CHINA'S AWAKENING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 457, 16 March 1909, Page 5

CHINA'S AWAKENING.

APPEAL FOR £100,000. (nr TEf.naiuru—riiEss ASsoeiAT;oN-corviiioiiT.) London, March 14. At tho instance of Sir Robert Hart, late Inspector of Chinese Customs, tho Lord Mayor is making a national appeal for £100,000 for medical training and educational work in China.

MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL WORK. A striking appeal to the nation on behalf of medical training and other educational work in China is being made. The sum of .£100,060 is the amount the China Emergency Appeal Fund Committee ask for and it makes its appeal without apology, for the interests involved are great, urgent, and world-wide." The first nnd most urgent need of China is the committee state, tor medical colleges where thorough and scientific training can be given to Chinese students who are'preparing*Tor medical practice among the people. It is now lecogmsed that a combined effort should bo made to raise to a commanding position four of the medical schools formed in connection with a few mission hospitals; and it is nroposed provisionally to appeal for .£40,000 for tnis purpose. Tho revolution in China has been chiefly manifest in the realm of education, and the committee ask for .MO,OOO in fn.tv, W Union normal schools and colleges for the training of Chinese teachers; Union divinity or theological colleges for the training ot Chinese pastors and erangelists; and (c) hostels in connection with these inter-de-nominahonal colleges. It is also proposed to foster the growing demand for Western literature by obtaining to assist tho literature societies already at work in China, and to further the selection, translation, and distribution of tho best Western literature amongst the Mandarin and literary classes in China, as well as to aid tho. translation of approved medical books. Commenting -on the above appeal, the London Daily News says: China, with its four hundred million people, is awakening from its sleep ot three thousand years. Is it too late V? h °P®A hat Christianity may be the force to direct this new China from its birth? Tho opportunity now presented to us is supremely important. China is hungering for knowledge for Western science, Western thought, and Western literature. It is imperative that slio should have of our best. Europe nnd America must organise if tho little haman help that is numerically possible is to have any effect on the great mass of China. I