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420 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.been built at a cost of $4,000, raised locally. Two congregations fully support their own preachers and teachers.An English school has been self-supporting from thebeginning. About 100 pupils are attending lour schools.The vS. P. G. has two catechists for preaching and onefor teaching they report about 1400 Christians/ ;3. Burmah :Rangoon. American Baptists.4. Canada: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, andWinnipeg.5. Formosa : Chinese population at the end of1908, 3,019,412. The first to begin work was the Roman Catholic Church, 1849. Seventeen chapels throughout the island, and one or two small orphanages. 1,900Catholic Christians. fThe Presbyterian Church of England opened workin 1865 and that of Canada in 1872. The latter work inthe north, ministers to about 1,000,000 and the former;in the south ministers to about 2,000,000. Methods usedare : Medical work; girls boarding-schools and boysboarding middle schools, with primary schools in countrybook-room, printing-press {Tainan Church Newschapels ;issued monthly for over 24 years). For the rest the following table shows conditions in the summer of 1909 : \* See Chinese Recorder, Vol. 40, No. 9, September, 1909.f Geographic de L Empire de Chine, L. Richard. Table onp. 321.I Recorder t September, 1909 (as above).