The Archive · 1900

Re "a Protest

To the Raditor of the onto-Carxa Darcy New Sm,—Writing under the head of Protest" in your issue of to-day your correspondent makes the statement that "there are times when wise men hold rheic tongues an I wait;" and, again, with curious jemsistency, he writes us fllows:—is well that the Chinese should know that there are not wanting thave who hope that missionary enterprise, which lis resulted such an awful cataclysm, will be more ruefully regulated and controlled in future." If, as he asserts, the present out= Drexk is due to the luck of well-regulated missionary enterprise (and this could he stid with an equal amount of truth of commercial enterprise), what suggestion has he to offer for the hetter carrying out of missionary enterprise? and what are the faults in the present method is, methods carried out (as most well-informed people understand) under the direct guidance of the Almighty? And if, as your correspondent states, the present trouble is through this lack of proper regulation, then there must be something to be said in favour of the Boxer moye-

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