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Several European powers, including Great Britain, France and Germany, have accepted the suggestion, and the conference will meet in Shanghai in January, 1909. President Roosevelt has asked Bishop Brent to act as chairman of the American delegation to the conference and he has agreed to do so. Bishop Brent has already served as a member of the commission to gather information that would help to determine the policy of the United States with regard to opium in the Philippines. In this connection he visited China, Japan, Formosa and Burma. His investigations at that time gave him information that places him among the expert authorities on the subject. The suggestions of the commission were accepted by by the Government and have already done much to restrict the sale and use of opium in the islands. It is to be hoped that Mr. Root's statesman-like suggestion, backed as it is by his Government, may result in concerted effort to diminish still further the damage wrought by the drug, especially in China. The Lambeth Conference passed these resolutions on the subject: "The Conference holds that it is the duty of the Church to press upon governments the wrong of sanctioning for the sake of revenue any forms of trade which involve the degradation or hinder the moral and physical progress of the races and peoples under their rule or influence. "The Conference, regarding the nonmedicinal use of opium as a grave physical and moral evil, welcomes all wellconsidered efforts to abate such use, particularly those of the Government and people of China, and also the proposal of the Government of the United States to arrange an international commission on opium. It thankfully recognizes the progressive reduction by the Indian Government of the area of poppy cultivation, but still appeals for all possible. insistence on the affirmation of the House of Commons that the Indian opium traffic with China is morally indefensible. It urges a stringent dealing with the opium vice in British settlements, along with due precautions against the introduction of narcotic substitutes for opium. Finally, it calls. upon all Christian people to pray for the effectual repression of the opium evil." |