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The Chinese Recorder" for October appropriately discusses in its chief article the medical progress in China and no doubt this was much appreciated by the delegates to the recent Conference at Nanking. The article says:
Fo those who measure such enterprises with the statistical gauge this Feport "wil be reassuring. Seventy= five er cent. of the hospitals. have Been built since the establishment of mainly land and buildings, 1s estims to. be" $5,000,000; an Increase Thundred per' cent. tu. fourteen "The total value of the equi nent of the 216 hospitals ts #53981 an increate of 770 per cent. over that Feported in 'I019, We ote with in= ferest that in the case of receipts iven "715 "per cent. come. from Datlents, fes, gifts, the balance being from" grants," appropriations, ete. Of the expenditures as Tisted 77° per cent, are "by mission' hospitals, wadi Accords with their" still" prominent The journal considers it is dificult, to say how far the New Life movement has taken hold of the Chinese, but it apparently is a Iiitle doubtful regard to certain extreme aspects of the reforming movement, for it Arising directly, however, from the New Live Movement Is what has been for Gress, to" stop. mixed oncing, to set up detailed regula
bathing, restrict the. freedom Intercourse between the sexes and, In tone ease, prohibit women from being Waltreses, "Where these. efforts alm at real violations. of decent manners They' are Justified, even though net tive, "Where, however. they'
inst mere whims of fashion or the modern freedom "of intercourse bee tween the sexes they are misdirected attempts to make the New Lie work, eneral'they imply a desire 10 put ; DUFIIy™ "movements are not usually constructive. They give. the. impres-lon that, on the one hand, the people Being. urged to strive to At into) on the other, beth ordered to -aiscard "ust Because. they elon ay. "They are a, mixing effort "to work "the:
rues into a new day with a supers cial drive. against. modern. personal! {dlosyneracien that matter tile one, Way or the other. Tu so far as they fet the clock back for Chinese women regrettable. "To Fenlment the Chinese in tei fashions will militate against Urgent necessity of finding out. what the old virtues mean ina new day.
Other articles in the journal deal with the possibility of making the Chinese Church creative, the recruitment of leaders for the Church, and the deficiencies in training. On this latter point Mr. Earl H. Ballou has some interesting comments:
To many of the more alert of the younger leaders ofthe "Church left the Christian ministry and abandoned "their Christ profession during the past ten yea jeeause. they have bec bowled over their thinking. They were "not to withstand the varieties of met Because they had. Nationalism Coram too, Bult back of all these there was of such areal religious experience, rooted. in" life and. bute rossed by. thought, as, that for, the nature of which many' of us look bade our seminary days with the most profound: gratitude.
Educationalists may find inspira tion from an article on character training through animal toys, from a writer in Shansi, The suggestion {is that Chinese children are particularly fond of pets, and animal toys may be regarded, therefore, a9 pecullerly suitable" for instructional purposes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.