Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . ucation, science,and religion, published in the land. For threeyears he pored over his books, and as a result,issued his edicts of reform—those edictswhich made the people sit up and rub theireyes and finally start forth in vigorousprotest. The first decree established a great, centraluniversity in Peking, of which one of the mis-sionaries was invited to become all the colleges and universities foundedby Kuang Hsu, the presidents were men whowent to China as missionaries. They werethe keenest scholars among the foreigners,a
Under marching orders : a story of Mary Porter Gamewell . ucation, science,and religion, published in the land. For threeyears he pored over his books, and as a result,issued his edicts of reform—those edictswhich made the people sit up and rub theireyes and finally start forth in vigorousprotest. The first decree established a great, centraluniversity in Peking, of which one of the mis-sionaries was invited to become all the colleges and universities foundedby Kuang Hsu, the presidents were men whowent to China as missionaries. They werethe keenest scholars among the foreigners,and also knew China and her people mostclosely. Throughout the spring and summerof 1898, edict after edict proceeded in sharpsuccession from the throne. One proclaimedthat schools should be founded in every im-portant city, another, that Buddhist templesshould be turned into schoolhouses. Kuang Hsii became impatient if his com-mands were not carried out at once. In hisenthusiasm he forgot that great reforms donot come in a day, even in a lifetime, no M. TZU HSI TUAN YU KANG I CHAO YU CHUAMG CHENG SHOU KUNG CHIN H5IEN CHUNG SHIH Empress Dowager(From a Painting) The Center of the Chinese Puzzle 123 matter if the heart of the reformer breaks inthe delay. If only he could have possessedthat sure vision of the future, together witha mighty patience such as dominated and her associates, he might havebeen the prophet soul who led his people outof darkness into light. But that type ofleadership belongs to the Christian faith, andKuang Hsii was just emerging out of hea-thenism. In a tumultuous time he stood forwhat he believed, and that is the beginningof heroism. The trouble was he hadattempted to do what Mr. Kipling calls^^hustling the East. It was as if he hadsought to make the slow-moving camels of thedesert travel with the speed of a Westernmail train. At this dramatic moment the empress dow-ager appeared again on the scene of sullen resentment at being set
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