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foreign and 701 native priests in China, while the Protestants have about 325,000 converts in China.

One of the principal missions in Canton is the Canton Christian College, maintained by the American Union Missions. The Roman Catholic Cathedral stands in Canton proper, and the Anglican chapel on the island of Shameen. Seminaries and schools are supported in Canton by the American Baptist and Presbyterian Churches. The Y. M. C. A. building on the Bund—the main thoroughfare, running along the water front—was erected as a memorial to Robert Morrison. the first Protestant missionary in Canton.

 

ERY probably the credulity of the reader has been sorely tried at times in the reading of previous chapters, for, having lived the fairly well-ordered life of the occidental, he finds it difficult to believe in the authenticity of some of the incidents intended to show something of manners and customs in Canton. In the present chapter his faith will possibly be even more sorely tried, and perhaps his credulity will turn to incredulity, because this