"To Eaitor of the "Nontu-Cui8a Dat News.
Si,—By comparison: with yourself I may be a new-comer to China but it ig over. 18 years since I first came here, judged. by general standards, T think will admit: that I do. not come. within the entegory of "New-comer.
Tt is not my custom to embark on the discussion of a subject of which I know little and Tam sorry that for their work; the refunded money to be used in further education.
Im early stages many start off enthusiastically but after a while become helpless, hopeless human beings like many others, and their wives also become lacksadaisical, and lamentably deficient in all that should constitute a help-meet in the work. Servants must await every beck and call and generally the poor missionary has a far happier time than he could ever expect in his own country, notwithstanding, hardship and sometimes imaginary hard-the "American ships he has to endure. "Mercury' should have caused you Tt must at least be a great satis-to believe that this was my sole faction to the Chinese to know that guide in forming my opinion of the the convert rate is but a fraction of Yeligious Missionary movement in their birth rate.
China, With, you your permission Twill quote Tam, ete, authorities on the subject, Mhese"voyutations are. almost world:
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