CHINA INLAND MISSION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 135, 8 June 1911, Page 7

CHINA INLAND MISSION.

NORTH ISLAM) ANNUAL 3IEKTJXU. Tin- annual meeting of the North Island I'fuim-il vi the ( uiria Inland .Mission was held in the lUutisl Tabernacle School Hall last eviuing. 1„ the ahseiue of Dr. Knight, the J{.-v. Know les Kcnif.Lun presided. Mr. A. ( . liroun jjave a siiuimary ot the annual report and" quoted from a recent hook i-iillcij -( hina's Million.," soiii- interestiiio fact* concerning the repression ~!' opium amongst the "Chinese. The linok shoivt'ii that there had heen a . ."> per cent, reduction already in some districts. tsmain's undertaking to abolish the Indian tr.itli,- within ten year-, thr 1" ivhi.-h ha I expire, I. Mas welc,unci |,\ the native-. For the past twelve in.iiiihs China had been tranquil and no missionaries had lust their lives. (>f the litis foreign missionaries of the mission no lives had l»-<-ii lost in travelling during the year, and only nine deaths had occurred in the staff. No collections or appeal- are allowed, hut durin-j the year tin- hori. irea-uier had received for the North Island 1705 !] S. The total , iiic-me fur the year lulu un- £52.!"i»t" IS S. exclusive of funds received for tho support of some ~| the missionaries as- ; sociated. The total am,unit received by the mission since its commencement, entirely voluntarily, w.i- over £1..VMi.(100. Mr. I diver itur.-ess. a iiiissinii.try of - N.W. ( hiii—. addressed the meeung attired in Chinese r-i'siunie. lie -poke of the excellent work done by the work- , ers in that vast territory, ami entertain -led his hearers with an account of the dangers and hardships en'iircl by mis- ' j sionaries in t'tieir labours. Mr. liurgess '| paid ,-i .splendid tribute t" the workers 'from New Zeikiti'l and Australia, saying ■ that the returns showed that they were less prone io ill h'-alth than any of the other missionaries sent to China from other pans of the world. The mission was int.-r .lenomin.it ional. and a j man's rcli-ioiis views were nor interfered ■ I with. At the conclusion of his address. I Mr. RurL'oss was the recipient of a very teorlial recent—in.