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328 CHINA MISSION YEAR BOOK.The public whom we address is composedof thereading and thinking people of all classes in the churchand out. This means many millions of souls, the numberof whom is rapidly increasing with the spread of the newsystem of education. It is sometimes said that oursociety is a mission to the higher classes. If you meanby that the aristocracy of thought and influence, weaccept the definition, but such aristocracy may be foundclad in homespun as well as in silks and satins, and weare after them all. We want to win them for Christ,not for Christian civilization. We do not flatter ourselves that if we win them in any numbers, that willmean the millennium in China. The history of theNestorian Church warns us that high patronageis nosafeguard against decay and final extinction, but we dobelieve that the Gospel should be preached to everycreature, high as well as low, and if the street chapelsand ordinary tracts fail to reach the high, then wemust try literature, which is the master key among theeducated. We make our appeal to the mind of China,as well as to her heart and conscience. The leavenmust leaven the whole lump. Its process is not onlyfrom below upwards, but from above downwards.Besides the production of books, we put considerabletime on our periodical literature. For the church wepublish the Chinese Christian Review, which was foundedin 1891. It aims to be the organ of unity and interdenominational cooperation. It is specifically a magazine forpreachers, though space is also given to church andgeneral news. Since itbegan, the denominations have,one after the other, started denominational papers, butthese can only supplement; they cannot replace ourpaper. The growth of a denomination gives birth to itsspecial paper, but beyond and above that there is thehigh unity which lifts all denominations together, and inthis atmosphere our readers are invited to abide. Afeature which isbeing now developedis the securing ofthe best thought of our Christian Chinese. Our weekly