China Delegation's Departure:
Meeting on Int. of Olives Members of the staff of the Na-|" tional Committee of Bade farewell to Dr, David Z. T.
Yui and Dr. D, W. Lyon on Thursday afternoon ata tea party hell inthe Chung San Hall ut their headquarters, 20 Museum Road.
Both Dr. Yui and Dr. Lyon left Shanghai on Tuesday for Jerusalem to attend the Jerusalem Meeting of International Missionary Council to bbe held on March 24 to April "As a matter of fact this it not going to be a missionary meeting ax the name would tend to suggest," Dr, Lyon suid. "Perhaps it will more accurate to call it a work! Christian conference, because half of the delegation will be made up by delegates representing indigent ous churches in all parts of the world, We expect to discuss in this meeting several of the challenging. and outstanding problems now facing the Christian Church. Per-aerially, T entertain great hopes for this coming conference. In fact feel quite certain that it's going to mark a new era of Christianity even as the International Mission-any Conference in Edinburgh did years ago."
"Ie will be far from me to look for a geries of resolutions from this coming meeting at Jerusalem declared Dr, Yui who spoke after Dr, Lyon. "What I do look forward to.fs the fine spiritual fellowship and inapivation that will grow of a conference of this nature a conference of minds and spirits from every corner of the earth And through fellowship, spiritual fellowship, we, who will be able to attend the conference in our physical bodies, will feel your sence and that of thousands of fellow Christians throughout the world, If there is any gpe thing in the world to-day that should challenge our attention, thought and meditation, it fs this Jerusalem Conference, a' conference that is bound to have n tremendously bene. ficent influence upon thia troublous world, "Many- people are likely to think that China is the only country that has troubles, But this is not true, There are troubles in every country, perhaps not that of the same kind a8 we have here. 'Take country such as the United States for instance, on the surface it's the happiest and most. prosperous country in the world. But the United States has troubles of her own sometimes, indeed, they -are more serious and subtle' than' thors troubles that we are experiencing our country to-day.
Dr. John ¥. Lee presided over the The China Delegation Twenty-one porsons—14 Chinese, three American, two British, one Norwegian and one Canadian—will attend, og Protestant Christians from China, the forthcoming mireting of the International Missionary Council to be held in Jerusalem next month. Most of the party eft on Tuesday on the str. Katori Mary. The delegates have been chosen through the National Chris fan Council but not solely from i own membership, Some who had Proposed to go and whose presence would have been very helpful found it impossible, after all, to attend. The delegation is, however, a representative one.
From Shanghai, Dr, ©. ¥. Cheng, Moderator of the Church of Christ in China, general secretary of the N. ©. C, and president of the Chinese Home Missionary Society, will take his place with Dr. Dav Yui, chairman of the National Christian Council and general see-rotary of the Y.M.C.A. Dr. R. Lo, editor of the "Chinese Christian Advocate," Dr. D. W. Lyon, of the Y.M.CA., the Rev. B.C, Lobenstine, of the N.C.C., Mes, C. C. at Chen, of the Y.W.C.A. and Shang: hai Baptist College, and Dr. E. W. Wallace, of the China Christian Educational Association, complete the Shanghai group. The concentration of national offices of var-fous Christian organizations, work and workers in Shanghai made it impossible to avoid what might seem to-the casual observer 1 over-representation of one city. But great pains were taken, in con-
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