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,InLUTHERAN GROUP 99seven hundred and nine hundred dollars are received everyyear in this way. Usually the money comes from therelatives of the patients, sometimes it is collected by thevillagers, who are anxious to get rid ol the afflicted ones. Ofcourse, no applicant for admission is ever turned awaybecause of inability to provide the desired fees.Aniong the 256 inmates 220 are professing Christians.Of these nineteen have been baptized during the year.SVENSKA MISSIONSFORBUNDETS(SWEDISH MISSION UNION)Swedish Missionary Society ()890 )K. A. Fernstrom( !!>()!),Stations with dates of occupation: f!n/>t Hwangchoxv />:lehanu- (1SH), Kienli ( ), Kinjrcrhowfu ( ), MachenghsuMi( 1S5JS), Sliasi (ISiKi), \Yuclumjr (I SIM)); Xinki<i.inj: Kashmir ( ),Yarkland ( ).naries 4>. (Kni|loye(l liinese Staff !)<. ( oininiinicants 1,470In November last the Swedish MissionaryBegfontogsSociety celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversaryof the beginning of missionary work in China.The first missionaries of the Society arrived in Shanghai fromSweden November 13, 18!)0. They chose Wuchang, thecapital of Hupeh, as their centre for missionary work. Theintention was to work mainly in the Machang District,There was very little hope at that time of establishing anylarge mission that needed a wide field for its work as therewas not much interest in Sweden in the China Mission.Moreover the Free Church of Sweden, which supportsthe Society, had already a large mission in the Congo,which taxed the pecuniary ability of the Free Church verynear to its limits.the spring of 1893 a house was rented inSelectedTung-pu, a large market place not far fromMachenghsien. Then comes the brutal murderby an enraged mob of the two missionaries, Messrs. Wikholinand Johanson, at Sungpu, July I, 1893. After