Even the most ardent exclusionist can see from this that there is nothing to dread as to an overwhelming influx that will threaten the integrity and existence of our civilisation.

The labour-question and the race-question and the international question, aroused by the presence of the Chinese within our borders, will from time to time cause agitation and provoke discussion and heated debate and evoke oratory of one kind or another; but the question which should be uppermost in the minds of wise statesmen is how shall they be assimilated to our life?
How shall we make them Christians?
The answer will be the best solution of the whole matter, if it has in mind the spiritual interests of the Chinaman and of all other heathen on our shores.
There is indeed a plague spot in Chinatown, the social fester, which can and ought to be removed.

But this is true of American San Francisco as well as of Chinatown.

What, we may ask, are the men and women of as beautiful a city as ever sat on Bay or Lake or Sea-Shore or River, doing for its purgation, for its release from moral defilement and "garments spotted with the flesh ?" This indeed is one of the searching questions to be asked of any other City, such as New York, Chicago, St.Louis, London, Paris, Cairo, Constantinople, as well as San Francisco.

Among the other noticeable things in the Joss-House were two immense lanterns, as much for ornament as for utility.