The second aim of the National movement was to secure a revision of the treaties. "The Chinese people all over the country," he said, are absolutely united and animous in this—that possible, and with the the foreign Powers, our relations revised and placed on a basis of mutual benefit and help. The Chinese people greatly appreciate the pronouncement of your Government with regard to its reations with them."
The third aim of the National movement, he continued, was the amelioration of the economic, rural, and social life of the people. We had our unemployment problems, but we conkd not appreciate the employment problem where the years of civil brought rain and misery.
The final object of the movement was to raise the nation's moral standard. think," he said, "our people are becoming more and more ce: vineed that if we are to build up the nation on the basis of the three first objects alone we shall be building on sand. Wo must rame the moral standard, and we Chinese Christians believe that the Christian Referring to the terrible things that had happened in China Dr. Yui said it must be remembered that other countries in revolution had not been free from similar ex-'Terrible things had been done in the name of freedom and fraternity. Tt was the common experience of humanity. "In China we are going through the most gigantic revolution the world ha ever known, for it is not onl political but' also social, economic and moral, and, in addition, we are involved in the problem of our foreign relations. The 400 million Chinese people are faced with 2 tremendous task.'
Fdueational Work Tam a Nationalist in the sense that I want to do my very best for my own country, but 1 find no conflict between my nationalism, my internationalism, and my Christianity." He went on to explain that there was all the difference in the world between the Nationalist party in China, which was generally known as the People's "parts was organized and had a platform of its own, and the National movement, with which Dr. Yui spoke of two ways in which the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and its friends are trying to stabilize the Chinese nation. They feel that they: must fight illiteracy, and they have worked out a scheme which has already reached two million people and which is becoming a national movement. By scheme of education an illiterate person of any age can in three months learn to read, understand, and use 1,000 words. ' That vocabulary was a key to unlock the world of knowledge.
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