To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Cumsa Day News."
Srm,—In your issue'of the 13th instant there isa very'interesting report of the Poking: Union' Conference recently held.
connection with that report, many of your readers: will "bs: interested in' the following' resolution, which was carried unanimously' by the' Central " Chi District Committee of the London Missionary Society, and a copy sent to the! Conference. It hnving"been suggested from' several quarters that the resolution should be sent to you for publication I now, on behalf of my Committee, forward all feel obliged if you} your widely circulated Tam, ete.; Secretary District Committee. London Mission, Hankow;" i 19th October.
[Enclosure.]
"That this _Committeo,, having con-* adored the subjects brought before it by the Peking Union Committee. in its circular of, the Ist June, while feeling groat sympathy with those who desire to promote. unity amongst Christians in China, is of opinion that promatuie attempts to bring about unity merely by moans of a system of uniformity and. without regard to weighty theological, historical, and linguistic questions that are involved, is likely: to produce. only confusion hence they, would strongly deprecate any. attempt at this' time to! settle by popular vote such important questions as the right Chinese terms to bp used for the names of God and of the Holy Spirit: five, further, that ime to adopt throughout China 'd Union Hymn Book is likely to- discourage rather, than to encourage the development of a hymuology worthy of the Church in China, which, must. naturally be a gradual may even necessitate, for a time at least, the uso of a number of different hymmuals. In regard to " common designation for chapels and places of worship they are of opinion that so long as separate occlesiistical systems and organisations exist amongst us in point of fact, it would be distinctly an inconvonito obliterate these distinctions from is of our. churches, an venience which would not be compensate ed for by any counterbalancing gain of another kind.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.