Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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synod of theChurch in China be immediately con-vened. In the meantime the Englishform already adopted is to be sent to thehome churches for consideration, and, itis hoped, approval. With a single exception—and that byreason of absences in England last year—each of the committees to reportshowed that a really great amount ofwork had been done, and a forward steptaken. Yet in no case was it possible tolook upon the report as final, and eachcommittee was continued. It was shownthat all existing hymnals had been care-fully compared, and though there wasstrong opposition to any such adoptionof a hymnal for common use as wouldtend to stop the production of new hymns—especially by the Chinese—it wasfound possible to arrange that thereshould be compendiums made that wouldnot do this. The Committee on Special Serviceshad collected all extra Prayer Book ser-vices in use and compared them; they arenow to draw up forms for common useand to prepare new services for certainother occasions.
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(468) The Anglican Communion in China 469 A draft report in the form of a bookcontaining Morning and EveningPrayers and the Litany in Mandarin waspresented by the Committee on Manda-I rin Prayer Book, and the committeewas instructed to go on with its work. For the Church newspaper, the Kev.John W. Nichols, who has been theeditor, could show the sixteenth number,and with support guaranteed and thehelp of a Chinese writer provided, thepaper was carried beyond the experi-mental stage. The Church Literature Committeepresented an admirable report in a con-venient form. List I. gives a completecatalogue of books and tracts by Churchauthors—the Bible and commentaries,biblical subjects, prayer books, history,theology, hymnals and calendars. ListIL records 104 books and tracts by otherauthors, with notes to show whetherrecommended for use by one, or two orall three members of the committee.Titles are given in both Chinese andEnglish, and the authors names, num-ber of pages, publishers and th

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