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64 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESThere has been no marked increase in thestaff in the last few years. The net increasein missionaries for the last full year was 4, in Chineseworkers of all grades 53, in number of members 687, innumber of pupils of all grades 851).Perhaps the most significant increase in staff has beenin the number of Chinese college graduates recently addedto the force. Within one year eleven college graduates havebeen added, one of these being a returned student fromAmerica.In all three missions, the Chinese con-Aamrnist ration ... . -, ., ,.sutuency is organized into associations. Juthese associations is annually reviewed all the work beingdone both by the churches and by the missions. Tn theseassociations leadership is being developed and prepared toassume responsibilities for the direction of activities that arenow almost entirely in the hands of missionaries. In eonnection with each of these three associations, there has beenorgani/ed for a number oT years, a "Native MissionarySociety. Funds arc raised, Chinese missionaries ar<>appointed and suitable arrangements made for the supervision of aggressive evangelistic work in districts chosen bythem. During the last year it was reported that $1,908was thus spent by the three Chinese missionary societiesconnected with the denomination, In the conduct of thesemissionary societies, perhaps even more than in the work ofthe associations, are the Chinese leaders finding a sphere foractivity and leadership. In the associations, the foreignersare also members; in the missionary societies, only Chinese.It is hoped that these Chinese societies will so develop in thenext few years that an increasing amount of the workappropriations made by the mission can be designated to thesesocieties to supplement what is collected and spent by them.TT A Northern . . Baptists have in the last fcwUmoii Activities . . ,.,years, along with other missions, shared inthe movement toward union activities. The South China.Mission is so situated that few uuion activities seem calledfor. Negotiations, however, have been pending for severalyears for union in hospital work in Swatow and medicalwork in Canton. The East and West China Missions are in