Tam glad to have this opportunity of, congratulating the "North-China Heralz" on the occasion of ite eightieth anniversary. The past eighty years foreshow a still more splendid future.
Is not the present position of China somewhat similar to the eitua~ tion in which the Roman Bmpire was placed just before its fall? The question has often been put that, had the Roman Empire had a Press such ae the world possesses to-day, would it have fallen? Who knows?
However the fact remains that the Presa is now the greatest power in The Rey, Father Jacquinot. responsibility ties therefore on the the world for good or evil. No mean who through the Press, direct 0 thoughts and opinions on the world questions of to-day.
"Herald" "la awaited with—much To my. own knowledge the weekly eagerness by thone who have elected to spend their lives in the interior of this country ao that the people of China may also share with ws the great truths et out in our Christian civilization. You may do much indeed to "help to save. China,
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