onaries, and sixty
unordained preachers. Of its sixteen organized churches one is
self-supporting. The number of baptisms in 1892 was, adults 267, children
121; and the total membership at the present time amounts to 2,126, with
600 children in Sunday Schools.

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel commenced work in 1873; and
has its headquarters at Tokio. The work of the two Community Missions,
founded by Bishop Bickersteth in 1887, is apparently included in the
statistics assigned to the S. P. G. in the table before us. At St.
Andrew's University Mission, five clergy--all of whom are University
Graduates,--live in community with several native students preparing for
Ordination, while at St. Hilda's Mission, a staff of English ladies is
engaged in work, which includes schools, a hospital, and a home for
mission women. Both these Missions are supported by the "Guild of St.
Paul,"--a society which has branches all over England,--whose occasional
papers are full of interesting information. Several other priests of the
S. P. G. are engaged at various mission stations; and these, with seven
native ministers, make in all some nineteen clergy at work in Japan. The
adult baptisms in 1892 numbered 151, and the membership at the present
time is given as 784.

The Wyckliffe College Mission was sent out by the Canadian Church in 1888.
At present it provides only three clergy, who are engaged at Nagoya, a
flourishing commercial city situated about midway between Kyoto and Tokio.
Bishop Bickersteth, however, in his recent Pastoral Letter, refers to its
work in hopeful and appreciative terms.

The total number of adherents of the Nippon Sei Kokwai will thus be seen
to be about 4,300 (with upwards of 2,000 Sunday Scholars); and of these
the Church of England can claim barely 3,000. At the same time evidence is
by no means lacking that the work is being carried on upon thoroughly
sound principles and along right lines; and there are many reasons for
believing that, with adequate resources, a future awaits it, under God,
far exceeding the calculations that might be suggested by its present
numerical strength. Some of the readers of these pages may, possibly, be
in greater sympathy with the general position of the S. P. G. than of the
C. M. S; but no consideration of this sort should allow us to be
inappreciative of the splendid work which the C. M. S. has done in the
past, and is still doing in non-Christian countries. Its chi