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possible. On the day of my leaving Shanghai to bring 

 money, rice and clothes to the sufferers in Nanking, there 

 awaited on me at the Shanghai station of the "Shanghai- 

 Nanking Railway" not a delegation of the gentry of 

 Nanking, but practically the whole of the Nanking gentry, 

 thanking me personally for what I was doing and espe- 

 cially Dr. Macklin for having saved the city, and all the 

 missionaries for having remained and saving the people, 

 when they themselves, who ought to risk their lives as 

 "fathers and mothers of the people," had deserted their 

 post. They expressed regret for having opposed us in 

 the work of the Colonization Association and said they 

 were now shamed into cooperating in what they now 

 knew was an unselfish enterprise. 



As soon as order was established and the city of 

 Nanking had paid an indemnity of 800,000 taels the 

 gentry were allowed to slip back into Nanking. No 

 sooner than it was safe to organize a meeting they met 

 with us and established the Nanking Branch of the 

 Colonization Association, appointing three of their mem- 

 bers as trustees. At the next meeting I handed over 

 all the documents of Purple Mountain to the president 

 of the Nanking branch, Mr. Chin Chiheng, the head of 

 the Nanking gentry and a Hanlin. Never have I seen 

 more astonished faces than on that day when the deeds 

 of the land over which there had been so much fighting 

 and on which close on to thirty thousand dollars had been 

 spent in developing, were handed to the legal owners. 

 The association had been formed and the burden of 





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EXAMINATION TOWKR 



A close view of one of the towers at the examination halls at Nanking, 



China. 



EXAMINATION CELLS AT NANKING 



In these cells the Chinese students took their examinations while keen- 

 eyed observers in the towers placed at intervals watched to see that 

 the work was done fairly. 



holding these deeds was taken off my shoulders. Since 

 then any doubt that existed that what we were doing has 

 anything of selfish motives in it was entirely removed. 

 They look upon us Americans as their friends. 



The American government's foregoing its legal right 

 to take from the Chinese government the Boxer indem- 

 nity ; the turning of this indemnity money into a fund 

 to found the Tsing Hua College at Peking to prepare 

 students to come to the United States for a university 

 training and then after being prepared to come here, to 

 pay their expenses while here ; this generosity of the 

 American government has made America beloved by that 

 very class that is to rule China in the near future. But 

 we need also the personal element to cement that friend- 

 ship of the two nations and this we believe is found in 

 such institutions as our College of Agriculture and For- 

 estry of the University of Nanking. 



The Chinese nation is unconquerable. It swallows up 

 its conquerors. The Manchus came and subdued the 

 nation, but where are the Manchus now? They are lost 

 and are absorbed by the great Chinese people. Nor are 

 the Manchus the only conquerors that have been absorbed. 

 Let others that think of the partition or subjugation in 

 part or in whole of the Chinese nation keep these facts 

 in mind. America has the confidence of every Chinese 

 of intelligence both in the United States and in China. 

 Any approaches now made to help the nation to develop 



