'The work of the Shanghai Roman Catholic Mission extends to two ent provinces of the Chinese Empire: Kiang. ssu and Anhui. The area of the' two is 95,000 square miles—an expanse larger than the area of England, Scotland and Wales—and their population. some 50,000,000. The statistics which we have received bring us the tidings of an increase of 6,375 new converts, received during the year 1005, into the Church. This increase is principally due to the fact that 5,196 adults, fully instructed and without thre being any immediate danger of death, have received the rite of baptism.
The staff of the Mission has made strides and is composed of 226 ionones, 73 of whom are natives. In the ecclesiastical seminary, 43 students, all likewise natives, are preparing for the ministry. Among the. other helpers, suffice it to mention the. Little Marist Brothers, 29, all teaching at St. Xavier's and the French Municipal Schools. There are moreover 22 native teaching Brothers, who do excellent, work: in the outstations. In fact the number of schools maintained by the Mission runs up into the thousands. Quoting merely the statistical returns, we find Schools for boys—558 Christians 8,237 Pupils attending... (Pagans 5,038 Schools for girls—604 (Christians 7,521 Pupils in attendance, {Pagans 2,039 The aggregate of both kinds of schools reaches 1,162, with an attendance of 23,535 pupils.
Shanghai, and near by, Sicawei, are the great training and educational centres of,
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