The editor reviews the year and sees the bad shot through with good in all China's and the church's tribulations. This is right, for we should perish if we did not believe that good will be the final goal of ill, but that "mission administrator" was surely an incurable optimist who said:—"It is, doubtless, a good thing that the' Chinese ' church should lenin that the missionary is not always to be relied on in time of trouble." We should have thought it would have been a better thing if he had proved that he could be relied on, jon aires in China In a symposium on "Some principles that should govern the coming of missionaries to China," Mr, W. Hollister postulates that "no person should come to China as a missionary who desires the mili protection of his government order to ensure his personal safety or that of his family." Mr, Hollister does not seem to be aware that the largest protestant mission in China has consistently acted on this ciple for more than 60 years, that its missionaries have penetrate ed farther into the most inaceessible parts of the country than those of any other mission. Had they relied on military protection, it would have been impossible to give it to them as indeed, it would be still, to most missionaries, of any denomination, in the interior; but, we live and learn, From' the
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