A CAMPAIGN has been begun by the Christians against the educated classes of China—a battle not with the sword, but with 25 letters. It is well known what a difficult task it is to learn to read and write even a small part of the 40,000 Chinese characters. The various missions in China have long striven to introduce the Roman alphabet, but these letters are awkward to the Chinese, who are accustomed to write with a paint brush and Indian ink, and those who have learned writing in our Christian schools do not find it easy to get firm paper, pens, and ink. Lately Mr. Wong, the pastor of the self-supporting Chinese church in Hongkong, a brother of our ordained helper Wong, has invented a new alphabet, which, like the Chinese signs, can be written on Chinese paper with paint brush and Indian ink. Many of the most distinguished Chinese Christians build great hopes on the introduction of this character. They think the people will soon find out that they can learn it in a very short time; they will no longer need the old complicated signs, and the Confucian schools where these are taught will become deserted. Thus the influence of the half-educated heathen teachers will fall away, the worship of Confucius will dwindle, and the study of his writings will be left to the learned. School-books and Christian tracts are to be immediately printed in the new character and circulated among the people.—Berichte der Rheinischen Missions Gesellschaft.