To the Editor of the "Norri-Ontxa Dary News."
Sin—Porhaps I should apologise for this meddling with matters that ought not to concern me; but, my dear Sir, you have provoked the spirit of controversy hitherto calmly slumbering within my inner consciousness. Your compact review of Luella Miner's latest volume, "China's Book of Martyrs," impels mo to suggest _a few emendations and to make a few inquiries.
And permit me to say that I am glad lean from your paraphrase of this work, that "here are great numbers of intelligent Chinese some of them well-educated, and a few of the upper middle class, who did cordially and thoroughly accept the principles and the practice of Christianity as they understood it, who actually did surrender their lives rather than give it up, and this in the full knowledge of what they were doing, and against the remonstrances, the threats, the warnings, and the promises of those to whom they had all their lives been accustomed to look for guidance and command."
I had deduced from a very brief and superficial observation that the Christian converts of China were almost wholly
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