The three following articles by leaders' of religious thought in Shanghai present in vivi and forceful manner the writers' views on the significance of Christmas, and they will be found to be of deep interest particularly so in that each is distinctly characteristic of both the writer and of the branch of Chritian thought he represents.
The subject is one upon which each reader also will have his individual views, and therefore these contributions. form an appropriate introduction to our supplement.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.