List of Abbreviations

ABFMS American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society

ACM American Church Mission

ALM American Lutheran Mission

An. Anhwei Province

AUG Augustana Synod Mission

BMS Baptist Missionary Society (British)

CBM Church of the Brethren Mission

ChCC Church of Christ in China

CIM China Inland Mission

Che. Chekiang Province

CLS Christian Literature Society

CMML Christian Missions in Many Lands

CMS Church Missionary Society

ChCC China Continuation Committee of the National Missionary Conference

E&R Evangelical & Reformed Church

ELSM See: LCMS

EPM English Presbyterian Mission

FCMS Foreign Christian Missionary Society

FFMA Friends' Foreign Mission Association

Fu. Fukien Province

Ho. Honan Province

Hop. Hopei Province

Hu. Hunan Province

Hup. Hupei Province

Ki. Kiangsi Province

Ku. Kiangsu Province

LCMS Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; pre 1947 MELCM; pre 1927 ELSM

LMS London Missionary Society

LUM Lutheran United Mission

Man. Manchuria

MELCM See: LCMS

MEFB Methodist Episcopal Church

MES Methodist Episcopal Church South

MGC Mennonite General Conference

MMS Methodist Missionary Society

PN American Presbyterian Mission, North

PS American Presbyterian Mission, South

RC Roman Catholic

RCA Reformed Church in America

RCUS Reformed Church in the United States

SBC Southern Baptist Convention

SDA Seventh Day Adventist Mission

Sha. Shansi Province

SUM Sudan United Mission

Sung. Shantung Province

SVMM Student Volunteer Movement

Tung. Kwangtung Province

UCBWM United Church Board for World Missions

UCC United Church of Canada

UCMS United Christian Missionary Society

UMCA Universities' Mission to Central Africa

WFMS Women's Foreign Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church

YM Yale in China Association

YMCA Young Men's Christian Association

Yun. Yunnan Province

YWCA Young Women's Christian Association