which is very strong in country districts round about here, is' becoming very active. A letter was received from a native worker in a country station 60 miles from [chang stating that the missionaries in Shasi lin made representations to the officials at Kinchout of the present troublesome attitude of members of this secret society and that, in consequence, the officials had made endeavours to arrest the members and had driven them into country districts to save their skins. The church worker reports that the country districts are now threatened and the month has even been named in which to have a genom! attack on native Christians,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.