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ways ? Why should not we have a Western University here ? 

 The Governor told them that there was much to be said for it, 

 but that it would mean a lot of money. They said : " We will 

 subscribe the money." And they did ! Thousands of pounds 

 poured in. King Edward took much interest in the arrange- 

 ments. And the result is that on these beautiful slopes stands 

 to-day University buildings of which any country may be proud. 



This University receives young men from all over the Shantung 

 Province, and by the Governor's enlightened arrangement, 

 Missionary Societies are allowed to have their hostels alongside 1 



The British Government has not always been so enhghtened 

 and so wise. Stories could be told about Khartoum and the 

 Gordon Memorial College, about Nigeria, and several other 

 parts of the world where the tendency has been all the other 

 way, and the policy has been rather to patronize other faiths 

 than to support the Religion that has made us what we are to-day. 



I come lastly to November 11th, 1918. 



General Bernhardi (and Germany with him) had completely 

 misunderstood the sort of Empire which our Prime Minister 

 sketched for us so vividly the other day. 



He had in his book, Germany and the Next War, asked with 

 contempt how we dared pretend to hold India with such a 

 miserably small military establishment. 



Never were the ideals that have from the first inspired our 

 scattered race and family more splendidly defended ! Never 

 was it more clearly demonstrated that there is something mightier 

 than mere physical force ! 



Mr. Lloyd George has said : " It is for the Churches now to 

 build into the Nation the ideals for which we fought in the Great 

 War." 



Looldng ahead from 1918 there is no question more press- 

 ing than the consideration of how this Empire can be conserved. 



I will not touch upon the League of Nations. It is a step in 

 the direction of the peace of the world for which we must be 

 thankful, but it lies outside this inquiry. 



" When a man's ways please the Lord, He maketh even his 

 enemies to be at peace with him." It is equally true of Nation 

 and Empire. 



There are clouds on the horizon ! We have seen the great 

 share which the Holy Scriptures had in the movements, reforms 

 and revivals of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. We are 



