The work in China is only a part of the world-wide missionary activi-los of the Adventist Church. The latest, published statistics, December 431, 1937, show that the 888 churches throughout the world had a mem~ bership of 452.785. In the operation of their work they are employing 20029 evangelists and institutional Tabourers and are conducting work in 885 countries, islands, and island groups, and are using Tit languages and dialects. Literature is being prepared and circulated in 104 Tenguoges. "There: are 2820. primary Ai advanced schools. in" opera:
employing. 8408 teachers, "The total "enrolment "is over. 120000. Eightyenine sanitatiume and sixty: four treatment rooms. "employing {305 medical workers are. ministor= tug. to"the sick. During the. year tinder review earls. 700000 persons Feveived medical. cate™and. the charity worke done exceeded $383,000, U's" currency. During 1037. more {hana million garments were given Dut to those in need and tons of Sandages wore sent where emergency heeds were urgent. Volunteer work try cared for "more than 3.900000, Chie requiring some have of Feliet The institutions operated by the Adventists inthe Shanghai areas fave suffered as a result of the homilies, but" the heavier" losses have been incurred inthe interior. 'Among these are the complete loss ofthe "China 'Training. Institute, their advanced cheet" for' China, located between Nanking and Chin: Ikang. Properties have' been -destressed or damaged. at__ Changsha, Nanchang, anda number of other lace President W. H, Bronson, head the. Adventist organization la" China, his addresses given each das at the council, i. stressing the need of a spiritual "revival, higher standards Tiving. and an" svance move evangelism.
Shanghai, May 4.
When two foreigners walicing along Route Potter at about 11 pin. on May 2, aroused "the suspicious fof a Tonkinese policeman on duty there, he asked them to halt and in the struggle which followed their refusal to comply with the police order, one of them pulled a pistol and fred a shot at the policeman, injuring) him' seriously "inthe abdomen.
The two men then decamped whilst a foreigner, near the scene at the time and who had heard the report of the shot, advised ae. P. C. on duty at the corner of Route Lafayette and Route Pottier. The latter rushed to the scene and nally requisitioned.
passing motor-car to convey the injured Tonkinese to the St. Marie Hospital, where his condition vhs found to be extremely serious, the bullet having traversed his abdomen and passed through his back.
Concession detectives are at present investigating the case and up to a ate hour last night, no arrests had been made, Tonkinese Dies May:
Alter being shot and severely wounded in the abdomen by known foreigner at I pin. on May in. Rue Pottier, Nguyen-Xuan-Thu, Tonkinese member of the French Municipal Police, died in St. Marie's Hospital yesterday. morning.
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