London, Mar. 26. Reproductions are published today Shanghat, Apr. 25.
Who has said that we are a oodless people? Shanghai churches were packed to the doors on Easter Sunday, and the congregation at the Cathedral spread to the vestry, while early morning Communion was well attended, Church attendances have Increased of late months, and church and chapel classes show no signs of dwindling. One worldling has re~ marked that Shanghai must be getting frightened, but no one knowing the real heart of our community would Subscribe to the idea that our Spected inhabitants were in any way going in for heavenly insurance. On. Easter morning many cocktail parties were held after church, nnd' these ukewise were well attended ey many who had frst paid their proper tribute to the festival, There 1s noth-Ing inconsistent in this "thirst after ghteousness," and there ix nothing. particularly Shanghai-ish about the Sequence of dates, for at home almost the very next building to any village church is the public house, and ft has frequently been known that church. waidens have had appointments there Immediately after service. In our early. youth we understood that our churchmen made these visits in order to convert those in the bar who had not attended service, but if 0. then the eloquence expended often made it necessary for our pillars of the Church to wipe their -mouths on emerging,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.