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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 180, 8 September 1876, Page 13

The New York • Church Union,' a Protestant paper, furnishes us with the following information in regard to China. It shows, to its great regret, that " Rome " has adopted a more effective 1 mode of miking converts than that of Protestant missionaries, who rely on distributing the Bible among the civilised Mongolians: — "A cathedral is in process of erection at Canton, which is to cost $3,000,000. It is reported that another, quite as magnificent and costly, is to be erected at Pekin, and churches are springing up in nearly every important city in China. Home takes a long look ahead. She is educating for the future. Foundlings are picked up by the hundred and thousand; poor parents sell their children for a trifle, parting with them that they may be educated to be piiests. A few years hence these foundlings will be traversing the hills and valleys, stopping at every village, and establishing schools, and promoting the cause of the Church. A gentleman who has travelled through several of the Provinces dressed as a Chinaman, and who has thus enjoyed excellent opportunities for observation, is of the opinion that at least 90 per cent, of the missionary effort in Chink ia !by the Catholics."