Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-29
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same mind be not in us we will fail to
render substantial help both TO the stran-
ger IN our midst and to the native IN
non-Christian lands.
Christian education is the worlds great
need. Its greatest truth is love for God
an. for man. A Christian nation should
teach Christianity in all of it's schools
II our religion is of Goo it should have
the highest and most universal recogni-
ton in every concern of life. The
heather world rebukes us in putting it's
religion as a part of every occupation of
life.
Gibbon in referring to the religion of
ancient Rome tells US: 1T was inter-
woven with every circumstance of bust
ness or pleasure. of public or private life.
with all the offices and amusements OF
society,"
1t is related that John Wesley asked a
Chickasaw Indian chief if his tribe often
thought and talked of their gods, and re-
ceiyed this reply: I'VE think of them al
ways, wherever we are; we talk of them
and to them, at home and abroad, in
peace and in war, before and after the
fight and, indeed whenever and where
ever we meet together
II the followers Of idolatrous and super
stitious religions placed the teaching and
observance of. their religion above every
other consideration, why should the fol-
lowers of the Christ. the divine Son Of
God, fail to place His teachings first in
every circumstance of public private
life?
In the line of religious education the
mission schools have great opportunities
for usefulness not only among the i'm
migrants, as we have stated, but among
the mountaineers. the freedmen and the
Indians In all these fields a great work
is being done; but many more teachers
are needed more and larger gifts required
| to carry on the work as it should be
done.
| In the need of these people is a plea to
the church for united prayer that the
| Lord might speedily appear to many
thousand in vision. as He did to Paul,
saying to them, BE not afraid, but
speak, and hold not thy peace, for am
with thee
| Surely, God is speaking to those who
have ability to teach and to those who
| have ability to give, if not in vision, in
the crying needs of these fields, saying.
Co. teach, preach and heal in my
name
Will there be many to hear and obey?
While it is true that in every portion
Of Gods whey ard the work is great and
the laborers are few, it is probable that
right now there is greater need for
Christian teachers and schools in China
than anywhere else.
tenn Of education and undertaken to es-
tablish that of the west, help is needed
to make a satisfactory transition. The
system to be changed has prevailed for
fifteen centuries: the one to be adopted
is 1.-THE system" to quote the words of
DR.. Headland that was carried to China
by the missionaries, that was taught to
the people by the missionaries. that was
established for the government by the
missionaries-the system that was devel-
oped by the gospel OF Jesus Christ in the
countries and among the people it domi-
nates.''
1t is hard to conceive Of a greater revo-
luton than that contemplated in the
change from the old to the new system
Of education.
All the help that Christian scholars
and teachers can give is needed to COM
plete a successful transition. The only
hope is in the missionary colleges and
schools in China, and in her young men
educated in Christian lands.
Now is the crucial time to help the mis-
sion schools and Christian colleges of
China The evangelizatfon Of that people
must come through the labors Of native
Christians educated in those schools
which have been established for both
boys and girls. In those institutions there
are now many thousands Of pupils. and
many thousand more would enter il the
means for tuition were provided.
Christians who have the means could
perhaps do no better work than contrib
ute for the education of native Christians
to become missionaries.
The Chinese now acknowledge their in
debtedness to the missionaries and the
door is open to missionary endeavor
Viceroy Tuan Fang said: 1--WE take
pleasure in bearing testimony to the part
taken by American missionaries in pro-
noting the progress of the Chinese peo-
PIE. They have borne the light of west
ern civilization into every nook and cor
ner of the empire. The awakening of
China, which seems now to be at hand,
may be traced in no small measure to the
hands of the missionaries. For this serv-
Ice you will find China not ungrateful"
The indemnity fund. returned to China
by the United States has been devoted
to the wise use of educating students
sent by the Chinese government to this
country to study
For the selection of these students COM
petitive examina tons are held Nearly
all the successful candidates in the num-
Der sent here in 1911 were those who
had been trained In the Christian College
at Canton.
In the following statements, made in
Lewis Educational Conquest of the Far
East" there is great encouragement to
the hopes for the commanding influence
Of Christian education in China
christian education in China will not
be Supplanted by the educational estab-
lishments OF the government. I"
Christian colleges. their curricuIa, meth
DDS of instruction. spirit of knowledge
and aspersions of superstition are models
for the Chinese authorities.
Christian education is the governments
chief source Of supply of trained Chinese
furnished thirteen Chinese professors. all
Christians. for the imperial colleges In
Picking, Marking and Shanghai