with the help of missionaries at other stations inthe province, had bought and had ready 10,000 copies of Dr. Martin's Evidences of Christianty, the cost being several hundred taels. On each book was printed the names of the stations and out-stations in the province with invitations to call. It may surprise those who know how new the work is in the West to be told that the number of these names was 29, although I am told that several were omitted. It was expected that the two Bible Societies represented in the province would unite in providing Scriptures for distribution, but through a misunderstanding there was a double provision. And society had provided 10,000 copies of the Gospel of Luke and the: other 3,000 each of the Gospels and Acts. The result was that there were 35,000 books distributed, and each of 10,000 students received a copy of the Evidence and two Gospels or a Gospel and the Acts. The ordinary num-examinations is about 15,000, but the ber of students at the Cie triennial number was several thousand less this year, the decrease being attributed to the famine which has prevailed in parts of the
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