The announcement that Great Britain has decided to devote her share of the Boxer Indemnity to objects mutually beneficial to both countries may have an important bearing on mission work in China (says "The Missionary Record" of the United Free Church of Seci-Jand). The sum involved is about £11,000,000, spreads over the next 23 years, and the British view is that it should be spent mainly on the education of the Chinese as the best means of forwarding the social and economic progress of the country. China requires well-trained Jeaders in every department of life, and it is believed that the money could not be' put to better use than by turning out men of skill and culture. As the missionary agencies have been doing that for many years they ought to have a strong claim on the fund for assistance in their work, especially as they suffered so considerably in the Boxer rising.
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