List of abbreviations

ABCFM

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

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