Excerpt from China Centenary Missionary Conference Records: Report of the Great Conference Held at Shanghai, April 5th to May 8th, 1907 The arrangement of the book in parts was determined, in a large measure, as explained in the Introduction, by the fact that the papers had to be printed in their final form before the Conference met. It will be noted that those portions of the discussions which dealt solely with verbal amendments or merely with the literary form of the resolutions presented have been omitted or condensed. The printing of the Records was unavoidably retarded and complicated by various circumstances. The completion of an important part of the copy was delayed through the severe and long illness of one of the reporters, Whilst a fire at Messrs. Denniston and Sullivan's photographic studio destroyed over twenty of the photographs and negatives required for the illustrations, many of these not being easily replaced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.