Yachow and Burma : the escape, the return . a should bethrown open to unrestricted foreign intercourse, insteadof the grandmotherly pocket concession system now invogue. It is a disgrace that after nearly a century ofdealings with Western nations China is practically asealed land in many important respects. Freedom ofnavigation and commerce with the defined right of res-idence to every properly identified individual wouldmake a new order of things in China. Missionaries are not clamoring for war or ask only that the rights of Americans be recog-nized, defined, respected ; beyond
Yachow and Burma : the escape, the return . a should bethrown open to unrestricted foreign intercourse, insteadof the grandmotherly pocket concession system now invogue. It is a disgrace that after nearly a century ofdealings with Western nations China is practically asealed land in many important respects. Freedom ofnavigation and commerce with the defined right of res-idence to every properly identified individual wouldmake a new order of things in China. Missionaries are not clamoring for war or ask only that the rights of Americans be recog-nized, defined, respected ; beyond that they will occupytheir own sphere for their own mission as God shallgive them strength and blessing. YACHOW THE ESCAPE 2J And does some one in the shadow of a half-definedfear ask, Is all lost then? The work, the prayers,the hopes, the expressed convictions, the giving, and theplans for coming years—are these all gone ? It needsbut a moments consideration to find the answer in thequestion itself. The work already done cannot be lost,. A CHINESE SCHOOL. nor prayers, nor hopes, nor consecration of the meansto God. These are already garnered beyond thedanger of being lost. And the work yet undone, theplans yet unfulfilled, the hopes of widening blessing,these all remain, one common heritage and joy. Askof Bunker Hill and the four hundred slain ; ask ofBull Run and the slaughtered thousands of those fate- 28 YACHOW AND BURMA ful days, Is all lost ? America is the answer. Ask forthe work in Burma. But just begun, the initial dif-ficulty scarcely conquered, the fettering language hardlyacquired, reinforcements but newly arrived, and onlyscope for forward work—thus Adoniram Judson lookedupon the slow results of years in the delta of LowerBurma and hope took a deeper hold. Yet scarce hadthe larger inspiration been born, than government hos-tility, official interference, and the deadly breath ofcholera assailed the little band, and in the place ofnumbers and song, we see one fra
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