One does not need to have a very curious mind, if living in this par: of the Empire, to yatiier consid-table evidence as to the robable causes of the Boxer outbreak. who evidence comes to anyone who wid tour in certain directions and observe, and listen to the representatives of the vil age people, The writer has not heart the side of the Roman Catholics very fully, except that which has come from those who have come over from that body to the side of the people. But he has heard very dstinetly from this side, which seems to include both the common peuple and the literati. The gist of all this mass of testimony appears to be that for good or for il, the Roman Catholic Charch in this part of China, io spite of recent
the better class of the Chinese people, large recessions, is losing the resp et of
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