The call of China and the Islands ; report of the foreign deputation, 1911-1912, for every member of the United Brethren Church . utionary forces when the hour came foraction. In an important sense the studentschanged China to a republic. Washington and American Revolution The Chinese have been studying earnestly thelife of George Washington and the history of theAmerican Revolution. It was a constant sur-prise to me to see the great influence of Wash-ington in China. Years ago, in the publicschools of Pennsylvania, we used to read thefollowing from Edward Everett of the far-reaching influence


The call of China and the Islands ; report of the foreign deputation, 1911-1912, for every member of the United Brethren Church . utionary forces when the hour came foraction. In an important sense the studentschanged China to a republic. Washington and American Revolution The Chinese have been studying earnestly thelife of George Washington and the history of theAmerican Revolution. It was a constant sur-prise to me to see the great influence of Wash-ington in China. Years ago, in the publicschools of Pennsylvania, we used to read thefollowing from Edward Everett of the far-reaching influence of Washington: BeyondOhio, beyond the Mississippi, along that stupen-dous trail of emigration from East to West,which, bursting into States as it moves westward,the name and memory of Washington will travelwith the silver queen of heaven through sixtydegrees of longitude, nor part company with hertill she walks in her brightness through theGolden Gate. And in barbarous archipelagoes,as yet untrodden by civilized man, there, andthere only, the name of Washington is unknown;and there, too, when they swarm with enlightened 16. Ward, Howard, and Oldt Locating on the Map OurResponsibility in South China.


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