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INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-SUPPORT.IQIhaving grown out of a keenly felt need. The east citychurch supports its pastor, its chapel keeper, the teachersin two schools, pays its own incidental expenses, andmeets the expenses of two branch churches. The westcity church, small and poor, meets the incidental expenses of the church and of a preaching chapel, andsupports a school teacher. Of the sixty chapels in theHsiaochang district more than thirty have been providedby the church members without help, and for the remainder the whole sum contributed by the mission wasbut Taels 500. The Anglo-Chinese church in Tientsinsupports evangelists in three districts Tsangchou, Weichen, and Tungchou.In the Church of England Mission native churchesshare in the governmentfirst in the local council, which;raises and administers funds for the maintenance ofschools, church expenses, etc., which funds are raisedby weekly offerings, semi-annual collections, and byassessments on male communicants in proportion to theirmeans and standing, and second in the district councilwhich, worked from a central station, binds together andcontrols the individual churches. This scheme isproving efficient not only in developing self-support in thechurches, but in propagating the Gospel amongst thosethat are without.The field of the American Presbyterian Church wasin the storm centre in the Boxer outbreak in 1900. Notonly was two-thirds of the church s members in city andcountry massacred, but so much terror inspired in theeast and north that until recently few dared even tolisten to the Gospel, much less to accept it. In the city,however, the church has more than recovered itsstrength, and with growing numbers has grown in independence and self-support. The east Peking church,out of its poverty, contributed about Tls. 1,000 for thefurnishing of their new church building. Recently, witha little help from others, they have purchased andrepaired an excellent building for a chapel at Chingho,