The committee appointed by direction of the General Conference of Protestant Missionaries in 1890 to prepare a Bible with brief notes and comments in Chinese is now in session hero. There are present the Rev. Win. Muirhead, D.D., Shang!
Rev, H. N. Noyes, D.D., Canton H. C. Clu Bose, D.D., Soochow; Rev P, Pather, D.D., Shanghai; the Rev. ©. K. Voskamp, Canton, and the Rev. John Ross, D.D., Moukden. The Rev. Lil. Lloyd, C. MIS., Foochow, was unable to attend. The Committee represent seven societies and three nationalities. The work is carried on under the auspices of the London Religious Tract Society and the American Tract Society. Specimen chapters will soon be printed for suggestive criticism, and it is the hope of some that the entire New Testament may be published in 1897. This will be a tentative edition; the permanent edition to be issued after the. revision of the Bible in easy Wenli is finished. The first to prominently advocate this union work was the late Dr. A. Williamson.
The publication of a Chinese Bible with brief notes and comments, and full references, is looked forward to with interest by mapy employed in school and church work.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.