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EVANGELISTIC WORK. 135Nganwhei, and Hunan, and comprise an area of 118,441square iniles, populated by over 50,000,000 people.Scattered throughout this great area Bishop Rootshas forty-six different stations where the church sservices are regularly established, with fifteen churchbuildings and thirty-one chapels, in charge of fifteenforeign and twenty-one native clergymen, assisted bytwenty Bible-women, 124 teachers and forty-five catechists.There are 1,287 communicants.The staff at Anking was in very imminent peril,owing to the mutiny which broke out among the troopson November i9th, and the ladies were obliged to leavethe city for two weeks, but the men remained throughout the trouble, and that the mutiny was purely local andtemporary is shown by the fact that both the boys andgirls schools there were able to take up their work againwithin a few weeks, and that they ultimately lost none oftheir pupils through this very ominous disturbance. . . .On May iSth Boone was incorporated as a university, thus securing the right to grant degrees, whichwill enable it to hold to the end of their course manystudents who would otherwise go to institutions wheretheir work would be given such recognition, or whowould drop out altogether for the lack of this incentiveto complete a thorough course. It is a satisfaction tonote that Boone Medical School was able to begin itswork again, and that eleven of our best students haveformally agreed to finish the medical course of five years,with one year additional for hospital and post-graduatework.Canadian Methodist Mission.Central Szechwan (districts of Chengtu, Jenshow,Junghsieu, Kiating, Tzeliutsiug and Weiyuau, and L,uchow).In common with mau)^ other Mission Boards, amore aggressive policy for reinforcements has been fol-