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ciate its meaning it must be seen. Enelosed
by an immense wooded park of cedars (one
widely traveled visitor said they looked like
the cedars of Lebanon), with imposing en
trances and in line with a long row of tem
ples, a groat white altar with steps on four
sides and rising about twenty or thirty feet
from the ground, stands out m solitary gran
deur and simplicity. The pillars and steps are
divided into threes, strangely suggestive of the
divine number in Scripture. Here for centu
ries upon centuries the reigning emperor, af
ter a night of fasting and prayer, would kneel
and confess his sins and the sins of his peo
ple, and, without priest or incense, worship
and pray to the unknown God under the open
heaven. It is the most impressive outward
proof in China that God has never left Himself
without a witness.
This old-time worship is passing away, since
the "new learning" regards it as superstition.
And the president of the Government Univer
sity in Peking, an atheist, who studied in
France, now advocates an education for China
with religion left out.
Shall Christ come to liis own in China?
Shall the Temple of Heaven yet be a place in
which the rulers of China will worship the
one true God in the name of one Mediator
between God and man? That was the thought
that pressed itself upon our minds as we
thought of the centuries gone and of the cen
turies, maybe, yet to come. And what is im
possible with man is possible with God.
The China Union Medical School.
This is the name given to the medical school
and hospital located in Peking by the Rocke
feller Foundation. Eleven million dollars in
good American money was put into the build
ing and equipment are perfect of their kind,
privilege during a recent furlough to sec on?;
or two of the best-equipped medical schools in
America, but never anything approaching this,
and it is claimed by some to be the most up
to-date medical plant in the world. The build
ing and equipment are perfect of their kind.
The yearly maintenance up to this time has
amounted to one million dollars. The central
feature is the medical school, which gives to
advanced Chinese students as good medical
education as they can get anywhere in the
West, and the hospital is connected with the
school. In addition to all the features that
belong to a first-rate hospital, they have a de
partment for the examining of foods, which
will for the first time give scientific informa
tion as to the value of Chinese foods. In an
other department there is a place for the ex
perimenting on the effect of disease upon ani
mals and the producing of antitoxine of all
kinds. In the midst of a land of much filth
this immense hospital is kept spotlessly cleai?.
But what specially interests us is the rela
tion of the hospital to missionary work. In
addition to maintaining this hospital, the China
Medical Board is subsidizing or giving build
ings or grants to not a few missionary hos
pitals throughout the country. And on the
Peking Hospital staff there is increasing nsc
being made of missionaries, both doctors and
nurses. The superintendent of the hospital is
Dr. T. D. Sloan, a Southern Presbyterian and
the son of one of our ministers, now deceased,
who labored in Alderson, W. Va. Dr. Sloan
was, before going to Peking, a missionary in
Nanking, und^ the Northern Board. The head
of the surgical department is Dr. Adrian Tay
lor, who was a Southern Baptist missionary,
and in the institution there are no less than
thirteen men on the staff who were formerly
connected with mission boards, and somewhat
the same proportion is true among the nurses.
In fact, the China Medical Board is finding
that, though they offer a much larger salary
than the mission boards offer, in fact, two or
ihree times as much, they cannot even with
these salaries secure an adequate number of
lirst-class men, except within the missionary
body, and arc having to fall back upon the
missionary motive for the supplying of their
staff. And while the institution is not Chris
tian in name, and has on its staff some Chi
nese doctors who make no profession of Chris
tianity, yet the Christiau influence is one of
the prominent features of the school. Dr. Sloan
showed us with pride the beautiful cliapel and
its pipe organ, where daily worship is h.'ld
with weekly Bible classes and so on, and he
says that this to him is the finest thing in the
whole outfit.
And while speaking of a Southern Presby
terian at the head of this great hospital, i', is
interesting to recall that the other most im
portant institution in Peking, the Peking Chris
tian University, is also headed by a Southern
Presbyterian, Dr. J. Leighton Stuart.
A Typical Missionary.
In speaking of a typical missionary in Pek
iug I might allude to Dr. Chauncey Goodrich,
of the American Board, who came to China
in 1865, or to Dr. II. H. Lowry, of the Metho
dist Church, who came in 1867, or Mrs. E. YY.
Sheffield, who came in 1869. All these are
veterans who have seen transformations in the
capital city. But the one that I had rathev
select is one of our own missionaries, Mrs.
Mary Horton Stuart, afftctionately known as
"Mother Stuart," who arrived on December
25, 1874, a Christmas gift to China forty-eight
years ago. That was in the very early days
of our mission work, when everything was
crude and the way was hard. I have heard
her describe sitting down at a table with a
Chinese teacher, who knew no word of English
as she knew no word of Chinese, while her
only text books were Morrison's Dictionary
and the Chinese Bible. But she and Mr. Stu
art, afterwards Dr. Stuart, were the kind that
overcame difficulties. For nearly forty years
they lived and labored together in the city of
Hangchow. While raising a family of chil
dren, two of whom survive as well-known mis
sionaries of our Church, she kept up her work
in the girls' school, among the women who
came in crowds to the home, and among the
women in their homes. After Dr. Stuart's
death she moved to Nanking, where her son,
Dr. Leigh ton Stuart, was teaching in the sem
inary, an^ later went with him to Peking
when he was elected president of Peking Uni
versity. There she made herself a part of the
large Christian community, knowing every
body, being interested in everybody, and
taking visitors out to all the points of
interest. She will be eighty-one years old
on her next birthday, January 8th. She is
keen and alert, untiringly thoughtful of others,
and writes a beautiful letter, as she always
did, in a hand as steady as a girl's. She has
seen the old China and she is now beholding
the evolution of the new. She is a typical
missionary of the old school, and yet, with rTio
incoming of a new generation and new ways
of looking at missionary problems, she still re
tains her hopeful spirit. She is the oldest mis
sionary in service of our Southern Presbyterian
Church, having been on the field for nearly
half a century. Dr. G. W. Painter, now at
Draper, Va., is in his eighty-fourth year, thongn
he has not been on the China mission field for
quite so long a time.
We thank God for Ilis gift to the Church of
faithful missionaries, illustrated in the Jives of
such as these.
Nanking, China.
THE DANGERS OF FINANCIAL CAM
PAIGNS.
By Paul Harris, Jr.
There are dangers in financial campaigns.
Too often they are overlooked; many times
they are hidden; but there are, nevertheless,
dangers very real and worthy of notice.
The first danger in a financial campaign is
that an undue emphasis shall be placed upon
an unworthy cause. The danger is that our
emotions shall be aroused concerning a mat
ter which is undeserving. Those who engage
m campaigns and those who are approached
in campaigns will do well to consider this.
The second danger is that large amounts of
money shall be raised for unsubstantial ent >r
prises. It is a truism that no money should
be borrowed for an enterprise which does not
outlive the life of the loan. In financial cam
paigns the endurance of the project anil the
repetition of the appeal should be seriously
considered.
The third danger is that resources shall be
withdrawn from needy causes and devoted to
those which are less deserving. It has hap
pened that on occasion enterprises which were
in dire necessity were neglected, because a
campaign for another purpose was taking all
the money.
In the midst of the many calls for money,
?nd especially in these days of unusual cam
paigns for Christian Education in our Church,
the dangers mentioned above should be con
sidered.
And yet, who will have the temerity to say
that the first danger is present in a Campaign
for Christian Education? In the enumeration
of causes to which money might be given, is
Christian training unworthy?
In consideration of the second danger: to
what degree is the Christian college an unsub
stantial enterprise? Those institutions which
develop character, which endure for all eter
nity, shall surely be excused from any such
aclumny.
In considering the final danger, can there be
any more fundamental undertaking than the
proper training of our youth and tha provid
ing in large amounts of money for the insti
tutions that train them in Christian character!
Do we not thus help to provide leaders Tor
every good cause?
Surely then, in Christian Education cam
paigns these three dangers are not found. But
there are other dangers which should be con
sidered.
And we may mention among these the dan
ger that we shall not realize the criticalness
of the hour in which these campaigns are be
ing waged. A failure to appreciate our na
tion's condition, an unwillingness to see the
inflammable condition as indicated by world
events; a blindness to the possibility of a fail
ing leadership in our Church makes the hour a
critical one. To fail to realize this is a danger.
The danger of forgetting that we are pivotal
persons is a very real one. Our simplest acts
may determine great enterprises. We do not
give as individuals, nor do we withhold as
solitary persons. Those who live with us and
work with us, many perhaps whom we do not
know,., watch our giving. Further, untold
scores and even hundreds of souls may have
their welfare depending upon our generosity.
Again, there are those wTho, for years, hav?>
kept up these institutions, believing in our
vision and our willingness to carry on. W<i
should realize, indeed, that we are pivots upon
which hang many possibilities. To fail to real
ize this is a danger.
To confuse duty with choice is a danger.
No longer has it become optional with us
whether or not we should contribute to Chris