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EVANGELISM IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS 217central station the money for the support of Chineseworkers, including preacher, school teachers of boys andgirls primary schools, Bible women, etc,, but expects theChinese Church to at once commence to assume the financialresponsibility and thus relieve the foreign missionarysociety as soon as possible. We are gratified to feel thatsubstantial progress is being made along the lines of selfsupportin all of our stations. We ordain native pastorsonly when they are fully supported by the local church.As a rule, we do not approve of engaging with foreignmoney Chinese workers for country out-stations, unless suchbe a direct evangelistic agency.Thus far the aggressive work of opening new outstationsfrom our main centres has been undertaken byforeign money. The one exception to this is our Wuchowchurch, which has been self-supporting, in the sense that theyprovide the salaries of four or five Chinese workers andall expenses connected with the church and out-station,for the past five or six years. This out-station was begunand has been continued from its commencement withChinese money. We, however, encourage our Chinesechurches to be self-supporting in their main station firstbefore attempting any advance work in connection withopening new out-stations.Foreign funds are used for the salary oftwo evangelists. The city church pays the rentof out-stations, oil for lighting, and other sundry expenses.Last year the church bought a stereopticon for countryevangelistic effort, also tracts, etc.In 1914 ttie District Church CouncilTsangchowdecided that in the future no preacher mightbe regarded as the pastor of any church, unless that churchprovided a portion or the whole of his salary. The majorityof the staff, hitherto classed as resident preachers, were thustransformed into travelling evangelists, who moved fromchurch to church, encouraging the local Christians, leadingthem out in preaching bands, and after a limited stayproceeding to the next group in the district. With twoexceptions, in Tsangchow and Chouchia, where pastorshave been supported wholly for six months by the localA 27