China’s Changing Policy Toward Christians
By Editor
THE Chinese Government has issued a proclamation warning its people against "stirring up strife against native Christians, and declaring that missionary chapels will be protected." Of this, the San Francisco Chronicle remarks that it is a straw which indicates "the foreign influence that of late years has been brought to bear upon Li Hung Chang." And it says that "when Marquis Tseng is also installed in the Home Government, we may expect to see even more radical departures from the old policy of hatred to foreigners and intolerance of all foreign institutions." There are a good many people in California upon whom some such influence, even foreign if no other, might well be brought to bear, to cause them to depart from their old policy of hatred to Chinese foreigners. Even the Chronicle could be benefited by the effective exertion of such an influence. We wish we could see a straw to indicate that so wholesome an influence was being brought to bear in that direction.