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196 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.Fokien province, especially near Amoy, were the mostliberal givers among all onr Christians of South China,and I have no doubt they rank well with the bestof Christian work in all China. From whatsupportersI gather four societies working in that partof theprovince, i.e., the London Mission, the English Presbyterian, the American Methodist, and the AmericanReformed Missions have a total church-membership ofover 15,000 in good standing, and their total contributions received from Christians and adherents make thesplendid average of over $6.00 Mex. per church member.Or in other words, excluding the expenses for educationalwork, the Christians in that region are paying about80 per cent, of all the funds needed to carry on theirlocal church work. That is far better than these samesocieties are doing in other parts of China, and wouldindicate that it is not due to any special effort of teachingor methods used by any one or all of these societies, butis rather due to the inherent qualities of the Chinese inthat district to do larger things for their own churchwork. In the Swatow region the 8,000 Presbyterian andBaptist Christians raise a little over $4.00 Mex. perchurch member, and in several parts of that Missionfield the Christians raise 80 per cent, of all the fundsneeded to carry on their local church work.In the Canton delta some of the larger missions areable to raise about $3.00 Mex. per church member.Different methods of presenting church statistics may,however, easily lead to wrong conclusions. Thus thethree German mission societies who labour in theKwangtung province (Basel, Rhenish, and Berlin) constitute the largest Christian body in that province. Theyhave now united into a closer federation and have achurch membership of over 15,000 and are doing mostexcellent work in every way. But by their method ofreporting contributions of local churches towards selfsupport,one would get the impression that they do notbegin to raise the sums of money which is usually the