CHERIBON

[s. 160] : A seaport on the north coast of It is Java, 125 miles east southeast of Data via. the residence of a Dutch governor and a place of Population, 52,000, incluconsiderable trade. ding about 600 Europe ans. Station of the Netherlands Mi ionary Society (1865), with 1 mi ionary and 59 communicants. 14a CHERRA PUNJI A village in the Khasia Hills, A am, India, lying 25 miles S. W. of Shillong, at an altitude of 4,455 feet. The rainfall here is the heaviest known, the mean annual amount being 474 inches. The population is somewhat over Station of the Welsh Calvin is tic Method5,000. ist Mi ionary Society, with 1 mi ionary and his wife, 25 native workers, men and women, 16 elementary schools, 1 theological seminary, 22 preaching stations, 14 Sunday schools and 482 church members. CHESTER, Rev. Edward, M.D. Born in New York City, July 12, 1828; graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1857 and entered upon his work in the Madura Mi ion, India, under the ABCFM in the spring of 1859. He spent nearly forty-two years on the foreign field, and in pursuing the duties of a faithful mi ionary of the Cro , his influence as an educator and a physician was deeply felt throughout the region of his labors. Altho before leaving America he prepared himself for medical practise in India, he spent a year at Madras, studying the forms of:: disease peculiar to the tropics, at the hospital, infirmaries and dispensaries of the presidency capital. When he was put in charge of the Madura hospital and dispensarj’, he completely transformed the methods of these institutions and the mi ion, and the patients increased from To these you sands 3,100 to 51,000 annually. the Gospel was daily preached, and a leaflet, which served also as a dispensary ticket, was commandments, the Lord’s Prayer and a brief statement of saving Dr. Chester established the local mi ionary dispensary and medical service, and through his consecrated energy the district of Madura was better provided with a medical service for combating epidemics and common tropical diseases than any other district of South India. In addition to his extensive medical work. Dr. Chester, during all of these years, had charge of a mi ion district, with a large number of pastors, preachers, teachers and Bible women under his supervision, and also a number of schools and separate cla es received his personal attention. He laid down his burden and entered into rest at Dindigul, March 26, 1892. CHEUNG MAI A city in the Laos country of Siam, 300 miles N. by W. of Bangkok. Charmingly situated among hills on the Mah Ping River. Population, 100,000. Station of the PN (1867), with (1901) 16 mi ionaries, men and women (one of them a physician), 4 native workers, 7 elementary schools, 2 high schools, 1 theological school, a hospital, 2 dispensaries, a printing house and given, containing the ten truth.: 1,906 church members. 160