The Archive · 1928

Nothing Slow About Shanghai

There is nothing show about Shanghai, Called the Paris of the cust it excels the Preyeh eupital in guy life of all kinds To. enjoy it pleasure seekers of all nations, including the rich orientals, pour in Crom half world. Wine, women and song appear in high colors. And yet it is the greatest sionary centre of the planet. Pages upon pages of the business d.ree-tory of the telephone book ae lovered to missionaries, of whan Protestants of various sects appear in one section and the numerous Catholic orders and sisterhoods in another. Of Protestant sects the Seventh Day Adventists ave the most numerous and perhaps] efficient, the denomination of which Mrs. Votaw, Warren Harding's sister, and her husband, afterwards venal' commissioner of our jovernment, were Jong engaged in the foreign field. When you consider the slight attention Sunday attracts among the Chinese masses, who know of it chiefly us a "bank holiday" for foreigners, you may well other things, to lay the sabbatarian emphasis on Saturday.

Still everything oes much in evidence und highly re-Organizations of the west, from the Rotary Club 6 Amercia, to the German and Scandinavian trade ure doing business. And all this beside a native city of million struggling and tugging people, whose children yest doe collars after an illness, to fool the devils into thinking they are dogs ind so escape nother meddlings Buddhist temples are with excited Chinese, buying the slender piece of sandalwood designed to meet the disease with which they are at home grappling, und this they burn bee fore a great bronze statue of Buddha, ene.rcled by devils executed,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account