Fo the Editor of the "Norta-Cuia Datty News."
Si—There are few of your venders but take some interest in the very live matter of the establish: ment in China of an indigenals Protestant Christian Church, The correspondence columns of your Paper bear witness to that fact.
Incidental to such establishment, if it is to be, is one problem that. amore than only other bristles with property. difficulties, That is, the matter of
That problem is readily capable of solution. It could be solved by. the sale of all mission property that could by any possibility be spared: meaning especially houses and lund It is doubtful whether this propert is any longer an asset to the mis-sons. Tt has done its work, and i aay be that the time has come to sponse with it, Mission work ould be continued in rented buildings, the more economical the better, Residences might be der Tease for temporary continued occupation, As for mission school now that the Government has put upon them such disabilities, they will hereafter naturally be' mainly Uimited to Christians, and so most of the land and buildings of the universities and other schools court readily be spared. This conversion into funds would no daube be gladly sanctioned by the mission boards, as enormously redueliye their expense: It would also be favoured by eharches here, us. bringing work within the scope and ability organizations ang 1 platforms from out mighty vo'cws; 'a hoon to the new ure, which should only with the bare sp) tual organization and not with the troublesome questions of worldly Possessions. It would doubtless als welcomed by the National Christian Council, ax relieving that Body of one of its most uncongenial considerations and releasing its time. tani] energies for application to more epivitual matters, Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.