half a mile southeast from our mission compound. The place had been for some years under the care of our brethren of the American Board mission here. They built a neat little chapel, and kept up regular preaching in it. These brethren are now concentrating their mission on the northern bank of the Min, and accordingly transferred this chapel to our mission. We hope to occupy efficiently, and look for God's blessing on our labors. The chapel is worth $275. Annual ground rent, $18.

“5. Kuaninchang.—(Goddess of Mercy's Well.) This appointment also has been transferred to our mission during the past year by our brethren of the American Board mission. It is a small chapel quite close to our mission compound, and is useful as a place for meeting the people and distributing books. The building is worth about $60. Annual ground rent, $10.

This is our first class of thirteen

"6. To-cheng. (Peach Farm.) country appointment, and has a members. Our meetings at this place have been held in a private house, and we are much encouraged by the deportment of all who have united with us here in Church-fellowship. The neighborhood in which this appointment is located is sparsely inhabited, and yet if the good work spreads among the people we could soon have a large congregation at this place. We are laboring and praying in faith for the accomplishment of this object."

The expansion of our work into the country westward from Fuhchau, constitutes an important and auspicious era in the history of our mission in China.

The success of the Gospel among the more ingenuous rustics in country towns and hamlets gave a most opportune and powerful impetus to our faith and zeal. It furnished, also, to the Chinese a striking illustration of the Gospel's power, and a most intelligible indication of our plans and expectations as missionaries among them. The village in which the Ngu-kang parsonage is situated is perhaps twelve

miles west of Fuhchau.

The accompanying cut represents the residence of the first native Methodist circuit preacher sent forth in China. The ends and back are built of pounded mud, the front of boards and plaster. It has no floors but the bare ground. The left hand door opens into a room probably ten by fifteen feet, where we have often slept on a few raised boards with a billet of wood for a pillow. The center room, the grand reception hall, or guest room, of every Chinese house, is about twenty feet square, with a dirt floor, and once furnished with a high altar and huge pictures of grim household gods; it is now hung around with large sheets, or charts, containing the Ten Commandments, and extracts from the Old and New Testaments. Here we assem

ble every Sunday at two o'clock for service-preaching and class-meeting; and here, every evening in the week, our new circuit preacher catechises and teaches the poor ignorant natives the Scriptures of divine truth. You must not imagine that our preacher has all this grand house to himself. He has only one room, entering by the right hand door of the house, and over it is a low, smoky loft, which

we intend to paper or whitewash, and furnish with a bedstead, chair, and table for our own convenience hereafter. At the right is the cook-shed, always full of choking, blinding smoke, as the Chinese seem to prefer sore eyes to chimneys. We have had some pleasant times in the Ngu-kang parsonage, and hope it may be one of the centers from which light and truth shall radiate far and near upon the minds of this dark people.

The Annual Report for this mission, dated September 30, 1860, and prepared by the Rev. Dr. Wentworth, makes the following showing:

MISSIONARIES.

Revs. Robert S. Maclay, Superintendent, Erastus Wentworth, D.D., Otis Gibson, Stephen L. Baldwin, Carlos R. Martin, Nathan Sites.

ASSISTANT MISSIONARIES.

Mrs. Henrietta C. Maclay, Mrs. Phebe E. Wentworth, Mrs. Eliza C. Gibson, Mrs. Nellie M. Baldwin, Mrs. Mary E. Martin, Mrs.

Beulah Woolston, Miss Sallie H. Woolston.

NATIVE HELPERS.

Sites, Miss

Hu Po Mi, exhorter, and teacher of girls' school. Uong Tai Kung, exhorter, and teacher of boys' school.

Uong Kiu Taik, exhorter, stationed at Pavilion Church.

Hu Iong Mi, exhorter, stationed at Ngu-kang. Tang Ieu Kong, exhorter, stationed in the city. Ting Seng Mi, exhorter, stationed at Ato Chapel,