'Tue letter in the Times on ' Mission. aries in China,' by the Lieut pondent of that much valuable food for thought to all iouaries who may chance to read Many will Gud something in it to all will find much it to admire and approve. 1 very hopefully of the future of m ary worl, and singles out two pluses of of especial praise—the instructive and interest-literature, and the benevolent opera~ missionary doctors, Of the a kind of philan. nese, high and oughly understand, and, though the sacred fatictions of the doctor are foo often degraded into a decoy to bring hearers to the prericher, the patient gets no harm therefrom, while the benefits of the hospital are be-youd cnsil." Here, it must be con-'Teased,, we have someth forth not only much or small amount of censure. It is soarcely true, we fear, that the Chinese "thoroughly understand" the kind of philanthropy referred to. It would be far nearer the trath to say that they are beginning to understand it, but only beginning. The concluding part of the sentence is in bad taste, and great blot upon an otherwise excellent production. We doubt also whether the members, and especially the new members, of the China Inland Mi sion, about whom he writes so ki and sympathetically, are at all likely to "imitate the Jesuits" in "dividing them the work of geographical explorers and of naturalists." They will possibly tell the Times Currespondent that according to the Intest ies three hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-three Chinese men and women are falling duily into the bottomless pit, and that while the returns stand at so appalling. ly high n figure they lave no time to waste in collecting trumpery details about fauna and flora for the supposed benefit of a godless world. We should like to see the face of Mr. Stanley P. Smith, or Mr. C, T, Studd, or Mr, Montague Beauchamp, on reading th sive suggestion of the evidently awakened Correspondent of the Times, On the other hand he apenks excolin the matter of Anorr-
"The narrowness of many jaunnes has evolved a further tacle to their success, in that it has led them to denounce what they designate the worship? of ancestors ug idolatry, thu 1g despite to pious and ennobling sentiment. Surely g could be more ill-judged or Christian-like than to aff the lence of a whole people in this manner, Similar measures meted out. to the English people would let loose the iconoclast in St. Paul's and Wester Abbey, and bau the Royal visite to Peogmore." Que word in conclu: Why will not people who write intel. li gently and authoritatively on Chinese matters take the trouble to spell the names of prominent statesmen cor-barbarous and absurd "Changshitang" of the letter to which we have been referring
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