'A few figures will show how]
ily the work begun by Drs. Morrison and Milne has developed and prospered, In 1920 the circalation of all the Tract Societies in China amounted to 3,720,600 issues. By far the greater part of this is composed of tracts distributed by missionaries in the course of their preaching tours but a considerable portion consists of commentaries, devotional books and pamphlets. In 1928 the circulation of the RTS. was 7,340,674, the largest amount, up till that date, ever sent out in a—single year. The "number issues ofthe R.T.S."for China in this. present" year—the "society's.
The elevation of the Rev. S. Harrington Littell, 0.0,, who is one of the leading and most popular; clergymen in Central China, will be received with satisfaction by a host} of foreign and Chinese friends, especially in Hankow and Kuling.
Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, Connecticut, and the General] 'Theological Seminary, in New York, from which he graduated in 1895) and 1898, respectively, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Littell, as he be known! after his' elevation, took holy orders and came to China in the latter year as a missionary of the American Church yn (Epis. copal) and has been stationed at Hankow ever since. Ho served for a while as professor in Boone University at Wachang, and was in charge of the English congregation at St. John's Church, Hankow, but his most important work was in connection with the Catechist School o¢ the American Church Mission there, Dr. Littell is now in Kuling,, where he is attached to the Kuling American School as chaplain and where} he holds services for the foreign community.
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