The two questions that tock prece-once at the recent meeting were opium and education, The alarming oncroachmont upon cereal-producing Ind by the cultivation of the poppy, jeopardizing the necessary food supply for a great population, and the increasing deplorable consequences of the use of opium upon the people, forced the Burd to regard with utmost concern this matter; and it revolved, that the time had coma for some prompt and efficient measure to regulate the production and trafic
croschmeat of new methods in educational of opium, the deadly samy of all national prosperity. The ing _en-
matters, together with incrossing appetite for knowledge by Szechuan youths, has Ird up to a scheme which if successful will have great influence upon the social and political lifo of these provinces. this capital theo missions were making arrangoments for separate high schools or colleges The idea of ce-operation fostered by the Advisory Bourd is slowly breaking down the partitions that 80 often obscure the general good, and in the now visions for the future there is nothing more im-Daiversity for West China, The propoportant than that of a Union Christian
sal, discussed with groat enthusiasm by the Board, is to unite the educational interests of the seven societies working in Szechuan into one conceal University that shall be suficiontly equipped to give advantages equal to the Provincial University.
The plan was heartily th endorsed by the me representatives present,
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