'The annual meeting of the Bolton' rurideeainal branch of the Society' for the Propagation of the Gospel drew avery large audience to the Parish Schools. The Rev, If. Mathews, who for some 30 years had worked in China, described the work there, prefacing his remarks—by commenting that he found people, more than ever anxious to understand what was the matter with The keynote of the Chinese! situation was that there was new] life come into the country. It had not all come through missionaries, but some of it through contact with Western nations.
The spread of Western education among the Chinese had made them dissatisfied with their own country and sometimes the only thing that} would unify them was the anti. foreign cry. Yet it was a great nation, and, whatever suffering the Church was enduring now, " there! was a great future for the country. It was for Christians at home to decide whether the future should be Christian one.
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