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opposite52 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESOther New^ Pucnen>Nanking, a new workhas been^7orfc opened which is carried on at theexpense of the Diocesan Missionary Society.Pao-ying, above lia>sYangchow, been opened and occupiedby the Rev. E. R. Dyer.Tn the neighborhood of Sungkiang four new out-stationshave been opened by the Rev. C. Y. Tong. At Nanking Mr.Magee has opened work at Ilsia-kwan. At Quinsan landand buildings have been bought by the Men s AuxiliarySociety. At Zangzok the Chinese congregation at Fok-sanhas bought a building for use as a church, while in the Soochowdistrict a church building has been erected by thecongregation at Daung-k eu.At Wusili a new church, probably the h nest churchbuilding in this part of China, has been finished. At St.John s University a new Library was completed and opened,while accommodation for seventy-four boys was added tothe Preparatory Department. A building has also beenerected to serve as a co-operative store which the studentsthemselves run and which furnishes the various supplieswhich they require.At St. Mary s Hall classrooms and accommodationfor forty more students have been added. The staff of the.Mission has also been increased by the addition of sixdeacons to the list of the Chinese clergy, all of whom received their training in Theology in the English languageat St. John s. The number of catechists has been increasedby eight new catechists, who have been added to the evangelistic stall .IT.Anking DiocesePassing to the work in the diocese of An-.r regress and ,. i xi j j. j.Growth king, we find that the work in this district iscarried on from four centres, -Wuhu, Anking,Kiukiang and Nanchang, with foreign missionaries in residence, and from seventeen out-stations where Chinese workersreside and in a number of other places where services areheld more or less frequently. During the past year steadyprogress Vh as been made in most ways. The number ofcatechumens lias increased from 77^ to 840. of bapti/ed