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Il8 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.There has been a spiritual awakening in variousparts of North China, notably in the Manchurianchurches and in Shansi, tinder the leadership of Rev.Jonathan Goforth. Some of the results have been striking. Chinese evangelists have been called forth to thishigher work by the SpiritThe work at Peking was established in 1864. Thepopulation of the field is reckoned at 3,000,000. Themissionaries in the station have the help of 3 ordainedChinese, 18 unordained preachers, and 9 Bible-women.There are also 18 Chinese teachers. In the 4 organizedchurches and 23 preaching places there were 1,169 communicants, 122 being added during the yearThe new era is marked in the country work atTungchou by the addition of three men from the seminary, who are now doing strong, aggressive work whereonly the fort could be held before. The 6 out-stationsnow have 72 members, only 8 of whom are survivors ofthe Boxer war. The number is now up to that of 1900.Another help to the country work was the addition of4 colporteurs supported by the American Bible Society.Only one was possible before. These colporteurs aim tovisit all the market towns in the three counties regularly.The revival in the Central Church last year did nothave all the effect the missionaries wished in quickeningthe evangelistic spirit of the members. Yet the sense ofresponsibility has been deepened and has already made thechurch work far easier than before. The church SundaySchool, which is separate from the college Sunday School,has increased in membership from 60 to 140. A groupof 29 church members at the East suburb has organizeda "self-support society," but its future is not yet assured. Two station classes of 26 and 14 men, respectively, were held in the city last winter in addition tothe three in the country. Another mark of the new erato makeis the rise in the helpers salaries. It ishopedthis up by economizing in incidental expenses or byputting such expenses on the shoulders of the natives.