The report of the committee on the Sale of Opium in Shanghai was the main feature of the business meeting of the Shanghai Missionary Association at the Union Church Hall on the 1st instant, Reports were presented by the Rev. J. W. Cro-foot and Mr. J, N. Hayward. The paper of the evening was given by Dr. D. D. Main of Hangchow, his subject being, "How to Keep Well though a Missionary." The ladies of the Y.M.C.A. entertained the Association.
A great deal of interest and en thusiasm was shown over the port of the Committee on the Sale of Opium in Shanghai. Mr. Cro-foot's part of the report stated the reasons for the closing of opium shops, Mr. Hayward's report recounted the several interviews between the Council and members of the Committee. He emphasixed the fact that thes interview were readily accorded and most courteously conducted and the fullest information given, but no assurance was given that the Council would depart from its expressed policy of continuing to license the shops until the stock now on hand was disposed of. No specific date could be given for the cessation of the licences.
This report closed with the following recommendation:—"We recommend the continuation of your Committee, and this Association pledges itself to support it with earnest and constant prayer, and steadily and persistently to use whatever personal influence any of us may have with rate-payers in order to obtain the remise of their vote in favour of the suppression of the licences when the matter shall come before the ratepayers." These reverts were adopted by the
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