The Church now has, besides these missions, others in India (1834), Siam (1840), China (1846),(1846), Colombia (1856), Brazil (1859),(1859), Japan (1859), Laos (1867),(1867), Mexico (transferred in 1872 by the American and Foreign Christian Union), Chile (transferred in 1873 by the same Union; first established in 1845), Guatemala (1882),(1882), Korea (1884)(1884) and the Philippine Islands (1899).
Although he had advised the ratification of the Peace Treaty, he opposed the permanent acquisition of the Philippine Islands.
From this species the tobaccos of Cuba, the United States, the Philippine Islands and the Latakia of Turkey are derived, and it is also largely cultivated in India; the variety macrophylla is the source of the Maryland tobaccos.
Coal is worked to some extent in Sumatra, British North Borneo, and the Philippine Islands.
The Philippine Islands which had been for several centuries a Spanish possession, passed in 1898 by conquest to the United States of America.
