Mr. Goodnow said.—It is with much assure that I take this opportunity to visit St. John's Calleze. Last year sickness prohibited my being here with you and was then doubly pleased when your honoured President invited me to be with you on this occasion and I feel it an honour to be asked to address the Faculty and students of this gi institution, one of the most successful of the Colleges of Western learn ing founded in China by my countrymen. We have reason to he proud of the fact that the great foreign educators and writers in and about China have come from our country, your nearest Western neigh-hour. Nearest not only but nearest. in the true neighbuurliness of ood deeds and philanthropic undertakings. Trade is for mutual adj trade means only friendliness of interest and pocketbook. Good deeds come from th heart and the true neighbour to hin in trouble is the yood Samaritan. an institution as this is purely altruistic. We have given here not only' money, the ions, but we lue most, the hi men and ow men for the advan ut, of the youth of China; that you in the benefits of our Western cit I would not east any slur on the learning of China, T would not underestimate Confuci eat disciple: The precepts which have resulted in. people who have ined their individuality and the pire in its integrity from times before our Western nations had their beginning down through the many en tu the present, must _be founded on eternal verities. The eivilistion so maintained a ing in so a nation and a type so persistent that it is unchanged by environment and placidly remains the same in the few wh have migrated to the four quoiters of the globe, challenges us to marvel and admire.
The time has now come, however, when no civilisation 3 ion stands by sical sciences hi The oceans are only slight bar to com-We travel to America and Europe in days instead of months. Intelligence is flashed from Shanghai London and New York in minutes. The knowledge and thought of the individual may be the knowledge and thought of tie whole world with the speed of the lightning. The nations of the world are no longer strangers but of one household.
fects one affects come late into this brotherhood of know ledge but no less surely. By the teleraph; by the newspapers; by swifter ntercommunication, her people only come into touch with one another but also with the outside world and see the necessity and learning be forgotten, but that the zotte and dead branches may be pruned off and the new knowledge of the West may be ssu rafted on the sound trunk of the eastern ning that " more perfect fruit blended of the old and the new, may be produced for the betterment not only of yourselves, but of the world. This is recognised by your own great men of this 4 in, Listen to the great Viceroy at Wuchang: "Selipreservation demands something more than our old inherited principles. Discern the signs of the times, enlarge the mind, broaden the understanding and iner the knowledge of the Chinese. Posse: thorough knowledge of Chinese, as w asa Western education, our ancestors will not be forgotten." 'Truly while China has men who can ses clearly and speak plainly, as dyes Chang Chih-tuns, her advance to a proud rank among the' great nations of the world cannot be doubted. You, as well as we, will accept, with a free mind, knowledge from whatever source which will tend to improve the condition of your people, to give them greater opportunity to secure their full measure of life, liberty, happiness.
You are here to learn something of our stern knowledge. 'To what end'? You specific things, T care little are. When you are doing your in the world, you will forget eumferenes of " circle is a little more thin 3.1416 times the diameter. You will forget what. preposit the accusitive. When your children ask you to help them in their geo. merry lessons, you will be too. busy." These studies are necessary to train your minds. They means and not anend, What is the true end of education If you learn that, then is your education worth while; if you do not learn that, then you ight as well remain in ignorance. Th a sense your education is for your own devel-lopment. Yeu are each more truly what 1 intended you to he as you develop to their fullest extent every faculty of your being. For many years our forefathers held the idea that this was all that man's first duty was to himself, for his own temporal advantage and the salvation of his own selfish soul. Under this ide to its logical extreme we have seen men standing for years on a pillar, a spectacle of vanity anil selfishness, We ha men, with their eyes fixed on attempting, poor finite creatures, to tind the infinite for their own personal tage. We h men and women under perpetual vows shut themselves up frou clit and sound of their fellows and from all attempt to aid the suffering and happy. All these forgot. the teach of the Great Master, daily proven even us of the world. "He that: secketh his shall lose it, and he. that. lose th his life for truth's sake, shall find it." a little late ne to a grimm of the perception of our duty to others. but sought to force our ideas by tine and sword, by burnings of witches and heretics and by persecution. 'Then reh for pure knowledge in pursuits, as an end in themselves, Little by little but with ever inerensin:: certain ty and speed we are attaining the true life—the true end of education' and science. To know is not all, it is only half. To love is the other half. Love is the measure of life: only 80 far as we love do we truly live the variety of our interests, the width of our sympathies, the susceptibilities of our hearts—if these do runt measure our lives, what does? Tf we become hard and callous, crusted over with customs and conventions till no new ray of light or of joy em reich us, ur if we become lax and dliswryanised, swe lose our grip upon the real and vital sources of happiness and power." Hear the master "Tha shalt love the Lord thy Gad with all thy heart. strength and mind, and thy thyself." He then who acquires knowledge fur the love of and to benefit others is truly educated. If you yo from this school with the willing "know-
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