"For freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won."
And let it be remembered (as applying to the latter phase) that the Ti-ping movement was originated through acceptation of the Gospel, and that to comfort those who are persecuted for Its sake, it is therein declared:—
"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair.
"Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed."
FOOTNOTES:
[83] Published in the Daily News, August 8, 1865.
[84] The italics are ours.
[85] "It has been plain from the first, that they were no more like Christians than Mahomet was like a Jew" (p. iv).
[86] Published in The English Presbyterian Messenger, July 1st and August 1, 1865.
[87] See p. 13, "Occasional Paper," No. 10, dated July, 1865, issued with the Tenth Annual Report of the China Mission at Amoy and Swatow, 1864-5.