Careful Study of Missionaries and Governments and the Value of Extraterritoriality The editor of the Recorder records, in this month's issue, his impressions of the Conference of Christian workers held in Shanghai from January 5-7" under the presidency of Dr. John Mott. The mast important subject discussed was the relation of the directors of mission schools toward the rules for registration published by the Ministry of Enducation in November last year. These rules provide: That the principal of privately established school must be! 4 Chinese. That than half the Board of Managers must be. Chinese. That the Institution, shall not have as its purpose the propagation of religion and,. That!
shall not include religious education among the required courses. Three courses of action were considered, (1) To make all courses in religion elective. (2) To dec. me to register. (3) To accept in general the regulations and make efforts to have them modified.
Miss Alice Gregg writes a searching paper on "Missionaries and Saerifice." Mr, Frank Milliean gives a synopsis of the teaching of] the Buddhist Monk, Tai Hsu, on Buddhism in the light of—modern thought, Tai Hsu holds that Bud-diiism is in line with science and also with Confucianism, Dr, Lim Boom-keng writes on the Religious! Revolution in China, He says "The old religions are left defenceless._ 'The' Mandarin Confucianism—is dead. But, alas! the age old theism of the classics with all the ethics of social life international goodwill are also being noglect-
American who bought a estate, with a castle on lands friend, if he were so might' go further than He might learn: to speak Gaelic and play the bagpipes and, though some benighted Sassenach might deplore his taste, no one would dispute his right to do any of those things. Dr. Heeren thinks "the future "right of—foreign Missions to lease land in perpetuity should be abolished." Well, it} would not matter much. Not many foreigners. want a house in China But when country may buy and lands or stocks and shaves as freely as I can and may] hold them just as securely, way]
I supposed to be doing China justice when I do the same in Is there not sometary
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.