El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-22
Copyright. 1910. by Frank C. tarpenter)

Frank G. Carpenter.)
, over China. In addition there is the
Mission Press Of the American Metho-
dists, which is papering the country
with Christian literature of one kind
and another.
Both of these establishments are pub
fishing school books.
AS to bibles, they are distributed by
| the American Bible society, which first
came here about IS years ago. 1t now
sends out about 10000 volumes per
year, and altogether its circulation has
run high into the millions.
A Great Educational Work
But 1 started to speak about mission
schools. They are to be found every
where. There are boys schools and
girls schools, and kindergartens for
both sexes. There are primary schools,
intermediate schools and high schools,
as well as colleges of arts, medicine
and theology. The Catholics have
university at Shanghai and college
and industrial school at Secawei, five
miles from Shanghai, with so other
| schools near by. having an attendance
altogether of $3.50 pupils. They are
doing some educational work in other
cities, but as far as 1 can learn they
are by far surpassed by the ProtestantS
in this branch of mission labor.
According to the latest figures the
Protestant missionaries have over zOOO
primary schools and $50 high schools
and colleges. In the primary schools
$4,000 boys and more than 1000 girls are
now in attendance, and in the higher
schools there are 1900 young men and
almost 5000 young women. These seem
but small numbers in comparison with
the 100000 or 100000 pupils in
our public schools, but each OF these
Chinese students will be a working force
in the reorganization Of the empire, and
this will be especially so with the wom-
en-. The government schools for girls
are crying for Chinese teachers, and the
missionaries tell me that it is almost
impossible for them to hold their girls
until they graduate, because of the
salaries offered them to leave and go
teaching outside.
The Medical Work
There is one phase of mission work
which lis approved of by both Chinese
and foreigners. The Chinese welcome it
and contribute largely to its support
1 refer to the medical missions. They
are doing an enormous amount of good.
They are to be found in all the large
cen1ers, and the doctors connected with
them could, if they would, leave and
make fortunes by practicing among the
wealthy Chinese. Notwithstanding this,
they stay with their work and on pitt
fully low salaries, wear themselves out
The Protestants have now in China 100
hospitals and 241 diSpensaries. They are
treating more than 100000 out-pa-
tients each ear. and this is in add.-
ton TO the 35, 900 odd in the hospital
proper. Every well equipped mission sta
ton has its despensary and hospital, and
the people are brought in for miles
around. A great deal of work is done
by woman doctors, who have been edu-
Gated for the purpose in the United
States. Moreover, medical colleges for
opened. and in time China will have its
own female physicians.
Young Mems Christian Association.
A new influence which has recently
come into Asia is our Young Mems
Christian association. It is already one
of the live forces of this part of the
world, and is doing wonders along edu-
cational and other lines. 1t has now
a firm foOthold in Japan, where the
Toxic branch has a magnificent build
ing with some thousand members. AT
Seoul a big modern structure has been
put up by John Wannamaker, and the
society is the most popular young mems
club of the Korean capital, while here
at Shanghai the institution building has,
with its lot. cost something like $780,
600. and is as fully equipped as the aV-
erage Y VI. c. A. of the United States
The Shanghai building is lighted by
electricity and heated by hot water 1t
has large sclassrooms, with American
desks, lecture rooms and club parlors;
il has q modern gymnasium and upto-
date bathrooms When l visited the
gymnasium today 1 found a score OF
Chinese young men working away under
a physical trainer. and the yellow
skinned fellows were doing almost as
well as the boys of our colleges
This Shanghai institution has lee
ture hall which seats 700; il has well
patronized reading room, with Chinese
and foreign papers and periodicals, ana
also a billiard room. which attracts the
better class of Chinese young men, The
schoolroOms, which, when the building
WAS opened were supposed to be large
enough for the next 10 years, were
taxed TO their utmost capacity before
the first year was ended, and they are
now occupied from morning until late at
night. About 400 students are being pre-
pared for college at a tuition of S12
per year, and there are also classes for
Chinese college graduates There are
evening class for boys and men. Type
writing is taught and stenographic sec
retaries are made
The Shanghai Association
This Shanghai association is support
ed by the natives; and this is true or
nearly all the Y. NJ c. AS in the en-
pire. There is a large association In
Picking, another in Tientsin and others
in Canton. Suchow, Hangchow, Hankow
and elsewhere. There are over rs con.
nected with the colleges and other
schools of China. and branches are
starting in all of the great business
centers.
The merchants and literati are inter
ested in the Y. NJ c. A. movement. There
are 500 business men and scholars of
note who belong to the Shanghai insti-
tuition, and each of these pays $50 a year
toward its support This gives it an in
come from that source alone Of $4,000
per annum, and the regular tuition fees
bring in considerable. The awakening Of
China is creating a great demand for
Chinese who can speak and write Eng
lish, and the boys know that they can
get five times as much salary II they
are so equipped. This fact is crowding
the day schools of the association with
pupils who wish to learn English, and
the night classes are full of such men.