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MISCELLANEOUSto justify the conclusion that after the passage of a comparatively few more years we shall have arrived at the placewhere there will be neither demand nor desire for moreforeign missionaries in this part of China. With anunceasing fidelity to our trust and our opportunity now,backed by the loyal and consecrated support of our Churchat home, together with the presence and power of the IloiySpirit, the completion of the next h fty years ought in God sprovidence to mark the termination of the work of theSouthern Presbyterian Church in the North KiangsuMission.MissionaryOccupationAs regards missionary occupation theprovince, generally speaking, falls into twosections: The North (embracing both thenorthern and the central sections), and the South. Theentire province contains sixty magistracies, (hsien), ofwhich twenty-nine lie south of the Yangtze River and thirtyonenorth of the River. The missionary occupation of theprovince as a whole, by societies and stations, is shown inthe statistical tables following.Northern and About one-third of the Kiangsu provinceSouthern is south of the River, and two-thirds north.SectionsThe ratio holds good also as indicating theMissionaries in Kiangsu South of River Exclusive of Chinkiang