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CHAPTER XIX.THE TRACT SOCIETIES INCHINA.the early days of Protestant missions in Chinathe Religious Tract Society of London and theAmerican Tract Society of New York have beenin the habit of making grants for the purpose of tractdistribution ;first to individual missionaries and then tocertain centres, such as the first five ports opened inChina.About the year 1844 the members of the LondonMission and the Church Missionary Society working inShanghai established the East China Religious TractSociety, which did good work in the preparation anddistribution of tracts. It united with the Chinese TractSociety in 1894. In 1878 the Chinese Religious TractSociety was founded by Dr. Farnham and others inShanghai. In 1881 Dr. Murdoch, the honoran^ agent ofthe Religious Tract Society of London for India, visitedChina at the request of the R. T. S., and in the followingyear published his report of Christian literature inChina, a book of 68 pages. In this report Dr. Murdoch*suggested the formation of four tract societies, viz.,North China (Peking), East China (Shanghai), Mid-China (Hankow), and South China (Canton).This report gave a stimulus to the work of theChinese tract societies, the impetus of which is not yetentirely lost.There are to-day no fewer that nine tract societiesat work in China. They are :* It was during this visit he met Dr. Alex. Williamson andurged him to found the predecessor of the present ChristianLiterature Society on the model of Dr. M. s own Christian Vernacular Society for India (now C. L. S. for India). EDITOR.
THE TRACT SOCIETIES IN CHINA. 335The Chinese Tract Society in Shanghai.The West China Tract Society in Chungking.The North China Tract Society in Peking.The Manchurian Tract Society in Mukden.The Hongkong Tract Society in Hongkong.The Canton Tract Society in Canton.The South Fukien Tract Society in Amoy.The North Fukien Tract Society in Foochow.In addition to these there is the Korean Tract Societyin Seoul, which was reorganised last year.These societies are all affiliated with the ReligiousTract Society of L,ondou, and each receives a yearlygrant from the parent society. A scheme for theamalgamation of these societies into an associated unionis now being sympathetically discussed, and it is hopedwill ultimately be adopted by the societies concerned.A little more than a year ago the writer was appointed general agent of the Religious Tract Society in China,and this appointment may be taken as an indicationthat the R. T. S. is striving to take advantage of thepresent crisis in Chinese thought to extend its work inthis land and to help the associated societes to sowbroadcast the seeds of truth during the spring-time ofChina s renaissance.Besides what may be termed its usual annual grantto these associated societies, the R. T. S. gave throughthem last year very valuable grants of books to manyChinese pastors in different parts of the Empire.The Chinese Tract Society of Shanghai was authorised to distribute 420 libraries of helpful books valued,at ten dollars each, to pastors labouring within the areaof its field of operation.The Central and West China Tract Societies wereeach authorised to distribute 200 of these libraries.Each of the other societies had the privilege of donating100 such libraries to the pastors working within theirseveral districts. Each of the nine societies was alsoallowed to place six libraries, worth twenty dollars each,in certain churches chosen as being centres of interest
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CHAPTER XIX.THE TRACT SOCIETIES INCHINA.the early days of Protestant missions in Chinathe Religious Tract Society of London and theAmerican Tract Society of New York have beenin the habit of making grants for the purpose of tractdistribution ;first to individual missionaries and then tocertain centres, such as the first five ports opened inChina.About the year 1844 the members of the LondonMission and the Church Missionary Society working inShanghai established the East China Religious TractSociety, which did good work in the preparation anddistribution of tracts. It united with the Chinese TractSociety in 1894. In 1878 the Chinese Religious TractSociety was founded by Dr. Farnham and others inShanghai. In 1881 Dr. Murdoch, the honoran^ agent ofthe Religious Tract Society of London for India, visitedChina at the request of the R. T. S., and in the followingyear published his report of Christian literature inChina, a book of 68 pages. In this report Dr. Murdoch*suggested the formation of four tract societies, viz.,North China (Peking), East China (Shanghai), Mid-China (Hankow), and South China (Canton).This report gave a stimulus to the work of theChinese tract societies, the impetus of which is not yetentirely lost.There are to-day no fewer that nine tract societiesat work in China. They are :* It was during this visit he met Dr. Alex. Williamson andurged him to found the predecessor of the present ChristianLiterature Society on the model of Dr. M. s own Christian Vernacular Society for India (now C. L. S. for India). EDITOR.
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