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supplanted them, or caused them to vanish out of sight? What problems these for the ethnologist! Doubtless there would have been intermarriages of the races with new generations of commingled blood. And what would have been the result of this? There is a story which I have read somewhere, that long years ago a Chinese junk was driven by the winds to the shores of California, and that a Chinese merchant on board took an Indian maiden to wife and bore her home to the Flowery Kingdom, and that from this marriage was descended the famous statesman Li Hung Chang. But whatever the fortunes of the Indians, or the Chinese in their appropriation of the Pacific coast, it would not have been so advantageous to civilisation, to the progress of humanity. It would have been loss, and a hindrance to the Anglo-Saxon race destined now to rule the world and to break down every barrier and to set up the standard of the Cross everywhere for the glory of the true God. His hand is apparent in it all. He directs the great movements of history for the welfare of mankind, and He controls the destinies of nations for the advancement of His Kingdom! CHAPTER XI THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF 1901 First Services--Drake's Chaplain--Flavel Scott Mines--Bishop Kip--Growth of the Church in California--The General Convention in San Francisco--A Western Sermon--Personnel of the Convention--Distinguished Names--Subjects Debated--Missions of the Church--Apportionment Plan--The Woman's Auxiliary--The United Offering--Missionary Meeting in Mechanics' Pavilion--College Reunions--Zealous Men--A Dramatic Scene--Closing Service--Object Lesson--A Revelation to California--Examples of the Church's Training--Mrs. Twing--John I. Thompson--Golden Gate of Paradise. As we turn away from Chinatown, with its Oriental customs and its peculiar life and its religion, we naturally give ourselves up to reflection on the mission and character of the Christian Church. While we recognise the good that is done by "all who profess and call themselves Christians," and thank God for every good work done in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ, we may more especially consider the development of the Episcopal Church, pure and Apostolic in its origin, on the Pacific coast. We must ever keep in mind the services held in this region as far back as the year 1579, by Chaplain Francis Fletcher, under Admiral Drake, when the old Prayer Book of the Church of England was used
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