CHINESE CHRISTIANITY.

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Old Ningpo: Bulletin of Ningpo Station. First edition of this introduction to the work and progress of the oldest Presbyterian mission station in China. It gives the number of Chinese followers of the church, a roster of foreign missionaries, and an overview of the churches and hospitals run by the organisation. We have traced only one institutional copy, at the Presbyterian Historical Society.The Ningpo Station was opened in 1844 by Dr Divie Bethune McCartee as a centre of Presbyterian activity. Their first church was established in 1845, followed by a boys school in 1846. The missionaries pioneered the "three-self" approach, which advocated for allowing converts to organise and run their own churches.The bulletin is illustrated with photographs taken by Western and Chinese photographers of various buildings, Chinese adherents, and scenes of children and adults studying. In particular, it notes the efforts to educate women in reading and child-rearing. The bulletin also reports on medical work done at McCartee Hospital and the Davison Memorial Hospital. On page 18 it mentions the 1918 flu epidemic, writing that "the hospital was taxed to the limit in caring for the sick".

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