as a better living comes to the farming people. The Missions 

 have a concern nothing less than vital in the permanent 

 economic improvement of Chinese farmers. Education offers 

 the chief means by which this improvement can take place. 



Reiterated testimony from the Chinese themselves, as well 

 as from the more experienced missionaries, is almost unanimous 

 in stating that the Chinese are inclined to measure the value of 

 Christianity by its practical, useful, helpful results to those who 

 embrace it; and are sure to measure it, at least in part, by the 

 way in which it helps them where they most need help as human 

 beings. Now, it is clear that the one absorbing need of the 

 farmers of China is the ability to obtain an economic surplus. 

 One can hardly dispute the reality of the Christian service that 

 could be rendered individual farmers by helping them to a more 

 efficient economic life. Writing some years ago of the sad 

 conditions existing in certain areas of South China, Rev. 

 Stewart Kunkle said: "But must the struggle go on? Is there 

 not something we can do for the betterment of the economic 

 conditions in these villages? Give them a school with instruction 

 in dry farming and you will put 23 per cent, of them in the way 

 of making an adequate living. An industrial school would do 

 much to rescue the 41 per cent, of uncertain employment from 

 the worst phases of the struggle for life." 



Is there then any other conclusion than that the Church 

 needs the support of a system of agricultural education if she 

 is to find a place of power and stability among the overwhelming 

 majority of the Chinese people, the rural four-fifths of this 

 great country? 



V. Christian Leadership and the Development 

 of the Chinese Farm Village 



But there is another approach to the question of making 

 agricultural education organic in the system of Christian 

 education in China. There are many who believe profoundly 

 in building a strong Christian Church in China and who are 

 deeply interested in all enterprises that affect the church, and 

 yet who place the main emphasis of Christian service in China 

 upon what they believe to be the larger aud fuller task of 

 "Christianizing" China. And, they assert, China cannot be 

 Christianized unless rural China is Christianized. An article in 

 a recent number of "The Chinese Recorder," by Tai PingHeng, 



