The following is suggested as a possible test for the high-minded brother: let him attempt a trip through the upper half of Kiangsu, unattended by any foreigner but supplied with cooks and "boys" who will attend to his wants. Let him have no passport, nor let him in any case ask or receive aid from any of the veteran missionaries on his route. To make it fair let an old-time missionary precede him by a day and inform all the thieves and grafters at custom and likin stations that the man_ behind is "on his own." The only fault is that these @¥fhard boiled" scamps would think some sort of a trick was being put up on them and be wary. But. if they could be, made to believe the affair was genuine the outcome would be Wery interesting, It is exceedingly doubtful if he would get one fourth of the way from Chinkiang to the Shantung border, but if he did he would have plenty to write about. By the time he had had his baggage ripped open in search for opium and ammunition, his wife turned out of bed at midnight and her bed searched for smuggle ed goods, himself brought before a dozen petty officiald and an account of himself rendered, and least of all, payments at a score of small customs houses for permission to pass, we venture to say his ardour for the abolition of extraterritoriality would be very seasonably cooled.
Or, to use an expression of the "Recorder," his spiritual nerve'' would be shattered, even if the bandits failed to get him. am, etc., T. B. Grarroy. Haichow, Ku., July 20, 1923.
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