On the resumption of the session of the China Continuation Committee of the National Missionary Conference, at the Union Church Hall, on Monday, Bishop F. B. Graves reported for the Committee on Arrangements for the National Christian Conference, which it is expected will meet in Shanghai next spring and be attended by about 1,000 delegates, composed equally of Chinese and foreign Christians. The work of preparing for the Conference has been ea-trusted to five Commissions. Commission I, under the chairmanship of Bishop L. H. Roots, will deal with The Present State of Christianity in China"; Commission LI will deal with The Strengthening of the Church," and will have as chairman Rev. ©. E. Patton: Commission III will deal with "The Message of the Church," Rev. C. Y. Cheng, Secretary of the hina Continuation Committes, presiding; Commission IV, with Dr. David Z. T. Yui, General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, as chairman, will report on "The Future Task of Church," and Commission V deal with "Ca-ordination and Cooperation in the Work of the Church," the Rev. C. G. Sparham acting as chairman. The main theme of the Conference will be "The Chinese Church."
Dr. Henry Hodgkin, Secretary of the Friends Foreign Missionary Society, spoke on the relation of the Church to. war and international problems. He felt that Christianity had to show a way of ove:- coming evil other than war and quoted Mencius to show that the way of love is discredited because we do not use enough love.
Reverend M. T. Stauffer, Secretary of the Survey Committee, presented the General Missionary Survey of China, the most thorough study from the point of view _of Christian work ever made in China and possibly in any mission field.
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