# Letter >February 18th. 1908 <br> >Dear Miss Molloy and Miss Sears, <br> >I greatly regret that illness prevented my replying to your letters last week. Kindly allow me to send an identical reply to you both, because your statements of the grounds of your resignation are practically the same. Fully do I recognise the earnest spiritual tone which pervades those letters, and as fully do I sympathise with the yearning which they evince for higher spiritual attainment and for more manifested blessing resting on the work; but no less do I deplore the position which you appear to take up, and the views which you enunciate with reference to Baptism, sinlessness, and what one of you terms "the spiritual worldliness" of some of the methods and rules recently adopted by the Society. This feeling of mine is based partly on the melancholy results which have attended similar action on the part of other Missionaries. In other instances it has tended definitely to impede the extension of Christ's Kingdom, and has afforded a grievous cause of stumbling to infant followers of the Master. Under such circumstances can you wonder that I earnestly pray that they Holy Spirit Himself may reveal to you the real peril to yourselves and others which the maintenance of such views as you express will involve. The results to which I have referred are, I well know, the very last which you desire. <br> >If, however, after further waiting upon God, you still maintain the views which you have expressed on these subjects - views which, from my personal knowledge of Messers. Webster and Sloan, they would assuredly repudiate, it would be impossible for me not to feel that you were no true exponents of the message which you were sent to China to deliver. <br> >But I trust and pray that matters will not come to this. <br> >It was quite right of you to write and tell me the serious decision at which you were arriving, but as a matter of fact, your allegiance is due in the first instance to Victoria, to them therefore, if unhappily you still desire it, it should be tendered. <br> >Once more assuring you of my prayerful sympathy. Ever your sincere friend, B. Baring-Gould, Sec. C.M.S.