. New life currents in China . d for mercy. If before the Revolution events chased eachother, they now fairly tumbled over one another intheir rapid movement. It is interesting to notehow many projects, business, educational, andphilanthropic, date their origin from 1911. It wasa memorable day for China when the grounds ofthe Temple of Heaven in Peking, formerly closedto all but the emperor and his suite, who wentonce a year to worship in the temple, were thrownopen to the public. And it was a still greater daywhen, as a striking evidence of the change, awoman—a Chinese woman—stood under the v
. New life currents in China . d for mercy. If before the Revolution events chased eachother, they now fairly tumbled over one another intheir rapid movement. It is interesting to notehow many projects, business, educational, andphilanthropic, date their origin from 1911. It wasa memorable day for China when the grounds ofthe Temple of Heaven in Peking, formerly closedto all but the emperor and his suite, who wentonce a year to worship in the temple, were thrownopen to the public. And it was a still greater daywhen, as a striking evidence of the change, awoman—a Chinese woman—stood under the veryshadow of the temple and gave an evangelisticaddress to a large and attentive audience! No sooner was China made a republic than thequeue, that Manchu badge of a conquered people,began to disappear. Those who did not dispose ofthis appendage themselves, generally had it cut offfor them. In many places men with shears sat inthe city gates and when a queue appeared on thehorizon, it and its wearer speedily parted Press 1 Ihisiratiitg Scrincc. Hsu Shi Chang elected president of the Chinese Repuhlic,September, 1918. i THE COMING CHINA 13 Sometimes a family living in the suburbs of a city,fearing a return of the Manchus to power had onemale member shorn and sent him daily into townto do the marketing, while the others retained theirqueues in case of an emergency. A few queues arestill seen, but there is not one in Canton. The Can-tonese, it is said, will not tolerate them. The Political Kaleidoscope Since the birth of the Republic, the Ship of State,alas, has not moved along on even keel. It hasencountered shoals and breakers and been buffetedby many a storm. From the time that Sun Yat-sen handed over the reins of government to YuanShih-Kai, four men have occupied the presidentialchair. As if that were not change enough, Chinareverted for a week to an empire. In the earlydawn of July i, 1917, the frightened little ex-emperor was hurried from bed; seated on the tot-t
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