It will be interesting to know how the books were received. Only about one out of ten, some think one out of twenty, refused them. The most of them received them without showing any more interest than we would at home if a circular were thrust into our hands. Not a few, however, received them with a smile and sometimes a polite bow. One man showed such venomous hatred as I have seldom seen on a face in China. It was not so much the words he said as the way he said them. He said, 'I don't want those books of yours, what would I do with them?" The words were fairly spat out, as though he would like to have ani ited me.
could not but wonder what experience he had been through which made him feel so much hatred for the foreigner and his religious books. Perhaps he had been active in some anti-foreign riot, since one always hates the more the one whom he has ill-treated.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.