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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1909

CHINA

By J. N. Anderson

Forty Recruits Called For

We are glad to report progress in every respect in our China Mission field, not striking or extraordinary, but steady and permanent.

Four years ago our total force, besides native workers, was fourteen, located in the provinces of Honan and Kwang-tung; to-day we have thirty-seven, distributed in five provinces. Our force of Chinese assistants has increased from nine to forty.

Then our foreign workers were making a beginning in but two Chinese languages; to-day we have workers whose knowledge of Mandarin, Cantonese, Amoyese, and Hakka, makes them efficient teachers of the message in those languages. Other workers are now nearly prepared to take up active work in yet another language.

At our general meeting in Shanghai this year, we were seized with a boldness and a faith that led us to plan for the immediate entrance of our work into every province and dependency of the Chinese empire. To effect that end, we set about organizing our field and our forces.

The empire and its dependencies were divided, for our work, into ten great divisions, each to be in charge of a superintendent, the whole constituting our China Union Mission. Six of these divisions are carved out of China proper, the others being Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, and Tibet.

To begin to enter these great fields and develop the work, we have called for forty families to come to China in the next two years. In this way we are planning for an advance on the entire Chinese world. J. N. ANDERSON.

Shanghai.