. The awakening of China . et enterprise ofthe enlightened Viceroy Chang Chi-tung; but on theother side of the Yang-tse we have cheering evidencethat he has not confined his reforms to transportationand the army. There, on the south bank, you maysee the long walls and tall chimneys of numerousmanufacturing establishments—cotton-mills, silk fila-tures, rope-walks, glass-works, tile-works, powder-works—all designed to introduce the arts of the West,and to wage an industrial war with the powers ofChristendom. There, too, in a pretty house over-looking the Great River, I spent three years as aid t
. The awakening of China . et enterprise ofthe enlightened Viceroy Chang Chi-tung; but on theother side of the Yang-tse we have cheering evidencethat he has not confined his reforms to transportationand the army. There, on the south bank, you maysee the long walls and tall chimneys of numerousmanufacturing establishments—cotton-mills, silk fila-tures, rope-walks, glass-works, tile-works, powder-works—all designed to introduce the arts of the West,and to wage an industrial war with the powers ofChristendom. There, too, in a pretty house over-looking the Great River, I spent three years as aid tothe viceroy in educational work. In the heart ofChina, it was a watch-tower from which I could lookup and down the river and study the condition ofthese inland provinces. This great centre was early preempted by thepioneers of missionary enterprise. Here Griffith Johnset up the banner of the cross forty years ago and byindefatigable and not unfruitful labours earned forhimself the name of the Apostle of Central China,. CHEFOO: CITY AND HARBOUR
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