From this statement we can see that unless popular education is given both old and young will soon drift into barbarism and it will be found even more difficult to meet these dangers. From these facts it will be noted that it is through lack.of knowledge and a poor standard of living that peace and progress are threatened. There is a great disproportion between the knowledge in the cities and that in the towns and small villages. If 1t 1s a fact that the education of the cities is becoming greater while that of the country districts is getting less, 1t will be realized that a great gulf is being created between them. The one makes certain demands which the other cannot meet. Not only so, but the whole social order will thus be threatened and it will be left to a small group of intellectuals to seek for the remedy. So we see how it comes about that the affairs of the Chinese Republic have been left in the hands of a few politic ians with terrible results for the people as a whole. This "wide difference Between the educational standards of the people is the real cause of the trouble. The writer, secing these conditions in Shantung, infers that similar one prevail in other provinces. His view is that if is not so much a lack of higher education from which China suffers as a lack of popular elementary education, especially in the country districts. He hopes that those responsible for education will pay more attention to this problem. The people of Shantung, though regarded as violent and cruel, are very industrious and can endure great hardships. They are. on the whole, quiet, honest and faithful. At present the remedy would be comparatively easy. Let religion and education go hand in hand, the first to change their nature and the second to change their behaviour. It will not be long before these people are transformed and enter a new way of life. Unfortu. nately, too much effort relatively has been put into the religious work in the cities and the programme seems indeed to be upside-down, the most urgent things being most neglected.
According to the writer's opinion the cities might even be Jeff take care Of themselves, but energy must be concentrated on rural evangelistic work, particularly in isolated places. More primary arid vocational schools should be opened so as to impart the elements of knowledge and to give people training for earning their living so that all may Rave honest work, Through the help of religion they will be able to see a new standard for their moral life. It may be that "Students in the cities will not be willing to take up teaching in isolated villages and the same will be true of preachers. This problem must be tackled and a solution sought in our training of rural teachers and rural preachers. The educational field may be divided into three—capital cities, small cities and rural places. Graduates from the first might be asked to teach in the second, and grad-nates from the second to teach in the third. in some such way we may deal with this great disparity of education and religious knowledge and the blessings of independence and can be spread through the whole people. These are the steps by which banditry may be overcome and the. nation be established 1n_security..; 0 Wen SHrH-Tsen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.