DEFENCE OF MISSIONARIES.
In the Baptist Church last evening the Rev. W. L. Salter spoke very strongly against those who had stated that the Protestant missionaries were to blame for the recent massacres in China. The rev. gentleman took as his text 11. Chxon., xxxvi., 15 and 16, and in the course of his remarks claimed that the foundation of the present trouble was laid one hundred years ago when British statesmen forced upon an unwilling nation the curse of the opium traffic. He reviewed the whole history of this traffic from ,1773 to the present time, and condemned the two Opium Wars, quoting Mr. Gladstone's stern denunciation of both. That the opium traffic' had assumed large proportions was shown by the fact that over 100,000 chests of opium were poured into China every year. He urged upon his hearers tho duty of Britain to remove this blot upon her honour. He thought the matter of allowing missionaries to return to Inland China should be left in the hands of the directors of the various missionary agencies.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 115, 12 November 1900, Page 5
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