Peeps into China . CHAPTEE XXXV. MISSION WORK IN HE progress of missions in China is great,increasing more and more as the yearspass by. Forty-five years ago there wereonly six native Christians. Increase by thesame proportion the next forty-five years as duringthe last, and there will be not 33,000, as we nowfind, but over 180,000,000 actual over the whole field, beyond the limits of onesown denomination, and we find stations scatteredalong the coast, up the Great River, and far and widein all the interior. Not a province but has someconverts to the Protestant fa
Peeps into China . CHAPTEE XXXV. MISSION WORK IN HE progress of missions in China is great,increasing more and more as the yearspass by. Forty-five years ago there wereonly six native Christians. Increase by thesame proportion the next forty-five years as duringthe last, and there will be not 33,000, as we nowfind, but over 180,000,000 actual over the whole field, beyond the limits of onesown denomination, and we find stations scatteredalong the coast, up the Great River, and far and widein all the interior. Not a province but has someconverts to the Protestant faith. One society may beweak this year, but another has never been ever comes from the whole, not from the societies are represented in China, withupwards of 490 male missionaries, over 200 unmarriedfemale missionaries, and nearly 200 native ordainedministers. Great as is the progress, great—awfully, solemnlygreat—is the need. We can say that the ChineseEmpire has opened her doors; but what is meant bythe Chinese Empir
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