. Evangelical missions. Part I, The missionary principles and practices of the United Evangelical Church . n that they 254 EVANGELICAL MISSIONS give and go to preach. Without their help this coun-try work would be crippled; thus the gospel is pro-claimed at these many places. Chaling Circuit, now (1917), has 4 foreign mission-aries and 8 Chinese workers. There are 6 catecheticalclasses with 52 members, 2 Bible classes for men can-didates with 29 members and 2 womens Bible classesfor candidates with 13 members. Every week thereare 9 Sunday preaching services and il week-dayreligious meetings, a
. Evangelical missions. Part I, The missionary principles and practices of the United Evangelical Church . n that they 254 EVANGELICAL MISSIONS give and go to preach. Without their help this coun-try work would be crippled; thus the gospel is pro-claimed at these many places. Chaling Circuit, now (1917), has 4 foreign mission-aries and 8 Chinese workers. There are 6 catecheticalclasses with 52 members, 2 Bible classes for men can-didates with 29 members and 2 womens Bible classesfor candidates with 13 members. Every week thereare 9 Sunday preaching services and il week-dayreligious meetings, as well as a regular womens meet-ing, with an average attendance of 57. The Churchmembership numbers 38, and the Christian community(see page 200) 177. On the circuit there is a boysday school and a girls day school as well as one otherschool. During the year the Chinese community gave$52 (American money) for Church work as well as$30 (American money) in school fees. The property,which includes a parsonage, a church building, aschool building and one other building, is valued at$4,342 (American money).. Missionaries at Annual Meeting, Ruling, 1917 CHAPTER IX RULING Kuling is not a station of the mission, and yet it isas important, for it is the place where the missionariessecure the rest and recuperation that enables them towork so hard during the rest of the year. It is situ-ated in a beautiful valley near the summit of the KuMountains, some 5,000 feet above sea-level, some 400miles down the river from Changsha. In Hunan, where the latitude is the same as NewOrleans or southern Florida, the summers are ex-tremely hot, but without the sea breezes these placeshave to temper the heat. To a person who has beenaccustomed to the cooler climate of the United States,the continuously hot summers of Hunan are unbear-able. While some strong constitutions can stand thestrain of the summer, most people need a provides a relief in temperature that is verynecessary for most peop
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