n be a thing of the past.

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CHINA AND THE CHINESE IN AMERICA.

China, with her vast population, has stood almost unmoved for
thousands of years. But now disintegration threatens, and the nations
of Europe may yet divide that great country among themselves, and a
new world may arise. In such a change, the influence of Christianity
must be a vital force, to guide and strengthen.

The coming of the children of China to our Western coast may be a
providential element in this change and the importance of the work of
the Association among these peoples on our Pacific Coast, so ready to
learn, and many of them so ready to return to their native land as
missionaries, may be a very significant factor in the future.

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ALASKA.

In 1847, California was almost as little known and valued as Alaska
was last year. But the discovery of gold in Sutton's mill-race changed
the whole aspect of affairs in California, and it is now a State with
a large and thrifty population, and its western shore is connected
with the Atlantic seaboard by railroads, towns and cities. The
discovery of gold made the change. The recent discoveries on the Yukon
River in Alaska are sending hundreds and thousands of people thither,
and while Alaska may never become a California in population, yet a
wonderful change is taking place, the end of which no one can predict.
But the native population of that distant land must not be neglected
nor crushed under the pressure of hordes of gold hunters. The work at
our mission station at Cape Prince of Wales should be enlarged and
made more effective.

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American Missionary Association,

CONGREGATIONAL ROOMS,

Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New York.

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THE FIELD.

1897-1898.

The following list gives the names of those who are in the work of the
Churches, Institutions and Schools of the American Missionary
Association.

THE SOUTH.

REV. GEO. W. MOORE, Field Missionary.
MR. O. R. BROWN, Builder.
MR. GILBERT WALTON, General Mountain Missionary.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

WASHINGTON.

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., LL.D.
" John L. Ewell, D.D.,
" Isaac Clark, D.D.,
" S. N. Brown, A.M., B.D.,
" George O. Little, D.D.,
" George S. Duncan, Ph.D.,
" W.