Mass was in progress. She notices the presence of many Chinese Catholics, and suddenly remembers. that at those earlier services for troves she did not see one Chinese!
This gives her an excellent opportunity for contrasting Protestant th Catholic worship. But' at that time the many Protestant Chinese churches were filled with worshippers, singing and praying in their own language, and listening to ser mons whether in Cantonese, Fu-Kienese, Mandarin, or the Shanghai vernacular.
Why in the name of common sense! should she expect our Chinese: Christians to forsake their own. places of worship to attend an. advertised service for troops English?
The Mass that Miss Strong en-Joyed was of course in Latin, as intelligible perhaps to the Chinese as it was to her and the other foreigners.
At the largely attended 11 o'clock service at both Protestant churches, there are always a few of our English-speaking Chinese friends resent; but excepting on special occasion, or when they want to hear the music, most of them. prefer to worship in their own mother tongue, Generalization on Small Data Miss Strong generalizes on a very, small data, A hasty eye-full of two services for troops, an equally fleeting glance at, St, Joseph's Cathedral, and she "read the story of Shanghai and the reactions of vari ous souls!" The other. Catholic Jchurches, the American Community. Charch, the Free Christian, Ghureh, RIX
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