AN OPPORTUNITY FOR TEACHERS IN CHINA.
Christian missionaries are forecasting and preparing for the great overturn of methods and subjects of study in Chinese education, of which the signs are already numerous. The whole governmental system of China is founded on its schools. The road to political preferment is through the studies and examinations. Already many of the great mandarins are busying themselves with educational reform, and some of the examiners are beginning to ask questions quite out of the rut of Confucian literature. The traditional system is one of dead memorizing—the innovations are all in the direction of independent thought, as well as Western knowledge. It is essential that teachers should be trained for this vast change, and desirable that many of them should be trained in Christian schools. Such a normal school has been planned for Amoy, China, where the London Missionary Society and the American Reformed Church have missions. Rev. J. Sadler, of the London Society, sends out a prospectus and appeal for this school. It is to be put "upon the broadest and most liberal Christian basis. Literary men of all shades of religious belief are to be admitted. The curriculum will extend over three years." This is a great opportunity for some one.—The Congregationalist.