biennial Convention Held at Peitaiho The biennial convention of the Bible Union of China has just been held in Peitatho. A large and re-Preventative crowd was in attendance. The chair was taken by the Rev. H.W. Burdett of Sianfu, Shensi.
Speakers at the sessions were the Rev. Everett Harrison of Changsha, Hunan, and the Rev. R.A. Jaffray of the Netherlands Indies.
The item of business that tracted most attention and that culminated in a recommendation to. the Executive Committee concerned the securing of a full time general secretary of the organisation, to succeed the late Dr. J. Walter Lowrie. The Executive Committee of the union was authorised to proceed to the securing of a general secretary, Encouraging reports of the work of the union were received from various parts of the field.
In an address that was well received on account of its force and clarity, the Rev, Everett Harrison said among other things:
There is a fundamental query in all consideration of the Bible. Is the record true? There was a time when many questions could be asked about its truth and not answered. This is not true to-day. Names and places and events been abundantly verified.—Such names as Shusan, Sodom, Gomorrah have been by archaeology shown to be not merely mames, but true names, and the bible records of the events connected with these names and other well-known bible names can be shown to be true records.
second question that is then raised is this: Is this true record an inspired record. The claim is that God has inbreathed the men who wrote this book; and that Ged has so used the men whom He has inspired that the record is without error. This is the bible claim for itself, The New. Testament Writers claim this for the Old Testament; it is the clear assumption underlying the whole fabric of the New Testament. It must command credence to candid. mind that without collusion there "ap Hoare Tu cary'anno domin history A complete body of writings gather
launing the same inbreathing of gaming about. one clear tee and "It is to this with its erne fed and vison Lord, is, centr {or comfort and hope and sttenet, me, to which men in all ages £0
unless they disbelieve.
"It is significant that the tures of the Old. Testament eon cerning which there hat been unwillingness on the part of men li the world to accept, e.g. the cre mn, the destruction of Sodom Gomorrah, the story of Jonah, the sojourn in and. deliverance from Exypt—these are the very things that' we find Jesus laying under contribution in convincing men the truth of God.
"Men in Jesus! d many subsequent days, have made their appeal to the truth of the scriptures, Jesus himself took the same position. "He treated the cord reverently, and built as it wore, on its verb How could we know of a triune God if these scriptures had not told us so? "And so with the eruclfiction. of Jesus for men? the res. the promised return of Jesus in glory? the judgment?
"Note in pa the self evidencing trath of these Jewish records which throughout tell faithfully the outrageous faults as well as the excellent virtues of their heroes.
"The fulfilment in history of clear statements made centuries anterior to such events, evidences be to a candid mind the truth of these God inbreathed records. How could Isaish say. 'They made his grave with wicked men, and with a rich man in his death,' if the event hundreds of years later was not
"The unity of scripture, written in various lands, in various lan~ guages, in many' centuries, and yet one vine theme, to fair con: of Wusih land Soochow have sent a letter to the Chinese General Ghamber of [Commerce here instructing the local merchants not to send any" more STapanese goods to those places as they wish to set_an example to ther cities by. refusing. to deal japanese merchandise, Tue China Merchants str. Hengtung, on the Chinkiang-Yangchow rum," sank at Shaopo on the night lot July 28, according to messages received here, as the result of a collision witha junk. All the pasliengers and trow were rescued but the "cargo was totally lost. The HHengtung was considered the best jwland river steamer in the com rany's service.
In view of the fact that Chinese scientific exploration parties are being organized, the Education has asked the Waichiaopu to notify the foreign diplomatic [authorities that, in future, no plications will be entertained from foreigners intending to carry out scientific or exploration work in the northwestern provinces of China in future.
In the course of a series of reulations forbidding foot-binding, the "Suiyuan Provincial Government describes the evils of the tice and states that a thorough investigation will be made so that every woman will be registered whether she has natural fect or otherwise, All girls under 15 will given 15" days in which release their feet. In the event of the regulations " being friered and the old habit persisted im fines will be imposed' on the offenders,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.