The war with Japan, which really seems to have marked a turning-point in Chinese history, emphasised the need of being able to handle something more effective than the artillery of Jonathan and in place of the ancient examinations, drained by the canal-river not once or "wice, it seems that it would have been note rational to shoot the tiger first. We can only hope thatthe kind Providenca which watches over chilld-en and some other people. may spire this dubious undertaking. Probably the Chefo" merchants wish the sam, as in the inevitable contest for trade betwoon that port and Tsingt he canal may, to some extent at" lens offset the railroad.
Misélonary Effort throughout this sec effective, and shows that the evangelistic force are by no means mere locum tenentes. The Directors of the English Baptist and American Presbyterian Ectucational Union have just held their annual mooting, and while demonstrating the trath of the old saying, " Many mon of many minds," have evolved such plans for the combination of the higher educational work of the two Missions as will result, we trust, in the greatest average good to the grossest possible number,
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