1.    Who is the author of this document? Who is their intended audience?

2.    What is the tone of the document’s introduction (pages 1-4)? What attitudes towards the Chinese participants does the writer display?

3.    Given the context, what was unusual or special about this anniversary gathering?

4.    On page 6, during Ira Condit’s speech, he says that Augustus Loomis “had stood like a wall and battled with this trying, unresponsive work until the iron of inflexible strength entered into the very fiber of his nature.” Given what Condit has already said about the mission work, what part of it did he deem “trying” and “unresponsive”?

5.    How did setting up schools and other educational opportunities connect to the religious work of the California missionaries to the Chinese (page 6)?

6.    Who are the four Chinese ministers ordained by the Presbyterian Church in California, and what work do they do in the U.S. and China (page 9)?

7.    Condit notes that most Chinese people who immigrate to American eventually return to their homeland. Given this fact, why does he argue the missionary work in California is particularly important (page 11)?