Central Board of Missions. Fourth Annual Review. (Allen and Donaldson.
ls. net.)—This report is a very striking document. It does not deal in detail with the whole of the Mission field, but, following the plan of former reports, takes one province for special treatment, and this province is China. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil begins with a paper which he entitles "Broken China": the breaking down of the old Chinese belief that the Celestial Empire engrosses all the world's light is to be the opportunity of the Christian Church. Lord William is sanguine, we hope with good reason. It will be indeed a magnificent result if China will learn Christianity "without learning the difficulties and errors of the West." The difficulty will be that the old beliefs will crop up from under the new faith as they have done everywhere else. We are glad to see a recognition of other missionary enterprises—Roman, Presbyterian, Baptist, &c.
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