Two new schools for the training of missionary workers have been opened in this division during the last year, and this brings promise of yet further increase in our staff, now numbering 345 workers.
Reports show a gathering of souls all up and down our fields. A report just in from Central China shows 232 baptized converts, most of whom came directly out of heathen darkness.
Besides the books and tracts circulated, our colporteurs are selling and securing subscriptions for 55,000 copies monthly of our Chinese paper, a large circulation for a religious periodical in China. Recently a Chinese priest handed me his former credentials authorizing him to minister at heathen altars. He also turned over his household gods to our workers, saying that now that he had found Christ he had no further need of them. These are the things that gladden our hearts.
Six new mission fields have been opened by this division during the last year. Other unentered fields are making pitiful appeals to us for missionaries. We are forced to delay from lack of funds. Your contributions to missions is your command to our loyal workers at the front to advance. Shall they have long to wait for further marching orders?