Entering Christian ministry, English-one of these burst the embarkments in for thos who do not aspire to become sinologues whilst to the student of Chinese speaking, 2; non-English-spoaksome places, and many acres of wheat (especially to those connected with the ing, 9. and young rice were covered up with fine Tmperial Maritime Customs) desirous of Entering other Christian callings, Eng-silt, and made useless. Of later days, the gaining " deeper insight into the nitric lish-speaking, 35; non-English-rise in the Han has not been enough to break down embankments. But the Gies of the language, it will prove to be Wo thus sco that of fifty-seven English-speaking, 16 exceedingly useful, the numerous not mouths of the sluices draining the en-speaking Christian graduates only two, closures within the embankments have Helping to elucidate sume of the moi or about three and a-half per cent, are la ered, sv that the sluices have dificult and seldom used phrases and {tho ministry, but that thirty-seron, or bad to be closed, and now the rain-water 'A careful study of com: half-dozen of over sixty-four por cent, are in Christian! is accumulating Within, and the crops ar the letters enables us to ass rt that so far as work. Of the thirty-one non-English. being spoilt, by water. incl as bedly the accurate rendering of the original is speaking Christians " nine, or about. if the flood had coma from outside, concerned, there is little to be desired. foe tis nine per cent, enter the ministry, There are not enough sluices here, ons We have not come across a single mist rat enter Christian work. eat Pee aes oF over cig! i largo sluice outside the city has to liberate the water drained from @ very largo lation, and can, therefore, assume with confidence that we have a careful andj In considering the importance of retain-area, and is not adequate for the work it correct rendering of the Uhinese into En; ing the services of English-speaking Chi-has todo. The work of closing and open-lish. Mr. Lay gracefully acknowledges his nese Christians, interesting replies are ce flood gates is very laborious and quoted from those received in response to the coulles who do this have indebtedness to Mr. E. Von Zach, of the Austrian Legation, Peking—admittedly Mr. Brockman's enquiries. One of these togive below the sitrface of the water, and in the front rank of living Cnineso scholars is of special interest from the fact that it it is easy for them to be swept away by for his kindness in revising the manu-some from an educational missionary of the current. The people a'e m great dis-twenty years' experience who formerly because of these floods: but they script, and making some suggestions eld a different opinion to that quoted ea Worse trouble still, The taxes are thereon. Whilst the book will, naturally, but the force of events during the past uch heavier this tough times are not appeal tu a very large constituency it few years had changed his view. "Things hard the rap: ieial must be will, we doubt not, prove to be a valuable addition to this none too numerous class are not what they were ten years a: of books. The price is four dollars. and we are moving fast" he says.
What is Wanted. mone the reasons given for retaining The great trouble with China, after all, services of English-speaking Chinese is bad government. Give the nation a The Chinese Recorder ant Missionary Christians are: the value of a knowledge good government, and they will hold their Jounal. _Saly, 1903, Shanghai. The of English in the equipment of the lead. own with ai tion of the world. But American Pres! i issi a ing native Christian workers; the fact! moral change in the nation is necessary of the already large and rapidly increas-before sood becuine an Hob days and warm nights suggest tire ing number in the commercial centres of accomplished no demand ing work and unrestful evenings, and in-) English-speaking Chinese whom the Ex: on the part of the people for st dicate the desirability of confining our; lish-speaking Chinese minister is pre-such. The accomplishment of th spare time for books to the lightest kind eminently fitted to reac; and the fact justice is an expensive and profitless ideal! of roading. Works of imagination seem that English-speal king men are forming an Some yonts county not far to suit us better than statements of facts, 4 increasingly large proportion of the mai distal from here, at anseenpalons
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