On reflexion one can see that the real force that has shaped the policy of. the school is rot the untrained Jepinion of the students, but the daily eaching, based on the Bible, that Miss Tsine gives every morning. 'An example of this may illustrate the method. ne evening the School Union may receive a threatening instation to join in some three days' strike and parade, perhaps an antiforeign demonstration, The next day the portion of Sevipture read at prayers, happens to be the story of the preparation of the apostles for their great work. Shortly and clearly the students are told of the warring claims of great nations, and given reliable facts and dates about Sino-foreign relationships; they are reminded of the ancient greatness of their country, its present miseries, the call for leadership, the need for preparation; the methods of the apostles are outlined and the analogy is drawn between China world; the talk contains ferences to the sayings and the example of ive minutes later the School President reads the invitation to parade; several students ixpeak on each side, une probal ly referring to the address they has Just heard, and the school votes not to strike, and goes off to lessons, n few minutes late, but very pleased with the iden that it has decided for itself Jand proudly conscious that it is the:
ly school in the city that will not enjoy three days' holiday.
The Nationalist Onslaught I Fang has lasted for ten years: amid constant political disturbance jand persecution; during this time the students have always Leen entirely loyal and have identified themselves with the aims of their leader, setting 'a standard and example for schools) in China. They have been trained to £0 behind purty cries and catehwords to find the truth, and it this attitude that was bound to incur the hostility of the Nationalists who regard independence of thought as treason. In september part of the: buildings were seized a Come ist Club, and the ned to turn out th tacks on Mr. and Mixs Tsing. ed in the pape pro-foreign and, crimes inthe eyes of the revolutionaries, The Hunan Students' Union and other societies pestered the government to close a school with such a dangerous principal and Miss Teng felt obli fed to resign her office and hand all control to an executive coramitter of 1 Union. since the persceadt be directed syrainst her personal Presecut Then if never fore the school justified iteclf; at x time pled political, social and edui chaos, I Fang steadily carried on its traditions. Mission schools struck of closed, Government schools para ced, private schools reorganized became political clubs. Without a principal, with half the grounds occopied by a mob of disorderly youths, daily fear of physical violence, the students continued their studies as Mise Tsing would wish, Bible and prayers went indeed at a meeting of Hu-tated that {Fang studied the Bible because they found there valuable teaching and the threats " At the whole meeting rose with shouts and end of the winter term I Fang Gizls? Collegiate School was the only Christian Middle School open tin Changsha, or indeed in all Hunan,
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