Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . cupied. The statistics were as follows :— Agts op Socy. Natitb Chukches. MissioxPbopty. Amern. i 6 1 Baptfsms. i ?5 1 112 ~4 11 2 1 3 11 1 •3 1 J* n H ,? r^ STATIONS. i 11 i< i i lilt FOOCHOW. Chlng Sing Ang Kuaninchang Ato 2 11 1 i~6 2 1 1 i % 11 11 1111 633 13 1 1 25 ,06 s 120 12 1018 3 1 82 45 1 616 88 819 24 20 122011 Tt $6 0010 00 1 00 2 001 00 f 5 0021 00 TOO12 00600 $2,500 26,615 50 200 COOTKT. Koiknng Ngukang Kanchia 250600 Total 20 00 50 00 $80,118 No observant reader can fail to perc
Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . cupied. The statistics were as follows :— Agts op Socy. Natitb Chukches. MissioxPbopty. Amern. i 6 1 Baptfsms. i ?5 1 112 ~4 11 2 1 3 11 1 •3 1 J* n H ,? r^ STATIONS. i 11 i< i i lilt FOOCHOW. Chlng Sing Ang Kuaninchang Ato 2 11 1 i~6 2 1 1 i % 11 11 1111 633 13 1 1 25 ,06 s 120 12 1018 3 1 82 45 1 616 88 819 24 20 122011 Tt $6 0010 00 1 00 2 001 00 f 5 0021 00 TOO12 00600 $2,500 26,615 50 200 COOTKT. Koiknng Ngukang Kanchia 250600 Total 20 00 50 00 $80,118 No observant reader can fail to perceive the wonder-ful development of this great work of God; wonderful,not only for its rapidity, but for the perfection with whichit crystallized into a Church, reaching out after an inde-pendent life, and having even in its infancy benevolent,educational, and publishing interests of no mean magni-tude, a native ministry of exceeding promise, and thespirit of aggressiveness pushing westward with a con-stant and Christly energy. As an incident of this west-. First Annual Meeting—Succeeding Events, 459 ward movement, it should be said that in 1863 Mr. Sites,being stationed at Ngukang, took up his residence therewith his family. A still greater triumph is recorded this year, namely*the purchase of a house and lot on East-street, within thewalls of Foochow. From the beginning such purchasehad been eagerly sought for, but had been prevented byrelentless opposition on the part of the Chinese author-ities. With what joy the missionaries began to preparethe premises for chapel and school, and for home ofnative helper, only a missionary can know. On April i,1863, Mr. Martin, to whom the charge had been assigned,as a part of the North Foochow Circuit, removed withhis family into a convenient house that had been rentedfrom the Church of England Mission. The city was atlast ours, but what was one minister to these more thanthree hundred thousand people t The second Annual Meeting was
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