The General Missionary Conference of 1890 appointed an Executive Committee to select men who would prepare an Annotated Bible in Chinese. The members of this Committee resident in Shanghai ate, Dr. Edkins (Chairman), there. J. W. Stevenson (Secretary), Faber, and the Revs. Hykes and Elwin. 'The London and American Tract Societies heartily agreed to undertake the publication of the. work, the preparation of which has now' been going on for over four years. Each book when finished was sent to the other commentators for criticism, so that the amount of labour expended has been very great.
The committee chosen for the work now meet daily in the hall of the China Tnland Mission for the final, revision. They are Drs, Muirhead (Chairman), Noyes (Canton), Ross(Moukden), Clu Bose (Soochow), and Parker (Shanghai). The Rov. Li. Lloyd of the 0. M.S., Foochow, was unable to attend, while the Rev. C. J. Voskamp of the Berlin'Mission, Canton, has recently left on furlough. The books are as follows Matthew, Parker and Ross; Mark, Noyes Luke, Lloyd; John, Muirhead; Acts and Fomans, Clu Bose; I d: IL Corinthians Voskamp; Galatians, Muirhead; Bphesians, Philippians, Colossians, I & TI Thessalonians, Clu Bose; I and I Timothy, Noyes; and. Philemon, Ross; Hebrews, Noyes; James, Ross T.and LI Peter, Muirhead; Z, {and IiT John, Clu Bose Jude, Ross; Revelations, Voskamp.
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