To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cutya Dany News,"
Sim,—In your weekly issue to hand this afternoon I notice an astounding statement made by "Bookworm" in his letter of September 8 regarding the Pentateuch. He states "that theories about absolute histricity and literal correctness of the Bible have been given up ages ago."
Now it so happens that during the last two years in China alone, some 2,000 individuals of various nationalities and denominations (non-Chinese) have subscribed. to a statement embodying these very beliefs.
The majority of these people are associated with a large circle of mends in their homelands who also hold the same beliefs, and both in China and at home, many among these thousands happen to be intelligent, well-educated and same persons, in fact one might hazard a guess that taken all round no larger number of unbalanced minds would be found among these believers than among the general public anywhere, and yet "Bookworm'' fancies that by hurling at us the name of half a dozen reverend gentlemen of whose arguments we have not the slightest fear, he can close the argument and "propose not to write further."
Now, Sir, in the interests of fairplay let it be stated that there are two sides. In drawing attention to this unfair statement I hope.
T am, ete, A Boorman.
Shansi, Sept. 22, 1922.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.