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), An,.CHAPTER IXMETHODIST GROUPMISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METHODIST CHURCH,CANADA (Canadian Methodist Mission) (J89nR. O. JoliffeStations will) dates of occupation:- ^:rr/nrnii :Chen^tu (ISU J),Ohungchow ( ), Chungking ( ), Fowehow ( ), -Jenshow(JW5), JunghsHMi (J1MV>), Kiatingfu (1894), Luchow ( ). l.Vnghsien( ), T/oliutsing ( ).1,>Missionaries "His, Employed Chinese Staff J7i>,Coiuinunieants,(1 Dlo) (including Women sMissionary Society).Our mission in West China has one hundred and sevenforeign missionaries located in ten stations. Three of thesestations are in the territory taken over from the LondonMissionary Society. The other seven stations lie in athickly populated district a few hundred It north and southof the provincial capital and are on an average less than twohundred ii apart. These seven stations absorb eighty -eightof our foreign workers. Some of them of course are inspecial work, but fifty (not including wives) are engaged inthe station routine work of preaching, teaching, healingeach station having these three branches of work.Q , .( q average of seven or eight workers toSize or Stations &. . , .the station ishardly considered the full quota,but until the new territory is more fully occupied, this mustsuffice. By thus placing a larger number of workers withina smaller area it ishoped to give more careful and direct:training to the Church and church leaders; to give moreattention to the direct evangelization of the masses withoutwhich the Church itself can never be made perfect; to emphasize more strongly Christian education and to better coordinate the lower with the higher branches of learning; tobe able to manage a sufficient number of hospitals andsimilar institutions to create an impression and act as anevangelistic medium 011 the community outside the directinfluence of the Church ; that in the future when the chapels