The first Annual Social Meeting of thie Astociation was held in the. ¥. Mf. C. A. Peking on Thursday evening lust.' There mere about one hundred membere and friends present, After devotional exercises led by Rev. A. J. Bamford, the Chairman, the Vou. Archdeacon fouls, made a few prelimin: remarks, The programme that follow was a varied and spoke of Asrociatiot'e present position and future prospects. The meeting then closed with the Doxology now Session will be opened next day evening, 6th January, whi Partridge will read a paper on "The Authorship of the Epistle to the Hebrew Amusements,
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