The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 7 East Asia
The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 7 East Asia
Elise Reclus
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" In 1876 there were about 300 European missionaries, besides hundreds of native priests and catechists, ministering to from 400, 000 to 500, 000 faithful, with a yearly increase of about 2, 000. The Protestant missions were first opened in 1842, after the treaty of Nanking, and were for a time restricted to the five treaty ports. Since 1860 they have been gradually diffused throughout every part of the emjiire except Tibet and Eastern Turkestan. Numbering about 250, nearly all English and Amer...icans, and assisted by over 600 natives, the missionaries have founded OA^er 20 hospitals and nearly 350 schools, attended by 7, 500 pupils. In 1878 the Chinese Protestants numbered about 50, 000, chiefly centred in Fokien. Most of the converts are drawn from the Buddhist sect of the Ningpo district, which abstains from eating flesh. To the oj^ium trade, imposed by Great Britain on China, is largely due the faiku-e of the Protestant missions, the natives naturally asking themselves whether HABITS AND CUSTOMS.
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