The American Missionary — Vol. 33, No. 3, March, 1879Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Vol. 33, No. 3, March, 1879
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
=The Presbyterian Mission= reports four evening mission schools, one in
each of the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and San José,
with an average attendance of 70, 60, 35 and 24 respectively. Four
American missionaries, speaking the Chinese language, are employed,
four Chinese preachers, and six other teachers. There is also, in San
Francisco, a day school for boys and girls, with two teachers, one
English and one Chinese, and an average attendance of twelve pupils.
There are six preaching places, three in San Francisco, three in
Oakland, two in Sacramento, and two in San José. Twenty religious
services are held each week, with an attendance which varies from a
very few to one hundred. Two Chinese churches have been organized, one
in San Francisco and the other in Oakland. The former has 40 members,
of whom two were received the past year. The latter has 29 members,
of whom six were added the last year. The San Francisco church has
been in existence many years, and has received to membership from its
organization 103 persons. In connection with the Sacramento Mission,
21 Christian Chinese have been received to the Presbyterian Church of
that city; fifteen are still members of the church, and of these, eight
were received last year. In connection with the San José school there
are seven Christian Chinese, members of the Presbyterian church of that
city.
=The Ladies’ Foreign Missionary Society= of the Presbyterian church
sustains in San Francisco a Home for Chinese women, which has now
eleven inmates, who must, of course, be not only taught, but sheltered
and boarded, and, often, protected from the brutes in human form who
claim to be their owners.
The total number of laborers connected with the Presbyterian Mission is
thus seen to be fifteen. The total average attendance at the schools,
212. The total number of church members, from the first, is 160, of
whom 69 have been removed by dismissal to churches in China, by death,
or by the dropping of their names from the roll. The total number who
hear the gospel from the lips of the missionaries or native preachers
cannot be estimated, but must run far up into the hundreds, if not into
the thousands.
Of the =Methodist Chinese Mission=, Rev. Dr. Gibson, Superintendent,
makes the following succinct and clear report:
“Five evening and day schools, with a total average attendance of
149; five Sunday-schools, with a total average attendance of 246;
four preaching places, with a total average attendance of 170; public
preaching, daily prayer meetings, praise meetings, class meeting and
Bible class, weekly, 78 Chinese members and 10 probationers; baptisms
last year—adults, 19; children, 3; cost of girls’ boarding-school,
$1,900; cost of all other work, $7,600.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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