The Archive · 1874

A Chinese View of the Missionary Question

Say firt, of God above, or man below What eah we reason but from what we know? Of man, what woo we but his station here, From Which to reason, or to which refer.

To the Editor of the Stm,—In continuation of the ideas of the native whose letters have appeared in your columns on the Missionary question, will you allow me to quote an extract from the speech of Keshub Chunder Sen, at a public welcome given to him in London a few years ago, It is as follow:

"There are thousands, and millions, I know, who do not like to see Christ preached to the population of India. Christianity first came

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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