24 - Chapter 24

Chapter 24 - The Conclusion ------------------------------ The work in Shan-si has been considerably extended since the conferences. Eight new stations have been opened; and the number of missionary workers has been greatly increased. The C.I.M. has now forty-three missionaries in this province, in fifteen stations. The work of our missionary Sisters has been much blessed, Misses Whitchurch and Seed alone reporting seventy-two persons, who to their knowledge had destroyed their idols in 1888, though there had only been ten baptisms in that year in that station.

It will not be supposed that the great enemy has been slumbering or that the work has been carried on without the usual alternation of joy and sorrow, but since the Conference the number of baptized converts in fellowship has increased from eighty-one to between seven and eight hundred. We would ask the earnest prayers of our friends that soon the whole province may hear the Gospel, and that it may overflow from Shan-si into the surrounding unevangelized regions.