for the native churches of this district. Delegates to the number of between two and three hundred assembled representing nearly..3,000 Christians gathered for Christian worship in 270 stations. Such subjects as—'The relation between the Christian Religion and Material Civilisation;" "The bearing of the spiritual life for Christian Work;" were taken up intelligently, discussed, and other bu ness was transacted in an orderly and expeditious manner. The progress of Christian truth in the minds of those who a few years ago were bowing down to stocks and stones is certainly remarkable and ent ring. We are to know that
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