. The Chinese empire: a general & missionary survey ... SS5 ss: t- -^ 40 THE CHINESE EMPIRE Comparative Table of China Missions Showing Progress of Missions as reported at Conferences of1877, 1890, and 1877. 1890. 1907. Protestant Missionaries 473 1,296 3,719 Chinese Helpers .Communicants . 75013,035 1,657 37,287 9,998154,142 Stations .... 91 ? 706 Out-Stations 511 ? 3,794 Organised Churches . 312 522 Hospitals .... Dispensaries Contributions of Native 16 24 61 44 1 366 Church ....Day Schools $9,27115 $36,884 2,139 Pupils in do. Boarding and Higher Schools 280 7 ] TotalV Pupils, 42,7382
. The Chinese empire: a general & missionary survey ... SS5 ss: t- -^ 40 THE CHINESE EMPIRE Comparative Table of China Missions Showing Progress of Missions as reported at Conferences of1877, 1890, and 1877. 1890. 1907. Protestant Missionaries 473 1,296 3,719 Chinese Helpers .Communicants . 75013,035 1,657 37,287 9,998154,142 Stations .... 91 ? 706 Out-Stations 511 ? 3,794 Organised Churches . 312 522 Hospitals .... Dispensaries Contributions of Native 16 24 61 44 1 366 Church ....Day Schools $9,27115 $36,884 2,139 Pupils in do. Boarding and Higher Schools 280 7 ] TotalV Pupils, 42,738255 Students in do. 292 J 16,836 10,227 1 As the official statistics presented to the Conference and those given in this book havebeen separately compiled, there will probably be some variations, especially as some Reportsare so imperfectly furnished with statistics. Some reports actually give no statistics, andin not a few cases the figures needed are not easily found. Nothing more than anapproximation is possible under existing conditions.— James Hidsox Taylok. James Hudson Taylor, , the bploved Founder of tlie Chiua Inland Mission, was born at Barnsley,Yorkshire, in 1832, sailed for China under the Chinese Evangelisation Society in 1853. He definitely foundedthe China Inland Mission in 1S65, though he had sent out the first member as early as 1862. There are now(1907) in connection with the C. 875 workers, wives included, in 16 of Chinas provinces. Mr. Taylor diedat Changsha, the capital of Hunan, June 1905, after fifty-two years of labour for the Evangelisation of InlandChina. To face imge 41. THE PKOVINCES OF CHINA AND THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA 41 Comparative Table Showing Area and Population of the Provinces of Chinaas compared with other well-known countries. Province and Country. Area, Square Miles. Population. The Province of Kwangtung 99,970 31,865,251 Italy 110,650 31,668,000 The Province of Fukien 46,320 22,876,540 Portugal .... 35,507 4,301,989 The P
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