KOBE

[s. 393] : A city on the main island of Japan, 22 miles west of Osaka, on a small bay adjoining Hiogo Bay. It was opened to foreign commerce in 1878 at the same time as Hiogo, but owing to more favorable harbor conditions it has attracted foreign commerce more than Hiogo, and has grown so as to form with Hiogo one large city. The vicinity is beautiful and interesting. The climate is pleasant and healthful. Population of Kobe and Hiogo together, 104,000. Station of (1881), the ABCFM (1869), SPG (1876), MES (1886), PS (1890), with (1902) all together and including outstations, 13 mi ionaries, 10 wives of mi ionaries, 17 women mi ionaries, 92 native workers, men and women: 22 places of worship, 41 Sabbath schools, 6 day schools, 5 boarding schools, 1 theological school, 1 training scliool for women workers, 1 dispensary, and Special features of 1,300 profe ed Christians. the mi ionary equipment here are the fine college for girls (ABCFM) and the ve el for mi ionary touring of the Inland Sea (ABMU). ABMU KOCHANNES A town of Eastern Turkey, near: the border of Persia, in the most inacce ible part of the mountains of Kurdistan. The seat of the Patriarch of the Nestor i ans. Mi ionaries of the ABCFM and the PN have frequently visited the place, but the only attempt to establish a station there was in 1882, when Mr. Wahl, sent out by the Archbishop of Canterbury, endeavored to set up a printing pre and establish a There are now (1900) 2 mi ionaries of school. the Archbishop’s mi ion there. 393