Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . part? Yes, they are, butmen and means are scarce. STATISTICS STATIONS T3 § ?c 1 f ?a 3 2 o ?o i ?& 3 Is ^3 3 i?a 3 a a I CV. 3T3 -a ?a•a t3 g s 3 c!1^ if hi 03d •acj1=1 § d 1 si .g Sa 3 3. 8 S a a. r cp. 1 C < :< O t»U o Francs Benito 21 5 24 22 7 26 2,510 3,090 880 2 74 1 150 1 5,000 Batanga 30 7 59 30 798 68 6,554 2,177 3,118 27 607 1 50 1 800 Ef ulen 59 6 122 60 3 1,850 680 22,204 5,592 13,431 32 1 500 1 20,558 MacLean 67 17
Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . part? Yes, they are, butmen and means are scarce. STATISTICS STATIONS T3 § ?c 1 f ?a 3 2 o ?o i ?& 3 Is ^3 3 i?a 3 a a I CV. 3T3 -a ?a•a t3 g s 3 c!1^ if hi 03d •acj1=1 § d 1 si .g Sa 3 3. 8 S a a. r cp. 1 C < :< O t»U o Francs Benito 21 5 24 22 7 26 2,510 3,090 880 2 74 1 150 1 5,000 Batanga 30 7 59 30 798 68 6,554 2,177 3,118 27 607 1 50 1 800 Ef ulen 59 6 122 60 3 1,850 680 22,204 5,592 13,431 32 1 500 1 20,558 MacLean 67 17 127 68 3 2,437 570 25,079 9,776 66 2,487 2 746 2 19,000 Elat 115 62 105 11104 200130224 116 63 106 815 391 2,821 2,103228818 64,23912, 13,968 4,989 10,335 27,000 7,000 16,784 705683 4,4412,5843,696 11 100223 111 2,000 Jlptet 4,600 Fulasi 800 Francs Totals, 1919 . .. 459 60 8S6 465 27 4,493 167817 49,927 336 7 8 52,758 l Gold 1 1 1 $9,985 1 Gold 1 6 Totals, 191S ... 392 59 805 3971 22 13,513 3,192 139153 $9,850 76,583 262 2,712 8 16,441. THE BEGINNING OF MISSIONS IN CHINA The first entrance of Christianity into China was through theNestorian missionaries, whose headquarters were at Bagdad, anc^who carried Christianity across the whole of Asia. This workbegan in the seventh century and continued for at least five cen-turies, but finally the Nestorian Church in China became Catholic missionaries entered China in 1291 duringthe period of the Mongol Emperors. Traces of this work wereentirely destroyed. About 200 years later Francis Xavier diedin a vain attempt to enter China. In 1582 Jesuit missionaries en-tered the country, at first in disguise. The work has continued togrow until there are now one and one-half million Roman Cath-olic Christians in China. The first Protestant missionary was Robert Morrison, whoentered the Portuguese settlement at Macao, near Canton, in baptized the first conv
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