There are 153 women enrolled as present members of the Tung-chou church, 79 of whom have been received within the past six years. Many of these have passed through great trials and persecutions, but they are a source of encouragement to those who follow them with interest and prayer. Six station classes for women have been held, 4 in Tung-chou and 2 in outstations. Those in the city were held a month; in the country, twenty days. All have had good attendance. Some of the Christian women in the church have volunteered for assistance in the conducting of these station classes, with good results on both sides. A new departure has been inaugurated this year in attending a great temple fair, where the ladies mingle with the women in the temple courts, teaching them simple fundamental truths. The boarding school for girls graduated its first class of 5, all of whom entered the academy at Peking. The school has had 49 pupils on its roll, with an average attendance of 43.

The North China Union College has had a prosperous year, with nothing special to report. The medical work at Tung-chou, under the care of Dr. Ingram, has been conducted through the hospital and dispensary, both of which have been open during the entire year, with good attendance. Dr. Ingram reports 1,375 first visits; from men, 281, with a total of treatments of 14,292. There have been 110 in-patients in the hospital, with 123 operations. The medical work at Tung-chou, while soldiers are quartered there, takes on something of a military aspect. Dr. Ingram reports that probably 90 out of every 100 patients have previously applied to witches, or attempted to secure recovery through other supernatural powers.

PANG-CHUANG

The work at Pang-Chuang is reported to have gone on through the year without any marked events. Thirty-seven adults have been baptized in the work of the field, and there has been rather a phenomenal growth in the attendance upon station classes. Counting the classes for men and for women, there has been under definite instruction, for a period of twenty days or more, one-quarter of the total baptized membership of the churches. An evangelist was examined and ordained during the year, which is one of the most important events to report. He was ordained to the general pastoral care of the whole field, a position too much for any two men, with the increased membership and the enlarging possibilities. Mr. Stanley has been compelled to look after, not only the evangelistic work of the entire field, but also the educational work. In the villages there are more openings than is possible to enter with the inadequate force of the station. In Pang-Chuang itself, the attendance at the girls' academy has been larger than for several years. In the summer a conference for workers was held for a month, beginning the middle of July. This proved to be an inspiration and great help to all who took part. There were 40 men in attendance, all of whom have had some special training, and the majority of whom had for a longer or shorter time been in attendance at Tung-chou or the seminary at Peking. Mr. Stanley reports that it was easily

manifest that the Spirit of God was moving amongst them. The work of the academy for boys has been, brought to a high grade under the leadership of one of the graduates of the North China Union College. There is need of a primary school at Pang-Chuang, so as to take out from the academy those boys who belong in the lower department, making more room for the higher courses. An interesting feature in the work for women is the endeavor so to interest the Chinese Christian women that they will take up work among the villages themselves. At the present time 130 women are under special instruction. During the year six classes have been held, lasting for twenty days each. In the educational work a kindergarten has been formed, with not a very large attendance at present on account of the lack of accommodation. The medical work at this station has gone on with usual vigor under the direction of the Doctors Tucker. They report a distinct change in the class of patients during the last few months. The women have thronged upon them in great numbers, overflowing the verandas. Those addicted to the opium habit have been numerous, although they are a difficult class to handle. The hospital puts emphasis upon the in-patients, those who remain for several days, and who are therefore put under religious instruction. Nevertheless there have been 7,024 dispensary calls in addition to the 541 hospital patients. There is no hospital in the field today more in need of new buildings in order to enable it properly to do its work.

LINTSING

Lintsing station, only fifty miles away from Pang-Chuang, and in the same great Shantung plain, is now in process of reconstruction after the destruction of the Boxer movement in 1900. An appropriation has been made to build two missionary houses, chapel and school, upon the old compound. In the meantime, Dr. and Mrs. Ellis and Dr. Tolman have faithfully held the ground, doing the best they could in so large a field while studying the language and endeavoring to get the work in hand. A shortage of crops last year resulted in high prices and consequent increase of poverty on the part of the masses of people. Here, as at other stations, station classes have been held, and in two outstations the local helpers have had classes for the training of the Christians. Mrs. Ellis has given herself to the woman's work in cooperation with Dr. Tolman, whose time has been very much taken by medical practice. During the first four months of the year there were 3,688 dispensary calls, representing 980 different individuals. Four hundred and nine of these patients were men. Dr. Tolman's assistant is a man and quite widely known, which accounts in a measure for the large number of male patients. A hospital is imperatively needed for this work.

PAO-TING-FU

We occupy Pao-ting-fu conjointly with the Presbyterian Board, the outlying field of the city being divided between the two boards. It will be recalled that this station suffered the most severely in the Boxer uprising

of any in the mission, or any outside of Peking. Owing to the protracted ill health of Mr. Perkins and the accident which happened to Mrs. Perkins a year and a half ago, the working force of the station has been reduced, while the needs of the field have been on the increase. The station reports an outlying constituency, looking to our mission for evangelization, of 1,500,000 souls. There is only one fully organized church at the center, with 36 places outside for regular meetings. Seventy-four were added to the church last year on confession of faith. The church supports a preaching place within the city, of which it takes sole responsibility. It is usually crowded, services being held on every afternoon of the week, except Saturday. It is near the market and the government building, so that the attendance is usually made up of intelligent people. Many remain during the two or three hours of service, listening intently to all that is said. A bookstore has recently been opened in connection with the chapel, making the place more and more the headquarters of Chinese and a center for general Christian instruction, where strangers may drop in. The church has maintained a station class with over 50 members. The results were encouraging.

There has been but little touring in the field during the year, Mr. Perkins being wholly incapacitated for this work. Within the large mission compound of the station there are 3 schools: the boys' boarding school, with about 40 scholars altogether; the English school, with 15 or 20 pupils; and the girls' day and boarding school, with about 20 pupils. Mrs. Perkins is able to get about more freely with artificial feet, and is called upon for more or less medical work, beside the general work for the women. Miss Jones has had her hands more than full with the touring of the field and the girls' school in the compound. The higher school work for girls is carried on in connection with the Presbyterian Mission, the school being in their compound, our own girls attending there.

The great cry of this station is for reënforcements. The work we are doing is wholly inadequate to meet the demands of the field.

The publication work of the mission is carried on at Tung-chou. A new hymnal, under the editorship of Dr. Goodrich, has been printed. Dr. Sheffield's "Ethics" also has been issued, together with a "History on China," an edition of the responsive readings for the churches, and a book on "Therapeutics" by Dr. Ingram. It should be stated that the new hymn book was printed in Japan.

SHANSI MISSION

TAI-KU.-Paul L. Corbin, Ordained; Willoughby A. Hemingway, M.D., Unordained; Mrs. Miriam L. Corbin, Mrs. Mary E. Hemingway, Miss Flora K. Heebner, Miss Daisie P. Gehman.

FEN-CHO-FU.-Ireneus J. Atwood, M.D., Watts O. Pye, Ordained; Mrs. Annette W.

Atwood.

On the way out.-Albert W. Staub, Ordained; Mrs. J. Frederica Staub.

Two stations; 9 outstations; 4 ordained men, one a physician; I unordained physician; 4 wives; 2 single women. (The following statistics are for Tai-ku station only.)

I organized church and 11 places of regular meeting: 86 communicants, 12 added by confession of faith this year; 430 adherents; average attendance, 250; 6 unordained preachers; 7 teachers; 9 other native helpers; total native laborers, 22. There are

5 students in North China Union College; 2 boarding and high schools, with 63 pupils, 27 of them girls; 5 other schools, with 70 boys; total number under instruction, 138. There is hospital, where 188 patients were cared for; 2 dispensaries, where 3,136 treatments were given. Native contributions for Christian work amounted to $202.64, and for education, $60.05.

The mission rejoices in the addition to its force of Rev. Watts O. Pye and Miss Daisie P. Gehman. Though Dr. Atwood has long been in need of a complete rest, he has felt obliged to stand by the work until the long-promised reënforcements can arrive. A physician has been found to go to his relief before another year elapses. Rev. and Mrs. Albert W. Staub are on the

way to join the mission.

TAI-KU

Evangelistic.-"A year of quiet work along established lines," would chronicle in a word the history of the church year, 1907-08. One outstation has been closed, Pai-tso, and 2 others opened, Shang-Chuang and Tung-Yang. Twenty-six were received on probation; 12 adults and 5 children were baptized. Work for women has steadily advanced. The most important event of the . year in the church was the return of Mr. H. H. Kung, M.A., from America to this his native place. He has helped much by his pulpit work.

Nothing in the way of building has been done in the station except for some slight repairs and improvements. The sole purchase of property was made in December, namely, a lot adjoining the mission compound in Tai-ku. This purchase, however, has some interest from the fact that it gives possession of the very spot where the six American Board missionaries were murdered, July 31, 1900. Aside from this reason of sentiment the mission is glad to acquire this property, because it gives them room to build the church which they hope to have some day as the center of evangelistic work for the city and district.

Educational.-In anticipation of Mr. Kung's arrival the boarding school for boys was advanced in the fall to the grade of an academy. Since February there have been 15 in the regular classes and 3 special students. The grammar school has had an enrollment of 17. An innovation in the life of the girls' school was the establishing of a Sunday school for the 28 students.

Medical. There were 3,168 treatments given during the calendar year 1907, compared with 2,121 in 1906 and 1,521 in 1905.

Touring has proved its value both directly, by bringing medicines and Christian teaching into distant homes, and indirectly, by breaking down prejudice and drawing patients to the hospital. A new dispensary for treating outpatients has been started in a small building in the court of a new chapel within the city, on the site of the former mission buildings destroyed by the Boxers in 1900. It is a good location for attracting the passers-by. The opening day of the new dispensary was the occasion of a special service, which crowded the chapel. The missionaries continue to find that the best results

from both the medical and evangelistic standpoints are among the patients who come and live in the hospital. There has been a great reduction in the number of patients who have taken the cure for the opium habit; that is, from 305 in 1906 to 83 in 1907.

The dilapidated condition of the hospital makes more urgent the need for a new building. The requests of last year for permission to appeal for $5,000 for a main building in memory of the late secretary, Judson Smith, and $1,000 for a woman's building, have been approved by the Prudential Committee. It is earnestly hoped that some friends of the work may be found who will contribute these amounts. A nice set of two sunny rooms for accommodating eight patients has been put up with a special gift of $50. These have been constantly full of grateful women and children.

FEN-CHO-FU

The process of increasing the confidence of the people towards the missionaries and towards the remaining native church members, and of strengthening their own confidence in themselves and in one another, as well as towards their neighbors, has gone on in a more rapid and quiet way than ever before in the short history of the Fen-cho-fu church. It has not been so much a time of gathering in new converts into the church as of reëstablishing old members. A large and rapidly growing number of the community is evidently becoming daily more willing to be classed as adherents of the Protestant church.

The main outstanding feature of the work for the year has been the medico-evangelistic phase of the work. The most valuable part of the work has been the coming and the abiding of men, women, and children in the hospital in peace and quietness, while the missionary has tried to cure their physical ills and lead them gradually to a knowledge of the truth. Owing to Dr. Atwood's ill health the work has not been pushed as much as he has wished.

With Mr. Pye's arrival, the educational phases of the work were emphasized, the number of students in the boys' school increasing from 15 to 30.

Shansi Memorial Association of Oberlin.--It is of great significance to the mission, as well as an occasion for rejoicing, that during the year an association has been organized at Oberlin College, with the aim of perpetuating the memory of those who suffered martyrdom in 1900 in the Shansi field, by promoting in every possible way and by increasing to every possible extent the educational work in connection with this Board's Shansi Mission. The way by which the educational work of the association is to be carried on as a part of the mission is by having the representatives of the association regularly appointed as missionaries of the American Board and subject to the rules and regulations of the Board. They are to be members of the Shansi Mission, which is to suggest the policy of the association's work and is to have direction of the fulfillment of such suggested policies as meet the approval of the association. All money, however, for the embodiment of the association's pur