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112 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESschools, for service in church and slate; by preparingChinese men and women to be intelligent and conscientiousdoctors and nurses; by housing and teaching large numbersof orphans and other helpless or needy folk; by emphasizingthe call of the Holy Spirit to the gospel ministry and byculturing those thus called; by teaching arts and crafts inindustrial schools; by producing and distributing a highclass and large variety of periodic, general and specialliterature ; by giving opportunity for self-expression to allclasses of people within her pale; by insisting upon1 he vitalrelationship between religion and morals, faith and goodworks ;by combining congregational responsibility witheonnectional efficiency, universal legislature with a centralized and responsible executive headship: in these andother ways the Methodist Episcopal Church definite!}- anddeterminedly seeks to realize the Kingdom of God infellowship with all who love and honour our common Lord.BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THEMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH (J8J4)A. P. ParkerStations with dates of occupation: Cftekiioiy: ilnchowfu (JS9S) ;Kianyxn: Changchow (190:5), Shanghai (1S4S), Soochow (lXf )( s),Sungkiangfu (1S8S).Missionaries 110, Employed Chinese Staff 403, Communicantsf),049 (191")).The ^kimi ^ ss i n of theLocationMethodistEpiscopal Church, South, occupies thesouthern end of Kiaugsu and the northern end of Chekiangprovinces. There are one hundred and ten members of theMission, men and women, including the wives of missionaries, and they occupy live stations, namely Shanghai,:Soochow, Changchow, aaid Sungkiang in Kiangsu, andHuchow in Chekiang. Besides these five stations, at whichwork is carried on by the foreign missionaries, we haveabout seventy out-stations occupied by Chinese preachers.

METHODIST GROUP 113A large amount of itinerating work is done by both Chineseand foreigners, men and women, and many other towns andvillages are worked more or less frequently, in addition tothose regularly occupied by the missionaries and Chineseworkers.carries on its work along theEvangelisticfour general lines followed by nearly allmissions in China, viz: evangelistic, educational, medical, and literary. Several of the foreignmissionaries, men and women, give their whole time toevangelistic work, together with about thirty ordainedChinese preachers and some sixty unordained evangelists,besides a considerable number of Bible women who help theforeign ladies in \heir evangelistic work.^ u recentTent Meetingsyears tents have been used withmost encouraging results in evangelisticwork. Many of these tent meetings have been attended bythousands of people, men, women, and children, andhundreds of names of inquirers have been enrolled, of whomlarge numbers have been subsequently received into theChurch.The tents are carried about from place to place and setup in vacant spaces in the cities or towns, and the meetingsare carried on in each place from ten days to two weeks,morning and afternoon and night. Relays of workerscoming from different parts of the mission assist in thepreaching and the work among the inquirers. The tentsare used not only in places where we have no church buildings or chapels, but also in some of the large towns wherewe have a church building. The tent not only serves to attract attention and draw great crowds to the preaching, butthan any church buildit accommodates many more peopleing or chapel in any of our stations or out-stations can hold.Many of the Chinese preachers and workers have taken thelead in these meetings and have shown great originality indevising means of attracting the crowds and holding themwhile thegospel is being preached to them.We have now on our Church rolls as reported atthe Annual Conference, last October, the names of 6,049A 14

112 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESschools, for service in church and slate; by preparingChinese men and women to be intelligent and conscientiousdoctors and nurses; by housing and teaching large numbersof orphans and other helpless or needy folk; by emphasizingthe call of the Holy Spirit to the gospel ministry and byculturing those thus called; by teaching arts and crafts inindustrial schools; by producing and distributing a highclass and large variety of periodic, general and specialliterature ; by giving opportunity for self-expression to allclasses of people within her pale; by insisting upon1 he vitalrelationship between religion and morals, faith and goodworks ;by combining congregational responsibility witheonnectional efficiency, universal legislature with a centralized and responsible executive headship: in these andother ways the Methodist Episcopal Church definite!}- anddeterminedly seeks to realize the Kingdom of God infellowship with all who love and honour our common Lord.BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THEMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH (J8J4)A. P. ParkerStations with dates of occupation: Cftekiioiy: ilnchowfu (JS9S) ;Kianyxn: Changchow (190:5), Shanghai (1S4S), Soochow (lXf )( s),Sungkiangfu (1S8S).Missionaries 110, Employed Chinese Staff 403, Communicantsf),049 (191")).The ^kimi ^ ss i n of theLocationMethodistEpiscopal Church, South, occupies thesouthern end of Kiaugsu and the northern end of Chekiangprovinces. There are one hundred and ten members of theMission, men and women, including the wives of missionaries, and they occupy live stations, namely Shanghai,:Soochow, Changchow, aaid Sungkiang in Kiangsu, andHuchow in Chekiang. Besides these five stations, at whichwork is carried on by the foreign missionaries, we haveabout seventy out-stations occupied by Chinese preachers.

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