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C. Ô, P.,E. C.

SERMON BY THE REV. H; COPLEY MOYLE, MA

The following sermon was preached in St. John's Cathedral on Sunday morning by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, Senior Chaplain :-

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES,

IN CHINA.

[FROM THE “CHINESE ECONOMIC MONTHLY. "I

agriculture and has just inaugurated acated." Kwangtung was one of the first special training course for rural teachers The faculty has been greatly augmented during recent months and is accomplish ing niuch more research work than ever

before. 'UNIVERSITIES.

provinces in China to establish a guvern-` meant agricultural experimental stations which has continued under more or less adresse political conditions to the present. time. This institution is known as the Kwangtung Agricultural College and Forestry Experiment Station.

The instruction has

In connection `with this' station there

agricultural. has been established an school known as the Kwangtang Agricul toral College which has over attempted work of college grade leading to a science degres in agriculture, but has admitted students from district schools, This in- stitution offers courses in general agricht ture and forestry. always been entirely in Chinese, The station had an annual budget of about. 350,003 at the College about 820,000,

Since the work of the, local silver. station has been discontinued plans are being prepared to enlarge the College budget to include the station. Stops are raise the Agricultural being taken to College strictly to college gule For- merly there were agricultural high schools at various places. but these bave been discontinued

Much interest is being taken through. out China in agricultural education. In spite of political uncertainty and isck of Nanking College of Agriculture and funds for education there has been mark- Forestry has departments for agricul ed, prigress during recent years, The tural economics and farm management, "Be it known unto you all and most advantageous lines of procedure are agronomy, hacteriology, botany, cotton to all the people of Israel that in the clear but it is not easy to bring about improvement, forestry and sericulture name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom such co-ordination as will assure the This college, like most colleges of agricul ture in China, is in need of more land. ye crucified whom God raised from the presentation to the country of a uniñed

Nanking should prove the It. has approximately seventy English dead, even in Him doth this man stand | programme.. here before you whole. He is the stone centre for such coordination, for in that acres under cultivation in the city of Nan which was set at naught of you the city are leaders of thought and aution in king. Outside the city on its. Tai Ping builders, which was made the head of the both national and missionary agricultural Men farm it owns about thirty-five acres, and in auglition rents three tracts total corner. And in none other is there salva-education. tion for neither is there any other name

Last June a six-year review (1917-1925) | ling about seventy aeres. The inventury under heaven that is given among inen

was issued in English, by the College of the College of Agriculture and Forestry wherein we must be saved,"

of Agriculture, National South-eastern totals 88,307.01. Cloverupient co-opera- Sach was St. Peter's challenge to the University, Nanking, maintained by the tion reveived by Nanking is in the form of rulers of the Jews when he and St. John Chinese Governament. The scope of this scholarships: from Shansi Proviuse, 14 were brought before the Jewish Council college includes instruction, research and students: Anhwei, eight; and Shantung, Its aim is to promote the three. The college lists a personnel of for the cure of the lame beggar at the extension. beatiful gate of the temple. And Sagricultural welfare of the farming popula- faculty and officers totalling as of which It 7 are doing full time work in agriculture. Peter here expressed a great principletion of the auth-eastern provinces. which we believe is of eternal and world has a personnel of about twenty-six pro-There have been several additions to their wide importance. Salvation is to be fessors and more than twice as many staff recently, Mr. I. H. Porter from the

The present situation in Agriculture at found in Jesus Christ and in noge ather, assistants. For the fiscal year 1920-1921 Iowa State College of Agriculture, and Canton is somewhat different from that, whether it be the salvation of the indivi. the total funds available for operating Mr. l. Leslie Hancock of the Ontario

at Narking and Faking. The College of Mr Porter will

Agriculture of Canton Christian College, dual or of the family, or of the nation.expenses amounted to 998,070 of which | Agricultural College. That is the Christian claun. We believe $30 was apportioned for budgeted ex-work in plaat pathology and Mr. Hauck known as the Lingnaam Agricultural Col- that the Almighty and Eternal God, the fetare This college, has been Peking is following in the footsteps of taking. It has been fostered and deve

$19,700 for extraordinary in horticulture,

lege, is largely an indigenous under- Creator and Ruler of the Universe, has expenditures revealed Himself to us in the persun ut especially, fortunate in the support it is Nanking and Canton, and within five or laped by the Cantonese and is not direct- Our Lord esus Christ, and that it is by receiving from business interests in China ten years an efficient agricultural dr under Western control. However, its obeying Christ's teaching in all things heading the Shanghai Flour Mill Asso-ganisation will be accompilsbed About alliation with the Canton Christian Cul and by following His example always ciation, the Chinese Cotton Millowners a year ago government agricultural col lege make possible efficient co-operation that we can attain indigidual and social for the Improvement of Sericulture in Dean F. W Tson of the College of Agri

Association, the International Committee | lege education was reorganised in Peking. with Western business and missionary in- terests The object of this board of That is the foundation prificiple which China. the Tu Tai Reclamation Com culture of the National South-eastern unge, with the sanction of the tru was in the minds of the organisers of a Pony, and Shanghai banker. It is also niversity helped in this reorganisation tees of the Canton Christian College. great conference held in Birmingham last liberally supported by the Kiangsu pro- This College is known as the National is to organise a full College of Agricu!- month. a conference which has become vincial government. At the time the Agricultural College and started with a ture which shall maintain a high standard known by the initial letters of its title report was written the college valued its staff of about 1 men, ten or twelve off of agricultural research and efficiency Copec, a Conference on Tolitics, Econ- equipment at $2,000, not including books whom were graduates of western Ameri-This board supervises the work of the

Mr. S This can agricultural colleges.

.College of Agriculture and plans neces- umies, and Citizenship: No doubt alief and general museum materials. us hive seen some accounts of the Con-provincial government to act as the cen- Aurienttural, College for a time to help in maintenance and decides the manual Il- college has now been designated by the Tann was released by the Langmaan sary extensions. It is responsible for ference. It was a spaference to which all Christian denominations in England, tral agency for the control and promotion the organisation of the auiaul husbandry get. The board has laid holdings ad- except the Roman Catholics, took part, of agricniture in Kiangsu provines, and work, and the Kwangtung College of jacent to Canton Christian College on and it aimed at expressing the Christian

an annual grant of $30,000 has been made Agriculture sent Mr. T. T. Chang and which it is developing its college. This mind on the many subjects included under for this purpose.

Mr. P. F. Shes The National South-development is fostered by an agreement The college has departments of biology, astern Eniversity ale stat some of its entered into with the trustees of the those headings. Polities, Economies and Citizenship. This is an age of Coa agronomy, horticulture, animal husban-men to Peking to assist in these develop Canton Christian College and in line with. gresses and Conferences, and such con- dry, sericulture, plant pathology, entonments. This college has now been closed plans for a university federation at Can- ferences are apt to over estimate their lugs, and utilization of farm products, owing to general unfavourable political ton. It holds all land and property of own importance and to think that they At present it has one central experi- conditions and lack of funds, but fand has sub-stations of the College of Agriculture are about to introduce the Golden Age mental station and at least nine sub-been segured and a yearly budget of about which may be established on areas far They are also apt to become the arean stations, totalling about 3,800 120w - 8100,000 has been drawn up. It is pro removed from Honglok, the present site for the fanatic and the crank to air their central station, at Tasheagkwan, about sub-stations with a total area of land" of

proximately 30 acres) of land.

posed to have one main station and two of the college.

"The Linguaam Agricultural College has peculiar views. From these dangers the 15 miles west of Nanking, has an area about 3,000 mow inbout 500 acres). There outlined programine calling for desir Copce Conference was not imunine. But of 1.500 mow of fertile land on the Yang is also an agricultural experiment station able expenditure over a ten-year perio it was the greatest combined Christian

tsze rires. Professor C. C. Yuen, former outside Isichiḥmen, Peking.NE

which it has presented to its board of effort to voice the mind of Christinas en

Jy of the Kwangtung Experimental

agers, Several years ago the Kwang- blemas of the day and it marks an import nexistants under his supervision.

The

and national salvation. -

Church by such men as Kingsley devoted to the growing of cotton. Maurice and Wistcott and Seut Holland,

two

The

missionary interests in rural affairs,

¿Continued on nert" column)

i.A

A little over a year ago the North China

1

the most important anil most urgent pro Station, is the Director. He has five Agricultural Association was organised to tung provincial government promisyů - ant epoch in the history of England and sut-stations are designated for different promote agricultural science and the deve- $100,000 (untally for current expenses English Christianity. It is no new think experiments. The first is for animal topinent of rural education in China. The and $300,000 for land, buildings and to try to solve social problems hy nn husbandry and Boriculture, the second Executive Secretary of the Department province was, forn by political disorder is Professor Walter equipment After several payments the appeal to Christian principles. It has for whent, the third for fruit and vege ben preached for inany years in our tables, and the rest of the stations are 9 Agriculture, Yenching University, and this souree of income was ent off for Peking Several profitable conferences the time being. It is encouraging, how- ever, that the board of managers havo But the Church as a whole is failed to The University of Nanking, a mission. have been hold, and this year the Associarovided the funds whereby, it has been

tion intends to conduct a survey of con- live up to the standard they preached, ary institution, is issuing a series of ditions prevailing in certain agriculturat possible for the College of Agriculture To quote the words of a writer of one of stated in the introduction of the report: first of a series of surveys.

agricultural and forestnotes. It is

districts in North China. This will be the to continue with a budget of approxim- ately $100,000 local silver, for 10-23 and the congress papers "What is wrong" By means of institutes, exhibits, plays with current Christianity is that it isn't

The Department of Agriculture of Yen- $57.000 for 1923-24.

The present purely agricultural staff realistic, its vision and prayer have been and demonstrations we have got ipte and

next to the rural corcmunities more than ching University has been making steady divorced from its action, and thus both before. We are more surely and in more China Famine Commission recently agriculture and two men trained at th

progress since its organisation in 1921 consists of nine American graduates in Mils of its life have been maimed. Whilst we are talking theology or going was becoming linked up with verullocated $285,000 gold för famine" pre- Kwangtung Experimental Station. Muela to Church, or sewing the miserable little This University reerives grants from is. tention work in addition, the depart of the general science instruction is car- Patches we call charity, into the rottensions and recently has received a turd went is planning to appoint additional ried on by the staff of the College of Arts garulent of our social life, countless

instructors in horticulture, animal has and Science. The college has incre than hursan souls are passing through this of US $100,000 for famine prevention handry, and agronauty. The department a hundred acres of land under cultivation.

work front the American Committee for world under conditions of which to the China Famine Fund. In its scricul. has under cultivation this year more than not including the campus of the College Christian, no lover of Christ, can hear to tural work it, is receiving, support from 1.500 mow (250 acres of land. At the ion which it in assembling a representative think.

The Conference was founded on

the Silk Association of America. Cornell yuan experimental farm of over 1,500 collection of plants. More than a hun great principles, contained in the words University has recently decided to dese.now, corn, wheat, kaoliang, millet, Aldred men are employed on the farm or falfa, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, in business undertakings connected with God's Fatherhood and Man's brotherlop missionary work in China in co-operabuckwheat are being raised. The depict the college has been organised into

the college. For administrative purposes tion with Nanking. Nanking has also ipucat has seven green houses with horti- bood. Most Christians are ready to stituted a one-year short course acknowledge these principles in the ab-

cultural gardens which are conducted on divisions: education, research, extension stract but when they are asked to apply

Five departments have a commercial basis. At Taitien, near the and business then in the concrete they hesitate. It is

new sito of the University, varieties of been organised to date: animal hus easy to say that all mer are God's child-African natives. The populat ideas about garden crops are grown, and there is an Landry, agronomy, horticulture, agricul- rep and are brethren. It is not so easy obey are by na nicus Christian Our experimental cannery here. This year tural manufacturing and sericulture. The

college is receiving liberal support from" to act on the principle that the coolies Lord constantly emphasised the danger of over 5,000 as of tomatoes were canned.. who entry us in a chair are Guit's child riches. Yet the worship of Manou is

The plan of the department is to deve both Chinese and Western interesta

The institutions above-mentioned are ren and our brothers, with an equal share tolerated to-day even in our Churches. lop its work on a practical basis and to in the love of the Father and an equal

I once knew a man who had a salary of conduct its various enterprise on a sound not the only ones at work in China in the right to place in the Father's house. £1,000 a year who said that in future he commercial basis: In this way students field of agriculture, but are those which are most strategically located for the It is not casy for the capitalist and the would only take £500 a year as he found ears, agriculture on a practical farm run Tabourer, or for the French and German that was subeient, and he did not wish under profitable management.

At the initial steps in constructive all-Chian Ultimately each provinces to realise that they are brethren, yet the to accumulate money. But I never heard completion of the four year course stud-programme. sulation of the most difficult problems will of another similar case.

Yet that is enta are granted the degree of Bachelor will establish some agricultural work and only come about with that realisation.

surely what many people should do if of Science. In addition to the work of certain advances have already been made the Conference used these striking words; and example of Christ.

The Prime Minister in his message to they were really following the teaching the classroom, students must satisfy farm in this direction. In Shantung there is practice requirements. During the Srst the Shantung "Pongee Silk Experimental By far and away the greater part of the

The Christian opinion on marriage two years of the four year course the Station at Chefoo and the Shantung troublesome problems, both of individuals needs to be reafirmed in these days who students devote their time to fundamental Agricultural School at Tsinanfu. Kinng- and national relationships, which con- continual attempts are being made to sciences, such as chemistry and biology sit province has three agricultural, high sume so much of our time and wear away enlarge the grounds for idifore We The last two years are devoted to igrical schools closely afiliated with South-cast- so much of our faith and energy can be ought all to realise that the utmost free ture.

ern University, and Anhwei has be There is an agricultural technical school solved only, by a return to a simplicity dom of divorce was allowed amongst the practical farmers and estate manager, in Honag and others in a few other pro- of spirit which a living belief in Christian Jews and Romans two thousand years agricultural teachers and experimental- dnetrines makes, nousilde; and I hope ago, and that, to facilitate divorce is to ists, extension demonstrators, etc.

offers tremendous pas- Western China offers that this Conference will result in co return to the evil state of things Trom The department has been presented

these days are held too much in suspicion rescued the workh

vening those human feelings, which, in which the Christian teaching on marringe with eattle, sheep, hogs and poultry from probeatise national programme, must not

2 Home of America's finest breeding estala by people who profeas to be practical, Again in these days of ultra-nationalism lishments. Arrangements are now being he forgotten Chengta is in line with dist who is a matter of fact, have not we need a strongly enunciated Christian made in America for shipping these Nanking, Peking and Canton as an juv portant centre for agricultural education. discovered the most elementary condition opinion to remind as that God hath animals to Peking. After their arrival the West China Christian University at of real practical 'conduct."

made of one blood all nations of men," is intended to establish a commercial

Chengtu is working on a programune of At the present time it can hardly be and that there are no races with an dairy for the purpose of furnishing a

rural improvement. The report of the said that a genuine and effective Chris- innate right to dominate others. Nearly use of pure milk supply for Peking China Educational Commission of 1921- tian public, opinion exists on many, im-two thousand years ago a Bonian, wrote Farm machinery is to be obtained also

from

The province of Szechuan nortant subjects. If the Conference does that the stunidest and pgliest slaves facturers. It will be used to determine lajin itself an cropir, the bulk of its

sorce of Amérien's leading manu points out:: something to enunciate such an opinion come from Britain. He Tittle thought it will not have been held in vain. The that the people be so despised would one what types of foreign farm machinery can population are funners, and it would seem Christian, ideals need to be brought out day have an Empire compared to which he used to advantage ander Chinese con inevitable that this dominant interest of

the people should be recognized; but of the sanctuary and the study and ap the Roman Empire was small. And we ditions. plied in the market place and the senate, must be on our guard against the danger

At one experimental station such might be wise to build a first class middle school of agriculture before attemptingg To do so was the object of the Confer of despising men of races who may not iccts as seed selection, crap cclimatiza work of college grade. Climatic and

tion, testing new-sarictice, the study of ence and we should all pray that it may have had the advantages we have und, Iviants slaptable to famine, conditions and. general conditions in West Chini are nut be fruitful in guiding Christian opinion but, who may be capable of rising to a aright and giving it driving power higher standard than we have ever the improvement of the native Chinese unlike those of Kwangtung." West China

Modern industrial life has brought reached.

yellow corn are being investigated. As producing erops very similar to thise about new conditions which were un

On the many questions which arise chapter of the World Agricultural Society of South China ad under methods not known to our grandfathers. The preval under the headings of Politics, Fennomics has been established at the University unlike those found in the southern pro- ence of slums and overcrowding of many and Citizenship we believe that the Chris. This chapter was the first to be organised vinees. For example, Szechuan is grow people in one room, are evils which de tian Church ought to have a message, in China, and is used by the students asing citrus fruit and even, to limited

extent, the lychen, a fruit whose range" mand the severa condemnation of Chris and ought to give that message to the means I discussing agricultural pro- ja very limited. With a wide expanse of tian opinion. The man who cariches him world with. no weertain voice, Copce in

blems. sell by the ownership of slum property a step forward in that direction and all

Canton is a thin centre in China undeveloped land, fortile soil and climate aught to bear an deen a stigma of dis Christians ought to be interested in the where agricultural education, research that permit cultivation throughout the grace amongst Christian people as the movement and do what they can to fur. and extension is being developed. Fear, both West and South should be forger or the burglarya, di

ther its aims. We must not record the recut publications says: In 1687 i inis-developed is rapidly as Central and

North China There ought to be a Christian opinios Conference as the end of the mattor, the slotary conference created a committee

Lists of agricultural institutions, Gov- on the subject of the control of the drink Copec pvement must go on and grow of the Farmers Association to stimulate ernment stations, bureaux and schools are trada. It is, iniquitous that individuals till well balanced Christian opinion agricultural interests in China slong should be allowed to enrich themselves dominates the world and brings all things Western lines. The Cngaging of a Euro furnished to give an idea of the extent of agricultural Aducation and Improvement by selling very inferior mirite to West in subjection to Christ, for in His name pean professor of agricultoral science to

(Continued at foot of next ectumn). alone shall weḥfind kalvation A

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