EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1930, Page 10

EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY

(To the Editor.)

' Sir, —In reference to your leader, "A1 Slanderous Myth," in Saturday's issue, Professor Soothill has evidently, while pursuing his Chinese studies, forgotten his New Testament History, or he could never have written of Paul, "By this appeal Jio was a[juredto ghe Christianity to tho world." He should have known that at this time—approximately A.I). 00—Christianity was already given, and that Paul had devoted the past twenty-three years of his life to its propagation. He had completed his three great missionary journeys, had written cix epistles, and could .survey with pardonable pride a crop. of flourishilij* churches as a result of ■ his labours,' His work was nearly done* and he appears to have contributed very littlo to the advancement of the Church after . his arrival in Rome. So even though ha had fallen a victim t* the machinations of his enemies in Judea the progress of the Church would not hiivo been retarded. Npr is the reverend professor any more fortunate in his attempt to find in this case of Paul's a Biblical precedent for • extra-territoriality. Jiidea' was; at this* time, an ihtegral part of the Roman Empire, and had been so ever since the deposition of Archelaus forty-one yeart before. The appeal, therefore, was not •from a foreign Court to a Roman one, but rather from an inferior to a superior Court within the Empire itself, and to such a. case the term extra-territoriality; does not' apply. ' ' , So many grave abuses have arisen, in China, under Ibis system that' the new. Government of China has notified tho' Powers concerned that it is ended. Tha Powers have acquiesced in this decision^ and China is now mistress in her own terV xitory.—l am, etc., T. HAROLD LANGLEY.' 16th February.