'The Committee of the Shanghai Missionary Association on the proposed Martyrs' "Memorial having declared in favour of erecting a Memorial Hall, special meeting was held by the As tion on Tuesday evening in the Union Church Lecture Hall to consider the sub-Wir. D. E, Hoste, B.A., President of ject. the Association, was inthe Chair, and there wasa large attendance of mission aries who evidently were much interested in the question.
Tt was explained that there had been in the minds of ting, which was ing of the Assvcintion and not a public meeting of the whole eommunity. As the whole scheme was as yet in ay inchoate state the ti was not yet ripe to go before the public. oppor enlist the views and_ ce-vperati friend: in S} ud other lands Mr. SlacGillivray, absence of Pastor Kranz, opened the discussion by outlining the idea of a Memorial Hall, with a large Assembly Room in the centr ven the first $1,000 towards the scheme, Whilst another one promised to give the last $1,000 required. finally v that the scheme in_ its opinion was emin tly suitable and feasible Large committee of missi aries and laymen Was appointed to ad the enterprise another stage during. the summer mouths. roums.on each side, tion for the vane non-denomination philanthropic or-for the goo! of the whole This would be the fittest memorial of the Martyrs, inasmuch as it would be dying a p petual wg and therefore was more to be any) lun ment of granite. There were three concurrent arguments for such an enter.
ise. Ist: It would be a conerete pri pression of the unity of the church all sorts w es in China and in the home land is fea would only be in Tine with the manifest spirit of the whole Christ an world. Tt wi for Churches and Societies at h years such as jubilees or eenvilorts and vast achly
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