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EVANGELISM IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS 205preachers, now there are six with fourteen yet in theologicalstudy then there were two Chinese;elders, now nine elders,and twenty -two deacons. Five years ago there were fourchapels, now twenty-two; then the field had one hundredand, fifty baptized Christians, now over seven hundred; andthose Christians gave in that year about thirty-five dollarsMexican, last year over eleven hundred dollars Mexican;and, incidentally we may add, the field last year sent$18.07 to India as a foreign mission gift, the planting ofanother principle.At the outset, we stated our aim as theSplantingfopagationof a self-supporting, and selftheObjecive propagating Chinese Church. Self-government and self-support you have seen in theirworkings, but self-government and self-support are soughtnot as onds in themselves but as means to an end, selfpropagation.For, until the Chinese Church has in it notalonethe power itself to live but also such a life as will leadit naturally to propagate itself, ultimately taking possessionof the land for Christ, China won to Christ through theChinese, we have not secured the real thing. Let me emphasizethe adjective, a Chinese Church. It is not an Americannor an Americanized Chinese Church but a Chinese Churchpure and simple.IILPLANS OF SOME OTHER MISSIONSA SYMPOSIUMA. L. WarnshuisThe contributors to this symposium are Rev. J. B.Cochran, Hwaiyuan, Anhwei ;Rev. W. F. Junkin, D.D.,Sutsien, Kiangsu; Rev. G. A. Stanley, Tehchow, Shantung;Rev. W. T. Locke, Chenchow, Hunan; Rev. A. A. Fulton,D. D., Canton; Rev. R. A. Jait ray, Wuchow, Kwangsi Rev.;W. J. Hanna, Talifu, Yunnan. Reference is also made tothe annual report of Rev. A. G. Bryson, Tsangchow, Chihli;toaletter written by Rev. J. M. Yard, Chengtu, Szechwan;and a brief quotation is made from the annual reportof the Tsaoehih station, Hupeh.