PANG-CHUANG

[s. 587] : A town in Shan-tung, China, 53 miles from Tsi-nan-fu, 125 miles south-southwest of Tientsin and 6 miles southeast of Grand Canal. Natives poor, low, crowded for room in which to live. Station of the ABCFM (1879), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries and their wives, 2 women mi ionaries, 39 native workers, 24 outstations, 24 places of worship, 24 Sunday schools, 8 day schools, 2 boarding schools, 1_ dispensary, 1 hospital, and 734 profe ed Christians. 587