Excerpt from The Lien-Chou Martyrdom: The Cross Is Still Upheld at Lien-Chou There are innumerable villages in the neighborhood so that the population of this field which the Lien - Chou missionaries were expected to work was about one million. The nearest foreigners were some Baptist missionaries three and a half days' journey westward and some English and German missionaries four days eastward. Northward the nearest missionaries were our Presbyterian missionaries at Chien-chou of the Hunan Mis sion who were five days' journey away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.