Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ath services, sometimes,require extra seats for the assembled hearers. During the periodof excitement and persecution, elsewhere referred to, the nativepastors, and churches throughout the Ningpo Presbytery, gave re-markable proofs of constancy. ^ One of the prominent native preachers, however, has fallen intosin, and has been deposed, to the great grief of the mission and ofhis brethren. One new outstation has been established.] Hangchow Station, It is a good evidence of a general thrift that the native church ofHangchow has wholly suppor
Annual reports of the boards to the General Assembly . ath services, sometimes,require extra seats for the assembled hearers. During the periodof excitement and persecution, elsewhere referred to, the nativepastors, and churches throughout the Ningpo Presbytery, gave re-markable proofs of constancy. ^ One of the prominent native preachers, however, has fallen intosin, and has been deposed, to the great grief of the mission and ofhis brethren. One new outstation has been established.] Hangchow Station, It is a good evidence of a general thrift that the native church ofHangchow has wholly supported its pastor. There has been no largeingathering into this church, though a high degree of constancy hasbeen shown by members both in Hangchow and in the outstations. The boys school, under the care of Mr. Dodd, has numbered 26pupils, of whom eight are Christians. This institution is the chiefsource of supply to the churches of Ningpo Presbytery, both of preach-ers and male teachers. Mr. Lyon, who is mainly interested in the direct preaching of the. 70 ANNUAL REPORT. Gospel in Hangchow and in the outstations, gives the following statis-tics of his work : Itineration in the country, 82 days; itineration in Hangchow cityand suburbs, 30 days. Traveled some 900 miles, preaching and sellingtracts in about 100 diff^ent places. Preaching services in street chap-el, in; sermons to the church on Sunday, 23; amount of booksand tracts sold, ^ Sold also about 50 copies per month of Childs Paper. The way in which the heathen mind sometimes gropes toward thelight is well illustrated in the following account, given by Mr. Lyon, ofthe conversion of a Buddhist monk : A man belonging to a monastery at Sin Dzeu, seventy miles fromHangchow, had first heard the truth from a native, and afterward froma member of the Taylor Mission. From the latter he received aNew Testament and a copy of Dr. Martins Evidences of Christianity,and returned to his home fully determined to give up th
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