and three years respectively before this union. In Egypt a new evangelistic purpose appears in the native church organization. The increase in church membership during the year in Egypt was 844-more than the increase in any previous year. Great unrest is evident among the Mohammedans of Egypt and there is a tendency to resort to violence because Christianity is sure to have a power that cannot be checked. The number of missionaries, men and women, is 172, with 1,140 native workers, 357 schools, 24, 359 scholars, and 50,612 professing Christians, of whom 19,798 are communicants.

United Presbyterian Women's General Missionary Society: See Woman's Work Section.

Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America.

Missionary Society of the (1880): Headquarters: 316-318 East Onondaga street, Syracuse, New York; Secretary: Rev. E. Teter; Income: About $12,000; Organ: Wesleyan Methodist.

Yale Foreign Misionary Society (1902).

Headquarters: 233 Durfee Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Denomination: Interdenominational; Secretary: Prof. E. B. Reed, Ph. D.; Treasurer: Pierce N. Welch; Field: China; General Notes: Has 7 missionaries, men and women, in the field. A college is about to be opened at Changsha.

Woman's Union Missionary Society: See Woman's Work

Section.

SOCIETIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. African Training Institute (1889).

Headquarters: African Institute, Colwyn Bay, North Wales; Denomination: Undenominational; Director: Rev. W. Hughes; Field: West Africa; Income: No information received; Expenditure: No information received; General Notes: This establishment is designed to train young Africans for religious or industrial work among their own people, especially in the Congo region.

All Nations Missionary Union.

A continuation of the Missionary Pence Association (1892) and Information Bureau (1886): Headquarters: Rooms 21-22, Exeter Hall, Strand, London, W. C.; Denomination: Interdenominational; Secretary: W. Rogers Jones; Hon. Treasurer: John Jackson, Esq.; Fields: Assists missions of all the Churches; Income: No information; Organ: All nations.

Archbishop's Mission to Assyrian Christians (1884). Headquarters: Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster Abbey, London, S. W., England; Denomination: Church of Eng

land; Secretary: Rev. A. H. Lang; Fields: The regions inhabited by the Nestorians, both in Turkey and in Persia; Income: No information received; Expenditure: No information received; General Notes: This organization aims to educate young men for the priesthood of the Nestorian Church, without interference with the independence or the doctrinal teaching of the Church. It receives aid from a committee of the American Protestant Episcopal Church.

Baptist Missionary Society.

Headquarters: 19 Furnival street, Holborn, London, E. C., England; Secretaries: Rev. C. E. Wilson, B. A., Rev. J. B. Myers; Treasurer: Edward Robinson, J. P.; Field: India (Bengal, Orissa, United Provinces), Ceylon, China, Congo Free State, West Indies; Income, year ending March 31, 1906: $431,414.41 (88,657 pounds 15s. 9d.); Expenditure: $476,943.90 (98,013 pounds 9s. 10d.); Organs: Baptist Missionary Herald, Juvenile Missionary Herald, both monthly; General Notes: This Society has (January, 1906) 276 missionaries, men and women; 2,795 native workers (including day school teachers); 1,008 stations and sub-stations; 21,120 scholars under instruction; 56,456 church members, of whom 1,778 were baptized in 1905. Eleven new missionaries were accepted during the year. There are larger additions to the native churches. than in several years past, and among these churches there is a marked growth in evangelistic aggressiveness. The new Mission in the Chittagong and South Lushai Hill country (India) is remarkably prosperous. The same is true of some of the Congo stations.

Bible Lands Missions' Aid Society (1854).

Headquarters: 7 Adam street, Strand, London, W. C., England; Secretary: Rev. S. W. Gentle-Cackett; Treasurer: Lord Kinnaird; Fields: Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Cyprus; Income, year ending March 31, 1906: $12,000; Expenditure: $11,900; Organ: Star in the East. The Society sends out no missionaries, but aids with grant of money the establishments of different denominations which exist in the countries named above.

British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Among the Jews (1842).

Headquarters: 9 Great James street, Bedford Row, London, W. C.; Denomination: Interdenominational; Secretary: Rev. Isaac Levinson; Treasurer: Robert Greer, Esq., J. P.; Fields: England, Scotland, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Russia and Turkey; Income, year ending April 15, 1905: $24,575.32 (5,050 pounds); Expenditure: $25,645.95 (5,270 pounds) Organ: Jewish Missionary Herald.

Central Morocco Mission (1886).

Headquarters: Rabat, Morocco; Denomination: Undenominational; Director: Dr. R. Kerr, Rabat, Morocco; Secretary and Treasurer: Mr. Grahame Wilson, 191 Meadowpark street, Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland; Field: Morocco; Income, year ending. September, 1902: $2,264.76.

Ceylon and India General Mission (1893).

Headquarters: India, Hindupur; England, London; Denomination: Interdenominational; Director: Mr. B. Davidson, Hindupur; Secretary: Mr. David Gardiner, 46 Beresford Road, Highbury, London; Treasurer: Mr. Gardiner; Fields: South India and Ceylon; Income, year ending December 31, 1905: $9,815.72 (2,107 pounds); Expenditure: $8,720.76; Organ: Darkness and Light.

China Inland Mission (1865).

Headquarters: Newington Green, Mildmay, London, N., England; Mission offices in the U. S., 702 Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa.; in Canada, 507 Church street, Toronto, Ont.; Denomination: Interdenominational; Director: D. E. Hoste; Secretary: F. Marcus Wood; Editorial Secretary: Marshall Broomhall; Treasurer: Robert Scott; Secretary and Treasurer for the U. S., Henry W. Frost; Secretary and Treasurer for Canada, J. S. Helmer; Fields: China; Income: $354,887; Organ: China's Millions, monthly; General Notes: The Society reports 849 missionaries, men and women, 890 native workers, 837 stations and outstations, and 14,078 communicants, of whom 2,541 were added in 1905.

China Murray's Mission to the Blind and
Illiterate in (1887).

Headquarters: Peking; Denomination: Undenominational; Secretary: John Grant, Esq. (Grant & Wylie, Solicitors), 204 St. Vincent street, Glasgow, Scotland; Field: China; Income, 1905: $8,487 (1,744 pounds).

Christian Faith.

Society for Advancing the (1691): Headquarters: No. 1, The Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, London, England; Denomination: Church of England; Secretary: Harry W. Lee, Esq.; Fields: West Indies, Mauritius; Income: Wholly from invested funds.

Christian Missions in Many Lands.

(England, Mission of the Brethren, 1827) Treasurers: J. L. Maclean, M. D., W. H. Bennet, R. E. Sparks, B. A., 10 Widcombe Crescent, Bath, England; Fields: India, Malaysia, China, Japan,