Before I express, as I wish to do, in such a public medium as the columns of the "North-China Daily. News," my serious difference from any such estimate as I have given above of the work done in England, Messrs, Hodgkin and Balme—- and especially on the part that Dr. Balme seems to be-
Hieve himself entrusted to play on behalf of British missionary societies 1d British missionaries in relation with the Extraterritoriality Commission—I wish to preface my remarks, with the plainest statement that! both these gentlemen are honoured personal friends of mine; that it has been my privilege to entertain each of them as my guest, and in each ease I should be only too glad of the repetition of the privilege: No thought thst they are one wi less sincere than I am in their love of the Chinese, their complete honesty, or their hatred of any thi ike deception, or of their inability to say of write a thing calculated to mislead could be thinkable to any: tone who knows either of hess gentlemen as intimately as T do, Nevertheless in common with the srreat majority of my colleagues in ur own and other missionary. s0- cities whom I met in England, both those on furlough and those who have retired from the active work and also in common with old friends rud acquaintances formerly connect-with consular, Customs or commercial work in China, I was amazed at the statements the two gentle. men were making and at the resolu-tons of such gatherings as those at Swanwick which they wore 50 largely influencing. "Only one of all the British missionaries whom 1 met while I was on furlough agreed With the attitude adopted by these
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