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48 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESQ The work of the Church . .. Missionary Societyorations . . -.P , T TT . . "rr r.is carried on from Ningpo, Hangchow, Taicliow,Shaohingfu, Chukihsien, and Tunglu. In the earlierdays of the mission much success was achieved in thenumerous towns and villages around Ningpo. Later (in1877) the gospel was introduced, under striking circumstances, into the Chnki district from Hangchow and againin 18S() into the Taichow district from Ningpo.The more important institutions are: Trinity Colle ge Ni "here there is a> "SP<>>theological class, high school and normalschool; an Anglo-Chinese School, at Shanghai; the MaryVaughan High School for Girls, at Hangchow; boardingschoolsfor boys and for girls at Ningpo, Tniehow. Hangchow,Chukihsien. The great majority of the pupils in theseinstitutions are the children of Christians.MedicalMedical Workwork is represented at Hangchow,Ningpo and Taichow. In this department ofservice the European War has made a great impression asthe Taichow and Ningpo Hospitals are closed, the medicalmissionaries being at the front, while for the very largehospital at Hangchow there are only two men.The European staff of the Mission consistsof the Bishop, thirteen laymen, twenty-livemissionaries wives, twenty-seven other women missionaries.There are twenty-three Chinese clergymen and one hundredforty-three lay agents. The Chinese Church MissionarySociety supported entirely by the Chinese, has an ordainedmissionary and two lay evangelists in the Hangchow district.IV. The Western China AHssion^ ie ChurchCities Occo ied Missionary Society s WesternChina Mission operates in a section of the.Szechwan Province, the northwest, in eleven cities and townsChungpa, Anhsien, Sintuhsien, Mienchuhsien, Mienchow,Shihchuan, Chungkianghsien, Tehyang, Mowchow, Lunganfuand Hanchow. These have been occupied at differenttimes since the year 1892 when the Rev. J. H. Horsburghled a party of evangelistic missionaries into this section ofthe country.