'Commissioner .George Scott Railton, ivho has just bean in China, considers that the Salvation Army lias an infinitely better chance at the present timo in that Empire than it over, hp.il in England or any other country. His'reasons are very typical, "Tlio Chinese," bo says, "are, even moro than tho Japanese, fond of every sort of demonstration, display, and diversion. Toiling as they do'almost ceaselessly' at tho most arduous, and least productive. tasks, they delight in gambling, m opium-smoking, feasting, processions, in hearing! story .and-fortune-tellers, in everything that takes them for the, moment! completely off from ordinary lifelabour. Tho Army at its very hottest will bo a religion they can appreciate."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 19 October 1907, Page 4
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111Untitled Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 21, 19 October 1907, Page 4
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