But if the missionaries had remained and escaped death what could they have accomplished? We wonder if this evangelist and the editors who sleep so peacefully under foreign' protection every night have ever been through a period of real danger in the interior: when public meetings are forbidden: when no head of a family ever closes his eyes during the entire troubled night: when every school, government and mission, is closed by the flight of pupils and teachers: when the city gates are locked for days and barricaded and no one, not even a water carrier can go out or come in: when bullets are spit—ting through the air at any hour of day or night: when every hidable article has been hastily buried in the ground: when the rich have forsaken their homes and hidden in straw huts to escape detection: when no good man wants anything except to be allowed to-hide in quiet—what could the missionary do? Without boasting the writer states that he has stayed on right through these very scenes ie if the Chinese received any great spiritual uplift by reason thereof it has never been manifest.
Going back to the first supposition for a moment, it should not be forgotten that the slaughter of 'a missionary is about as hard a jolt to the faith of a young church as can be imagined.
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