A communication through Renter's Agency, dated Hong- kong, July 1st,
and published in the Times of Tuesday, shows that there has been a recrudescence of the Anti-Christian movement in Hunan, and placards characterised by the utmost virulence and obscenity have been freely posted in the province. They accuse the missionaries, for example, of "getting hold of children in order to pick out their eyes and hearts wherewith to concoct chemicals for making silver and gold." The Roman Catholic faith is throughout assailed with special vehemence as the "Heavenly Hog" religion, or the religion of the "flog Ancestor." "The doctrine of the Real Presence," says Reuter's Agent, "is no doubt alluded to" in a phrase employed in one placard calling upon the people to arise and exterminate those who " eat their religion." The missionaries in Haukow applied to the Magistrate to have the proclamations destroyed, but he replied that it was not worth while to take note of anonymous publications—an answer which shows that the Magistrate is either in sympathy with, or afraid of the men who are inciting to outrage.
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