Our annual meetings of native pastors, teachers and delegates belonging to the London Mission have just been held, from 15-19th January, in Amoy. It is the 30th yearly meeting of the Amoy Congre-national Caio, and was attended by about 130 persons, counting only one delegate from exch of the 50 Churches comprising the Union, in addition to the pastors and reachers, and the foreign missionaries. the meetings were as successful as ever, and were characterised by earnestness, unanimity and hopefulness. The statistics, which I give below, show marked progress all along the line. "The total addition to the Church would have been much larger but for an unusually large number of deaths from plague during the year, for while 352 joined the Church on.earth, as many as 162 joined the Church triumphant. This number is fifty above the average of the past six years.
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