Mr. Chang again presided in the afternoon. After singing "Take my life and let it be," the Rt. Rev. Dr. Hungtingdon, Bishop of Anhui, led in prayer.
Mr. Lobenstine explained why there was one budget for all national forms of work. It was done at the request of the Home Board. There was no desire either to get a large budget. or to complicate the work of the National Council.
The amendment was lost.
The whole constitution was then put to the vote and carried—not unanimously, there being two opposing votes.
Dr. Wallace, the President of the Szechuan Christian University, presented the report of the Educational Commission of the 18 members—eight from abroad, 10 being selected in China. It would have been difficult to have selected eight more suitable leaders in the educational world than those who came to China, and Dr. Burton, Prosident of the Commission, was specially qualified ~for his task. The members of the Commission spent some months in travelling about China in visiting as many centres and investigating the state of Christian education and to a less degree that of the government.
Three special points of the report were brought before the Conference: first, the main reason for Christian education. In the report, this is summed up in the development of a strong Christian Community. The school exists for the Christian community; second, the relation of Christian: education to government education. After close discussion of the question as to whether there is a permanent place for Christian education, the Commission came to the conclusion that there was; thirdly, the supreme importance of taking a nationwide view.
Mr. Francis Wei, of Boone University, Wuchang, referred to the great need of more education in China. What will be the place of Christian education in China when government education becomes more efficient? The church has' to uphold Christian ideals in education as well as in all other mat—ters. Special. weight was shown to be duc to the middle schools, "the backbone of the—educational system." The universities mus supply them with the foremost men for all departments of work. Mr. Wei did not think the day had'. arrived for a united church, though he looked forward to one at a later date. It would be in. a Christian university that such a church must~ arise.
Dr. Howard 8S. Gall, p.v. of Poking University, emphasized the failure of the Christian Church to train its own teachers. The percentage of teachers in very rank of Christian education was very small, and it was necessary to support all kinds of normal training.
Mr. R. I. Loh, Secretary of the Baptist, education work in Shanghai, said that non-Christians distinguished markedly between school and church. It was necessary to have up-to-date books, better trained teachers, and more supervision.
Dr. W. H. Dobson, of the Presbyterian Church, Canton, emphasized the need of medical education in South China with its 50 millions of people. He observed that Hongkong University was not a Christian institution.
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