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Show poor last year and that always causes unrest. At the place of free distribution of food where usually two or three thousand take their daily portions during t h e winter months, this year there are froTn Ten to thirtacn thousand who go each day. This is in our own city, a city of fifty or sixty thousand. The dismissal of Yuan Shih K'ai looks serious for he has represented the spirit of progress. He is officially reported to be suffering from some disease and has been asked to go home to recuperate. Another man of progressive tendencies has been asked to oversee the building of the tombs for their late Majesties which will take him away from the capitol for two years probably. You hear any news through the papers as soon as we do at Lintsing, so long before this reaches you, you may know ( I great changes that have been made. As far as personal danger is concerned, we only know that we never before have been able to go about the streets of our city with so much freedom. There is much more to tell but this letter is already too long. We have said little of the evangelistic work, but i t h a s gone on just as usual. While there has been no special spiritual awakening such as has come to some of our neighboring missions, yet we feel that progress has been made. The year past has been one full of blessing and we thank God for His goodness and pray that we may be worthy. We are especially grateful to Dr. and Mrs. Goodrich and Mr. Troxel who helped us in our semi-annual meetings. We want those days to be redletter days in the lives of our church members, and the help of such visitors means very much. We thank you for your messages even if the personal words that we would like to write to you are wanting. Many are the things t h a t we long to do that are neglected in the press of duties, but we send these printed pages with the same love and interest as if our hands penned each of you an individual letter. Sincerely yours, MR. AND MRS. J. H. MCCANN. MR. AND MRS. E. W. ELLIS. MR. AND MRS. V. P. EASTMAN. DR. SUSAN B. TALLMON. MISS MABEL ELLIS. Number of outstations 13. Station established, 1886. Station destroyed 1900. Station reoccupied 1905. Station to be rebuilt 1909. Statistics* Population of field 3,000,000. Native preachers 9. Bible women 3. Total native laborers 21. Communicants 560. Boarding School for Boys enrolled 30. " Girls " 18 Station classes for women " 34. Total number under instruction 104. Patients at Dispensary 1588. Treaunents " "-- 4547.,-=^-^ Needs* .00 or more for maps and globes in the schools. $10. to keep a boy or girl in school. $20. to put a Bible woman in the field. $30. to give a young man training as a nurse in the Pangchwang Hospital to $75 for evangelistic and Medical assistants. have no appropriation for the latter, to add a room as a nucleus for the Hospital sometime hope to have. We Notes* 1) Money has been sent foi the use of the blind man mentioned last time. For family reasons he could not go to school, but since an additional gift has been received for the building of a chapel in his village, he will probably be put in charge of it. 2) We are glad for the gifts that are making it possible to keep boys and girls in school and helpers in the field. 3) Our Medical student has already begun his studies in Peking and his support is provided for this year. 4) I t is not because of lack of a hearty and quick response to our requests for a Dispensary t h a t we still use the old place. The money came six months ago, but the building committee counselled waiting until the new compound should be bought and expressed the hope that a larger sum would soon be in hand. 5) An unexpected gift we hope to use in enlarging our Girls' School building. 6) In the future a big, roomy foreign vehicle is to carry us about in our tours, saving our time and strength for other work. |
