Show I 1 I 1 1 t ai i A po portion iti on of bf our chinese e se missionaries we understand have arrived in our midst t though bough they have not reported to us and we know not who they are another portion are in calif california ornia striving for a chance to get home latest rumor says tb the president of the mission hosea stout was at san bernardino and will be in this winter dause cause no door open for the gospel in china the rebellion so called absorbs the attention of every soil soul and no time to attend to anything else from all reports that we have seen it is reasonable to antei ea that thai a complete and total revo revolution liltOn is n progress for all china and that all old forms ceremonies customs and laws oft said to be older than the world are about to be changed and i it so the progress of nations for good or et edit it will be the we pity the nations who will rot not receive the gospel when the elders of israel have compassed sea and land without purse or scrip to carry it to them we can do no more only pray for fortham them the chance is their own the risk is their own they must be responsible tor for it kings may sit on their throne sand d I 1 laugh at the latter day elders F and direct their officers 1 I 1 to persecute ancL banish them but bu t when the overflowing 1 sc aurgea urges shall walk through their kingdoms at midday mid day and midnight mid night and the pains of travail shall ahall be upon them to save their tottering thrones god will laugh at their calamity calamity and when ifield their sears fears shall become in insupportable support able he will mock them em with a sore mockery nock erv |