colloquial hymns, and in the Methodist Hymnals there is also some fine work. On the whole the hymns of earlier days are better translated and written than those of later date.
I conclude with a fine hymn found in the Methodist Hymnal. I wish that some other tune than Migdol had been set to this hymn, as the constantly changing accents of this tune are impossible for the Chinese to render correctly. The hymn resembles in form Miss Havergal's "Lord, speak to me that I may speak."
- 願主開我蒙昧其心
先救自己後救他人
仔細思想主其恩情
我也的着替主傳名
- 願主時刻共我齊行
助我傳道各鄕各城
駛我嘴像號筒其聲
⿰亻鞋破魔鬼堅固其營
- 願主助我信德更深
置基磐上永遠安寗
孽海滔滔何處立身
衆將陷溺實在可憐
- 願主由天大降聖神
駛我務力講說聖經
助我言語都⿰亻鞋分明
有如箭矢直貫中心
- 願主賜我意外平安
駛我贏過許⿰亻西艱難
所有亡羊離散滿山
我着去討引伊歸欄
- 願主賜我一片熱腸
滿心流出活水如川
殷勤請客梨就婚筵
不顧身命跑走各鄕
- 願主用我微賤其身
自始至終善佈福音
等至將來主再降臨
歡欣鼓舞不盡顯榮
Conference Notes.
By Rev. G. H. Bondfield, Hon. Sec. Executive committee.
Recent meetings of the Executive Committee have been mainly occupied with the organization of the Programme Committees, with correspondence and other details. Arrangements are progressing, as will be seen from the following notes from the minute books:—
- The programme has met with very general approval and the work of the Committees is well advanced. Some of the papers are already drafted. Each chairman, however, has to submit his paper to the members of his Committee before it will be printed and ready for circulation. It is hoped that all the papers will be in the printer's hands early in February. Delegates who desire to have copies of these papers should send in their names, so that the papers may be posted to them as soon as they are ready. A charge sufficient to cover printing and postage will be made for each paper.
- Further details of the programme have now been filled in. The Conference is to commence Thursday, April 25th, and the proceedings each day will begin with a devotional service from 8.30 to 9.15 a.m. Visiting ministers are to be invited to give the addresses. The Conference sessions will be from 9.30 to 12 and 2 to 4.30.
- A series of meetings will be held in the evenings in the Town Hall, and to these meetings the non-missionary public will be
