May I suggest that you have special responsibility and opportunity because you are British) women in China, China is th most ancient of lands, with a. continuous civilization going back and more, with dart coming to us! from hoary antiquity and evoking: our great admiration and wonder: with its people the most indus-vas in the world and the most sagacious, and in their upper circles among the most refined and courteous. And now the West has broken in upon them for good and for ill, and they are turning to us for arts and sciences, for ideas as to government and education, trade and religion.
No Westerner can possible live Tong in this land without wishing.,|t0 do something to help thi and wonderful people. We helpless amid the torrents of humanity that pour through our! streets, yet everyone of us comes} daily contact' with individuals, and through them we touch the great mass beyond. May I then suggest what we British and especially you British' women may' do to help the Chinese.
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