To the Editor of the "Noxtu-Cuina Dairy News"
Sim.—The cradle of the princi religions of the world is in Asia. Christianity, born in the E: spread to the West where it has flourished and is now slowly brought back to the East by the missionaries. Everyone, more or less, has his say what religion he wishes to embrace. Having been converted to a faith he is entitled to adopt an extra name peculiar to his creed. This is similar to the privilege of prefixing "Sir" to one's name on being knighted. The extended alike to Europeat Asiatics, or Americans.
How the Chinese who were not Christians at the beginning had Christian names is easily explained, Foreigners tinging difficulty in the pronunciation of Chinese names ply called them John, Joseph, JJob, Paul, ete. Later, the Chinese had the intelligence to choose the names for themselves. Here in China, numbers of foreigners have Chinese names, apart from their own. The late Sir John Jordan had one too. The reason is exactly the same.
This is either a matter of con-' venience or of religious faith. That such a simple method was hit en is to be commended. In writing the above, three sayings have come ito my mind. I would pass them on to the three in the order they have written to you on this subject. 1. "People living in glass houses should not throw stones." 2. "A rose called by any other name smells as sweet." 3. "Look before you leap.'
Tam, ete,
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