Such a question as this, of course, cannot be decided in Peitaiho, and will not be answered with the same one as the putting of the question. But it is interesting to hear the views of the missionary and missionary educational leaders who are here for the summer, for thei attitude will influence the religious body and educational boards when deci ans ave arrived at. Naturally ther in a great difference of opinion. Some of the college and school directors; are convinced that in the present temper of the interior, it would be felly to attempt to proceed with educational work along purely for-ign lines during the coming school year. This opinion is voiced most all by teachers from Honan, who point a dark picture of impending trouble, both internal and as affect ing foreigners, in that province, Several of them have actually been warned by military leaders that the: province will be unsafe in a few months' time. They say that the aailitary men are preparing for war an a big scale, directed against Pengtien. The student leaders in Monan, "furthermore, are more Violently anti-foreign than those in other provinces, ay was proved by the Pekin Syndicate troubles, and the ivory of the situation is that mostly they are the products of missionary schools who, had it not been for the educational facilities thus provided them, would have never progressed beyond the riesha-pulling stage. Gossip has it that the Canadian mission has definitely decided to weep its schools closed over the bext school year, but of that report Vhave had no confirmation,
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