A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FOR CHINA.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12506, 6 April 1909, Page 4

A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FOR CHINA.

• i Lord Willian Cecil (who is. the rector of Hatfiekl) is going on a nlission to China. . He says : ''I am going out as the representative of a very influential j committee, composed of Oxford and' Cambridge University undergraduates to try to assist, if possible, at the foundation of a religious, Christian, and educational university, which is intended to be a means of bringing happiness _ to the millions of Chinese now in misery, by teaching them the principles of good government, and, what is more important, by bringing a knowledge of the Gospel to all. "We hope that' this university, will train the statesmen who will guide China through the difficult period of awakening and reform which is before her. Whether we can succeed or not in. founding such an institution is in God's hands, but all we can say is that we have hope and it is certainly worth while by going" out to China to try to make that hope a reality. "I am going to find out first of all the best town in which to start the .mission, and also whether it will be advisable that the mission shall be attached to an existing institution Erclish or American — or whether it will be possible to start one independently.