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2 Minutes Sixth of the Twenty- Session of the North China An1lual Conference of the 1\1 cthodist Episcopal Church held in Peking, September Fourth to Tenth, Nineteen 1-I U11- dred and Eighteen.

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4 BISHOP HERBERT VVELCH

5 CONTENTS Page Mission Directory,...,.,...,,... ' ,... 1 C,onference Chronological Roll,.,...,,',...,',...,',.,..,.,.. 3 Con ference Officers and Committees '".,.,...,..,...,,..,. 7 Conference Boards...,..., Mission Officers and Committees Disciplinary Questions..,. "...,., Appointments Conference J ol,ltnal District Reports: Chingchao District. Northern Division Southern Division Day Schools Lanhsien District. District Superintendent's Report Report of Missionary-in.Charge Lanhsien Higher Primary School District Day Schools (see District Report).... Woman's Foreign Missionary Society (see Shanhaikuan District) Peking District. District Report Tokyo ~Iission Peking Academy Peking Higher Primary School..., District Day Schools (see District Report).... Peking Medical Work Woman's Foreign Missionary Society... ~... ~.. 76,Shanhaikuan District. District Report Ch'angij Middle and Higher Primary School Shanhaikuan Higher Elementary School..... (see DistricfReport) District Day Schools (see District Report).... Ch'angli Hospital (no report).... Woman's Foreign Missionary Society :~ T'aianfu District. District Superintendent's Report Report of Missionary-in-Charge T'aianfu Middle School District Day Schools Medical Work Woman's Foreign Missionary Society... 95

6 CONTENTS Page Tientsin District. District Report Tientsin Middle and Higher Primary School '.: 102 District Day Schools (see District Report)...,. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Tsunhua District. District Superintendent's Report Tsunhua Higher Primary School WomanJs Foreign Missionary Society (see Shanhaikuan District) Yenchoufu District. District Report District Day Schools " Reports of Standing Committees and Boards: Foreign Missions.... Home Missions.... Education.... Sunday Schools.... Self Support Tracts Board of Stewards.... Resolutions. ~.... Conference Treasurer's Report... Centenary Campaign Program Resolutions concerning the federated Peking University..., " Report of Board of Examiners....,.... Conference Course of Study In M"emoriarn Annual Meetings ,.... Former MemiJers of the Mission.... Statistical Report. Property.... Workers and Membership Churches, Sunday Schools, and Contributions.. ".... Educational Medical :

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8 MISSION DIRECTORY EPISCOPAL CAME TO CHINA NAME: RESIDENCE Bashford. Bishop James W., D.D., L.L.D. Ml Bashford. Mrs. James W. Lewis Bishop Wilson S., D.D. t2. Lewis, Mrs. Wilson S. Welch, Bishop Herbert D.D. Welch, Mrs. Herbert Peking Peking Shanghai Shanghai Seoul, Korea Seoul, Korea ENTERED THE MISSION iO *1874 I~ **1917 ** ID D tl915 t FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY NA.ME I PO"" OFFICE ADDRESS Baldwin, Jesse H., M.D. il$w Baldwin, Mrs. Jesse H. Brown, Rev. Mark vv'. ~J& iii Brown, Mrs. Mark 'V. Congdon, Wray H. Congdo, Mrs. Wray H. Davis, Rev. George L. ~!fii& Davis, Mrs. George L. Davis, Rev. George R. 3i a JiM Davis, Mrs. Geoge, R. Davis, Rev. Walter W. iiftt: f. Davis, Mrs. Walter W. Dildine, Rev. Harry G. 1t*~ Dildine, Mrs. Harry G. Dobson, Robert J. ~ li m Dobson, Mrs. Robert J. Felt, Rev. Carl A. lt5lil Felt, :Mrs. Carl A. Gamewell, Rev. Frank D. J{ Gamewell, Mrs. Frank D. Gibb, Rev. J. McGregor II 11 Gibb, Mrs. J. McGregor Hanson, Rev. Perry O. ~:trf Hanson, Mrs. Perry O. Hobart, Rev. William T. J!f. e_ Hobart, Mrs. William T. Hopkins, Nehemiah S., M.D.jl Johnstone, Ernest M., M.D.li~. Johnstone, Mrs. Ernest M. Keeler, Joseph L., M.D. *Bf.J~ *Came to China as a Missionary 1871 t 19II t " ** Ch'angJi Cb'angli Ch'angli Ch'angli Peking Peking Peking Peking Tientsin Tientsin Peking Peking T'aiunfu T'aianfu 150 Fifth Ave. New York 150 Fifth Ave. ~ew York Peking Peking Shanghai Shanghai Peking Peking T'aianfu, Shantung T'aianfu, Shautung Peking Peking Peking 150 Fifth Ave. ~ew York 150 Fifth Ave. New York Shankaikuan

9 II -2- FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Oontinued ~~O~H I NAME \ POST OFFle" ADDRIlSS II 19II II 19II * tl t l 9T4 NTERED THE I MISSION ~-~ Keeler, Mrs. Joseph L. King, Rev. Harry E. ~~I&" King, Mrs. Harry E. Korns, John H., M.D.1t Korns, Mrs. John a. Krause, Oliver J. 7i ttl m Krause, Mrs., Oliver J. Leitzel, Rev. Henry S. *lui ~J Leitzel, Mrs. Henry S. Lennox, William G. M.D. **ffl4l Lenuox, Mrs. William G. Lowry, George D., M.D.IIJ~Z. Lowry, Mrs. George D. Lowry, Rev. Hiram H.IlJ#llII Lowry, Mrs. Hiram H. Pyke, Frederick M. E til ~ Pyke, Mrs. Frederick M. Pyke, Re\'. James H. a fi 41- Pyke, Mrs. James H. Rowland, Rev. Henry H. Ii fi il Rowland, Mrs. Henry H. Searles, Rev. Clair K. IItfii Ii Searles, Mrs. Clair K. Smith, Dennis V" M.D. Wl f]-,'ii Smith. Mrs. Dennis V. Terrell, Miss Alice ta\fimllt Verily, Rev. George W. j ~. Winans, Edward Jones ::SC:!i,'II Winans, Mrs, Edward Jones Shankaikuan Peking Peking 150 Fifth Ave. New York ISO Fifth Ave. New York ISO Fifth Ave. New York ISO Fifth Ave. New York Taianfu, Shantung Taianfu, Shantung Peking Peking 150 Fifth Ave. New York 150 Fifth Ave. New York Peking Peking Tientsin Tientsin Tientsin Tientsin Ch'angli Ch'angli Peking ~king Peking Peking Peking Geneva, Neb 150 Fifth Ave. New York 150 Fifth Ave. :r-.;ew York *Came to China as a Missionary 1914 t " t 1911 WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY NAME Adams, Marie ~ Baugh, V. Evelyn R.!If! Bedell, Mary E. J1\~~ Bridenbaugh, Jennie B. ~ Cheney, Neonona IftJAlfi Cushman, Clara M. ii. Danner, Ruth lfft Dillenbeck, Nora M. ~ Dyer, Clara P.Il~~ Fearon, Dora Jt Filley, Georgia A., M.D. liim POST OFFICE ADDRESS T'aianfu, Shantung Peking Tientsin Ch'angli Peking Tientsin Peking T'aianfu, Shantung Ch'angli Peking In America

10 -3- WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Continued ~NT RED THE MISSION IS I 7 * ISIS IS92 NAME Frantz, Ida F. M Gilman, Gertrude!Ji Gloss, Anna D., M.D. It Glover, Ella E.!t Gray, Frances!;; Greer, Lillian P. ~~U~ Gregg, Eva A. 11ft Halfpenny, Mary L. K Heath, Frances J. M.D. ~ Highbaugh, Irma J JJI:;;15 Hobart, Elizabeth ~1- Hobart, Louise J!'t Jaquet, Myra A. *e Jewell, Charlotte M: * Knapp, Elsie L. ill Knox, Emma M. 7J~ Leonarcl, Ethel M. ~*;Ie Lewis, Ida Belle ~ Manderson, Mabel M. M.D. ~ Martin Emma E. 1h1 Miller, Iva M. ~ Nowlin, Mable R. * Powell, Alice M. ;ta Pyke, Mildred M. a Stahl, Ruth L. ~ lffl-f~ Stryker, Minnie c.i.d ~~ Walker, Joyce '#!~m Watrous, Mary ~ Wheeler, L. Maude It W i1son, Frances R. * Young, Effie G. ;jt I POST OFFICE ADDRESS Tientsin Peking In America Ch'angli Peking T'aianfn Tientsin Tienbill Peking Ch'angli Peking Peking Peking Peking In America Peking Peking Tientsin In America In America Tientsin Ch'angli In America Tientsin Peking Peking Peking Peking Tientsin Peking T'aianfu ENTERED TRAVELING CONNECTION *Came to China as a Missionary 1898 CONFERENCE ROLL AND DIRECTORY ELDERS I NAME I POST OFFICE ADDRESS IS95 IS Brown, Frederick Brown, GrowS. Brown, Mark W. Chang Pai Lin 3l;ta i\* Chang Tzu Sheng 31 ~ f& Ch'en Heng Te ~m. Ch'en Wei P'ing I\!k*ft Jjf. Ch'en Yii Shan~3tm Chin Ch'eng ~ ijilg Ch'ing Shou!l Leeds, England Pasadena, Cal. Ch'angli P'inganch'engtzll Pench'eng Tientsin Shanghai Niutochen Kiutochen Shanhaikuan

11 ENTERED TRAVELING CONNECTION I -4- ELDERS, Oontinued NAME POST OFFICE ADDRESS 19II lc) Chou Fu Ch 'uan.mj jjii ~ Davis, George L. Davis, George R. Davis, 'Valter W. Dildine, Harry G. Felt, Carl A. Gamewell, Frank D. Gibb, John McGregor Hanson, Perry. O. Headland, Isaac T. Hobart, William T. Hopkins, Nehemiah S. Hou Tien frlllb Hsii Yung Chen tt7~~ K'ang Yung Kuel m 7~1t Kao Feng Shan ifh.ll. UJ Kao Fu Ch'ing iejfii1j Kao Hsiu Shan i! ~ Ul Keeler, Joseph L. King, Harry E. Kuo Ying'~~ Leitzel, Henry S. Li Hsin *,-m Li Lien Ying *' i!eri Li Wei Yung **iw Liang En P'o mjlilk Liu Chi Lun i111l1ilt Liu Chih Kno ill rlt ii Liu Ching Ch'lOg ill if #iii! Liu Fang ill:tj Liu Kuang Ch 'ing ~I 1Ii It Liu Ruang Tsu fll *' ill. Liu Ma K'e ill'" iii Liu Shao T' ang ill 13 ~ Litl Tsun Sheng III1twt Liu Yiieh III id Liu Ynng ~hen Ilh:k Lowry, Hiram H. Meng Te Jung~_ P'eng Ch'ing ~ It Py ke, Frederick M. Pyke, James H. Rowland, Henry H. Searles, Clair K. St. John, Burton Sun Chiu Kao ~ 7t.g Sun Heng K'uel ~m:!! SunJung~~ Sun Yueh ~ JI T'ang Yun~!If,. Te Jui illd Tseng Rno Chih 1t ii iii In America Peking Tientsin Peking T'aianfu Peking Shanghai Peking T'aianfu Alliance, Ohio Peking Peking Peiyill Huashih, Peking Shihkechnang Peking Taich' enghsieu P'iugangch 'engtsu Shanhaikuan Peking T'aianfu, S'hantung T'aianfu, S'hantung Sahech'iao Chushihk'ou, Peking Shihmenchai Ch'iifuhsien Anchiachuaug Omichuang Tingchuang, Tientsin Peking Tientsin Fengjenhsien Peking P'inganch'engtzLl Ch'ienanhsien Ch'angli Ch'ienwei Peking Lanhsien Tokyo, Japan Tientsin Tientsin Ch'angli Peking 25 Madison Ave. N. Y. Nanp'ihsien Yench'inghsien In America Peking Miyiinhsien Shanhaikuan Peking

12 ENTERED TRAVHLING I CONNECTION! -5- ELDERS, Oontinued NAME POST OFFICE ADDRESS II I9I Tu Pu Yiin ij: ~ S Tu 'Ven Yii ~~W Verity, George W. Wang Ch'ang T'ai :EA. Wang Chao K'e.:E~,* Wang Chih P'ing : ffl~ Wang En Chao :E II. ~ Wang He Nan :EMifi I Wang I Heng :Eil Wang Shou T'ung :E~~ Wen Jung T'ai ~.&: Wu Ch'i ~1Jt Wu Yii K'un!R:3iIL Yang Ching Ch'un ~ B:tf; Yang Ch'ul1 He ~*1Il Yang Hsueh Shih ~* Yang I~. DEACONS Hants'un Mashench'iao Geneva, Neb. (In France) Madision, N.J.( " ) Peking Peking Shaliuhe Ch'ienwei Tsunhua Yenchoufu T'aianfu Peking Lanhsien Chushihk'ou, Peking Nanp'i TUllgp'inghsien Huaijouhsien II Chao Li Yu S1l.fflh Chao Vii Hsiu m:~;t Fan T'ing Ch'eng ;tjl@1il Han Tien Vinl!".~~ Hao Te An jjb if;!]x Hsii Ching P'ing ~ II: ~ Li Hsiao Lu *~. Li Jung Fang *~'1 Li T'ien Lu *xii Liang Hsing T'ang m.~ Lin Fu III ;;; Liu Shen En III ~ 11 1\1a Vii Lin.It:Ii. Meng Yiin ji ~ Winans, Ed ward J. Yang Jung Lin ~.~ Yang Jung Hsuan.~ ~ Yang Shun Ii.~ 4th Vear 3;d Y~~r 4th Year 4th Year 3;d V~~r 4th Vear Laiwuk'outzu Hechakou T'sininghsien Nank'ou Ch'angH Hsingch'eng HUllgkou Peking Peking Feich 'enghsien Yangliuch'ing. Tientsin Peking Szush uihsien Paichihfang, Peking In America Shunchihmen, Peking Peking Tsouhsien PROBA TIONERS Class of the Second Year Chang Wan Shan m.. llj Chao Jung Hsi m1lil Chi Ch'ang Lu *I! A~ Hsii Fu Lin 'tt nr; ~ Hsii Kun Shan tt.lild J en Chao Ch' ang 1'f: ~ ~ Yiit'ienhsien T'aianfu HsiaoUlen Tunghsingchuang Tientsin I Fangchiachuang

13 -6- Class of the Secoud Year, Oontinued I Li Lien Pi *~~ Liu Ch'ing Hsiang ilnl~ Liu Hsi III It Shih T'ing Tung :?i ~ ~ TSOll Chih Ch'ing Irs :fit R Ts'ui lien Sheng m~~ Ts'ui Yen Li t:}htr iii Tu Wen Kuei ~ ~ Ii Wang Ch'ing He :E. ~ liij Wang T'i Ch'ing :E U 11 Wang Wen Ping :E ~ m Yii Lien Chung 1M ~ 1qs 3rd Year I Laochuangtzu In France Pahsien Peking 3rd Year Ankectuang Yahuogch'iao 3rd Year Maotzu Lienpeitien Peking Kuanhsien Peking Peking Class of the First Year lq ]918 Chao Yen Huai ~i$aa Chi Hsiao Feng *B 1Ijl~ Chu Tien Yuan *J(!t:lt Liu Chi YunglllllJ! Po Min_fit Shang Wen Chin *~'" Ts'ao Wan Jung ;t; ~ Wu Heng Hsiang ~m.~ Laiwu Lanhsien Chuts'aoying Lihsien Funingbsien Shanhaikuan Wangkuanying Lichiaso

14 CONFERENCE OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Conference Officers President.. '" '.Bishop Herbert Welch English Secretary Clair K. Searles Assistant English Secretary... "Walter \V. Davis Chinese Secretary... Liu Ching Ch'ing 'Assistant Chinese Secretary... Liu Shen En Treasnrer John McGregor Gibb Statistical Secretary Carl A. Felt Assistant Statistical Secretaries.... Chingchao District, North... Yang I Chingchao District, South... Yti Lien Chung Lanhsien District... Wu Yii K'un Peking District... Kao Feng Shan Shanhaikuan District Hao Te An T'aianfu District... Wen Jung T'ai Tientsin District Hsii K'un Shan Tsunhua District... Liu Shao T'ang Yenchoufu District... Liang En Po Official Interpreters: Wednesday... vvilliam T. Hobart Thursday... Ch'en Wei P'ing Friday Li T'ien Lu Saturday... Liu Kuang Ch'ing Sunday... \\Tang Chih P'ing Monday George L. Davis Tuesday... o \Villiam T. Hobart and George L, Davis

15 -8- Standing Committees for Foreign Mis3ions C. K. Searles} Hsii Yung Chen, Hao TeAn. Home Missions..... H. G. Dildine, Liu Chih Kuo, Yang Shun. Education H. H. Rowland, Meng Te Jung, Yang Jung Hsuan. Self Support C. A. Felt and one from each District. Sunday Schools... N. S. Hopkins, Li 'l."ien Lu, Wang Shou T'ung. Books and Tracts G. L. Davis, Liu Kuang Ch'ing, Kao Feng Shan. Conference Relations... W. \"'1. Davis, Ch'en Wei P'ing, M. W. Brown, Wu Yii K'un, Kuo Ying. Resolutions H. S. Leitzel, Liu Ching Ch'ing. Reporter for Chinese Papers... Li Lien Ying. Joint Sessions... J. H. Pyke. State of the Church Ch'en Wei,P'ing, Liu Fang, Ch'en Heng Te, N. S. Hopkins, H. G. Dildine. Comity Wang Chih P'ing, Liu Ma K'e, Tseng Kuo Chih, Wen Jung T'ai. Committee on Anniversary Program Pastor of Asbury Churoh, Peking District Sllperintendent of Peking District Missionary-in-Charge of Peking District.

16 CONFERENCE BOARDS Conference Stewards G. L. Davis, Ch'en Heng Te, M. tv. Brown, Wang Chao K'e H. S. Leitzel, Wen Jung T'ai. Triers of Appeals C. A. Felt, Liu Fang, P. O. Hanson, Ch'en Wei P'ing, VV. T. Hobart. Reserves: Ch'en Heng Te, Tseng Kuo Chih. Chairman Vice Chairman Registrar... Board of Examiners Term ending at Conference in 1921: W. P. Ch'en Kao Feng Shan C. A. Felt H. S. I.. eitzel J. McG. Gibb Lin Ching Ch'ing Hsii Yung Chen F. M. pyke W. P. Ch'en. Carl A. Felt "T. T. Hobart Tseng K no Chih "Tang Chih P'ing Wen Jung T'ai \Yu Yii K'un Term ending at Conference 1922: W. W. Davis W. T. Hobart Li T'ien Lu Liu Kuaug Ch'ing Examiners of Local Preachers seeking Deacon's or Elder's Orders: Term ending at Conference in 1922: Wang Shou T'ung :M:eug Te Jung

17 MISSION OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES Officers Chairman.... W. T. Hobart Secretar~'.... C. A. Felt Correspondent.,... '"... H. H. Lowry Treasurer..... O. J. Krause Historian D. V. Smith Assistant Historian... < Mrs. C. )1. Jewell Finance Committee Senior Educational RepresentatiYe H. H. Lowry Senior Physician... N. S. Hopkins District l\lissionaries in Charge: M.,V. Brown P. O. Hanson G.L.Dads.J. L. Keeler G. R. Davi~ H. 8. Leitzel C. A. Felt J. H. Pyke,V. T. Hobart 2\Iission Treasurer O. J. Krause Building Committee J. H. Pyk(' Tientsin X. S. HopkIns.... Peking ~l. H. Baldwin....Ch'angli P. O. Hanson... T'aianfu District Boards of Education I.. anhsien and Shanhaikuan.. H. H. Rowland, Ch'ing Shou, 'Vtf Yii K'un Peking and Chingchao... H. E. King, Miss G. Gilman. Liu Fang, T'aianfu and Yenchoufu Ch'en 1?sai Hsin, Wang Chih P'ing.H. G. Dildine, Wen Jung T'ai, Miss Young Tientsin and Tsunhua... I1'.l\L Pyke, Ch'en Heng Te, W. "V. Davis Union School for Missionaries' Children ~. S. Hopkins, J. McGregor Gibb, C. A. Felt Language Examiners Ch'allgli Station.Miss Glover, H. II. Rowland, Hao Te An Peking Station W. T. Hobart. Ch'en Tsai Hsin, G. L. Davis, Mrs. C. )1. Jewell T'aianfu Station...)iiss Effie Young, P. O. Hansun, 'Ven Jung T'ai Tientsin Station T. H. Pyke, Dr. Iva Miller, Liu Kuang Ch'ing Registrar W. T. Hohart Representatives on Board of Managers of Peking University Term ending O. J. Krause G. L. Davis " IH W. T. Hobart " " H. E. King '" "

18 Vllt DISCIPLINARY QUESTIONS this Annual Conference Incorporated According to the Reqllirement.'5 01 the Disciplilld No. incorporation is possible under the laws of China. 2l.-Who have been Received bl/ Transfer, and from 'what Conferonces' Harry G. Dildine, Hinghua. S.-Who have been Readmitted! None.f.-Who have been Received on Credcntial.'5, and frotll -what Chm'che8t None. 5.-Who have been ReceiL'ed on Trial? (a) In Studies of First Year. Chu Tien Yuan, He Ts'un Ching, Liu Chi Yung, Po Mill, Shang Wen Chin, Ts'ao \Van.lung, Wu Heng Hsiang. (b) r 11 Studies of Third Year under the Seminary Rule. (Discipline ~ I76 z.) Li Jung Fang. 6.-Who have been Continued on Trial! (a) In Studies of First Year. Chao Yen Huai, Chi Hsiao Feng. (b) In Studies of Second Year. Chang Wan Shan, Chao Jung Hsi, Chi Ch'ang Lu,. Hsi.i Fu Lin Hsil K'un Shan, Jen Chao Ch'ang, Liu Ch'ing Hsiang, Liu Hsi Shih T'ing Tung, Ts'ui Lien Sheng, Tu Wen K'1lei, \Vang Ch'ing He, Wang T'i Ch'ing, Wang Wen Ping} Yi.i Lien Chung. (c) In Studies of Third Year. Li Lien Pi, Tsou Chin Ch'ing, T'sui Yen Li. (d) In Studies of Fourth Year. None. 7.-Who have been Discontinued? Chu Chih Ching. B.-Who have been Admitted into Full Membership,! (a) Elected and Ordained Deacons this year. Fan T'ing Ch'eng) Li T'ien Ltl, Ma Yii Lin, Yang Sriun. (b) Elected and Ordained Deacons previously. None. 9.-What Members are in Studies of Third Year? (a) Admitted into Full Membership this year. Fan T'ing Ch'eng, Li T'ien Lu, Ma Yii Lin, Yang Shun. (b) Admitted into Full Memberc;hip previously. Li Hsiao Lu, P'eng Ch'ing.

19 - I2- lo.-what Members are in Studies of Fourth Year' Chao L1 Yu, Chao Yii HsiuJ. Han. Tien Ying, Hao Te An, Hsii Ching P'ing, Liang Hsing T'ang, tiu Fu, Liu Shen En, Meng Yiin. E. J. Winans, Yang Jung Hsuan, Yang Jung 14in. 11.-What Members have Oompleted the Oonference Oourse 01 Stllily' (a) Elected and Ordained Elders this year. Ch'ine; Shou, K'an~ Yung Kuei, Li Hsin, Li Lien Ying, 1,iang En P'o, Lin Tsun Sheng, Liu Yung Shen. T'ang Yung, Tu Pu Y iin, Yang Hsueh Shih. (b) Elected and Ordained Elders prr.viously. None. (c) Elected and ordained Elders under the Seminary Rule. None. (Discipline 'I 179 3) 12.-What others have been Elected and Ordained Deacons f (a) As. Local Preachers. (Discipline ~ 176 I) None. (b) Under Missionary Rule. (Discipline ~ 176 4) None. (c) Under Seminary Rule. (Discipline ~ 179 3) Li Jung Fang. 13.-What others have been Elected and Ordained Elders' (a) As Local Deacons. (Discipline ~ I79 I) None. (b) Under Missionary Rule. (Discipline ~ 179 4) None. 1.f.-Was the Oha1'acter 01 each Preacher examined! This was strictly done as the name of each preacher was called in open Conference. 15.-Who have been Transferred, and to what Oonferencest None. 16.-Who have Died' None. 17.-Who have been Located at their own Request! None. 18.-Who ha'l'c been Located! None. 19.-Who have Withdrawn! None.!O.-Who have been permitted to Withdraw under Oharges or Oomplaint8? None. 21.-Who have been Expelled' None.!f.-What othet' persona~ Notation should be made! None.

20 -13-!8.-Who are the Supernumerary Ministers, and for tvhat number Of year.. consecutively has eaoh l1.eld this Relation' Han Tien Ying. '-i.-who are the Retired Ministers' Chang Pai Lin, Chin Ch'eng, Kao Hsili Shan, Te Jui, Wang He Nan, Wu Ch'i, Yang Ch'un He.!5.-Who are the T1'iers ot Appeal.~! C. A. Felt, Liu Fan~, P. O. Hanson. Ch'en Wei P'ing, W T. Hobart Reserves: Ch'en Heng Te, Tseng Kuo Chih.!6.-What is the Annual Report of the Oonference Board of Home Missions and Ohurch Ea;tension? No Report. f7.-what is the Annual Report of the Oonference Board ot Foreign Missions! No Report. fb.-what is the Statistical Report? See the Statistician's Report.!9.-What is the Oonference Treasurer's Report! See the Conference Treasurer's Report. 80.-( a) What is the Aggregate of the Bette'l)olent Oollections ordr:red by the General ()onterence, {l S reported by the Conference T1'easurerf $274 Mex. ( G.) (b) What is tlie Aggregate of the Benevolent Collections ordered by the Annual Conference, as reported by the Conference Trec:.surer? $1375 Mex. at Exchange I.IS=(II95.6S G.) 81.-What are the Claims on tlte Oonference Funds r None. IB.-(a) What has been Received on these Claims? From the Book Concern, $ Mex. ( G.) From Annual Conference Investments, $ Mex. ( G.) From Pastoral Charges, 4.00 Mex. (.,.48 G.) From the Board of Conference Claimants, $ Mex. (89.13 G.) Total, $ Mex. (.~I08.47 GJ (b) How has it been Applied? 83.-What amount ha." been apportioned 10 Ihe Pastoral Charges within the Oonference, to be raised for the Support Of Oonference Claimants! ('~T 336.) No apportionment. 8';.-What a mount has been paid by the Oonference 'I'rea.rwrer to the Board ot Oontercfwe Olaimants for Oonnectional Relief? Nothing. 85.-Where are the Preachers Stationed! See List of Appointments. 86.-Where shall the N e:z:1 Conference be held!. Peking.

21 CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS 1918 CHINGCHAO DISTRICT NORTHEn~ DIVISION D'istrict 811pcrintendcnt... Wang Chao K'e ~nssiolla1'5' in Charge W. T. Hobart Oh'angp'inflhsien... Supplied by Kung Ching Chai Liulin " "Shih Wan K'u.:Yank'01t " Li T'ing K'ai,"';11.(171,0 " Chi a Ch'ing Yun Huaijuuhsicn... Yang I KaoZiying... Supplied by Chi Wei T'sun Niulafl,shan.. Chia Chien Hsiu HuaiZaihsicn " " Ch'e~ Yen T'i ICrll1gchlumg " Wu Shen Hsiu Paoallchou '"... To be supplied SlIJ/ch cng Supplied by Liu Ch'eng Mei Miyiinltsicn T'ang Yung Shihhsia Supplied by Liu Ming Shan Yench'inghsien.SUll Hellg K'uei Laochunt'ang Supplied by Shih Ling Oh'un EOUTHERX DIVISION D'istrid 8'ltperintendent Wang Chao K'e Missionary in Charge... Carl A. Pelt District Rvangelist... Ch'en Yii Shan Hant'sun.... Tu Pu Yiin Langtang.... Supplied by Mi Chen Pang Huangt'sllll To be supplied Fengt'ai... "... Supplied by Feng T'ing Tsun K'ilanhsiCll.. 1Vang '1"i Oh'ing Liuch'uanchen. Supplied by Wen Min L.ihsien Liu Ohi Y'lt'ng A.ntin.9... To be Supplied eli iuchoueheil.... Supplied by Fang Ch'i Niuto'chcn... Ch'en Yii Shan Oh'iikoll.... Supplied by T'ien Wen Chao _ P'angkedtuang Supplied by Yiieh Ch'ing Yii Yiifa Supplied by 1Vang Pao Shan Pahsien Diu H si Clziench~ap'u and Hsintien.Supplied by T'ien Hsi ~iell

22 - 15- Peiyin Hou Tien Piehkechuang.... Superintendent of Schools.Tu Pu Yiin... Supplied Ly Liu Chen Hsiang LANHSIEN DISTRICT District Superintendent...'Vu Yii R'Ull Missionary in Charge. Mark ",.,.. Brown :Ankechuang... Tsou Chin Ch'ill(J Ohiupaihu... Rupplicd by 'Yang Ching Hsing Peichiatien... Supplied by Yii Liang Shahoi. Supplied by Han Chun I Chent.~uchen.,. Supplied by Liu 'Yen Yuan Paitaotzu..... "... To be Supplied Wangkuan.lJin.(}... ;.... T'sao 1Vtf'l1 Jung ll angtientzu,.... Supplicd by Chang Kuo En ' Oh'ienanhsien '" Liu Tsun Sheng Chiench'angying... Supplied by Hu Feng Ch'un Hsian,gsh'lliko/t To be Supplied Ynngticnt,{;;lt..... To be Supplied Lanhsien.....;\Iellg Te Jung Ch'angning Supplied by Chang Ch'Ull Jfach'eng Supplic(1 by Chao Shih :JIing Laot'inghsien... Supplied by Shih Ping He Rsinchai.,..... To be supplied H'ltili Supplied by T'ao Rno.Iung ~Iafouying.;::;';upplied by Li Ch'ang Yillg T'angchiaho... Supplied by lvang Chen Yii Yenkechuallll... Snpplied by Li~l )Iing Ch'uan Omich'llang Liu Chih Ruo Clzangkechuang To be supplied Pench'eng..... Chang Tzu Sheng Hukechuang.,... SUPl1lied by Ti Yung Hsing Kunganch'j,ao. To be supplied Lienpeitien... T'll Ten ICuei Paikechun'ng. Supplied by,vang Feng HSfll Tingliuho ' 0 be snpplie~ LANHSIEN HIGHER PRIMARY Sc HDOL,''''u Yii K'un Superintendent Assistant Superintendent.. l\ieng Te Jung Instructor OM, Hsiao Fcng

23 16 - Superintendent of Lower Primary Schools.,.,.,..,.,. Mark W. BrowII Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Evangelistic Work and Super- 12.isor of Primary Schools,.,. Clara Pearl Dyer Assistant.,..,~Iabel R. Nowlin.(From Feb., 1919)' Lanhsien Primary Boarding School...,,,..,,Clara Pearl Dyer PEKING DISTRICT District S.uperintendent,.. '.Liu Fang Missionary in Charge... George L. Davis Asbury Ghurch... Tseng Kuo Chih Fangchinghs1a,ng.,. Supplied by Bu Ming Han Chushihk'ou..,.,."..... Li Lien Ying. Assistants.Supplied by Hsieh Hung En and Yang Yuan Lin Gospel Team...,Yang Ching Ch'un and Kuo Wei Oh'eng* and Liu Chuan Fu* (*Supplies) Liulich'rU'tg.,.... Supplied by Ching Kuo Liang, Ch'i Tung Fu and Yang Yuan Shen ullgtiilymen... Suppiied by Pi Shen Hsiu Huashih, Juliet Jlemorial.Hsu Yung Chen Assistant,,.. _.. Diu Shen En H siaoshihk'ou,.,.. " " Supplied by Ch)en Te Lin Hfpoch'ang... _",...,. Supplied by Li I Hsin Shttnchihrnen Yang J'ung Lin Assistant ".Supplied by Ku Chung Yao Gha'nYY'imen...,,,...,.. Supplied by Chao Kuo Lan Nanhsimen '".,Supplied by Feng Jui Hung Paichiltfang,M~ng iun Peking University President Emeritus and Acting Presiden-h,H. H. Lowry COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY Dean Professors W, T, Hobart. Carl A, Felt Li J'ung Fang

24 COLLEGE OF LIBE1UL.A.llTS :BIBL~ Professors H. E. King w. W. Davis. Wang Chih P'ing.John M. Gibb Alice Terrell INSTlruT~ Peking Academy President H. H. Lowry Princ'ipal Carl A. Felt Instructors.; 'V. T. Hobart LiJung Fang Rao Feng Shan COLLEGE PREPARATORY Principal....' H. E. King Proje88ors Alice Terrell ~T. M. Gibh Ch ~en Tsai Hsln W. W. Davis Wang Chih P'ing Li T'ien Lu MIDDLE SCHOOL Principal H. E. King Instructor A.lice Terrell ~un Yiieh Kao Feng Shan Yang Jung Hsuan Social Secretary Liu ~Ia K'e HIGHER PRIMARY. SCHOOL Principal To be Supplied Assistant Principal... Shih T'ing Tung Instructors...,...". TVang Ok'ing He lvang Wen Ping.[inion Student lr ork ( with Language Study).... ~ C. K. Searles.superi.ntendent 0 f District ~.. SchooZs..,... Lin Fang

25 - 18- Medical Work Methodist Hospital (Hopkins ~femorial) Physicw'll in Oharge..... N. S. Hopkins M.D. Associate Physicians... D. V. Smith, :U.D. G. G. stuart, O.D. W. B. Prentice, D.M.D. H. C. Po, l\f.d. F. H. Yao, M.D. Supervisor of Xurses... Mary D. Lewis T'ung J en Hospital. Eva.ngelist.... Supplied by Pai Kuei Fen Union l11eijical College... J. H. Korns, l\f.d. E. M. Johnstone, M.D. W. G. Lennox, M.D. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society NORTH CmNA UNION WOMAN'S COLLEGE Instructors _.RIlth L. Stahl (with Language Study) Elizabeth Hobart MARy PORTER GAMEWELL SCHOOL Principal... Gertrude Gilman Instructors V. Evelyn Baugh Myra Jaquet Louise Hobart Mary Watrous (until January 1919) Frances Gray (from January 1919)"_ Bwpef'visor of Day Schools... -V. Evelyn Baugh Kindergarten..... Elizabeth Hobart SLEEPER DAVIS }lemorial HOSPITAL Physica-ns:... Minnie Stryker, M.D. Frances J. Heath, M.D. Ethel M. Leonard, M.D. (with Language Stud f) Li 'Vang Pao Chen, M.D. Superintendent... Frances R. Wilson, R.N. A.ssi.~tant Supcrinten.dent... Ruth Danner, -R.N.* ( with Language.study) U!'."1.0N ~IEDICAL COLLEGE FeR WOllEN Instructors..., Minnie Stryker, M.D. Frances J. Heath, l\1.d. Ethel M. Leonard, M.D. Li Wang Pao Chen, M.D. *At present on leave of absence from the station for Red CrosJl.. Work in Siberia.

26 - 1-9 UNIOX TRAINING SCHOOL FJR NURSES Stlperintenilent Instructors To be supplied... ~linnie Stryker, ~.l.d. Li-Wang Pao Chen, M.D. Frances R. Wilson, R.X. Oity E1Jangeli8tic lvork..... Charlotte M. Jewell Woman's Train ing School... Emma M. Knox SHANHAIKUAN DISTRICT District Superintendent.Ch'ing Shou. Missionary in Charge... J. L. Keeler. Oll'angliitsien....Hao Te An. Oh'anglihsien Oity Liu Yiieb. Ke.po... Supplied by Li Yung. Liushouying Supplied by Li Jung. Oh'a.ngli General Hospita.l... J. H. Baldwin, M.D. Clt'angli General Ilospital Evangelist.... Supplied by Li Yung. Ch'angli Higher Prima ry and 1Jliddle School, Prin.cipal... H. H. Rowland. Assistant Pr'incipal ".Hao Te An. Ch~ienwei Liu Yung Sheng. Lihet~un... _... To be supplied. Oh'ienso Supplied by Liu Shon Shan. Funinghsien.... fo Min. Taiy-ing Supplied by Chu Cheng Hsii. Haiying (mil Hot Spl'iny,'j... Supplied by Kao Lien Sheng.. Shcnhc... Supplied by Chang San. Oh'inwagnta o To be supplied. N'iut'onai ana Paicll1fA.l1lY.. Supplied by Liu Yiieh Chi. Rocky Point.. Supplied by Wang Ssu. Shanhaikuan... Ch'ing Shou. Assistallt Pa.~tor... Shang lvcn Ohin. Shanhaikuan Higher P'rinUlrg a.nd Comme1'cial School, Prin. cipal... T. L. Keeler. A.ssistants IJi Ai Lin and K'ang Hsien Sheng. Sltanhaikua.Jl..Mcdical Work.. J. L. Keeler, 3.l.D. Shihmenchai Li Wei Yung. Ohut'saoying a~'td Kailkou.. Olltt Tien Yiian. H ua.j'tgt'u.ii ing : To be supplied.

27 - 20'-.8hilzkechuang... K'ang Yung Kuei Ohiangkechuang..... To be,supplied. Litienchuany.... To be supplied. Day Schools i1~ Funing and Oh'angli JIsie'lts... fi. II. Rowland Day S c7wols in Liullu and Suichung H siens... J. L. Keeler anu Ch~il1g Shou. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society CH'ANGLI Alderman Memorial School, Principal Jennie B. Bridenbaugh. I nstr'uctors... Mabel R. :x owli n( until Feb. 1919). Irm~ Highbaugh '(from Feb. 1919). Super12.'isor of Day Schools.. Mrs. Mark W Brown. Thompson Memorial Train ing School...'.. Ella' G. GIOVCl. Oity E~U1'b[lelistic lvork... Ella G. Glover. :Mrs. liark,\\7. Browll SHANHAIKUAN Primary Board'ing School, Super'Qisor... Ch'ing-Liu Lan Ying. W,oman's Medical Work.,.Ch'illg-Liu Lan Ying. Evangctrstic Work... Mrs. J. L. Keeler. 'Ch'ing-Liu Lan Ying. 8uperpi.'l0r. of District Schools. Clara Pearl Dyer. Assistant.... ~Iabel R. Nowlin (from Feb. 1919,) with Language Study. TAIANFU DISTRICT District Superintendent... Ruo Ying. Missionary-in Charge... Perry O. Hanson. Medical Work To be supplied. Anchiachuang Lin Chi LUll. Ohangclt'eny. ~... Supplied by li"'an P'ei Fellg. Hec7wkou... '.' C/ttLO Yu Rsilt. Rsiahsieh... Supplied by P'an Meng Wu. Hsiaomen..... a/hi Oh'ang.Lu. Higher Primary School.. Chao fthsi'lt. Feich'enflhsien Liang Hsinu 'l"an!!. Anlillchan... '.'... Supplied by Li Tzu I.Jiu. OltU8su... ~.....SuPI)lied b~' \Vallg Yu Cho Yemnachuang Supplied by Hsieh Yung Yen.

28 - 21- Laiwu Ko'ltizu......(Jihao Li Y'/(. Laiwlthsien....Ohao Yen H uai. Luchiat'ang...,... Supplied by Liang Jen Hsin Taianju Wen Jnllg T~ai. Assistant Pa,f;t01'.Chao Jung RBi. Chielusllou... Supplied by Liu Ch'ien KueL Fanchiach1uin.!!.Jcn Chao Ch'ang. Fangt'~un.... Supplied by Li Ch'eng Fan. Hei81w,iwan Supplied by Liu Ch'uan l\fu~ Hungkou,.... Li Hsiao Lu. Ma,ot,~ll T'sui Yen Li. 1l1iddle and Higher Pri _?nary School, Principa,z.. Hul'ry G. Dildine. Assistant Principal.. Wen.Tung T'ai. Tungehsicn Supplied by Hsii Pei Oh'uall_ Chich/eng To be supplied. Chiuhsien. To be supplied. Talicnts'lti.... Supplied by Ning Hung En. 1ra,ngkou,tien... Supplied by T'sui Shih K'ull. T'ltngp'in!llu~iclI... Yang HsUeh Shih. Chinchiakou... Supplied by Hsii Chen Sheng. Hsuch'cny.,. Supplied by Liang Yiieh Oh'ang_ Lichiaso.. lv'll Heng H8'iang. Peihsiaofu.u... Supplied by Liang Jell Yiin. Supc'1'.intcndent of Schools... Dif, trici. Perry O. Hanson. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society MARIA BltoWX DAVIS SCHOOL, Principal. Effie G. Young. Instructors... Nora l\l Dillenbeck (until Jan. 1) Lillian P. Greer (from Jan.)* Su,pcrv.,isor of Day Sehoul':!.... Xora 11. Dillenbeck (until Ja.n.) lroman:.~ Training School (lind City Evangelistir If' ork... Marie Adams (with Language Study ~ *With Language Study. TIENTSIN DISTRICT District Superintendent ".Ch~en Heng Te. Missionary in Charge J. H. Pyke. EvangeZistic Work.... F. M. Pyke.

29 - 22- Chiaoholzsien ;... To be supplied. Shihment'sun Supplied bj Liu Feng Ch'un. N utlp'ihsien Sun Chiu Rao. Taich'enghsien... Kao Fu Oh~ing. Ch'i1tghsicn Supplied by Chang Pao Chien. Hant'S1tn.. o. 0". To be supplied. Lit'an o ' Supplied by Wang Liang. Tientsin, Wesley Ohurch....Liu Kuang Ch'ing. T ingchuang Liu Ching Ch'ing. H otung To be supplied. Superintendent of City Day Schools... o Supplied by Chiang Rsiu Feng. Tientsin, West City Church.Hsv K~'ltn Shan. West Suburb Supplied by Wu Chieh. Yangliuch'ing Litt 1I'1t. Wan.qchiak'ou.. o Supplit>d by T'sao Wan Ching. Tungtzftya... Supplied by Chao T'ien Jui. Superintendent o/day Schools.Ch en Heng Te. Tientsin Middle and Higher Primm'Y School, Principal.. F. M. Pyke. KEEN SCHOOL, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Principal Emeritus... Clara M. Cushman. Principal L. )Iaude 'Wheeler. Department SU1Jervisors and I Jtstructors.... Ida Belle Lewis. Milrlred Py ke. Ida B. Frantz. ISABELLA FISHER HOSPITAL Physician... 0 Iva M. Miller, M.D. Superintendent Eva A. Gregg, R.N. (on arrival) Bacteriologist & Pha'l' macist... Mary E. Bedell (from January 1916 with Language Study.) Training School for Nurses.. Eva A. Gregg, R,N. Evangelist ic W01'k M, Lillian Halfpelmy. lirs. G. R. Davis. lirs. F. M. Pyke. Supe,.cisor 0/ Day Schools.... M. Lillian Halfpenny.

30 - 23- TSUNHUA DISTRICT District Superintendent... Wang I Heng. Missionary in Charge... George R. Davis. Pengjenhsien..... Liu Kuang Tzu. Laochuang.lf;zu ".... Li Lien Pi. H a1llchcngchen anfl B sin, chuntien '. To be supplied. 'llsockiawu To be supplied. Hsingch'eng Hs«Ohing P'ing. Hsinchi Supplied by Ch'en Kuang T'ai. T"ichch'ang Snpplie(l by Chao Ch'un Ch'ing. P'ingan ch'c1'i,gtzft...,... Liu'Shao T'ang. Mashcnch'iao Tu Wen Yii. 8hihtnen anti.i}{aj{,ieny;;, To be supplied. Tungitsincll'llang & Liangtzuhc..,... 0,.Hsu Fu Lin. 'l.i;;{ahcch"iao.,.,, Li Hsin. Sant'ung!Ji.ng. Supplied by Fu Hsi. :filwuulw,...,... '... 0 Wang En Chao. Tangyu and Lo(;hiuyii.Supplied by Yao J~ng Sheng. lfoliltiu....,..... To be Supplied. 'Yahungch':ia(i)...,..'lJs'ui Lien Sheng. 'Tsltnhlwhsien ,. Wang I Heng. Tsunhua Cin'ltU,..... Supplied by Chang Hsiu l..oling. yat'ienh8icll....,.,.,....,.. Chang lv.an Shan. Linnallt~ang...,'.,. To be supplied. TSltnhua Hi utter P.ri1n,.~cllool,. Acting Pt inc ipaj.,... To be supphed. Supcl'intcndent of Bchodls -W. W. Davis. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Evangelistic lvo'l'k and S llpcr visor of Primary Day SchoolS Clara Pearl Dyer. Assistant l\iabel R. Nowlin (from Feb. 1919). Fengjenhsicl! Primary Board ing School Clara Pearl Dyer. YENCHOUFU DISTRICT District Superintendent.... Wang Shou T'nng. Missionary ill Oharge.,.,.. Henry S. Leitzel.

31 - 24- NittgyanghSien Supplied by Chao Yii Hsien. Hushih'kou, Supplied b;}~ Chang Yin Ch'ang... Huangmao......,, To be supplied. K uanchuang. ' 'fo be'supplied. T'saochiat'sun Supplied by '\Vang Wei K'e. Lower and Higher Primary SchOols..,.....,... Supplied by <1h'iao Chi Ch'uan. SZUShU111..Sien. J/a Yu Lin. Oh'ujunsien... ;'... Liang En P'-o. Lower and Higher Primarlf.School....,...,....., Supplied by Hsueh Ch'i Kuan. TSininghsien Fan T'ing Uh'eng. lllsu-chli Suppliea by Hsiieh Wen K ucn_ Lower and Higher Primartl SChool....,..,. Supplied by Pi Hui Hsien. Tsou.7ls ien Ya.ng,r.,"h'Wn. If sia ngch~cllij Supplied by Chang Sung He.. Kangsheng...,...,. He T sun. Oh'ing, Yangpicll'uanfJ...,.. To be supplied, Lower and Higher Primary ScTwol....,,..,., To be supplied. Wens71.angh8 icn.,..,'..... Supplied.by Chang Tsai Shao~. K'aihe...,..... Supplied by Li Yang Cho. Lower and HilJher Primary Schools...,.., To be supplied, Yenchou,fu..,..,..,.,To be supplied, KU1l-gt'sun ,Supplied by l\ia Tsung Ke, H sinchiai,...,.... Supplied by Chou Tsun Sheng., Lower and II ighe1' P'I'im,ary Schools....,....,. Supplied by Wang Keng Ch'uan. S'llperintel1dent oj Day Schools. Henry S. Leitzel. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society EvangeZistic lfo1'k and S'llper- 'l7isor oj Day Schools..,'.Nora M. Dillenbeck (until Jan } Special Appointments Editor of Ohinese OTtristiml!, Advocate Ch'en Wei P'ing (Asbury Q. C.)' Secretary of Education for Ohina of the M.. E. Okurch on d General Secretary oj 1Fte CTtristia'n Edllcotio~~al cia.ti01l. of OTIi1W~ ".... Frank D. Gamewt'll )(A8bury Q. C.)

32 - 25- Professor oj Missions, Mount UnionOollege, Alliance,Ohw.I. T. Headland, (Asbury Q. C.) Mission Treasurer '.0. J. Krause, (Asbury Q. C.~ Tokyo Mission Work..... P'eng Ch'ing (Asbury Q. C.) Oandidate Secretary of Student l'olunteer Movement, New York City...:... Burton St. Johu (Wesley Q. C.) Jfissionarws to Chinesc in France George W. Verity (Ch'angli'Q. C.) 'Vang Ch'allg T'ai (Talanfu Q. C.) Lilt Ch'in.g Hsiang (Ch'angli Q. C.}, Lett witliottt Appoi'ntmcnt to, Atten,d School ChouFn Ch'uan (Asbury Q. C.). Sun Jung (Asbury Q. C.) Yii Lien Chung (Kuan Q. C.) Student of tlle Langu,age... Wray H. Congdon. On Furlough Frederick Brown (Huashih Q. C.), Grow S. Brown (Ch'angli Q. C.) R. J. Dobson (Asbury Q. C.) Geo~ge D. Lowry (Asbury Q. C.) E. J. Winans (Huashih Q. C.) Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Students of tlte LanglHt1}e.. J\lary E. Bedell. Neonona Cheney. Lillian P. Greer. Irma Highbaugh. Joyce E. Walker. On Furlough Nora ]\f. Dillenbeck (fl'om January)~ Georgia 1\1. Filley. Anna D. Gloss. Frances GI'ay (until J anuar~') Elsie Knapp. 1\1. Mabel Manderson. Emma E. Martin. ' Alice Powell. 1\Iary Watrous (from January)

33 JOURNAL First Day Wednesday, September 4, Assembly.-The North China Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church convened in its twenty-sixth :session at Asbury Church, Peking, September 4, 1918, 8.30 A. M. Bishop Herbert Welch presiding. Devotional Service.-The devotional service was con -ducted by Bishop Welch. After singing, the congregation was led in prayer by Liu Fang and P. O. Hanson. Bishop 'Welch then addressed the Conference on the "Chief 'Characteristics of the Christian Church." The lesson was from 1 Peter. Roll Call.-The roll of the Conference was called by WU Yii K'un, the Chinese Secretaty of the last session. responded' to their names,.save Elders F. Brown, G. S. Brown, Chang Pai Lin, Chou Fu Ch'iian, G. R. Davis, F. D. Gamewell, I. T. Headland, Kao Hsiu. Shan, J. L. Keeler, Liu Kuang Ch'ing P'eng, Ch'ing, J. H. Pyke, B. St. John, :Sun Jung, Sun Yiieh, G. W. Verity, Wang Ch'ang T'ai, Yang Ch'nn He, Wang He Nan; Deacons Li Hsiao Lu, Liu Fu, E. J. Winans; Probationers Chang Wan Shan, Hsii K'un Shan, Li T'ien Lu, Lin Ch'ing Hsiang, and Chu Chih -Ching. Organization.-The officers of the Conference were elected as follows : English Secretary. Clair K. Searles. Assistant English Secretary... Walter W. Davis. Chinese Secretary... Liu Ching Ch'ing. Assistant Chinese Secretary... Liu Shen En. Treasurer... _John McGregor Gibb. English Statistical Secretary.. Carl A. Felt. Chinese Statistical Secretary...(see below) ()fficial Interpreters Wednesday... William T. Hobart. Thursday.. Ch'en Wei P'ing. Friday. Li T'ien Lu. 'Saturday.. Lin Kuang Ch'ing. Sunday Wang Chih P'ing Monday.. George L. Davis All

34 Chinese Statistical Secretaries.-C. A. Felt recommend. ed t)1at in place of the usual Chinese Statistical Secretary, a 'Statistical Secretary from each one of the Districts be elected. On motion of P. O. Hanson, the recommendation was approved. Mr. Felt was asked to nominate the new secretaries. ' Time of Session.-On motion of G. L. Davis, the Conference voted that the regular sessions of the Conference should begin at \. M. for the devotional service, and at 9. A. M. for the business session, closing at 12. M. Bar of Conference.-On motion of H. S. Leitzel, the bar -of the Conference was fixed at the tenth row of seats in the two center sections. Tranafer.-Bishop Welch announced' the transfer of Harry G. Dildine from the Hillghua Conference. This was noted under Question 2. Standing Committees.-i3y vote of the Conference, the following substitutions were made on the Standing Committees: Foreign Missions: SUll Yi\eh in place of Sun Jung Education: Tseng Kuo Chih in place of Chou Fu Ch 'uan On motion of 'N. T. Hobart, the Conference voted to -elect a committee of two for the nominating of the Standing Comm.ittees for next year. George L. Davis and Liu Fang were elected. To Sit with the Conference.-On motion 'of G. L. Davis, Dr. Libby of our :Mission at Wuhu was invited to sit with the Conference. Introduction.-Rev. Harry G. Dildine was introduced to the members of the Conference. Reading of Reports.-At the motion of G. L. Davis, it was voted that,all reports be read only in Chinese. Chingchao Diatrict.-The name of Wang Chao K'e, District Superintendent, was called. His character was passed. He presented his report. Lanhaien District.-The name of Wu Yii K'un" District Superintendent was called and his character was passed. He presented his report. Peking Djstrict.-The name, of Liu Fang, District Superintendent was called and his character was passe~. He presented his report.

35 R~cess.-An intermission of,ten minutes -for recess was observed, after which Conference 'W'as reconvened.. Shanhaikuan Distri~t.-The name of Ch'ing Shou, District Superintendent was called, and his character was passed. He presented his report.:.. Charactera,Passed.~The names?f the following.elders were called and their characters p~ssed. They presented their reports., W. T. Hobart, Yang I, SUll Heng K'uei" Carl A. Felt, Chin Ch'eng,. Hon Tien, Mark W Brown, Liu Chih.Kno, Meng l"e Jung, Wang I Heng, Chang Tzu Sheng, H. H. Rowland, G~orge L. Davis, Tseng Kuo Chih,Y ~ng Ching Ch'un, Hsii Yung Chen, Wu Ch'i, P'eng eh'ing,. H. H. Lowry, H. E. King, W. W. Davis, J. M. Gibb, Lin l\1a K'e, Wang Chih P'ing, Chou.Fu Ch'iian. Kao Feng Shan, Sun Jung, Sun Yiieh, N. S. Hopkins,,1. T. Headland, Ch'en Wei P'ing, F. D. Gamewell, J. L',KeeIer, Liu Yiieh, Li Wei,Yung, C. K. Searles, G. W. Verity, G. S. Brown.. Tientsin District.-The name of Ch~en Heng Te t District Superintendent was called and his character was passed.. H e presented h is report. Characters Passed.-The names of F l\f. Py ke, Sun Chi u Kao, Kao Fn Ch'ing,' Liu Kuang Ch'ing, J. H. Pykc, B.St. John, aud Wang Shou T'nng, were called and their character$ were passed. The pastors gave their reports. Assistant Statistical Secretaries.-On recommendation of C. A. Felt, the following assistant statistical secretaries were elected. Chingchao District, Northern Division. Yang I Chingchao District, Southern Division.. Yii Lien Chung Lanhsien District.. Wu Y u K' un. Pe~ing District. Kao Feng Shan Shanhaiknan District. Hao Te An T'aianfu District Wen Jung T'ai Tientsin District. Hsii K'nn Shan TSl1uhua District. Liu Shao T'ang Yenchoufu District. Liang En Po English Miolltes.-The.Confer~nce voted to include itl the Conference Directory of the English Minutes, the Chinese character oppos,lte the English form of the names. Words of,sympathy.~c.a.felt suggested that the Conference send greetings and love.-and sympathy to Dr.

36 G.R. Davis,so recently taken ill. On motion of Ch'en Wei P'ing, the Conference requested Dr. N. S.. Hopkins to do this. Closing.-After the ann'ouncements, BiShop Welch pro D{)unced the benediction. Anniversary Service.-The Anniversary Service on Evangelism was conducted by Rev. Hsii Yung Chen who reporteci concerning the Week of Evangelism as observed by the churches during the past year. Second Day Thursday, September 5, Devotional Service.-The session was opened with singing and prayer. Bishop Welch spoke to the Conference concerning the main attributes of a Christian pastor. The lesson of the morning was from Acts 1 :1-8. Journal-The Journal in English and Chinese was read and, after corrections, was approved. Minutes.-After a discllssion. concerning the advisability of printing in the Journal the names of those present or absent at the first Roll Call, the Conference voted to retain the former way of pr.inting only ~he names of those w.ho are absent. Roll Call.-The name of the melubers of the Conference who did not respond to their names at roll call last session were called. Li T'ien Lu,: J. ro(. Keeler, and Hsii K'un Shan responded as present. To Sit with the Conference.-Miss Terrell, O. J. Krause, and teachers and doctors connected with the Mission were invited to sit within the bar of the Conference. Delinquents.-The Statistical Secretary and Treasurer reported the cases of persons who had not handed in their reports. T'aianfu District.-The name of Kuo Ying, District Superintendent, was called and his character passed. He presented his report.. Characters Passed.-The names of Elders P. O. Hanson, Liu Chi Lun and Wen Jung T~ai were called and their.characters were passed. Tsunhua District.-The name of G. R. Davis, District Superintendent. was called and his character was passed.

37 - 30 ~ Bishop Welch asked for a report concerning Dr. Davis" health. His son W. W. Davis responded. The Chinese Secretary read the District report. " Characters Pasaed.-The name~ of Elders Liu Kuang Tzu, Liu Shao T'ang Wang En Chaq, Liu Ching Ch'ing and Tu Wen Yil were called and their characters were p,assed. The pastors read their reports. Yenchoufu District.-The name of Ch'en Yii Shan, District Superintendent, was called and his character passed. He presented his report. The name of Henry S. Leitzel was called and his character was passed. Recess.-The Conference adjottrned for ten minutes after which business was resumed. Centenary Program.-On motion of G. L. Davis, the District Superintendents and Missionaries in Charge were elected to constitute a committee to plan for a Centenary Program, this cbnlmittee to report at ten odock on Saturday morning. Missionary Collections.-On lnotio11 of P. O. Hanson,. the Conference voted that the Missionary Collections for the year be divided in the ration of five-sixths for Home 1\1 issions and one-sixth for Foreign Missions. Introduction.-Dr. James M. Taylor, of the Board of Evangelism of the Board of Foreign Missions, was introduced and asked tc address the Conference. He spoke briefly of the great spiritual hunger of the A5Iiatic people for the Gospel of the living Christ as it had impressed him in a tour of several Asiatic countries. Standing Committeea.-P. O. Hanson was elected to. take the place of G. R. Davis on the Committee on Joint Sessions on account of the latter's illness. Course of Study.-On motion of Ch'en Wei P'ing, the Secretaries w~re requested to have the new Conference Course of Study' 'printed in both the Chiuese and English Minutes. Entertain~ent.-On motion of P. O. Hansoll, the Conferen'ce voted that a Committee be appointed to consider means for financing the entertaining and traveling expenses. of the Conference.'

38 Book Sale.-On motion of G. L. Davis, it was voted! that the announcement that all books of the Conference Course of Study are on sale in Collins Hall during the Conference, be printed in the Journal of the Conference. Cloaing.~After the announcements, Dr. Taylor pronounced the benediction. Anniversary Service.-8 P.M.-Bishop Welch addressed the Conference on the scope and purpose of the Centenary Movement. His lecture was illustrated by a large number of stereopticon views of the work of the Methodist Church in other lands. Third Day Friday, September 6, Devotional Service..-The devotional service was con- ducted by Dr. James M. Ta}lor, who addressed the Conference on the important place love should hold in the life and work of every pastor, as expressed in I Corinthians 13. Journal.-The Journal in Chinese and English was, read and approved. Statiltica.-The Statistical Secretary reported as to the' form and content of the reports which were handed in. Firlt Year Class.-The following members of the first year class were called. They read their reports and retired froln the room. The Registrar read the report of the Examining Committee. Their characters were passed. On recommendation of their District Superintendents, Chao Yen Huai and Chi Hsiao Feng were continued on trial in the studies of the first year. Chao Jung Hsi, Chi Ch'ang Lu, Liu Hsi and Wang Wen Ping were continued on trial, advanced to studies of the second year, conditioned in two subjects; Tu Wen K'uei was continued on trial, advanced tostudies of the second year, conditioned in one subject; Wang T'i Ch'ing was continued on trial and advanced to studies of the second year. Chu Chih Ching was discontinued. These transactions were noted under Disciplinary Questions SIX and seven. Second Year Clals.-The following members of thesecond year class were called. They presented their reports,. and retired from the room. The report of the Examining Committee was read. Their characters were passed. On.

39 - 3~- 'l"ecommendation of their District.superintendents, Chang Wan Shan, HsiiFu Lin" Hsil K'j.Ul Shan, Liu Ch'ing, H~iang, Shih T'ing Tung T'sui Lien Sheng, were credited with subjects passed and continued on trial in the studies of the second year; Li Lien Pi was continued 011 trial and.advanced to'the studies of the third year. These 'were noted under Disciplinary Question six. '" Int.rodllction.-Dr. 'Edward Lincoln Smith, Chairman,.of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Peking University, was introduced and invited to address the Conference. He bore the greetings of the Board <?f. Trustees to the Conference. Bishop Welch responded to these ;greeti ngs. Recess.-There was an intermission of ten minutes after which business was resumed. Examination.-On motion of Ch'en WeiP'ing, the 'Conference voted that all persons who have been continued in the Conference conrse of study for a few years without taking their examinations must be examined in their stndies next year or be discontinued from the course of study. Second Year Class.-The following members of the.second Year Class were called. They read thei~ reports and retired from, the room. The report of the Examiuing Committee was read. Their characters were passed. On "Iecommendation of the District Superintendents, Wang Ch'ing He, Yli Lien Chung, Jen Chao Ch'ang, were credited with subjects passed, and continued on trial in studies of the second year; Tsou Chin Ch'ing and Ts'ui Yen Li were continued on trial advanced to studies of the third year; conditioned in one subject; Yang Shun, Ma Yii Lin and Fa'n T'ing Ch'eng were elected t6 full membership in the Conference, and to Deacon's orders, and advanced to studies,(>f the third year. Introduction.-Dwight-W. Edwards. Secretary of the Y. M:C.A., was introduced and invited to address the Conference. lie spoke of the Christian work bein'g col1ducted among the Chinese in France and the need for more Chinese and foreign leaders. Entertainmenl.-O. J. Krause, J. MeG. Gibb, and G. L. Davis were named as the Com'tnittee on Entertainment.

40 - 33- T hey requested that all items of expense for Conference travel and entertainment be prepared by the District Superintendents and handed to the Committee. State of the Claurch.-On motion of '-IV. P. eli'en, as amended by W- T. Hobart, the Conference voted that a committee be appointed to consider the attitude of the church concerning the Chinese customs observed in marriage, burial, worshi p of ancestors and other ceremonies. Standing Cemmittees.-The report of the committee for nomination of Standing Committees for next year was read. On motion of \V. T. Hobart the committee was asked to revise the nominations. CIosing.-Afte'f the announcements were given, the benediction was pronounced by Dr. Ch'en He~g Te. Evening Service, 8 P.M.-Dr. James Taylor continued his series of evangelistic addresses, taking as his theme, '~The Eleventh Commandment." Fourth Day Saturday, September 7, 19I8. Devotional Service.---..:After the Conference had joined in singing and prayer, Dr. Taylor spoke on the theme "Bearing Witness" especially as applied to Christian workers. Joumal.-The Journal in English and Chinese was read and approved. State of the Church.-Ch'en Wei P'ing, Liu Fang, Ch'en Heng Te, N. S. Hopkins, and H. G. Dildine were named as the Committee on the State of the Church. Comity.-The China Continuation Committee Report on Comity was brought before the Conference. The Conference voted that a committee be appointed to consider the report, and bring in recommendations for Conference action. Third Year Class.-The names of the Third Year Class were called. The members presented their reports, and retired from the room. The report of the Examining Committee was read. Their charac.ters were passed. On the recommendations of their District Superintendents, Li. T'ien Ln was elected to full membership and to Deacon's (}rders and continued in the studies of the third year; Li

41 ~34- " Hsiao Lu and P'eng Ch'ing were.credited with' subjects p~ssed and continued in studies of the third year; Li'U Pu, Yang J ung Lin, Chao Li Y 11 and Han Tien Ying were advanced to studies of the fourth year on conditions;. "ChaO' Yii Hsiu, Liang Hsing T'ang, Yang Jung Hsuan, and Ha<> Te An were advanced to studies of the fourth year~ Fourth Yeal" Class.-The names of the Fourth Year Class were called. They presented their reports and retired from the room. 1~he report of the Examining Committee was read. Their characters were passed. On recommendation of the District Superintendents and the Committee on, Conference Relations, Hsii Ching pting~ Liu Shen En, Meng Yiin and E. J. Winans were credited with subjects passed and continued in the studies of the f{)urth year; Ch'ingShou" K'ang Yung Kuei, Li Hsin, Li Lien Ying, Liang En P'o, Liu Tsun Sheng, Liu Yung Shen, T~ang Yung, Tu Pl1 Yilin,. and Yang Hsueh Shih, having completed their conrse of study, were elected to Elders orders. The Registrar reported that Chao Li Yu, who had been advanced to studies of the Fourth Year, had already passed. several of these subjects.' On motion of G. L. Davis he was qredited with these subjects. Disciplinary Questions.-Several of the Disciplinary Questions were asked and answered. (noted under Disciplinary Questions) Retired Ministers.-The names of Chang Pai Lin,. Kao Hsiu Shan, Te Jui, Wang He Nan, and Yang Ch'un He, were called. A letter from Kao Hsiu.Shan was read. Te JUt responded in person. Their characters were passed and they were continued in retired relationship. On motion of C. A. Felt, the Conference especially invited the Retired Ministers to attend Conference next year at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the North China Mission. A letter from Wu Ch'i asking for retirement from effective relationship was read. His request was granted. Received OD Trial.-The names of those recommended to be received on trial in the Conference were read. They were presented to the Conference and then retired from theroom. The report of the Examining Committee was read.

42 On recommendation of the District Superintendents and the Committee on Conference Relations, the following were admitted on trial in studies of the first year: Wu Heng Hsiang. Chu Tiell Yuan, Ts'ao Wan Jung, Liu Chi Yung, Po: Min, Shang Wen Chin, Li Jung Fang, and He Tsun Ch'ing. Li JUllg Fang was then elected to deacon's orders under seminary rule, and continued on trial in studies of the third year. Centenary Committee.-The reading of the report of the Centenary Committee was postponed until Monday morning. Introductions.-Mr. Childs, Secretary or the Y. M. C. A. was introduced. Miss Alice Terrell, Li Jung Fang, a!1d H. H. Rowland, who have recently returned from America,. were also presented to the Conference. On motion of H. S. Leitzel, J. L. Keeler was requested to speak on the relationship of the Methodist pastor to the European War, next Monday morning. Cloaing.-After the announcements were made, H. H. Lowry pronounced the benediction. Fifth Day Sunday, September 8, 1918 Love Feaat.-At nine oclock, the Conference assembled for the Love Feast service, which was conducted by Ch'en Wei P'ing. Morning Service.-IO A. lv1.-0rdinatlon-in the presence of the congregation, Bishop Welch, assisted by the District Superintendents, Missionaries in Charge, H. H. Lowry, H. E. King, and F. D. Gamewell, ordained the candidates for Deacon's and Elder's orders. THIS IS TO CERTIFY That on the eighth day of September 1918, under the election of the North China Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I ordained the following as Deacon~ : Fan T'ing Ch 'eng Li T'ien Lu Li J ung Fang Ma Yii Lin Yang Shun ~~wdel~ Presiding B shop.

43 THIS IS TO CERTIFY That.on the eighth day of September 19I8, under the election of the North China Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I c.rdained the' fol1owing as Elders:. Ch'ing Shou K'ang Yung Kuei Li Hsin Li Lien Ying T'angYung Liang En P'o Tu Pu Yiin Liu 1'SU11 Sheng Yang Hsneh Shih Liu Yung Shen ~wdel).pn!sidillg Bishop, Sermon.-After the congregation 'had joined in singing, Dr. Taylor preached from the text, "The Report of the Spies" Numbers I3:30. At the close of the sermon the altar was -crowded by young men and women who consecrated themselves to God's work for anv service to which He calls them. Evening Service.-In the evening. an evangelistic service was conducted by Dr. Taylor. Sixth Day l\fonday, September 9, I9I8. Devotional Service. -After singing and prayer, and a brief address by Dr. Taylor. the meeting was thrown open for testimonies. Journal-The Journal in English and Chinese was read, and after corrections was approved. &esolutions.-resolutions from the Alumni of Peking University rela,ting to the new Union University were read by Wang Chih P'ing, and Li T'ien LU. 1 A discussion of these resolutions followed. 011 motion of Wang Chih P'ing, Dr. Ch'en Tsai Hsin and Mr. Wang Shen w~re invited to sit with the Conference, with the privilege of taking part in the discussion. Recess.-As the hour of had arrived, the Conference adjourned for ten minutes after which business was resumed. Introduction.-Dr. John F. ','"Powney, Dean of the College of Science, Literat9re, atld ~!1~' Arts, itt the 'University ()f l\1innesota, who win teach in Peking University this

44 - 37- coming year, and Mr. Wang Shen, one of the first class graduated from Peking University, were introduced. Discussion.-On vote of the Conference, ~r. Wang Shen was invited to address the Conference. He spoke of the various reasons which had induced the alummi to present their resolutions. The discussion of the resolutions was continued. Adjournment.-On motion of W. T. Hobart, it was voted that at the close of the morning session, the Conference should adjourn until 3 P.M. Introduction.-Bishop Frank L. Norris of the Anglican Mission was introduced and invited to speak before the' Conference. He read resol u tio115 adopted by the North China Diocesan Synod, expressing thanks to all those who had assisted in the relief of the sufferers from flood and famine during the past year. Bishop Welch responded for the Conference. Reports.-On motion of P. O. Hanson, the Conference voted that all educational and medical reports which had not. been read, be printed without reading. Adjournment.-After announcements were made, the Conference adjourned to 3 P.M. Bishop Norris pronounced the benediction. Afternoon Session. Devotional Service.-After singing, "He Leadeth Me,'" the Conference was led in prayer by Lin Ma K'e. Journal.-The Journal in Chinese and English was read and approved. To Sit with the Conference.-On motion of H. H. Lowry, Dr. Ch'en Tsai Hsin was invited to sit with the Conference, with the privilege of el)tering into the discussion. Discu.sion.-The Resolutions of the morning were again taken up and discussed. Dr. Ch'en was asked to be the first speaker. Resolutions.-On motion of Wang Chih P'ing and Li T'ien Lu, the Conference adopted the resolutions relating to the federated University. In order to avoid misunderstanding, the Bishop called attention to the fact that the resolution just passed was in the nature of an expression of Conference opinion and constituted a recommendation to the Board of

45 ''Trustees; but that it did not settle any of the questions,at -issue, as the authority to deal with these rested in the Board.of Mal1a~ers and,the Board of Trusteef'. Motion for Adjournment. -On motion of W. W. Davis, it was voted to adjourn at 5 P.M. to meet again at 8,30 tomorrow morning. Centenary.-The Centenary Committee presented its Teport. On motion.of W. W- Davis, the report was adopted. Comity.-The following were named as the Committee on Comity:,Wang Chih piing, Liu l\ia K'e, Tseng Kuo..chih, and Wen J ung T'ae. Ooaing.-The announcements were made, and the henediction was pronounced by Bishop Welch. Seventh Day Tuesday, September 10, Devotional Service.-After the Conference had joined in singing, \Ven Jung T'ai and Ch'en Heng Te led in prayer. Bishop Welch then addressed the class of new. membels entering the Conference. Place of Conference.-Invitations were received from Tientsin and Peking to hold the next Annual Conference at these places. The Conference accepted the invitation to meet at Peking. Statistical Report.-C. A. Felt presented a summary of the Statistical Report. Conference Treasurer's Report.-P, O. Hanson read the report of the Conference Treasurer. It was adopted as -corrected. Board of Stewards.-G. L. Davis read the report of the Board of Stewards. It was adopted as corrected. Disciplinary Questions.-The remainil1g Disciplinary Questions were taken up and answered. Supernumerary Ministers.-The Committee on Conference Relations, on the request of Han Tien Ying, recommended that he be granted supernumerary relationship. By vote of the Conference, his request was granted. Triers of Appeals. - The Triers of Appeals were recommended and elected as follows: C. A. Felt, Liu Fang, P. O. Hanson, Ch'ell Wei P'ing, W- T. Hobart. Reserves: Ch'en Heng Te, 'Tseng Kuo Chill.

46 -39 - Educational Fund.-The Committee on Educational Fund for Ministers' Children had no report to make. On motion of H. H. Lowry, the Committee. was reelected 'for another year.. Recess.-The Conference adjourned at I I o'clock for a short time, after which business was resumed. Retired Ministers.~l1 personal request, and by recommendation of the Committee on Conference Relations, Chin Ch1eng was granted Fetired relationship. Retired Local Preachers' Fund.-W. T. Hobart an Eounced that $15 had been contribnted on the Chingchao District for the Retired Local Preachers' Fund and that a plan had been formulated and agreed upon whereby each year members of the District Conference under appointment 'Should give $.50; members of the Annual Conference, $1.; and missionaries $5. to the sup!-'ort of this fund. On the motion of J. L. Keeler, amended by Ch'en Heng Te, the Conference approved this plan and adopted it for the whole Conference, and voted that all money contributed to this Fund shall be kept by the Conference Treasurer: and shall be administered by the Conference Board of Stewards. Standing Committees.-The Committee on N ominatioll {)f Standing Committees reported their nominations. They were adopted. Anniversary Program.-Ol1 lllotion of W. T Hobart, the Pastor of the Asbury Church~ Peking, the District Superintendent and Missionary in Charge of Peking District vvere elected to prepare the Anniversary Program for the next Annual Conference. Missionary Collections.-On motion of Ch'en Heng 'fe, it was voted that the monev collected for Home Missions be turned over to the Mission 'Treasurer to be applied on deficit ~n preachers' salaries. Adjournment.-On motion of G. L. Davis, the Conference adjourned until 2 P M. The benediction was pronounced by Kuo Ying. Afternoon Session. The Conference reconvened at 2 P. M. After singing by the CC!mference, Wen J ung T'ai led in prayer.,

47 -40 - JoumaL-The Journal in Chin~e and English wa-s read and approved. Examiners.-Bishop Welch announeed the appointment on the Board of Examiners of Kao Feng Shan in place of Chou Fu Ch'iian for a term of.three years" and W. T. Hobart, Li T'ien Lu, Liu Kuang Ch'ing, and W.. W. Davis, as addi.tional examiners for- a period of four year-so Ch'en Wei P'ing presented a s~r.ies of recommendations from the Board of Examiners. On m@tion of Hao Te An,. it was voted to discuss the recomm-endati0ns, item by item. With a few corrections, the recommend'ations were adopted as read. Standing Committees.-l'he reports of the committees on Reform, Foreign Missions, and Self Suppo~t, were presented aud adopted as read. ']'he Conference joined in singing, '''Stand Up for Jesus ". Centenary Progam.-Bishop Welch briefly addressed the Conference in regard to the Centenary Program. On invitation, Ch'en Wei P'ing apd G. L.. Davis spoke furtherconcerning the relation of the Chinese Church to this Program. Work in France.-J. L. Keeler r by request, addressed the Conference on the relation of the Chinese Pastor to the Christian work among the Chinese in France. State of the Church.-The Committee on the State of the Church was represented by Ch'en Wei P'ing who presented a verbal report. As the committee was 110t ready tosubmit recommendations it was asked to repor.t again next year. Grants.-On motion of W. T.. Hobart, the Conference voted that the grant from the Methodist Book Concern be turned over to the Mission Treasurer. to be applied on the deficit on preachers' salaries. Home Missions.-The Committe.e on Home Missions.. presented its report which was adopted. Official Minutes.-On moti0n of C. A. Felt, the Conference voted that the English Minutes b~ the official Minutes of the Conference-,

48 Chinese Minutea.-On motion of C. A. Felt, it was voted that 400 copies of the Chinese Minutes be printed. Bible Societies.-Ori motion of "Ven Jung T'ai it was. decided that on some definite Sunday during the year each church should take a collection for the Bible Societies. Chinese Minutes.-On motion of Liu Ching Ch'ing, Kao Feng Shan was requested to attend to the printing of the Chinese Minutes. 50th Anniversary.-On motion of W T. Hobart, the Committee on the Centenary Program was asked also to prepare a program for the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the North China Mission. Resolutions.-The Committee on Resolutions presented its report which was adopted. Journal.-The Journal in Chinese and English was read,. and after corrections was approved. Adjournment.-On motion of W T Hobart, the Conference voted to adjourn sine die after the appointments are read. Joint Sessjon.-The ladies of the Womans Foreign Missionary Society joined the Conference in a joint session. Communion.-The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered by Bishop Welch assisted by Tseng K 110 Chih, Lin Fang, G. L. Davis, V\!. T. Hobart, H. H. Lowry, F. D. Gamewell, K. S. Hopkins, H. E. King, Te Jui, Ch'en Yii Shan, andch'en Wei P'ing. Appointments.-After a brief address by Bishop Welch, the appointments were read. Closing.-Bishop Welch proljonnced the benediction. Certified Minutes This is to certify that the above is a corre~t copy of the Official lvlin utes of the North China Annual COll ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Peking, China Septem ber fourth to ten th 19 I 8. t ~W~I - - Presz'd ng.bz'shop.

49 ANNUAL REPORTS CHING CHAODISTRICl', North Section. WANG SHAO K'E, District Superintmltdcnt W. T. HOBART, Mi88ionary-in~aharge The work on the Northern part of the district has not progressed much the past year. The Catholics havp. enticed some of our members away on some charges. The ground seems stony and barren and the harvest time seems 110t to have come. The Ch'angp'ing circuit has heen in charge of Rev. Yang I. He bas been a very diligent worker all the year. In the winter a Bible study school was kept up for two months and Pastor Yang was the only teacher. There are foul' outpoints on the circuit; Shaho, Nallk~ou, Liuliu and T'aip'ingchuang. All of these places are pushing forward nicely. The contributions were handicapped by bad crops and the removal of members. Rev. Sun Heng K'uei is the pastor at Huaijouhsien. He sacrifices himself and goes out to sell the Scriptures. Two of the members have helped him very much. There are three outstations Kaoliying, Niulanshan and Wangkechuang. At Kaoliying a Beading room has been opened in the chapel by a Christian. who is in charge of the local police. This has helped the church very much. On the Huailaihsien circuit Mr. Ching Kuo Liang is the diligent preacher. He not only preaches in the church, but also frequently goes out to preach and help. the Christians. Sorry to say the people here are very obstinate and ignorant. They not.only disbelieve the words of God but are enemies of the church. The two outstations, Shach'eng and K'angchuang are doing better than last year. Pastor Meng Yiin is in charge of Yench'inghsien Circuit. He preaches with enthusiasm. The people have a wrong conception of the church; for they regard more 'her power and, influence than the -relu doctrine of Christianity. Though we have good methods to preach to them, yet we can hardly get good results. Another unfortunate thing is that many of the church members have moved away, so that the contributions are less than last year. An ()utstatioll, Laochiint'ang, has improved a little over last year.

50 On the Miyiin Circuit the Rev. T'ang Yung is the able })astor. He has removed some old difficulties and placed the church on a good foundation. With such a laborer the prm;;perity of the church in the near future is assured. An outstation, Shaochu, is also.,growing in spite of some defections to the Catholics. Mr. Liu lung Shan is ineharge of Shihhsia Circuit. For a number of years the church has been in a great slumber, but now it is beginning to wake up through the prosperity of the primary flchool. In closing my report I pray that the rain of the Holy Spirit will fall and abundantly water the whole district causing it to bud u.d blossom as the rose. Have we not His promise? WANG CHAO-K~E, Southern Division District Superintcndent CARL A. FELT~ M issionarg in Charge. I remember very well my feelings as tlje ~{issionary in Charge -of the Southern Division of the Chingchno District as the year came to a close in the year 1917~ I knew that we had done all we could do but I wished tltat we might begin the year over. 1 t seemed to me that we had just gotten to the point where we could gather in fruits. Conference came and went and Mr. Wang and I were again appoint~d on t.he District. We were both full of enthusiasm. Before the men went home from Conference we gathered them together and spent many hours of consultation over the work of the District, In this small gathering we developed a program for the year in outline but because 80 many of our fellow laborers who were 110t memu(>rs of the Conference could not be present, we decided to have another meeting at which all the members of the District could be present and also a number of church members from each church. It was our plan in this Conference to develop a program together and lay it upon the hearts of the various ~hurches, feeling that if we were to go foward in the year as we should, not only the prearhers should have the inspiration of the program but the school teachers and church members as well. We held this meeting at Huangt"sun about a month after Con ference closed. Every worker under appointment, except one, '''ho

51 -44- was detained on account of sickness was present. There were alsopresent three to six of the best church members from every station and outstation. The attendance, therefore, was all that could be expected, in fact, it was more than we had dared to count 011. The program was well planned and splendidly executed. There came to our assistance from Peking Dr. Lowry, Mr. G. L. Davis~ Mr. Liu Fang, also Dr. Wang Chih-p'ing. All rendered excellent service for which we desire to thank them. On Sunday afternoon we had a very memorable occasion. All those present at the Conference and the local Christians gathered in the church, 250 strong. We marched down, then up the long street with Christian banners singing Christian songs. The interest of the people along the way was aroused. Arriving at the place where the first Christian service was held in the village we held a service commemorative of the occasion some years before when )Iessrs. Lowry and Pilcher held the first service here preaching just outside the door of the inn where they were stopping. The people then stopped to look at the foreign devils more than to believe. In this meeting p'eople stood iii large numbers to hear the Gospel proclaimed. At the close of our District Meeting every member who had been in attendance realized that they had not only been meeting together but that the Holy Spirit had been in their midst. Each and every member went home with the determination to work more whole heartedly for the ~laster than ever before. I believe that almost every man has done. his best. If every man had not been determined and diligent it would have a most natural thing to have had a set back during such a year of floods and famine as we have had to go through during this Conference year~ but such is not the case. We have made steady advance. ~Ir. Wang, our District Superintendent, reports as follows: When at the last Conference the Bishop gave me again the great responsibility of being District Superilltendent of this Chingchao District it seemed more than I could bear; but I dared 1l0t disobey, in spife of my disability, so with God's help and this special calling upon me I determined to spend and be spent for the work of God 011 this district. By the help of God and the joint efforts of all my fellow workers, there has been much accomplished during the year in spite of many hindrances.

52 - 45- Immediately after my appointment I consulted with both the Missionaries in Charge and bejrad the work of the year. J started in the Northern DiVisIon to hold the first Quarterly Conferences. ~o sooner had this been done than word came to me from Mr.. Felt that on account of the very severe flood conditions to the south of Peking it would be necessary for me to spend some days making investigations in behalf of the Metropolitan Flood Relief Council, headed by the Honorable Hsiung Rai Ling. As soon as I could I repaired to 'Peking where in company with Mr. Lo, I made the investigation, which took some twenty days. We found that the flood conditions were worse than we had anticipated. The condi -tioll of many of the church members was mi8erable. Some in desperation left their houses and land, wading through water up to their waists with their children on their backs, had taken refujre in the cities on the higher ground, some even having gone as far as Peking. Indeed as I saw the conditions in many places I could not but feel that all of our plans for advance during the year were at once -destroyed. So many of the church members had gone away and those who were left found it so difficult to get oyer the days that I did not see where there would be any time for Christian work on their part,or even on the pal"t of the preacher for I knew he would be so busy comforting and helping his scattered flock. As we made our report the Metropolitan Flood Relief Council granted us thousands of dollars for the relief of our distracted people~ This money, of course, was to be used impartially whether people were members of the church or not, which we have conscientiously done. The plan of work was something as follows: We. established refuges for the poorest of the poor people where they might come and get food. In these refuges we took nobody who was at all able to care for themselves, although there were many such who applied. III all we established thirteen of these refuges in which several thousands of people were fed. and cared for during the winter months. In the refuge at Hsiiehkechuallg there were more than 800 people. At 'Pienshen Miao there were more than :1500 people. If there were time to give you details of the work I know you would be tremendously interested, Almost all of the work ill the different refuges was done by the people. They gathered fuel. wherever possible, did all the cooking and all the work under the management of those appoiuted ill charge of the newly established villages. When this work was put upon me I had great fear that it 'would be impossible to conduct it successfully, knowing how hard it

53 is to <leal with a crowd of famished people. In the :first days,. before we had become organized, at times many hundreds of peoplewould surround me making demands for food or money. I diel my best to satisfy them with assurances but they could not be satisfied until my assul"ances had been worked into action. I received great help from the country officials, particularly from the official at Pahsien; Mr. T'ang s(>emed to appreciate the work of our Church very' much and in everything we worked in perfect harmony. Because of this work in every place the good name of the Church has been greatly enhanced. No~ only the officials but the gentry in every place are full of app reciationfor what we have done. They say that no one but the Church could have done such kindly work, but: we take no credit to ourselves but give all glory to God who made it possible for us to accomplish so much work. Besides the assistance rendered the people in these refuges" several hundred men were given work building roads under the direction of the American Red Cro~s. For two weeks of hard and painstaking work in the selection of these man we are indebted to, Mr. W. W. Davis. We desire here to express our thanks. III these various refuges ruany people have heard the Gospel. 1'hey have been very much imllresseu and are desirous to believe. In fact, if we had enrolled people as probationers there would have been many hundreds of names taken; but it was our policy 110t to enroll these people as probationers while they were fed ill these refuges but rather to await the results of the work later, fearing lest they enroll themselves merely because they were being fed and not because of a deep interest. Our pastors in every place are looking after those who have been interested. We are sure, not only that there will be a great benefit to the bodies of the people but many of them will be saved because of the opportunity they were given to live ill such close contact with the Christian workers during these two or three mouths. After I had gotten these various refuges started I snatched a few' days ill which to hold the second Quarterly Conferences on the District. All through the southern part of the District, of course, the people wel'e dis-tracted through flood conditions and discouraged- There was no money to give for self support and illooked as if all our advance in self support during the past years would be.torn away. I encou.raged the people to do what they could and trust to- the crops of the next year to bring up what they were not able to

54 -47 - pay at the fall time. I am gla.d to say that my expectations have more than bren met and that we have not only maintained the self support of last year but have made a.good advance. Herewith some details of the work of the yarions circuits. At Hant'sun ~Ir. Tu Pu Yun has worked very diligently and with great earnestness. During the winter in connection with flood relief hecarried on a Bible School and the members who attended have been greatly benefited. He has had great success ill conducting the Lower and Higher Primary Schools. Boys have not only made good progress in their studies but have made great progress spiritually. Many of them have been baptised. During the past year many who had left our Church to go the Roman Catholic Church have returned. They seemed to be spiritually awakened and desire no longer to stay in the dead Catholic Church but have returned to our fold. At Lang fang the work has moved forward. At the middle of the year it was found necessary to close the Primary School through lack of funds. But when the students from Peking returned to their homes they felt so badly that the boys in the neighborhood were not able to go to school, they themselves opened the school and have been conducting it all summer without any expense to the Church. For this we are yery grateful to them. The church at Fengfai is a liew one. A student from the Bible Institute, Mr. Feng T'ing Tsun, is in charge. He goes there ever~r Saturday, spending Saturday and a part of nlonday in the work. It is very remarkable what he has been able to do during this one year. Fengt'ai is a e jullction on the railroad and a very important place. During this year both a Primary School and a Night School for the teaching of English have been established. These schools are almost self-supporting. Although the work has been established less than a year there is an outlook ahat is very bright. If the work moves foward in the next few years as it has in the past there is no doubt that it will be the first place on the District. At Taiying, an out-station on the Huangt'sun Circuit, there has been established a Primary School with Mr. Kao Hung Chu, a Bible Institute studellt in charge. The work he has been able to do during the year is nothing less than marvelous. The Church helps this school five <lollars. The rest of the teacher's salary and the equipment, including the rent of the school has been provided by the local people. This is something new for this part of the country and we are very glad to report it.

55 At P'angkechuang Mr. Yiieh Ch'ing Yii is in charge. Mr. Yiieh is a graduate of the University. D'uringthisfirst year of his' work in the Church he has shown real ability. First, the Church work has developed along every line. Contributions have increased~ church membership has been enlarged. He says it has been.necessary to rent a new place so they can have a larger hall for the meeting of the members. During the year many of the members have given up their idols and some of these have been given to our missionary to be used in the homeland and some are to be sent to Mr. Noble, who supported Mr.' Yiieh when he was ill college and who still writes to him aud is a ~reat inspiration to him in his work. One of the church members has donated twenty-two acres of land for the purpose of building a new church. It is hoped that it will SOOn be possible to buy a proper location on the great street. This city is so prosperous,that it is impossible to buy a location such as we want without paying a very, very high price. We are hoping that during this year we may find a place at a moderate price where we can use the money that has been subscribed for the building of the church. It 'would be impossible to speak of all the circuits in detail.a,.ll of the men have done faithful work during the year. There are a number of letters from the different churches appealing for the retention of their pastors. From what we have been able to learn they are, a real sincere expression of the hearts of the church members. I want to speak particularly of the work of the Rev. Hou Tien at Peiyin. He has been a great help to au of his Christians during this year. I can see that he'is able to bring the people to God. The church has improved greatly uuder his leadership. Contributions have been largely increased. I wish that all of our pastors were able to develop the spiritual life like Mr. Hou. I realize that this report is very incomplete, but ill the rush of the year, trying to complete the work in the short time left after closing up the flood relief work, there has not been time for extensive preparation. of a report. The Missionary in Charge has nothing much to add to the above -except that he rea1iz~s that the District Superintendent has been most diligent. There have been many, times during the year when he has urged the District Superintendent to take more time to rest feeling that he could do more efficient work if he would take.a few days for recreation and rest. In spite of all exhortation I have

56 - 49- never known Mr. Wang to take a single day from his l::l.bors. If every pastor and teacher were as diligent as he in the work of the Church there would be larger results, The work of securing Special Gifts is a great burden on the Missionary. It was impossible, owing to school work, to make a single trip on the District. If it were not for the constant writing of letters to secnre the Special Gifts it would be possible to do some direct evangelistic work. The budget for the past year 'Was about $6000 and all but $1500, which was the appropriation from the Board of Foreign Missions, had to be raised by Special Gifts. Our needs are very many but as far as I can see the greatest need of the District is a foreigner to give his entire time to this work without being distracted with other lines of activity. We have a promise from the Stewart Fund to finance such a man when found. We had hoped that this man might be on the Field this fall but berause of war the arrival of the mun is deferred. U nti! such a time as this worker can be on the Field we will do our best to work together but we thoroughl~ realize that not a very great deal -can be done without the leadership and inspiration of a man giving his mind and heart to this great task. For all the blessings of the years we are grateful to our Heavenly Father for His protecting care during the year.,ve have had no deaths in our ranks nor have we had severe sickuess in spite of all the difficulties and the hardships due to the flood ahd famine As we are grateful for the year's success in the face of difficulties so we look foward to the new year full of hope and enthusiasm knowing Him ill whom we trust: Some Statistics Full ::\lembers. Probationers Received Total Number of Probationers. 'Total Number of Baptized Children Baptized this year '.. ".....<\.dults... " " Children.. Inquirers ".... Primary Schools, Pupils.... Rupport of the Ministry, Pastor Missions.... Kumber Increase 5,17 8r G $140., $14. $195. $37.

57 CHINCHAO DISTRICT Southern Division Day Schools Our Primary Schools have received their share of attention during the year. The Board of Foreign Missions has given $48 for the support of these schools. We are indebted to good friends who have make it possible to keep the work going during the year. 1Yhen I came to this District, several years ago, I found that there was not a single Primary School on the District. Last year we reported ten schools with an enrollment of 226 pupils. This year we report 292 pupils enrolled in sixteen schools. During the first few years since we established these Primary Schools there has not been a single place where it seemed possible to ask the people to bring money toward the support of the school but this year we are glad to report that there are two places, Fengt'ai and Taiying, which hale made fine progress along this line. The former is almost entirely self-supporting while the latter is supported about one half by the local people. We are intending to extend this gradually to the other schools. We feel that the schools this year have lacked supervision because )lr. Wang has been so busy in Flood Relief work. Next year we are hoping to have a man in charge of these Rchools giving much of his time to the supervision of them. In this way we will develop the schools, raising their standards.

58 LANHSIEN DISTRICT Wu Yu K'ux, District Superintendent. What does the Superintendent think of him. elf?~, The former Superintendent, Dr. Ch'en Heng Te, a man of great ability and many years' experience in the ministry, said in his report last year, 'How could I, a man of such small strength, meager ability, and poverty of pocket bear such a burden?" What do you think of me, having been a preacher only six years, with very little experience, ability and strength, in a word, not bearing comparison in any respect with Dr. eh'en, yet trying to fill his position this year? To do myself justice. I am fit only to be a preacher in a small country town, where I will be quite satisfied with not a bit of hope of promotion. But it was out of my thoughts and dreams when the appointments were read last Conference time that I should be Supprintendent of Lanhsien District. I was shrunken with feal', and knew nothing to do; I could not but obey and take this heavy burden for a while. To my great delight God has been with me thruout the year and helped me in everything. I cannot but offer my sincere thanks to Him. The Diatrict Work. We have eight circuits on the Lanhsien District and twenty-three preaching places. We have twenty-five schools, including one Higher Primary Schuol,vith over 100 boys, seventeen Lower Primary schools, and 7 other Lower Primary schools entirely supported by the local churches. In addition the W.F.M.S. has 11 Girls' schools. All have gone nicely and peacefully. The Great Revival Meeting. As the prosperity of the church is dependent on the HoI:r Ghost, lir. BrowIl, the Missionary-in-Charge, invited Rev. Carl A. Felt and Dr. C. r. Wang to eonduct a great 'meeting at Lanhsien during the first week ill December. All the pastors, teachers and Christian workers, also representative Christians from each of the churches attended, llumberingmore than 140. It resulted in confessing of their sins, making up their minds to keep the Morning Watch, and praying heartily for our beloved country and all the world. Some of the very coldhearted men were touched and 'became warmhearted. This meeting has proven of great value to the work thruout the year. The Winter Bible Class. A Christian cannot make rapid progress and the church cannot get hi!; help unless he knows more about the Bible; the more he knows the greater the help he offers. So we

59 opened a Bible Cla~s for the improvement of the young Christians. We ~ot 13 promising young men together and they were carefully taught by :Mr. Chang ung Ho, a graduate of Peking University who had entered th~ School of Theology. On account of poqr health he had to leave school and came to our District just at a time when we needed a lllan to teach these students. They studied for two mouths; ~n( ar the end of the term I gave them a week's instruetion on some items of the church ceremonials and other important matters a man should know in his daily life. To speak the truth without exaggeration they received more good in these two months than they would have in ten years living ordinary Christian lives in their towns. The Self-Denial of the Workers. On account of the present terrible war everything has increased in price and the cost of living is very high indeed. But let us see how much the workers get per month. The salaries of the preachers in the small towns run from $8 to $t2; and the ordained pastors in larger plaees get from $14 to $22. According to Chinese custom the son must ~upport the whole family consisting of p~rents, brothers and sister, in addition to 'his own wife and children; so without question these salarjes are not sufficient. Some preachers have sold their own nelds and houses to pay their daily expenses in preaching the Gospel. Also we need.not ask if they can buy good food and wear expensive clothes. Some -even have no money to buy em,oclopes so make them, themselves, out of old newspapers. To cut short, I may say that thpy must be frugal ill everything. Yet tho they are so poor, they are good fighters for our I.ord Jesus Christ. I am sure God will give such men the best reward in the coming world. The Workers Find Extra Work. In addition to the work in their own churches they often walk out to the nearby villages and preach. On big fair day$ they help each other. Some make it a point when going to attend Quarterly confereu('e to pass thru several towhs sf) they may preach there. They have truly done excellent work. The Improvement of the Primary Schools. Three years ago the Mission gaye $6 of the $7 salary of each school teacher, and the {)ther $1 was paid by the boys. Year bpfore last the Mission gave only $3 Rnd the balance was paid by the boys. For the past two years the Mission has given only $2 per mouth to each ~chool, yet the schools are as many as before and the pupils not less. This is truly remarkable in view of the fact that the Government -s_chools ch~rge no fee whatever. So I may say that the improvement is great in so.me respects.

60 - 53- The Improvement of the Christians; In recent years our Christians have become more gentle and Jd.nd to each other, and more so to the non-christians. They cause very little trouble to the church. EveR when unayoidable trouble occurs they arrange it among themselves. This is quite different from ten years ago. I remember that the venerable Mrs. Wang, wife of former Superintendent Wang Ch'ing Yiin, once said ~ "When one or two Christians led their donkeys and came into the church gate I always shrunk with fear and knew at Ollce that they had got into trouble or had a lawsuit." The District Runs Short of Money.- The terrible European war and the low exchange have had a bad influence on our church. It became worse when America joined in as most of the contributions came from America. Being able to thiuk of no other way, and having offered our warm prayers, we had to close a few of our churches. 'Ye are still praying that God will show us some way to reopen these churche~. The Sufferers and their Heavy Burden.. On account of tile overflow of the Lan RiYer la8t Fall. GO of our Christians suffered bitterly by the pitiless flood. Many others tho not so badly off had their harvest nearly ruined. But their zealous hearts did not become less. ani! theil' contributions are more than before. Special Places and Needs. At Ankechuang the room for the day school was not big ellough, so a Christian named Chiu Usi Chen built a house of :5 rooms at a cust of $500 and presented it to the church. Another Christian has contributed the tables, seats, etc. At Ch'ienanhsien the buildings,vere in great need of repairs~ so the members contributed $100 and put thelll in good repair. The church at Chentzuchen is very prosperous. The ChriRtians are not too many out the church is too small. They have contributed more than $200 toward a fund for building a larger church. From these things we can see that our Christians are doing their best. The churches we have closed are these :-H~inchai, Paitaotzu, rr'oli, and Hsiangshuikou. But the Christians at Hsinehai are very sorry. One member has offered some vacant rooms for a church free if we will only send them a pastor. The Christians at HsiangHlmikou were also very sorry. They are all very poor and that place is GO miles from IJnnhsien, being the most northern church in t11:c District. It wal" established uy a man named.jia who had golle to Tsunhua for treatment by Dr. Hopkins before the Boxer trouble.

61 - 54- He b(icame converted and established a church in his home. They all wept when they heard the tidings of ciosing their church. Then they began to contribute grain and fuel to support the pastor; they gave him four bushels of millet and enough firewood to last till Conference time, only asking the Mission for a little spending money for the preacher; but as the Mission had no money he had to go. I hope and pray that someone will send money to reopen the:;;;e churches. MARK W. BROWX~ jl1issionary i,~ Charge. The Allied Armies struggling along without Generalissimo Foch would be in no worse plight than has the Lallhsien District worrying along this year in the absence of Dr. pyke. His spiritual inspiration, judicious counsel, and financial backing h:lve all been missed. We tried to "occupy till he returned" but fear we have been unprofitable servants; and are quite willing to be cast out of the vineyard. The great{~st delight I have had since coming to China has been this year's fellowship in service with the young District Superintendent, Wu Yii K'un. His honesty, earnestness, ability, industry, humbleness and spiritual vision have been a constant revelation and joy to me, and have beguiled the many hours of tramping or bumping over rough roads and resting on beds of bricks. That the year has been unmarred by any lack of harmony or any spirit of jealousy among the men (many of them old enough to be his father), is a striking tribute to his tactful, sunny spirit. It has been a hard financial year for the people. Following the severe flood of the Lan River in August of last year, many of the members on the southern end of the District suffered greatly. Some clothing and provisions were sellt them from Tientsin., but many of them are permanently impoverished, not only their houses and goods being lost but their laud totally swept away in the flood. The blood which ran down over the eastern wall from the cattle and sheep sacrificed on its top by the Lanshien Official last Summer to appease the spirit of the floor1 and prevent the waters entering the city, is still visible. Tlten, small bands of robbers have pestered the people all year making travel unsafe and life uncertain. The home of C. C. Wang 1~ Ii fl'um Lanhsien was surrounded by robbers one night during the wi nter and about $1000 in money and property taken. Several Japanese and many Chinese have lost their lives in robber attacks.

62 - S5- Nearly every town has a room in which the robbers take refuge during the day; and tho the rendezvous and the personnel of many of the bands is known to every Olle in the village, no one dares to report them or to raise a hand against them. These conditions have produced a high state of "nerves" among the people and somewhat hindered the work. Even the poor-as-job's-turkey Bible-sellers have at times been afraid to go abroad, as the robbers frequently captured any chance traveller and held him in the hope of a ransom. The only two places on the District I have not visited during the yt'ar are in the extreme north beyond the Great Wall; as large bands of armed robbers were const~ntlj reported in this wild region I thought it unwise to tempt them. But although $1500 had to be sent out over the District every three mouths not once was one of our men molested. He that kept Israel neither slumbered nor slept. During the late Spring while covering the District for the third Quarterly Conferences, it was jnteresting to see the walls of the larger towns pasted up for hundreds of yards with poll of voters in the Parliamentary elections; giving at least the appearance of representative government. Most of the people however seem not to care how, when, or where the government is administered, so long as they can have plenty of food and children. The Japs are popularly blamed for every new trouble that the poor old Sleeping Giant stumbles into, which is an easy way of shifting the responsibility. The fact that China is trying to get along without <Ill Emperor Reems to many to explain het' present troubles. During the terrible drouth last year a District Offieial remarked in my hearing, "0, if we just had an Emperor to pray for rain now!"; and the other day the Ch~angli Official in lamenting China's miserable condition closed by saying, "K'o hsi! Hsien tsai mei yu Huang Shang" (Alas! there is now no Emperor). The Lanhaien Meeting.-Early in December a five days' meeting was held at Lanhsien attended by more than 140 preachers, teachers and leading laymen of the District; the purpose of which was to revive and deepen the spiritual life, broaden the mental horizon of our workers, and together discuss metholls of greater practical efficiency in t.he work of soul-saving and character-making. The evangelistic seryices led by Dr. W:lng Chih P'ing, and l\fr. Felt~s stirring messages from Amos, made a deep and lasti 1Ig' impression 011 the spiritual life of the men; and the discussions on various

63 practical problems wel'e extremely helpf~l. These meetings haw'" had a profound effect on our men and work thruout the year.! know two of the preachers were saved from the temptation of leaving the ministry to go into business; and nearly every place I go now the pastor tells me of one or more members who has been it changed man since he attended. that meeting. ~Ir. Felt not only gave freely of his time and advice to the meeting, but also his generosity largely solved the :financial problem. Lallhsien District is deeply in debt to both him and Dr. Wang. The Bible School.-l\Ir. Wu believes the development of the unique preach!l1g' force 011 this District is due more than anything else to th(~ little Bible Schools that used to be held at Lallhsien each Winter under the regime of sninted Wang Ch'ing Yun. Of the present preaching staff on this District twelve men got their start in these Bible Schools, as well as fourteen men now working on other Districts. For some years now these classes havp. been dropped. But this year immediately following the large meeting) In promising young fellows from over the District spent two months at Lanhsien in intensive Bible study, also receiving much general instruction in methods of church and Sunday School work from :Mr. Chang' Yung Ho and Ml'. 'Yu. From their ranks we hope will come some of the future preachers of the District. Ten young men are expecting to enter the Bible Institute at Peking this Fall to take the three year course. Results of the Year's Work.-The absence of Drs. PJke and Ch'en made itself so keenly felt in a financial way that by the middle of the year it was necessary to close up four of the smaller churches as well as several schools. But the visible results of the year's work are not discouraging. Despite the fact that cropfailure, floods, famine, plague~ civil war ami high prices have combined to make this one of the hardest years China.has ever known, every donal' pledged by the members on this District for the support of their pastors and teachers has been paid in full and more. They have paid for pastoral support $1330 Mex; for teachers and schools, $5100; for Missions $:129; for other benevolences, building etc., $1835; a total of Mex $8,689, or Gold $7,'240. Duringrthe year there have been 252 Ilew accessions in membership, 342 new probationers, and 306 baptisms. These figures are encouraging but not satisfying. I believe they can be doubled or tripled in one year if, foreigners, and,ilatives, we-

64 57 would take time to empty ourselves, wait before God for tile baptisni of His Spirit, and go to our work thus allnointed. The Need. -l. The District needs not better preachers but better pastors, men who will tend their flocks and by personal work win souls to Christ. Of all peoples on the face of the earth the Chinese are the most easily satisfied with the jonn of religion with out the life. The highly mystical religion of India has in their hands degenerated into a hodge-poclge of hollow forms, retaining its hold on its devotees only by appeal to their superstitions, ignorance, and fear. If "preaching the doctrine" (Chiang Tao Ii) would save China, we could pass on to other fields tomorrow. I believe enough good doctrine has been preached on the Lallhsien District alone to convert the whole of China, if preaching would do it---but it won't.. 0, for 'min.isters of the things of Christ,-men who will climb down out of the pulpit, a.nd laying aside their professional robc~ voice and~ vocabulary, yearn and pray over some single lost soul till it has found Christ. To do this personal work there must be a vital personal experience. Haye our preachers got it? Yes, most of them hale; but their OW11 e:x:perienres sadly need just the deepeningand development that would come to them from this sort of work. The greatest 11eed of LUlIhsien District is for men of this type; we have a fe'\v-we 11eed many more. 2. The District greatly needs a general quickening in the spiritual life of the people; which I feel can ol~ly come about through earnest, fearless pastoral 'York. with strong emphasis laid on the absolute necessity of keeping 1he Sabbath and all of the Commandments if we hope to receive spiritual gifts from God. God will not bless a people that disobeys or is indifferent to His morul law; and many of our leading members must repellt before they can be revi ved. 3. A property for our Lanhsien School costing five or six thousand Mexican dollars js the most imperative fina11cial need. This school is of vital importance to the work ill this region, is doing most effective work, ahd is practically self-supporting. The present qua)"ters are rented at a higll figure and our tenure of them is most uncertain from year to year. 4. The prayers and gifts of friends in the Homeland seem more important than eyer to the continuance and growth of the-

65 work. We are heartily thankful to them for the magnificent way they have continued their support during this trying year. If there were 110 time limit I could tell you many interesting tales of the year's travel; of the poor heathen debtor who committed suicide by jumping down his well when he saw the foreigner approaching ill his outlandish fourwheeled cart, because he thought that the Christian who was suing him for a long standing debt had sent for the missionary to help push his case; now the Christian is in jail and win be fleeced of all hir property OIl the charge of persecuting his debtor to death. Then there is the finely repaired stone temple where a few years ago the faithful Buddhist priest, appealing to the assembled crowd for funds to make much needed repairs, in desperation seized a cleayer and struck off three fingers from his right hand; hpld the bleeding stump up before the people and in a few minutes collected $1000 for his temple. During a five days~ temple fair this Spring we tried to preseilt to these same people the bleeding SOIl of God as the only One who could repair their sinruined heart:.-. Country travel may not be the easiest form of missionary work, but it is easily the most interesting. A more exhaustive account of the year's work will be found in Mr. Wu's report. I have tried to give briefly an account for my stewardship during the year of Dr. Pyke's absence, and to set down a few of the impressions and convictions the year's work has given me. It has been a blessed privilege and opportunity to stand ill the Doctor's shoes during these months and travel over the roads and among the scenes made sacred by his years of consecrated life and service. Lanhsien Higher Primary School. MENG TE lung, Principal. Our works have heen very much blessed by God, so that not only all was harmonious but that there was rapid growth through the whole year. There were 105 boys registered, of whom quite a number came from non-christian families. 'l'he tuition and board fees we received from the boys have ex('eeded Ollr expenses. We had four teachers in our school. They have been earnest and pathetic in performing their duties so that the boys were bene. fited while pursuing their knowledge by the good deeds and careful instructions of their teachers.

66 - 59- We took much pains to construct for the boys a sound foundation in their lives on three general b3.ses: the physical, intellectual and ~piritual. For their physical benefit 'We directed them in drilling, and football plays and sometimes led them to make excursions to near-hy hills on Saturday afternoons. ~he Literary society helped them much in practicing their mental power. We kept them regularly in Bible study ever~' day morning and evening. They all came to Epworth League meetings every Sunday and through this help the 18 non-christian boys came to Christ. We are very thankful to Rev. J. H. Pyke for his kind help in collecting the rent for the school house, one hundred dollars, gold ( ) Twenty of our boys graduated and entered the Ch'angli :Middle school this year. There is one thing for which we have never stopped our earnest prayers. it is the school building which we ought to have. The house we are now using ('osts us a high rent and still the landlord continually notifies us to move out. To have our own building is the only wish we pray before Goo in our daily prayers. Thus I am su.re after we have our own building we can make proper arrangements and do more efficient work. Our general income and expenses are as follows:, Tuition $ Payment by boys Board ang room { fees $ Collections from foreign friends $ Special income $ General expenditure Teachers salaries Board Supplies Repairing Special expenditure Total $ 308.0n $ 74:0.00 $ $ $ $ Total Womans Foreign Missionary Society (For Report, See under Shanhaikuan District)

67 II PEKING DISTRICT LIU F A~G, District S'llperintendcnt. in Charge. GEORGE L. DAns, JIi~siollary In sitting down to think of the last year there are some mountain top experiences. but the majority are deep valleys of humiliation for bitter failurcs. Th~ mouutain top experiences have been due to the unfailing loyalty of my foreign and Chinese colleagues in Peking, who always; do more than tiley have been asked to do to advance the Kingdom of God in China<s Capital, while the valleys of humiliation have been due to my own failure to grasp the situation and see the opportunities that the Lord has given us. Flood Relief. At Conference time last year,,'e reulized that due to the failure of the crops and the floods in mally regions that there would be a greflt deal of suffering, but when late in September the heavy rains caused an the rivers to break their banks, we faced a scene of desolation and a wealth of 8ufferillg that will rank with the great tragedies of China. One hnn<lred and eight counties in the Province had bl'en more OJ' less injured by the fiood~ between three and four million people were wltllout homes or food, and ~ - their villages were surronnded by water and then later by ice. In many places fuel was not to be had. Although the Peking City District was not di:rectly affected, the Christ jan forces of Pekinlr and ~uburbs formed a relief society to cooperate with the Christian Committee in Tientsin and the Government Organizations III relievjng the lleed~'. Early in October the Metropolitan Union Flood Rrlief Countil was formed with H. E. Hsiung Hsi Ling as ChairmalJ and represcntatives from the American Red Cross, Chinese and foreign businesr men, Chinese Officials, and the Christian Chu1'(:h on the Executive Committee. l\iore than three hundred thousand donars l\iex. was raised and of this amount fully $250, :Jlex. was given to the Protestant Missionary Body of this proyillce to distribute among th(; ~ufferers in their districts. Nothing speaks more highly for the reputation of the Mis~iollaries and the efficiency of their ~en'ice than the fact that this large S:Im of money was given to them to administer, although the molley ha(11argely come from Chinese sources. Twenty-two thousand dollars wah distrihuted hy our ~Iethollist workers among

68 6r - the sufferers in their Districts. The following forms of relief were carried out: A. :!2S soup kitchens in which 5:?,760 people were fed; B. 78 refuges ill which 2S,2f)Q persons were fed and housed; C. asylums numberillg 56 where 5,652 children were housed. The Peking Christian Union Flood Relief Committee united with the Committees ill Tientsin and Paotingfu ill forming the North China Christian Flood Helief Committee, of which Sir John Jordan, British ~Iillister to China was President. This committee raised an additional $ ~Iex. which has been mainly spent in'venanhsien, which is still under water and will have to be helped through another willter in spite of the wonderful crops that are to be found in other regions. The ~Iissionary in clmrge has.been on the Executiye Committees of both Committees, so that his regular work was sadly llegleded, but when we think of the thousands of people that haye been helped, it has surely been worth while. This Committee has found workers to help ill the yarious places where large undertakings were being managed; B. it has bought ground in Manchuria ana seyeral.hundred colonists have been sent to that region; C. it bas found employment for sevpral thousand men to work 011 road and dyke building, and in several instances the :Missionaries hayc actually taken Government money and built dykes ill "Tenanhsien and in the Putohe River region where we built twenty eight miles of dykes. New Forms of Work. Through the generosity of the Milton Stewart Fund we were able to undertake several new forms of work. We started a Gospel team that tra veled from church to church in the city with the exception of Asbury. They never had a hard time to get a crowd with a victrola and many who came to hear the music stayed to th~ service and decided to become Christians. We also erected a tent at the Heavenly Bridge the great open air amusement Park of Peking. Here' we carried on daily preaching for three months, and we could have kept on 101lger but the tent was too cold to hold the crowds and the police had ollly given us permission for three mouths. We were also enahled to supply a very much needed assistant Pastor at Chushihkou, who has done a remarkable work in organizing the prayer meeting groups. and doing personal work. The greatest help was in the week of E,-angelism because we had the trained men from the two tearus to do personal work, then we were able to buy thousand of tracts and to pa.y for the printing and advertising that was necessar~', and we were able to start our long.services at ten A.~I. instead of waiting until oue ill the afternoon

69 - 62- for we were able to give the men from the Bible Institute and College of Theology their lu~ches on the spot. We had expected to carry on these forms of work all year, but the results from the week of Evangelism were so great that we had to put all these men to work in the various forms of follow up work, which woulil have fallen far below the final results if we had not had these men. Week of Evangelism. As soon as the week of Evangelism was finished in 1917 we started to plan at once for this campaign, we sent a number of our men to tile Y. M. C. A. Conference at Wofossu; and then seven of our best leaders came to Peitaiho for a two weeks retreat to study personal work plans, Bible Study methods, and plans for evangelism and above all to gain an inspiration to long to save men. Then Mr. Buchman's two meetings in Peking were a great source of inspiration to our men and women, for they realized that no matter what preparations are made, it is all useless, unless yop have a burning desire to save men and women from their sins. The absolute hopelessness of the political situation in the capital deeply impressed the entire membership with the need of an active and aggressive camapaign to save the nation. We held the meetings from February 17th to February 24th during the Chinese New Year's Vacation. We were very fortunate in securing the serdces of Dr. C. P. Wang as the preacher, who led the meetings every night at Asbury. His eloquent spiritual sermons stirred the people to their hearts. We followed the same general plan as last year, holding the small group meetings in the day time and uniting in two large services at night. The churches realized their responsibility this year and planned from the beginning to ha ve all their members at work on the first day. It was an inspiring sight to see the people working in eithe:r; Huashih or Chushihkou; the ushers 011 the street invited the throngs of holiday makers to come into the house of the Lord: where they were given a sermon not over twenty minutes long. and then an invitation was given to all who wished to know more about Christianity to retire to another room where the personal workers were waiting for them; ~hese churches were open from ten o'clock ill the morning until five Q'clock at night and in the one week 31,924 people heard the Gospel message in Huashih,and 29,64] at Chushihkou. One of the most important groups was that held alternately in the homes of )'Ir. Wang Ching Ch'un and l-ir. Far T. Sung, and led by Dr. Li Tien J",11 and Rev. Liu Fang; all those that came were educated people who came strictly upon invitation and several of them finally decided

70 to become Christians and have been 10yal1y serving the Master ever since. Every plan that we had used in 1917 successfully we used again and added several new on~s, one of the best was the workers training class, we prepared eight sermons in outline and then t.he workers were given the outlines and heard the scrmon preached, so that they would have a message for ~ach day of the campaign. The greatest result was the wonderful jo~' that came to a large number of people as they saw their friends and relatives coming to Christ as an outcome of their own efforts. It seemed that everybody both foreign missionary and Chinese Christian was doing his best to "personalize" the Gospel message along the line of his talents. More than 87,000 w(~re in the meetings that were held and 4,440 decided to becom~ Christians; more than 600 joined 011 probation.. ' The Eddy Campaign. The week of Evangelism closed in February and ill April the long expected campaign of.lir. Eddy began. The two campaigns were entirely different. III the first we tried to reach men and women of every class so 10llg as they were in need of salvation, and in the second we were limited to men above eighteen, who were students, Government employees or officials. Only those who ha.d been covered could hear 1Ir. Eddy, that is only those who had been ill Bible Classes and for whom some one was responsible could come. Mr. Eddy was in Peking about twelve days and gave three days to work in Asbur~1, and every night the house was packed, many of the men would never have comc unless they had seen that it was exclusive, and they heard a wonderful message. 3f.r. Eddy painted a picture of China~s decadellce that would reduce a heart of stone to tears, while he urged everyone with a spark of manhood or courage in his soul to conquer himself with God's help and try to sav~ his country, before she had been reduced to a bondage from which there is no rel~ase. In the year we had learned some very importa.nt lessons for in both campaigns we have fallen down in our follow up work, while we were carefully prepared for the aggressive campaign, still we did not take into consideration the fact that the second part of the campaign is harder than the first, and workers were so exhausted that they could not carry out our plans successfully. You cannot depend 011 the large number of volunteer workers being able to go on with the work, for they are busy people that must go back to their regular occupations, so you must have a reserve force, that will be able to gather in the harvest. This year we plan to most

71 - 64:- 'Carefully develop the work in the variolls churches: so that every member will have a task adapted to his ability that will inspire in him a desire to work and help them to grow. Student Work. One of the most promising fields of work in Peking is that among the Government School Students. In the past the Young Men's Christian Association has been the only body working definite1y among that group, now all the churches have seen that they have a duty in this field, and two of the :Missions have already set aside foreign Secr~taries for that work. A Union plan for student work has been formed among the churches and the big schools will be assigned to the various churches in an effort to try.and unite the students to the life of the church. The big schools will be assigned to the various Missions. So far we have been working among the students of the :a:igher Normal School, and at the eli'd of the year more than sixty had been enrolled in Bible classes and more will be in the classes in the fall. Quite a number joineq the chul'ch. These men when the~' go out will all hold important -positions in High Schools and they are certainly key men. We must very clearly face the fact that we cannot maintain the high spiritual level that we have held in the past in our own school, if we do not have someone especially set apart for that work. This was clf'arly brought out in the Eddy meetings. All the non-christian students in the school were assigned to men who were supposed to talk with them personally and see that they attended the meetings, and if they were unable to persuade t.hem to make the final decision, there were men of experience who would help. In every case where the Professor or student was faithful, the work was accomplished, but a great many were lost because someone failed to do his dut~. Especially now that the school has been divided and the older Christian element has been removed, someone must have the time to devote to this task, for we cannot expect bm;y Professors to- do this in addition to the rest of their work unless they have been especially set apart for the work. The Sunday Schools. We now have eleven regular Sunday Schools not counting the special afternoon schools for poor children that are held in all the churches. Dr. Li T'ien Lu, Profs W. W. Davis,.J. M. Gibb, and E. J. Winans were in charge of the four large schools and they have done all in their power t~ make them successful. The normal classeshaye been maintained and we have introduced more graded literature than ever before. Follow~g the

72 problem method a band of workers was organized in Asbury Church from the College Students, who studied the lesson "in the morning and then went out in the afternoon to call and pr<>ach. It is very ~vident that the weak point of onr work is that too many of the church members are not in Sunday School and do not do a.ny systematic Bible Study so that this coirung year we must plan to have every member in a class and to assign all the llew members to classes as soon as they join the church and see that the members of the class take an interest in them. Jail Work. All during the year we have had preachers working in the two county j ails of Peking, and their message has been most gratefully received by the poor wretches, who are still confined in irons in one large room without proper food while their clothes consist of rags. scabs and kooties. Fortunately one of the jailors become a Christian and after his conversion the difference between the two jails was like that between Paradise and Hades. In the spring the model Prison was assigned to the l\:iethodist Church and a band of faithful workers went every week to preach. It was interesting to enter the iron gates and be (,onduded into one of the work rooms, where you were allowed to euter only after the guide had given the proper signal on the door. The men, all dressed in gray, and closely shaven, came to the front to listen to the preacher on a signal from the guard. In the printing and bindiug room there were at least half a dozen officials and you could not tell them from the common robber in their prison garb. One day as I stood.preaching I was amazed to see a foreigner along with the rest of the prisoners; the poor fellow was trying to hide his head in shame but his red hair gave him away. He was a :Jlohnmmedan; the follower of Allah had come to China from Turkey and had got -caught in a get:rich quick scheme and been sent to jail, while the follower of Christ came to preach a message of hope and life. One hundred and twelve sermons were preached in the jail and on the occasion of the last visit when an opportunit~' was given to prisoners 47 out of the 600 men and 32 out of the 2H women in prison joined on probation. Nearly all have nl)t heen able to make a public confession yet. but one of them came to Chushihkou the da.y after he got out of prison and announced that he would be a faithful follower of Christ. Methods of Work. While we have been in several new campaigns this year, they have not interfered with the regular street preaching and chapel work and 122,750 people have heard the message.

73 If the people do not come to church the pastors go after them. and during the year the pastors and their assistants na.ve made 12,331 calls in the course of their duties. In addition to their regnlar work in :the churches they have held 842 cottage prayer meetings that have been attended by 29,470 people who have been taught to pray and sing. New Building.. We are glad to be able to report 'that the pro perty purchased last year at Fangchinhsiang has been put in"shape' and the liew school building has been erected. A regular pastor has been appointed and from 40 to 50 attend the morning service. On a beautiful Sunday morning in- October the.1 uliet :Memorial Church at Huashih was dedicated. 'rhe n.~w cburch was tastefully decorated and,,~as filled with.more than 700 peopl~. The District Superintendent-and the Pastor were assisted by Drs. H. H. Lowry, G. R. Davis, C. P; Wang, and nevs. W. W. Davis, C. A. Felt, Chou FIl Chuan, a.n d Rao Feng Shan. The church gives promise of great usefulness!, and,ve hope to be able soon to report t4at the money has been obtained to finish it.. Our work has developed very rapidly in the west city and we now have on hand $~OO.O() gold to buy a place at the Changyimen' and we hope to buy a place in a very short time. Finances. We have kept steadily before our eyes the rate of increase in self support that was set at Nanking when the Forward.Movement for the Centenial "'as inaugurated, that is an increatse of 200% in the quadrennium from 1915 to It has been a harder task each year to reach the goal as the amount becomes larger. The 'Shunchihmen has already crossed the line with mol'e than a 200% increase in self support and 100<{, increase in membership but that -WllS due to the faet that they were not working hard in By careful steady planning and monthjy collections the Huashih church has ma.de the proportionate advance for this year without much trouble, but Chushihkou WHS doing much better than any of the others in 1915 and althoughslle has 'increased over 100% in self suport, it has been reached only with the greatest difficulty, for the bail business year has greatly affected the merchants around that Church. Asbury has been self supportiug for several years and this year she has taken on the additional burden of the support of the church at Fangchillhsiang. All contributions are very hard tomanage now, for the va~t majority of our membership are paid in Ban~ of China Notes that are now only worth, fifty-seven cents on the donar.

74 67 - Our Need.. 1. We need a foreign student worker, who ca~ devote-all his time to tp..e work in Peking among the Government Schools as well as' our own At Chushihkou we have a site that would be hard to equal anywhere in China; recently the building was opened for street chapel work and without any advertising the hall was packed in seven -minutes. We are rapidly losin~ the opportunities that have been given us, becam;e ~f the small size of the building. We need $25,000 gold dollars to erect a large modern building. 3. We have follr small churches that we are renting and we should buy and build modest little churches that. would ~upply the needs of the people. rrhey will cost $ each at the ordinary rate of exchange but nearer $ at the present rate. 4. Our Shunchihmell church is entirely too small, for the school has grown so th'at on Sunday there is never a vacant seat. The Senators will live' in this part of tow11 and we should have a model church that will :;ittract the best clas!,; of people. Such a church will cost $12, We must begii~ to buy land for the Intermediate School in the west city, and at the present time a n~ry nne lot has been offered for $ gold. Now is the time to ljuy for a great many people are hard up and they will sell anything, but if we wait until times get better, they will ask a great increase in price. Our S.taff. Rev. Tseng Ruo Chih at Asbury, Rev. Hsii Ynng Chen at Huashilt, Rev. Li Lien Ying at Chushihkou, and Rev. Yang Yung J.Jin at Sunchihmen have been the four Captains that have borne the burden and heat of the day and made the results of the year possible. Whether we preach or hold revival meetings does not make so much difference, but the preachers and Christian workers must go into the homes of their friends. go int.o the business bouses, go among the students with a personal message of Jesus Christ and his saving powe:r, and with the splendid example of the District Superintendent before them the preachers and their assistanth have worked faithfull:v this year. Thanks. I first want to most cordially thank the Presjdent of Peking University, the Dean of the College of Theology, and the principal of the Bible Institute and also the entire Missionary and Chinese Staff for their willingness t,o accept additional burdens and to cooperate in all forms of work to ad vance the Kingdom of God in this sin soaked old city.

75 - 68- The greater part of our work in Peking is now supported by special gifts, for it is now necp-ssary to raire for the schools and pastoral support at least $6, ~lex. from special gifts in China and America. For if these friends should stop helping us, a great part of our work would have to be given up, and to those who have so faithfully remembered us we give a sincere vote of thanks. When we thjnk of the war work in America and the tremendous burdens that have fallen on the shoulders of all classes of people, we do not wonder that some have been obliged to redllce their gifts; we are full of unspeakable joy and gratitude to God that money has come and we have been able to hold the work together, and for the coming year I earnefitly beseech ~'ou to help us again. Your men are worthy of your support for they all have been soul winners according to their talents. Do not desert us now when we are in such desperate need. Exchange is down so low that we must have twice as much as we did before the war to make ends meet. Throw ill the reserves now. Remember the Lord's work in spite of the World Conflict. Result Full members received Children baptized l")robationers... t Non-resident Members Total ]{ember&hip Increase Collections. Self support, Pastors Bishops... 6 " " Dist. Superintendents. 150 " " Missions Buildings... " "... ". 900 J3enevolence... ""...,," 1341 CUl'retlt~xpenses Chinese Special Gifts Day Schools raised locally 2343 'rotai

76 Tokyo Mission PETER C. P'ENG The church condition from uctober 1917 to August 1918 may be divided into two periods ais follows: a. Before the Sino-.Tapanese Military Agreement. From last October to May the Church went OIl joyful1y with rich blessings from God. The total number of Christia ns was 71; probationers 14. The regular attendance at the Sunday service was 30 or 40 and sometimes more. 'Ve had Bible class once a week and one prayer-meeting and seyeral social meetings every month. Love feast and Holy Sacrament were arranged quarterly. New conversions were six at Christmas, three in January, and five at Easter, a total of fourteen. This winter Rev. 'ring Li }If'i' came here with an important message and revival meetings were held for four successive days. Mr. Eddy brought us equally inspiringly the Word of God just in a single night. During this season students were increasing daily and the church spared no effort. Religious tracts were distributed twic~ a month. A little Christian group, consisting of )Ianchurians only. was started for spiritual improvement. All was happy and for all we thank God who is all in all. b. After the Sino-Japanese trouble. On May 5th, students here began to learn of the Sino-Japanese Military Agreement, which bad been kept secret for two months and which was brought to light by the Chinese newspapers. Patriotism raged in the minds of the youn~ men. Provincial and collegia te meetings were summoned at ouce. Hot discussions were made.. The final decision was that all should leave Japan to controvert tbe political dflnger if possible, and to awaken the people. About oue hundred returned daily hoth by land and by sea. Thirty-five Christians went on this occasion and ten left on vacation. The congregation dwindled and my house became the church building. Yet this small body worshipped in trl:ltl1 and spirit. At this time the church seemed to be in a state of stagnation. It remained so for more than a montb.

77 -70 - School days are approaching and many former and new students are coming over again, partly beca:use those who had returned could do little with such a government and partly ~cause they had been given a very goocl lesson: a fully developed life is more useful than such premature activity. After Augu.st a church building will be rented again and the prospect is tllat all will be restored t~ its former condition very soou. Local collections from last October to June amounted to Yen 94.00; a sperial gift of Yen was made by Mr. Ch'en Yuan," exmember of the Parliament of Chiua: totai As long as Chino-Japanese relationships remain as they are, students will not be laeking. Hence our church in Tokyo will be necessary. As I wish to return to study I hope God will send a strong and faithful servant to take up the task. The Students. Union Church in Tokyo was organized in 1906, and was reorganized into our M. E. Church in About four hundred have been converted. Who knows what has b~n ~nd will be the result? The church':dive years histoj'y is pretty satisfactory. Two times has it heen shaken and re-established: Our Heaveuly Faehe.r will not le~ve his straying children ill Tokyo unsaved. Hallelujah! AugUst 24th Tokyo. The Peking Academy. H. H. LOWRY, Pres dent Christia,n education was recognized as all indispensable branch of. evangelistic work from the beginning of tile Mission in North China. It had very sidl1,l1 beginnings with (mly thr<.>e small boys in a Day school, and gradu;:\llydeveloped through the progressive grades from -Primary school to the Peking "Fniversity forming a complete system under the control and support -of the :MethodistEpiscopal Church. When the Peking University becamea federated institution, all the schools below College grade were- left under the care of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They ~rere united in one Qrganization and na.med :'The Peking Ac ademy,"which includes the Bible Institute, Normal School, Preplratory (Yu Ke), and Middle School.

78 The.Bible Institute has been in ex:istence~ with a few interruptions. since- the early history of the Mission, and has furlli~hed a large number of young'iilen for the ministry. It hels recently been reorgan. ized with advanced courses of study and the appointment of a special faculty..we believe it has a future of great promise. Its relation to the evangelistic work is vital. For years to come it will continue to supply a large number of preachers who win 110t be able to pass through the higher courses of study in the University. Aud yet for whom there is a constallt demand. The United Jlethodist Mission shares with us in the support and development of the Institute, supplying two teachers and 'a proportion of the expenses. The Normal School fills a place long needed for the training of te~chers for the rapidly multiplyinl! numher of Primary and Higher Primary schools. Elementary education is the flludamelltal and most pressing need of the' nation. but there is a lamentable lack of teachers sufficieutly prepared t.o take charge of this work. Heretofore, without formal organization. much normal training has been given to teachers in our various schools, almost entirely by the extra labors of Dr. II. E.King, Dean of Peking University. ';Ve are now fortunate in haying a l1lldiber of norma] teachers who have had special training in Univ.ersities in the United States, and also many years of experience in teaching in China. The Preparatory School is entered after the completion of the lfiddle school courses. This means one more Y"~ar of preparation than is usually required in the United States to enter the Freshman cla~s in the Arts Department. This is considered necessary because bi-lingual studies make at least one more.year needed for thorough preparation. The Preparatory offers two courses, one literary and the other scfentifk, which lead to corresponding ccmrses in the Peking University. The M;ddle SCIlDol consists of a c().urse of four years~ which must be pr~ceded by the ~qq.iyalent of seven years in t.he Primary and Higher Primary s~hoois~.. The Academy has a good initial equipment consisting of a campus of n~arly twenty acres which furnishes accommodation for an athleti~ field, reshl~nces for Chinese teachers culd four large buildillg~-three of which are do.rmitories, and one assemhly and recitation rooms. Wf' also have contributio.hs for Il new High School and a buildjng ~.orthe Bible Institute as soon as they are required. There is an immediate prospect of from five to six hundred in attendance at the beginning of the next academic year.

79 ~ 72 - Besides offering superior advantages to students preparing for a university educatioll it is our aim. to give a thorough trainin~ to that large class of worthy Christian young men who canllot possibly take a colle'ge course and yet who desire to prepare for places of real usefulness and infiuen('e in the ehureh, the community and nation. Students: Bible Institute Preparatory Middle School Last Year 683. Peking Higher Primary School HARRY E. KI~G, Principal The school has continued to be conducted in rente"d buildillg~. Some better buildings were secured near the school, makin~ it possible to move out of a number of the more wretchedly poor buildings and to vacate a number of the dormitory buildings located at quite a distance from the main plant. This 'concentration of the work has made the discipliue easier. Stin the buildings used are most unsatisfactory. The )Iission can not expect the best results. or to have the school self supporting while occupying tht'se unsanitary buildings. It will he a glad day when the school shall be housed in new and commodious buildings. No new teachers '''ere added to the faculty. During the last semester!some of the Normal school and senior college students did practice' teaching under supervision in the school. Last semelsi r a course in phonetics and natural method of teaching English was given the teachers. In order to use this system successfully, ourteachers need more ~ormal training, and careful and wise supervlslon. It is'the most natural thing to expect that teachers, unless they are instructed in the latest ana best methods of teaching,. will use the same methods in teaching as their lligh(>r primary teachers used-when teaching them. It is not t1!at the teachers are indifferent or unwilling to be instructed in the use of the best methods of te-aching that better results are net attained in our higher primary schools, but ra.ther that the principals, because of various other duties, have been able to give far too little time to

80 -73 - direct supervision. It is hoped class~s in education will be formed: for the teachers the coming year. Some of the teachers attended the institute this summer at Tunghsien. More advancement has been made toward self support. The Faculty has givell the principal thejr heartie:-;t support to bring about this better :financiul conditioll. The receipts frum board alone have been sufficient to meet all bills for hoard alld the upkeep of the kitchens and dining rooms. 32:1: pupils h:lye been enrolled (lurin~ the year. The senior :final examinations for promotion were ('ondueiefl by members of the Peking University facu1t~. 37 pupils were graduated at the close of the year. 30 other pupils, who were conrlitioned in one or two subjects at the :final examinations, have been granted the privilege of making up the work during the summer and taking examinations for promotion at the opening of the fall term. This year more intensive religious work has been. carried on in the school by the faculty. The Sunday ~chool was conducted ill tlle school buildings with )11'. Shih as superiniendent. The the school and some of the college students taught the classes.. Sunday evening services were held in the se~sioll room~ A series of special religious meetings of forty minutes duration were conducted mornings and evenings itt the session room for two weeks by members of the faculty, doctors J;i and ",Taui; mauy students were converted; 30 joined the church. It was during these meetings that two of the teachers of Chinese confessed Christ as tht.-ir Savior, and later with the students joined the «hurch. :Sow for the :fir~t time all of the teachers in the school are Christians and members of onr church. Mr. Shlh as Assistant Principal has prove<1 himself a wise and able administrator. The success of the schuol was due to Mr. Shih aud the hearty~ loyal co-operation of the teachers. Peking Medical Work N. S. HOPKISS, Physician-1n-Charge In the presence of our printed report issued iu July we feel that only a brief one will be uecl'!:5sary at this timt'. Like work elsewhere we are confronted by boundleiols opportunities with ljmited equip ment and men with which 10 Dleet ttem. l'he demands are f()ll

81 -74 - larger buildings and mare complete arrangements to deal with varied classes of patients that come to us. In a c~ty like Peking where foreign and Chinese money is spent lavishly in medical institutiolls, there is room for only the best supported and main tained work. It requires no prophetic eye to see that the liext two years are critical ones in our work. If we measure up to the standards set' for us, this work piay carryon its mission -as a Christian Hospital-if not we ~hould early admit our inability, and move to some place that is less progressive than Peking. The work last year was carried on by the followillg dep~rtments, General and Eye Hospital, School for Xurses, -General Clinic. Students Clinic in the University, Ophthalmic Clinic, Ear, Nose_and Throat Olinic, Deptal Clinic, Department of Optometry, Lens grinding. The General and Eye Hospital received 811 cases during the year. 280 operations were performed under general anaesthesia and ~97eye-operations done. The total number of days they spent with us was about 20,000. Our Evangelist Mr. Pai reeorded that he had addressed2l,492 patients during the year; sixty.~ve -of these were received into Asbury Church on probation. Thirteen took letters of recommendation to churches iii their home towns and three were baptized here before leaving. The Trailling School for Xurses under the care of Mrs. Mary D.Lewjs has had a busy year. It is no light task to trai!1 a man who never heard of a microbe, to become an assistant in ari. aseptic surgical operation. TIlis has been accomplished and more in many cases, ap.d Mrs. Le wis writes in warmest praise of the loyalty and. patience of her boys. Four of the students passed the examinations of the Shanghai Oommittee.and have received certificates of proficiency, these have found positions readily; while two of them have elected to take up positions of dental assistants uuder Dr. Prentice. General Clinic. This work has suffered a severe handicap by being placed in the basement of the Hospital;.Dr. Po and Dr. Ohang have made the most of these uncongenial surl'oundings, and by their splendid work attracted more than 11,O()O 'patiellts to their clinic. Students Clinic, That the students of the University -might not be obliged ~o leave the school premises~ a room wa's opened ill one of th~ dormitory buildlpgs to treat the students. By placing this at

82 -75 - an hour when they were not engaged in school-work there has been less conflicting with the rules of the College in treating them. The average student needs a doctor's care and advire more than ally other animal, and in this work there is a great field for work. When the Church has beeirto such large expense in educating these students it seems a thousand pities to have them destroyed for lack of know~ge of this special kind. Eye Glinic. We have no hesitation in ~ajillg t.hat the Eye Chnic is the busiesfplace in Peking between the hours of 10 and 12 daily, standing room being often at a premium. The faithful work of Dr. Smith and Dr. Yao has made this a most popular Clinic. Ear Noae and Throat Clinic. This was opened in October of last year but in these few months has won a place for itself and we are sure that this work is much appreciated by both foreigners and the Chinese. Dental Work It has been a 1'ision that wonld come to us at very sanguine moments. that we would be able sometime to add a Dental Clinic to the general medical work. This vision is realized i.n: the coming of'dr. Prentice to take up this work. After a year spent in the study of the language and dental work the Doctor is ready to open this department in force. I am sure that there are many who are glad with us. Optical Work. We were the first to begin,,~ork of this kind in NortIi China. Others have now come in to cultivate this field in a purely commercia]. way, but without special advertising this department ha~ retaine~ its position, and is doing splendid work in this line. Dr. Stuart our Optometrist and Manager, has made this '\,Vork a credit and financial help to us. Lena Grinding De.,artment. This is one of the places where we delight to take our guests, as we take pride 1'n the men, and the general appearauce of the shop. These men have proven the capacity of the Chinese to carryon the most painstaking and careful work. Outside of the regular work of the Hospital the're have come other calls for service, that'we could not ignore. Among them are the foliowii!g: Teaching in the Woman's Medical College, Teaching in the Unlversity, 'Inspection of the flooded area ill this province, one of onr physicians making two extensive tours for the Christial Flood Relief Committee, Sending two nurses to the American Floo'

83 - 76- Relief Camp, Three Physicians and Two,Nurses were loaned to the Shansi Plague Prevention Bureau, who served till the_plague was suppressed. The work of the Medical Missionary has much of routine, but it is often broken by the unusual, that China is able to -furnish. Medical Statistics for 1917 and 1918: Patients in Hospital }?irst Visits to Dispensaries Return Visits... '" Total treatments.... Outcalls.... Operations 811 7~333 26,941 35, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society EVANGELISTIC Peking Evangelistic Work has lwd six paid workers, and many more who gave their services. There have been four study classes connected with Asbury church. A large W.F.:M:.S. auxiliary has increased its size. The women who during Evangelistic week signed cards, were divided up into groups. Volunteers took charge of these gl'oups, holding weekly meetings in their respective neighborhoods. A. Sunday class for beginners in the Christian life was held also. These leadel's were all Gamewell School women. Mrs. Kan has taught a daily class of women ut Huashih Church; and Mrs. Yang, another at Shunchihmen Church. ~Irs. Cheng worked for two montbs, as did a number of our church members, in the Flood Relief Camps. Mrs. Jewell spent a few weeks in the same work. Peking Woman'. Bible Training School. After five long months of waiting we succeeded in renting what was formerly the Loudon Mission Boy's School premises. The buildings were in bad repair, but more suitable for school work and with larger grounds than those we previously occupied at Huashih, Tbe special event of the year was our first Commencement 011 January 28th, when a class of ten women received their diplomas.

84 - 77- Of these three have had a part in flood relief work on the South Peking District and elsewhere. one remained to teach in the school, one entered the Union Bible Training School for Women, alld the others went to their homes to help to spread the light in their husband~' countr~- stations. Our total enrollment for the year was fifty-six. North China Union Womans' College. Total enrollment, thirty seven. There were no graduates from the four year's course, but three from two-~-ear courses. One KeE'll School graduate has taken a year of normal work in the college. Three of the Game'well School students haye been enrolled, one preparing for kindergartell work, OIle for teaching and one for the study of medicine. Mrs. Hobart and ~nss Louise Hobart have represented the )Icthodists OIl the teaching staff. Mary p'orter Gamewell School. The total enrollment has been 242. The number in the l\iidcue School has increased from 41 to 58. There were 90 in the Higher and ;:;8 in the Lower Primary, while 36 were enrolled as' special students. The number of wholly supported has decreased to 31 and the number of self-supporting increased to still receive partia] support. The l1ecessar~ increase in teachers' salaries has been covered by the increase in receipts from boa~d and tuition. Four girls wer(' promoted to the Higher Primary and fourteen to the Middle School. Seyen finished the regular eleven years course and h..-o, the i'iiddle School normal rourse. Steady growth and personal work have charact~rized the spiritual atmosphere of the school. The voices of 30 happy children haye been heard at their play and work in the Jewell Kindergarten department, so enthusiastically conducted by Miss Elizabeth Hobart and Miss Tseng. PEKIXG DAY SCHOOLS There have been in all nine schools this )'E'ar. One was closed in the early spring because the ellrollmejlt was too small, but Chinese friends of the district collected money, found a teacher and re-opened the school for two months. The reward is that we will take over the work again. but let them pay a little toward the running expenses. The chief thing marking this year~s advance is

85 - 78 ~ that of the day school assistant. JIiss Chia has been a valuable addition to our day school faculty. and has proved that a great deal of this important work can be safely given. to our Chinese friends. The total enrollment in the schools was 410, and the average attendance was 210. We rejoice because we are slowly securing better teachers for all the schools. MEDICAL Sleeper Davis Memorial Hospital. The hospital has met the need in a variety of emerg 'ncies this year,-':" :first in caring 'for the wounded after the Battle of Peking when the monarchists were defeat('d; latcr in helping with relief work by sending nurses to Tientsin aud receiving refugees fer the Peking camp; and more recently by assisting with flood relief work at Well an. A. larger number of free patients have been cared for than ever befort:', and many have been reached by the evangelistic appeal, both in their own houses and in the hospital wards. North China Union Medical College for Women. The year has been a quiet one with no new students and no graduates. Forty-four students ill two classe's have attended the school. Requirements are raised to include one year of College work for entrance this yeartwo years of colleg ~ grade being required in The most urgent needs are an increase ill staff, increase in labaratory and dormitory space and a regular budget to provide for the needs of the school work. f:;cholarship~ do not llleet the demands of current expenses and equipment, so a"regular income apart from sueh funds should be provided.

86 SHANHAIKUAN DISTRICT. CH~ISG SHOU, District Superintendent. J. I... KEELER, JI'issionary-i'Jl,-cha r~/(. At last year's. conference the writer was appointed to the Shanhaikuan District. Inexperienced and young, he felt the importance of this great task and was const.antly afraid that the work might not be a success. Fortunatel~' through the kind suggestions of tbe ~Iissionary-in-charge the work for this ~ ear is quite satisfactory. Shanhaikuan is a large city, densely inhabited. But because of tbe limited-space of the l\fissionary premises and the fo;mall membership, the church has been stationary for a number of years. A great'change has been made since the coming of Dr. and 1\ rs. Keeler. Througll their earnest work of saving sou1s and resourceful mind of getting funds, they succeeded in esta blishing one lligber primary school for boys, another for girls, one lower l)rimary sehool for boys and girls. We also established a Bible class for women. 'Ve are now preparing a hospital for men and women; and the erection of a T:an Tao So (a room for talking with the non Christians). The church premises are now four times larger than t.hey were before. Old Christians who slackened in the worship of God before have ~hauged their attitude and become warmhearted in their Christian life. We can not but offer our heartfelt prayer in thanksgh'ing to our Lord for sending us such f~ithful l'ervants. Because of the limited time and space a report of the whole District in detail is almost impossible. Therefore a few words touching the main features of each place. Ch~angli comes first. There are two churches at Ch'angli, one.in the city; Mr. Liu and hi~ wife have been working very hard this year. A great advancement has 'been made in the work of the church. Another church is outside the city. Mr. IIao Te Au has been working partly as a pastor and partly as assistant principal of the high school in connection with the church. With such a highly educated man to run the church and the school a satisfactory result is but a matter of course. But we are unable to express our sorrow and sympathy for the death of his virtuous wife. There are two outstations in connection with the Ch'angli circuit. Kepo is under the venerable preacher ~Ir. Wang He San who, though retired

87 - 80 -::- llue to advanced age, has been working hard and reaping good results. IAushouying is under Mr. Li Jung. a local preacher. Mr. Li works with zeal and often goes to different places to sell books. One Lower Primary school was established there. Real progrtss has been made in the church at Liushouying. Mr. Po Min has taken charge of the church at Funinghsien. He is kind and faithful in his work. As a result the church was.greatly ble~sed. The only out-station of this circuit is T'aiying. Mr. Chu Ch'ellg Hsti is in charge. Mr. and Mrs., Chu are faithful in the service of God and kind in dealing with men. The church members are firm ill their belief and interested in prayer and Bible study. Shihkechuang circuit is under Mr. K'ang Yung Kuei. He is faithful in serying Goel and enthusiastic in preaching the Gospel. The church members are tryjng their best to support the church. Mr. Yen Chen I is in charge of Chiangkechuang, an out-station of.shihkechuang. Another out-station is Liutaichuung under the.faithful and trustworthy preacher Mr. LiKan Kuo. The church.members are au true Christians. A good progress has been made in the church. At Shihmenchai, :l\ir. Li Wei Yung is in charge. Mr. Li is well known for his hospitality to strangers and special ability in turning men to Christ. At Hllangt'uying, an out-station of Shillmenchai, Mr. Chou An is in char~e, partly as a preacher and partly '"as a teacher. 1\1r. Chu Tien Ytian has also been teaching and preaching at Chuts'aoying. He is dilig{'nt in preat'hillg and skilled. in teaching. His effort-has not been in vain. At Ch'ienwei ~1r. Liu Yung Sheng is in cklrge, a real faithful -and fervent servant of God. Mr. Liu is a man that always "Surmounts difficulties. He has succeeded in securing enough funds :to repair the church. There has been unusual advancement made in tile church life. ' l\fr. Liu Shou Shan has been teaching this year at Ch'ienso. lie is quite <.>fficiellt in his work. Therc is blessing of our Lord in both the church and the school. Haiyang is under Mr. Kao Lien ell'cng, who is diligent in his work and skilled in winning men to Christ. The condition of the.church remains the same as last year. Its out-station is Shenhe, of,which Mr. Han Ying T'ung is in charge. Mr. Han is very sociable

88 -8rand eloquent. The membership of the church is increasing. A lower primary school was established there ]ast}year. The outlook is quite promising~ Mr. Liu Yueh Chi has been teaching at Paiyuchuang. He is a man of experience and kindly disposition. The prospect of the church is good. Mr. Wang Shun Ch'ing has been acting both as preacher and teacher in the church at Hocky Point. He is faithful and honest in his work. The church remains as it was last year, In addition to th.e work of the District, the Superintendent was appointed at the Conference last year as a pastor of the church at Shanhaikunn. The time has been shooting past, There has been very little work done. Mr, T'ang a man of!wonderful abilit~t in action and foresight, was working here last year, He deserves the name of a brave Christian soldier. He was the one that plallllcd everything and laid the foundation. Therefore the writer did not have any hardship in his work. l\ioreover the members of the ;church have alway~ been taking part ill all the activities of the ochurch.a Union Christian Endeavour Society was established this,year which awakened the religious life of the members. Dr. P'ang is the President of this Society. He is never tired in the ser.vice of God, never disappointed with hardship and misunderstandings. He is a great factor in the progress of the church. There has been unexpected advancement in the school work at Shanhaikuan this year. We were much helped in special meetings at Changli and Shanhaikuan, led by Dr, Wang Chih P'ing and Li Jung Fang of Peking ljniversity. Both church members and students often speak of the information and inspiration received. Rev. G. L. Davis also attend ed our District meeting and gave us some stirring addresses on the importance of personal work and the Centenary. Pastor Te, though retired, is still a willing worker and helps in many wa~ s. The W.F.M.S. has continued its work through the year with good success. Miss Dyer has started many girls' schools which is :a most helpful thing for Chins. Miss Glover has many women in training classes preparing to preach and teach. Full reports of the other institutions at Ch'angli, Medical work under Dr. llaldwin and school work under Mr. Rowland and l\iiss Bridenbaugh will be lfound elsewhere,

89 Day schools offer good opportunity. to reach both the children and their parents. These too are reported in full. Xotwithstanding the year of floods and famine our sale of books Bibles, Testaments, Scripture portions, and tracts has exceeded that of other years. On the whole we have much to be grateful for. Our Christian friends in United States and Canada have helped us generously as in other years, and this love for us Ohinese whom they have not seen, does much to inspire an unselfish spirit among our Chinese Christians. We pray that God may increase this spirit of mutual love until all the world shall truly love one another even as Christ loves us. The Changli Middle and Higher Primary School. HENRY H. ROWLAND, Principal. At last we have full right to call our school a }Iiddle School, for we have graduated our first class. This notable event occurred OIl June 16th, when fifteen young men, who had completed the course, were presented with dipiomas. The graduation was a ~reat success. The County Official, having been invited to speak, appeared with an immense roll, evidently his address. We groaned within, fearing that we were in for an hour of fathomless "wen Ii." Great was our relief when he explained that, as he was from Anhui Province, he was afraid his speech might not be understood, so he had it printed that a separate copy might be given to each graduate. He had written it after returning from Tientsin the night before and had sent it to the printe'r at midnight. The exercises were at 10 a.m. Don't te1111s that the East can't hustle~ when a grandfather who has served ten terms as County Official in various parts of China, can speed up at that rate! Other features of the exercises were two choruses and a solo, a rattling good speech by a young man who, thank God, has his heart set on the ministry, and a uebate 011 the granting of suffr:1gc to women in China. The young man who upheld the negative explained that neither of the debaters wanted to take that side so they drew lots; hence the audience must not blame him for what he said, for it did not come from his heart. But he did vel'y well, considering. Surely China is waking up, when it is so hard to :find an opponent to woman's suffrage!

90 The past year we escaped the plague and floods, but fever, measles and small-pox cut into our second term badly. Neverthel(~ss we averaged up well enough physically to send a winning Track Team to the big Meet at Shanhaikuan May 30 and 31. By adding on another year to the course~ our MidcUe School registration leaped from 75 last year to 96. this year. The Higher Primary had 61 pupils, an advance of only one over last year. As Shanhaikuan and Lanhsiell haye good schools aud we would have less than ten in each of the first two :"ears of the Higher Primary we are planning to retain only the third :Teal' this fall. Thanks to the enterprise of )Ir. Searles, who was Principal the first term, we have a row of new buildings which give us an abundance of room for students and teachers. Bishop Lewis hasi promised to find the necessary funds. All in all, the school has had a good year. The boys did creditable work in their Literary Society. Our students led about half the church young people's meetings and ran the city ~unday School; two of them at times supplied a neighboring pulpit~dllring tlle spring term. In meetings many have taken active part. A great source of satisfaction has been the thorough, conscientious work of our Assistant Principal, )Ir. Howe, and the rest of the faculty. To watch these lads grov. in a clean, spiritual atmospherc,-an oasis in the midst of amoral desert-is a spring of constant joy, and ueget.s the fond hope that wilen they leave us, they may, thru the power of Christ! transform the desert until it blossoms as the rose. How China needs pure minded, deyoted men! )Iay God grant that the young menlll~1y see the vision of a Xew China and live to make it real! Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Woman's Work on the Three Eastern Districts. This year.there have been in all fifteen Bible Women, a fewer nnmber than 'were reported last year because non-paid workers have been dropped from the list. One woman has been tranferred to another district. One of the Bible women is a teacher ill the Training Schoo!, one goes with Miss Dyer to help in the evangelistic work among the day scllools on the three districts, and the other thirteen are spending all their time ill visiting villages, temple fair~, and city homes, teaching and exhorting to the Christian life.

91 -- 84 ~ They have been sending in monthly reports of their work and all tell of the willingness of the people to hear the Gospel. Day Schools on the Three Eastern Districts. There are in all twenty oqne schools with 418 scholars registered. Two of these schools are new this year. P'inganch'engtzu and Ch'angli had an increase of new scholars of 25 and 40, and all the schools report new scholars during the spring term. In Ch'angli, a kindergarten was held for several months. The yearly average of all examinations shows that four schools reached a grade of 94% and over, and one of 96.7%. There were 95 boarders in the various schools. Last fall 40 scholars from the day schools entered the Fengjen or Lanhsien Boarding Schools for their last one or two years of the Primary course. Lanhsien and Fengjen Primary Boarding Schools. These two schools reach the dignity for the first time of a separate report. They cannot longer be classed with the day schools. The Lanhsien school has liad 63 boarders and 20 day pupils, and the Fengjen s('hool 20 boarders. The latter school must necessarily be small because of the limited room. 17 girls have finished the primury course this year at Lanhsien and all but one will enter the Alderman School. From Fengjen, six girls wi~l go on to the Oh 'angli school. These two schools both witness to the fact that Chinese teachers can bear the great responsibilities incurred in running a boarding school. Eut very little help could be give~ by the foreign super, i8or. Alderman School. Enrollment ill Alderman Girls Boarding school Ch'angli for the year is 128. The work of the school was much hindered because of continued sickness of teachers. Very helpful meetings were conducted by Rev. "Wang Ohih P'ing of Peking during which 97 of the girls were led to pledge themselves to keep the Morning Watch. The school is raising its grade. Shanhaikuan, the Great Wall City, has a population of 80,000. Here we ha-ve a Girls' school, a Bible school for women and a dispensary. All the work is carried on in native bullding&. Training Schools on the Three Eastern Districts. Ch'angli, Thompson Memorial TraininfJ.School. This school has had a prosperous year. Sixty-four have registered. Of this number eight came from oqur branch training schools at Lanhsien and FengjE"m, several more from country day schools and a few had studied at home or in gov~rnment schools. The advance along the line of self.-support is increasing year by year. Ten in the Ch'angli school brought the full amount

92 - 85- required. The appropriation which a few years ago was suffieient for sixty women now makes up the deficit in self~support of nearly one hundred pupils. The women have continued in their practical work of visiting in the homes of the town, of working among the hospital patients and of teaching in the Sunday school. Five graduated this year, of whom two are to be Bible women, two uay school teachers, and the fifth is to teach in th'~ branch school at Fengjen. Lanhsien Primary TrainillfJ School. Twellty-nine women havestudied in this school during the year and have done good work. The school was very sau when :JIrf::. ell'ell Heng Te moved to Tientsin for she had been such a help to both teacher and pupils. Fen.fjjenhsien Primary Traininq School. This school has alsohad a prosperous year. Fifteen have been registered ami havedone faithful work.

93 TAIANFU DISTRICT Kuo Yew, District Superintendent On ueillg appointed to the Taian District' as Superintendel'lt, I was conscious of my in~ompetency and well a ware that I could not shoui(ler the responsihility devolved upon. me. However, it is gratifying to say that with the Spiritual Help of God and the sincere co-operation of my fellow workers the work of the,,'"hole year was done as succe5sfully as could be expected. Quarterly conferences have been attended in due order by the seasons. The cxistant conditions of tile Taian District are as follows: In this District tbere are () Circuit:-, 21 outlying stations, 6 Higher Primary Schools anrl 21 Primary Schools. Taian is under the charge of Pastor Liu ChUun, a man of the most congenial temper. At the instigation of nil'. Perry O. Hanson many a meeting was held in which men of good repute were itlyited to delh'er lectm'es and make slpeeches; h~' these speeches many of the attendants were moted. On every Sabbath day there are prayer meetings held in the homes of the church members and led by zealous hrethren and sisters of the church. Such meetings produce good effects. In the lunar Xew Year Holidays a whole week of preaching took place in every circuit.,ye all went out to preach by turns. "Te visited more than 30 homes and~tlle hearers were many in number. A great number of these whom we visited attended the church seryice that Sunday; out of these,.n~ including children were baptised and 2:': welcomed to the church as prohationer~. )fr.,yen.tung T~ai is the Vice Principal of the T'sui Ying School. He has always been ready to lend us his helping hand ill all religious affairs. In "iew of the preponderant number of the church members who do net understanu the teachings of the Bible, a Bible dass was organized by }11'. 'Ven that those v.~ho attend it may be enabled to have a better understanding of the teachings of Christ and that the church l1l1y thereby achieve a state of stability. In the Spring we erected two booths in the famous Tai temple: one for the women and the other for men; those preaching were mostly lay brothers.,yitllin these three months there "Were about 7,000 people who helrd the Gospel of Ged. It is regrettable that many

94 ~1l'e the hearers of the Gospel but few are helievers in it. 'Ye sow the seeds but we are unable to know when th ' time will come for us to reap. Let us hope SOl' that (1a~Y. In the beginning of summer a preaching group arriyed he1'e fr0m Xankiug and sowed the seeds both in the city and the Yillages. This group proved a great benefit to the Titian church. Anchiachuang is unclei' the care of ~[r. Yang ShUll. He is a diligent preacher am1 teacher concurrentl~' in the Higher Primary School. This church is making l)rogr<::,~" A Primary School has been established in a village b~- the name of :-;han Shen ::.\Iiao ou account of the speedy increment of the church members. ::.\11'. Yang Hsiieh ~hih is in charge of the Tll11llV'illg Circuit. He is a careful and diligent preacher. Be teaches ('olleurrently in tke Higher Primary Nchool. The dlul'c'h is in a ypry encouraging state of affairs. 3Iany di~turbances and disasters occurred this year: the most notable are the prevalence of brigandage and famine. ~ollle trouble also occurred by the church with the non-christians. """ith the help of our Lord and our patience, these disilsterr and troubles were gotten over. Xo preueher 'has been appointed to Hsiich eug. )lr. Lu Kuang Jen, head master of the Tuugp'ing Higher Primary School goes there to preach every ~Ullcl.~l}'. As he is in charge of the school, he must go back on the yer~' day, thus having little ehance to be in contact with ChristbnR whieh results in the Christians there being less' zealous. It is my earnest hope that a preaeher will be appointed to that place next year so that he nl<l~' attenu to the spiritual wants of the Christians there and their zeal of old may be reyived. :Mr. Hsit Chen-Sheng has been appointed to sell the Books of the Gospel at Chinchiakou. Just at this juncture a group of brigands swarmed to this place and occll.pied the church premises. Mr. Hsu was obliged to move temporarily to Tungp'ing. \Ve cannot tell when the church premises \'dll be reeoyered. It is al1e~d that the brigands have surrendered to the government troops already, 'Tungehsien has a careful and diligent preacher in the person of Hsii Pa-Chuan. The Christians at Chiuhsien leased a house for church and equipped it with benches and tables out of their own pockets. But they are suffering from the same shortcomings as Hsiich'eng, namely being without a preacher. The same hope as for Hsuch'eng also is entertained for this place. In a village named

95 - 88- Tungluku there are many new admirers of the Holy Doctrine They have voluuteered to provide a house for tlie est~blishment of a Primary School. With regard to Tunge. I shoul<1like to say that the crops are vast but the,vorkers are few. I am hoping that more men will be appointe(1 to preach in Tunge and its neighboriljg places. Liang Hsing Tang is in charge of the Feich'eng Circuit. )11'. Liang' is a respectable and diligent preacher. The church goes as before. AnIin is in char~e of "J1r. Li Tzu Lin, a faithful servant of God. He had been preacher at "\Vangchin where he administered the Christians there and induced the heathens to adopt the Lord's Doctrine with a loving heart l1efore he was transferred to AllIin. Missing him as a flock their shepherds, they jointly signed a letter requesting that he be transferred back. The letter is still in my hand. Mr. Chao Li Yu is jn charge of Laiwukou Circuit. Seeing that no progress has been made by the church he caused a revival meeting to be held and devised means to furbish the travelling expenses of those who attended it. "!ith }Iessrs. Chao Yu-Hsien~ preacher of the Laiwu East Suburb Church, and Liang Jen Hsill, preacher of Luchiatong Church, he preached and prayed. At last the Holy Spirit visited them. Even some strayed members of the church repented and determined to lead a new life. This meeting makes the church more lively, especially the church in the East Suburb of Laiwu. Two misfortunes occurred this year: according to the decision at the Annual Conference last year the church members are to contribute two thirds more' of their usual contrjbutions. 'Ve all tried our best to carry this decision out. But immediately after the wheat harvest, heavy rain began to fall incessantly for some days; the "Ten Ho overflowed; many houses were washed dowll; the people suffered terribly; officials attempted to relieve the suffering the people with money. The church should do something for the members who suffered from the disaster. To expect them to contrih.. ute to the church is beyond all hope. III Taian, Feich'eng, Tunge~ and Tungp'ing, brigandage is rampant. They ravage, burn down houses, and take away persons for ransom. Some wealthy men flt='d from their homes, others guarded their houses as much as they could. To pe;rsuade them to contribute to the church appears even more difficult. The other misfortune is on account of the,prevalenee of

96 brigands, people dare not travel for once a man is caught by them he will be held for rausom. Thus there are practically no travellers, and no preachers dare go out to preach. In such a state of affairs it can be imagined how hard it would be to get Christians. However, we should be th::wkful to God that Christians in theuneffected areas are still willing to contri buteo I II the infested area collection of the contributiolls has not been possible but that of the uninfested area has been effected. Although the premises of the church at Tungp~ing, Hsiich'eng, Changcheug find Wangkutien have been visited by the brigands, exeepting Chinchiakou, none were molested. Each time I went out, my heart wus laden with fear~ but God's protection was with me and the pruyers of my fellow workers went with me, too. In the ('ourse of the second Quarterly Conference, revival meetings were held at ~-\l1chiachuang, Tungping and Tunge. Some of the churches have revived and assumed a livelier aspect. For this we should all be grateful to God. PERRY 0 HA~SOX, Jlissiol1ary -in Charge The report for the district lias been prepnrcd by 111'. Kuo but there are some things that. should be added by the missionary in charge. In the first place a word of praise i~ due the district superintendent who has been responsible for tlw work and has accomplished large results in spite of gre::l.t discouragements. He has administered the work with energy and has shown great wisdom in making plans for the development of the district. On his first round for the quarterly conferences a full week was given to studying the situation on each circuit. On the 8econd trip the week was devoted to revival seryiees in each central place preceding the quarterly conference. The subsequent visits were never hurried but time was given for the careful consideration of local needs. Robbers and rains interfered with some plans yet each circuit had almost a month's service from the supel'intendent during the year. Local duties have kept me at home so that my contributioll has been several hours each month in consultation and frantic efforts to secure for the district-bricks the straw denied by Pharaoh-Krause. The workers of the Laiwu-Koutzu Circuit on their own initiative made the plans and provided the funds for a week of revival services that proved especially helpful. Among those-

97 - goreached 011 that circuit was a Taoist priest, a serious minded seeker for truth. A.fter deciding to accept Christ he spent seyeral weeks in study at Taiall and while there changed his tonsure and his tailor and let us hope that the changes were not merely external. An effort has been made to heip our illiterates. Some of our preachers stopped off at Tsallgchow when l'eturning from conference last year and learned the Peill system of Kuan Hua Tzu Mu. These men have since taught leaders in our own and the Baptist mission who in tnrn have helped la rge numbers of the illiterate to read the "r ord of Life. Our M:r T'sui of nlaotzu has made the be~t use of this new plan; his church has in fact been a real community center where large numbers gather every night for study, singing, and other helpful intercourse. All interesting District Conference closed a successful year's work. It was voted to imitate the allllual conference in meeting a day early for examinations. For lllany years we have, perhaps the pioneer among the districts, had written examinations, and with the proposed improvement next year we believe that a high grade of work will be done. It was also voted to have the Yenchow and Taian conferelh'es meet separately next year. We have welcomed the Dildine family of four and ~faster Hobart Hanson to our district during the year while we have lost Miss Knapp who left us for furlough. Our foreign force has been blessed with health and a due degree of happiness during the year. We hope that it will not be long before we may welcome a physician to take chal'ge of neglected medical work. The devil has been making desperate efforts to defend his domination of his Shantung dominions during the year. Drought, :floods, and robbers have' all been his emissaries sent to hold our preachers at home and keep collections from the increase we have sought. Yet there have been victories and we believe that progress llas been made toward our goal of establishing the Kingdom of our LOI'd in Shantung. 1Ve expect to reach the mark set by the East Asia Conference for the increase in Self Support. Taian Middle School PERRY O. HANSON, Principal Last year ill writing a report for thi!'l school I announced that there were signs of the dawn of the ;year of jubilee for the Taian

98 Middle school. Fortunatel~' the developments of the year have been along the same line, working out the policy to mal,;:e all things new. A few weel{s after the last conference, our new principal, the Rev. H. G. Dildine. Ph. D. and family arrived ill Taiall and were SOon well acclimated to their new environment. Dr. Dildine has attacked Shantung Mandarin with great energy and at the second semester began teaching History and Bible in Chinese besides work in English. He has entered heartily into the acti"ities of the institution so thnt it will be but a step to assume full control as principal and for the first time in the history of tne school there will be a man to devote his full time to this work. Certainly oue man can find enough to do ill this the onl~' Christian Middle sc~ool for three millions of people. The next term will open September 17 in the new building. Think of it, a new building for the Taian school! Only those who have seen the nondescript llttle antiques which have housed this school since its genesis can appreciate our approaching exodus from that Egyptian b~ndage. The last twelve months h:lyc seen the building grow slowly but grandly until we now see in that pile of bricks, mortar and malthoicl the realization of our hopes of more than a decade. The frenzied financial feature of this business is known to the helpless but sympathetic finance committee. The story has been told to busy bishops and secretaries in an effort to prevent them from forgetting that Shantung needs arc still ill existence. 1Yhere the last payments are now reposing we know not, hut hope they will emerge before the 'writer of this report is sent to languish in jail in lieu of liquidating the liabilities he has assumed in ronnf'ction with this business of building what Shantung needs for properly housing its middle school. The presence of this fine new building with the proper equipment with which it will be provided will mean much for Christian education in Shantung. The appointment of a well trained man to take -charge of this work and with no other duties on his shoulders mean~ that a new era has dawned for our educational work jn Shantung. This coming ~'ear with all things llew should see wonderful progress and I cheerfully leave the work with which I have been associated for fifteen years as teacher or principal because the present arrangement gives assurance of greater developments than ever before. The attendance during the last year has not been large. 'We have not wanted a large enrollment. Building operations on the campus do not conduce to the best work in the class room. A large

99 school is assured for the future be.cause,we have a chain of grammar schonl feeders established and there is a growing number seekillg entrance from outside schools. It is to be hoped however that the Centenary will shake open the eyes of the home church to the lleed of giving support to this institution. Think of the many thousands going each year to every preparatory school in our church at home while for this school amidst the millions in famous old Shantung we are supposed to be happy and satisfied if we see half of one thousand. Of what use is it for the church to send out a well trained school man and then tie him to his typewriter where he must tell his tale of woe to a complacent constituency in order to get the funds for the work he is appointed to do? The usual student activitie's have received attention during the year. The Y.-:\!'C.A. boys have been active in their work in the school and in the villages. There has been a.fine devotion to the regular tasks with the minimum of rnles broken and lessons shghted. The h{'alth of the students has been good with no case of serious sickness. Several public programs were given, enlivened by songs from the Glee club which was trained by -:\1rs. Leitzel. The school invited two important meetings dnrillg the year. The first was the annual meeting of the Shantung Honan Christian Educational Association. When the time arrived our building was not completed so lviiss Young kindly offered the buildings of the girls' school, where the meetings were held, and where the many visitors were properly impressed with the excellent work done by our sisters. The Summer Conference of the Shantung Y.:U.C.A. met with us, the sessions oeing in our new building~ this being the first use made of these rooms and a fitting dedication. The class that graduated at Peking University last June had among its numberr eight of my boys. Seven received their degrees from the Arts college and the eighth graduated from the college of theology, having finished the arts course two years earlier. All of these young men will enter Christian work, four continuing their studies in theology and the others will teach in our mission schools. This is the work of our Shantung schools, laying the foundations of Christian character in young men, who will be found later standing strongly for those things which China needs. A host of our less fortunate boys will not see coll<'ge halls but will leave us for a 'humbler niche, but no less faithfully Christlike in this China social fabric we seck to change.

100 -'93 - During the year we accomplished the organization of a local Educational Association enrolling most of t.he teachers of the government schools with meetings each month. We also arranged lectures, field days, and other occasions when outside friends met with us and we have been encouraged to believe that some have been led nearer the Kingdom through these special efforts. The Rev. Wen Jung T'ai, as assistant principal, has done especially good work in raising the standards of the teaching of Chinese in our school and was also instrumental in the calling of an Institute for discussion of this problen under the auspices of the Shantung-Honan Christian Association of which he is Vice President. A Bible Training School has been conducted, preparing men for the Peking Bible Institute. The students have entered some of the regular classes of the Middle School while other work has also been especially arranged for them. Reviewing the work of the school for the years since 1903, there is found much of encouragement. Individual cases have each year brought disappointment, but looking at the situation in a more general way, the work has been quite worth while and we believe that the Taian Boarding School has made some contribution to the progress of the Kingdom of God in Shantung. Taianfu District Day Schools. PERRY O. HANSOX, Superinten.den.t A decade ago we in Shantung were developing primary schools by every possible means, our method of SUbsidization becoming quite famous. The emphasis has more recently been raised from the first four years of the pupifs course to the succeeding three years commonly known as the Higher Primary or Gra.mmar school. It is possible for the boys to get a start ill the lower Primary schools conducted by the goverjlmellt~ while there are but few pla<:es where preparation for High School may be secured. We feel that it is essential to have well prepared candidates for the High School and this can only be accomplished with our own grammar schools. On the Taianfn District each circuit is provided with one of these grammar schools. It has been one of the disappointments of the year that our boys who ha ve completed the work in Peking University have not been willing to undertake the work in these smaller schools.

101 It is our policy to have college graduate~ in each of these circuits and we hope that this may be accomplished before many years. The gre:it prohlem of this department of the work is how to maintain six grammar and twenty-one primary schools with an appropriation of $120 per year... This is mathematics hard to understand and,vc refer it to the faculty at 150 Fifth A yenue. The task of supporting the schools canuot be left with the local people yet. A mission near us has tried it and the lower schools have disappeared while the ('entral boarding school deprived of its feeders has dwindled year by year. The investment of $1000 in maintaining this school system on the Taianfu district c::mnot be called extravagant. College graduates in China do not often make much contribution to their home communities as they are usually engaged in work far from their homes. Moreover the number is still too small to be a considerable factor ;this is especially true in conservati ye Shantung. We helieye that our Grammar Schools will do real service to each community ill training a group of young men who with some exceptions will spend their lives in their home towns. These students average several years older than in onr homelands and those who complete this course are the best educateu people of the c3mmunity where 90% are jlliterate. They are able therefore to exercise considerable infinenre so that if our scho,ol work in these smaller places is wisely done we are-advancing the spiritual iuterests of the chur h The Grammar School is, too, better a hie to make this contribution than the Primary. 'Ye are therefore committed to the policy of developing Grammar Schools :1S feeders to the High Sr hool and for the raising up of community Christian leaders. Medical Y. H- CHU Jf. D. Physician P. O. HANSOX, Treasurer The entrance of America into the great war and the fior.king of tens of thousands of physicians to the colors leaves but little hope of a doctor for Taian. During the last year I have again directed the work of the hospital and dispensary with a graduate of the Tsinan Medieal School in charge. The records show a good yen's work for the boys of Ollr own and of other mission schools as well as for a large number of outsiders. The income from our pharmacy, dispensary and hospital has been during the last few months sufficient for the

102 - 95- salaries of the staff but there has been nothing for medicines. We have receiyed but $200 from the mission for the last two ~-ears. The call for laborers for France has given us an opportunity for special service. Our Dr. Chia examined about 1500 candidates at Taian and. at other places on our two districts thus ~UVillg large numbers of men from the expense of the trip to TlSin<lll and offering opportunity to other men to take the necessary treatments that would make it possible for them to qualify. About sixty of the men who went to France have asked us to make their collections of wages aml pay to the families. A former assistant in the hospital has colltimh',l during the year a dispensary work at the large market town of L;liwu-Koutzu. He has not attempted to treat the most dfficult cases and has been of real seryjce to many. He has also been tru(' to his Chri~tiall principles and-a great help to our church 'work in that place. The foreign community has again heen servc.l hy Dr. FillC'y of the W.F.M.S. It is to be remembered that Taian is the headquarters for four missolls ill Shantung and we are responsihle for the medical work. This gives us special opportunities that we prize highly ann we do not want to lose out. There is more at stake than the health of a few ~fethodist :\fissiollaries whose earthly exit would not seriously startle society. It is of supreme importance that we show ourselves alive and able to fulfill our contracts 'with other missions est we lose this medical opportunity. Our poorly equipped outfit of buildings has drin'll foreign lphgsicians from us and now we find that the better Chinese graduates will not come to us when they know that they must work in buildings about like sheep sheus and pig pens. We appreciated a visit from our senior physician, Dr. Hopkins, lu:-;t winter. His sugge~tion that we erect a new dispensary on the big street appeal!': to us. There are some hospital building funds a "ail able and with a few visits from Dr. Hopkins during the coming yea r this building may be accomplished and it would put new life into our medical work. The main hospital building could a,,-ait the time when a regular physician is appointed to the Taian station. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Edna Terry Training School. After lwing closed for six years the Training School reopened last fall. The first yeul' of reorganizing and getting into running order has been most satisfactory.

103 - 96 -=- We had thirteen students the first term and fifteen the second. We are hoping for new buildings and an appropriation that will permit us to take the number of \\ omen we need to train as Bible women if we are to reach the women among the three million for whom we are responsible in this province. Pilgrim Work. Owing to the failure of crops last year, the plague and robbers, fewer pilgrims came to worship this year than usual. Over fourteen thousand women stopped however, to hear the story of the BiHe woman. A great many free tracts were -dis~ributed and a goodly number of Bibles were sold. Maria Brown'Davia School. This school reports a good year. -Our family has numbered one hundred and forty five girls of all :sorts and sizes. While there have been floods to the north of us, robbers to the south of us~ and plague both north and south, we have dwelt in peace and safety. Our hearts arc truly grateful. During the special week of evangelism following the Chinese New Year, the girls went out withmlssionuries or Bible women -every day to help carry the message. A leaders' meeting was held.each evening to reports the day's WOlke Sunday was a day of great ingathering. A large number were received into the church. Eleven of our girls joined on probation and seven were baptized. This week did not end their efforts, however, for some have gone with liiss Dillenbeck every Sunday afternoon since then, to hold meetings in the neig hborhood. As there was only one girl to graduate, she decided to stay on next year, taking extra work and graduate with next year's class. Some of the older girls have been taking normal work under the direction of Miss Dillenbeck~ this young lady among the number. If they are unable to go on to Peking to complete their studies" they will have had some practice in teaching.

104 TIENTSIN DISTRICT CH'EN HENO TE, District SItPerintende/~t F. M. PYKE, Missio1t~ry-in-charge This has been my first year in evangelistic work as misslonaryin-charge of a district, and the name I cannot help feejing is a misnomer. There does not seem to be much missionary work in being a general office-boy or a second rate business ma~ager. Yet these have been my duties the year tllrough. The first half year was spent ill flood relief work, and the second tied down to a desk, keeping accounts and writing importunate letters for special gifts. The first of February a large sum of money became available from )lr. Blackstone for an evangelistic campaign on the district, a sum three times the size of the annual appropriation by the conference, and it seemed that the hour had struck for a great advanc('. But I discovered that, when one is the only foreign worker in a station the size of Tientsin, and when last year the same work was cared for by three men, it is almost impossible to hold the ground previously gained, leaving a successful offensive quite out of the reckoning. All I could do was to eat my heart out in impatience, wondering when as a mission we shall be wise enough and strong enough in the face of this limitless need to narrow our appointments to what we can do honestly and with spiritual efficjency under the eyes of Ohrist and in the sight of our brother workers. Blackstone Campaign. The sum allotted by :Mr. Blackstone to the Tientsin Evangelistic Oampaign was $ >,000. We were fortunate at tlle outset in securing as workers unusually fine men. Two graduates of the North Ohina Union Christian Oollege, one graduate of the Union Theological School, and a former employee of the Chinese Postal Service, made up the evangelistic team. 1\1r. Hsft K'un Shan, who led General F~llg Yii Hsiang and some of his officers to. Christ, and has had two years' experience in the Young JIen's Christian Association in Bots Work, was secured as assistant pastor at Wesley Ohurch. Recently Mr. S. C. Young, a native of Foochow, has joined the staff there, also as special evangelist for young men in business. In addition, oue or two low salary men were taken on to free workers in mission employ for more specialised work. When school closed five stujellts and one teacher were

105 engaged at a nominal fee for intensive work at four different points Pastor Wang and his family of o,ur 'Vest Gate CllUrch~ were moved from their pinched surl~oulldings to one of the Intermediate School residences, fortunately empty, and a small rental paid to the school. The change from the breathless confinement at West Gate to the freedolll and fresh air at the South Gate Compound has,,~orked wonders in the health of the whole family, and brings home convincingly the essential injustice of housing a preacher in such surroundings and expecting him to keep a high level of efficiency in Christian work. Let me first ~peak of our regular work in the city of Tientsin at its three principal points. Wesley Church Growing. It is not necessary to refer to the floods which invaded the congregation and brought the pastor low with sickness. We prefer to dwell on the more encouraging features of the recent months. Its influence has widened out stead'ily and the Sunday morning audience has grown in numbers and in the capacity to worship. No one can sit under Mr. Liu's ministry from Sunday to Sunday without realizing that he has come back from his two year~(at Princeton with his pride and his fortune on the altar. He has preached ill the powel' of the Holy Spirit and llis flock have been instructed and fed as they have been not in years. The congregation have ghren as never before in their history. There are several live Bible classes in collnection with the church, and the Thursday evening prayer-meeting is a real force for the first time in many years. These results are all due to Pastor Liu's ministry. There are some:things for whicll many of us are praying in connection with the church. In our church building we have the finest anditorium in North China. We hope and believ(' it will be filled before the year is out. We hope and believe this will become a great missionilry church, full of evangelical zeal for the thousands of families living near its doors untouched by the Gospel, and for the country churches with which it is one district. God grant the day may come soon when the members shall take fire with this vision and set out to do their share in the winning of China for Christ. Gain at West Gate. West Gate Church is severely haudicapped by its membership and equipment. The membership is very poor. What is worse they seem to have been deadened by open handed generosity of the Missiona ry Society. No thought of a serious work to do, no promptings of honor to pay tht'ir own bills, seem ever t()

106 - 99- have pell~trated the rank and file. There is however a sprinkling of choice spirits and of the better off, and this is the hope of the church. The equipment also is not first-class: the church, school and parsonage are sandwiched in so tightly between acres of buildings on every hand that the air lies in a stagnant pool scarcely stirred from season to season. One can not be there for very many hours, winter or Rummer, without being seized with a fatal cough, due to nothing but lack of a plentiful su pply of ozone. The pastor is a consecrated man, patient, tireless, forehearing, a man whom it is a pleasure to know. One can imagine the ilifficulty under which he has labored the past three years immersed in this oppressive atmosphere. This church made a good showing in the special week of evangelism and again in Dr. Eddy's meetings in the spting. In June under pressure of the newly organised city-wille Methodist Mell: a campaign was made for financial independence. The results were sensational: a sum closely approximating the entire annual budget of the church was pledged hy friends and members. That was three months ago. So far a~ I know no serious effort has been made to carry it through to success. Progress at Tingchuang. For TingchuHlIg, center at the southern end of our city parish, I ha,'e only praise. Here we have no property at all. The members ha ve no meeting place but a loft which in the day time ser\res as a school for a day ~cbool of forty boys ill which we are interested to the extent of about $100 sil,rer a year. Yet nowhere is there a more warm-hearted group of Christians, more loyal, more outspoken ill testimony to their love of the Savior. They have made continual gains all year in their own family circles and among their friends, and recently on their own iuitiative and without a cent from the ehureh opened a free school for poor hoys. Our primary school ill this place, thanks to the consecrated energy of the supprintendellt, J[r. Chang, a tailor, and Mr. Chow, the teacher, turns out the ablest and best-behaved students of any of the five school8 which our church maintains ill this city. Country Stations Failing. If,the Church at home kllew of the actual condition in the so-called country points of this district (they are all cities 01.' very large villages) much of its missipnary enthusiasm would ebb. Here 8ubsidized religion and fitful supervision have ",,:,orked themselves out to the last analysis. The members1ip everywhere is ver~' poor, so poor that respectable middle-~lass citizens rarely darken the doors of the church. The pastors, set Gown in the midst of a great heathen and Rometimes

107 - 100 hostile community and visited perhaps once a quarter for two hours (at most two days), are only too prone to Ruccumb to the numbing influence of a steady stipend. From some places come reports of preachers that llever leave their premises, and we know of churches torn by law-suits, and teachers of the gospel assailed by members of their flock. It will not do to blame too severely the members or the pastors. They are but human, and no doubt as ready to offer theit lives now as in the Boxer persecutions. The fault lies in too easy money and lack of fellowship and inspiring leadership. The Church has laid her evangelists under tax to further her educational program. Fiyc of the eight members of the mission ellgag~d in evang listic work are each carryiug school budgets and educational respollsilm.lities quite enough for one JUan's work. They have not the time to give to the work they are called to do. l\ioreover it costs the presiding elder $18 every time he makes a 'visit to the southern end of the district and in doing so he passes through the territorj of three othe, missions and directly by a large station well-staffed with foreign and Chinese workers. This is not economy. These southern points should be lopped off and presented to oue of the two English Missions doing work in their neighborhood. The Church lias poured all of $15,000 into tbis district since I doubt if all Efficiency Commission could 8ay that we had secured a fair return on the investment. Great Opportunity. There are hopefnl features in the situation. The Hoods which swept the northern end of the district burst wide open the people's hearts. The Church has disbursed nearly $10,000 in relief during the year without a taint of dl.shonesty. Naturally the people who have received aid have been quick to appreciate this service. But the significant fact is that the gentry and well-to-do have been largely WOIl over. This is our GREAT OPPORTUNITY and it is at this juncture tbat Mr. Blackstone has stepped in and made possible a special evangelistic campaign. This campaign is now under way and promises far-reaching results. Owing to the pressure of relief work the team for this campaign was 110t organised till May. Since then it has made one swing aroun4 the circuit with Dr. Cll'en, our superintendent, with the following results:- Points visited Meetings beld (Open 25, Government Officials & Merchants 5, Students 7, Women~. Boys 1)

108 Attendance :- Gentry and merchants.... Women Boys.... Students _ Government officials. Mixed crowds n 11.,.1;],000- Totul.14,651 There 11ave been, twelve decisians to study the word aud two to en ter the Ohurch. The members of the team returned full of enthusiasm. especially for the welcome they received from the better classes. Their report shows some features of the work which can be improved and in the second turn around the district much larger results will be evident. )11'. Hsii K'un Shan at,yesley Church has dolle some good work btlt is capable of greater things whell he learns to dare more for the Lorel. lie is a man of good parts, absolutely consecrated, with a winsome, lovable spirit, which makes him especially strong in winning, young men. He has aided ill re-organizing after a lapse of many years the Epworth League and has kept the interest at high p~tch. He has gotten hold of a number of young men of promise, has preach~d every Sunday at Tingchuang, has led many Bible clas~es and collductecl many prayer-llle~tings. He is a man '" ho promises much for the kingdom in Tientsin. An important featnre of our Evangelistic Campaign was the formation of a )Iethodist l\ien's Club, in which )11'. Felt and Dr. Holmrt lent their aid. This has been a long step in the direction of harnessing the latent energy ill the lay memberships of the Church by getting a definite program in view. The first thing attempted by the club was the raising of $300 for repairs at Wesley; $720 was pledged practically at one sitting, and everybody was astonished at the ease with which it was done. A few weeks later a similar effort was made at West Hate Church one Sunday morning, and in an hour more than $500 had been subscribed toward the Church budget! Such a result is llothing less than phenomenal under the circumstances and we are glad to be able to present these two achievements together with the work of the evangelistic team to Mr, Blackstone as a sort of first-fruits in the campaign.

109 - 102'- I cannot close these remarks withqut reference to Dr. Ch'en's work. To ue frank I entered this year's associatioll_ with him in fear and trembling. But he 1iI'st won my admiration by the energy and self forgetfulness he showed in his share of the work, and then my affection by the con~ideratioll with whicl! he treated me, his younger and less experienced colleague. His preaching is simple, direct and ill the power of the Spirit and in his dealings with men, humility and love rule uppermost. I could wish for ollly one thing, that he might be set aside to lead a movement for a FIXAXCIALLY INDEPEXDENT CHURCH. No one can doubt that absolutely the first step toward putting the Church in North China upon a sound footing spiritually is to remove the temptation to pork barrel politics inherent in the free use of foreign money and rely upon the self-respect of the Chinese membership to pay its own bills. The statement has yet to be contradicted that if Christians gave as much to God as to their temples before they became Christian the Church would be selfsupporting today. Dr. Gh'en is a man of sound judgment and, ripe experience. He has the gifts and the vision. It is simplj' a question of appointment. The Church here when enlightened and aroused is as generous as the Church in America and I am convinced that with modern methods, and by distributing the burdens of the weak among the strong, the next two years would free our Conference from its swaddling bands. Why should we 110t make this our contribution to the great Centenary Campaign? # Tientsin Middle and Higher Primary School. F.)I. PYRE, Principal. As I have gone forward through the year step by step, it has seemed a succession of losses, disappointment and heavy burdens. In August my father, now 72 years of age, who has been a gracious influence during my five years of missionary career, went home On furlough. Two weeks later our station lost through transfer to Ch'angli, the services of Rev. )lark Brown, and I was deprived of a companionship which, though only a year old, T deeply valued. At annual conference, without being relieved of the school, which carries with it responsibility for financing am. $10,000 enterprise, I was appointed missionary-in-charge of the South Tientsin and Tientsin Districts, combined under the latter llame, as aide and chief-of.staff to Dr. Ch~en Heng Te, superintendent. On Sunday

110 Sept.ember 23, the station was overshadowed by the FLOOD disaster. The following morning two-thirds of Tientsin and a vast stretch of territory to the west was covered by a creeping l:5beet of water from two to twenty feet deep. The level in the south compound eventually reached three fet't ten inches and I swam from one residence to another. At one time junks with fort~'-foot masts ""ere moored outside the west gate of our yard on what was a stone road. It was a novel sight to see great brown sails skimming across what had been dry land, the bellying canvas towering aboye telephone wires and electric light poles. There was an immediate demand for small watercraft 'Df all kinds. Many ingenious contrivances Illade their appearance. Tin bath-tubs with outriggers were popular the first few days. Concrete ships wer'e antedated by pall's of huge stone-jars strapped together in tandems. The people fled by every available contrivance. 'Yhole hamlets took refuge on rafts of Manchurian timber floating in the river. One baby was born on the yellow flood, the logs awash with water, and rain falling over head. The city was crowded with sixty thousand refugees. The spice of romance which relieved these uuprecedented conditions for the first days soon gave place to very heavy burdens. Rescue work merged into investigation and relief. Thousands were without food, drink, or shelter. Our Boys' School was broken up, and had to be reorganised in another and drier section of the city. The 30l) members of Wesley Church were scattered broadcast through the settlement and the nath-e city. They had to be traced and aided where necessary, and a temporary place of worship found for them. Their pastor fell sick and Heeded eare. Numbers of families took refuge in the churcb, eni~led though it was by flood. For a time the watermains and electric-lighting service gaye out, and this aggravated our difficulties. The Central Committee of the Church Flood Relief organisation was also demanding large blocks of time to aid in relieving in sixty or more over-cougestcd relief depots. Despite these unusual conditions no outside help from the mission was availablt', and beyond half a dozen flying visits in the course of the year from some of the bretheren in Peking, a promise to honor any reasonable demand for funds, and the generous assumption by our already over-burdened treasurer of Dr. Ch'en's accounts, Dr. Davis and I have had no assistance whatever. The third week

111 - 104'- ill November I received word from our,finance Committee that I ltad been released from mission work and assigned to administer a model cantonment for flood relief vietims on the Horth-east out skirts of Tientsin ill grounds adjoining the Agricultural Experiment Station. No Olle was assigned to take my plae~. This meant the sacrifice of what little family life I had been enjoying. Thence forward I saw my wife and boy for only brief snatches of time. :For I was obi iged to :pack up a few belongings and go to make my abode with my future charges. ~Iy work consisted at first in furnishing food, drink, raiment and fuel, and later in organizing edu('ational and religious work for tl1e 7,099 refugees who eventualjy made up our city. To keep the peace in this large family and especially between the different branches of general administrative work was aij extremely exacting job. When the longhaired relatives from Wen-an county stole into the camp for a warm bed and a square meal of corn pone, and tlle zealous friends from Wueh'ing pounched upon them aud cut off their queues~ nothing but divine aid could avert a battle royal. The crown for this relief work goes to Mr. A.G, Robinson of the Y.M.C.A. Mr. Robinson was also released for_full time, and organised the industrial side of the camp upon a scale and with a thoroughness which I suppose has never been surpassed, if ever equalled, anywhere. A maximum of nearly 1,000 people was employed daby, and a variety of instructive and useful articles were manufactured, which later sold for several thollsand dollars. The compensating feature of these four and a half months in a relief camp was the educational and religious' work. It was a lesson never to be 'forgotten to see how quickly these people, freed from the stultifying influence of superstition, responded to a Christian environment. Cursing, reviling and fighting practicably ceased to exist. Careworn faces began 10 be cheerful. It was customary to hear the children singing in the streets. Sometimes the women in the work-rooms broke out iuto singing "Jesus Loves me '~; once a visitor surprised a party of camp-laborers singing a hymn as they pulled their water~cart_ Daily at 8 o'clock the inhabitants of the main camp assembled to salute the Church flag as it was rais('d over the settlement; 700 children and 300 adults were given a three months' schoolillg, some thousands became acquainted with Christian teacbing, and 623 expressed a de~ire to enter the Church, Through the generosity of Mr. Blackstone a fund

112 waf.; provided which enabled us to carry this work into neighboring camps with results whose largei.' fruitfulness only the years can disclose. While I was away at the relief camp the work of the school was carried on under the leadership of Mr. Hsu K'Ull Shan in the West Gate Church aud later in the s(,hool buildings at South Gate. I owe a real debt of gratitude to his faithfulllt'ss and good judgment. He is a rare spirit. In January }Ir. Chiang came baek from Shanghai and his halfyear at St. John~s University. The opportunity to study again und to visit the institutions of Central China did himllluch good aud he returned willing to put himself into any work for the sake of developing a high grade school. I do not know of any oue so willing to subordinate himself to the common good. He has always been a strict disciplinarian, aud his ellthusiasmfor everything that Concerns the welfare of the students and the school is unbounded. His constitution seems of iron. So matter how mally his burdens he has always had a reser\"e of strength and interest to new problems. At the outset he was faced by two difficulties: disorganisation of the student body due to the flood, and dissension in the faculty. He triumphed over both. We expected a maximum enrolment of 80 students and we had 130. And by the end of the term he had welded the teachers into a solid unit. Unnsual energy was shown in student activities. A model night school for school and compound servants was maintained which did excellent work and called' forth much praise. Two glee-clubs and a Chinese orchestra were organised and kept up work all term. In athletics we are severely handicapped by lack of relationships with other schools. The institution is away above schools of higher primary grade and yet too small for competition with middle schools. Besides we lack two years of full middle school curriculum, This will be remedied when we get our new dormitory and add the remaining two years of work. Following last year's precedent special meeting were held in May. This year they coincided with the Eddy 'meetings. Thirty decisions were made for the Christian life', a result over which there was great rejoicing and gratitude to God. Financially it has been a hard spring. Mr. Chiang has proved himself sparing in the use of money and a good manager, and by throwing ill our small appropriation from the missionary 8ociety~ we have ended the conference year debt free. Next yeal' we begin third year of middle school work. Though we are badly cramped

113 100 for room, we feel the time has come to,make anothe:r advance. We think we have two gifted men in 'Han Wen Rsin and Ch'en Chung Ting for the new work. It was my good fortune to make a trip to Shanghai in the spring and to investigate some of the better schools "in the Yangtse Valley. I am glad to say that I found no middle school anywhere so happily situated as to location and grounds, and personnel of faculty and students. In regard to our Chinese faculty and the extent of our campu~, I found nothing to compare with them. We have an unfailing suppl:- of students ill the foreign Settlement and native city. Our great lack is a dormitory so that the present building may be utilized for the class-rooms for which it was intended and thus permit us to received more students. This handicap bids fair to be removed. The Finance Committee in August voted to go ahead with plans for this building, the erection to vrot."eed. in sections as the money becdmes available. A letter from Bishop Lewis dated in May states that he believes the entire sum will be in band within a year from date of writing. Thus the prayers of five years seem at length on the eye of being answered. I,,,-ish in closing to call attention to the absolute necessity of a foreign instructor in the school. Money for material equipment will be thrown a,yay unless we have a westerner to aid in the teaching of English. Our estimates for next year call for such a teach~r and we pray God to seud one by January 1. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Tientsin Day Schools For Girll. It seems as though every year has something Ulu xpected and this year i~ no exception. Our schools were closed from two weeks to :fit ' months because of the flooc!. There haye been a few other inegularities but on the whole they have prospered. Tuition has been raised in two of the schools so that one of these, our school at Yangliuching, now pays a third of its expenses. "!e pray this school will be the opening for work with the women next year. The attelldauce has been unusually good in the schools that were open and we feel as though our little girls have learned lessons outside of their books as well as ill them. Woman'. Work in Tientsin. The "'-ork among the refugee women, both when they were in camp and since, has taken the time and prayers of many of our church women.

114 - roi- One of the greatest encouragements of the year has been the number of women in our Sunday ~chool~, and another reason for thanksgiving is the way the Bible woman, pastor and wife at 1Vesley have found real leaders and helped some of our capable women to places of responsibility. We are glad that we had a Bible woman in the country ready to take the training class Dr. Chen brought to her. I.abella Fisher Hospital. Our hospital has had a most satisfactory year of work notwithstanding the great flood which came upon 11:' immediately after Conference. During the next few months, there were wonderful opportunities for medical and nursiug senice in both temporary shelters and the permalent camps established by the American Red Cross and Tientsin Clllistian Union. 1\l'e We!'e so thankful for the help of :Miss Sayles of Chillkiallg whe literally sailed in and helped where, er help was needed, and steered the Nurses' Training School through a su(cessful year's work. Statistical Report Number of treatments at hospital dispensary "" " " refugee camps " " ",. " out dispensary "" " Total treatments,... " country trip " patients seen Kumber of Yisits in homes.. " "patients seen " "in-patients Total fees and gifts ;~ Gold $ Ilabella Fisher Hospital Training School for Nursel. Our first Commencement in June was a joyful occasion when seven splendid young women received diplomas liaving completed the course of 8tudy prescribed by the National Association for Nurses in China. Later word came that eyery nurse had passed the X. A. C. ~xamination and obtained the degree of R. X. Rix of the graduates have accepted positions of responsibility in hospital and dispensary work.

115 TSUNHUA DISTRICT G. It. DAn.;;, District Superintelldent. 'rhe wise, careful husbandman knows that he must not expect all harvests to be equally bountiful, because tilings beyond his control enter largely into results. As husbandmen or workers in the wider fields of the spiritual kingdom among men we know a like experience; some years are bountiful, others are l('an. I fear this must be a report of a. lean year. }fany thil)gr have conspired to bring about, the unpleasant results. There were two causes in particular, which I must mention. First, while the great flood about Tientsin, oid not reach the Tsunhua region. yet because of drougth the spring' crops had been failures. The summer rains whieh came lai(", during August, wel'e continuou~ and unusually heavy, so that ('rops in the lower, richer lands were entirely ruined;. and nowhere over the district was there a full crop. Ther.e was a great lack of food in many villages and everywhere a shortage of food supplies and yery high prices. One good brother, ordinarily a wall-to-do farmer, said to me, "I haye but one sack of grain where I harl five last year, ret with care and sfrict economy I think I can go through the y( ar without help:' He expressed the mind of many of his neighbors. Before spring there was dire suffering in many villages, where we have church members. To the limit of funds procured and to the best of our ablity, relief was extended to many in and out of the church. The e:x:pel'ience of those who have been long in China, who have been through many famine seasons, is that such tim('s are not fayorable for ingathering into the church. In the second place we found a serious cause working against us. At each of the three quarterly conferences I noticed au reports about church growth, as to membership, were unusually pool'. It was not until the District Confer(,llce that I found out the real cause. From the beginning of the year there had been a growing organization of evil minded men, many of whom had been most prominent in Boxer times, and whq had been t'xiled, but, who in these unsettled times had returned. This organization of H('i T'uaus or" Night Plotters" had be n terrorizing many regions in

116 North Chilli and in'the regions beyond. They were secretly threaten ing the churches and worrying the milldd of ]loll' Christians. People gladly h~ard the word in our street chapels and bought copies of the Scriptures, but with memory of Boxer times, only a few dared to take or make a stand for Christ. Yet we could not quite find out whether this disturbing. secret organization was working mainly against the Christian Church, or for the restora tion of Imperial Government in China. Despite famine and fear I must give all credit to the churches for fheir efforts in behalf of self support and all benevolences. Only one small charge in the very heart of the famine belt~ fell.be low last year~s efforts at self support and many, of the churches increased their offerings. I have been able to visit over the district, holding all quarterly conferences three times. The summer rains. heat and ::state of the roads forbade a fourth visit. Our District COIl ference was held the first days of J'une. Despite poor reports and evil times without, the Conference was a blessing to all who attended our service: The leader was a visit ing brother from Peldng. The little church was over crowded by students from the government schools and business men of the town; there was no room in the church for our school boys. I never saw closer attention to the preaching anywhere. At the close of the services an in'vitation was given, and many expressed their purpose to become Christians. The Fcngjen Oircuit. Rev. Liu Kuang Tsu has again been in charge of this circuit, with its two main churches at Fengjen city and Laochuangchen. As a wise, diligent and methodical worker he has no equal 011 the district. Though ill his 70th year he does more hard work than any other preacher. It is always a pleasure to visit his charge and to conduct all s(.lrvices pertaining to the quarterly conference. During this year he has received from probation 35 adults; 23 new adults on probation, with a class of 70 inquirers, There are two Sabbath Schools on his charge with 80 scholars. Two day-schools for bo~'s have been carried on at' the large villages of Kuoshihyillg and Talingkungchuang, with 35 scholars, but have received no help from our Rom'd. ~Iiss Dyer, has carried on, both a "''''oman's Bible School and a school for girls at the Flengjen charge, numbering for both 20 pupils. These schools ha've added greatly to the interest of all our church services.

117 - 110'- At the important market-town of J... aoehuangchen, Li I.Jien Pi, on trial in our Conference, has been in charge. The charge shows more prosperity than last year. He is able to report 5 adults as received from probation, with 21 more on probation and a class of 30 inquirers. The surrounding country is a promising field, but needs a preacher with more zeal aud consecration to develop the work. The two charges on this circuit report: Adults received from probation.. ~ ow on probation... Inquirers Oollections : Self-support. Current Expenses Repairs... Other Local Purposes Missions.. _.... Others Benevolences $ Total.... Number of New Testaments Sold... Scri pture Portion s Sold.....$ ,440 The l1singch'eng Oircuit. There are five preachers on this circuit, ]oc,lted at the five market-towns of Hsingch'eng, Hsinchi, Sahech~iao, Sant'ungying and T'iehch'ang. Rev. Hsii Ching P'ing located at Hsingch'eng is head of the circuit. From some unknown reason I have received no final report from him at this late date, so I am unable to give statistics for members and collections, later than t.hose reported at our District Conference. At that time reports of new members were discouraging. Several of these churches, mainly along the Lan river. suffered greatly from last year's flood~. At the Sahech'iao charge, all the members fared badly from loss of crops, only one member escaping, but he is a well-to-do man aud a most ~arnest Christian. Heretofore this charge has raised $50.00 a year for the rent of the chapel premises, the society paying $ This brother came forward to the rescue of his brethren, paying their share of the rent himself, and guaranteeing tb,e full amount promised towards self-support, the same as the previous

118 - III - year. He also stated that whenever the Board wished to build a church there, he stood ready to give $ toward the purpose. r fear both at Sahech'iao and in several other churches many members had a hard time in getting through the winter and early spring, but they made no complaints to me. At the District Conference only 12 adults were reported received from probation with 16 on probation. Though there was no regular colporteur on this large circuit, the preachers reported the sale of 5410 copies of Scripture portions. The P'inganch'eng Circllit. Rev. Liu Shao Tang is in charge, with Hsii Fu Lin at the Tung-Liang charge, and T'smi Lien Sheng at the l\fashench'iao.-shaotaoti charge; both of thesc men are on trial in the second year of the conferellce. There was also working in the small market-towns of :llalinyu and Rhihmen an cxhortercolporteur; this was but an out-station of thc P'inganch'eng church. The Mashench'iao,-Shantaoti churches did not thrive as heretofore. )Iany of the members and non, Christians had to be helped through a hungry winter. Then the Hei T'nans, mentioncd above, were more active within the bounds of these churches than elsewhere on the district. On the P'inganch'eng chargc there was considerable prosperity, more than last year. The same was true of the Tung Liang churches; indeed ilrother IIsu Fu Lin gathere{l an unusual crop on the apparently worn out lands of TUllg Liallg. The brethren are still not so active as they should be, but are willing to give more of their means thall ever before. The fire in the slllokillg flax is not quenched. There is hope, for the man who has done most to hinder the developmf'ut of these churches has taken himself off to regions beyond the Great Wall.,Ye have harl no funds to aid in carrying on day-schools for boys, but one however has been carded throngh the year by the efforts of the church at Shaotaoti. )Iiss Dycr has carried on a large flourishing school for girls at our church at P'inganch'eng and another at Shaotaoti. The results of the year are: P'inganch'eng Tungliang Masllenchiao Total Adults baptised New probationers Old probationers.. 5t Children baptised : 4 48 Full members :! 320 Inquirers

119 112' - Collections: Self-support.. Current expenses $34.00 $:: $2QOO 3.45 $S Repairs: Missions Bishops Other benevolences ~ Total Collections $ Scripture portions soul Slwliuite Oircuit. Rev. Wang En Chao, is in charge, with four other preachers assisting, one each at Luchiayii., Tangyii, Woliku and Yahungch'iao. Three are local preachers and one Chang Wan Shan, at Yahungch'iao, on trial in the Conference, in the class of the second year. None of these churches have been visited with great prosperity, though 110t altogether without increase in membership. For self.support there has been improvement. The Sabbath services have be~n fairl~' well attended, but none of the congregations have grown much. At no one church ha,e there been many new admissions, either to full-membership or on probation. And, if one is to judge from the final statistical report of the year, the shepherds have allowed many of their sheep to stray or be stolen. The membership of three years ago bas been steadily dwindling. The (!ollections however have not fallen off. These charges report as follows: Sha- Yahullg- Wo- Tangliuhe ch'iao liku yu Adults baptised Full Members New probationers Total probationers. Baptised children Collections: Self-support..... $22.00 $12.00 'Current Expenses Repairs l'iissions Bishops... LOt) 1.00 Total... Scripture portions sold... Luchiayu Total $8.00 $3.00 $n.oo $ $

120 II3 - TSUllhua, Oity a"ll Oircuit. Rev. Liu Ching Ch'ing has been in charge f)f the city work and Higher Primary School. with a Joung local preacher acting at the city street chapel and traveling the circuit. This work has felt the depressing atmosphere of the region; while it has been a busy year there has not been so great an inc1'ease in membership as last year. A number of families could not spare the money to send their sons to our school. The number of boys ill school has been smaller, and the school has ~uffered for funds. Friends who have helped heretofore have not b<.>en able to help this year. The school work has been good. Brother Liu's time is so greatly taken up with school work that he ~ajlnot: give as much time as church development requires. The assistant OIl the circuit is a man of good spirit but lacks energy or has not yet learned how to work hard. The work on the circuit is not looking up much. The brethren report for the year: Adults baptised.... Recei ved by letter...,.' /11 New probationers, " Total probationers.... r Full members Collections: Self-support , Missions., '.' Bishops Other benevolences Total Collections Scripture portions sold ij II! $28.00 i)ij.oo $ The Yiitien Oirc'll,it. This circuit has but two charges, Yiit~ien, and the large market town of Liuuallt'sang. i'he Rev. Tn Wen Yii has been in charge, with Chao Oh'ien Ch'ing, a local preacher, at Linnant'sang. This circuit suffered more from the heavy rains and floods than a.lly other. We had to distribute more relief there, mainly in and about Linllant'sang. Somehow the head of the circuit seems hardly able to get the time for his quarterly conferences and commullion services correctly: we have not had one good meeting dllring the year. He does not somehow measure up to the standard of good leadership. At Linnant'sang, despite :floods and poverty, the work has been fairly flourishing. Brother Chao, is.

121 steadily improving in his work. Oll.r greatest trouble is that we have not the funds to continue our work there: no money for preacher or for chapel rellt. There, as e.lsewhere I have been compelled-to withdraw the preacher and to cease chapel preaching. Th.e membership promises to procure a room suitable for Sa.bbath servi('es. The brethren report: Yiit'ien Adults baptised.... New probationers.... Total probationers Total members Baptised chudren Collections: Self-support.... Current expenses.... Church repairs.... Missiolls.... Bishops.... Other bc!nevolences.... Total collections Scripture portions sold $20.00, Linnant'sang 1~ $ Total $ ;70 $ ~{ In closing~ I must mention one other trial or cause for no marked advance. We have not added to our llreaching centers, but have had to drop the important market towns of Linnant'sang and Woliku, wher~ we have growing congregations. From both places we withdrew our resident preachers because of laf~k of fuuds. We have not been able to enter the market-town of Hsinchint'un, where we have a growing class. I have had to decrease my' preaching st~ff by four Ioeal preachers and to dismiss otller needed workers. The preaching, working staff is weaker. It will become those who areleft to work a little harder, even if a few of them have to walk a few miles occasionally; it will be good for their health. They are traveling preachers, not chapel-keepers. Though we can not give a glowing report we are not dis Couraged. There is steady growth along ajl lines that tend to build Ull the church. More and more the Holy Spirit is teac1!ing the minds, touching the hearts alld opening the eyes of the church. We are moving forward and looking upward.

122 Tsunhna Higher Primary School. LJ[; CHING CH'ING, Principal I have been both Pa~tor and School Teacher at Tsunlma now" for four years, and I still feel that I hate not the ability for the work. Last year ill my report I asked th(' Bishop to appoint :'I. better man to the place hut my request brought no results, and I was re appointed to the work. Therefore I had no alternath-e bllt to accept the appointment :and return and do m~- best for the work. This year w:e have had fifty student~ all of whom have observed the rules and applied themsel yes to their books. The far.nuy has eonsisted of :lir. fish Yu San who takes charge of the Chinese classes and )Ir. I-i Yien Ch~un who takes charge of the English au<l foreign sl1hjecth. They both are e:1rnest teachers. }Jr. Chang Hsiu Ling, a local preacher has also been a great help in the scnoul and Mrs. Lin has ah;o assisted by teaching Bible.,;Yhatever success tlie school has had is because of the assistance of these, my worthy.-associates. Because of poor r.rops last Fall, grain was high in price and it was hard to manage the fillanees of the school; but by strict economy we were able to close the sehool without a deficit. Although Tsunhua 1ua~' ue considered the most important charge \n the district east of Peking, and although the school has been establi'lhel there for a long time, still of late years, largely because of smallmeaw~, we have not seen any great results. Again I would ask the c;mference to al)point a lllan of great ability, who can collect funds anel so manage the work that we will have a great Messing.

123 YENCHOWFU DISTRICT. OHEN Yu SHAN, Dis/riet Superintendent H. R. LEITZEL,!lfiSS!:ol1ar:y-in.-Charge In looking back over the year's work we are first of all thankful for God's evident leading. In many ways the year has been a hard one. Last summer the crops were very'poor so that thru the winter many of our people suffered extremely from laek of food and clothing Then too~ soon after conference a regular scourgc of robbers broke out all over the district. :MallY of our Christians had to flee from their homes, many were robbed and all were in a continual ~tate of fearfor they knew not what day the robbers might come to their homes. N'early half of our village work was practieally closed since early spring, our preachers coming into the walled cit.y~centers. The leaders of these bands for the most part are Chang Hsun's ex soldiers. They are robbing, killing, raping and committing all sorts of unthinkable crimes. Not until the military Governor of Shantung retllrlls from the south with his troops is there any hope of controlling these lawless men. Under these conditions it was. extremely difficult to carryon the country work efficiently. Our men were very faithful and courageons in the face of Vhe dangers about them. Early in the Spring,,'e held a Leaders Meeting for five days in Yenchowfu. All but three of our men were present. Rey. C. A. Felt of Peking came down and gave us a very helpful and inspiring series of talks on Amos. The inflnence of those addresses has been with us all through the rest of the year. Some very interesting things happened in those meetings. I will mention but one. One of our preachers is the father of a Bon who is a Sophomore in Peking University. The family i~ desperately poor. The father's salary is $6 a month. They were expecting this son to lift the financial burden as soon as he graduated. But to their great disappointment he volunteered for the Christian )finistry. As far as money was concerned their dreams were spoiled. The father spent two weeks writing his son a. letter marshalling all the arguments he could against his going into the ministry and refusing to give his parental consent. He brought the letter along to the Conference expecting to finitjt it there. Bnt the Holy Spirit, through the message of Amos~

124 touched his heart and near the end of the Conference he was overcome and in a very dramatic wa~ after completely breaking down while giving his testimony, he rushed to his room and got the letter. Page after page he tore it to shreds. His testimony later was that he had never felt so happy before ill his life. Quite a different kind of letter went t-o the son in Peking. May the son prove worthy of and honor his poor old father~s devotion and Ion'. Through the help of funds from the Stewart Fund we were able to plan a follow.. up campaign in each of our senn centers. But we were prevented by)he robbers from carrying out our first plans. It became quite evident that it was not wise for the missionary-in'" <!harge to do much tra,-elliug in the country. So after the first campaign in Ningyallg, the District Superintendent and the Chinese preachers rollducted three more campaigns alone. Ii was a great rlisappoilltment not to be able to carry out our plans. We hope tbi~ Fall to go to the three other centers. 'fhe emphasis on this foliow'-up work was on finding and warming up 1he peop1e OI1.OlLr churrh roll rather than ~m reaching new people, although a go~rl many new people were reached too. The influence of the church is slowly but surely ~preadiug among all classes. An incident that happeued OIl th~ Wenshang Circuit bears out this statement. A hand of robb~rs. came to the large market-town of K'aihe to loot and rob. Many of our Christians fled to the small premises w(" are renting there and the pastor barred the door of the ~rard. When the first of the rubbers arrived they called to him to open tile door. After millly threats they opened it and they rushed in..inst inside the door the~' saw some large Sunooy--school wall pictures. They stopped and asked what kind of a place thh; was. The pas10r told them it was a chl.lrr.h. They quickly said, "Well then don't close your door; keep it open aihi we willuot molest you." "But~'. said h('~ " there are a lot of women and children ill the yard and they are afraid if I do not bar the door." Just theu the chief of the band came lip and he aske.l if this was a. Catholic or a Protestant church. When told that it wa~ a Protestant church, he also told them to keep the door open and they would not be molested. After a protest by the r astor, he said "Well, I will assign one of my men to guard ~-our door." After doing so, he went on with his band. Practicall~- every home in the town was looted except our property. After this incident, practically the whole town wanted to become Christains. This town needs a suitable place to

125 ~ care f.or.our w.ork. Our present rented quarters are h.opelessly inadetluate. We need $ t.o buy a small piece.of-pr.operty in this wide-awake t.own. One large city center, Tsininghsien, i~ still the great burden.on.our hearts. Our plant is n.ot well l.ocated and is t.o.o small t.o do efficient w.ork. L.ocal tr.oubles prevented any real gr.owth this year, We are h.oping t.o send a new.man there capable.of handling a great OiPp.ortunity. But we need at least $ 8000 t.o build the pr.oper kind.of church and sch.o.ol. During.June and July we had a Bible Training Sch.o.ol c.onductcd m.ost efficiently by Rev. Li 1 Rsi Hsun. There were nine men in the class. Six.of them are g.oing t.o Peking Bible Institute t.o secure training which we h.ope will fit them t.o be real fishers.of men. The pr.op.osed new church at Chfifuhsien has 11.ot yet materialized. 311'. Blackst.one bn~ promised $5000 G.old, but f.or the time being building has been delayerl. Our past.or, Liang En PO, has been d.oing fine w.ork there. "ie h.ope s.o.on t.obegin.on the,new church in this, the yery heart.of C.onfucianism. F.or a while it l.o.oked as th.ough.our self supp.ort was g.oillg t.o fall far sh.ort.of last ",ear's, but t.o.our great j.oy we!l.ow find that we have passed last-year's figures by a g.o.od margin. Many.of.our pe.ople are s.o desperately p.o.or that we call1lot h.ope for much financial help and yet.out.of their p.overty they give liberally. The Master said "L.o, I am with y.ou always". With these w.ords ill.our mind's and hearts we g.o int.o the new year with a firm faith and c.onfidence in His guidance. Yenchow Day Schools. H. S. LEITZEL, SJI.perintelzdent 'Ve have had day scho.ols in all.of.our seven centers and ill ~ight villages. In each.of our centers "We carried.on b.oth l.ower and higher primary w.ork, Our teachers have been faithful and the w.ork has been fairly well d.one. The value.of the faithful work.of Miss Knapp in supervising the girps sch.o.ols all.over the distrk'i cann.ot be.over estimated. We will miss her careful w.ork this year. May she return t.o us next year with new strellgtll and vigor for her wqrk.

126 We have been attempting 10 carry a school budget of about $1200 with an appropriation of $120 and about $ 200 special gif1s. The district has had to carry the deficit and so has had to suffer. We see no way out of it except by closing some of our schools, hard as that :wjll be. We believe that our policy of both a lower and higher primary school in each centre is the correct one, but it cannot be done without money. But we ('nter the new year with confidence for we believ-e that some way will open to provide for this w.<>rk.

127 REPORTS OF COMMITTEES AND BOARDS Foreign Missions In the report on Foreign ~nssiol1s last year, there was a belief ~xpressed that.., small progress iu foreign mission interest and giving can be looked for until something more is done than merely to go through the habitual performance of preaching one or many times a year on the duty of giving to foreign missions." With a mind to this feeling which is also our own, your present committee has endeavored to a.scertain what is being done by other missions and conferences in China. While a few churches and conferences have engaged in projects of establishing missions in other provinces of China than their own, very littlp. definite work of any kind has been done ill ~trlctly foreign fields. -Offerings for missiom; have been taken as in our own confererce ami the money sent to a general Board after which no more is heard of it, though we know it if:! working somewhere. Sermons on 111isslons have been preached but these have been few in number and often undefinable in content. III view of these conditions and the world wide effort now being made ill thp. l\iethodist Church under _ the Centenary Movement, we believe that the Xorth China Conference at this time should enter more definitely ill the work of propogating the spirit of Foreign Missions, and should take steps to link up our churches with specific foreign fields. We believe that with the growth of such an organized missionary work, our Chinese Church will have a broader outlook and will feel that it has a part in a world-wide movement to bring the Gospel to all who know not our Savior; and that according to the experience of other conferences the Home Mission work will grow with greater rapidity and the whole Church be richly blessed. Wherefore we l'ecommend: 1. That the pastors be ("llcouraged to place more emphasis on missionary work, preaching at least one missionary sermon each quarter. 2. That the committee on Foreign Missions, through the Board -of Foreign Missions be requested to take such measures as will tend to link up our conference with definite foreign fields. 3. That the committee on Foreign Missions be granted the use of a n amount equal to 5% of our offering to Foreign Missions for the dissemination of missionary literature aidollg the churches of our.conference.

128 121 - Home Missions. It has become a definite maxim ill religious circles that the spiritual life of a church is commensurate with its missionary activities. This applies in China as well as in any land. Recoglli~ing this fact, important measures were undertaken at the Kuling Conference this last summer. In this conferellce~ it was proposed to send a commission this year to Yunwm in order to study the needs and to determine the strategic centers in this great Manrlarill speaking province, which as yet is so little touched by Christian influences. This commission is to be composed of representatiy{, men and women cho~en from the maiu religious bodies at present at work in China. The hope is that eventually an interdenominational movement, nation wide, may be inaugurated for the purpose of the evangelization of YUllnall. 1.'his work once undertaken would constitute a great "Home Mission~' enterprise on the part of the Chinese church, and shonld indeed be a great challenge to the Chinese to do definite mission work. At the Kuling Conference a start was made towards the financing of the commission and the outlook for further aid is good. In order to carry out the summer conferen<>{', a committee of seven was selected, three of these being Methodists. This committee is to present the plan to the different denominations at work in China in.order to determine their attitude and to secure their cooperatiolj. Thus the question comes before us as a conference whether or not,we shall cuter into this project with the other denominations, or whether we shall endeavor to carryon our own individual home missionary effort. Tbe committee in submitting this report recommellds that we unite with the other denominations in the sending of the commission and then to await their report. Education. Owing to the pressure of flood relief work during the past year it has been impossible to get the committ~e together to do any work.on the many problems confronting the conference in its educational program. Two of the members of the committee appointed last year who reside ill Peking might possibly have been able to attempt something had it not been for the fact that one of these has recently taken his departure to America to pursue his postgraduate course. In view therefore of the fact that the committee has been able to accomplish nothing, it has nothing to report, but desires simply to

129 call attention to two facts. Tbere is n(jw an interdenominational educational union known as the ChihU-Shansi Christian-Educational Association. This association meets annually at Peitaiho and presents a program of great interest and with an opportunity for valuable discussion. All members of the missioll are eligible formembership in the association and are earnestly urged to enroll themselves and be present at the annual meeting. In the second place there is now an interdenominational teachers' institute which meets each summer under the supervision of Mr. Gleysteen of the Presbyterian Mission_ The fees are very low and the speakers are of the very first rank. A 11 principals of conference schools are advised where possible to have their teachers attend. Sunday Schools. III the history of ihis missioll, churches have been established, and seemingly flourishing congregations have been founded, but a singular fact a bout them is that growth was checked and the zeal of these membel's waned till at the present time, scarcely any visible fruit remains ill these centres. That should have been the beginning of a great work. 111 every case the cause may be found in an inability to read and study the Bible. Those in charge have been contented with preaching the word. The members have been dependent entirely on prepared food. When it became necessary to secure nourishment and pow.er for themselves, they have failed. No {"hurch or member can be established without a knowledge of the Bible and an ability to study it. The preacher and Sunday School superintendent should feel the responsibility of fitting each member to be a self sustaining oue. A church may be said to be no stronger than its weakest member. The reputation of the church, and the judgement passed on it by the world, is fixed as largely by the weakest as the stroilgest in its membership. We would urge on all pastors the importance of stimulating the illiterate to read and study the Bible. This may be best done in Sunday School. Special care should be taken in making up the cla;;ses, that scholars be graded and that they be advanced as they become proficient. The Sunday S('hool mnst be the training school of the chut'ch. We urge on all pastors the fact that intensive training in Bible study is what the church greatly needs.

130 Tracts. While we are no longer given any money to buy tracts, it has been the idea of this committee to examine a large n umber of booklets and tracts and to give a list of five books on a variety of subjects. We submit a list of five books on each of the following subjects. 1. Best hooks for men of education. 2. Best books for students. 3. Best books for church members. 4. Best leaflets to use in revival meeting. 5. Best books to use for common people. Our plan is to steadily add to this list every year, so that eventually we shall have a very carefully selected list. Respectfully submitted. George L. Davis '0' The Conference Board of Stewards. On recommendation of the Conference Board of Stewards the following grants were made from the Conference Claimants Fund. }lrs. Wang Ch'ing Yiin... $84.00 Mrs. Wang T'ien Hsiang Kao Hsiu Shan Te J ui ' Wang He Nan Cbang Pai IJill '{)0 Chin Ch'eng Wu. Ch'i $ Self Support We recognize the fact that self support has 110t grown as rapidly as we wished. Tn seeking for the reasons we are certain that the inherent unwillingness of people to part with their mo~ey is at the base, but alongside and equally important, if not more so, is a second reason, namely, that we as a conference have not carefully and consistently educated our people ill the privilege of supporting their own church. Any people look upon self support as a burden. They have not yet learned the privilege and joy of giving, because as we believe, those in charge of work have been too busy administrating the church. to give proper attention to education along these lines.

131 At tlle present time we are -in a condition which compels us to thiuk. Because of the very' great reduction of our funds due to exchange we find it impossible to carpy forward our work, ar already established, without deficit. Although-our funds from home have not decreased, neither have they increased. Owing to exchange we face a shortage in our funds from America amounting from forty to fifty percent. ~'hel'e are a number of ways to proceed. First, we can dismiss our workers closing our churches a'nd schools. Second, we can continue our workers on reduced salary. Third, largely increased subscriptions from the homeland and Fourth, largely increased interest among our church members lookillg toward the caring for their own church financial1y. Suggestions numbers one and two we feel cannot be collsidered in the light of the present opportunity of the Church in China and the increased cost of living. Suggestion number three cannot be depended upon because of conditions in the homeland. The Centenary looks to larger things and not to caring for work already established. Suggestion number four is almost a new field into which we can enter. It may not yield results at once as we might hope but your committee feels thnt careful planning along this line has great promise for the future as well as some promise, even in the present. Your committee feels that t.here are two avenllefi of approach to the self support problem. One method of raising more money from among our membership is through developing a Home l\iissionary Society. The second method is through more carefully organiziljg and developing what we usually speak of as self support. Some conferences have deyeloped a Rome l\1issionary _ Society until it has become a very effective agency in the securing of funds for the work. The report of the committee 011 Self Support in th(> C.3ntral Conference of China for 1915 says, "We especially commend tbe various Home ~Iissionary Societies and we record our satisfaction ovel' their substantial gain. We urge thut these societies be actively pushed. during the coming Quadrennium." Further recommendations were made by the Central Conference concerning these societies, particularly that a large part of the authority be given to the Chinese workers and they be made to feel that it was _their society. -

132 We. as a committee, would like to recommend the organization of a Conference Home ln~sionary Society. Our idea is that this Home Missionary Society should have a conference-wide scope, each district contributing its muney year by year into the Home Missionary Society's treasury to be used as the society itself may direct. If this is approved by the confereuce we recommend the appointment of a committee to draw up a constitution to be presented to the conference of 1!J19. Our second suggestion is that work, usuallj known as self support be more thoroughly organizeu and developed. It seems to us that the Ycnping Conference is right in organizing a district-wide self support program. "'re feel like going a little farther and a little more in detail in this district wide self SUppOl't program and suggest that each district make out a budget for the yeal' covering the support of the district superintendent and pastor:', school teacher~, chapel keepers also current expenses, traveling and repairs on property. If each church would make out such a budget and present the budget to the district it would be possible to figure out how much money would be required for the Jear for the support of the work of the district and to apportion to each charge according to its ability for the support of the district budget. This would relieve the pastor from urging gifts for his own support which seems to many to be a real difficulty. To this end we rerommenc1, First, that a campaign of education concerning the obugatioll and the benefit of self support be inaugurated early ill the coming year and that each pastor preach OIl this subject during the year, at least ouce. Special litel'ature should be provided by the district superintendent for each pastor that he may make a proper presentation to his people. Second, we recommend that at the ycry earliest time each district prepare a budget iucluding all features as above outlined and urge the members to pay monthly to this budget, if 110t weekly. Third, we recommend that a committee on self snpport be appointed by each District Conference, which committee shall include the district superintendent, the district member of the committee on self support and one layman who will follow out the recommendaiions of the conference doing as much as possible during the coming year. If the various committees will make a careful study along this line during the coming year your committee hopes to be able to work out a detailed plan as a result of the various

133 suggestions offered to be presented to the conference nen year setting forth methods of proceedure for the' districts. - We hope th'e time is not far distant when through the education of our people and the use of all developed plans our people shall be gla~ and joyous to assume the responsibility of their own well loved Church. Your committee feels it iml)ortant that these two plans be put into operation in order that we as a conference may reap the benefit from the extra interest developed during the Centenary year upon which we are entering. With our Home Missionary SOciety organized and a district-wide self support piau developed we feel that it will be possible to COilserve the results of the comiug year.of extra effort.

134 RESOLUTIONS. ) That we acknowledge our indebtedness to flisjlop and :\1rs. Welch for their cheerful presence, timely help~ inspiring lllpssages, and for their wise aud sympathetic judgments in all our administrations. (2) For the special (old fashioned altar) revival meetings conducted by Dr..T. M. Tay]or of the Board of Foreign Missions from.new York and the broad outlook and deepened consecration of all of our preachers and Clnistian workers. (3) We are deeply grateful to the Committee on Conference Program. They have wolked hard and have succeeded in giving us a good Conference both spiritually and socially. (4:) ~or all the advancement made during the year in all departments of work, for an increase in membership of 1293 and for good reports along lines of personal work and self support. (5) For the well planned Centenary of the Boards of Home and Foreign :Missions both at home and abroad, for the prayerful prosecution and the glorious expectatiou of mighty offensive movement throughout our world parish. (6) For the feeble yet persevering effort of the Chinese people to maintain a Republican from of Government. (7,l For the unfailing welcome and the gener~us hospitality of Qur Peking friends. "7'e had hoped to relieve them this ye:u, but the floods in Tientsin compelled us to return to our old home. Chinese and foreigners alike have laid awake nights to plnll for our festive and social pleasures and have succeeded beautifull~.. To say, "Thank you," is to put it mildly and to "k'e t~ou" (knock head~) is, alas, out of date. We welcome our returning missionaries and deeply regret the sudden and seriolls illness of one of our oldest aud much lo,-ed charter members, Rev. G. R. Davis, D.D.

135 Conference Treasurers Report CONFERENCE CLAIMANTS FOND Dr. To Balauce on Hand (1917) " Interest N. C. Mission.... " " fi'om Bonds etc " Book Concern Dividend.... " Brd. Conference Clmts Dvd (2yrs).... " Collection Pekiug City... $ n ll qO 4.00 $ Cr. By Conferen ce Claimants-paid... " Payment to N. C. Mission.... " Postage... " Ba.lance forward... $ $ HOME MISSIONARY SOCI~TY Dr. To Balance on Hand Collections " Ching Chao North District... ",. South " " " " Lanhsien " Peking City " " " Shauhaikuan " " Tientsin " " Taianfu " " Tsnnhua " " Yenchoufu " $ ] 47.0() 83.0O' $ Cr. By l)ayment fo ~. C. ~Iission.. " " Loss on exchallge Balance forward $ $

136 - I29- l!"orr:ign MISSIONARY SOCI~TY Dr. To Balance on hand " 1918 Collections " Chlng Chao Xorth District.... " " "South".... " Lanhsien ".... " Peking City ".... " Shanhaikuan ".... " Tientsin Cr. " Taianfu 1J Yenchoufu By Payment to Board Foreign Missions " Balance forward ",~ " $3:n $ $ $ COXFERENCE EPISCOPAL FUND. Dr. To Balance on Hand " Collections Peking City District " Yellc}lOufu District $ I.OJ Or. By Balance forward. $ GENERAL CO~FERENCE Dr. To Debit Balance Or. By Debit Balance forward FUND $ SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION Dr. To Balance on Hand... r " Two Grants U. S. Sunday School Union. Cr. By Amts. paid for S. S. Supplies... " Balance forward $ $ $ $513.72

137 CENTENARY CAMPAIGN PROGRAM. North China Conference. The Centenary Commission s~an be composed of the Missionaries in Charge, the District Superintendents, the President of Peking Academy, the Senior Doctor and a Layman from each District. From this number an executive committee of seven has been' chosen who will run the campaign. A.-The Executive Committee consists of the following: Chairman, Bishop Herbert Welch. Vice-Chairman, Far T. Sung. English Secretary, G. L. Davis. Chinese Secretary, Liu Fang. Treasurer, O. J. Krause. }femberf, Ch"en Hellg Te, F. M. Pyke, and Wang Hon Chai. B.-The work will be divided into four tiepal'tments. 1. Prayer and Stewardship. 2. Literature and Publicity. 3. Field Work and Evangelism. 4. FL.-laucia]. C.--The work is divided among four Committees. 1. Prayer and Stewardship: Chairman, F. M. Pyke; l\{embers, Ch'en Heng Te, F.T. Sung; Co-opted, W.T. Hobart. 2. Literature and Publicity: Chairman, Liu Fang; Members, F. M. Pyke, G. L. DJ.vis and WillIg Hou Chai; Co-opted, Ch'en Wei P'ing. 3. Field Work and Evangelism: Chairman, G. I.J. Davis; Memb: rs, Wang Chih P'ing (co opted), Ch'en Heng Te, Ch'en Wei P'ing (co-opted). 4. Finance: Chairman, O. J. Krause; Members, Ch'en Heng Te, Liu Fang, F. T. Sung, and Wang HOll Chai.

138 D.-Time of Compaign. The Fall is to be given over to publicity and explanation. 1. We -should ask the Editor of The Chinese Christian Advocate to carry news items of the Centenary and then we should see that every charge gets some copies. 2. Each Dist.rict should have an Institute during the Fall to lay' before the District a full program for the year's work which shall include pistrict and Circuit Commissions that shall see that the work is carried out under the four points. 3. The pastor shall preach a sermon each month in regard to some phase of the Centenary, and the District Superintendent shall devote time at each Quarterly Conference to arouse interest in the Cenlenary. 4. The Executive Committee shall prepare Literature and shall also see that the Districts have some speakers to help them. o. All members should be urged to join the Prayer League. E.-Second Quarter. 1. An Evangelistic Campaign should be carried out in each District so that all the members may be revived, and then an aggressive Campaign to win outbiders should follow, holding in mind that every charge should at least double its membership in the Quadrennium After the revivals and all during t~e year a drive should be made to enroll ill the Christian Stewardship League at least one thousand members. F.-Spring Quarter. 1. Financial Campaign. We should hold in mind the goal for self-support made in lhis and we request the Statistical Secretary to post a list of the Pastors and Charges that ]lave so far run well at the end of the Conference. 2. Every Charge should conduct a campaign. 3. Every member should make a pledge. 4. All drives should be finished by June 30th.

139 Resolution relating to the Federated Institution of Peking University. 'Vhereas, Since the Chinese name of the institution incorporated by the Charter of Peking University filed June 25, 1890 in the State of New York, is Hui Wen and since the federated institution is founded upon the old Charter of Peking University and has adopted the said English name, and since the English name is not objected to for 110t bearing any signification of Union, therefore it is unreasonable to ask for a change of the Chinese name Hui Well by which Peking Fniversity is both publicly and officially known: and, Whereas, It is explicitly stated in Article 4. of the fundamental agreement that all instruction undertaken by the federated UniveI'sit~ is to be confined to College and higher grade~, and since Preparatory department is below college and therefore is not college, it is a violation of the provisions of t.h~ fundamental agreement to take the Preparatory department into the college and coijsider it an organic part thereof; Therefore, Be it resolved That the :x orth China Anuual Conference of the Methodist EpisCoi)al Church which ga v~ its s:lllctioll to the recommendation of allowing other Missions in North China to federate with Peking University, do make t'ecommendatiolls to the Board of Trustees of Peking University that if other )IissiollS entered into the federation mider a misunderstan~ing of the terms proposed, or are not satisfied with the terms of the agreement as proposed by the 3lethodist Mission and which they ullanimousl~' adopted in 1914 in regard to the reorganization of t.he institution, they have a perfect right to withdraw from the federation until a mutual agreement can be rea('hed for cooperative work in higher education in North China. September 9, 1918.

140 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS After appointment by the Bishop last year, the Boarcl of Examiners organized, electing a Chairman, vice-chairman an'. Registrar. During the year, since our meeting of organizatioll, we have had two meetings at which we haye discussed the work. Feeling that in our new COIHlitioll we were ill need of more definite rules for carrying on the work columitted to us we l1lal~e the following suggestions to the Anllual Conference and respectfully request your adoption of the same. All the candidates for examination must present themselves at the seat of the Conference on the Saturday previous to the date fixed for the aslsembhng of Conference, which days interyening shall be devoted to examinations. Those failing to appear at the tiine fixed for any examination fail on that examination for that year. Xo candidate is permitted to take his examination ill the interval ljetween Annual Conference. Our suggestion to the districts would be 1hat candidates for Admission on Trial who fail to pass their examinations and enter Conference on trial pay their own railway expenses.. We found that up to the present time our Conference had 110t adopted the new Course of Study for Chinese preachers as outlined at t.he Central Chiua Conference held at Xallking- in 'fe haye for this Conference still used the old Course of Study. but would like to give notice to all interested that at 1he Hext Conferellce time we will use the new Course of Study adopted at Nanking in This Course we will have printed in the Conference minutes for the next year with the name of examiner attached to each subject so that it will be perfectly clear as to who is responsible for examination of the various subjects. We have a feeliug that some of the men haye not been takiug their examinations seriously enough and we desire to recolllmend that everyone expecting to come up to the Confereucefor examination make the very best possible preparation. Failure to pass all examinatiou must not be be placed at the door of the Committee. 'Ye will try to nuke our examinations a thorough test of the subject, not excessively hard but we are also determjned that they shall not be excessively easy. Reasonable preparation 011 the part of anyone to b~ ex3.mined win enable him to pass our examination.

141 134 - From this year forward all books to' be read will be examined orally. 'Ve take this step because we have found that in many illst ances the hooks to be read ha fe not even been secured by those pursuing the course of study. Because there has been some difficulty to secure books, this year our~committee has opened a Book Store in Collins Hall where every member to be examined may secure the books upon which he is to be examined for next year. We illvite, not only all members to be examined to look carefully over these books but any other members of Conference who are interested. You will also find some other books on hand. These books are for sale for anyone who desires to buy them. We are not planning to make any money but have opened this book store only for the collvenience of the members of the Conference. If it is a success we will develop it farther next year. I. Suggestions f01' differen.t classes applyinfl far ad-m,issioll to our Oon-fercrwe. 1. Oollege of Theology Students. According to the Discipline there will be 110 examinations of graduates of the College of Theology, exc~pt on Doctrine and Discipline as provided in the Discipline. According to the recommendation of the Discipline we suggest that College of Theology students do not apply for Admission 011 Trial to the Annual Conference until they have finished their work in the College of Theology. 2. Oollege Students. We recommend that college students do not apply for adlljission to conference on trial until after two years of successful WOl k under a district snperintendent.3 The first fall after completing the College Course we recommend that they may take the examinations of the Third Year of the Local Preacher's Course and be admitted to the Fourth Year provided they have also passed examination on the Discipline as prescribed in the First and Second Year of the Local Preacher's Course. As suggested above, after two years successful work they may he recouunended by the District ill which they have been working for membership on trial in the Annual Conference. R Bible Institute Students. Students who have graduated from the Bible Institute may prepare the Second Year -of the Local Preacher'S Course and enter the Third Year's studies provided they have alro passed examinatioll in the Discipline as prescribed in the First Year of the Course.

142 It is suggested that they do not apply for a license before graduation, while they are studying in tbe Bible Institute. If they have secured a license before entering the Bible Institute it is suggested that they dl} not advance during the years while they are in school, In case they have not reached the second year's examinations they will be privileged to begin from that point after finishing the Bible Iustitute, no matter in what year of th~ Course of Stud~- thej" were before entering the.bible Institute. If at the time of entering the Bible Institute they were more advanced than the second year they will be permitted to go on from the point which they had reached in the Local Preacher"s Oourse after graduation. 4. Preparatory School GraduateS', or others who are College grade but have not received the Oollege of Arts diploma. We suggest that this group of men begin the Local Preacher's Course in the District Conference, that is their first examination shall be over the four years of thc Ex:horter~s Course of Study so~that they may cnter upon thc First Year of the Local Pr~acher's Oourse. In case any of these young men arc too young to take up regular work, being examined as stated above, we recommend that they enter the Bible Institute. 5, Middle and Higher Primary School Graduates. If they canllot go farther in their regular Courses these are advised to enter the Biblc Institute. It is suggested that they do not apply for license to preach until after graduation from the Bible Institute. In case it is impossible for such YOUllg men to enter the Bible Institute we suggest that they begin the First Year of the Exhorter's Course of Study, 6. ~Ien who have never attended any of our schools should begin with the Conrse for Exhorters and follow on year by year, except in exceptional cases the Distrist Conference ma~' permit them to take the two years' work in one and ad,~al1ce accordingly. This~ however, is left to thc option of each District COllferenc('. In case such an one should enter one of our schools we suggest that while in school he does not advance in the Course of Study but when finished with the school be examined according to the schedule herein suggested, except in case he was formerly

143 beyond that I oint. In that case he will be allowed to proceell from that point which he had formerly reached. II. FU1'tlter Recommendations. 1.,\Ve as a Committee recommend that all who have graduated' from the College may bring certificates for studies actually completed in the College Course to substitute for similar subjects in the Course for Travelillg Preachers aecording to the 1916" Discipline. 2. We recommend that Bible Institute students be allowed to Rubstitute in the I~ocal Preacher's Course ally subject which they have actual1y pursued in sc]1001, provided they bring a cel'tificate from the school and present them to tlle examiner in charge. 3. lve recommend that for Entrance on Trial, Second and Fourth Year studies must be completed without one single exception before they can be advanced. In the First and Third Year we" recommend that in case any student fails to pasr in two studies he be advanced to the studier of the next year, conditioned ill' the studies! in whieh he failed to pass. 4, We earnestly recommend to all District Confertnces that their examinations be held in writing. 5. 'Ve also recommend that the District Board of Examiners be organized in each District Conference following the Constitution of the 1916 Discipline for the Annual Conference Board of Examiners. G. We also recommend that no man be granted an Exhorter's or a Local Preacher's Li.cense if he ue;es wine or tobacco ill any ferm. Respectful1y Submitted, W. P. eh'en, Chairman.

144 COURSE OF STUDY FOR TRAVELING PREACHERS. For Admission on Trial Subject 1. Genesis and Exodus )[atthf>w, )Iark, Luke. Th(' Discipline, Parts I and II,... Complete Geography, Zia, First half,. Martin~s Evidences of Christianity, Sunday School Lectures, Webster. 7. Written Sermon To he Read 1. Mrs. Sites' Life of 1Vesley... 2, Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation. 3, History of tile Jews from Cyrus to Titus,. 4. Gulick's Health I.. ectures Myer's General History, First half, Examiner Carl A. Felt Rao Feng Shan W. P. Cll~en J. MeG. Gibb Tseng l{uo Chill Li T'ien I~u 'Yang Chih P'ing W. P. Ch'en Hsii Yung Chen Carl A. Felt J. )IcG. Gibb Wang Chill P'ing First Year 1. Leviticus, ~umbers, Deuterotomy,.. 2, Acts, I and II Peter, The Discipline, Part III, " 4. Complete Geography, Zia, Second half,. 5. Ohlinger's Homiletics, First half, On CiYilization, First half, 7. The Sunday School of Tomorrow, G. H. Archibald,.. 8. The Training of the Twig, Drawhridge,.. 9. Written Sermon, To be Read Carl A. Felt Rao Feng Shan W. P. Ch'en J. )1cG. Gibb Hsii Yung Chen Liu Ching Ch'ing Li T'ien Lu Li T'ien Lu Wang Chih P'ing 1. Wesley's Sermons,... vven Jung T'ai 2. Richard's Protestant Missionary Pioneers, Liu Ching Ch'ing 3. Autohiograpy of Rev. Hu long )li,. 'ru Yii K'un 4. Myer's General History, Second half,... Wang Chih P'ing.

145 Second Year 1. Joshua, I find II Samuel, 2. John, Romans, '3. Discipline, Parts IV and V, Ohlinger's Homiletics, Completed, On Civilization, Second half, Sheldon's Essentials of Christianity,. 7. The Primary Department, Archibald, Talks with the. Training Class, Lee, 9. Written Sermon, Carl A. Felt Rao Feng Shan "t. P. Ch'en Hsii Yung Chen Liu Ching Ch'ing H. S. Leitzel Li T'ien Lu Li Tien Lu Wang Chib P'illg To be Read 1. Life of Christ, Vols. I, II. III, Williamson's Comparative Religions,. 3. Richard's Benefits of Christianity,. 4. History of Religious Progress,.. Wen Jung T'ai Tseng Kuo Chih 'V. ",V. Davis W. 'V. Davis Third Year 1. I and II Kings, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes,. Carl A. Felt 2. I Corinthians to Colossians inclusive, Kao Feug Shan 3. Discipline, Part VI,.. W. P. Ch'en 4. Church History, Part I, Corbett. Liu Kuallg' Ch'ing 5. Ohlinger's Pastoral Theology, first half. Wu Yii K'un G. Martin's Psychology, F. M. Pyke 7. The Seven Laws of 'reaching, Gregory,. Li T'iell Lu 8. The Junior or Adult Department, Archibald, Li T'ien Lu 9. Sheldon's Systematic Theology, Sections I, II,..... H. S. Leitzel 10. Written Sermon... : Wang Chih P'ing To be Read 1. Selby's Life of Christ, Vols. IV, V, VI,. 2. A Leaf of the Bible, Bettex,.. 3. Evolution: Its Ways and By-Ways The Teachings of Mihcius, Fourth Year 1. Isaiab, Daniel, Job,. 2. I and II Timothy, Hebrews, Discipline, Part VII,... Wen J ung T'ai,Yo T. Hobart Tseng Kuo Chlh "'Yang Chih P'ing Carl A. Felt Koo Feng Shan W. P. Ch'en

146 The Making of a Man, Lee,... Tseng K uo Chih 5. Mental Philosophy, Yen,... F. ~f. Pykc 6. Church History, Part II, Corbett Liu Kuang Ch'illg 7. Ohling 'r's Pastoral Theology, Completed, ""'u Yii K'un 8. Teacher Training with the Master Teacher, Beardslee, Li T'ien Lu 9. Sheldon's Systematic Theology, Sections III, IV, V, H. S. Leitzel 10. "Tritten Sermon.o Wang Chih P'ing To be Read 1. Selby's Life of Christ, Vols. VII, VIII, IX, 2. The Conflict of Christianity and Heathenism' Ohlinger,. 3. Discovered Truths, Uong De Gi,.... Wen Jung T'ai Liu Ching Ch'ing Liu Kuang Ch'ing Examiners of Local Preachers Seeking Local Deacon's Orders..' Wang Shou T'ung ~Ieng Te Jung

147 NAME IN MEMORIAM.. NOT DEAD, BUr GO~E BEFORE" ARRIVAL TN CHINA DATE OF DEATH I - CONFERENCE RELATION OF CALLING Leander W. Pilcher 1870 No\' Effective. La Clede Barrow 1892 July 24, J. E. Scott 1892 Mav 28, 1896 Phvsician. " J. Fred Hayner 1893 Oct. I, 1901 Effective. Entered Conference Ch'en Ta Yung 1883 June 22, 1900 Effective. Wang Ch'elJg P'ei 1891 July 23, Chou Hsueh Shen 1';95 July 30, 1900 Li Te Jen 1897 June - 19O(l Prob~ tioner. Liu Chi Hsien 1898 july 23, I~OO Kung Te Lin 1895 Apr. 10, 1902 Effective. Yang Ch'ao 1902 May 16, 1903 Cheng Chao Chen 1903 Aug. 24, 1905 Prob'atioller. Ch'in Lung Chang 1895 Jan. 13, 19 7 Effective. ~ Wang Ch'ing Yun 1891 July,, 19II II Li Shao Wen 1892 Apr. 13) 1913 Wang To 19::>6 Apr' 15; 1913 " Wang T'ien Hsiang 1905 Jan. 31, 1916 " "

148 , I & H SESSION II ~ Sept Aug Sept. I Allg Sept O~t..30, 1877 Sept. 9, ~ 1879 " 20, 1830 I t', gI 7, , 1833 O~ t. I, 1884 Sept. 10, 1885 Oct Sept. 26, 1887 Oct. 1 0, I88~ " 15, 1889 June 10, 1890 May Apr. 27, 1892 Sept. 30, 18g2 " 28,1893 ANNUAL MEETINGS North China Miaaion I PLACE Peking.' " Tie~tsin Peking I PRESIDENT Calvin Kingsley L. N. \Vheeler William H. Harris H. H Lowry G."R. na';is Isaac \V. Wiley H. H. Lowry U I, Th'omas Bowman H. H. Lowry Stephen M. Merrill Isaac \iv. 'Wiley H. H. Lowry G. R. Davis Henry \V. Warren Charles H. Fowler Edwarrl G. Andrew H. H. Lowry Daniel A. GooJsell H. H. Lowry \V F Mallalieu Randolp, S. Foster North China Conference TIME I PLACE,i PRESIDENT Sept. 29, Peking Randolph S. Foster Oct. I, 1894.] \Villiam X. Ninde Sept. 20, 1895 Tientsin John M. Wald~n.. 21, 1896 Peking Isaac \V; Joyce II 15,1897 II " " Oct..~, 1898 " Earl Cranston May 28, 1899 Tientsin" " 31, 1900 Peking James H. Pyke J~~e Tientsin David H. Moore.. 19, 1902 Peking I" n 10, 1903 " l\-iay II, 190.:1 " 26,1905 " O~t. 3] 1906 " Sept. 18, 1907 " Oct. 7, 1908 " Sept. 30, 1909 " Oct. 5, 1910 " Sept. 6, 19II " Oct. 31, J9J2 ". Sept. II, 1913 " 9, / J ' " -~, " " " H:H. Lo\Vr~:' J. 'N. Bashford Henry Spellmeyer J. V-l. Bashford I " " Wilson S. Lewis : J. 'V. Bashf~~d I" " I Wilson S. Lewis ]. W. Bashford \ivilson S. Lewis J. W. Bashford \i\filliam Burt Herbert Welch SECRETARY H. H. Lowry r..:\v Pil~her vi: F. \i\f~lker J. H. Pyke L. Vl. Pilcher J. H. Pyke L. W. Pilcher O. W. Willits L. \i\f Pilcher J' " J.'R. Pyl~~ Marcus L. Taft " " " " L. '\i\f Pil~her M~~cus L."Taft SECRF.'1'ARY Marcus L. Taft 1. T. Headland " I, II!'J " ]. 'Fred H'~yner 1. T. Headland " " " ",. " Carl A. Felt B~~ton St'.' John H. 'H. Ro~iand c.'k. Sea~'les.., I,

149 FORMER MEMBERS of the North China Mi ion It!ll'l'ER D THE. CONr-ECTI0N MISSION NAME.. SEVERED 1892 Barrow, Rev. LaClede 1894* JRg2 Barrow, Mary L. (Mrs. LaClede) Brown, Rev. Frederick Brown, Agnes (Mrs. Frederick) Brown, Rev. Grow Brown, (Mrs. Grow) Crews, George B., M.D Crews, Katherine V. (Mrs. George B.) Curtiss, William H., M.D Curtiss. Flore~]ce D. (Mrs. \Villiam H.) 1894* 1895 Ct1rtis~, Lulu M. (Mrs. \Villiam H.) 18Q Davis. Hattie Denny, L. D., l!.d Denny, Anna R. (.Mrs. L. D.) Ensign, Charles F., l\i.d Ensign, Mrs. Charles F GameweIl" Mary P. (Mrs. Frank D.) 1906* 1887 Greer. Miss Vesta O. 1890, 1873 Harris, Rev. Sylval1us D Halris, Tildie K. (Mrs. Sylvanus D.) Hayner. Rev. James F.) 1901* 1893 Hayner, Mable S. (Mrs. James F.) 1<) Headland. Anna Eckert (Mrs. Isaac T.) 1890* 1890 Headland, Rev. Isaac T Headland. Miram S. (Mrs. Isaac T.) Hopkins, Fannie B. (Mrs. Nehemiah S.) 1916* 1890 Jones, Thomas R., 1I.D Jones, StelJa~B. (Mrs. Thomas R.) ISgI 1910 Kent, Edwin 1\'1., MD Kent, Mrs. Edwin M., Kepler. Rc:v. C. O. 18<)3 1~92 Kepler, Mary 1. (Mrs. C. 0.) ISg Lambuth, W-alter, M.D c; Lambuth, Minnie T. (Mrs. Walt-r) Longden, Rev. Wilbur C. ISg Mullowney, J. J., M.D Mullowney, Mrs. J. J Osborne, D. E, M.D. I~O 1889 Osborne, Isabel O. (Mrs. D.. E.) iO Pilcher, Rev. Leander W. 1893* 1876 Pilcher, Mary H. (Mt s. Leander W.) g2 Scott, Julian F., M.D. 18g6* 1895 Scott, Lillian H~ (Mrs. Julian F.) St. John, Rev. Burton St. John. Mrs. Burton Taft, Emily L. (Mrs. Marcus L.) 189')* 1882 Ta ft, Rev:. Marcus L. 19II 1905 Taft, Mary W. (Mrs. Marcus 1.) 19II 1893 Verity, Frances W. (.\lr5. George W.) 1917* 1873 Walker, Rev. \ivilbur F Walker, Mary F. phs. Wilbur F.) \ivheeler, Rev. Lucius N ti9 Wheeler, Mary E. (Mrs. Lu~ius N \Villets, Rev. Oscar W \Villets, Caroline T. (Mrs. Oscar W.) * By death.

150 UNIFORM STATISTICAL BLANKS. Table Number 1. GENERAL SUMMARY OF PROPERTY VALUATIONS, including Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Property. (Amounts given include values of Land and Buildings attached,) I No. of I Value (Mexican) University and College Property: (a) Board of Foreign Missions (b) \Voman's Foreign Missionary Society Theological or Bible Training Schools: (a) Board of Foreign Missions (b) Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Preparatory and Boarding Schools: (a) Board of Foreign Missious (b) \Vornan's Foreign Missionary Society Hospital and Dispen!'ary Property: (a) Board of Foreign l\1issions (b) Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Property for Industrial Schools, Orphanages, Leper Homes, etc.: (a) Board of Foreign Missions (b) Woman's Foreign!\Iissionary Society Printing Presses, Machinery, Stock, etc. Missionary Residences: (a) Board of Foreign Missions (b) Woman's Foreign Missionary Society Number and Values of Churches (Totals)* Number and Values of Parsonages (Totals)* Total Value of all Property I I $ 600,000 40, ) , ,000 I ,000 60,iOO.. For Particulars by Station and Circuits see Table II~.

151 STATISTICAL 'fables, PART II. DISTRICTS STATIONS AND CIRCUITS CHINGCHAO DISTRICT NORTHERN Dn'ISION Ch'angp'inghsien Huaijouhsien Huailaihsien Miyiinhsien Shihhsia.., Yench'inghsien Total This Y (ar Total Last Year '. Increase Decrease WORKERS MEMBERSHIP (I) 1.<f (I) (I) I IlI:4 ":(1) en p.;,... r.z(i) ~ei~..:~ ;.: o-llll:4 <~ -"0 ~ 0. l;i8~ <li(1) 1-< ow ~:i~ 00 ~ OIIl ~~ :E ~;8 u<~ FULL MItMBItRS PRODATION~RS ~... ;:....='- III ~(I)~ 0 01.<f1.<f lilu ;gtf t:~1.<f ~'tl Lo o~<..j~ U 1Il~1:. == < s:: 0 J=.,~ U'-to Il.. ~ rnw 0 <~tii ::r:::r:j ""..= e ~ --.f:l s:: p:) 1-<.!!!~~ ~ cu III... :::::st:: c ~ Lo ' til ::sz OO.,1:o...j cu cu 0"0.ci C'CI CIl ~..!:l ~ ~ cu '"" cu ~ut '"' :E CUs:: <1" S s:: s::>' :>. s:: "-'... ~ g::: 0 '"" U C'CI ; s::' > p.. ~ cu 0 cum 'O.!!J.~ C'CIrn ~... ~ U) "t:: ~Vl::> '0 '"0 cu :>. ~.,c v.,c ~ tl~ cu s:: Ul s:: _... :: t: <1) ~ ~.0 I.e >... bij... s::.!!j ~ 0... CU :.2'"0 'v.0 E 0.- CIl... <1) <1) s:: '"0 s::.0 ::s"o~ 'v :>..0 <1) E cu 0. '"" 6 Ucu U Ed:; 0'... '0 '0 '0 '+<.0 <1)... '"t:l C'CI ~ S 0 ~... '"t:l CU > ~ s:: V 0 cu ~ B 0. II) 0. C '"0 '"0 "0 iii Ion '0'- :=: ~o ~ c:: ~... CU s::~ s:: II) <1) cu <1) <1) <1) ~ cu ~ cu... ;:;s <1) 8 "'" o~ g I~ '8 ~ T > > tn U '+< ~ <1)... Q) l!!l C'CI ~ V 0 s:: E <1J cu tn tn 8 'v 'v '"t:l C: ~ Cii ;g"" s:: o.~.g :i Q) II)O.J:! '3 :0 0 oj>... U U CIl <1) s:: Q) ci '"0 0 ~i$,6 ~.(Z CU Q) 1-0 a ~ 0 0 CIl..c > ~ 0 ~ z ~z in ;g ~ cc: f-i ~ Z 8 CQ <!! ~ Z..r; U z IJ.~ I. 2 I 3 4 IS :2 4 4 I IS ~ :2 3 2 IO 5 7 J I 2 I 1 8 I IS S : IS :[ :' I.: I [4 ~~ 10 1 JI [~ ~ 4 ~1~ js ~~-61-' ~1~--:;-:;-~-'--:--;9~-;~~ ry18~ 10 -;--;-[;/ i;~ I ~_~:_I ~1_~~~~ ~~~~~~~_J42 ~,~ 13 ~~~_ , I 2 3 I. 2,c \ 6j_. ~ I.' ~,.-. CBINGCHAO DISTRICT SOUTHERN DIVISION Hant'sun Kuangt'sul1 Kuanhsien Lihsien Niut'ocben Pahsien P'ar.gkechuang Peijin o Total This Year Total Last Year Decrease Ir.crease CHINGCHAO DI!:TRICT Northern Division Southern' _- Grand Total This year Grand Total Last year Increase Decrease ; I I J ~ I 3 1 : ] t I r-~ 2 -~ -1-; I 2 I I I 2 i 1 1: i 2 I I ! 8 2 g 31 :1., ::H 14 I I 4 1:. I ] 1 ] I I 1 I I I] I I I :2 ' ! ] 'i I I 6 I, I I 4 4 I 2 2i ] ] I JOI : Ii So JOE II4 ~ ~ , ] , C Il2 ~ 35 41~ ~ IIS~ r : , '2. :1. I. ', ' --- -~I~. - ~l~ I I I J,30 I 3 II :< I: 7 6 :2 51:) 43 I I : I I 74 J 39 5~ ( 3~ 10 4 I II 3~ 3~ I IO ~ 'i~ 6 2i ~ ] ~ ~ 15(; 29: '---f :2 89 8i 6i J

152 ~TATISTICAL TABLES, PART II,-Contlnued \i\'orkers MEMBERSHIP FULL MEMD}tRS DISTRICTS STATIONS A~D CIRCUITS LANSHIEN DIS'rRICT Ankechuang Cht'ntzuchen Ch'ienanhsien Chinpaihu Lallhsien. Laot'inghsien Omichuang. Pench'eng Total This Year Tot~l Last Year PEKING DISTRICT Asbury. Chushlhk'otl Huashih Shunchihmen Total This Year Total Lasl Year Increase Decrease SHANHAIKUAN DIs'I'luc'r Ch'anglihsiell Ch'ienwei Funinghsien Haiyang Shanhaikl1an Shihkechuang Shihmenchai Total This Year Total Last Year 3') () J il (, J

153 STATISTICAL TABLES, PART II.--Continued WORKERS MEMBERSHIP , c : PROBATlONERS... DISTRICTS STATrONS AND CIRCUITS T'Ar.\NFU DISTRICT 'I Anchiachuaf,g Ft-ich't'l'gh<ien T'iiianftl I Laiwuk'(Iutzu. TUngahsiefl f TUtlgll'inghsiell TIENTSIN DISTRICT Chiaohohsien Nanp'ihsien. Taich'enghsien Wangchiak' ou Wf,!sley West City. Yangliuch'illg Total This Year Total Last Year Increase Decrease I. I 8 1 I I I I 3 12 I t 13 4 It I ~o 2.z 2 2 I I( J II 3 1 I 59! \ ~ 93 4: 5 f: ~ I 9 I 6 I II II) 99 q 1\ S( E Eo lo ~I~ (0 I; 8~ 2 E :< II9 ~2 50 2?" 775 I 1 ] 1 1 '2 17 1:<"" ]7 18S :2 I '2 4 S IO ISO 10 TSUNHUA Drs'rRIcr F<'llgjenhsien Hsingch'eng. P'inganch'engtzll Shaliuho, Tsunhuahsien Yiil'lellhsjen Tot~d This Year Total La~t Year Increa,e Decrease 1 I 1 J I 2 3 I ( ] Xi I.'N :< 2 2 ( ] ,R I] ~ I.3 I 3 I, 3] ] I 1 I J Jl8. 14 L1 12 ~ ~ -~ --~-----I--=~ - ~~~'~~--:~14 _~~~ ~_~1~_5 --~--~ I ; [5 6 J 28..J 10 IO II 5Y _~ _' I I2R \ 751 I 'i 4 IC IJ' 41 TI / ~ -;--- r- -~-I--I-- -I~~~~~_;s; z-~ ;;. " I I '., j ---~~ ~ ~

154 STATISTICAL TABLES, PART 1I.-Continued WORKERS FULl, MEMBERS MEMBERSHIP -o PROBATIONERS ~ DISTRICTS STATIONS AND CIRCUITS YENCHOWF'U D1S'tRJCT NingyangIisien Ssushuihsi~n Tsininghsien 'Tsouhsicn. Wenshanghsien Yenchowfu Total This Year Total Last Year Increase Decrease + I I I 2 12 I I I I]] 3 ] J I I I I 2 J I I 10 :2 I I I 10 ( I 2.. I' 7 2 : II II _ ~ ; -;6-~-; - -~ -1--;6 -; --;;""4 ~ 6x 588 -;16~ ss51~ -; ----; ----;; ~ I lor 12 2,Z ISS [ _._ I. I I.. 8 I S2 I 78i I I II. 1 I u TOl'ALS BY DIStRICTS I Chingchao I 23 1 I' I Js Lanhsien ' II ~ i~ 1920 Peking ~ :'1)\4 52] ] Il n6s 2433 Shal!haikl1an I:; liz 'I"aianfu I:' :; 1 I 5. I 30 Ii 214' Tientsi!'l. I ~I.. I 6 I 8 3 I [J R lois Tsunhl1ahsien I 6\ I II ;' Yellchowfu 4 3_~_~~_.~ ~~~~~~~~ 2 ~~155~_~~~~~1_~~~ Grand Total This Year. ~;-I-;--; 26 0' :; \ ' I089JII Grand Total Last Year $ ' Increase -~~~- - -; ~-:--i-i--;i---:-~~ ;;;r;~93 -;;~ 657S;~ -;~~~ -;~I'-;-;;- 927 Decrease..,. 3 3 ] I. 4 t I.. I '.'....

155 III u, SUNDAY tti 00 CHURCHES AND?;:..t: SCHOOLS ~w PARSONAGES ~t-t DISTRICTS STATISTICAL TABLES, PART III. CONTRIBUTIONS IN MEXICAN DOLLARS SUPPORT OI-' MISSIONARY LOCAL MI,\, IS'l'RY CONTRIBUTIONS EXPENSES >. I~i Q) en 'I) STATIONS AND _ lj CI) CI) C1l I-< en en 'u r:!I.I /I) 0 lj en U l: ~ r:: CI) <I) til t:: ~ rn ~f;... 1: c:.a,2 W l:lc I- <I) l- I- V "CU ~ fjl CI) ~ r:: ::J CIRCUITS v l- v..c:: CI) v '.J "\. CI) 0 Q.I a r:: ~ -"C S E.;;; t~ Vl 0..c:.0 U 'u ~ IV C1)... ~ 0 :; r:: 0 <Il '" ~ > C) C, ~I~ (3 e I-< (I) C1I tn :: 0 C1I n CI) Vl <II.~ 0 CI).t:: C1I ::J v UJ I-< W ~ ~ >< '.J IV r.r. U..c: -= 0 O.~ ~ r:: t: '" til ~ ~ 0 ;-J 0 CI) 'fje-i W C) :.; c: '1- ~ Iii 0 0 ti ~z~ 0 ;;i '"' o:l....~ e 0 Q.I rj) ' ~ C1I '0 CI) - QJ bi).....s::..t: l- e CI) 0 P=I -, 0 CI) ~ ~ u... u.;; CI) ::J C1I ::J "';:J CI) I- C1I... 0 cs cs 0 0 CI) (5..c: ::J.0- I- 0 0 Z 0 0 I- ~ CI) ::J Z Z Z ~ :> Zf-4~ ;.- ~ ~ ~ ~ ::r:: ~ P-t (5 C).pt C) I I 'v e ~ Z ~\. 00>-0 -cti '"' ow... I- ii I I CHINGCHAO DISTRICT Northern Division Ch'angp'inghsien I fiuaijouhsien 6 24 ". 3D )0 Huailaih.. ien. I 4 2: I ' ;1 J J I Miyunhsiell : J 1600 I ) Shihhsia ' 30 I 2000 : II Yench'inghsien : It! 3 I() 19 :3 I Total this Year IS 145 l JJI I Total Last Year ; II9 i Increase ~~ ~-~-~. ~ol'~~i!~~ \ Decrease - ' J I 49 Ii I SOUTIIJi;RN DIVISION 212 Hant'sun I goc Httangt'sun. I I 500 Kuanhsien I 3 42 I 1000 J Lihsien I I 1,,00 : Niul'ochen I 2000 I : Pahsien. I 1200 I 1 40C Pangkechuang Peiyin I 1500 I Total This Year : [ nr I} Last Year i 10iOO 714 ' Increase., 3.J.1 I Decrease I CHINGCHAO DIS'.l'RICT C,rand Total This Year II :wo Orao I Grand Total Last Year Il1c:rease II 5 1., r. De:rease :2 86 J LANHSIEN DIS'I'RIC'r Ankechuang I : I I 1000 Chentzuchen II Ch'ienanhsicn I Chiupaihu.- S 4400 :; 4 2[00 Lanhsien J I I~O I (0 Laot'll1ghsien ~ ~ Omichuallg I 2 54 II 120Cl ,CO Pench'eng 4 S 1-l :; goo, Total This Yelf I CJ4:i I " Last Year _._18283~~:J'~ ~9--: Increase. I I I. I Decrease. ~ '... r ~ I : 33 16C? ~I--=~ G J Ii , I-- 64, ~J,3 1?. " 2 10 l I ~ J8 I~ J5 " so 88 ~~ i , J S IO Ji9 29, ~lo II~ ~ " ~ ~~; ISO.

156 STATISTICAL TABLES, Part Ill-Cont. SUNDAY EpWORTH CHURCHES AND CONTRIBUT~ONS IN MEXICAN DOLLARS SUPPORT OF MISSIONARY LOCAl. DISTRICTS SCHOOLS PARSONAGES MJNISTRY CONTRIBUTION S STATIONS AND CIRCUITS en rji I-. <1) '0..J::: 0 u.c ro u <1) III I-< ~ '0 ~ '(f) f-t Ul... ~I'H 0 0 o 0 c zlz z... o z Ii <1) 8 o ::r: - -0 f-t PEKING DISTRICT Asbury. Chushihk'otl Huashih Shullchihmen Total this Year Total last Year Increase Decrease SHANHAIlWAN DIST. J '4 0 I2J I 6) 2 2ioOO J" I 9lJOO I : I I [' I I I(}O _-J ~~~o~ ~I;; ~~ -6.-;; W--;; 518 ~ ~ -;; 694 1: J II : I (2 820 Ch'anglihsien j Ch'ienwei I FU~~l~.~I~iet:l_:_~.. _...':.. ~ ~ I I !(joo 2 _~ ~oo 14~~1 1~ II? 1-' :..J~ 3 1.::1.,.-'-.:..:.._--=:14_...: ~. 8 Haiyallg Shanhaikuan I r ISO Shjhkechuang I 5 4'l. I IS 3 IS 9 Shihmenchai 2 II II &' II \ J J \ 4 I Total this Year II IS i II87 ~2 JUO Total last Year ' lls r71l 38SJ Increase Decrease 21 5 II( II3TO 379::: T'AIANPU DISTRICT I Ancliiachua ng 4 24 ::!2I goo I4 Feich'enghsien J 6 S:':' n 3 J Ii Lajwuk'outzu :2 <I I 3 3 Roo 23 I T'aianfu so I ] III 155 Tungahsien ] 3 ] Tungp'inghsien goo : ] :2 I ~ '- Total this Year In6 I 151) I:? 2i 'fotal last Year ) Increase Decrease I TIENTSIN DISTRICT Chiaohohsien R Nanp'ihsien 1 J200 1 ] Taich'enghsien 3 740C I 4~ IS Wangchlak'ou ] 2700 I 2 : I I 5 ' I~.1 JO Wesley ] 19 ::~sor :2 I 55( D West City ] 35 I 7000 J I i.32 Yanglingch'ing ] ] ICOO I ~ Total this Year : :2 7R ] S.~ Total last Year S liz ] ~ -:-:-s:si:- :;~ ~ -- Increase I] Decrease I ' i

157 STATISTICAL TABLES, PART III-Continued DISTRICTS STATIONS AND CIRCUITS lt1'n 1'" to.! ~:,.J 00 CONTRIBUTlONS IN MEXICAN DOLLARS SUNDAY CHURCHES AND I SUPPORT OF MrSSIONARY SCHOOLS :::< Il-<to.! PARSONAG~S W~ MINISTRY CONTRIBUTIONS til III III III III rj] L. L V V '0 CI) III CI) CI).c..c....c u '0 S 0 () 0- ~ S III.c CI1.c ClI E U) u CI) ().c v U) E-t rn u ~ U CI) c (;i Z Z Z Z Z Z >- ~ I I rj] I... I::... I:: 0 = I rn b 'oj v 0 rn v.;;; -"0. iii ::: '0 III ::1:: rj) 0 til rj]. iii 0 0. ~~ ~ ~ U) ~ III 0... e.8 ~ ~ c III en V ~ c: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ P-t on v... '"' 1300 ~ ~ I "v E ~ L ~,~ t::.. ~ ::c: ti E-t I I LoCAL EXPENSES b Y1.NCUOWPU DISTRICT N ingyanghsien Sstlshuihsien Tsininghsien Tsouhslen Wenshanghsien Yenchowfu Total This Year Total Last Year 4 18;0 I ' 5.\ I I 500 I ~ : , :2:2:2 i " : roo; 4 I ! 2/:) 4 1 J I 1500 I :;: I 6 8" : R 5 I 7 bs. 1/ I IlO II 6 I IO 6 :2 5 5 I I.. : :2 I 3! :229 - I:; 67 SO 6 I~ IS 3700 I : I I It I 383 I 2( _ Increase : Decrease I 4.5 E 7 22 TOTALS BY D[STRlCTS I Chingchao [I :; ] IS Lanhsien [ ISO [ IUC,O i Peking"" [ SO :0 foi Shallhaikuan I4 82 [103 :2 460 IS u T'aianfll I 15lJ [ zp I Tientsin :2 8S !i\I5200, i Tsunhua ~ IJ.l :::::O;::~I This Year ; 5:: 7::: ~ 1525,:: 2J::: ~~ I::;: -;~ ~- 7~:: -30: _~~2:-i'~-~-34:: 97614: d; Grand Total Last Year 121) [ f) Increase -:---:---; :1-~307 --, ----;413---: ;; ~ :-~ :- Decrease z4br3.24<;, 910 1

158 STATISTICAL TABLES, PART IV. Name and Classes of Schools Teachers Pupils._-._._ Foreign Chinese From Pupils Receipts From Other Sources Expenses (/) Enumerate Particulars g..:: by Schools and Districts cis... ~- ~ aj to Os:: ECii c:: ECii aj Cii Cii :g,g, ~ :e 0 aj C 1) ~ E 1) B. of F. M. 1"-, ~ :> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~- THJ<;OLOGICAL AND BIBLICAL SCHOOLS Peking University *College Theology tbible Institute.. District Bible Schools Total this,,('ar Total last year Increase Decrease I, I 8. 8 I ll3 2, 1998 ~ 4 4 () 1 ; ~~ III g(~ ~~~I 155 2:)~~ 2~~~ 278 1~~~ 6~~ 176 2~~~ , I 10 1 I4~ til IIS 47~ \ : ~~I~~~_1!~~I~~~I~G.5~~~k-.~,~~~-.-~,~~~~ * In federation ~ith American Board, Presbyterian Mission and L. IvL S.-M. E. Students 16 t Umted MethodIst and Methodist Episcopal,-M. E. Studen ts ;ls, :::l. til : PeKING U N 1\'~RSITY ('oliege of Thology College of Medicine College of Arts:- t Peking Division : p.~i;.l sll IJi~!11 Jei~1 fo~:ldd.pol.li30~l~l J~L~d!~~\ u~d~l Ch1 ~LJ B~~~ , foldl 321~ Ii ttungchow Division I a 2 I. I Expresses form by the three Cooperating Mi ion ~ Total this year , 7 I 133 I ::: Total last year :;; ~ Increase I 2. ] I' T I3 291 Decrease 1, PEKING AO,DEMY College Preparatory 1 2 I g65 SII Bible Institute I '6:w Middle School J ' R Total this year 3 6 ] ISS ~0 232; ~ ; Total last year b ~ [ [ I Increase I. 1 I ISS t :j ~3()91-86:;;- Decrease I I '" n '1 I MIDDLE SCHOOL! Ch'anglihsien 1 I tJ Peking I I i z g418' [ Shanhaikuall 1 [ S i T'aianfu I I '.' [S ;; II2.\ Tientsin 1 1 I ~ ~~ -=66RI-=~ ~_ , Total this year ' [1340IJ~ r~ ;;349 6;;~ 137S:;~3J~~I--;~ ;; ' ~ ~ -;98It -SIOSI ~ Total last year " , QS ? :;000 [SS Increase ' Decrease II ' 1.. t M. E. DIvIsIon t Under Am. Bd., Pusb and L. M. S.