To che Editor of the "Norra-Curwa Dairy News."
Sir,—Now that the correspondence is closed, I write to thank you for the fair-minded courtesy with which you have printed the various points of view in the letters on "The Scriptures and the Coming War," courtesy which has made it possible to discuss so fully the prevailing trends of thought on the subject. In the letters the altars of Jehovah and of Baal have been fairly built, and plenty of cold water has been poured on the On account of the repeated typhoons in the early part of October, communications between Shanghai and UHweichow were suspended and no one was then able to make an accurate survey of the areas which the floods have affected. However, it has been reported that the flood was caused by the continuous - rains; and that in consequence thereof, the crops, and tea which are the chief products in Hweichow, were entirely washed away, and that more especially in Shah-hsien, which is south of Hweichow, the situation is the worst. Thou-former. All that remains is to|sands of the inhabitants were await the verdict, not of men,/ drowned, and thousands are still which can settle nothing, but of homeless.
Heaven. of the courtesy, as you kindly say In making this acknowledgement been crying for help a¢ any mo-These unfortunate people have ment and keenly expecting some of your own remarks that you charitable organization to relieve make them under correction," 1 their hunger and distress. want to point out that I have There is now a Flood Relief nowhere said that the speedy re-Association organized by the Hwei-turn of Christ in the circumstances I have indicated "entails the annihilation of millions of people chow merchants in Shanghai. Its; offices are at Messrs Chow Vu Dab Ca, 45 Rue La Guerre. This
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