A CHINESE UNIVERSITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 829, 30 May 1910, Page 4

A CHINESE UNIVERSITY.

A schomo has been inaugurated for establishing a Chinese university, the objects of which aro explained by tho Archbishop of Canterbury. Tho .university will offer "educational wares of tho best sort and of the highest kind." But those who promoto it do so "as peoplo who havo Christian traditions of the past and Christian beliefs in tho present." The university itself will give only secular instruction, but its various hostels will impart teaching both definite and dogmatic. The utmost care will bo taken to avoid tha error committed in India, where it was thought that Western civilisation and literature would naturally provo the vehicle of Christian teaching. Tho result in India has not justified that anticipation. In China tho Western education will be built up on a Christian basis and on Christian lines. The Archbishop cordially welcomed Lord William Cecil's statement that not only tho Protestant denominations but probably tho Roman Catholics also will co-operato in tho work of tho Chineso university. Such an arrangement ought to bo workable without much difficulty. This is not nndenominationalism. No Christian body will bo asked to sacrifice any distinctive belief or practice; yet something of Christian unity in tho face of a vigilant heathendom will bo preserved. It is' understood that the adoption of this underlying principle is due'primarily to Lord William Cecil, who has taken a largo and statesmanlike view of the wholo position.