Christian general, has been elect; ed to the General Conference of the Methodisi Episcopal Church which will meet in Springfield, Massachusetts, next May.
General Feng, who is a member of the Asbury Methodist Church in Peking, was elected by the lay conference which is now meeting in connexion with the North China annual conference of the Methodist: Episcopal Church as one of their representatives at the conference which isto meet in Springfield. The General Conference of the Methodist Church meets every four years and is the lawmaking and executive body for the Methodist Episcopal Church throughout the world. Each conference sends an equal number of ministerial. and lay delegates. The North China Conference is entitled to six delegates, three lay and three clerical.
The General Conference will meos at Springfield, Massachusetts, during the entire month of May, 1924. It is not definitely known whether or not General Feng can attend, but it is hoped_ that he will be able to arrange it. He is probably the leading member of the. Methodist Church in China, and the North China laymen hope tto have him as one of their representatives.
Mr. Wang. Ko-min, Governor of 1 the Bank of China, who was formerly. Minister of Finance, left Shanghai for Peking on Saturday, accompanied: by his mother.
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