Chapter two is given to r The Missiona! Influence and since this is always a burning question the author's introductory words may be quoted:
Among Western cul ral influences Chin. "ihe, missi influence flats point of time it was the ear-Jes, whilst in scope of operation it has been the largest. Whether it has Bain the profoundest or the most successful is another question, one yeh there is the widest diver-fence of opinion With the review and appraisal, though many hard things are said, a majority, of missionaries will agree. Sketching both the weakness an strength of the movement the write! clearly points out that though after 1010 a new type of missionary came to China, such regrettable mistakes had been made that many, if not most, of present-day Chinese intel- s ligentsia think of the narrower concept of Christianity preached in the nineteenth century. Some interesting observations are made on what beneficial results might have developed had better guidance been given by the Powers and the missionaries to the Taiping rebellion and Lord Elgin's doubts written in 1858 are curiously pertinent to-day: "God grant that in opening this country to the West we may not be bringing upon them misery and ruin^ The author daringly states that the Boxer disaster was "not primarily an antireligious movement, nor anything like as nation-wide as has sometimes been supposed."
Portrait Of A-Minister In Chapter three the attention is engrossed by a lucid exposition of me Influence of Western Political Thought. Here we learn how difücult it was for legation authorities. to win the confidence of Chinese officials and we are given a picture of the first Minister from China to the Court of St James, the shrewed Kuo Sengtao, appointed in 1867, and he is a example of others who served br country in London and other European capitals. It was Mr. Glad-slone who spoke of Kuo Song-tao as the most urbane man he had ever fuct: and according to Hu Han-min, when Kuo came back he made the epoch-making remark:
"Confucius and Mencius have deceived us." by which he meant.
for that he was converted to the Adoption of western institutions. but Ghat he now realized there was more than one way of governing a civilized country.
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