dred, as last year. They all agree to do this much, or the Helpers will lose it.

I have divided the work into three Missions. One at Foochow, with Rev. Dr. Maclay as Superintendent; one at Kiukiang, with Rev. V. C. Hart as Superintendent; and one at Peking, with Rev. · L. N. Wheeler as Superintendent. Each of these Missions ought to be strengthened at once by the addition of two men, either with or without wives. For the present, until they acquire the language, I would prefer they should come without wives. I am greatly encouraged by the state of things in China, and I earnestly hope the men may be found for strengthening the Mission without much delay. It is hazardous to leave Brother Hart alone at Kiukiang. Having established three important centers in China, we must strengthen them, and make them grand successes under God's blessing.

Maclay. We feel indebted to them for their prudent advice and wise counsel, as also their hearty Christian sympathy.

Bishop Kingsley wrote from Foochow on the twenty-fourth day of November, 1869, to the Mission Rooms as follows:

The Annual Meeting of the Mission closed on Monday about noon. We have had a most delightful meeting, and great harmony of opinion on nearly all questions that came before us. I have not formed a China Conference, and I am thankful to say that all the brethren here now fully concur in this decision. At first there was a strong desire for a Conference on the part of four out of six of the brethren in China, and all desired it under certain conditions; but all became satisfied that such conditions do not now exist, and that it is beyond any power short of that of the General Conference to produce them.

Apprehending that it might be desirable to have some native preachers ordained, I took the precaution while at the California Conference to transfer to that body the seven men who were members on trial in different Conferences. The California Conference elected them to orders, and I then retransferred them. They were elected as missionaries without being received into full connection, as we have frequently done at home. On arriving here and making this fact known it gave great joy to the brethren, both foreign and native. It was the unanimous opinion of the mission- ̧ aries here that the whole seven should be ordained Deacons, and that four of the number should be ordained Elders. This was accordingly done, and we have prepared their credentials in Chinese, and the matter gives great satisfaction. The seven brethren referred to are as fine looking a class of men as I have ever ordained, and I believe as deeply pious.

We have also initiated measures looking to self-support at the earliest practicable moment. Instead of letting the different charges raise what they would, and then draw on the missionary funds for the remainder, we have made definite appropriations to each charge, and required the charge to raise the rest as in similar appropriations at home. The native helpers seem to be pleased with this manifestation of confidence in them, and are full of zeal on the question of self-support. By this arrangement the Mission will raise this year about five hundred dollars, instead of three hun

dred, as last year. They all agree to do this much, or the Helpers will lose it.

I have divided the work into three Missions. One at Foochow, with Rev. Dr. Maclay as Superintendent; one at Kiukiang, with Rev. V. C. Hart as Superintendent; and one at Peking, with Rev. ' L. N. Wheeler as Superintendent. Each of these Missions ought to be strengthened at once by the addition of two men, either with or without wives. For the present, until they acquire the language, I would prefer they should come without wives. I am greatly encouraged by the state of things in China, and I earnestly hope the men may be found for strengthening the Mission without much delay. It is hazardous to leave Brother Hart alone at Kiukiang. Having established three important centers in China, we must strengthen them, and make them grand successes under God's blessing.

GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND MISSION CONFERENCE.

Commenced in 1849.

BISHOP KINGSLEY HAS EPISCOPAL SUPERVISION.

As our Missions in Germany and Switzerland are organized into an Annual Conference, we have no connected Annual Report, such as is usual when a Mission has one Superintendent. But instead of one Report from a Superintendent, we have a report from each Presiding Elder, and these reports, combined, show the condition and progress of the Mission. The following are the reports from the seven districts of this Conference, with the general statistics at the close:

BREMEN DISTRICT, E. GEBHARDT, Presiding Elder. BREMEN and VEGESACK, E. Gebhardt and C. Girtaner, Missionaries, with three Local Preachers. We have here, especially in the city, a good Methodist Society, with faithful members. We had a small revival at the beginning of this year, when about twenty persons professed religion, and by the constitution of a regular choir several young people did unite with us. Still our Society has not gained in number, for many of our members left with certificates, and most of them for America, where they have joined our Church and serve the Lord, as we had the joy to be informed.

We do in no way feel discouraged, but we work with the full confidence that the Lord will continue to bless his work and with still greater success.

We have on our circuit three chapels with parsonages, eleven appointments, with eight Sunday-schools.

DELMENHORST and NEERSTEDT, Chr. Raith, Missionary.-Brother Pucklitsch was returned by the last Conference to this circuit, but there being an opening in Westphalia, we agreed to commence a mission in Bielefeld, and Brother Pucklitsch went there about four weeks ago. Brother Raith being persecuted by the government of Saxony-Altenburg, left by advice of his Presiding Elder, and took