is unjust. I believe
they are truly good men and have the good of China at heart. They
have wrought a wonderful work. In fact, whatever China has
accomplished is due to the preaching and teaching of these faithful
missionaries. It is true that Romish missions have sometimes become
political machines. Men have joined the Romish Church, and even whole
villages have turned their ancestral halls into Romish chapels in
order to further their causes in the courts through the influence of
French consuls.

I can give you many incidents of this character, but one is
sufficient. Several of the Congregational and Presbyterian Christians
in the village of Lung How Lee, of the Hoy Ping District, not far
from Canton, had a piece of land there and were building a free
schoolhouse, which was almost completed, when the enemies of the
Mission rose and destroyed the building; worse than this, several of
the rioters met and outraged a girl relative of one of the
Christians. This girl, because of her disgrace, committed suicide by
hanging. The Christians had the perpetrators before the District
Magistrate, who was about to punish them; when suddenly all their
relatives, together with the accomplices, about seventy in number,
went to Canton and joined the Catholic Church. They then got their
priests and the French Consul to plead for their imprisoned relatives
before the Chinese Governor. The result was that every one of the
culprits was released and the cases dismissed. These infamous
criminals, as soon as they were set at liberty, committed further
outrages; they attacked the Christians, drove them from their homes
and village, and plundered all they had. All these crimes were
committed before the eyes of the Catholic priests. How could they
tolerate such detestable acts. It makes our blood boil to see such
outrages. We are at a loss to understand why the Catholic priests
admitted such people to their churches, and why the French Consul so
blindly used his influence to liberate such criminals. These things
have not only occurred repeatedly in the Kwong Tung Province of South
China, but also throughout the whole Empire. The Catholic people have
not only wronged the Christians, but also the non-Christians, and
thus a strong sentiment is created against them.

Whenever there is a chance to pay back, these people will inflict a
heavy blow. In fact, these Catholics have already suffered the
consequences of their wrong-doing; this is why ther