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138 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.church, and, considering ability, are contributing liberally to its support. This isapparent when we considerthat they are now contributing nearly as much to thework per year as isapportioned to the Huchow districtin the division of the bulk sum sent out by the Board ofMissionsThe district, now containing about fifty preachingplaces and embracing some three million souls, wasorganized in 1901 from one circuit with 184 membersand has grown into five circuits with a membership of1,016. At that time the value of the property ownedby the native church was $952 ;it is now $6,359. Inthe matter of self-support there has been an increase ofmore than 600 per cent. The number of local preachershas increased from three to sixteen and exhorters fromfour to thirty-seven.Woman s Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church.North China. Peking, Tientsin, Ch angli, Taianfu.Four girls from the Fukien province have enteredthe school, preparing to take up the study of nursing ormedicine, and these must of necessity be taught the Mandarin dialect. The former noisy method of study haspassed away, and now the halls and school rooms are soquiet that one almost wonders that 250 girls are at workthere. A revival wave passed over the school in earlyspring. This began with a week of daily meetings, ledby Mr. Goforth, of the Canadian Presbyterian Mission,and was continued for another week by Drs. Pyke andHobart.Central China. Chinkiang, Nanking, Wuhu,Kiukiang, Nanchang.A great revival has visited Central China, in whichall the various missions have shared. Nanking, as beingthe most central, was the place chosen for the meetings,while Wuhu, Chiukiang, and many smaller stations sent