The committee on arrangements has now definitely decided to hold the National Christian Conference at Shanghai from May 5 to 14, 1922. It is expected that approximately 1,000 delegates, half Chinese and half foreign, will be elected by the different missions, churches and Christian organizations in China. The Rt. Rev. F. R. Graves, D.D., is chairman of the committee on arrangements.
'The general subject proposed for consideration by the Conference is "The Chinese Church.' This will be presented under five general heads, and commissions composed of Chinese and foreign members resident in different parts of China are being chosen to prepare the reports which are to come before the Conference. The Committee after much consideration as to the best method of selecting the members of these' commissions has chosen the following chairmen and is with them studying in detail the method of selecting the mem bers of each separate commission.
Commission I.—The Present State of Christianity in China. Chairman, Rt. Rev. D. H. Roots, p.v., American Church Mission, Hankow.
Commission II.—The Future Task of the Church. Chairman, Rev. C. N. Patton, of the American Presbyterian Church (North).
Commission IJI.—The Message of the Church. Chairman, Rey. C. Y. Chang, v.p., Shanghai.
Commission IV.—The Development of Leadership for the Work of the Church. Chairman, Mr. David Z. T. Yui, ma, General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in China.
Commission V.—Ca-ordination and Ca-operation in the Work of the Church. Chairman, Rey. O.
Sparham, Secretary of the Advisory Council of the London Missionary Society in China.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.