the ways as well as by the products of the white
man. A crowd of Chinese recently went to one
of the most famous temples in Canton, hacked off
the heads of the idols and dragged them through
the streets amid the derisive laughter of the people.
That superstition, however, is consistent with
modern invention appears in the fact that a parade
in Tsing-tau, to placate the evil spirits that were
believed to be withholding rain, included as the
chief feature of the procession an image of a god
riding in an automobile and ostensibly driving it.

China has no more imperative need to-day than
the spiritualization of her secular life, the lifting of
her people above the sordid plane of material
things, the teaching that the new era calls for new
ideals as well as for railways and steamships. The
Christian men and women of the West have a con-
tribution to make which will mean far more for
China than mechanical appliances. Whether in-
creased commercial and economic facilities prove
a blessing or a curse depends upon the men who
use them; and China's profoundest need is for
more Christian workers who will concern them-
selves with men. A tobacco company has an-
nounced its determination to put its cigarettes into
the hands of every man, woman and child in China.
Brewers, distillers and gum manufacturers have
like ambitions. Will the readers of this book help
to bring a nobler force to bear?

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