Let us read on: "the Chinese people will stand by the missionaries and perhaps die for them" (Even the deep emotion into which the editor, has worked himself cannot make him omit that word "perhaps"). It's nice to be a prophet. It is so much easier to paint beautiful pictures of the future than to dig around in the past. to find: facts to substantiate one's wild assertions. These editors are picturing, a day when they will be seen with hands folded and a beatific expression upon their faces as their loving converts fall torn and bleeding around them, happy to dic in the defence of those who have given up their extraterritoriality. We can at least admire the imaginations of these editors!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.