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Rh of the fitness of one and another for the work in China, the has been asked to open the way, and provide the means for outfit and passage; and He has answered prayer. By 's help, we purpose to continue working on the same plan, and to help out none who are not personally known to us, or to those who superintend the home department of our work.

Our work is evangelistic and unsectarian: we desire to win souls for, and not to spread any particular views of church government. The has given us helpers, persons from most if not all of the leading denominations of England and Scotland.

For the convenience of carrying on the work, an account was opened with the London and County Bank. For this purpose it was necessary to adopt a definite name, and that of the "" was adopted as being the most suitable, seeing our great desire and aim were to plant the standard of the cross in the eleven provinces of China Proper previously unoccupied, and in Chinese Tartary. How far this hope has been realised may be learned in some measure from what follows. It may however be well to point out here, that as it was absolutely necessary to have a basis from which to ramify, and as we had such a basis in the province, we did not, in adopting the title "China Inland Mission," propose to abandon the work there. On the contrary, we hoped to see it carried on with greater blessing than ever, and in this too our expectation has not been disappointed, for none that wait on shall be ashamed.