Another firm friend of the Szechuanese was the Rev. F, Boreham, of Mienchow, who said that th Chinese there were different from those of any other province, first because floods or famine ' have denuded the original population at different times so that. colonists from other parts of China have rushed into the "garden province," and given it a cosmopolitan character, which further creased' by some slight intermingling with the aboriginal tribes who were there long before the Chinese. The result was a strong, tall, virile race whose women walla with a sturdy swing quite different from the hobbled gait of golden ly feet.
Mr. Boreham also maintained that brigandage was merely a disease from which the country would recover. In this groat diocese of over 13,000 square miles, the speaker said the hope of evangelization lay with the native worker. It is necossury to keep up a steady evangelistic work, inviting in the merchant just freed from the store, who might not understand much' about the message, but who might perhaps return and understand a little more the next time. 'The tired coolie, coming in only for a place to sit' down, might listen five minutes and sleep an hour, *but the five minutes was often ' valuable.
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