To the Eilitor of the Nontu-Cuixa Dar News, Sra,—When on my way to Shanghai heard' number of stories about mission~ aries and their work which surprised and pained me nota little, did not know then, as I do now, that they were what you have fittingly described us anecdotes of the "fine old crusted: order." The paragraph in your issue of Friday, in which you quote from a writer in a Ceylon paper reminds me of a talk Thad one day Isat October with fellow passenger on board the 8.8, Arcadia, Indeed, I am inclined to think that I must have come into contact with the very man who penned the article to which you refer. Anyway. there is a striking larity between what is contained in the article and the statements which I heard feum the lips ut my sometime companion. Now, it isa fact, which can ensily be verified, that the men and women who do most for the welfare ut the "submerged tenth" at home, are the very men and women who contribute to missionary work in heathen Innds, I ventured to ask the Arcadia missionary critic how much he had given personally to the Darkest England" fund, and he naively confessed that he had "no faith in General Booth and his scheme." Bat, is it true that missionary effort. in China is " failure? After carefully using my own eyes and oars in this city, Iam in a position to give an emphatic anewer in the nesatice. Only last evening I had the pleasure of attending a service in the Vu Rond Methodist. Church, It was literally crowded with Chinese, who listened with reverent interest to the preaching, and joined heartily in the singing of the hymns. for more, of the three (about) who were present, publicly and earnestly testified to bles.ing received through faith in Christ; and later in the evening, when the Rev. Mr. Reid invited tall who knew Christ as their Saviour to
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