As the time draws near for the Court to come hack, there is more talk of reform expected that something will be dune here as well as in the provinces, Lack of Thoroughness.
There ix one thing to fear in educational schemes, and that is luck of thoroughnoxs, It is difficult to secure competent' men, and xs European instructors require large salaries, there will be an inclination to take ese, not because of their superior qualifications, but because they are cheap.
only Europeans who do not insist on a large salary are the missionaries, but in their case there ix almost 4 demand that The time has come for many to decide what attitude is to be taken towards the respect to be paid to Confucius, the Einperor, and the Empress Dowager. Accord-Ing to the regulations drawn up in Shantung, such respect is to be rendered by the students and the Chinese professors. Will the missionary body adhere to the dictum of the Missionary Conference in 1890 on ancestral worship? Tf no compromise is permitted, there will be a danger of in creased friction between missions and the new as well as the old learning of China, While reform is determined on, there is to he no yielding in_ matters of ancient usage of respect to dignitaries, especially the great sages.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.