“ Our brothers of the old world should be taught that China is the country of the future, of the illimited possibilities. That if, as it might be, it resists to the actual crisis and survives to it, it is called to play an important and unexpected part in the world ; and that the fate of the Holy Church on earth, to consider things humanly, is closely bound to the question of its evangelisation which must not be delayed any longer. †Thus wrote (pdf) Vincent LEBBE in 1920, condensing thus all his ideal of missionary life.
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