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occupation:PRESBYTERIAN GROUP 125MissionThe South China Mission centres in Kongmon in tlie l)rovinee of Kwangtung. Thereis a staff of fourteen foreign and forty-sevenChinese workers. There are two organized churches with acommunicant membership of 881.While the growth of the Church has been normal, therehas been a considerable falling off ID the school enrollmentduring the year. Medical work carried on by two foreignand one Chinese physicians shows a considerable increaseover last year, especially in the number of in-patientstreated.FOREIGN MISSIONS COMMITTEE OF THEPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ENGLAND(English Presbyterian Mission) (1850)G. M. Wales<>! Stations with dates Fnk n ii: Ainoy (1850),Changpu (1889), Chiianchowfu (1881), Yungehtm (1893); Shanghang(1913); Ki tncjsn: Shanghai ( ); K/rant/tiiiif/ Chaochowfu:(1888), Sanihopa (1902), Swabuc (1898), Swatow (18o6), AYukingfn(1882).Missionaries 78, Employed Chinese Start 4. 8, Communicants8,072 (1914).The Home Committee is finding it difficultto obtain men for service in the foreign field.In a recent number of our home magazine under the title"Subjects for Special Prayer"was one, "For workers,ministerial, medical, educational." There have unfortunately been withdrawals from the field during the yearand the Mission on the men s side is distinctly understaffed.The Ladies Committee, on the other hand, seem able to findsufficient candidates to meet their requirements.There has been no notable advance in the Chinese staffbut it has on the whole, I believe, been well maintained.For some years past we have been confronted by thedifficulty of persuading some of the most promising of ourpreachers to undertake the onerous duties of the pastorate ;they prefer to remain in the less responsible position andshrink from the higher office.