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CITY SURVEYS 467per cent (85%) report no definite work in or for theChurch! The Church has at least two functions: first,to nourish and strengthen its members; and second, toput its members into active service for the Kingdom. Wecall the Church the Army of the Lord. Has not this armytoo long tried to fight its battles with only its generals andcaptains in the fight? The first duty of the general and thecaptain is not to fight but to call the soldiers under him tothe front and to lead them against the foe. How can weconvert the churches of Haugchow from a field into a force?III. MISSIONARY WORK IN PEKING A SURVEYHarry S. MartinFor more than fifty years after Morrisonberfc S* in lis WOrk in the south of China l>r testantmissionaries had been looking with eager!.ness to the day when they might begin the planting of thegospel iii the capital of the Empire. As soon as the cityAvas open to foreigners there were men ready to enter in topossess the land. Within five years from the signing of theTreaty of Tientsin in 1860, four of the five missions nowworking in eking had I representatives on the field.The first missionary to begin work in the capital wasDr. Lockhart of the London Missionary Society, who openeda dispensary in the year 1861. Dr. J. Edkins joined him thenext year.Dr. W. A. P. Martin of the American PresbyterianBoard, who had come north as interpreter to the AmericanLegation, opened a street chapel in 1863 and established aschool in 1865.Dr. IT. Blodget came to Peking in the autumn of 1864as the first representative of the American Board Mission.He was joined the following year by Dr. C. Goodrich.The American Methodist Mission began its work inI860 with Dr. H. II. Lowry and the Rev. Mr. Wheeler asthe first missionaries.The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel hadrepresentatives in as "Poking early as 1863, but, as they were