An important address on recent changes in China was delivered to the Synod of Lothian of the United Free Church of Scotland by the Rev. Dr. James Webster, secretary to the foreign missions of the Church. He has recently returned from a visit to the Far East. There had been many chan, in China, he said, during the last 12 years. Perhaps the most important change was in thet educational life of the people. One of the best outcomes of the revolution had been that the old system of education had been entirely abolished and a new system pretty well established on Western lines, so that today four millions and a quarter of the young people of China were being educated in national schools in much the same way og our young people at home. Then the women of China, after an age-long bondage, had been at last set free. That was a tremmendous change. One of the most important changes, from a missionary point of view, that had taken place in the sociological history of mankind was the liberation of the women of China.
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