Ho asked why they should support the Society, then tarned to the tion from Greek and tin sources in the West. A message of hope brought vitality to the We Chios had been robbed of literature by the burning of the books, bat this Society, like Nehemiah had found the long lost rolls, and now sought to give China more than she had lost. The saying that "East is East, and West and never the twain was popular twaddle, allow." The leaven of best ideals would result in Chine, here in the disappearance of the conquest of sordid materialism, and the uplifting of the whole people, He referred to the fact stated in the report of the Society, that one reader of its books had copied out 156 peges of a book by hand before parting with it, and to the increasing demand for information of the hods of the mother of Parliaments created by the advent of Parliamentary Government io Chios. The Chinese were eminently fitted for Parliamentary Government, as they were @ reasoning and reasonable people. They hoped, therefore, that, by the efforta of the Society, the Chinese would be enabled to use the treasures of both East and Weet, to the uplifting and jon of this great people and resolution was seconded by Mr. Shen Tan-ho, who craved permission to speak in Chineee, his remarks afterwards being interpreted by Dr, Richard. Mr. Shen referred to the fact that in its early days the publications of the Society were widely distributed. When the Boxer rebellion broke out, vad flrodedt the country, and tine offism's and most of the people were bent upon killing foreigners, a Chinese in Shanse was fouad collecting the remains of those who had been slaughtered, and reverently burying them. When remonstrated with for his action he replied that be had read come of this Society's books, and that they were all good. Therefore, in the interests of he was endeavouring to honour who came to do good to the country. He also emphasized th ger from the spread of Japanese civiliza—tion in China. The students who went to America and England learnt of a better civilization than that of Japan, bat at present most of the high offi represented Japanese ideas of ci tion, and from this fact great danger was to be anticipated. He looked to
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