It may be permissible to add that Archdeacon Moule deplores the abolition of the teaching of Confucianism. It made the Chinese familiar with certain ethical standards, hallowed by antiquity, which they' always recognized even if they did not always practise them. Now these standards have been taken away and nothing put in their place und the result is a certain moral decay which cannot but be noticed.
The Anti-Christian movement spread to Ningpo. in December. There.were violent articles in the
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