ABSTRACT
John Leighton Stuart found that Nanking Theological Seminary lagged behind his alma mater Union Theological Seminary not only in the shortage of faculty, but also in the low level of the students. To be a better teacher, Stuart had to put a great deal of energy into academic learning. The first decade of Stuart's stay in China as a missionary saw a turn in the ideas on missionary education. In the third year of Stuart's teaching career at the Nanking Theological Seminary, the 1911 Revolution broke out. Almost overnight, Nanking became the focus of world media and the center of the Chinese Revolution. To cover the development of the Chinese political situation, the Associated Press of the US invited Stuart to be its war correspondent. During the Nanking Seminary years, while on a trip back to the US to restore his wife's health, Stuart was received by Woodrow Wilson and shared with the President his ideas on America's China policy.
