and their work, as may be gathered from the following episode. Soon after his arrival 'a deputation of conservatives waited on him and asked him to forbid scholars to read Christian books and have any intercourse with the missionary. But, to their confusion, the Chief replied that they must not disparage the missionaries' worth, for it was their industry that made it possible for China to study foreign science to-day. Missionaries had translated books, establish: ed schools, and "so far from forbidding you to have intercourse with them," he said, advise you to cultivate their friendship and seck their help in every possible way. Further, you may find in their Bible some teaching that may be of service to you."
'THE OLD ORDER CHANGETR, but whether a new will ever take its place does not seem quite certain. China isin 'a state of chaos, and the high officers of States either are incapable, of reform, or at heart are unwilling for © change. In sian they have an Arsenal conducted on medieval modern lines. The instructions are it is said that China must manufacture her own guns, ete. The other day a "homemade cannon," which had cost a considerable sum of money, burst at its first trial. Under instructions the head of the new college manufactured A BIG MODEL OF A STEAMER, which like a log of wood would go down stream, but required half-a-dozen coolies to pilot it up stream, and not easy at that. The fact is the Chinese have got a wren; idea into their heads. They have hes that modern machinery has been obtained They conclude they can safely follow the by means of a goddess called Sepeinens same method. There is a Chinese gentleman here who came primarily to teach mathematics, and chemistry, but it gradually leaked out that he had a knowledge of ingush, and accordingly he receives to-day fa high salary for teaching that much-prized Tanguage. phe writer knows him well.
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