The democratic movement in Asia . h a zeal which is Methodist, Baptist, orQuaker, The bull-dog on the bank and the bull-frog in the pool. In China and Korea togetherthere are no less than fifty-four union educationalinstitutions, of which nine are medical schools,ten are colleges, and fifteen are theological sem-inaries. There are thirty-eight different societiescooperating in one or more of these schools,twenty-two of the denominations being Amer-ican. The present tendency throughout the missionfields is to perfect comity agreements, accordingto which the various missions operating in asingle
The democratic movement in Asia . h a zeal which is Methodist, Baptist, orQuaker, The bull-dog on the bank and the bull-frog in the pool. In China and Korea togetherthere are no less than fifty-four union educationalinstitutions, of which nine are medical schools,ten are colleges, and fifteen are theological sem-inaries. There are thirty-eight different societiescooperating in one or more of these schools,twenty-two of the denominations being Amer-ican. The present tendency throughout the missionfields is to perfect comity agreements, accordingto which the various missions operating in asingle area agree to definite assignments of terri-tory to prevent overlapping and competition. Thepublic opinion on this subject is now so wellformed that few missions dare to disregard theseagreements. The mission fields are all far inadvance of the churches at home in this marked contrast to religious conditions in theUnited States, one cannot point to a single foreignmissionary area which, with reference to the size [202]. THE INTRODUCTION OF SCIEN-TIFIC EDUCATION INTO INDIA HASRESULTED IN A NEW TYPE OF GRAD-UATE, WHO IS PREPARED TO LEADHIS PEOPLE IN A MORE EFFECTIVEDEVELOPMENT OF THEIR IMMENSENATIONAL RESOURCES. NATIONALISM AND CHURCH UNITY of the population, can be said to be over-churched. Aside from the spirit of the missionaries them-selves, the definite union undertakings, and thecomity agreements, the other great forces work-ing for Christian unity within the missionarycircle are the Young Mens Christian Association,the Young Womens Christian Association, theBible and Christian Literature Societies, and thevarious Continuation Committees of the Edin-burgh Conference of 1910. The Young Mens Christian Association goesinto a city at the invitation of the missionaries,gathers up the leading laymen from all the mis-sions, brings them together around a table, givesthem large responsibilities, and thus welds theChristian forces into a substantial unity. Itsbuilding prov
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