The ninth annual meeting of the China Continuation Committee of the National Missionary Conference was begun in the Union Church Hall on Thursday and will be continued until the 10th instant. The Right Rev. Bishop Logan H. Roots, D.D., presided.
After the opening prayer offered by the Rey. Gilbert G. Warren, the following were elected to fill vacancies in the personnel of the Continuation Committee:—Reovs. K.
Chung, Tsou Szi-kai, Bau, T. T. Lui, Kung Teh-tsang, Chang Pao-tsu, Chen Chuen-sheng, G. W. Gibb, G. A. Clayton, P. F. Price, W. P. W. Williams, John Bly, R. O. Joliffe, James Me-Whirter, and H. B. Graybill, Bishop L. J. Birney, Drs. Henry Fowler and R. Y. Lo, Prof. Chung Wing-kwong, and Miss Y. T. Law.
On behalf of the executive committee, the chairman issued an invitation to the following and welcomed them to the meeting Rt, Rev, C. R. Duppny, p.p., Bishop of Victoria; Dr, and Mrs. Henry Hodgin, of the Friends' Foreign Missionary Society;. @ PF. Saywell, wr, retary of the Church Missionary F. R. Graves, p.p., Bishop of the District of Shanghai and Chairman of the Conference Committee Rev, Luther Freeman, p.p., Minister of the Community Church of Shanghai; Rev. A. Norman Rowland, M.A, Minister of the Union Church, Shang. hai, and Prof. Paul Munroe, px. p., Dean of the Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York City.
Mr, David Z. T. Yui, m.a., Prof. H. H. Kung, ma, Mr. Peter Chuan, and Mr. Lindel Tsen were elected interpreters, and the minute secretaries were Rev. Shen Won-ching and Mr. T. L. Teng (Chinese), and Dr. John Gowdy and Rev. C. E. Patton (English).
Bishop Roots, in an address, outlined the work of the Committee during the year and its relation to current movements. He noted the fact that this session was largely one of preparation for the approaching National Conference, and made mention of the conferences held in London and America.
Following the chairman's address, Rey. E. C. Lobenstine, secretary of the Continuation Committee, reported on the work carried on_ at the offices.
Devotions were then conducted by the Rev. Bishop L. J. Birney.
At the afternoon's session, Rev. Chang Ching-yi, p.p., Chinese secretary of the Continuation Committee, reported on the progress of the China-for-Christ Movement.
The following sub-committee were then elected
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