THE CHINESE CRISIS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I quite agree with you that we are under no moral obligation to save China from a revolution. But I fear you are right in thinking that such a revolution as appears possible in China would be accompanied by a massacre of all the Christian converts. Now, surely we have duties towards them which we have not towards the Chinese people at large; not only because they are our fellow-Christians, but also because they have been mostly converted by the agency of British missionaries. If the danger proves real, we ought to offer them homes in Burmah, where there is enough of unoccupied country to contain many millions of people. Were we to do this for the Protestant converts, the French would probably do the same for the Roman Catholic ones by offering them a refuge in Tonquin.—I am, Sir, dro ,
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