year old friend in the South and asked him how he had been induced to sign ai missionary statement, designed, as I saw it, to foster antiforeignism and prepare a field for the dissemination of Red agitation, when all his convictions based upon 20 odd years' experience in China, were presumably outraged by the document that he had signed. He wrote, after several months' delay, 'a sad confession of insincerity.
"We wove not frightened, into it, by concern for our own safety," he wrote, most of us consciously' succumbed, fac "and, a" te onan "went frenzy spread, Instead of "abating. eaten "Atiude seemed) to) endanger Few anything of it. The atmosphe-Hie change, if you know what 1-mean, vas startling. "You know how you can Eauge the sentiment of & Chi frunity towards you by") Through "the streets. Bef was known, the air cracked with hostility. Within 36 hours after Fey "anslation we were back en" oer old footing wich the towns 1 signed 4 {ne sake of The: charch andthe hosp tal ae endanger my "seal 10 fen many fosse, could ever' conce Enything. Ivan Anticipate everything: that "you can say about this, 30. will do-'yeuno harm to leave ie all igo farther and tell you te, U.S which was ial, a "paraphrase. of the Gocument that "you reso. disagreeable Sheat, and I endorsed that 0a. When Bad cause, you must be consistent. You jon take up" perjury, in. 2 good can't see i because you are constitafonetly hard and. unsympathet 1 You' were copable of passionate Hdevesion to 8 work like oars hero You joaid: wngers: and, God Uiess "yeo, You wil let Him."
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