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GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS, 57university where the highest standard of literary and scientificinstruction shall be given, where a healthy religious atmosphereshall be maintained, and where students will be surrounded bymore salutary moral influences than can be expected in theHongkong University or in any other non-Chrislian educationalinstitution. It may seem narrow to some, but many of us believethat only where Christ is exalted can the best educational workbe successfully carried on, and that in a non-religious atmospherethe highest standard of morality cannot be expected." (Ed.Review.)The Germans at Tsingtao, have also begun a largescheme of education. A college is to be erected, towardswhich the Chinese Governor has given a handsomecontribution.GOVERNMENT EDUCATION INNORTH CHINA.This is undoubtedly the most critical time in thelong history of the Chinese. The factor that makes itso is the education of the general body of the nation.The marvellous undertaking, now well under way, ofeducating the masses in China, is one of the many wonders of human achievement. Not only is this mammothenterprise espoused energetically by the Chinese, but alsoit is one of the most encouraging signs of our times tosee the ways in which our Western Christian civilizationsare earnestly trying to help the belated or arrested civilization of China. We will not enlarge on the splendidenterprise of Christian education in China, its achievements and plans, but we will turn our attention to thesubject of "Modern Government Education in China"with special reference to conditions in the Province ofChihli, where modern Government education is fully aswell advanced as in any other part of the empire.According to the last report issued in 1908 by theProvincial Board of Education there are 214,367 studentsof all grades in modern schools in the MetropolitanProvince of Chihli. This does not include the schoolsin Peking which report,in addition to the above, some17,000 students.