BLODGET , Secretary to Frederick F. Low, May 6, 1872

Mr. Chapin to Mr. Low.

Sir: The members of the North China mission of the American Board, now in session, desire to convey to you their grateful appreciation of the services rendered to the cause of Christian missions in China by the promptness and energy with which you secured redress for violence done to the Rev. Isaac Pierson in December last, by an angry mob in Yu-Cheu.

We cannot refrain from referring also to the more recent and more perplexing difficulty arising out of the renting of a building for public preaching in the southern city of Peking by the American Methodist mission. In this case your firm and just course in defending the rights of the missionaries against the measures employed by unscrupulous Chinese officials to prevent the occupation of the premises acquired in good faith, will, in our opinion, tend to the security of the lives and property of foreigners in China.

At a time when the cause of Christian missions has become so prominent a topic of international discussion, it is to us a reason for thanksgiving that we can feel that the representative of the American Government is just to missionaries; is in sympathy with their labors for the elevation of the heathen to the enjoyment of the moral and spiritual blessings of Christian lands, and is willing, within the limits of treaty rights, to protect them in their labors.

With consideration, we have, &c.,

In behalf of the mission—