Bev.  W.  S.  Swanson  (English  Presbyterian  Mission,  Amoy):  I  shall
only  occupy  your  attention  two  minutes.  Every  one  who  has  been  in  the
Uiuion-field  knows  that  separation  there  means  mischief.  There  is  no
ttustake  about  it,  we  are  exposed  to  influences  there  that  make  friction  very
much  more  easy  than  friction  is  at  home.  And  I  do  sometimes  think  that
we  who  are  in  a  foreign  field  are  those  that  are  most  ready  for  union.  I  am
ifiraid  the  want  of  readiness  is  not  when  you  get  to  120°  East
Longitude,  but  a  very  considerable  distance  west  of  that.  If  J^jSJu
ihere  is  one  thing  more  than  another  that  has  struck  me,  in  con-
nection with  these  meetings,  it  is  this — I  cannot  get  away  from  it — ^here  we
ire  united  hand  in  hand  and  heart  to  heart  for  the  biggest  work  that  the
Christian  Church  has  to  do,  and  the  biggest  question  that  the  Christian
Church  has  to  face,  and  I  ask  you  what  is  here  to  hinder  us,  not  merely  from
co-operation,  but  from  union?  As  one  means  of  settling  this  question,  I
bold  in  my  hand  a  letter  which  I  have  been  requested  to  read,  ^  ^qq^  axunpic
a  letter  from  one  of  the  oldest,  and  let  me  say  the  most  TheO.H.B.
