Religion: Defaulting Methodists

"Methodism sought the money through its women. Methodism got the money from you. Methodism, vised by its geographical Bishop, promised to repay the money owed you. Methodism, in the particular locality which initially owes you, whines its inability to pay its honest debts. Yet, this same sunny California brand of Methodism finds ways to yearly send $65,000 to poke their noses into the business of foreigners—of Chinamen alone, and, if you please, of Chinamen only in Foochow, In that."

Such was one of the milder passages in a blistering, three-page letter received...

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