The World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh, briefly noticed in our
last issue, was concluded on Thursday. Attended by twelve hundred delegates and two hundred missionaries, the Conference has been a triumph of organisation. Each day the Session was opened by the Chairman of one of the Commissions presenting his Report, the result of eighteen months' work based on correspondence from all parts of the world,—e.g., on Native Churches, by Dr. Campbell Gibson; on Education, by the Bishop of Birmingham; on Comparative Religion, by Professor Cairnes. During the subsequent dis- cussions volunteer speakers were limited to seven minutes, and the rigorous compression thus rendered necessary seems to have been justified by the excellent results. All nations, Churches—except the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox—and schools of thought were represented, daily prayers being conducted by the leaders of the various bodies, and denominational differences appear to have been com- pletely sunk in a spirit of fraternal goodwill.
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