SANG-HIA-CHUANG

[s. 663] : A town in Shen-si, China, situated about 55 miles W. of Hsi-ngan-fu. Station of th’j CIM (1894), with (1903) 1 woman mi ionary, 3 native workers,” 1 place of worship, 1 Sunday school, and 2 profe ed Christians. Some write the name Sang-kia-chuang. SANGI or SANGIR Islands: A group of islands Dutch East Indies, lying between Celebes and Mindanao. The area of the group is about 350 miles, and the population about 45,000. The largest of the islands is called Great Sangir. in the Its characteristic feature is the volcano of Gunong Abu, to which belongs a terrible history This island is also the center of of destruction. evangehstic effort now supervised by the “Sangir and Talaut Islands Committee,” whose seat is in Other stations of this committee’s Batavia. mi ion are in the islands of Siauw and Tagulandang. Taking the Sangir group and the neighboring Talaut islands together, the number of profe ed Christian adherents found there (1901) is about 44,000. 663