BIBLE CHRISTIAN HOME AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

[s. 101] : This society was organized in 1821 for the purpose of sending mi ionaries into unchristianized portions of the United Kingdom and into heathen lands. In 1831 it sent two mi ionaries to North America, one of whom occupied a station in Canada, and the other in Prince Edward’s Island. Their work was eminently succe ful, and in 1883, when the union of all the Methodist churches in Canada was effected, the membership of this mi ion was about 7,000. In 1850 Me rs. James Way and James Rowe were sent to South Australia, and later several other mi ionaries settled in Victoria, Queensland, and New Zealand. The work here being carried on under favorable circumstances, soon grew independent and self-supporting, and now the principal work done in this mi ion is the planting of new churches in needy districts. In 1885 the Society sent two mi ionaries to Yunnan, China, under the auspices of the China Inland Mi ion, whose repeated appeals for help had aroused much interest. At present the Society has three stations, Yunnan-fu, Chao-tungfu, and Tung-Chawan-fu, 12 mi ionaries, 6 native evangelists, 41 church members and 200 scholars. The recent changes have brought large numbers of inquiries. At home the Society has mi ionaries working among the lowest cla es of people in London and other parts of England. The_ Woman’s Mi ionary League of the Bible Christian Mi ionary Society, was organized as an auxiliary to the “Society in 1892 with special reference to the work in China. 101