Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-10-23
THE BIBLE IN CHINESE.
\ New Version to be Prepared I'm
Three STYLES.

Shortly before the last mail left shame
hai the proceedings Of great missionary
conference there had terminated, having
asted for fortnight. It was attended
oy about $50 men and women engaged
IN missionary work all over the eighteen
provinces of China, from Manchuria and
Mongolia, japan, and even from India.
a summary of the general results of the
conference or congress, from the mis-
'lonary point of view, includes diffusion
OF information on topics of interest and
value to the missionary by means of
essays and papers, of which there were
about fifty, and the general discussions
on them, and the adoption by general
assent OF plan for obtaining new trans
latlens OF the Bible. This is subject
around which fierce wars have ragged in
the past in China; the conference dealt
with 1t in sensible and adroit way,
which excluded all personal differences,
productions and prejudices. Small com
mlttees were formed of leading men to
consider each branch of the subject.
Acting on their guidance, the conference
agreed to select by ballotthree executive
committees to superintend respectively
revised version in the high classical style,
version in easy classical stvle and
one In Mandarin. These committees shall
select the translators and superintend
the publication of their work.
The committees are to consist, in two
cases, of five British, five American and
two German scholars, and in the third
instance of ten, chosen without regard
to nationality. The arrangement is de-
scrlbed as reasonable plan by which
Bible translation in China may be sim
pliiied, unified and perfected. A COM
mittee was also chosen to superintend
the rendering of the Bible into the var
ious vernacular dialects, as well as to
consider the best methods of reproducing
it for the blind and dumb. Further. It
was decided to try and meet the want
OF Chinese Bible with summaries,
chapter headings and brief explanations,
and similarly Bible with lannotations
is to be prepared by committee. The
superintendent of missionary schools
has been placed in the hands of an asso-
citation Of practical teachers the pro-
duction, distribution and sale of trans
lations of standard works have been
placed under single control; a joint adj.
dress to the Chinese government ex.
planning the aims of the mission aries and
the object of Christianity is to be
prepared with view OF obtaining the
suppression of current libels on the mis-
sions; an appeal to the Protestant world
for 900 more ordained missionaries in
the next five years, for more lay and fe.
male workers, was adopted; and meas.
ures to secure harmony and cooperation
between individual missionaries and
different societies were agreed upon,
especially in regard to the division Of
the fields OF labor. As an example OF
the experience represented at this re-
markable conference it was mentioned
that fourteen of the members present
mad labored for more than thirty years
in China, the senior missionary present
had been in China forty-six years. and
the fourteen represented more than 500
years OF missionary service and experience
IN China. London Standard.