From Our Own Correspondent, Mienchow, Sze., April 15.
There is the same old story to tell of fighting between rival soldier bands and raids from brigands when the soldiers depart—stories that tire the hearer as much as they waste the ink of the teller. Do you think your readers would like to hear (for a change) of things that profit?
Up in a city among the mountains some C.M.S. missionaries are at work. They have opened a school and have 52 boys and 30 girls in it. The Government schools there have long been unsatisfactory and parents send their children to the mission school with alacrity. But let us not be too hard on the Government schools. No side of Chinese life suffers more at the hands of the soldier-brigands than does education. Not 15 miles from this city there is a mission school managed entirely by Chinese. It is the best lower primary school in the C.M.S. district up here. Reports throughout the mission bring stories of good schools. All these children will grow up some day we hope, and they will perforce look on life and their country with more understanding and influence than does the present generation. The fact that up to the present foreign conducted education in China is safe to_ a large extent and is a great blessing to the country.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.