the Elitor of the NontH-Coixa Dany News." for his eon in sour issue of to-day, and to you for affording him the entree to your columns for the discussion of this phase of the coe. requires more than the average amount of moral courage in these days of "tied"
to exhibit even the semblance of opposition to the doings of the " unco zu The one exception that T would take to the argument of "A Carstian" is that he oes not put forwent the same in as em: hay bool for the education of bors of riner as he might. Here we
tender years whose paren's perhaps einnot afford the necessary sun (a not insignificant one) fo° their edi at home. These youths are committed to the care of an institution operated by the missionary body. Is it right that rules and regulations should bbe framed by its governors with a mor- or less laudable idea of inculcating obsolete principles which have been long ago rejected by. liberal theologians, which introduce into the conduct of the Chefoo school an element of danger whose operation hax re str ously a sid thing to contemplate, this sacrifice of young lives on the altar of what it is not too much to characterise as fetichism, pure and simple. And are our friends of Chefoo quite consistent. in. their attitude? We learn that food is not cooked fon the Sabbath. Are matches struck, or lamps lit, or fires kindled? All these are prohibited in the Codex which the Chefoo seems to have adopted for its guidance. Do triose good people, who think so ill of serving 2 hot meal, cooked freshly, and of fresh material on the Sabbath,—do these people, I say, strictly obey the scriptural behest' regarding the inadvisability of taking exercise on the Sabbath day for instance? If they do not, they should, since they are so opposed to the violation of Old Testament precept.
And, Mr. Editor, though it is hardly worth the while to argue with a bigot, whatever his profession, are our good Chefoo friends aware that commentators upon the Old Testament are almost_at one regarding the absolute necessity of dis ig the Portry,
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