Some months ago the writer discovered and reviewed n dangerous Bamphlet published in England by Dr. Henry Hodgkin of the N.C.C. For this he was taken to task by Dr. Rawlinson in a letter to the "North-China Daily News," and had, to defend himself in thes correspondence columns. Sinze then the writer has reesived numerous letters! from missionary. friends' in. seven different provinees (many of them: now "evuewated") congratulating: him upon his stand. The names land stations of these good folk cannot be given for fear of calling down the wrath of the Red church militant upon them, but the welter would like) to give at least two extracts and is prepared to submit the letters to an official witness in confidence and obtain an affidavit confirming their genuineness if the Soviet of Red Churches in China sees fit to challenthem.
The following ix from an Ameri can in Szechuan, representing a very powerful missionary society, and this gentleman writes:
"Not a few of us here are thankful to you for the very ups on China you se "North-China Daily News." Personally I was gratified when you went after Hodgkin and Ca. These fellows de a lot of harm. They don't mean to help the Reds, I dare say, dut they do help them more than they dream by their hopeless view] of things."
And this is from a British missionary of exceptional charm personality who has spent the 7eater part of a long lifetime it have been thinking a lot about you recently. I always read your articles with the greatest of interes: for you have got at the heart of things in China. You know China from within, which very few of the writers of articles do. What does man ensconced in Shanghai know of the real Chinese people? Yet these are the people that speak mostly for China. People at home are gulled with all sorts of stuff. Let me, as an old missionary, with 86 years of inland experience in this land, congratulate you on your that which is best millions of the Chinese.
We missionaries are gagged to a great extent by our love for the work in which We are engaged, for if we were to write, under our own names, what we think Wwe might find it impossible to remain in China, We would soon be harried by the riq-raff of China's students and powerless to do any! niore work. When a Chinese paper' dares not say a word in favour of justice for the other side without being fined or threatened with having its place burned down, what jean an Englishman, an Imperialist, do in the far interior? All the mis-jon aries I have met in "Blankehow" and here are read against the abolition of Extrality at present, not for ourselves but for the tens of thousands of the best of China's lo. T feel sure that if it were jo to take a census of the least 75 per cent. would be against doing away wit the treaties, Rawlinson can say what he likes but he does not represent the missionaries in Chinz a whole by any means. This playing to the gallery is equivalent to throwing China to the dogs. The retention of Extrality is the only way of getting the reforms China.
much needs in her courts and prisons. Fire away Gilbert, you have the hearts and prayers of thousands pf missionaries in China." "As it happens Gilbert does not to heed any encouragement from the Tibetan border to "fire away." The local atmosphere is so full of chal-longes that no decent and honest man with ammunition in-hand could possibly withhold fire. But what we really want is the organization of presses. such opinion as this missionary ex-
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