The third annual meeting of the East China Educational Association was begun on Monday afternoon at the Martyrs' Memorial Hall. Following devotional exercises, the address of the President, Bishop Molony, on "Educational Lessons in India" was read by the Rev. C. J. F. Symons. Bishop Molony was unable to attend owing to ill health, In the course of his address, Bishop Molony said that when they did him the honour to elect him president of the East China Educational Association for the year 1915-1916, he was #0 entirely unprepared for the choice made, that he had no time consider when ther he could fulfil the duties laid upon him and so he could only submit to their wishes. But as soon as be was able to collect himself he thought of this presidential address and was comforted by the thought that his educational _experiences in India might afford him a suitable text. Not indeed that he wanted to set up India to them as a model. Serious educational mistakes bad been made there, from which they could ceive seraing rather than instruo-In d not produced versity as they had in China, but they could learn something from be Government system there in force and its effect upon Christian After detailing how he came to spend two years in educational work, the President went on to say that it was a great thing to have a Governmental Department of Publio Instruction to back one up. The the school income and covered about one-third of the current expenses. Truly the inspector occasionally hinted at reduced grants df they did not come up to the mark by the time of his next visit, but they always did come up to the mark. After paying a tribute to the work of the department for public instruction and showing how the per-vicious habit of migrating from one school to another was effegtively checked by s system of certificates, Bishop Molony went on to remark that be had no doubt they would welcome the inspection, support and advice of a similar department in China. They could not, however, expect grants-in-aid for Mission schools until Government education had reached sub " stage shat the authorities must admit that the Missions were doing s large bit of what it was the duty of
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