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The Chinese Empire: a General and Missionary Survey. Edited by Marshall Broomhall, B.A. (Morgan and Scott. Is. Scl. net.)— This volume comes with the commendation of Sir Ernest Satow, who bears emphatic testimony to the zeal and devotion of missionary workers, and to the good work, social as well as spiritual, which they are doing. • The plan of the book, which we cannot do more than describe, is this. The editor gives an historical introduction. Then follow descriptions of the various provinces of the Empire, with a special reference to the progress and prospects of missiontwork in them. These chapters are, twenty in number, and are supplemented by three others dealing with Manchuria, Tibet, and Mongolia, and with an account of the " Bible in the Chinese Empire." We observe that Chinese work is on the whole favourable to life. Eighteen of the twenty chapters are written by missionaries still resident and still labouring in the localities described, and the average time of residence is over twenty-seven years. This could hardly be equalled in any other mission-field. The eldest is Archdeacon Mollie, who counts forty-six years. Next to him come Mr. Thomas Bryson (London Missionary Society) with forty-one, and Mr. J. McCarthy (China Inland Mission) with forty.
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