If no effier country is affected by this change in missionary sentiment, America will be. What. the! missionaries find it politic to. think' about China is reflected by the whole church.going population of the country and is impressed most emphatically upon the Represents tives in Congress tu 90 out. of every hundred congressional dist The mfssonation went to be patent and conciliatory with a view to earning the good will of an antiforeign rabble, America is flooded from end to end with sentimental slush about this country and, if the Lotion Quariar were invaded and that some colonel of Hifar could 2¢- cupy his quarters, American action! would probably be confined to a pompous protes If the missionary cause is seri hveatened, however,, matters igo differently, for missionary opin-ign can move' American gunboats and bring them into lively action when no other force can make them shift, their moorings. A change in missionary attitude therefore means, in the first place, that the tide of unspeakable drool which has, been going home for a year about China's rights and aspirations will be be ruptly stemmed in both America and England, not to mention some of the continental countries. Then tions do not improve, it will ong before it will be' casual-agreed in legislative circles in Washington that China is really in a pretty bad way; that the poor, unhappy Chinese people are suffer ing most unmereifally under thi cruel, corrupt, irresponsible and voracious military tyrants and that it would be a genuinely altruistic thing for America to intervene and free a quarter of the world's popuation from such hideous slavery.
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