Reports of Progress Through Country Received 'The fifth General Assembly of the' Lutheran Church of China, which meets every three years and is now In session at the Chinese YMCA, Ineludes delegates of six nationalies: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Mission work began China about 100 years ago, with the arrival of the Berlin Mission, stil active In Kuangtung and Kwangs This work, and that throughout the country, is being taken over gradually by the Chinese synods organized into'a Lutheran Church of China 1920, The present session began last Sunday with religious services. On Monday the president of the Chinese Lutheran Church, the Rev. Chu Hao-ran, read his annual report. phasized the fact that in spite of the depression and financial difteulties the church bad registered progress. One of the outstanding events of the year was the religious awakening, oF revival, especially in the Central China, Shantung, and Manchoukuo synods.
Reports from the treasurer and statistician were also heard, The total membership of the church is 40,111. A. total of 256. missionaries from" Europe and America are engaged in assisting the church in its four main branches - of work: evangelistic, educational, medical and literary. The general secretary reported that since 1931 there has been an increase of 4 per cent, in the total sales of Iiterature, the total circulation for 1993 being 162016, The reading club membership has grown from 61 members in 1931 to 212 in the past year, In order to solve the problem of distribution, the Lutheran Assembly authorized the publication board to put a distribution secretary in the field. restoring it to tush fulltoned mel-Townes. The date, "2051 In Absom. leads Afr. Czako to believe that. the cello is one of some si of seven which the maker Steiner completed uring his Het
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