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CHINA'S INTELLECTUAL

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Education the Cause and Cure

The great Bishop Butler. author of the Analogy of Religion | Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature was despondent concern- ing the state of christianity In [his day, and similarly have other great men fallen into doubt for a time. Christianity has indeed been on its trial more particularly in these recent years, but those. who know history have no fear (concerning its future. Yet, a recent writer introduces his book by statements like the following" Many do not believe In it; many more regard it as so vucertain that they could not reasonably permit it to affect their lives and opinions. Those who belivee in it are doubtless in the majority, but as a general rule their belief does not poss098 the imagination of those who hold it; their emotions react! feebly to it.

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quickly its

know of the old and the new, of growth taste. This was a vice, however, and decay, of birth and death, are which oven the Greek students found everywhere to-day, in the where prone to, as appears from nursery, and in the school, and the following words of Plutarch, the university, no less than in theThe mind is not a vessel Senats, the Churches, the Council which calls for filling. It is a Chambers of Versailles or of pile, which simply requires kind-stories come from all directione. Genevs."

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A great publicist has stated that m given moment in its history de- ponds upon its young men young Bve and twenty. Hugh Black has told us in the Atlantic Monthly| that never have the Colleges at homa been so full us now, and

as the present generation. The never were the students as earnost

same is true in China; it is surely a bopeful sign. In Shanghai itself our Municipal Schools are being crowded to the door, and the same ling-wood to start the flame of Therefore, we must take courage Such being the case at Home, eagerness for original thought when the young men and young it is no wonder in China that in-and ardour for truth. Suppose women, too, are anxious to obtain tellectual ferment which began some one goes to borrow from his a Western education. Some of several decades ago is beginning neighbour's fire, and then, on them may be in what Charles apparently to gain unparalleled finding a large bright blaze, por- Kingeley humourously calls the strength writes Mr. D. Mc-sists in staying and basking an Hylic Borboros of Doubt." Gillivoray to the N. C. Daily the spot. It is the same when a Nevertheless, they will win News,

man comes to another to horrow through, as he, himself, says of reason, and does not realize that the young men of 1841, when he he must kindle a light of his own wrote the preface to his little in the shape of thinking for him-book" Yeast." He says "I believe self, but sits enchanted with enjoyment of the lecture."

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HEPRESSION USELESS..

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the ancient creed, the Eternal Gospel, will stand and conquer and prove its might in this age, as it has in every other for 1,800 years, by claiming and subduing, and organizing those young and anarchic forces which now un- conscious of their parentage rabel against Him to whom they owe their parentage."

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HEALTHY SCEPTICISM. Scepticism as rocantly pointed out in ouo of our pulpite-nay bear a good meaning, viz,-A healthy inquiry as to the founda- tions of belief. Much scepticism bas oven invaded the usual It may be asked how the situa- clamour of

pubhe tion is to be handled. One method affairs, and the question is by burning the books. This was asked at our

Annual was the well-known method of Parliament " eui bono?" For the Emperor, Chin Shih-buang, ward-looking and alert mission who burnt the books, and buried aries are studying the situation the scholars, Such was his short very keenly, and are proparing and easy method of dealing with to deal with it. In the last num-views opposed to his own. The ber of the Chinese Recorder Dr. Emperor, Theodosius II, in 356, R. Y. Lo has a paper on the adopted a somewhat similar plan subject which records the result in dealing with the works of of considerable investigation into Celsue and Julian.

The con- the state of thought, first among seqence is that the words of those non-Christians, and second, writers are only known in frag- among the Christians, them- ments quoted by those who selves,

The gist of the paper opposed them. But surely there is that doubt has infected 19 á more excellent even students supposedly study- The Chinese are amenable to ing in Christian institutions. Per- reason. Arguments can be used. haps some may inquire how is it No new argument, necessarily, possible for such doubts to be but ever needing re-stating. The

4 m/s....... found amongst the students in fold questions are ever recurring

T/T Shanghai Our missionary schools, The from age to age, and nothing new

T/T Singapore., answer is very easy. Many of under the sun is found after a those doubts naturally occur to close examination. The Chris TT Japan............ youthful minds that have been tian Literature. Society is mak

T/T India.....o rendered alert and active bying a special study of the situa- Demand, India Western studies. They do not tion, and preparing up-to-date F/T San Francisco 4834

& New York.J need to bo suggested by sources. tracts which doubtless will have

IT Java a large circulation. It is an era from outside.

TT Marks of epic conflicts, and there are At the same time many return-i

students have translated signs that Chinese will also cover IT France sceptical articles and attacks on Homeric combat. But there is

themselves with glory in the Demand, Paria Christianity from magazines, Eng-

BUYING. lish, French, German, Russian, other arguments, the argument an argument which is above all and those articles are appearing namely of a pure and holy life. in secular magazines. Doubtless

Even the scepsic Edward Gibbon the students of our schools some-attributed the success of the early 30 dis.. Sydney and times seo or hear the contents of Christians in large measure to such articles. Assuredly these doubts are not due to their the purity of their lives, and in 30 d/s. San Francis-1 teachers. To those who are living every age this is an apologetic immoral lives, any stick is good) which is absolulely unanswerable. enough to beat the dog, and arguments against Christanity As far as the Church is con- Demand, Germany. are most welcome to such per-cerned, we believe it is sound on Demand, New York 48% MARRIAGE WITH DYING ceremony was performed. The sons. At the same time, there are the fundamentals. As yet, no TT Bombay

bridegroom then returned to the doubtless honest doubts, and heresy or sect has cut itself off Demand, Bombay hospital and the bride to her flat. someone has said there is more from the Christian body.

19214 They will probably not see each faith in these honest doubts than productions of Chinese Christian Demand, Caloutta ...

The T/T Calcutta......... Nom. 19234 other again.

in all the creeds if they are held writers may, indeed, contain On Yokohama......... 101 The bride, being now

merely as an empty shell, un-strange ideas unacceptable at the Demand, Manila

10414 A atrange marriage lately took Genevese, cannot legally' be related to reality and life. More-bar of foreign wisdom, yet such Demand, Singapore. 10514

expelled, and the Judge's order over, those who read history, also was the case with the early Demand, Batavia place at Geneva. A handeoine of expulsion is valueless. The under the guidance, for example, apologists, such as Irenaeus and On Haiphong... Nom.

... 140 Frenchwoman, agod twenty- Fine, had received an order of as pandalous affair marriage of Terrot Ravelly Glover and Origen, and yet Christianity was On Saigon

Adam Storey Farrar, will be victorious. As expulsion from the canton of as a affair.

yot, Chinese On Bangkok...... 86 quite prepared for such a situa-Christians are incoherent, and Sovereign Genova, but outwitted the local

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ments of their faith; the reality Bar Silver, ready... 3314 incurable or dying Genevese Chinese press, that a short time)

of their faith no one, however, forward ago General Ho Feng-ling, Mil-

Is this state of affairs, then, to can doubt. Even Oxford scholars, Bank of England rates 64% patient under treatment there.

Sho was told that there was tary Governor of Shanghai and be feared? In some respects, authors of a fine restatement of New York/London... 4.00 one, and a nurse introduced her Sungkiang, received advice that doubt is, indeed, the antithesis of Christianity, made a confession to a man named Bandit, fifty-two foreign bars were opere ing faith, and whatsoever is not of at the close of their book nine years of age, who agreed to in the Western District, and that faith is siu. At the same time, that they had failed because finite As a result he issued instructions ne cannot but rejoice that the language could not compass the narry the French-woman' on payment of £6 cash down and for his subordinates to make old stagnation of thought has Truth which was infinite. Though £2 monthly so long as be lived: investigations and to close the passed away, We rejoice that the Chinese may speak different H'kong 50 eta. plesen

The bride. presented the brids. places. It is understood that the at last in China young men are dialecte when talking about their groom with a new suit of clothes authorities have received no word inquiring regarding the reason ballet, nevertheless their faith is,

necossarios, and of such action being taken. All for doctrine held in the past or we believe, one with that of the Canton sub coins the couple drove in a motor the resorts in question are still offered to them as their future

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