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1 88 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.is paid to direct aggressive evangelistic work. Thislatter is the first duty of the missionary societies, andwe feel quite within the mark to say that for everymissionary, or Chinese worker, engaged in educational,pastoral, medical, and all other forms of institutionalwork there should be at least four set apart for directaggressive evangelistic work.In this department alone can we record not progressbut retrogression, but let us hope that we are on the eveof new things.IV.THE PRESENT NEED.Enough has been said, both in regard to the opendoor in China and the present unsatisfactory state inwhich aggressive evangelistic work is, to indicate thatvery real needs exist. The evangelization of the worldin this generation has become of late years almost ahousehold word, but do not let our familiarity with itsuse make itspower to be less felt upon us. It is truethat the only generation we can be a blessing to is ourown, and there is therefore great urgency in the call toevangelize the still unreached millions of China. Thewide open doors of this vast land call loudly to thehome churches to arise and enter in. The presentcondition of direct evangelistic effort demands a greatlyincreased staff of men and women specially set apart forthat work, and just as definitely set apart as men andwomen are for educational and medical work.Federated effort is now not only possible in Chinabut most desirable, and in no branch of missionary effortcould this be more easily done than in direct aggressiveevangelistic effort in the country districts. All thesocieties now at work in China should combine in a greatunited effort for the evangelization of the unreachedmillions in China, and should aim at the work beingaccomplished speedily, for who can tell how long thisdoor will remain open.ALEX. R. SAUNDERS.
CHAPTERVIII*INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-SUPPORT.Progress of Independence and Self-Support in North China.MANCHURIA.(TT HOUGH the Christians in Manchuria were im-Vll poverished by the Russo-Japanese war, they haveof late been making rapid strides toward independence and self-support. In the Scotch Presbyterian Mission the rule is that pastors must be supported by theircongregations. Under this rule there are native pastorsin eiglit large cities, and in one of them Mukden two.Besides these the Mukden church supports two ordainedmissionaries in Chichihar province. Nearly all theprimary education and a large part of the secondary isat the cost of the Christians. Mukden last year supported a large primary boys school with three or fourteachers, a secondary boys school with three teachers,and a girls school with one teacher. The teacherssalaries are double or treble what they were a few yearsa*>o. The Mukden church at the same time supportedsi x evangelists and four Bible-women in the city. Theeast Mukden church has, this past year, contributedover $5,000.Its pastor and elders do much evangelisticwork in the circle of its twenty-five out-stations. It haslately provided a refuge for homeless men and womenmembers of the church, perhaps the first of the kind inChina.The churches under the Irish Presbyterian Mission,with 10, 203 members and 3,043 catechumens, contributedlast year approximately $16,000. Four pastors areentirely supported by their churches. The churchesalso sustain two missionaries in Heilungchiang province.Without exceptionall the boys schools, with 1,272
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CHAPTERVIII*INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-SUPPORT.Progress of Independence and Self-Support in North China.MANCHURIA.(TT HOUGH the Christians in Manchuria were im-Vll poverished by the Russo-Japanese war, they haveof late been making rapid strides toward independence and self-support. In the Scotch Presbyterian Mission the rule is that pastors must be supported by theircongregations. Under this rule there are native pastorsin eiglit large cities, and in one of them Mukden two.Besides these the Mukden church supports two ordainedmissionaries in Chichihar province. Nearly all theprimary education and a large part of the secondary isat the cost of the Christians. Mukden last year supported a large primary boys school with three or fourteachers, a secondary boys school with three teachers,and a girls school with one teacher. The teacherssalaries are double or treble what they were a few yearsa*>o. The Mukden church at the same time supportedsi x evangelists and four Bible-women in the city. Theeast Mukden church has, this past year, contributedover $5,000.Its pastor and elders do much evangelisticwork in the circle of its twenty-five out-stations. It haslately provided a refuge for homeless men and womenmembers of the church, perhaps the first of the kind inChina.The churches under the Irish Presbyterian Mission,with 10, 203 members and 3,043 catechumens, contributedlast year approximately $16,000. Four pastors areentirely supported by their churches. The churchesalso sustain two missionaries in Heilungchiang province.Without exceptionall the boys schools, with 1,272
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