HISTORY OF MISSOURI BAPTISTS Roll Call of Missouri Missionaries China Page 344 WILLIAM H. SEARS was born January 5, 1865, near Prairie Hill, Missouri, on his father's farm, where he lived until he entered William Jewell College in 1881. He completed the A.B. course in 1888; was converted and baptized by his father, October 21, 1886 and joined the Thomas Hill Baptist Church; spent two years in Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and in February 1891, was appointed by the Southern Board missionary to China and sailed for Pingtu, North China, October 26, 1891, where he labored ever since as one of our most successful missionaries. MRS. EFFIE JOHNSON SEARS was born August 27, 1871, at Thomas Hill, Missouri; was educated at the College Mound Institute and Salisbury Academy; was converted, baptized and joined the Baptist Church at Thomas Hill, Missouri, October 23, 1887. Sailed with her husband for North China where she labored until her death in 1903. PEYTON STEPHENS, son of Dr. T. J. STEPHENS, was born June 7, 1865, in Callaway County, Missouri; spent three years at the State University, and three years at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a grandson of Rev. PEYTON STEPHENS, who was pre-eminently the leader of the anti-mission movement in Missouri. He sailed under appointment of Southern Board for North China, October 19, 1893, where he has labored ever since. JOHN THOMAS PROCTOR was born at Palmyra, Missouri, March 11, 1869; was converted, baptized and joined Little Albion Church in 1883; graduated from William Jewell College and Divinity School of University of Chicago; appointed by Missionary Union, November 22, 1897, to Huchow, China; chosed president of the first Baptist College of China in the fall of 1906. He is one of the leading missionaries on the foreign field today. (Was pastor of the First Baptist Church, Belton, Missouri)* MRS. JOHN T. PROCTOR, was educated in Rosedale, Kansas; went to Chicago Training School, located with her husband at Belton, Missouri, where he was pastor two years and finally sailed with him for China. JOHN W. LOWE was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, October 2, 1868; converted at the age of fifteen, was baptized and joined new Salem Church, Daviess County, Missouri; graduated from William Jewell College in June, 1893, and from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary four years later; completed a two years' course in medicine in the Kentucky School of Medicine of Louisville; accepted by the Foreign Mission Board, September 22, 1898, as missionary to North China, where he has wrought mightily for God as a medical missionary ever since. MARGARET SAVAGE LOWE was born in Daviess County, Missouri, September 17, 1869; was converted at the age of fourteen; was baptized into the membership of the Edinburgh Baptist Church; went to Grand River College, Lexington Baptist College, and Baylor Female College, Belton, Texas, where she took the degree of A. B., in June 1897. After her marriage in September 1897, she spent one year in Louisville, Kentucky, studying medicine. She sailed with her husband for China in 1898. * My note Norma