At a neighboring hsien city there were last spring a number of "inquires" in connection with a mission chapel. Since then they nearly all subsided, giving as their reason that foreiga prestige (BEF) has waned and they will just keep toe "a1 it revives again; then they will "put out their hends" again. No daube? wien "prestige" shall again have been established the various missions will have more "inquirers" than we shall know what to do with. In spite of all information to the contrary, the Chinese still think all the same that Christianity is a foreign commodity as really as are foreign piece goods. They are willing to take hold of it with both hands if they see any temporal advantage in it, and are pretty sure of not getting into trouble on account of BAMBI. However, we must by no meos intimate that all, or nearly all, of the Chinese Christians are so from mer-canary motives, which would be notoriously untrue. Every great army has a large multitude of "camp followers." 7 Och November.
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