To the Editor of the "Norri-Cuina Dairy New Sim—The appeal from Nanking asking for medical assistance, whic! Dr, Maxwell reproduces indi etter to you published in this yet another the extraordinary mentality (I could use a more fitting expression, which, however, Tam afraid you would not care to print) possessed by the Nationalists, Their soldiers are allowed to occupy and desecrate Mission hospitals and other buildings—when they do not actually loot and burn them down, and even occasionally maltreat or murder the foreign and Chinese workers there in, and yet they have the "nerve to appeal now for the assistance of the very people they seem to have done their best to drive from their unfortunate country.
The Christian spirit of forpiveness is of course correct, but there should be limits even to this, over-indulgence in sin does not. assist in repressing it, rather does it demonstrate to the' wrong-doers that they may continue in their old ways just as long as it suits them to do so, and howl for assistance from, and further self-sacrifice on the part of, the medical missionaries Givectly they find they cannot do without them, Is the same thing likely to happen to these workers as has apparently happened to the American ary doctor in Tsining, should the Northerners re-capture some of the places to which they are now being blandly asked to go and sacrifice their lives; especially as they are asked to go at the Nationalist Government's request and expense? T consider that the various Consular officials concerned should refuse permission to any of their nationals to undertake this suggested journey to Hsuchowfu, or to any other part of the interior for that matter, as it is obviously unsafe, and should the Southerners be' forced to evacuate hurriedly any of the places to which these missionary—and possibly other—medical workers have been so kindly invited at the Nationalist Government's. expense, tone may be certain that their rights of protection will receive very little consideration.
Tam, ete anghai, April 275 1
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