Mienchow, Sze., May 9.
Much rain has fallen and the weather up to the present has been unusually -cool. There are indieations that the heat is coming.
"To-day has been observed by us! in Mienchow as Education Sunday, owing to the fact that the day chosen by the Union was not conven. fent this year. The morning sermon ind. the afternoon addresses were in the hands of Chinese Christians. As it happens the day is the anniversary of the issuing of Japan's notorious 21 demands. Reference! was made to this by the preacher ju the morning, but with a rostral wisdom tet could wot out be helpful. He did not condone Japan's: action, but he deprecated wasting' energy, in vain regrets. "Let vse it," said he, "in Uracing ourself ves up to avoid further indignities But his sermon for the most. part, was a strong appeal for the recogni. tion of Christianity in eéueation.
'There were two speakers at the The first, a ly, dealt with the relation of present' movements to schools. Why' fare pupils so hard to manage now compared with 15 years ago? It is necessary that we should be able to discern what makes for progress. and otherwise. She then proceetied to deal with the subject from a point} lof view that was probably more help. ful to teachers and parents than to scholars. She remarked with dis. approval the insubordination, and] desire to lead that exists amongst, the young both in echod and at} home; she also contemned wrong notions about the Republic: the fal-Tacy that every one is equal and we can all do as we like. Twas. reminded while she wa speaking. of a speech reported of Sir Thomas} skip at the Londor Lay Churchmen's Annual Meeting in January Inst wher the subject discussed wa "The Church and Yeuth." One remark of the Solicitor-General is well worth remember.ng by us who have much to do with the youth! of China atthe present time, "We! want to be quite sure that the mom. bers of the Church have the fullest possible symeat>y with the youth of the nation ity the C. M.S. has schools for boys and girls which afford an excellent opportunity for studying youthful psychology. There are the boys and girls of the Prisary sections who take life so lights and are comparatively untouched current unrest.. Then there are the youths and maidens of the Middle grade who begin to take lite xo desperately seriously, and make rmectinzs for remembering the ni tional diezrace such a portentous affair. As T write the boy, have just finished their meet Middle school boys have just gone to their quarters and the younger boys are bawl report of our ann: second. speaker dealt with whi an important subject: the hearing of the ancient learning of China on the New Education. It is remarkrhily. schoolboys nowa-condemn Chins's ancient learning to a limbo where all things are eigner defending Chinese literature against go-ahead scrappers of everything thay is old. This phase will of course pose.
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