, 1898-11-12

y NSluN ho u OAhSHDO'NtShN A"~O SAU1
by messages from Cairo, there is NO need
for d me,e hospital Mt Khartoum5 or any
where else in the Egyptian Soudan. 1t is,
and has been, the practice of the Egyptian
med cal authorities, nrmy and otherwise, to
provide for all the wants Of the civil COM
munlties a. we'll as of the troops. At
A%ssouan, Wady lIaIfl, DOng0la, and Berber,
where army surgeons are stationed, the popu-
lation have invariably been medically treated,
and hospital requirements are everywhere
already supplied by the Egyptian Govern
ment. 1t is an unsectaafltn school or college
that is needed, and the funds for it should
be paid in or collected at once, while the
la ger the amount subscribed the more good
can be done. Our correspondent went on to
remind ns, from conversation with "a near
relative OF General Gordon, thnt the hero
was no narrow-spirited Christian, and would
have put, and always did put, education
before prosolytisinS or attempts slere"t. IT,
IS an L0nourable fact tkAt General Gordon,
At his own expense, built n mosque for the
Levoul MossulGlans whom he rnf1d, and that
his name, rs worthy Therefore t" be remem-
bcIcd in MOslem annals, IL inscribed upon
the walls If the mosque at Mecca. Ibnat he
was a staunch Christian is we'll understood,
bnt Ire WAS no churl, who could not e{e"m
md aspect the faith of others, and 1t Is us
certain as ANYTHING can be that had he been
present in spirit with the Sildar after the
great re-constituting butlle' he would have
said, "Yesl build and endo@ in my nam an
educational centre at Knartoum, Ill which
the sous of tire SoudQncso chiefs may arm
the lessons which will lead them to enllghten-
ment, and thence to truth aud pence and
liety. Build it for me, and rMdoW 1t broadly
and generously, and give it good tr"c.erS'
and strong, earnest work for the next twenty
wears. after which the whole world shall
begin TO SEQ a new Soud0n, and to hat
l did not die in vain"
SO would Gordon have received the grand
and happy idea OF his high-mindel avenger,
and 50 it ought, at once and energetlcally,
10 be received and carried out III this couh-
try. We believe that Lord Kitchener, or
Lord KhaItoum-for we have yet to be sure
of The exact title by which the hhallfa,s
conQueGOr will hereafter be known-lhtends
at once to communicate with the Lord
Mayor Of London, by cable, On this subject
of the Gordon College. He will doubtless
invite the Chief Of the City to make the Man
sion HOuse-what it has so often and'So sIPlen-
didly bCen-the focus of q noble and benehctnt
movement, by initiating o national supscrlP-
ton towards the establishment ana endOw-
ment Of the contemplated educ"tlonal lnsti-
tuition. Re are quite sure, from what IS
known of his lordship's readiness to lend his
aid to every national and deserving enter
prise, that the Sirdar's suggestion. will be
received with becoming cOrdiaIity. lie VIII
pIobably be asked by the Sirdar's Telegram
to form a "Gordon College Committee" and
at once to set on foot the active business OF
drawing UP the provisional scheme. and OF
collecting ample funds for its execution on a
scale worthy Of the Christian hero's memory,
Of the great victory which has brought such
an opportunity, and of the credit Of Eng
land, as q country which vunguishes only TO
redeem and to bless. We are confident (A't
Colonel Davies will eagerly accept the pro
posal and act upon it, and. that his successor
viii not be less ready to give his coun-
tenance to it.; while it is within our know
ledge that many influential ~personages in
the social and financial worlds stand ready
to lend support and assistance to the admira-
bile and benign project about whlch the
S;rdar himself is known to be III deadly
earnest" Commenced under such auspices
tIn1o 10 Ettlee reason to doubt that it will be
taken up by the ever-genercuS British PUBIC
in a spirit worthy of II cause unique ID us
njctnresoue and historical. circumstances anu
also IN it's boundless possibilities OF uOlng
GOOD. and of vastly helping all those that "sit
o. Ia,kness and in thu shadow Of death"
::o, - that the C0nC0DJlOn OF