. Christian herald and signs of our times. cent Chino-Japanese war will ultimately have a goodeffect on missionary work in the formercountry at least. One result is the issu-ing of a decree giving the emperors sanc-tion to the building of a railway along theGrand Canal from Peking to a point nearNanking. The road will be about fifteenhundred miles long, and by its connectionswill furnish the means of reaching the in-terior of Manchooria. It will also connectwith the Russian Transcontinental Rail-way. The scheme has met with generalapproval from the officials. Another re-sult of the war will be
. Christian herald and signs of our times. cent Chino-Japanese war will ultimately have a goodeffect on missionary work in the formercountry at least. One result is the issu-ing of a decree giving the emperors sanc-tion to the building of a railway along theGrand Canal from Peking to a point nearNanking. The road will be about fifteenhundred miles long, and by its connectionswill furnish the means of reaching the in-terior of Manchooria. It will also connectwith the Russian Transcontinental Rail-way. The scheme has met with generalapproval from the officials. Another re-sult of the war will be a university andpreparatory school at Tientsin, with Chi-nese and foreign teachers, and a formerAmerican missionary as president. Pre-parations to this end had already beenmade: but the recent events will doubt-less make a success of what threatened tobe a failure. To some extent under themanagement of the university, preparatoryschools will be established in north China. 104 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. FEB. r:> l89£.
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