July 25.
"Let this be considered final and not subject to further review." The nervous firmness of this last sentence of the reply, addressed by the Minister of Education, Nanking, to the protest of the twelve missionary bodies against the ban on religious instruction in church and mission schools, is mor significant than the dialectical skill with which specious arguments are marshalled to justify the ban. The Minister seems feverishly anxious to shut. the door on inconvenient spectras and shadows, conjured up by the ighty protest of the missionary bodies. This anxiety is well-founded, if only because of the pathetic evidence afforded of the real inspiration of the ban. The Ministry gives lip service to the
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