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154 Committee. In 1913 he was appointed Chinese general secretary of the China Continuation Committee. This position he is still holding. In 1916 one of the Canadian universities conferred upon Dr. Ch'eng the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. He is the only Chinese to hold this degree from a British University. Dr. Ch'eng was one of the prime movers in the organization of the China-for-Christ Movement in 1919 and was later elected the general secretary. Dr. Ch'eng was unanimously elected the First Chairman of the National Christian Conference, the initial meetings of which were held in the Shanghai Town Hall from May 2 to 11, 1922. Dr. Ch'eng left China in August 1922 for America and Canada on a two year's furlough. He is at present taking special courses of study in the leading universities, after which he will go probably to Europe to study conditions there. In 1918 Dr. Ch'eng was appointed chairman of the Chinese Home Missionary Society, Shanghai an organization composed entirely of Chinese that has been doing the work of sending Chinese missionaries to inland China such as the remote part of Yunnan, Szechuan, Kueichow, etc.