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As an ethnic Chinese, I enjoyed this issue from cover to cover. "Fury Unleashed" (page 31) is a heart-breaking story. However, the martyrs, who are now in heaven, must be rejoicing to see the growth of Christians, in numbers and spirituality, in modern China because of their testimonies.

Kai Ton Chau
Scarborough, Ontario

I just received my first issue and was fascinated by the excellently researched/written articles. Please continue the good work of "Unbecoming Ladies" (page 28) and give women their due in the history of Christianity.

Laura Robinson-Thomas
San Francisco, California

Kevin Miller writes (in"The Gallery," page 34) that "Morrison was raised in a stern Scotch-Presbyterian home . …" Is there another kind of Scottish-Presbyterian home? Presumably, this pious man grew up to become a "rigid Calvinist," who "sternly" presided over another generation of Scottish-Presbyterians, though not in Scotland.

My guess is that Morrison grew up in a warm and nurturing Scottish-Presbyterian home, which explains his family's interest in missions and his own life-long commitment to cross-cultural evangelism.

Geoffrey Smith
Lenexa, Kansas

This year marks the sesquicentennial year for Seventh Day Baptist missions in China when Solomon and Lucy Carpenter and Nathan and Olive Wardner began work in Shanghai in 1847. Many others followed them. The influence of such workers is one of the reasons that the percentage of Christians among the Chinese has increased in spite of the geometric increase in population.

Mabel West, a teacher, may be the woman on the far right in the picture on page 40.

Don Sanford
Historian, Seventh Day Baptist
Historical Society
Janesville, Wisconsin

I believe my wife's great aunt, Maude Whitmer, was [one of the ladies] in the photograph on page 28. We think she's on the far left, second row from the bottom. She died in China shortly after this photo was taken.

Do you have any ideas how I might be able to find out if this great aunt is indeed in the photograph?

Maurice Hime
Via the Internet

When I showed the photo on page 40 to a friend who had grown up in China, she exclaimed, "That's my mother!" Anne Hazelton is in the far back left of the photo. If any reader can identify any other faces in these two photos (pages 28 and 40), we'd love to hear from you.

Mary Ann Jeffreys
Editorial Administrator
Christian History

On the subject of Christian missionary efforts in China, Robert Hall Glover, M.D., deserves mention. Some sources credit Dr. Glover with saving the lives of many missionaries during the Boxer Rebellion by means of an encoded message he dispatched warning of the coming threat. In 1924 he wrote The Progress of Worldwide Missions and became a widely respected missionary statesman until his death in 1947.

Thomas C. Rauter
Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

Christian History is beautifully illustrated. I am touched and blessed by how you handle the unpleasant facts of church history without any hint of contempt or malice.

Martha Banks
New Wilmington, Pennsylvania

Corrections:

Oops! We flopped the photos on pages 13 and 33, making the Chinese characters appear backwards. At least we discovered, in our chagrin, that a number of our subscribers read Chinese!

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