Most. foreigners in charge of missionary schools and colleges in Chine are beginning to find that at the present time the schoolmnaster's life 18 not 2 happy one. What their Chinese brethren in Government schools were wont to suffer some years ago at the hands of students whose heads had been turned by strange ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity, the foreigner is up against to-day.
In the good old times" the native teacher in this country stool in a much different position to that which he holds nowadays. The dis. ciplinary powers he was allowed te exercise over his pupils were al. most unlimited. Indeed he might almost be said to have had the power of life and death over those who sat at his feet. He was an object of reverence and awe among hip neighbours. Even those whose worldly possessions were much more abundant than his, were wont to regard him as belonging to a higher order of society than they could ever hope to reach, for he was classed as a person of tha first rank in the nation, while the mer chant, wealthy though he might be, was only reckoned as belonging the third rank.
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