American messenger . vised that from this timeon very few changes in the text will benecessary. The other item of special interest isthe publication of the Laos hymnal. Thisalso was completed early in the issued an edition of 1,000 copieswith the music and 6,000 with wordsonly. The book contains 369 hymns. Agood many hundred copies have goneout during the year. With the whole Press has been supplying each stationand missionary, free of cost, withtracts, small hymnals and leaflets ascalled for in our evangelistic work. Weare grateful to the American Tract So-ciety for its gift of $50 to
American messenger . vised that from this timeon very few changes in the text will benecessary. The other item of special interest isthe publication of the Laos hymnal. Thisalso was completed early in the issued an edition of 1,000 copieswith the music and 6,000 with wordsonly. The book contains 369 hymns. Agood many hundred copies have goneout during the year. With the whole Press has been supplying each stationand missionary, free of cost, withtracts, small hymnals and leaflets ascalled for in our evangelistic work. Weare grateful to the American Tract So-ciety for its gift of $50 to help meetthis additional expense. During theyear a total of 192,118 copies of pub-lications were printed, comprising7,674,000 pages. •t ft A Years Work in China The Rev. Hunter Corbett, , ofChefoo, China, in sending in his reportof the years work, tells several inter-esting facts concerning the recent addi-tions to the church. He writes: One of the men baptized was a mili-tary man aged sixty-four years. He had. of the New Testament and nine booksof the Old Testament printed in Laos,the hymnal and three catechisms, besidesa number of other works already print-ed, there is no good reason why ourChristian people should not grow bothin grace and knowledge. The native paper in the vernacular,with the Sabbath School helps, has beenissued every month. Over 1,000 copiesof this valuable paper go into the homesof our Laos Christian people. TheLaos News (in English), with about1,000 names on our mailing list, hasbeen issued quarterly. No other newwork of importance has been issuedduring the year, but 70,000 copies of oldand new tracts have been is always a growing demand forour Christian tracts: in fact, many ofthose who are searching for light pre-fer a tract to a portion of Scripture,even though it be a childs catechism. As in previous years, this Mission been for a number of years at the headof the Chefoo police. When the revo-lution visited Chefoo three years agot
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