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.156 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESMagazine, was commenced, and up to the present time wehave from all parts of China subscribers to the number ofover two thousand.From our Alliance Mission in South Chinaa branch work has developed Lin French Indo-.~, . . ,.,China, which has now become a separatemission, though its affairs are still administered fromWuchow. Two stations have been opened; one at Tourane,Annam, and one at Haiphong, Tonkin. Five missionariesare on the field at the present time and two are at home onfurlough. A few converts have been won, and colportageand itinerating work are being pressed especially. Recentlycertain restrictions placed upon our work and workers inFrench Indo-China by the authorities on account ofsuspicions caused by the intense war conditions, have beenremoved, and our missionaries have again been given libertyto carry on their work.FRIENDS* FOREIGN MISSION ASSOCIATION (J886)R, J. DavidsonStations with dates of occupation: I\i(trtr/.iit : ShanghaiKzeclimin: Chengtu (1904), Chungking (1890), Snining (3904),Tnngchwan (1900), Tungliang (1904).Missionaries 40, Employed Chinese Staff 115, Communicants332 (191-3).Not since the first missionaries of thes {fSociety of Friends-came to China, over thirtyyears ago, have there been such additions in one year tothe staff of the Friends Foreign Mission Associationhere as in 1915. The beginning of that year brought fivenew workers and three former ones to the field, and at itsclose there were 011 the way or already arrived four morefresh workers and three returned from furlough, making atotal addition on the field of nine new and six formermissionaries. The membership of our foreign staff wasthus brought up to forty. Considering the smallness of theconstituency of the Society of Friends in Great Britainand Ireland, about 22,000 in all, and in view of the stressand strain of war conditions in the homeland, such an