For the last decade or more, he td, China had been governed by militarists who had squeezed the people so that they acquired enormous fortunes in very short times. The aim of the militarists was not the good of the people, but the acquisition of territory and personal wealth, With the capture of Peking, that form of militarism had been vanquished, and had it not been for the intervention of the foreign Powers, China would today be united. under one flag.
One of the barriers to unity had in the past been the differences in language over the country. There were more than 300 different dine fects spoken in China, which had necessitated English being used as the common language between stu-lents when they met abroad, This state of affairs was being changed. Now there was a common language. Lased on the Peking dialect and, whereas a few years ago he had to use an interpreter when lecturing in Foochow, Swatow and Amoy, now ko could use this common language and be perfectly understood, The written language had under= gone a similar change, he said, Once the written Ianuage was the classical, but now it was becoming the colloquial, It had been impo: sible for the understand and cal written language, but the change te colloquial had put news and learning within reach of all who could read the characters.
The Problem of Education Education, he said, was one of China's greatest problems. In all probability the percentage of illiterates in America was about For cent, but in China, he had no eritation in stating, it was about 1 per cent. "Those who were working to raise China were busying themselves with this problem of education. The 1,000 character system of teaching writing made Possible for a person to be able read in four month, and this "yet em was rapidly spreading.
Another branch of education which was receiving attention was citizenship. The people were ie-understand what means. In teaching the duties as citizens a great work was being done.
Dr, Yui then dealt with China's rational relations. It had been eaid, he reminded his congress that the Chinese were anti 3101 the ni ion as a whole he wa able to say that they were not. Some were anti-foreign and for xoul reasons; others were antic foreign fur no reason at all, What the Chinese peuple hoped for stove everything was "change." The treaties with foreign nations were unilateral, unequal, and China wented_ these changed.
There was no idea of simply breaking off relations with foreign rations, This was now impossible. What lay nearest to the heart of the Chinese people was new treaties, made on 2 basis of mutual respect, The sconer this was achieved, the corer China would improve, he He appealed to his con-ion for sympathy with thi sympathy schich Chinese rected from their American friends, China not Anti-Christian Before bringing his address to a Ds, Yui touched upon' the loral revolution going in China. This revolution was not affecting Christianity alone, he said, but China's other creeds. Was China anti-Christian? It would be fairer to say that many Chinese were antichurch, anti-certain-doctrines, but not anti-Christian, The Chinese Christians were growing restless; they wanted more than they had got, They did not wish to do away with the missionaries: on the contrary they wanted more mission aries, but with better qualifications.
In his peroration Dr, Yui said that he had not intended to draw a too glowing picture of what was xoing on in China. The "greatest revolution the world had ever seen" was a revolution on so many different lines, that it was dificult, and what was needed was the sympathy of other nations,
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