To the Editor of the "Norta-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—I have received the following letter from my little girl who is at a certain boarding school some hundreds of miles from Shanghai. Dear Mama and Papa, Liss has been giving us awful scares. She says that Mr. Coates said that Christ is going to come in September, 1923, and if we are not taken we will have such awful things happening to us—you have never told me about the Anti-Christ before, Oh! She is simply terrifying some of us.
Supposing I am left behind, what shall I do. There will be no one to look after me, I want to be with you when it happens. No one cai? explain things like this as you do. They simply terrify you most of the time.
You are going home and won't return till after next September.
One of the proofs is that the old Israeli-ties wrote dates on the pyramids. One was the date of the Norman Conquest, another was that of 1914 and that was the Great War, now the one that is marked biggest is 1923. Oh! I am so scared at times.
Please don't go to England and leave me out here in the lurch Oh, please, please don't.
Your loving, ete.
Surely there is something wrong with Bible teaching that acts on children's minds like this. I feel sure the Master Himself would have addressed the little ones He loved very differently.
I am, etc.,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.