. The awakening of China . onstitution ought to be insisted on. Insuch constitution a leading article ought to be nottoleration, but freedom of conscience. As long asChina looks on native Christians as people who haveabjtired their nationality, so long will they be objectsof persecution; self-defence and reprisals will keepthe populace in a ferment, and peace will be impos-sible. If China is sincere in her professions of reform,she will follow the example of Japan and make herpeople equal in the eye of the law without distinctionof creed. 4. All kinds of reform are involved in the neweducation
. The awakening of China . onstitution ought to be insisted on. Insuch constitution a leading article ought to be nottoleration, but freedom of conscience. As long asChina looks on native Christians as people who haveabjtired their nationality, so long will they be objectsof persecution; self-defence and reprisals will keepthe populace in a ferment, and peace will be impos-sible. If China is sincere in her professions of reform,she will follow the example of Japan and make herpeople equal in the eye of the law without distinctionof creed. 4. All kinds of reform are involved in the neweducation, and to that China is irrevocably enforced by railroad, telegraph, and newspaper,the schoolmaster will dispel the stagnation of remotedistricts, giving to the whole people a horizon widerthan their hamlet, and thoughts higher than theirhearthstone. Animated by sound science and truereligion, it will not be many generations before theChinese people will take their place among the leadingnations of the earth. r. APPENDIX I. THE AGENCY OF MISSIONARIES IN THEDIFFUSION OF SECULAR KNOWL-EDGE IN CHINA* While the primary motive of missionaries in goir^to China is, as in going to other countries, the hopeof bringing the people to Christ, the incidental resiiltsof their labotirs in the diffusion of secular knowledgehave been such as to confer inestimable benefit on theworld at large and on the Chinese people in is admitted by the recent High Commission, f It was in the character of apostles of science thatRoman Catholic missionaries obtained a footing inPeking three centuries ago, and were enabled to planttheir faith throughout the provinces. Armed withtelescope and sextant they effected the reform of theChinese calendar, and secured for their religion therespect and adherence of some of the highest minds inthe Empire. So firmly was it rooted that churchesof their planting were able to survive a century anda half of persecution. Their achievements, recordedi
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