use of them by any clear understanding of the mental and moral forces which have generated and in large measure govern our political and social action. "Our failure perfectly to realize and practice our principles in such matters does not invalidate the merit of the principle." The following passage should be quoted by hundreds of ministers in their ser

mons:

"Rationally, from this point of view, there is much that is absurd in the outcry raised against missionary effort as a thing incompatible with peaceful development and progress. Christianity and Christian teaching are just as really factors in the mental and moral equipment of European civilization as any of the philosophical or scientific processes that have gone to build up the general result. Opinions differ as to the character and degree of the influence of Christianity in estimates qualitative and quantitative, but the fact of influence cannot be denied. From the purely political standpoint Christian thought and teaching have just the same right-no less, if no more to admission into China as any other form of European activity, commercial or intellectual. Nor is the fact of offence taken by classes of Chinamen a valid argument for exclusion. The building of a railroad is not a distinctively Christian act, but it offends large numbers of Chinese, who are nevertheless compelled to acquiesce if their government consent; whereas the consent of the Chinese government to missionary effort will compel no Chinaman to listen to a Christian teacher. Every step forward in the march that has opened China to trade has been gained by pressure; the most important have been the result of actual war. Commerce has won its way by violence, actual or feared; thought, both secular and Christian, asks only freedom of speech."

Altogether this is a very instructive and valuable book, and we heartily commend it. (Captain A. F. Mahan, Little, Brown and Company, Boston.)

Foreign Mission Leaflets

For a full list of leaflets published by the Board of Foreign Missions, including those for the Forward Movement and the Mission Study Classes, see the ASSEMBLY HERALD for January, 1906.

The Board has issued two attractive leaflets: "The Rescue Home for Chinese Girls, San Francisco.

"The new Plan of Special Objects."

(For printed literature apply to any of the Women's Boards of Foreign Missions, or Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, 156 Fifth Ave., New York City.) Christus Redemptor; price, cloth, 50 cents; paper, 30

cents.

A New Stereopticon Lecture

A new stereopticon lecture has just been prepared on Persia. Price of rental, $1.50, expressage additional. For particulars write to the Foreign Missions Library, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, or to the following addresses:

Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, Room 48, Le Moyne Block, Chicago, Ill. Woman's Occidental Board of Foreign Missions, Calvary Church, Corner Fillimore and Jackson Streets, San Francisco, Cal.

Mrs. W. S. Holt, 350 Fourteenth Street, Portland, Oregon.

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The Passing of Korea

Prof. Homer B. Hulbert has lived for many years in Korea, has been closely identified with the educational work of the Korean government and is thoroughly qualified to speak with authority on matters Korean. He writes from the point of view of a pro-Korean. His book is dedicated to "His Majesty, the Emperor of Korea, and the Korean people."

He speaks of the Korean people as "by far the pleasantest people in the Far East to live among."

The second chapter of the volume, on the Korean people, is in many respects the most satisfactory analysis of the strong and weak points of the Koreans that we have yet seen. A single passage will give his point of view: "The temperament of the Korean lies midway between the two (Chinese and Japanese), even as his country lies between China and Japan. This combination of qualities makes the Korean rationally idealistic.

He is at once cool headed and hot-headed. He can reason calmly and act at white heat. It is this welding of two different, but not contrary, characteristics that makes the power of the Anglo-Saxon people. . . . I make bold to

say

the Christian religion, shorn of all trappings and embellishments of man's making, appeals perfectly to the rationally emotional temperament of the Korean, and it is to some extent this perfect adaptability which has won for Christianity such a speedy and enthusiastic hearing in this country."

The author discusses at great length the history of Korea, ancient and modern, the government, customs, the language and everything that relates to the life of the people. We would call especial attention to the chapters on the Independence Club the Japanese in Korea, the Emperor of Korea and the Future of Korea.

While the author is manifestly favorable to the Koreans, and at times seems to us to magnify unduly the conduct of the lewd fellows of the baser sort among the Japanese, yet in the main the discussion is fair-minded and in many respects a great revelation of the exact condition of affairs in the "Land of the Morning Calm." While fully recognizing the admirable traits of the Japanese, and awarding them all honors for their splendid victories at home and abroad, their great advance in all the elements of twentieth-century civilization, he doubts whether Japan has more than the superficial elements of Western civilization. "And herein lies the pathos of Korea's people, for, lying as she does in the grip of Japan. she cannot gain from that power more than that power is capable of givingnothing more than the garments of the West.

Religious culture evinces itself in its ultimate forms of honesty, sympathy and un

selfishness, and not in the use of a swallowtailed coat and a silk hat."

The student of missionary problems will find this book, to say the least, interesting. His point of view is certainly new. The last word has not yet been spoken in regard to the conduct of our own government in recent Korean affairs. If the position taken by the author of this volume can be substantiated, the good name of the American government in Korea has been sadly tarnished. We do not affirm this, but we should like to see an answer to some of the questions suggested in this volume. (Homer B. Hulbert, Doubleday, Page & Co., N. Y.)

The Problem of Asia and Its Effect

Upon International Policies Whenever such an authority as Captain A. T. Mahan, of the United States Navy, writes, thoughtful people give heed. He has now added to its other valuable books a volume on "The Problem of Asia and Its Effect upon International Policies." No one who wishes to keep abreast of current discussions of this stupendous theme can afford to miss it. The author takes a statesmanlike view of the great problems of Asiatic development and discusses with keenness of insight and profundity of thought their relation to other nations. It is good reading for those who are interested in missionary work in Asia, for while it is not intended to be a missionary book, it not only gives general views that are helpful, but it presents some powerful arguments for the missionary enterprise. For example, he effectively discusses the common and specious plea that we ought not to interfere with Asiatic opinions, and he conclusively shows that Eastern and Western civilization have now come into such relations that it is no longer possible to concede the force of arguments derived from the propriety of non-interference or from "the conventional rights of a so-called independent State to regulate its own internal affairs. They have ceased to be its own in the sense of Chinese isolation. Contact and interaction have begun; the process can neither be turned back nor arrested. All that can profitably be attempted is to direct, bv so shaping conditions that the higher elements of either civilization can act as freely as do the motives of pecuniary profit."

He rightly insists that we have as much right "to insist that currency be admitted to our ideas" as to our trade and politics, and he deciares that "there is no tenable argument against the latter demand that does not equally hold against the former." He points out the great danger to the world if China is enriched and strengthened by the material advantages that we have to offer, but uncontrolled in the

use of them by any clear understanding of the mental and moral forces which have generated and in large measure govern our political and social action. "Our failure perfectly to realize and practice our principles in such matters does not invalidate the merit of the principle." The following passage should be quoted by hundreds of ministers in their ser

mons:

"Rationally, from this point of view, there is much that is absurd in the outcry raised against missionary effort as a thing incompatible with peaceful development and progress. Christianity and Christian teaching are just as really factors in the mental and moral equipment of European civilization as any of the philosophical or scientific processes that have gone to build up the general result. Opinions differ as to the character and degree of the influence of Christianity in estimates qualitative and quantitative, but the fact of influence cannot be denied. From the purely political standpoint Christian thought and teaching have just the same right-no less, if no more to admission into China as any other form of European activity, commercial or intellectual. Nor is the fact of offence taken by classes of Chinamen a valid argument for exclusion. The building of a railroad is not a distinctively Christian act, but it offends large numbers of Chinese, who are nevertheless compelled to acquiesce if their government consent; whereas the consent of the Chinese government to missionary effort will compel no Chinaman to listen to a Christian teacher. Every step forward in the march that has opened China to trade has been gained by pressure; the most important have been the result of actual war. Commerce has won its way by violence, actual or feared; thought, both secular and Christian, asks only freedom of speech."

Altogether this is a very instructive and valuable book, and we heartily commend it. (Captain A. F. Mahan, Little, Brown and Company, Boston.)

A New Stereopticon Lecture

A new stereopticon lecture has just been prepared on Persia. Price of rental, $1.50, expressage additional. For particulars write to the Foreign Missions Library, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, or to the following addresses:

Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, Room 48, Le Moyne Block, Chicago, Ill. Woman's Occidental Board of Foreign Missions, Calvary Church, Corner Fillimore and Jackson Streets, San Francisco, Cal.

Mrs. W. S. Holt, 350 Fourteenth Street, Portland, Oregon.

D.D., Principal. Mrs. T. H. Amos, Assistant Principal. Seven additional teachers. 325 pupils. Self support $6,115.

Hardin Institute (co-educational boarding school), Allendale, S. C. Rev. W. H. Mitchell, Principal. Two additional teachers. 168 pupils. Self support $305.25.

Immanuel Training School (co-educational boarding school), Aiken, S. C. Rev. W. R. Coles, D.D., Principal. Mrs. W. R. Coles, Assistant Principal. Six additional teachers. 172 pupils. Self support $1,034.31.

Mary Potter Memorial (co-educational boarding school), Oxford, N. C. Rev. G. C. Shaw, Principal. Mrs. G. C. Shaw, Assistant Principal. Five additional teachers. 314 pupils. Self support $1,158.10.

Rev.

Oak Hill Industrial School (co-educational boarding school), Valliant, Ind. Ter. R. E. Flickinger, Principal. Mrs. R. E. Flickinger, Assistant Principal. Three additional teachers. 95 pupils. Self support $780.27. Richard Allen Institute (co-educational boarding school), Pine Bluff, Ark. Rev. T. C. Ogburn, Principal. Two additional teachers. 160 pupils. Self support $503.25.

Swift Memorial Institute (co-educational boarding school), Rogersville, Tenn. Rev. W. H. Franklin, Principal. Mrs. W. H. Franklin, Assistant Principal. Seven additional teachers. 280 pupils. Self support $1,744.30. Arkadelphia School, Arkadelphia, Ark. Rev. B. M. Ward, Minister. One additional teacher. 77 pupils. Self support $25.

Beaufort School, Beaufort, S. C. Rev. W. M. Caldwell, Minister. Three additional teachers. 123 pupils. Self support $66.50.

Billingsley Memorial Academy, Statesville, N. C. Rev. S. F. Wentz, D.D., Minister. Two other teachers. 95 pupils. Self support $44.14. Curry Industrial, Darlington S. C. Rev. A. J. Jefferson, Minister. Two other teachers. 80 pupils. Self support $40.

Fee Memorial Academy, Camp Nelson, Ky. Rev. J. A. Boyden, D.D., Minister and Teacher. Two other teachers, 83 pupils. Self support $50.

Gillespie Normal, Cordele, Ga. Rev. A. S. Clark, Minister. Two other teachers. 266 pupils. Self support $30.

Hodge Academy, Washington, Ga. Rev. J. R. Harris, Minister. One other teacher. 132 pupils. Self support $26.45.

Holbrook St. High School, Danville, Va. Rev. W. E. Carr, D.D., Minister. Prof.

Thomas H. Long, Principal. Six additional teachers. 425 pupils. Self support $308.32. Kendall Academy, Sumter, S. C. Rev. A. U. Frierson, D.D., Minister and Principal. Self Five additional teachers. 362 pupils. support $196.75.

Kistler Academy, Morganton, N. C. Rev. T. J. Smith, Minister and one other teacher. 135 pupils. Self support $22.

Rev.

McClelland Academy, Newnan, Ga. Lawrence Miller, D.D., Minister and Principal. Three additional teachers. 182 pupils. Self support $87.75.

Newton Normal School, Chattanooga, Tenn. Rev. C. H. Trusty, D.D., Minister. Two other teachers. 104 pupils. Self support $86.

Sarah Lincoln Academy, Aberdeen, N. C. Rev. W. J. Rankin, Minister and Teacher. Two additional teachers. 100 pupils. Self support $422.65.

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Wallingford Academy, Charleston, S. C. Rev. David Brown, Minister and Teacher. Three additional teachers. 259 pupils. Self support $219.65.

Salem School, Anderson, S. C. Rev. J. P. Foster, Minister and Teacher. Two additional teachers. 191 pupils. Self support $188.80.

Russell Grove Church School, Amelia C. H., Va. Rev. J. R. Barrett, Minister and Teacher. One other teacher. 60 pupils. Self support $41.

Calvary Church School, Asheville, N. C. Rev. C. B. Dusenbury, Minister. One other teacher. 150 pupils. Self support $60.

Miller Memorial School, Birmingham, Ala. Three other Rev. L. B. Bascomb, Minister. teachers. 188 pupils. Self support $104.75. Ingram Church School, Blacksburg, S. C. Rev. T. A. Thompson, Minister. One other teacher. 10 pupils. Self support $15.40.

Harris Chapel Church School, Brinkley, Ark. Rev. R. J. Christmas, Minister and Teacher. 27 pupils. Self support $13.45. Ninth St. Church School, Bristol, Tenn. Rev. F. M. Hyder, Minister and Teacher. 80 pupils. Self support $36.50.

Westminster Church School, Brogdon, S. C. One other Rev. J. M. McKay, Minister. teacher. 177 pupils. Self support $21.30.

Calhoun Falls Church School, Calhoun Falls, S. C. Rev. S. D. Leak, Minister. One other teacher. 150 pupils. Self support $97.

Camden Church School, Camden, Ark. Rev. 51 W. H. Carroll, Minister and Teacher. pupils. Self support $29.50.