The Financial Year of the American Baptist Missionary Union closes March 31. All funds for the missions should be sent to the treasurer at Boston or to the district secretaries before that date. The debt of last year was $54,383.80. Owing to the improved business conditions we are glad to say that the receipts of the Union are in advance of those of last year, but the expenditures have also increased, and special efforts are called for that the debt of last year may not be increased. It is strongly desired that it may be reduced.

Th

he Open-Door Policy in China, it is stated, has been secured by the efforts of Secretary of State Hay, who has obtained the assent of all the principal European nations to this policy. If this agreement means that the open policy for commerce to all nations is to prevail in China it guarantees the integrity of the Chinese Empire and does away with the plans for protectorates and partition and spheres of influence, and makes an open door not only for commerce, but a free and great opening for missionary work in all parts of the Chinese Empire. There seems to be, however, a doubt whether the nations will consider their agreement with Secretary Hay to apply to anything more than an open policy for the commerce of the United States in the parts of China where the influence of these various countries is predominant. They may possibly deny the same privileges to other nations. It is to be hoped that the large and general interpretation of this agreement will prevail, and that the great and productive and important territory of China will be free territory for the commerce and missionaries of all nations. At any rate, the agreement seems to promise that every facility will be afforded for the extension of the commerce and missions of the United States in China.

chikni Ripeng (Garo Friend) is the name of the periodical published by our mission at Tura, Assam, which has entered upon its twenty-fifth year of continuous issue. It is an illustrated monthly and an extremely useful feature in the work of the vigorous and aggressive Garo Mission. By inadvertence it was not mentioned among the periodicals named in "One Year's Work."

THE Missionary Review has published in the numbers for January and February its annual tables of statistics of world-wide missions, prepared by Rev. D. L. Leonard, D. D., of Oberlin, Ohio, associate editor, which give the following totals: Income, $14,763,620; ordained missionaries, 4,671; laymen, 2,075; wives, 4,704; unmarried women, 3,421; total missionary force, 15,019; ordained natives, 3,958; total native helpers, 64,193; total force in the field, 80,300; stations and outstations, 26,635; communicants, 1,321,561; added last year, 79,759; adherents (native Christian), 3,469,975; schools, 19,476; scholars, 988,660.

The largest missionary societies, reckoning by the number of communicants reported in the mission churches, and including only those reporting more than 10,000 members, are as follows:

American Baptist Missionary Union (excluding missions in Protestant Europe): Income, $563,495; missionaries, 459; native helpers, 3,534; communicants, 128,294; scholars in schools, 31,254.

Methodist Episcopal (North) (excluding missions in Protestant Europe): Income, $954,063; missionaries, 686; native helpers, 4,393; communicants, 114,187; scholars in schools, 36,818.

Church Missionary Society of England: Income, $1,899,135; missionaries, 1,135; native helpers, 6,184; communicants, 64,904; scholars in schools, 88,094. Baptist Missionary Society of England: Income, $376,660; missionaries, 277; native helpers, 1,619; communicants, 53,749; scholars in schools, 36,320. London Missionary Society (Congregationalist): Income, $663,810; missionaries, 422; native helpers, 5,270; communicants, 52,803; scholars in schools, 50,613.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Congregationalist): Income, $644,201; missionaries, 529; native helpers, 3,155; communicants, 49,782; scholars in schools, 60,780.

Wesleyan Missionary Society: Income, $557.901; missionaries, 529; native helpers, 3,037; communicants, 46,262; scholars in schools, 68,985.

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (High Church of England): Income, $661,775; missionaries, 1,251; native helpers, 3,326; communicants, 40,000; scholars in schools, 38,000.

Presbyterian (North): Income, $882,087; missionaries, 702; native helpers, 2,030; communicants, 35,995; scholars in schools, 21,516.

Moravian Missions: Income, $142,534; missionaries, 355; native helpers, 1,817; communicants, 33,764; scholars in schools, 24,404.

Rhenish Missionary Society: Income, $118,200; missionaries, 248; native helpers, 347; communicants, 29,700; scholars in schools, 12,599.

The United Presbyterian Society of England: Income, $305,186; missionaries, 187; native helpers, 881; communicants, 26,971; scholars in schools, 20,146.

Hermannsburg Missionary Society: Income, $70,480; missionaries, 117; native helpers, 499; communicants, 23,882; scholars in schools, 6,728.

Basel Missionary Society: Income, $284,417; missionaries, 407; native helpers, 1,184; communicants, 20,312; scholars in schools, 18,699.

Berlin Missionary Society: Income, $98,757; missionaries, 178; native helpers, 238; communicants, 17,582; scholars in schools, 6,898.

Gossner Missionary Society: Income, $45,955; missionaries, 55; native helpers, 516; communicants, 15,300; scholars in schools, 3,643.

Paris Missionary Society: Income, $226,730; missionaries, 112; native helpers, 342; communicants, 14,452; scholars in schools, 9,944.