Ten years ago when postal and telegraph service was Interrupted there was no way of learning what was taking place in the outer world except by uncertain rumour. News of significant events was garbled and unreliable and often many days and even weeks in arrival, "Now numerous. wireless receiving "Instruments private homes ug well as in. public places Tend assurance that never again can this Interior station be cut-off from the world as in times past.
Another vivid contrast is in. the attitude of the populace since those troublous days. "The anti-foreign and anti-Christian fecting was for the time being wide-spread nnd Intense and "KIN the forelgner™ was frequently heard, "Except among the church ce stitueney ud other personal friends fand nequaintanees. the missionaries felt themselves barely tolerated It not actually opposed and plotted calnst "The Chinese church members. suffered even more and in some instances were actively persecuted, Mlasion property was confiscated and In some eases raided, Yooted and bombed.
Circumstances of this sort, however were only {omporary. Hatred, threats and opposition were' soon supplanted by friendliness and ce-operation, It germs almost incredible now that there has ever been anything but the most cordial relations between the church and the rest of the population. Everywhere missionaries and Chinese Christian leaders are made to feel not only weledme but mich sought
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