AMOY

[s. 57] : A seaport on the southern coast of an island of the same name, belonging to the province of Fo-kien, China. It has an excellent harbor; the climate is cool in winter, wet in spring, and hot in summer; its inhabitants, in 1901, were 96,000. Amoy was one of the earliest centers of Euro The stream of emigration thence to Singapore, noticed by mi ionaries and by the chaplains of foreign seamen, at that point, led to the establishment of the first English and American mi ions at Amoy. The RCA (commenced by ABCFM in 1842 and transferred in 1854) now has at Amoy 15 mi ionaries and 16 native workers, men and women, with 6 outstations. The PCE (opened 1850) has 11 mi ionaries, men and women, and the two societies together 11 preaching places, 5 village schools, 3 high schools, 1 theological cla , 1 training cla for women workers, 1 medical cla , 1 dispensary, 1 printing house, 1 foundling asylum, 1 orphanage, and 425 church pean trade in China. members. The LMS has at Amoy (founded 1844) 14 mi ionaries and 59 native workers, men and women, with 65 outstations, 40 village schools, 1 high school, 1 theological cla , 1 college, and 2,000 church members. The mi ionary operations at good example of comity Amoy show a between the three societies engaged. 57