Their training school for preachers is in Tientsin. Work was begun in Tientsin, 1861 ; in Tangshan, 1884. The Yungping circuit was formed in 1902, and the Wutingfu circuit in 1904. The staff consists of 3 ordained missionaries, 3 doctors, 28 native pastors and evangelists, as many local preachers, 8 school teachers, and 8 female helpers. Their communicants number about 1000 in Chihli.
The London Missionary Society's stations are : Tientsin, 1861; Peking, 1861; Chichow, 1888; Weichen, 1894; and Tsangchow, 1895, The country lying between Peking and Tientsin has been worked for many years by a foreign missionary residing at Tungan. The Chichow and Tsangchow fields were originally out-stations of Tientsin. Weichen was begun by the Rev. A. H. Bridge, an independent missionary, but was joined to the London Missionary Society on his becoming a member of that Mission in 1899. Yenshan was the headquarters of the Tsangchow field till the transference of the foreign missionaries to the latter city on the Grand Canal in 1895. Work among the Mongols was carried on by the lamented James Gilmour, who during the later years of his life made his home in Chaoyang. That station, soon after Gilmour's death, was handed over to the Irish Presbyterian Mission. Besides the distinguished place which the medical branch has occupied in the evangelical operations of this Society, as seen in the lives of Lockhart, Mackenzie, and Roberts, mention should be made of the Anglo-Chinese College in Tientsin, under Dr. S. Lavington Hart and a staff of foreign and native teachers, which has now over 250 pupils. An Anglo-Chinese Church of over forty members meets every Sunday in the College chapel.
The latest statistics of the London Missionary Society for Chihli are reported thus : — Missionaries — men, 18 ; women, 5 ; native preachers, 48 ; teachers, 32 ; Bible women and female teachers, 21 ; church members, 1998.
The Church Missionary Society maintained a staff in Peking for many years, the work having been commenced in 1861 by the Rev. J. S. Burdon (afterwards Bishop of
