To the Editor of the "NonrR-Cama Dany News"
Sim—I wich to associate myself with the Rey. G. W. Sheppard in friends? Who is responsible for! the "sense of inferiority" which many good Chinese feel? Is not the Central. Government, the reckless /ness and rapacity of the militarists and the corruption of Chinese deploring the spirit of attacks that 2 jurts? I cannot but feel that as have been made on the Rev. E. C. Lobenstine in your esteemed within the last fow days, own personal views ar action favoured by some of the members of the N. C. C. may be easily Known from an extract from a statement by an "Anglican Missionary in Hangchow," quoted (apparently with approval) by you on November 25, as I happen to be the writer of those lines; but those views mine did not prevent me from experiencing a very disagreeable sensa, tion when I read the attacks on Mr. Lobenstine in your issue of, I think, November 18: for they'
med to me to be deficient in the spirit of fair play. So I was glad when a Briton up and said a and has continued to say so since.
Some subsequent articles and light. agree letters have struck me in the same.
We cannot always friend of China it is fair to say to her, "Put your house in order, show that you can be trusted to put down the horrible lawlessness which has been going on for several years, and we will gladly trust you." Some sentimental person who desires to win cheap popularity with wayward students will say: "Oh, let us trust God, and try it." We reply. "By all means trust God, but use the common sense that He ezpects us to wee"; and common sense shows us, judging by the events which are going on before our eyes in this present war, that it is the height of folly to talk of the abolition of extraterritoriality at the Present time, Read the letters from Suchien, from Canton, and see. Tam, ete.
Henry M. Wooos.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.