The Archive · 1927

St. Joseph'

From the Church of God and the Empire I dropped into St. Joseph's, 'a Roman Catholic church just out: side the International Settlement in the French city, High mass was proceeding. As I entered, I was astonished to find the church jammed with Chinese, with about one-third Coreigners, French, English, American. I remembered then that had seen no Chinese in the two. other churches and that Shanghai, after all, had a population 90 per. cent. Chinese with many of them Christians.

'A. fascinating Chinese child in native costume wandered informally down the aisle as the high mass proceeded, smiling engagingly at] the kneeling people, The Chinese men and women were in nai dress or foreign dress or any dress ut all) that ame hand-

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