. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. AN EXAMINATION DISPENSARY 29 After making enquiry among the students, I foundthat these books were read by more than the one personto whom they were given. On former occasions manywere thrown away, but a great change has taken place,and this year every book was gratefully have been cases where books distributed in thisway were the means of the conversion of small villagesor market towns, and the eventual establishment ofchurches. Now, I estimate that these sixty thousan
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. AN EXAMINATION DISPENSARY 29 After making enquiry among the students, I foundthat these books were read by more than the one personto whom they were given. On former occasions manywere thrown away, but a great change has taken place,and this year every book was gratefully have been cases where books distributed in thisway were the means of the conversion of small villagesor market towns, and the eventual establishment ofchurches. Now, I estimate that these sixty thousandvolumes during the next ten years will be read by atleast three hundred thousand people, which seems tome a reasonable calculation. The distribution of booksis not a novelty in China. For a thousand years atleast certain meritorious literature has been scatteredamong the people by Chinese philanthropists who wishto ventilate their views ; and the missionaries, by dis-tributing good books at the examination, are simplyfollowing a custom that has been in vogue for centuries. I must mention one other examin
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