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142 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.disappeared, and every Sunday finds us with a largecongregation.""The little museum, too, at Shouyang, opened inwhat was once the dining-room of Mr. Piggott s house,attracted in the first few weeks over a thousand men, alllistened to a Gospel address."of whom firstShensi. At Sianfu last year we announced thebaptism of the one-thousandth member during the visit ofthe Home Deputation ;the total membership is now 1,060,including forty-six baptisms in 1908. The only unsatisfactory feature of the year s work was a sudden development of litigation between some of the members, who allowed business relations to interfere with spiritual claims,but the case has been taken out of court, and there aresigns that the trouble will be happily overruled for good.The printing press, for the first part of the yearunder Mr. Bell, and later under Mr. Watson, has beenkept busy ; latterly in preparing a new booklet for thechurch and preachers plans for city and country stations.Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society.Canton. In this time of distress from floods reliefmeasures were organised by the Chinese. That theChristians were invited to cooperate on their committees,and even chosen for the most responsible tasks, was agratifying testimony to the respect which Christianityhas obtained from those without its fold.Every circuit reports an increased membership, andeverywhere it seems to be easier to get congregations ofnon-Christians than ever before. The appetite of theChinese for tracts sold, not given seems to growstronger and stronger. At the same time the increasesin membership are generallyA small.notable instance of anxiety for heathen relationsand neighboursis found in the case of Mr. Kwaan atChikhom.