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CHAPTERVLEVANGELISTIC WORK.(Extracts from Reports ofThe American BaptistBoards.)Missionary Union.(TITHE Home Board began the year with an accumulatedViL debt of $158,694.55, but by means of a cooperative agreement with the Northern Baptist Convention and a Budget Apportionment Plan, togetherwith unusually large receipts from legacies, namely,$208,371.63, it was found that at the end of the yearthe debt had been wiped out and provision made forall current expenses of the year. The actual increasein gifts by the churches, Young People s Societies,Sunday Schools, and individuals was $96,660.07.Closer and more helpful relations between the severalfields in the Far East were sought by the appointmentof the Rev. John L. Bearing, D.D., as general missionary in the Far East.Missions in China. Churches, 156; members, 5,522 ;added by baptism, 481. Three distinctive forms ofChristian effort are now recognized as of outstandingimportance the training of preachers, the training ofteachers, and the training of physicians.The death of Dr. Win. Ashmore will be deeplymourned throughout the South China Mission.Suggestion of union with the Southern Baptists intheological work in the Hakka field and a possibleunion with the mission of the English Presbyterians atChaochowfu in medical work were prominent amongtopics of discussion.In Central China the completion of the girls schoolbuilding, the plan for union with the I^oudou Mission