The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the Christian Literatare Society was held on Tooeday at the offices of the Society, 143 North Szechaen Road. tare cor the present time. are to contain only about 4,000 words each. Also, acircalar was sent got to the various missionaries to ascertain if they thought magazine for women, which we contemplated starting, would be welcome, In the report for the year, the 7 he replies were most encouraging Committee says This year, we see one of the calminations of the high promises made by the Chinese Government at the settlement of the Boxer troubles in 1901. It promised reform in constitution, in education, in cartency, in revised Tres developments; bat unbsppily these have been long delayed, and the education which substituted the modern for the ancient, while building schools and colleges in mod more of a thin veneer than a thorough reform.
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become the dominant force in the Far East, and, therefore, it necessary to emphasize the spin we have decided to publish one at the The sales the Chinese yer doring the y Besides these, the " 7 7'wxg Pao" sales, etc,, were $3,326.23, and "El Review" sales $659.59, making " total jof $18,431.56. Incorporation has been delayed until the new Hongkong Ordinances are passed.
Dr. Amos P. Wilder presided over a large attendance, and in moving the adoption of the report and acconnte, said that the Society was conceived as 8 long-range policy in mors! earnestness to desi with ae conditions of Chinese nat Bince the Ohinese Governi on the convulsed empire started modern education mainly on i of the Persian proverb, material lines, all the missionary societies feeling that China can only be saved by the power of the best religion in the arid, it is proposed by the Rev. Lord William Cecil to found " Union University in the Centre of China based on Christian principles, where the best professors from Europe and America are to lecture, The Rev. W. E. Soothil formerly Principal of the Shansi University, has been appointed the "All these things shall pass away." To the superficial and nervous, with Henkow desolate, with Nanking walled io with terror, and ancient Peking on the brink, it might seem the end: but to men snd women of courage, to those who bad read history understandingly, to the eye of faith, the present sad chapter was bat a step to gloriaas conolasion. To the prophetic jove of Dr. Richard and his ssvociates
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