CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12] — Page 297

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Knowledge.

I trust that I have not wearied Your.

Excellency by the length and I fear the ___

somewhat

desultory

nature of these remarks.

I enclose a contribution which I sent to

Local paper at the beginning of the

which still

expresses my

a

year

and

views on

the

question generally supplemented by what

I have said above as to a University something of the sort. But

as a

Or

Missionary

I look upon : simply putting obstacles in the way of Christianising the Chinese and therefore

all these secular schemes as

dd

.

inimical to the gospel of Christ. The Governments of Europe in obedience to the

are all educating the seoularly. The object being to frevent

voice of public opinion

masses seei

by popular enlightenment the recurrence

such

av

of...

explosion as that which shook all

It will Europe at the end of the last century.

be found

sooner or

later to be in vain. Were

the policy

is simply

suicidal. We are

arming

the Asiatic against ourselves, when by bringing

the swet and holy influences of the Gospel to

bear sipon him

him we

might bind him to us

in the bonds of holy brotherhood.

"Let me then conclude by saying

that the Central School is no

uniting link

between the two peoples or countries; it brings

to the English

no prestige

nothing

it does

namej

the part of

to excite a desire on

the people for Knowledge in itself, but it them at a cheap

is popular because it gives them at a rate the power of making

than

Inove

money