It is reported that during the late disturbances in southern
China consequent upon the French expedition to Tonquin, a small
Wesleyan mission station at Fatshan was at the mercy of a
riotous mob. The chapel was wrecked. The hospital for days was
menaced and was hourly expected to fall, but here, for the first
time, the rioters appeared to hesitate. Some of the sick were
removed before their eyes; others, they knew, could not leave
the building. They constantly threatened assault, but the blow
never came, and amid their angry menaces the doctor was allowed
to pass freely to and from the hospital. A finer touch than
that which compelled a kindred feeling between this rabble and
its foreign benefactors does not exist in nature. The Chinese
mob probably did not include many acute controversialists in
theology, but it did, as a whole, recognize the presence
of that charity which is rightly regarded as the essence of
religion.--London _Lancet_.
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=Charm, A, Surrendered=--See RESERVATION.
=Chastening=--See AFFLICTION, USES OF.
=Chastisement=--See DISCIPLINE.