The World Missionary Conference was opened at Edinburgh on Tuesday.
Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who presided, after reading a message of sympathy from King George, declared that Christians were under an obligation to preach the Gospel to every creature. He trusted that the arrangement by which discussion of any matter of doctrine or Church govern- ment on which they differed was barred would be honourably adhered to. The Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing his audience as fellow-workers in the Church militant, said that with increasing knowledge came a deepening conviction that what mattered most was directly missionary work. The present opportunity for such work was almost limitless, but they had also to meet special difficulties, including the lukewarmness of the home Church and the un-Christian lives of representatives of Christian lands.
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