Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — Fickleness of the Chinese Character. [ARTICLE]

Fickleness of the Chinese Character.

An admirable mission may have b°en carried on In a city for twenty years. Its hospital may have relieved thousands incurable by native doctor* Its agents may have bollt up a successful church. And yet some day a flercs antl-forelgn patriarch come*, along and whispers his stories In greedy ears. A great mob gathers, the houses of th« converts are sacked, the mission sta* tloo Is stormed, and those t»ol locks enough t.. slip off sre tortured am| cut In a hundred pieces. Next day tbg mob is very sorry for what It has doney and perhaps turns on the inMtijee*^