The call of China and the Islands ; report of the foreign deputation, 1911-1912, for every member of the United Brethren Church . Parade Celebrating the Closing of the Gambling Dens, s u New China millions, new honors with ours shall be paid tohis memory/ I saw this prophecy fulfilled in the HawaiianIslands, in Japan, and in the Philippines, and ina most unexpected manner in China. As therevolution swept the Manchus from South China,prominent Chinese remarked, ^George Washing-ton did it/ Many say that no one in new Chinashould vote who is not acquainted with the lifeof George Washingt
The call of China and the Islands ; report of the foreign deputation, 1911-1912, for every member of the United Brethren Church . Parade Celebrating the Closing of the Gambling Dens, s u New China millions, new honors with ours shall be paid tohis memory/ I saw this prophecy fulfilled in the HawaiianIslands, in Japan, and in the Philippines, and ina most unexpected manner in China. As therevolution swept the Manchus from South China,prominent Chinese remarked, ^George Washing-ton did it/ Many say that no one in new Chinashould vote who is not acquainted with the lifeof George Washington. I was informed thatfour characters were recently presented in areader for the public schools in central China,and these were Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt,and Confucius. The Chinese newspapers backed up stronglythe fight for liberty and made good use of theAmerican revolution, as the following paragraphfrom, a Shanghai paper, printed after a tempor-ary defeat, will illustrate: *Tf we have successes, we must also have de-feats. Now, unfortunately, we have the newsof defeat at Hanyang. What we have lost isonly a corner. The New World fought sevenyears of bloody warfare before it wo
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