foreigners occurs in two cases; when the people have mere prejudice against them, and when they have real cause of hatred on account of their haughty or impudent conduct, their disrespect to the natives, their disregard of the laws of the land, and, most of all, their violation and ridicule of their most sacred customs, which drive sometimes even the more civilized people into madness.

But in most cases these two causes are joined; this is at least the case with the hatred of foreigners in the eastern countries. How can foreigners expect to be respected by the natives when they do not respect the natives? They are not to expect from the heathen Chinamen that they should let them smite their other cheek when they have smitten their right cheek. This is indeed too much for the heathen. Here is the merit of which Thiers spoke. When they have converted the nations to perfect Christians according to their mould, and insinuated their passive doctrines into their innocent minds completely, then is the time when foreigners may smite both cheeks of the natives, disinter the dead bodies, kidnap their children, without incurring any hatred, nay, be still beloved by them all the more. Such is the invaluable merit of those Roman Catholic missionaries. Then there would be no need of those silver-headed heavy canes for coercing the will of the natives summarily. The conduct of foreigners, excepting some of the better class of the missionaries and a few laymen, is a very shame to the name of Christianity and civilization, and retards the progress of both. They do not pay the prices of things they buy, and even the boat-fares required of them; but no sooner do they observe a shadow of discontent in the face of the person who demands it, than the

heavy cane is over his head. At home such behavior would be properly chastised by indictment for assault and battery, but in the eastern countries the European tyrants are under the protection of guns and powder; moreover, of that sacred cross of St. George, or the Tricolor. So that, whenever they treat a native outrageously, if he do not lose his senses he would keep his anger to himself, because, if he resent it, the fate of his darling country would be endangered even by the loss of a single hair of theirs.

There is no mystery in the fact that Christianity has not made any considerable progress beyond Europe, when we know that those Christians who go out to foreign countries behave themselves worse than the heathen, or, at least, no better than they. First of all they are the slaves of Mammon, go to houses of ill-repute, swear without almost any cause, insult the natives, kick and beat them, and behave as haughtily as Julius Cæsar. Moreover, these things take place on Sunday more than any other day of the week, because on other days they have things of more material interest to attend to.

It is in vain that some really good Christians try to persuade the natives that Christianity is the true religion of God, while they are beset on all sides by these splendid specimens of nominal Christians; and when they look back. at their conduct they would not find any reason why they should feel particularly ashamed before Christians. A traitor is worse than an enemy. Yet these nominal Christians are such. How can one be blamed when he cannot find out the right way, when he has no guide? But how could one be excused when he goes a wrong way by his own perverseness and wicked intention, when he has a sure, infallible

guide? The eastern nations could not help being heathen, because they had no good guide to take them to the right path. But among the western nations was there not an infallible guide who sacrificed himself for their sake? Those who call themselves Christians, yet behave quite unlike them, are far worse than the pure heathen; while, if there were no such mock Christians, Christianity would have made its progress smoothly. It loses credit through their conduct. among the ignorant heathen, and its progress is thus obstructed. Woe to the betrayers of the Master! If He should appear in this world at this time, He could scarcely recognize his own people. Oh! Has He shed his blood in vain! May we hope that God will forbid that! We can get over any difficulty when we are in earnest. Our way is always open when we are willing. Lack not your will, that is the only passport to pass the gate! Let those true Christians who are going to enter the gate, and wish to take with them as many fellow-creatures as they can, pay more attention to their followers, purify their camp first, then go out to the expedition. A rotten root can never bear a good fruit.

But I have digressed too much. To return to the foreigners talked about by M. Thiers. I think that before the Frenchmen can teach the Chinamen how to respect foreigners, they should first learn how to do so themselves, because it was for their want of such respect that they were lately caught by the Prussians. Perhaps Thiers has learned the evil consequences of this want of respect for foreigners, by his recent experience, and may have spoken with a true kindness, lest China might meet with the same misfortune. But I am afraid that although the President has learned to respect the stronger, he has yet little respect for the weaker, as I do not find much respect for the foreigner in his late

speech addressed to the Chinese Ambassador. Even the Indian Commissioner here in the United States addresses the Indians in more respectful words.

Thiers also says: "It is again the province of the Chinese Government to show by its attitude and by its proceedings, with respect to diplomatic and consular agents, the extent of the special consideration which is due to their public character, by virtue of the rules universally received among all nations."

There is nothing to be said if this is reciprocal. Why, is there not likewise a proper conduct for diplomatic and consular agents universally received among all nations? They, as the more civilized people, should first set an example as to the decorum to be observed.

But, in the eastern countries, many Catacazys would go with impunity.

CO-EDUCATION OF BOYS AND GIRLS.

BY SHIOJI TAKATO.

In music, there are a thousand instruments, each differing from the other in its pitch and sound. The object, however, is not to separate them, but to unite and harmonize them, so as to produce an enchanting melody, which can never be obtained from any single sound. So the object of God in creating all things and beings, and giving them forms and characters differing one from another, is, no doubt, to unite them and produce a temperate and accomplished whole. The burning wind of the tropics uniting with the freezing blasts from the poles, causes the mild and temperate clime, where spring-flowers smile and spontaneous products grow. God

has given the man a character bold and strong; the woman, one mild and gentle, differing one from the other as the piercing sound of the flute from the soft tones of the harp. His object is evident in itself, and requires no solution. Look at the nations who are treating woman as a slave or as instrument of their sport, they are very low in their civilization, and, like wild beasts, are constantly biting and fighting.

From the law of God, and the instances furnished by those nations, I see then, clearly, that the characters of the sexes must blend and help each other; or otherwise great discord in the music of nature will be the result. Female colleges and academies are excellent and important institutions; but they have nothing to do in the matter of tempering the characters of the sexes. Only in co-education of the sexes can we secure both ends at once: the cultivation of their intellects and the harmonizing of their characters. In thus co-educating, we teach them in the same school, by the same professors, and with the same books; therefore, during the entire session, from day to day, and from month to month, the opinions and purposes of the sexes will gradually and naturally harmonize; the saucy mischievousness of the boys will be tempered by the gentle politeness of the girls, and the vain fancy and timid weakness of the girls will take on the primitive simplicity and determined steadiness of the boys; and, at last, a moderate, accomplished, and unblemished virtue and culture will be attained by both the sexes. Some say, the wives of officers have nothing to do in the offices, and the wives of merchants do not interfere with the business; consequently, for woman there is no need of such an education as that required for man. The opinion is