While the anti-Chinese outcry from California has filled the ears of the nation, your Committee wishes to recognize with thanksgiving the noble work which many of the Christians of that State have done and are doing for China and for Christ. The Chinese missions of the Association are at present restricted to the State of California. But your Committee are impressed with the importance to the Association, in this part of its work, of full and exact information as to the condition of the Chinese population throughout the country, and as to the work done in their behalf by various Christian agencies, and especially by the local churches of various denominations. And we recommend that a systematic inquiry be instituted on this subject, the result of which shall be reported at the next annual meeting. JAMES BRAND, _Chairman_. * * * * * ADDRESS OF REV. JAMES BRAND, D.D. MR. PRESIDENT: At one of the former meetings of this Association, one speaker, in pleading for China, proposed that the audience go with him, in imagination, to the Chinese quarter in San Francisco, in order that from a personal inspection of the thrift, economy and order manifested there he might get an argument for Christian sympathy and support in Chinese education. They did so and the argument was good. At the same meeting, another speaker, pleading the same cause, proposed to the audience to go with him to a more sacred place than the Chinese quarter, namely, the battle-fields of the war, that he might gather from the memory and suggestions of those hallowed places an argument for the maintenance of the national and Christian principles contended for in that war, and hence an argument for the Christian treatment of the Chinese.