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Rh the American Societies. In this last outbreak we lost no life. It is six years ago since our trouble at Kucheng, when Robert Stewart, his wife, and several of his companions were killed. That was a local outburst of a secret society which had no wide-spread influence, but was uncontrolled by any law or public opinion such as we have in England. There was no particular hostility towards the missionary as a missionary, but simply as a foreigner. The Chinese Christian has a stability of character which is not so often found among the Japanese. The latter is quicker, more receptive, more ready to adapt himself; but the former is more solid, and many have shown heroic endurance in suffering for the faith and great devotion to their European friends. On the other hand, in some respects the Chinaman is a much misjudged man.”

“Do you care to say anything about the protest which the C.M.S. has lately addressed to the Government against the attempt to exclude Christianity from the Soudan? The feeling seems to be that the Khartoum College should not, under these circumstances, have been dedicated to so peculiarly Christian a man as General Gordon?”

“Perhaps you remember that when General Gordon was in the Soudan he invited the C.M.S. to go there. After his tragic death a Gordon Memorial Fund was raised, being started at a meeting in