HAN-CHENG-HSIEN

[s. 305] : A town in the province Hoang-Ho River, 120 Station of the CIM miles N. E. of Hsi-ngan-fu. (1897), with (1903) 1 mi ionary and his wife and 3 women mi ionaries. of Shen-si, situated on the A HAN-CHUNG-FU town in the province of Shen-si, China, situated on the Han River, 225 miles N. E. of Cheng-tu-fu, at an altitude of 2,000 It is a center for trade with Sze-chwan. feet. Station of the CIM (1879), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries and their wives.: HANG-CHAU-FU A city in the province of Che-kiang, China, situated at the southern terminus of the Grand Canal, and at the head of Hang-chau Bay, 110 miles southwest of Shanghai. Its beauty of location is celebrated in a popular Chinese proverb, and, with the beautiful western lake, in which are fairylike islands, and around which stand villas and monuments, with its extensive circuit of twelve miles, its well-paved, clean streets and numerous public buildings, it well deIt is a serves the name of an earthly paradise. great center of Chinese commerce and learning. Marco Polo celebrated its beauty under the name of Kinsai, and in a northeast corner of the city is The the Nestor i an Church of which he speaks. Station of population is estimated at 800,000. the PN (1859), the CMS (1864), the CIM (1866), These the PS (1867), and the (1899). societies together report (1903) 41 mi ionaries, men and women; 85 native workers, men and women; 26 outstations, 25 places of worship, 5 high schools, 18 village schools, and 1,500 profe ed Christians. The PN has a college here and a school for training women for evangelistic work; the has a printing house, and the CMS has 2 hospitals and dispensaries, a refuge for: ABMU ABMU opium victims, and some special work for lepers. Besides these special features of the mi ionary enterprise, the Mi ion to Lepers in India and the East has two houses for the children of lepers. In reports the name is written Hangchow. 305