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120 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.probationists. The parish is 3,200 square miles in area,and is touched in 20 different places where regularservices are held. The Pangchuang field has 2 ordainedpreachers and 12 uiiordained. The total number ofChinese evangelists, men and women, was 30Notice should be taken of the work at Techou, whichhas seen the largest growth in the least time of anyof the out-stations. This is an important centre forwork. A rather remarkable growth in the work hasoccurred in the small village of Kechuaug. It seemsquite within the range of possibility that the villageshould become Christian at a no very distant date. Ofabout 20 families there were baptized last fall 8 men,and 13 men and women were accepted on enrollment.The old defunct missionary society was reorganizedduring the year. A graduate of the mission collegeand seminary has been called to serve as missionary forthe society.Shansi Mission. Two stations ; 9 out-stations ; 4ordained men, one a physician 2 unordained physicians ; ;3 single women total; missionary force, 1412 organizedchurches and 17 places of regular meeting; (120 communicants, 24 added by confession of faith this year, forTaiku only) ; 750 adherents ; 14 unordained preachers ;15 teachers; 19 other native helpers; total nativelaborers, 53.The year has been one of great awakening throughout the province, and this has not been without a reflexaction upon the work. The political changes andthe new reform movements, arousing the people to apolitical and social self -consciousness, have stirred thechurches to a consciousness of their responsibility andtheir strength in a manner which isTwo unmistakable.out-standing features of the work at Taikuare, first, the revival in and of the church in November,1908, and the weeks following ; and, secondly, thereorganization of the Taiku church as a direct outcome