A new conductor wielded the baton this year, and deserves a welcome. The Rev. W. R. Bacon has worked hard for weeks to get the choir to the perfect response to his baton which it showed this He deserves thanks for arranging the supposed " distant" chorus of Holy, holy, holy" that interrupts the tenor solo, to be sung by the choir merely sitting and not, as is often done, by a fussy retirement of half-a-dozen er a dozen singers to the choir room.
The solos were taken by Mrs. Kelsey, of Nanking; Mrs. Holm-gran, of Yiyang, Mr. Craighill, of Nanchang; and Mr. O'hman, of Yiyang. it is noteworthy that Mrs. Holmgren and Mr. O-liman should enunciate a foreign lange uage so clearly as they did. They are both connected with the new Lutheran University which is just starting work at Taohualun, Yiyang, Hunan. All four singers have sweet voices, though none of them could be classed as powerful.
It was interesting that three of the instrumentalists were China bern. Miss Woodbridge at the piano, and Miss Macklin and Mr. Duff with violins were far within the scope of their powers in the good renderings of the score they gave us. Miss White added just the right amount of organ.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.