One item mentioned in our last letter ro the man Hsu who was taken prisoner to Tanyang falls to be corrected. The correction in no way lessens the circumstances, but rather og: ovates them. We said he had appeared before the priest to complain of ill usage to himself. It was not to complain of what he himself had had to endure, but to answer for a statement he and the native preacher had drawn up detailing the various items of persecution, and had handed to the priest. The priest promised to leave him alone if he.would say the statement was false. On the man refusing to do this he was seized and beaten. Still refusing, he was taken off to the magistrate. Wo have seen the man and got all details from him. He is pale and looking ill after all ho has had to suffer. There is much more we might write of continued trouble, but we refrain. It is no pleasure to us to complain. Persecution is still so bad in the village where these things have been happening that our work is in the meantime stopped.
We have just completed a tour of several of our country stations. At every place we have warned our people to avoid all contact and controversy with the Romanists. We do our utmost to keep the peace. If we found any native worker stirring up strife, or any member persecuting or fighting with members of other churches, we would at once dismiss and remove him from the church roll. Would that the other church were as desirous to keep the peace! After all that the Bishop has said to us in former interviews, we can hardly think that he really countenances such proceedings.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.