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EVANGELISTIC WORK.l6lbecause of irregular attendance at the Sunday services ;fewer candidates besides, since the people now realisethat connection with the church brings no material train ;here, also, as at the other centres, the Mission bandhaving less time for visiting the stations. The neweducational stir requires increased attention and labour tobe bestowed on efficient training of the native ministry.Formosa.Tainan, Takow, Chianghoa.The Japanese Presbytery of Formosa, a Presbyteryof the Japanese Presbyterian Church, has several ordained pastors. It carries on work amongst the 50,000Japanese and the Japanese-speaking Chinese in theisland.Tainan. All the old Chinese stagnation has beenchanged by the Japanese. The island has been surveyed, the results published in artistic maps and plans a;census taken; good roads made everywhere a railway;constructed from Takow to Kelung (one day s journeyinstead of nine), with branch lines projected across theisland and along the coast ;an efficient postal serviceestablished ;streets widened a ; good water-supply andeffective drainage introduced in most considerable places ;thirteen large hospitals built and staffed from a newmedical college at Taipeh, the seat of the Japanese;government precautions enforced against plague andsmall-pox the use of the; anti-plague serum, so manydead rats to be brought monthly by each family to thenearest police station (for each rat a reward of a pennygiven) furniture and bedding periodically brought out;side and aired, and rooms opened up and swept.In the 2,000,000 Formosan Chinese, for whoseevangelisation our Mission is responsible, there arepeople of all sorts, but only the poorest have beenhitherto much influenced, whether by preaching or bythe medical work. The townsfolk are hardlv reached