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nually, as this sum was paid by a clique of wealthy gentry for the 

 monopoly of conducting the Weising Lottery in connection with the 

 examinations. It is reported that this serious deficit is to be met by 

 arranging a domestic loan of three million taels at seven per cent, re- 

 payable in instalments within ten years, and that Viceroy Tsen has 

 already received the imperial sanction to float this loan, which will be 

 secured by other gambling monopolies, and has promised that the 

 money thus obtained will be used only for local public works and for 

 schools. The provincial government over a year ago opened a modern 

 normal school in the ancient Examination Halls of Canton, under 

 Japanese direction, and there are some 120 men over twenty years of 

 age studying there, and also some 60 boys enrolled in a practise 

 school. 



To what extent existing government, privately endowed, and chris- 

 tian mission schools are prepared to meet the increased demand for 

 modern education which these recent decrees will undoubtedly create 

 might well form the subject of another paper. Suffice it here to point 

 out the tremendous opportunity and responsibility thus presented to 

 christian educational missions. The extent and geographical char- 

 acter of China and its division into provinces under viceroys makes 

 China resemble America more closely than any other country, and we 

 believe that the kind of informal, yet none the less real, national sys- 

 tem of educational work in the United States is what China needs. 

 America's merchants are invading the east with marked success, and 

 her diplomacy is affecting the right course of political events. Ameri- 

 can educators should aid in the educational conquest just as fully. 

 There could be no better way of showing our true friendship, in spite 

 of recent events in connection with our enforcement of the Exclusion 

 Treaty and China's boycott of American products, than thus to aid in 

 the true enlightenment of China's millions. Aside from the motive of 

 christian missions, our prestige in the east demands such altruistic 

 effort. 



