The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1907-11-22


they see no evidences Of mission
work; my trouble is that have seen
too many. The very magnitude Of the
missionary enterprise has made II
necessary for me merely to summarize
and give conclusions. Thus must
now dismiss in a few sentences great
educational institutions in China, any
one of which is worthy of an article
in itself, as illustrative Of the i'm
mense service rendered to this nation
by American altruism, American capt.
tai and American brains.
Take, as the most conspicuous ex-
ample, st. Johns college, Shanghai, OF
mission. This is the greatest educa-
tional institution in the empire. Its
students, numbering between 200 and
800, come from all parts of China, and
from families of wealth and official
life. st. Johns certificates alone
among mission colleges, believe, are
accepted by the government for Off
cial positions. It's buildings, on the
outskirts of Shanghai, and it's corps OF
instructors, headed by Rev. F. L. H.
Pott, would do honor to any American
college. The work of this one institu-
ton Is alone sufficient answer to the
criticism that mission work in China
is futile. What l have said of st.
Johns college may be said, substan-
TALLY, of Boone college and Boone
Medical school, Wuchang, likewise Of
the Protestant Episcopal mission.
The Soochow university of the
Southern Methodist church, Rev.. DR..
D. L. Anderson, president, is another
institution which would elicit praise of
discriminating educational experts, the
enthusiastic pride of Americans and
the admiration of everybody. From
the college annual, full of the same
sort Of thing that goes into such vol
umes at home, to the splendidly
equipped building, it is a thorough
going, progressive, effective institu-
ton of learning. Elsewhere 1 have
spoken OF the imposing North China
Union college, built by the American
board, at Tung Chow, and the Union
college for women, at Picking, and the
big Picking university of the Methodist
Episcopal church, north, and the
Union Medical college, Picking. All of
these are enterprises great beyond the
imagination Of the average American,
who thinks of missions as q man
preaching on the corner to q lot of
gaping heather. There are American
educators in China-I need cite only
the veteran, DR.. w. A. P. Martin, of
Peking-who would be famous men at
home; association with them is the
best part of the education which these
nimble-witted Chinese youth receive.
In Marking, union is projected of
the educational work of the Methodist
Episcopal church, north, Disciples of
Christ, Friends and Presbyterians.
north and south. Already the separ-
ate schools make Marking a great
educational center. The International
Institute, Shanghai, headed by DR.. Gil;
bert Reid, has nearly 100 students and
is especially ambitious to foster inter-
national good fellowship. But it is
impossible even to mention scores of
great schools up and down the length
and breadth of China, whose aim and
spirit are Christian, and the majority
of whose graduates become members
of Christian churches and a leaven of
sane progress in the Chinese life.
1t may not be generally known that
the president of the United States
holds office in missionary society.
AS an alumnus of Harvard university
he is chairman of the advisory COM
mittee of the Harvard mission, which
is one of the remarkable develop
ments of the missionary spirit in
American institutions of higher learn
ing. This Harvard mission aims to
unite all Harvard men (of whom there
are now no less than 2S) who are in
foreign mission work anywhere, the
sending out of men who will bear the
spirit of their university into the for
eign field, and, more definitely, the
support of E. E. Carter, International
Young Mems Christian association
secretary for India. Harvard, by the
way, maintains a weekly study class
in foreign missions.
Yale is even more ambitious, pro-
jecting nothing less than "a new Yale
in the far east" China has been
chosen as the most strategic point. In
the center of the progressive, though
long anti-foreign, province of Human,
at Changsha, beginning has been
made in the creation of Christian
university. One man, John Laurence
Thurston, '9S, member of the IA
nous yale band" died before the
work was fully started, but his widow,
a college graduate, is on the teaching
staff. Rev. Brownell Gage, '98, an
other member of the yale band" is
one of the professors, and the others
are DR.. Edward Hicks Hume, '97, Rev.
Warren B. Seabury, 1900, and DR.. Or
vile H. Schell, 1900. This enterprise
is maintained entirely by Yale alumni
and undergraduates, President Hadley
being member of the council of con-
troll.
Princeton university has undertak-
en- to man and maintain a new Young
Mems Christian association at Pekinp