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Show EVENT AND COMMENT nation has fallen very low, and when recently our system of government was changed, many talked ignorantly of mistaken conceptions of liberty and equality, and went to excess in many directions. * * * Every nation on earth has its own national spirit, bequeathed to it by its ancestors, and kept alive as a distinctive trait of its national character. Therefore reverential honor for the holy Sage comes spontaneously from the hearts of millions of people, and iu worshipping him we are not in any way manifesting a desire to make his doctrines the state religion." With this should be coupled the statement made by President Yuan to a missionary : " I am not a Christian : I am a Confucianist. But unless the ethics of Christianity shall dominate the scholarship of China, there is no hope for the Republic." Iu a country village of Shansi not long ago, a business man just returned from Manchuria informed a missionary that President Yuan was a member of the Christian church! And the marvelous success of the recent Eddy meetings shows the openmindeduess of the leading classes in China toward Christianity. Meetings led by others in smaller cities all over China have had comparatively as great success in reaching the educated men of China, as in theFuhkieu campaign. One feels that China was never so open to the truth as she is now. One longs to have the means to push forward a strong campaign at this strategic time. The Yellow River near the New Standard Oil p o r these are days to Concessions. w]]icll Q U r f o r e r u n „ e r s looked forward in faith, but to which they did not attain, There is a new spirit in the land. And it is this spirit, which is Teaching out blindly in many cases for better things, which is the hope of Christianity. We can save China if we at once direct this spirit into the right channels. |