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MISSIONS AND CHURCHESmoney for this purpose, $12,900, was given by Chinese whohad learned to appreciate the service rendered by thehospitals.A step forward towards the solution of educationalproblems was taken in the opening of the arts course of theFukien University, with which we are affiliated. We areglad to be sharing in the opening of this new school andlook for greater definiteness and efficiency in our educationalsystem as a result.BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS OF THEREFORMED CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES(Reformed Church in the United States)Editor(J899)Stations witli dates of occupation:Yochow (1901).Hunan: Shenchowfu (1904),Missionaries 2 ( .l,Employed Chinese Stall o4. Communicants17o (191--)).The Reformed Church in the United States began workin China in 18 ( J9, when Rev. William Edwin Hoy, then amember of the Japan Mission of the Church, was releasedfrom his duties there, to establish a mission in China.~ The Mission has a foreign staff of twentynine,one having been lost during the year.To this must be added a Chinese staff numbering fifty-four.Of these fifteen are in evangelistic, twenty-nine in educational, and the remaining ten in medical work.There are three main stations, Yochow,Lakeside, a point four English miles fromYochow and the seat of the principal schoolwork of the mission, and Shenchowfu. There are threeorganized congregations with a combined membership of175. Of these thirty-nine were added during the year.Three new out-stations have been added during the year,making nine in all. Sunday school work is being emphasizedand the Mission reports a Sunday school enrollment of 540,about three times the total communicant membership.The educational work of the Mission iscarried on by eleven foreign and twenty-nineChinese teachers. There has been an increase