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"CITY SURVEYS 469Two years ago representatives of these fivemissions and the Young Men s ChristianAssociation met for the purpose of apportioning the territory of the city among the various missions. Itwas felt that such division of the field would make forefficiency in the extension of Christianity. The division wasnot made in the spirit ofmine and tliiue but that eachmission might know its duty in a certain appointedterritory. It was not a difficult task to assign the variousdistricts as the missions are well separated over the city andeach one would naturally make itself responsible for theterritory which lies nearest to its own central missioncompound.A glance at the map will show that thePresbyterian Mission with its two compoundstakes charge of the northern section. The main workof the London Mission is being transferred to the centralpart of the West City, The American Board Missionhas work in the Imperial City and all east of that except a strip to the south which has been worked by theLondon Mission. The Anglican Mission works the southwestern section of the Northern City, while the MethodistMission has as its territory the south-eastern section of theTartar City and the South City except for a section whichlies near the Independent Church. Of course it must not beunderstood that these demarcations are hard and fast lines.They simply suggest to the various bodies how much yetremains to be covered in the territory assigned to them.The Presbyterian Mission carries on workF jurin three different centres in the northernterian Mission ., ., -. . . ,.part of the city and in six out-stations to theeast of Peking. It has a force of twenty-five foreign andfifty-seven Chinese workers. The number of churchmembersis 690. At the eastern compoundis located themiddle school for boys and the new Douw Hospital forwomen. The Union Bible School for men conducted by thePresbyterian, American Board and London Missions islocated in the western compound. In this school there are