ANOTHER TEST OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
ROMAN CATHOLICS have been present in the semi-Chinese country of Annam for three centuries, says the French Journal des Missiones. Their numerous missionaries are settled in the most fertile regions, and occupy themselves with trading much more than with gaining converts to the Lord Jesus Christ. They "baptize" great numbers of natives, but these so-called Christians do not differ from others. Truly regenerated souls are rare. In writing to the Journal, M. Bonnet, a colporteur, thus describes the condition of the women of Annam: "The young girls have no names; they are designated by number and in the order of their birth. When married, they are known by the name of husband or son. They do the hardest of the work in the house and the field, and in the boats they do the rowing, while the husband holds the helm." When in his tours, M. Bonnet invites the inhabitants of a village to hear the Gospel story, the men come; the women remain at their work. Having never been the objects of any attention, they do not imagine that the invitation is addressed to them.