Inso doing the speaker pointed out the representative character of the committee and considered that it was due to the aims and methods of the Society being so comprehensive and having nothing narrow or sectarian about them. The Society did not overlook the fact that man was a human being and they had got something to do with his material welfare that they wanted him to live in comfort, and that they wanted to stimulate the production of wealth. When they took an intellectual inventory of the Chinaman they generally found him as one living in the Ages. Recently he (the speaker) had occasion to attend as interpreter upon fjsis, When he came into the room'with gentleman who had had a stroke of para~ the doctor who was to treat the patient by foreign methods he found a; Chinese The cause of the disease. The cause, he physician present explaining very learnedly gave was this. During the winter the earth was very cold. There had been a sudden change in the weather and so the male principle of the man had been irresistibly attracted down to the female principle of the ground and so, all the warmth having left his body, he had been smitten that way. Not only was the Society striving, {for the intellectual enlightenment of China, but it was striving for its moral enlighten-{ment. The History of the War—the plain unvarnished tale—was showing how the {country really stood and that, unless there was moral reformation the days of China were numbered.
Mr. J. P. Donovan seconded, drawing attention to the recent appointments of Ministers abroad as indicating a recognition of Western education and civilisation.
The resolution was carried.
The Rev. Dr. Edkins proposed That the following gentlemen be added to the members of the Society: the Rev. E. Box, the Rev, G. R. Lochr, Dr. T. M. Kung, and (Mr. Tsai Eth-kang, He said that when he first came to China and used to go about from city to city in the neighbourhood of Shanghai they gave their books away, and it did not seem possible that they would have a sale for tunity to say something upon the general of China on the one hand, did not despair, ' them. Now what a change had come about. work'
of the Society, 'This year, as the/and, on the other hand it did not try to Influences had been at work to bring about report showed, they had had' unusual suc- assert that Confucianism was sufficient, but a change in the state of the country, and cess in the publication and distribution of admitted that it wanting and that veally the last war, and he could not their literature, Geographically they had unless they reached out their hands and ' but think there was something providential followed up the Chinese in all their migra- obtained from Western countries civilisain that war. Now they saw the people tions t Americ: and the South, tion and help, that they could never rise in various parts of the country anxious. and iny an ed most encouraging to the position which it was desired to for knowledge, and reconstituting their letters eating the great interest aroused take. With that party that Society of mode of instruction in their old colleges by the 's works. In the next place sympathised deeply, but it was and schools.
jel attention to the large and ing feature that' whatever he Mr. G. McIntosh seconded, and the muunerative sales which had occurred. Their and other foreigners might do resolution was carried books and the sales the Chinese gave them no credit. The there had been! officials would write to Mr. Tsai, who had The Rev. E. 'T. Williams proposed, and the Rev. L. Rees seconded, a resolution empts on the part of local publishers to been associated with him and Mr. Richard, thanking the supporters of the Society for take them from the Societ; Ili Hong-! i give him (Mr. Tsai) credit for everything past aid, but at the same time urging Kon one man took from the Kwigpro the that was done. They had been trying to get them and all other friends of China to History of the War and published it before! Mr. Tsai to go to Hunan, but' he re increase their efforts to enlighten and help they did. That was a ye ficant thing nixed the fact that the ideas were not this one of the greatest of all nations in this and he heard that outside publishers were and that away from them he would be I most momentous crisis of her_ history. eager to take charge of the history and|adove with one wing broken. In conelurepublish it in cheaper form. During the sion, Dr. Allen said it was especially ast two years the Kunypao had quadrupled The Jidory of the War coty enjoyed among the foreign community gratifying to note the sympathy the So-'s Nineteenth Century were of China. The lawyers, bankers, and combeing reprinted, as there was a large mercial men had found a platform upon demand for them, particularly in Hunan, which they could ce-operate with the was now said to be better posted on missionaries, and he hoped that by their reign subjects than Kiangnan. The third financial support they would enable the point he wished to call attention to Society to still further extend its work. the complimentary correspondence which The resolution was put to the meetin the circulation of the Society's literature.nd carried.
The proposition was carried unanimously. The Rev. Dr. Muirhead briefly proposed a vote of thanks to the main workers of the Society, the Rev. Dr. Allen, the Rev. 'T.
chard, and the Rev. E. 'T. Williams, hich was unanimously agreed to.
Proposed by Mr. A. H. Harris, and seconded byMr. J. Buchanan, a cordial vote [of thanks was given to the Chairman, and this being acknowledged, the Rev. H.C. Hodges closed the proceedings with the Benediction.
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