Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-04-15

lege OHerS collegiate course OF
further four years. Some former stu
dents have proceeded to English and
American schools or universities, but
others are taking advantage of the col
lege's postgraduate course" OF soe-
cial training in chemical analysis, In
der the vice-principal, Mr.. j. B. ! syiar,
M. &c., and plans are already LAID sor
the establishment of courses in chic
trical engineering and in law and eco
Monies.
Each days work is begun by prayers
in the college chapel, In which the
! Sunday services of the Anglo-Chinese
church are held, but no compulsion is
used to induce the students to attend
the religious services, although every
influence is brought to bear on them,
to lead them to consider the claims of
Christianity. Christian band has
been established by the students them
selves, and its Sunday evening meet
ings are well attended, sometimes as
many as so being present the majority
of whom are non-Christians. High tes-
timony to the value set on the teach
ing of Dr. Lavington Hart was borne
by the father, himself not Christian,
who replied to his sons request for
permission to declare himself a Chris
tian:
Il wish YOU" he wrote, ito follow
Dr. Harris teaching in all things"
In another case student, VINO had
voluntarily offered himself for baptism
met with considerable opposition from
his mother, and only won her reluctant
consent after long delay. Two years
later, when sending a younger son to
5 the college, the mother commended
him to Mrs. Harris care, saying: q
. want you to look after him as you
+ looked after his brother
: One student, who had embraced
/ Christianity, wrote to his father, who
S was at a distance, for permission t.
e be baptized. The father promptly re
;. piled that If his son were baptized hs
# would no longer own him. Then tn,
b lad and some Of his Christian friends
h began to pray that the fathers hear
e might be softened. Several times tn,
4 lad wrote, repeating his request, blu
waiting, there was a complete chang,
IS of front on the fathers part. He no
e only gave full permission, but h
g added: "Only, If you are a Christian
1t mind you are real Christian"
IF The esteem in which the work of tn
a. college is held by some of the high oil
,r ficials was shown by their contribl
n tons to the fund for extension. TIL
n Viceroy Yuan Shin Kai was genel
10 Gus contributor, and one of the halls
IN nomed after him. THE Viceroy Yuan
le named after him, "The viceroy Yuan
s. willing to pay fees for their sons edl
as cation at the Anglo-Chinese colleg
he when they could have them taught FIRE
r. of charge at the government college
st is the best evidence of the niche whic
e. the institution fills. and speaks mo-
&c eloquently of its usefulness.
b. In their anxiety to reproduce II
Sc healthy conditions of English publ
school life on Chinese soil DR.. Ha
II and his colleagues have fostered IL
- esprit de corps of their students I
-. organized sports and games. At fir
&C this was not quite understood, for OF
ed official. who had been invited to W
an ness some athletic display in which b
IN nephew was taking part, went aw;
&c in great indignation, complaining
These foreigners treat the Chine
,w just like they treat their horses, m
M king them jump and rum"
he This was only one misunderstandil
,u which time has removed, and II a
ID / generated China finds body of Chr
"A tian leaders ready ito take occasi
- by the hand" it will be in no SIN,
az degree due to the good work done
&C this turning-point in the history of t
on country, in the Anglo-Chinese cole
IN and other similar institutions.
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