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INDEPENDENCE AND SELF-SUPPORT. 193meets, to a large extent, expenses of evangelizing outlying districts. Two attempts to found an independentchurch one in the south of the province by Baptistsand the other at Taiku by converts of the AmericanBoard Mission were premature and have ended infailure. But in the Baptist, American Board, and ChinaInland Missions self-support iskept steadily in view,and is being pushed as rapidly as the condition of theprovince admits.HONAN.In the Canadian Presbyterian Mission in Honanself-support has taken the form of providing places ofworship, supporting in whole or in part Chinese evangelists, and establishing country schools. One pastorholds services at six places in buildings for worshiperected by the Chinese themselves. Another ministersin three buildings given by Christians after specialservices. Two pastors have each had, during part ofthe past year, assistant evangelists supported by thecommunities in which they labored. Two central stationssupport three evangelists each. As a rule the missionpays a part of the salaries of teachers in country schoolsat the beginning, but withdraws support after two orthree years. Successive crop failures have lessened theability of the Honan Christians to make their school andevangelistic work commensurate with their desires, andeven caused a considerable number of them, to seek morefavorable conditions in a neighboring province.In the China Inland Mission, with Kaifeng as acentre, there are 41 organized churches where the Lord sSupper is administered, 71 out-stations, 1,469 baptizedmembers, 9 boarding-schools, with 157 scholars, and 18day-schools with 260 scholars, all of whom pay schoolfees. The school at Kaifeng pays in full the salary ofan evangelist, half the rent of a street chapel, and meetsthe expenses, including rent, of an out-station. Bibleschools are held each year at each station, both for men