Wednesday morning at 9.30 in the Chapel of the Presbyterian Mission, Peking Road.
For the benefit of those not familiar with the Association it should be said that its membership includes nearly all Protestant foreigners engaged in educational work among the Chinese in China. The Association meets at Shanghai once in three years to compare notes and exchange ideas on the various phases of education among the Chinese. Since a very large part of the Western educational work is now being done by missionaries, the proportion of missionaries in the association is correspondingly high.
The meeting on Wednesday morning was primarily a business meeting. After the opening exercises, conducted by the President of the Association, the Rev.Dr. Sheffield, the audience listened with much interest to the President's Address. This was a very able presentation of the general subject of what constitutes Christian Education. The speaker dwelt upon the various forces and influences made use of by the educator; the importance of Christian environment and companionship, and of the teacher in home, school, and college. The address presented the subject fairly and comprehensively, and none will feel inch ed to take issue with the speaker in his conclusion that the ultimate end of Christian education should be to lead the student to " knowledge ut God, as revealed in Nature and the history of mankind. The speaker very rightly dwelt upon the ideal element in educational work, especially in China, where conditions tend to keep everything so far below the ideal.
The following officers and assistants were elected for the session:—the Rev. Dr. Parker, Vice-President; the Rov. Mr. Silsby, Secretary; Mr. Luce, Assistant Secretary; Miss Tarrant, Stenogzapher, Mr. E. R. Lyman, Reporter for Shanghai papers.
The President presented about twenty-five names for membership in the Association.
The President of the Y.M.C.A. in Japan was then introduced to the meeting. He is to give an address before the Association later in the session and asked to be allowed to reserve his remarks.
Tt was then decided, by vote, that the daily session of the convention he held in the morning from 9.30 to 12, and from 2.30 to 4.30 in the afternoon.
After appointing several committees for the session, the reports of the treasurer, secretary and of the various committees were read. These reports which show what the Association has been doing for the past three years, have been printed and can be had by applying to the seretary.
Mr. John Stagg then told what Messrs. Macmillan & Ca. had done and are doing in supplying text-books of all kinds for educators in the Far East.
The meeting adjourned at noon.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.