THE CHINESE.
——Shanghai, China, has a temperance society with 400 members.
The Chinese pupils at Stockton and Oroville have purchased cabinet organs for their respective schoolrooms.
——In order to introduce telegraphy into China, the authorities grant the free use of the wires to the people for a month.
——A decree has been issued exempting all Chinese converts to Christianity from all levies for idolatrous worship, processions or theatrical performances.
——The Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong says that the Catholic mission there took 400,000 Chinese children last year to bring up in the faith of their church.
——A tract which is being distributed by the Japanese says: “Christianity is spreading like fire on a grassy plain, so that in capital and country there is no place where it is not preached.”
——According to the latest statistics on the subject, there are at the present time 310 Protestant missionary agents in China. Reckoning the population of China at 350,000,000, a ratio is found of one missionary agent to a population of 1,129,032.