Fventually it has dawned on a Government as stupid and childish even as Nanking, that these} hospitals are a benefit to China for General Tan now generously (1) offers to pay the expenses of those doctors who will go. We cherish the hope that in some not fartant day the damage done to jon hospitals and the those in charge of the same will be repaired at the expense of General Tan's Government. The mission of the Presbyterian Church in Kiangan alone has sustained losses of more than a hundred thousand dollars. The exiles of this mission are not concerning themselves about these money losses, leaving this matter entirely to their Government, but we only atk the Nanking Government to furnish us at least as much security as we enjoyed under those they love to describe as bandits and militarists. We may be called fools for desiring to return at all but our greatest Apostle cheerfully aceeptet such an epithet.
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