Touching the future of Shanghai, Mr. Melntosh feels it is a mistake to be pessimistic. The city has passed through a seriotis exper cence, but stabilizing factors are increasingly obvious. "As to China generally, it is impossible to pro-phossy. The possibilities are that for ten years at least tHere will be political unrest, but he believes that in time the people will leora the responsibilities of government. A metation from Ierbert Spencer:-—By no political alchemy can you nly applicable to the present on in China, but Mr. Melntosh believes new men will arise, men of Christian character, for the new state.
Ar, MeIntosh leaves behind a very large number of friends in missionary and business circles, mot the least of whom are members in Shanghai of the Craft with. which he has been long and honourably associated, all of whom will wish for him many happy days in Scot-where he expects to settle.
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