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156 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.The Siokhe District. This is not the only churchin this region where women never darken church doorsthroughout the whole year. Is it a wonder that manychurches are and remain weak ?United Methodist Mission(English).North China, Southeast China, Southwest China.North China.Circuits of Tientsin, Laoling, Wutingfu, T angshau,Yungp ingfu.The area occupied stretches from the Yellow Riverto the Great Wall, and embraces hundreds of cities,towns, and villages. Evangelistic, educational, andmedical work is carried on, with special agencies for theinstruction of women and girlsThe medical work is also evangelistic, and manythousands of sufferers, who are relieved each year, hearthe Gospel. Martyrs Memorial Hospitals are to beerected at Wutingfu and Yungp ingfu. In the lattercity hospital work is carried on on a small scale, butfurther extension is contemplated. The Chu Chia Hospital has enlarged its usefulness by the establishmentof branch dispensaries in the neighbouring cities of Tehpingand LaolingThis is the jubilee year of the North China Mission.It was in 1850 that Messrs. Innocent and Hall startedfor the Celestial Empire, and for a few years the workwas necessarily small.L,aoling Circuit. There is not much progress toreport in this circuit, and the baptisms have beenfewer than usual. . . Some of the newer churches arefairly progressive, but some of the older churches remainstationary year by year.The causes no doubt are complex and hard todiscover, but one of the contributory factors is, I think,