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Ichang,THE CHINA CONTINUATION COMMITTEEwith which its central office is administered. The correspondence conducted is necessarily extensive, requires theutmost tact and attention to detail, as well as resourcefulnessand system of a high order. The office serves ail of thespecial committees, every member of the China ContinuationCommittee, and to some extent every individual missionaryin China, besides the home boards on the one hand, and themanifold interests of the Chinese Church on the other hand.The following points are of interest in connection with theoffice work of the past year.^ e ffieeMissionresponsible for the preliminarytoMoslems correspondence which issued in the followingresolution of the Executive adopted at itsmeeting on April 27th, 1916 :Voted to instruct the Foreign Secretary to reply to Mr. Broomlialland to Dr. Zwemer in substance as follows:"That the Committee has heard with pleasure of the proposedvisit of Dr. /wemer to China, and although present conditions in thecountry make itimpossible at this time to plan definitely for such avisit, it hopes such a visit may be made within the near future, andalso that its opinion is, that Dr. Zwemer s visit should be for a considerably longer period than is suggested in his letter, in order thatbesides visiting Yunnan he might also reach places on the Yangt/c,porlmps as far ;>s and possibly other places as far northwestas Sianfu, as well as Nanking, Peking and other cities more easilyaccessible. The Committee thinks that the aim of the visit shouldbe (a) to help the missions and Chinese churches to recogni/e thepossibility of fruitful evangelism among Moslems, and to learn howbest to present the gospel to them, and to plan for a larger use ofeffective literature specially prepared for Chinese Moslems, and (b)to endeavour to arrange for special evangelistic campaigns in some ofthe larger Moslem centres."P. , ., fIn accordance with the instruction of theEducational ^ ,. f . . , T -I/A-I/-Commission Executive Committee in May 1915, theForeign Secretary entered into correspondencewith Dr. Mott regarding the action taken by the AdvisoryBoard of the Educational Association and by the ChinaContinuation Committee in the matter of inviting acommission of experts to make a study of higher educationalinstitutions. Dr. Mott replied that the war would make itextremely difficult to secure such a commission at thepresent time. He has, however, promised his assistance andA 49