Your committee desire to express their high appreciation of the able and exhaustive paper on the Chinese question read before the Association by the Rev. J. H. Twichell, and submitted to this committee, and recommend its publication. Your committee deem it of great importance suitably to recognize the action of President Hayes in saving us by a veto from national disgrace. When Congress had so far forgotten the whole past policy of our Government, and the principles of Christianity imbedded in the foundations of the Republic, as to pass a bill indirectly abrogating a treaty unmentioned in the bill, the Executive interposed and saved both our treaty and our honor. We would suggest, therefore, the expression of our appreciation of his action in the adoption of the following resolution, viz.: _Resolved_, That the American Missionary Association, assembled in its thirty-third anniversary, believing that the treaties existing between the United States and China, so far as they relate to the rights of emigration from one country to the other, and the treatment such emigrants should receive from the people and nation among whom and in which they live, are right, just, wise and Christian, does heartily record its appreciation of the high services which President Hayes, under God, has, by his timely veto of the anti-Chinese bill, been enabled to render the Republic, in preserving inviolate its treaty obligations and also the cause of Christianity, in removing a threatened formidable barrier to the evangelization of the Chinese, not only in America, but also in their native land, and the Association hereby tenders him its profound thanks for the same. _Resolved_, That the secretaries of this Association be authorized to convey to President Hayes this our action. A. HASTINGS ROSS, W. A. NICHOLS, CHARLES C. CRAGIN, MARK WILLIAMS, C. CAVERNO, E. M. WILLIAMS, JEE GAM. * * * * * UNITED STATES AND CHINA—THE SITUATION. REV. J. H. TWICHELL, HARTFORD, CONN. OUR OPPORTUNITY. * * * * Much as anterior conditions and causes have to do with it, the great opportunity now maturing in China for the ingress of revolutionary influences from without, has been pre-eminently shaped by Protestant missions; and in the nature of the case, it devolves on Protestant Christendom the highest obligations to meet it that circumstances can create. To no other nation, however, does such a share of this opportunity and corresponding obligation fall as to the United States; for we sustain relations to the Chinese Government and to the Chinese people that are, in important respects, singular.