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"154 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.committed since entering the church. As a result ofthese revivals, the church has been greatly purified andstrengthened.Nanking. A. K. Cory has superintended the UnionBible Institute in Nanking, and has acted as secretaryof the Centenary Conference Committee for the Promotion of Bible Study. He says: I have given a greatdeal of time and energy to the promotion of Bible study.I have seen this work carried forward in some fourteenprovinces of China through provincial federation andother committees."Reformed Church in America*Amoy Mission.Districts of Amoy, Chiangchiu, Siokhe, Tongan.The year just past will be remembered for the manyblessings that have come to this Mission. But no oneis so outstanding as that which brought the large increaseof foreign workers on the iyth of October the largestin the sixty-six years history of the work in thesepartsṪhe native church is a growing church, growingnumerically, growing in benevolence and in ever increasing self-support. The year 1907 showed an increaseof nearly $1,000 in this latter direction. But this reviewwill scarcely reveal that it is growing inthe spiritual power,power and might of the Spirit, as we all long to seeit. There is a good deal of coldness, dead ness, andworse than all, indifference. For some reason the commercial spirit of the times has a most deadly grasp uponmany of our church members, while of those who jointhe church we fear that among them there are not afew coming from wrong motives.In examining the different churches another thinghas been more forcibly impressed than ever before, to