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150 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.aged,if not afraid to come back and live and work asformerly.Never before have all classes been so ready to hearand ask intelligent questions, not in a spirit of condescension or flippant curiosity, but with an eagerness tounderstand the Gospel and the object of all this workof the church. Nearly 12,000 copies of Scripture portions were sold from the beginning of April to the middleof June. It was a wonderful time of seed-sowing.West China.Circuits of Chengtu, Chungking, Shihsun, Suiuing,Tzechow.Chengtu. Batang is twenty-five days journey fromChengtu on the borders between Szechwan province andTibet. It is the common meeting place between theTibetan and Chinese traders. Our missionaries wouldhave gone on to L,hassa, except that the Tibetan andChinese government united in prohibiting their goingfarther than BatangĊhinaInland Mission.Provinces of Sinkiang, Kausu, Shensi, Shansi,Chihli, Shantung, Honan, Kiangsu, Szechwan, Kweichow,Yunnan, Hupeh, Kiangsi, Anhvvei, Chekiang,Hunan.In looking back over the last seven years it is interesting to note that the net increase during this periodhas been 28 per annum. In 1902 the total number ofmissionaries connected with the C. I. M. was 735, whileat the beginning of the present year it was 928, whichgives a total net increase of 193 workers for China inconnection with this one mission.From the statistics already received we find thatmore than 30,000 Chinese have been received intochurch-fellowship by the mission since its commence-