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Title: Calvin Wilson Mateer, forty-five years a missionary in Shantung, China; a biography
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fisher, Daniel Webster, 1838-1913
Subjects: Mateer, Calvin Wilson, 1836-1908
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Westminster press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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conservative folKes of thepast, but her eyes are opening more and more, day byday. It is true she still wants to sleep on, but shecannot. The clamor of the worlds progress dins inher ears. Giant hands are shaking her. Spectersfill her imagination and groundless fears make hertroubled. She essays to rise, but has no strength.She is growing frantic at the realization of her ownweakness and incompetence. Facing the new China he, while gladdened on thewhole by the outlook, yet saw grave dangers in theway. Some of these are due, in his estimation, tocharacteristics that have rooted themselves verydeeply in the spirit of the people at large. In hisarticle on Education in China he said: It is a peculiarity of the Chinese character that theyare very hard to convince of the utility of a new thing,and must always be doubly sure before they decideto act; but as soon as the decision is made, they atonce grow recklessly impatient for the consummation.The old educational methods and ideals are now
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FACING THE NEW CHINA 313 abolished and the government is rushing headlonginto new and hitherto untried measures. They issuecommands to their subordinates without providingthe means of carrying them out. The result is achaos of more or less futile effort, attended by burden-some taxes and illegal exactions that produce disaffec-tion and rebellion. The lack of competent teachershandicaps the whole movement. To the eye of awestern educator most of their primary and secondaryschools are little short of a farce. Mission schoolshave trained a large number of competent teachers,but in most cases the prejudice against Christianityis so strong that heathen schools will not use them.This prejudice is much stronger in the secondaryschools than it is in the provincial colleges and uni-versities. The high officials generally take moreliberal views, and they are free from the social ostra-cism that prevents a small official or a private gentle-man from employing a Christian teacher. On account of t

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