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114 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.in a school for boys and union with the London andWesleyan Missions in the work of a medical school arecheering signs of advance.Or. T. S. Barbour, the foreign secretary, visitedthe field this year.South China. Churches, 120; members, 3,194;added by baptism, 207. As in the preceding year, muchcare has been given to guidance of the movement amongthe native churches toward self-direction. In the Swatowfield a council was held in December, at which theindependence of the church at Khekkoi was recognized.This is the second church in this field the other beingthe church at Autheh on Natnoa Island to assume fullresponsibility for self-support and self-go vernrneiit underthe leadership of the pastor. In other churches thereis a similar spirit of self-reliance and aggressivenesswithout indication of desire for formal independenceThe several native associations are becoming moreefficiently organized and are taking vigorous measures tocarry forward the work of evangelization. Associationmeetings at Swatow, Ungkung, and Hopo are reported asbeing unusually interesting and profitable. The nativemissionary society of Kityang has assumed entire responsibility for Weichow district, having called the pastorof the Kityang church to the oversight of this work.Two successful missionary conventions were held ; $546Mexican being raised for the Weichow work. A generalconvention of the Hoklo-speaking churches of SouthChina was held at Kityang in the autumn.East Chi?ia. Churches, 25 ; members, 1,297 ;addedby baptism, 116. The results of evangelistic work donot vary greatly from those of the preceding year ;thenumber of baptisms being almost exactly the same.Several missionaries report that the most serious hindrance is the scarcity of well-trained and consecratedworkers. It isexpected that the situation will be much