But by far the most serious harm of all is that which the ardent Nationalists have wrought upon themselves and the programme they have published to the world, for their most effective advocates abroad have been the missionaries on their regular furloughs, These men and women have commanded the highest confidence of the masses and while many times they have been overenthusiastic, if cannot be denied that their influence at home has been a most. effective factor in preventing foreign interference. They have stood for a policy of patience prevailed up to this time, Xf the Nationalist think that the missionary advocate can be repl the Chinese students te America and England they are terribly mistaken, Chinese students are popular the world over—as indeed is true of the race—but their over enthusiasm has been their own undoing. At first glance it might seem that being Chinese themselves they would pre-eminently be able to explain Chinese matters. But their representations are so puerile that they carry "no weight any longer aiid publi opinion turns to the missionaries who have spent a life time among the rank and file of the Chinese people, Something to Bargain With Even after the missionaries had been driven out, hundreds of them losing their all in their flight, many of them clung to the conviction that the feeling against them was not at all representative of the Nationalist politicians and soldiers and insisted that the Nanking incident was the work of a very few irresponsibles, But as mission stations one after the other received the same troatment in the ensuing months their theory was no longer tenable. Some hope was aroused last spring when there was a verbal expression of responsibility but the months have dragged by with no restoration of the looted property. Gradually the missionaries are becoming convinced that they are being held out as something to trade on—if certain Nationalist demands are met our property may be Testored, otherwise we have no chance of getting it back at all.
In conclusion we come back the point from which we started; what are we going to do? AS custodians of the many million dot lars worth of property that has been Duilt up on our appeals, we cannot, let go unless forced so to do. A.
stronger obligation is to sh herd the weak flocks that have come into being by our agency and who fare not yet strong enough to care for themselves, Recognizing our limitations we can only watch and wait. the squirrel."
Ul If ever ineffable disdain has been displayed by a human countenance it was on the otherwise calm features of our servitor.
"Hehe no belong Gawge: he Wong hastily retreated, and, later, we heard the coolie sniggering in the kitchen, The instruments wail, crash " or bellow Pass from a welter of cacophony Into a movement of saccharine sweetness.
There's one consolation, He must get damned hot.
Meanwhile the seat of my trousers is getting wet, One of our party has gone to sleep He snores
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