THE CHINESE.
—Seven Chinamen were admitted as members of the Presbyterian Church at Los Angeles at the communion in April.
—The Hawaiian law prohibiting Chinamen from coming to the Islands has been repealed, and over 3,000 Chinese laborers have contracted for their passage there.
—“The Chinese American” is the name of a paper recently started in New York under the editorial management of Wong Chin Foo.
—It is reported that there are 2,500 Chinese in New York and its suburbs. Of these 600 are under instruction in Sunday-school, one school having 112 scholars in attendance at one time. Much labor is involved in their instruction, as a teacher is given to each scholar. About 40 are professing Christians. Three or four are studying for the ministry, and one has gone back to China as a missionary.
—There are 60 Chinamen in Springfield, Ohio, 30 of whom are members of the Sabbath-school. They claim that they cannot all attend at the same time, because the “Christians,” as they call all white people, will take advantage of their absence and break into their laundries and steal their money.
—Rev. C. R. Hager and Lee Sam, sent by the American Board to establish a mission in those districts of South China from which the Chinese in America have come, are already at work. A house has been rented and an evening school for the instruction of the Chinese in English provided for. The plan for instilling the truths of the Gospel into the minds of the scholars by using the Bible to some extent for a textbook, which has been so successful in California, will be adopted.