THE CHINESE.
—The Baptist Chinese Mission, Portland, Oregon, has over two hundred Chinese connected with it, several of whom are women and children.
Seventy different Chinese have been connected with the school at Santa Cruz, Cal. Five of the pupils have been baptized and received to the Congregational Church. Two more will soon be baptized. This little company of Chinese Christians is full of life, of prayer and of eager liberality.
—About forty Chinamen are under instruction in Philadelphia in connection with the Sunday Schools of the Episcopal Church. They have undertaken to send thirty dollars annually to endow a bed in the hospital at Wuchang, China.
—The Chinese Young Mens' Christian Association in Oakland, Cal., co-operates in preparing converted Chinamen for church membership. Converts in the Sunday-schools are referred to the officers of the Association, who are themselves Chinamen. After six months' probation the candidates are brought before the Church Committee by the Y. M. C. A. and the officers of the Sunday-school, and, if report is favorable, they are received into the Church.
—"As to the yellow races," says the Spectator, "who ought to be just lazier than Europeans, they beat them altogether. We suppose there are indolent Chinese, but the immense majority of that vast people have an unparalleled power of work, care nothing about hours, and, so long as they are paid, will go on with a dogged steady persistence in toil for sixteen hours a day such as no European can rival. No English ship-carpenter will work like a Chinese, no laundress will wash as many clothes, and a Chinese compositor would be very soon expelled for over-toil by an English 'chapel' of the trade."