Violent Dealing Returned.
A MISSIONARY writes as follows to Our Banner, a missionary journal published in New York:— "The prolonged abuses endured by the Chinese have so prejudiced their minds against the religion of Americans, as well as against Americans themselves, that it is almost impossible for us to reach them with the gospel. They care not to hear it; they shun our missions. And there is great danger that the evils complained of will carry their influence to the other side of the Pacific. So many Chinese return to their own land to tell of the abuses endured among and by Christians, the message of the missionaries in China may be rejected. Rev. Mr. Masters, a recently returned missionary, told me that when he was walking on the street in the city of Sinuwi a brickbat was hurled at his head. Turning to see the one who threw the missile, and to inquire why it was thrown, one said to him, 'That's the way your people stoned me when I was in California.'"