generation. And who can forecast or estimate the consequences that Divine Providence is thus preparing?
COMMISSIONER YUNG WING
Such in brief outline is the Chinese
Educational Mission to the United States. The head
and front of the whole marvellous enterprise,
humanly speaking, is Commissioner Yung Wing.
While others whose cooperation was indispensable,
have, as will presently appear, contributed
to it and still stand back of it, and justly share
the credit of it with him, to him more than to
any other man beside, probably more than to
all other men beside, its existence is due. Its
history, thus far, cannot be better told except in
that connection, so intimately are the two
histories related. But it becomes one who speaks
of Yung Wing to observe the principle that we
must be modest for a modest man, for so modest
a man as he is is rare to find. He was born in
1828, of a worthy family in humble life, near the
city of Macao in Southern China. In the year
1839 he became a pupil in a children's school,
opened by Mrs. Gutzlaff, the wife of an English
missionary, his parents consenting to it in the
