Group Title : Mission Council Minutes

Series Title : Canton Villages Mission Council Minutes

Date(s) : 1917 to 1918

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Item Description : This file contains the unbound copies of the Canton Villages Mission Council minutes, along with some financial statements and covering letters.

Main Topics Include : removal of Sha Luet manse (1917); language study; land and buildings; salaries; income and expenditure; furloughs; need for more missionaries on the field (1917); memorial minutes; exchange rate fluctuations; revision of constitution of Council (1917); Union Theological work; Union medical work; building work at Kong Tsuen; Chinese preachers and Biblewomen; closure of Ko Tong Hospital and transfer to Kong Ts'uen (1917); Republican/monarchist struggle in China (1917); threat of famine due to floods (1917); alteration of Ko Tong mission buildings for boys' school (1917); building committee report (1917); naming of "Po Wai" Hospital at Kong Chuen (Hospital of Universal Love); PWMU Hospital boxes; military service (1918); proposal for Girls' Boarding School at Kong Chuen; possible temporary closure of hospital (1918); Evangelistic Committee reports; Education Committee reports; proposal for Union of Christian Primary School Education Systems in Kwantung (1918), proposal for organisation of district church sessions into a Presbytery (1918).
 

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