At least the Kiaochou incident will give Japan a good reason for holding on to Wei haiwei for some time to come. She could hardly be expected to leave here while the soldiery of another foreign nation were settled so near. Poor China! Can it be that as a nation her day of salvation is past? Many of her best friends are beginning to fear so. Lowell reminds us that to every jan and nation there comes atime when choice has to be made between the true and the false, the good and the evil; during the past tilty years hss again and again had such opportunities and she has chosen the evil and refused the good. We fear that, as with other men and nations before her, the fatefubsentence is sounding forth: " She new not the day of her visitation!" Yet a refreshing breeze there often comes to one's mind an old sentence out of an old Book: "The heavens do rule," and 20 out of all this hurly-burly will yet come untold blessing to China's myriads of sons and daughters.
8th January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.