The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, September, 1902, The number before us of this mission-y publication contains several articles then by missionaries whose long ex: perience has qualified them to impart valuable information on the subjects they have taken in hand to their fellow-workers and others interested in missionary work in China.
The most interesting and original; Mtticle is that on "Our Duties to our Servants" by Mrs. Arthur H. Smith. The terse vigorous presentation of her views makes" very interesting reading, and one finishes the perusal of what she has to say with a feeling akin to di appointment that there ly not more of it. OF course she looks at the whole question from a missionary point of view, but this need not incline one to regard her ideas as Utopian; an attempt to manage domestic matters in the way she suggests might possibly make things run more smoothly, and bring relief to some distracted mistresses who are sorely tried j by their indispensable " boys." Referring to the necessity of being just to our ser:
nts she says:—" How often and how ely we are tempted, knowing the back-Ground of dishonesty in all heathen training, to suspect our servants of taking what has disappeared wholly without their knowledge." OF instances which came under the writer's knowledge, she recalls an engagement ring, long missing, found, fter months, caught in the fringe of the ash worn last with it, and two valuable gold rings, handed to a restless baby who hindered work, in a crisis, forgotten, dropped by baby into a slop jar and emp: tied over a precipice. The servant was in anguish of soul over his lost reputation for days, which surely was not right. A roll of bills put away in a bureau drawer to which only one person had been sent, disappeared. The evidence seemed overwhelming, yet later the bills were found lit on the back edge of the drawer. Speaking of the fear the Chinese have of "Josing face" she mentions an especially mock and long-suffering cook who took mortal offence at being asked to fan the flies off the table. In Chinese theatricals the fly-fanner is looked upon with contempt, and he would give up his place sooner than endure the slight again.
The Rev. J. E. Walker, Foochow, contributes an interesting paper on "'Some Little Foxes." Many valuable hints are given with the object of improving the singing of the Chinese, for which undoubtedly there is room. "Many of our tunes," he says, "cannot be sung by a Chinese congregation without being sadly marred. The most serious difficulty with these tunes is of course, the half-step interval, but their varieties of time, move-j ment, and metre and their wide compass from high to low, all add to the dificulty." The fundamental difference between English and Chinese classical poetry is that the former is based on an orderly sequence of accented and unaccented syllables, while the latter is based on an orderly sequence "f tones. The writer mentions several well-mown hymns which have been badly translated into Chinese, and says, "We are in need of translations of our wonderfully rich, varied, and beautiful hymns which will not slander
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