This has been the ociety's ' anniversary week and a busy time for its officers, Mond.y its Board of Directors held their annual meeting; on Thu the Board of Trustees met to hearth Annual Report, fill vacancies on the Boards, and transact other business; at three "e'vck on Sunday afternoon the Annual Sermon was preached in the Lowrie Memorial Clureh by the Rev. Fon Yuen-fu_o* the American Southern Method ist Mission; and at six o'clock the Rev. Hunter Corbett, D. D., of Chefoo, preached the Annua! Sermon English in the Union Churely In the afternoon the other church s were clowd and the "Lowrie M-total" was filled with a Jarge and nee of Chris tians. The rty, the whole audience j with much spirit.
In the absence of the Rev. Dr Edkins, confined to his room' br sickness, P. Parker. Vice-President, presided. The collection amounted to about seventeen dollars. Lhe Annual Repo t was read by Mr. V. W. Zee, one of the Secretaries, and showed a good yerg's work, speosing of the printing fifteen millie ws of pages.
The Suciety's Badzet shows that it will quire $4,000. more than its income list year to keep its books in print and to publish works uow on hand and ready for the printer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.