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Show TYPE OF CHRISTIAN 80LDIER. Rare Qualities Wilt Make "Chinese Gordon" Long Remembered. Once In the Sudan, having Inadvertently Inadvert-ently Injured u lizard's tall by switching switch-ing his riding whip, he was rendered mlseiablo for days by the remembrance remem-brance of it. At Woolwich he spent much time und care in trying to cure a canary belonging to a lady friend of his which had broken Its leg. No man has written more foellngly of tho horrors of wur or has morn strongly denounced those who enter upon It with a light heart. To him It was a dreadful necessity, t,nrt nothing could Justify Its employment but the hope of putting uu "tid to some evil greater still. When he quitted China ho wroto to his mother: "I know I shall leave China as poor as when I ontered It, but with tho knowlcdgo that through my weak Instrumentality upward of 80,000 to 100,000 lives bavo boon spared. I need no further satisfaction than this." Ills sole object In undertaking under-taking tho administration of the Sudan Su-dan wus to put down the slave trade. "I declnro solemnly," he says, "that I would give my llfo willingly to savo tho sufferings tr those people, nnd if I could do this, how much morn does He emu lor them than such Imperfection Imperfec-tion as I am?" Milwaukee Sentlnol. |