionary activities in other lands, or even in other parts of China. \Ve urge that each member of this Conference ~hall undertake to instruct his constituency systematically during the coming year. We urge that alive missionary program be given once a month in the Sunday School: that the Epworth Leagues of our Churches give l\1issions a regular place among topics chosen for devotional meetings; that the Missionary Committee of our Young Men's Christian Association be encouraged; that the pastor preach an occa~ional missionary sermon. These methods will give our people a world vision and will inspire them in their work here. COMMITTEE ON HOME MISSIONS (No REPORT) THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION. vvith reoorts frolll all the Conference Educational Institutions from the University down to Day Schools, an additional educa60nal report seems almost like a fifth wheel to a wagon. There are, however, several things which we would like to recommend. It is with pleasure that we note an advance in self support. In some places the local churches are supporting their own day schools either entirely or in part and in the intermediate ::;chool~ many students pay for tuition and board, while others contribute to the support of the school according to their ability This shows a growing interest -on the part of the parents in the education of their children and we hope that members of the conference near these various schools will urge the local churches throughout the districts to do even more than they have done in the past. We call attention to the fact that while we have one hundred and thirty places ior preaching we have but eighty-six day schools. The National_ Conference. held in Shanghai-last :Marc11 called for at least one day school for every Christian village community. We hope that the larger and more flourishing day schools may soon be able to secure more efficient teachers and (even) be able to add the first year of the intermediate school course thus reducing the expense and allowing the children to remain another year in their own homes. This will also ameliorate the cr~wded condition of our all too few Intermediate Schools.

138 - I3 2 We would call attention to the statement of the above Shanghai Conference that the two essentials of our Christian Education are a thorough Christian atmosphere and the highest educational efficiency. The Normal Training Class in Peking last year was a step in the right direction, and we hope that another year may see an advance along these lines and that longer and fuller courses may be offered in Peking, Changli, or other convenient centers. We believe these summer courses will create enthusiasm and increase efficiency in the teaching staff of all our day schools. We would suggest a course of study covering two or three years be prepared for these Summer Normal Classes and certificates be given to those who complete their course. vve would call the attention of all to the fact that a knowledge of English is not the whole aim and end of education; and of educators, that there are many students who are psychologically poor language students, but otherwise make a success of their student and after life. The establishment of the new Republic has so enlarged the opportunities of the church that we hesitate to suggest adding to the burdens of any of our overworked members, nevertheless, we would suggest that a committee be appointed to confer with the Central Educational Committee in regard to the most satisfactory way of meeting the need for well translated Chinese text books. We believe in the good effect of University Extension Lecture courses in churches which are located in centers where a sufficient variety of subjects can be arranged. And think that by some system of admission by card a better class of people could be reached. We would ask for a closer following up of all students, by district superintendents, heads of s(.hools and others, with a view of letting them know that there are places which absolutely need them, either at the end of their courses, or at other times, if the student is forced to leave school. We would suggest the revision of our day and intermediate 'school courses to correspond more nearly to that of the Government schools while including proper religious instruction. COMMITTEE ON SELF SUPPORT (No R PORT) COMMITTEE ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS { ~ 0 RltPORT) COMMITTEE ON TRACT SOCIETY ( No RltPOR'l')

139 RESOLUTIONS. vvhereas :-It has been reported that strong influences are at work to secure in the new Constitution of the Republic of" China the recognition of a State Religion for this colmtry; Therefore :-We, the members of the North China Con terence of the Methodist Episcopal Church, representing over ten thousand Christians in Chihli and Shantung Provinces, although we believe that e\"ery nation and every people should recognize and serve Almighty God; yet we wish to record our conviction that it would be most regrettable for this nation to establish any church or religion as a constituent element in the Government. And Therefore :-We most respectiully petition the National Assembly to refuse to incorporate into the Constitution any article which would look to the estalishment of a national religion, or which might in any way complicate a freeman's right to unhampered religious liberty. It is with deep gratitude that we acknowledge our Heavenly Father's care and guidance during the year. In general the health of our members has been good while the accomplishments of the year have never been excelled Truly we thank God. for the year that is gone and take courage for the future. We rejoice in the return of Bishop Wilson S. Lewis, D.D., LL.D. to his labors among us. It is especially gratifying to welcome his estimable wife after her long absence from China. We have regretted the necessity that has kept Bishop Lewis at home but we rejoice that China's Bishop has been able to render such valued service to the church at home. Colleges owe their life to his labors and his herculean efforts prevented the di "aster of a general Missionary retreat. We know too that wherever the Bishop's voice was heard, there were friends raised up for China, so that we are in a measure repaid for our sacrifice in giving OUT Bishop to general work. In this Conference he has presided with great ability and has shown himself able to solve the most difficult problems. The daily devotional services have been made most helpful by his practicai talks out of his great heart, and every member of the conference has been inspired to do better work.

140 The Conference has been honored by the presence of the Rev. John F Goucher, D.D., LL.D. No man has made more valued contributions tqward the de\~elopment. bf Christian Education throughout the world. No man understands better the needs and the opportunities of th~ miss/ion school. As Chairman of the Educational Division of the Continuation Committee of the Edh~bt1fgh Conference he has made an exhaustive study of con 'ditions iii Eastern and. Southern Asia, and the Levant. In public addresses and in private interviews he has been most helpful to xnentbers of- the Conferenee. V\!e welcome Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Keeler upon their return.from: furlough. Alay they have another successful term,of service. It is. gratifying to welcome another of the second generation of mi'ssionar.ies in the person of Mr. Fred M. Pyke. We wish for hiin 'long years of service and successful work. We offer special thanks to our friends who have sent special gifts'.during; the year.,*t would beimpbssible for our work to develop' or even to continue without this special help. 'Oilr hearts go oilt in sympathy to the fa~ilies of our members, Rev. Li Shao Wen and Wang To in their bereavement. vve offer sympathy to Rev. Sun Chiu Rao in the loss of his wife, and to those' \vhose children or other dear ones have been taken away this year. We com~end them all to the care of our merciful God. ; :'! Vve: appreciate the work being done by Mrs. Goodrich as she attempts to orgariize the forces' of good against the' nefarious cigarette business. We resolve to co-operate heartily to drive thissco~rg~ from, the land. : \Ve' ;recommend the observance of the 2nd Sunday in December as Bible 'Su'nday,'when special reference may be made to the work of Bible Societies, and a.collection taken for their work. '. yv e, :reco'l\l1mend. th~t. ~ch pastor' address his people on the work of Conference Clal111amts. We.,thank ~nost h~artily the Peking people who have received lis so <;le.~i'gl;1tftilly infbtheir be~utif{ll homes. The week has' been madp p,}.o?t pleas.apt for.~ll.. the~ yi~itorsj. and c?ntributed toward l113.kmg the vote for 1914 Conference In Pekmg 1110st heartily unanimous.. j!~,. ;,~..!