WORK AMONG THE CHINESE IN AMERICA.
A LIST of the various working institutions for the instruction of the Chinese in the United States and Canada shows a total of 261 schools, 8 institutions and associations, and 7 churches. These schools are scattered among 17 States and provinces and 162 towns. Within a radius of 700 miles from San Francisco Bay there are 69 schools. Within a radius of 700 miles from New York City there are 146 schools. They are distributed by cities as follows: New York, 17; Brooklyn, 12; Boston, 9; Chicago, 8; San Francisco and Oakland, 6 each; Philadelphia, Denver, and Los Angeles, 5 each; St. Louis, Portland, Or., and Montreal, 4 each; Washington, D. C., Kansas City, and Newark, N. J., 3 each. The distribution of schools by States is as follows: California, 53; New York, 44; Massachusetts, 29; New Jersey, 16; Pennsylvania, 15; Illinois, 12; Connecticut, 8; Oregon, 8; Colorado, 7. Denominationally, the schools representing the Baptist Church are 66; the Presbyterian, 47; the Congregational, 48; the Methodist, 40; the Episcopal, 16; Reformed Presbyterian and Christian, 4 each; Lutheran and United Brethren, 2 each; United Presbyterian, 1; and 27 schools are undenominational. The whole number of Chinese in America, young or old, who are known to be reached, either regularly or occasionally, by Christian instruction, is 8,061. Of these, 6,295 are adults who are regular attendants in schools which have been established for more than a year. The hopefully Christian Chinese in America number 2,262. The proportion of Christians in schools known to the association is more than 26 per cent. The census of 1890 gives 71,681 Chinese to California, of whom but 1,720 are under Christian instruction. Of these 725 are counted as Christians.—Gospel in All Lands.