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EVANGELISTIC WORK. 147study has been laid down for affiliated schools, andexaminations are held at the close of each year ; papersbeing prepared at the request of the Union by missionaries in various parts of the field.Henry T. Hodgkin s Y. M. C. A. work has beenclosely linked with his work for the F. F. M. A. HisSunday morning addresses to young men on such subjects as "Science and and Life" "The Principles ofWestern Civilisation," have drawn students from otherschools besides our own. In other ways he is gettinginto close touch with Chinese young men. He andRobert J. Davidson have been on various committees inconnection with the Educational Union, the UnionUniversity, and Church Union.Methodist Episcopal Church (North).Conferences of Foochow, Hinghwa, Central China,North China, and West China.Foochow. Circuits of Foochow, Haitang, Kutien,Mintinghsien, Ngucheng, Shanghai, Yenpingfu.Foochow. The church has responded to the newspirit of reform that is reviving the national life, andwhich is an influence from the Christian civilization ofthe West, and our people are, in many places, identifiedwith, if not the leaders of, the social reforms. This isespecially true in the anti-opium movement. Mr. DingNgengguong, a graduate of our Anglo-Chinese College,a member of our church, and an active Christian worker,is president of a federation of all the more importantreform societies in Foochow. A notable event, whichsignifies much to the church, was the promulgation of adecree by the viceroy of the province last August, prohibiting idol processions and requiring that Christians beexempt from payments to the support of idol worship.We have taken 163 into full membership, which isfive times as many as last year, and have received 241