The annual report of the Kiangnan Catholic Mission ending Ist July, 1901, is a very interesting publication, and shows that excellent work has been done by the Catholic missionaries in the quarters entrusted to their care. The ion comprises two large provinces of China—Kiangsw and Anhui—both extending over an area of 90,000 square miles (Macmillan's atlas for China and Japan), There are in Rinngsu 67 district cities and oral population of about 50,000,000.
12 prefectures, while Anhui has a little less 09 of the former and 13 of the latter. regard to missionary labour, both provinces are otherwise mapped out.' Leavin; Shanghai and its envi divided into 18 sections and 100 districts. A district comprises a certain number of churches and out-stations administered by one missionary. A section is the sum total of several districts, and is under the supervision of a head priest, whose office ix principally to direct and control his workers and their respective flocks.
The staff of the Mission is numerous. Of the regular clergy there are the Viear-Apostelic, Bishop Paris, S.J., 138 Jesuit Mission-ries, of whom 23 are natives; 16 theological students, and 22 coadjutor brothers. Of the secular clergy there are 30 priests, 17 theological students, 17 following a. preparatory course, and 22 Latin students. These latter are all natives, the pric having completed their theological study ing for the mission is helped in its work by.several religious congregations: the Little Mari Brothers charge of St. Xavier's College, Hongkew; trained native teachers 30), Carmelite nuns (32), Helpers of the Souls in Purgatory (81)' conducting the orphanage in Sicawei and Conyents in French Concession, and in Hongkew native con: gregation of Presentation cupying in the interior 2 out Kiangsu and 18 in Anhui Sicawei, distant 5 miles from Shanghai, isthe hend-quarters and training department of the Mission. The various buildings are all of the foreign type and bespeak an paralleled in the Far East. e within this human hive a central residence for the whole Mission, a Theological Department for the training of foreign and native clergy, a College (131 pupils) with a native classical and Western programme, a Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory, 2 Museum containing lo specimens of zoology, conchology, ophiology, Close_by, the village of Tusewei, there are an Orphat for Boys (247), a European printing press, shops where the lads, afte completing elementary education, are taught variety of useful tr such as" archie aray wg, tailoring, shoemaking, ete.
Sen-mou-yel: Lady's Home) there isa Nunnery, a Boarding School for
organisation of a Deaf and Dumb Tustitute 1s (157), and a complete detailed (16), a Home for Aged inmates), a Foundling Asylum stitutes), 'a Dispensary with gratuity sultation, aggregating 23,543 during the year, All these establishments are well worth visit, They demonstrate the power of the white man and of" his methods, may serve ax an object lesson to all who have at heart the welfare and progress of China's millions.
the. French Concession at Shanghai the Mission maintains a General Agency and the very popular Church of St. Joseph, 'There are also a European Girls" Academy (St. Jose Institution—269 pupils), a Poor Girls' School (Buropeansand Eurasians 145), and 'a Dispensary (12,863 consultations). The French Municipal School (303. pupils) is under the Superintendence of a Jesuit Father and of 3 Marist Brothers. In Hong-we are informed that there are a Boys' School (St Xavier's College, 600 pupils of all kinds), the Holy Family Day School for Girls (407 children), a Hospital, 2 Dis-pens aries, a Catholic Circle (80 members), and a Conference of St Vincent of Paul (28 members) for the assistance of the poor and needy. Within the city and in the Tungadu suburb there are a Cathedral, 2 Hospitals (1,265 patients received during the year), a Home for the aged, a Native Elementary School (109 pupils), etc.
Distributed over the sections beyond Shanghai we find a Central residence at Wuhu (Anhui Province), 43 Orphanages, 2 Hospitals, 2 Homes for the Aged, and 120 centres for probationers. These stations have trained during the year, of men 4,604 and of women 2,040; 188 boarding-schools, largely frequented by day-scholars, of whom 3,407 are boys, and 2384 of the female sex.
The total number of baptised Christians in the present state of the Mission amounts to 127,899, a very creditable re-
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