To the Editor of the Noxra-Crixa Datty New:
Deak Sin,—The Protestants of China are forward with interest to the gathering from all parts of this are now nearly three times as many missionaries as at the last conference in 1877. It will be a large assembly. The April Recorder gives a list of 130. "Beside: these there will be over 100 of the China
will run it up to 300. ides, the pub-Inland Mission. The ar oe missionaries lished list has very few of those from " the country around Shanghai." The writer knows over thirty who will attend whose names have not been sent to the Committee who mostly have made their own arrangements for accommodation, The besides the children, There will also be number may safely be put down as 400, visitors from New York, Lundon and Japan. Wo suppose almost everyone in Shanghai will step in to see such a big crowd.
'The sessions will continue ten days and will be presided over by the ten senior Preachers, ove each day,—s capital arrangement provided their eyes and ears are like Moses' at sixscore. The Nestor is Dr.
per, of Canton, who will soon celebrate his China Jubilee.
There is a day for the Bible and a day for preaching and a day for schools and a day for hospitals and a day for literature, 'AS the essays are printed and for sale at the Mission Press, no dry reading is to be permitted; all will be speaking which will keep the meetings from being dry.
'A large proportion will be of the seniors—with the ancients is wisdom—who will of course take the leading part. There will be a vast storehouse of geographical knowledge in the possession of the Richtofens who have travelled over P* and lived in the eighteen provinces. There will be evening meetings of a popular kind, but all the sessions will be open to an interested public who wish to know more of China and her civilisation, Tam, ete, A.B. oth April.
To the Editor of the Norru-Curva Dar News.
Dear Six,—In a letter in your paper of this date, signed by A. B. C. D., there is a statement in regard to the Chairmanship of the coming missionary conference which was unauthorised. The only action ever taken by the committee of arrangements for the conference was as follows, as may be seen inthe Chines: Recovder of January, 1889, p. 28.
"Voted also to recommend that during the sessions of the conference the chair shall be occupied each day by a different man, the order of succession to be determined by the date of arrival in China," The letter in question left out the tant fact that the committee did not but recommend. Kindly publish thi justice to the committee, and oblige, Yours truly, Shanghai, 19th April.
Fitca, A, Witttamson,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.