To the Editor of the "Nowrn-Cursa Dany News."
Sm,—Your correspondent" Another Missionary" takes for granted that his assertion cannot be disputed, and that "enduring it" is Scriptural and is not his private opinion. If it is an a-certained ruth by induction, then it is quite superfluous to eite in support one sentence from the 63 volumes of Scripture. Yet wherever the Apostle Paul came into contact with officials he acted on his legal status and Glaimed his rights. His colleagues never challenged his consistency. The Scriptures do discourage the natural tendency to seck private revenge on a personal enemy, but they certainly do not discourage communities from making laws and keeping order.
ought to startle English religionists to find that Ita re most. allied to them ins Tt was written for governments He that sheddeth man's" blood by man his Hood shall be shed," and this although seemingly antiquated, is quite in scourd with the latest revelation, (Romans XIII, 17.)
If madmen should be restrained, so should men who are morally unhinges After a decade in the interior of China, 1 confess to a feeling of intense relief and relaxation when on furlough [knew that an estimable member of the community was patrolling the street while I slept. Surely the Author of Scripture has not conspired against. our ne into the hands of ruffians Have we missionaries ccalised that it is only because a gunboat is stationed at Hankow and blue-jackets are willing to Dleed and die that we have been tolerated in eight interior provinees since Margury's oficial murder?
Tam, ete., AS Onpisany Musstosary.
12th September.
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