Catholic Missionaries

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2, 14 January 1909, Page 49

Catholic Missionaries

In a recent issue we quoted the high encomiums which an "Ulster Protestant, Sir Robert Hart, the veteran direc tor of the Chinese customs, paid to the zeal and devotion and success of Catholic missionaries m the Hwa Kwo or Flowery Kingdom. The S.M. Review, in a recent issue, cites an almost equally laudatory notice of the" Jesuit missionaries in China, from a Protestant clergyman lately returned from the Distant East. After having described the famous Jestiit observatory of Sicaiwei, near Shanghai (which issues the keenly watched daily weathei -bulletins for the stormy eastern seas and regulates the time of the Chinese Empire), the clergyman referred to says: ' Catholic priests and the Jesuits, especially, whom 1 have had an opportunity of studying at close range, are doing magnificent work among the natives. The technical schools, where the boys are taught i rinting, carpentry, and other useful trades, are conducted on practical lines! and are a tribute to the self-sacrifice and earnest zeal of the Jesuits.'