OEDIKAEY GENEEAL MEETING.* 

 Eev. F. a. Walker, D.D., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting weie read and confirmed. 

 The following elections were announced : — 



Associates : — Darrell Edmund Figgis, Esq., Eev. Frederick Storrs 

 Turner, B.A., Walter Cornell Fison, Esq. 



The Chairman. — I have now the pleasure of calling on the 

 Eev. Arthur Elwin to read to us his paper. 



Eev. Arthur Elwin. — I have two remarks that I should like to 

 make before I begin to read the paper. First with regard to 

 the name " James Long." I have been asked, what is the origin 

 of the term " Long Lectures " 1 It originated in this way. James 

 Long was a member of the Church Missionary Society who died 

 about 1886, and he was convinced that the reason why people did 

 not take much interest in the religions of the East was that they 

 did not know anything about them, and so he left £2000 to 

 Trustees, the income of which was to be applied to lectures on the 

 East ; and this year, for the first time, it is to be about China, and I 

 have been asked to give the lecture. I have divided the subjects- 

 into four, Confucianism, Taouism, Buddhism and Ancestral worship, 

 and to-night we will consider the last of these. 



The following paper was then read by the Author : — 



Monday, January 11th, 1904. 



