Cheng Jingyi
A Chinese delegate of the London Missionary Society at Edinburgh in 1910, who told the conference that Chinese Christians hoped for one church without denominations. He was the member for China on its Continuation Committee.
The conference record spells his name Cheng Ching-yi and lists him under the London Missionary Society (World Missionary Conference, 1910, vol. 9, p. 95). In the debate on co-operation and unity on 21 June 1910 he said that he spoke for the Chinese church and from the Chinese standpoint: federation among the missions had already borne fruit, denominational differences had never interested the Chinese mind, and Chinese Christians hoped soon to see a united church. He asked that the Continuation Committee consult Chinese pastors and leaders about it (World Missionary Conference, 1910, vol. 8, pp. 195–197). The conference named him the member for China on that committee (World Missionary Conference, 1910, vol. 9, p. 102). See the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh.
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- 14–23 June 1910, firm dateThe World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh
About 1,200 delegates of missionary societies, most of them from Britain, North America and continental Europe, meet at Edinburgh in June 1910 to consider the evangelisation of the non-Christian world, and appoint a Continuation Committee to carry the work on.