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1 62 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.at all. Some sixty of our ninety-five stations are incountrv villages, and fully 80 per cent, of the worshippers who meet in market-places and prefectural townscome from outside villages. Thirty years ago therewas a large ingathering of civilised aborigines on a;smaller scale such a mass movement as has occurred inIndia amongst the lower castes and the outcastes, withsomething of the weakness as well as the joy of suchconversions.Most missions and most religious reforms have proceeded from the poor upwards. The Formosa work hasfollowed an ordinary law, and needs to confess no failure.But our brethren long to be able now to win theinfluential classes, and they are hindered by the fewnessof their number and the needs of the Christian peoplealready gathered 6,000 baptized adults and childrenscattered over a wide area while the educational equipment of the Mission is utterly inadequate for the newtasks. The ordained Chinese pastors are few ; thirtysevenstations (with 1,000 baptized members) have noresident preacher the east coast seldom see a mission;ary the ; preachers have not had the training whichwould enable them to meet the demands of the newtime.Japanese, an imperative subject in a Formosan highschool, is now to be taught by a certificated Chineseteacher, who has gone through the normal course in theTaipeh Government College. It will thus be possibleto prepare the boys for government examinations, andthis should increase the number on the roll. The otherChinese teachers are trustworthy men. The juniorChinese teacher has gone to Japan to complete his studiesin the Kyoto Doshisha College, a Christian institution.The Mission ought not to pass by the FormosanJapanese. It could reach them best perhaps by theestablishment of a Christian college at Taichu (in theChianghoa district), the Canadian Presbyterian Missionand our own uniting in the enterprise.