Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . ibbons, —While it may be truly said the Chineseowe everything to their system of education,yet it may be as truly said they owe their ego-tism, exclusiveness, poverty and dwarfed civili-zation and commerce to their not having beenstudents of geography. The school boy is giventhe ancient classics which he reads and re-readsuntil he can repeat them from one end to theother. He studies no other books, does notknow whether the earth is round or flat, doesnot know the names of other nations of theglobe, for they are barbarians. China is themidd
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . ibbons, —While it may be truly said the Chineseowe everything to their system of education,yet it may be as truly said they owe their ego-tism, exclusiveness, poverty and dwarfed civili-zation and commerce to their not having beenstudents of geography. The school boy is giventhe ancient classics which he reads and re-readsuntil he can repeat them from one end to theother. He studies no other books, does notknow whether the earth is round or flat, doesnot know the names of other nations of theglobe, for they are barbarians. China is themiddle kingdom, and can learn nothing fromother people or other lands.—La Clede Barrowin Geographical Magazine. —True heroism was displayed by the soldiersat Hong Kong at the time of the recent voluntarily assisted the authorities in dis-infecting the houses of the people who hadperished, with the result that one officer and oneman fell victims to the disease They died tosave mens lives.— U. P. Magazine. 74 BOOK NOTICES. [January,. Book Notices. MAORI CHIEF. —The foreign work ought to call individualstudents just as churches at home call does a church at home call a young man ?Because for certain reasons it is believed he canserve the cause of Christ while working for themor with them. There is in this a wholesometendency to responsibility on the part of theyoung men who are called. Why should notthe Board of Missions, sitting in its regularmeeting in China or at Calcutta or Constan-tinople call a man to the work because theyhave heard from proper authorities of that mansqualifications for that call, which would be acall of God; and it would not be easy for ayoung man to decline such a call.—Prof, JamesF. Biggs, D. D. —There is no real joy in any work if thatjoy has its spring in the consciousness thatno one can share it with us, and that we own itas something exclusive and personal. Theessence of joy, as of all the great satisfactionsof life, is
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