Phe rapid growth of modern education, the concentrating of students in collegiate monasteries, the assaults of sceptical litera~ ture, the temptations to lovse living, especially in Japan and India, have created grave moral problems, The attempt on the part of many to take in western science Und practical learning but not to adopt the moral or Christian principles which permeate it has resulted in much wreckage character. The student found himself, in reality, possessing only the huskof the western civilisation he admired, while he had lost the full corn in the ear, These and other considerations have led the students and professors of India, China, and Japan to band themselves together in national Christin associations similar to those of Britain, Germany and America, This was greatly facilitated by the tour in 1896-7 of Mr, Mott, the General Secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation, Tu Calcutta the College Young Men's Christiwn Association owns and occupies a splendid building, sold to it by the Government, and costing $100,000 Mexi The Association in Madras is just con pleting a fine structure for its home toward which an American gentleman gave $80,000 Mex. In Tokio the Association building cost over $100,000 Mex. and has amombership of over 750 Japanese, 500 of whom are College graduates. In many other cities in Japan and India the students have substantial buildings as focal points for their Christian work. In Tientsin $10,000 building hus been erected by and for the Intorovlleginte Christian Associa. tion. In India there are eight supervising secretaries, English, American, and Hindu for the College Young Men's Christi: Associations. In Japan there wre tivo Americans and one Japanese; in China there are four American secretaries. The membership of these associations in each country is limited to native students and college professors. In each of these lands there is a national committee which controls the work. In India such men as Professors Setthianadhan and Banurji, in Japan such educators as Presidents Lbuka, Honda, and Oshikawa are on the National managing committees. In China the national committee includes Presidents Parker, Banister, Ferguson, Hayes, and Sheffield.
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