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116 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESalso doing a great work, having had a large number ofpatients from Soochow and the surrounding country duringthe past twelve months.Literar Work^ur ^ ss i n ^ s a so ^doing something inliterary work. One member of the Missionis giving himself entirely to this branch of service. Inaddition to editing our Methodist paper, the Chinese ChristianAdvocate, which now has a circulation of some 2400 copiesweekly, he edits the Young People s Friend, a joint publicationof the Chinese Sunday School Union and of the. ChineseTract Society, and assists in the preparation of the SundaySchool Lesson Helps. These lesson helps now have a totalcirculation of the Weekly and Quarterly Lessons of 130,000copies. He is also editor of the China Christian Advocate,(in English) which is circulated among the Methodistmissionaries and the home constituency. He is also a member of the staff of the Christian Literature Society and hasbeen preparing books for publication by that Society, Hehad a part in the translation of Hastings Bible Dictionary,which is now finished arid in the press. It is hoped thatthis Very important work will be published and on saleduring the latter part of the present year.UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY(United Methodist Church Mission) (1859)F. B. TurnerStations with dates of occupation :( Jn>kiang:Ningpo: (1864),Wenchovv (1878); VhiJili: Peking ( ), Tangshan (1883), Tientsin(1861), Yungpingfu (1902); Kweh-luw: Shihmenkan ( ),Sifangching (1885); Shantung: Chudiia (18(56), \Vuting (1905);Yunnan: Chaotung (Ifc85), Tungchwan (1885).Missionaries 47, Employed Chinese Staff 357, Communicants13,711 (1914).This work founded in 1861 lies between theNorth ChinaGreat Wall and the y enow Rjve r ;the Sea andGrand Canal ;its live circuits centre atTientsin, Tangshan, Yungpingfu in Chihli, and Laoling andWuting in Shantung. The work of theological educationformerly prosecuted in Tientsin is now associated withPeking (Methodist) University. There are fifteen missionaries (including six wives), forty-four Chinese pastors and