The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . REV. GUOKtiK K. the Anglo-Chinese College. Shanghai 45 706 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF REV. DAVID HILL,Wesleyan Methodist Missionary to China. established and developed at Nagasaki,under the able management of MissElizabeth Russell. Its handsome build-ings are conspicuously placed upon thecrest of a hill
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . REV. GUOKtiK K. the Anglo-Chinese College. Shanghai 45 706 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF REV. DAVID HILL,Wesleyan Methodist Missionary to China. established and developed at Nagasaki,under the able management of MissElizabeth Russell. Its handsome build-ings are conspicuously placed upon thecrest of a hill, and form a notable featurein the landscape of this historic bay. In July, 1898, the district of SouthJapan was organized into a separate Con-ference, which in 1899 included eighteenmissionaries, eight of whom were underthe Womans Board. An interestingfeature of its work is the mission to theIvoochooans, a race of islanders havingmany peculiar ways. A Japanese pastor,Mr. Nagano, is in charge of this work. It is probable that the main portion ofthe Japan work will soon be divided intoa central and a northern division. Thestaff numbers no fewer than fifty mis-sionaries, who are scattered over an areaof many hundred miles, from Sapporo inthe northern island of Yezo, to Nagoyaon the Tokaido. Hirosaki, Sendai, Yama-gata, and other important urban centersare receiving diligen
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