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. The.84 MISSIONS AND CHURCHESleader but a father, personally acquainted and knitted together in love with every one of the mission staff. The Rev.H. Dipper has been appointed his successor as a Director ofthe Basel Mission, and the Inspector of the Chinese branch.Further we mourn the death of two senior missionaries, whodied in the homeland last year: the late Rev. GustavGussmann (Inspector of Schools and Chairman of theGeneral Conference in China from 1869 till 1907) , who diedat Osehelbron-Pforzheim in February, 1915; and the lateRev. Gottlieb Reuseli (chairman of the finance departmentin China from 1872 till 1908) who died at Cannstadt duringMay, 1915. Besides those, Mrs. Neubacker (in China 1906-1913) died at Attersee, Austria, in March, 1915 and Mrs.Kriiger (in China 1907-1911) died at Topeka, Kansas,T1 . S. A., in April, 1915.On the mission field we deplore the loss oi two missionaries: Rev. lleinrich Ziegler (since 1877 in China) whodied at Moilim, Kwangtiiiig, in October, 1915, and one youngman, who, \ve regret to say, had to be dismissed during thelast1yea European missionary staff has been re-eniby only one new man. the Rev. Johannes Shoop, aSwiss, who arrived early in November. Not less thantwelve ordained missionaries and their wives and twomedical men with their wives have been kept at home andcannot return to their work in China until the war hascome to an end.TVTT. The findings of the great conferences heldMission Policy .. ^ .. , (i ,Chonglok irom January 5-11, i914 andat Kowloon-thong from March 17-28, 1914 under the presidency of Inspector Rev. 31. Dipper, v, hi 1st he visited theChinese mission field, have been put before and discussedby the home board.The programme which has been fixed runs as follows :GUI attitude toward political interests should be one ofstrict neutrality. The present opportunity for Christianpropaganda on ihe mission field ought to be fertilized byenergetic evangelistic efforts, by systematic women s work,by promotion and development of school work, by Christianapologetics and .literature 1 , by guiding the self-supportingcongregations to self -government.