According to announcement, the Second Conference of Protestant missionaries of Shantung Province convened at, this. place on Saturday, October 15th, and adjourned to-day, after' a full week's deliberations. The total number of delegates was fifty-two, including the local staff of the American Presbyterian Mission.. This shows an increase of ten over the attendance at the First Conference held five years ugo, Among the unexpected pleasures of the occasion was the arrival from Chintao, of the venerable'Dr. Faber who took an active part in the discussions. Mr. A. C, Jones was selected as Chairman of the Convention, with the Rev.R. M. Mateer as Vice-Chairman in the absence of Mr. Jones who was called away before the Conference adjourned. The subjects discussed covered the various phases of mission work, with several topics a little out of the ordinary, such as a discussion of the present political situation and its possible bearing upon future mission enterprise, and the recent calamity brought upon a large part of the Province by the unprecedented - floods from tle Yellow River, Such. is the extent, and appalling distress from this disaster, it was cleome not only a fit subject for discussion but a matter for energetic action. The appeal drawn up and endorsed Conference will be printed and body by
circulated at once. The memorial dwells upon the general subject of Yellow River control, deploring the recurring floods and the inadequate provisions against such
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