The democratic movement in Asia . y day, toround up his committee. The last member heroused from bed late at night and called them toorder. The project was revived and a new sub-scription list started, which soon totaled $8, school began temporarily in an old churchwith forty-three pupils. At the same timepreaching services in Chinese, Tamil, and Malaywere opened in the jail, and a Young MensAssociation was organized for the Chinese, offer-ing opportunities with mutual benefit featureswhich appealed greatly to the wealthy effective means of raising money for theyoung men was to
The democratic movement in Asia . y day, toround up his committee. The last member heroused from bed late at night and called them toorder. The project was revived and a new sub-scription list started, which soon totaled $8, school began temporarily in an old churchwith forty-three pupils. At the same timepreaching services in Chinese, Tamil, and Malaywere opened in the jail, and a Young MensAssociation was organized for the Chinese, offer-ing opportunities with mutual benefit featureswhich appealed greatly to the wealthy effective means of raising money for theyoung men was to make a rule that whenever a$500 gift was registered the donor might havehis picture hung in the club rooms. Bangs went to the government rest house, butthe rules there stated that none except govern-ment officials might remain more than sevendays. Even during that period he was liableto be dispossessed if an official had need of theroom. Of course it was just Bangs luck thatan official did need it one night about one oclock. [66]. THE YALE MISSION IN CHANGSHA,CHINA, HAS A VERY ACTIVE BOYSCOUTS TROOP, IN WHICH THE TRA-DITIONAL YALE SPIRIT SOMETHING VERY NEW IN CHINA IS BEING PROPAGATED. BUILDERS OF CIVILIZATION Then he went to a Singhalese hotel and sharedhis room with less official and even less com-fortable bed-fellows. Nevertheless, the mission-ary did not quit; he finished the schoolhouse,found the money to pay the contractor, tutoredsome boys for the Cambridge examinations andturned the money in to pay for a Chinese preacher,put in enough time on the polyglot languages ofthe district to make himself understood, andwhen I visited him was on good terms witheverybody in town. The missionary who cannot stand such acidtests as these need not apply for the job. Many a time I have had a missionary takeme out over his field and after showing me some-thing of the vast extent of his work, exclaim,There is no job in the homeland as big as in these days do not talk mu
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