The following though not addressed to the Editor appears to come most suitably in correspondence columna.—
My prin Papre,—You served in the Great War and so we addroes you by the familiar title.
During your service you must have met men of all classes, creeds and kinds: good and indifferent, but rarely what might be termed bad. There are few really bad men in this world and so it must have been somewhat of a shock for you to be told that Shanghai is full of them. It was not put quite like that, Padre; it was at the welcome given to you at the Union Church Hall and three out of the five speakers endeavoured to tell you, in various terms, that you are badly needed in Shanghai chiefly to save numberless young men from going straight to perdition. It may not have been the speakers' intention to single out any class of person in Shanghai for criticism, and for whom your special attention is needed, but the fact remains that a great nuuiber received that impression, and you will remember that the men out from Home were referred to many times.
When we hear the fellows in our class being maligned we think of 'a large number we have known, and we remember what someone
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