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"CHAPTERXXV,INDUSTRIAL WORK.fROFESSOR BURTON, of Chicago University, gavethe results of his careful, sympathetic, but judicious study of the educational problems of Chinain an important paper read before the Conference ofForeign Mission Boards in January, 1910 The centralthought of this authoritative deliverance is in thefollowing :I am persuaded that as conditions are in the ChineseEmpire to-day, we cannot as members of a Christian nationlimit our efforts either to the development of a Christian community or to the permeation of the Confucian communitywith Christian ideals, but must accept the far larger task ofseeking to promote the welfare of that nation in practicallyevery phase of its life moral, religious, social, economic, political It is the condition of China at this great moment inher history that seems to me to demand the policy which I amadvocating China confronts to-day one of the greatesttasks that any nation ever faced. This is nothing less than thecreation of a new civilization."The writer prepared the paper upon IndustrialEducation for the China Centenary Conference, whichwas published in the Records of that body (pp. 81-91).The three years elapsed since that investigation havenot seen such striking developments in this directionas to put the findings of 1907 far out of date. Theeditor has requested the writer to condense the substance of that paper for the Year Book. This is donewithout quotation marks with such additions or subtractions as seem suitable.WHAT HAS BEEN DONE?Early in 1907 questions were sent to one hundredand two principals of mission schools. These formed byno means an exhaustive list, but they were chosen from

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