Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . e must be expected. Telegraphicdispatches which are being received at thedate of this writing state that the emperorhas been deposed, and has since died—per-haps by poison. A revolutionary movementhas taken place in Peking, and inasmuch asthe European powers are in array against eachother in the scramble for territorial conces-sions, it seems probable that the Chineseempire is in danger of dissolution. What-ever may be the extent of the difficulties inHainan, it is very evident that the work of in the article—for example, the name ofGardner Spr
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . e must be expected. Telegraphicdispatches which are being received at thedate of this writing state that the emperorhas been deposed, and has since died—per-haps by poison. A revolutionary movementhas taken place in Peking, and inasmuch asthe European powers are in array against eachother in the scramble for territorial conces-sions, it seems probable that the Chineseempire is in danger of dissolution. What-ever may be the extent of the difficulties inHainan, it is very evident that the work of in the article—for example, the name ofGardner Spring instead of Samuel Spring,the father. But the great thing is thefuture history which is fast advancing likethe foaming surf upon the Hilo shore. Rich Harvests. In several of the mission fields and stationsof southern China and Korea it has trulybeen a year of blessed harvests. Beattie, now at home on furlough,gives a cheering report of the work inYeung Kong and the surrounding districts, 388 JOHN G. KERR, , [November,. Dr. Bennett and Fang Boys. where Mr. Marshall has been permitted tobaptize in five months about sixty adults,making seventy-five adults in the course ofthe year. Rev. Dr. Henry in the first six monthsafter his return to China baptized over onehundred converts, and Rev. A. A. Fulton,whose whole time is given to itinerant evan-gelistic work, returned July 5 from a tourduring which he baptized fifty-nine persons;and his reports indicate that although hismissionary year, as he reckons it, has not yetclosed, he has been permitted to baptize overtwo hundred adults. He also gives mostcheering accounts of the efforts of the peopleto build their own churches. He namesone instance in which the entire expensewas borne by the native Christians them-selves. In Korea the wonderful successes whichhave been reported in the last year or two,especially in the Pyeng Yang district, andin the adjacent field, worked under thesupervision of Dr. Underwood and
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