ICHINA ANDTHECHINESE#
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Manners and Customs of the People. /fs
The area of China Is 4.218,401 En
glish square miles. Of this territory
only 1,330,841 miles belong to China
proper, the remainder being the de
pendencies of Manchuria. Mongolia,
Thibet. Jungaria and ICast Turkestan.
Notwithstanding the relatively small
size of China proper, it contains the
bulk of the population, having 380,000,-
<IOO inhabitants out of a total popu
lation of the Kingdom of 402,080,000.
The present Emperor of China belongs
to the Manchu dynasty, which over
threw the native dynasty of Ming in
Ihe year 1(544. As the late Emperor
died suddenly, lie did not designate
;t successor, as is the custom in China,
where there exists no law of heredi
tary succession. This is one of the
A CHINESE DONKKV CART IN PEKIN.
causes of the trouble in China,owing to
111© fact that the Empress Dowager
was able to obtain ascendency over
the young Emperor, so that on Sep
tember 22, 18U8, an imperial edict was
issued announcing that the Emperor
had resigned power to the Empress
Dowager, who lias since retained the
direction of affairs and by her dislike
of foreigners lias done much to foment
the troubles and has made it easy for
the Boxer movement to gain headway,
even if she is not directly responsible
for the attack, as has been suggested
by those who have an intimate knowl
edge of Chinese affairs. On January
24. 1000. It was declared by decree
that the sou of Prince Tuan should
succeed the present Emperor. This is
generally regarded as equivalent to
Kwang Sn's deposition. The lively in
terest which Prince Tuan is taking in
the attacks of foreigners is easily ac
counted for by his soil's right to the
throne.
The government of the State is based
upon the government of the family.
The supreme direction of the Empire
is vested in the privy council or grand
council. The administration is under
the direction of a cabinet comprising
four members, two of Manchu and
two of Chinese origin, besides two as
sistants from the great college, who
have to see that nothing is done con
trary to the civil and religious laws
of the Empire. These members are
called ministers of Sta e. Fmler their
orders are seven boards of govern
ment, each of which is presided over
by a Manchu and a Chinese. The
boards are: 1, for civil appointments:
2, for revenues; for rites and cere
monies; 4. for military affairs: 5. for
public works; 0. criminal jurisdiction;
7. admiralty board. Independent of
the government, and theoretically
above the central administration, is
the Board of Public Censors, which
consists of forty or fifty members un
der two presidents. They are privi
leged to present any remonstrance to
ihe sovereign, aud one of them must
be present at the meetings of each 112
the Government boards. Each of the
eighteen provinces is governed by a
governor-general, who Is responsible
to the Emperor for the entire adminis
tration, political, judicial, military
and physical. He is assisted by a coun
cil and other officials. Each province
is subdivided into apartments, ruled
by prefects, and each department Into
districts, each under a separate ruler.
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British subjects predominating. About
a half of the total number of foreign
ers reside at Shanghai.
Three religions are acknowledged by
the Chinese as indigenous aiid formal
ly adopted: Confucianism, Buddhism
and Taoism. The Emperor is consid
ered the High Priest of the Empire
and can alone, with ids immediate rep
resentatives and ministers, perform
the great religious ceremonies. Con
fucianism is the State religion. With
the exception of the practice of ances
tral worship, which is everywhere ob
served throughout the Empire, aud
was fully commended by Confucius,
Confucianism has little outward cere
monial. The study and contemplation
and attempted performances of the
moral precepts of the ancients consti
tute the duties of a Confuelaulst.
Buddhism and Taoism present a gor
geous and elaborate ritual in China.
The bulk of the people are Buddhists.
There are about thirty million Ma
hontmedaus, one million Roman Cath
olics aud fifty thousand Protestants.
Most of the aboriginal hill tribes are
still nature worshipers.
Pekin is at once interesting, despic
able. superlatively beautiful, disgust
ingly filthy, aud, in short, a city of
contradictions. Originally a Tartar
encampment, begun by the hordes that
swarmed to the eastern part of China.
Pekin soon became a fortified city of
much strength. Here the Tartar rul
ers lived, surrounded by their Manchu
followers—fearing the white man's
usurpation far less than the numerical
preponderance of tlie Chinese. So. in
order to protect themselves from un
expected assault, they constructed a
huge wall around their city—for China
is a land of walls—and for a time lived
in tolerable security.
Gradually, however, the Chinese,
realizing to some extent their power,
WORKING GIRLS GOING IIOSIE.
(The inottvx power is a single coolie.)
began a rival city adjoining the Tartar
fortress. They, too, built a wall, and,
as the Tartars did, whenever a work
man died, his body wns entombed
within the wall. In this manner. It
Is estimated, that one million human
beings found their last resting places
in the walls surrounding Pekiu.
While the Chinese city is of much
interest, both from a sociological and
architectural viewpoint, yet the Tar
tar city is the more Important, for
within its precincts is the "Forbidden,"
or Purple City, where lives Kwaug
Su, the unfortunately progressive mon
arch of the Chinese. The Forbidden
City is a city of night, for there the
denizens of the palace of the Son of
Heaven awaken aud begin their life.
I.ittle is known of the Forbidden
City, for within the memory of man
not half a dozen whites have entered
It. All that is known is that it cou
tulns the palaces of the Emperor, nud
what Is perhaps more Interesting, the
famous coal hill. This immense heap
of coal was accumulated for use In
case the city was beselged. The hill
Is several hundred feet high and con
tains hundreds of thousands of tons
of coal.
Whenever the Emperor was about
to leave the Forbidden City for some
religious or State function, the lega
tions of the foreign nations have iieeu
nutlilt-il, H I ilnn no unholy inturtit
ri'Ht II IM HI ilw> | 111 II Y form mul silluiv
fllii' of KUIIIIK Kit. Til*' I'UlllV loUto
to lie ii'u» IM'wil una enriiiliifil off ittul
t III)llmi UIU of «>o|i|||'|-» Hilt' I ll«* ■HI-l'Hllttl
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'I lir> tnttii'lil a »lit IIIUIUK ailgbi figure.
dressed plainly and utterly eclipsed
by the gorgeous apparel of Ills retinue.
The rest of Pekln is very much like
all Chinese cities—picturesquely con
fusing and terribly dirty. Streets run
in the most bizarre fashion, totally ob
livious of their beginning and end,
aimlessly wandering from bad to
worse, fringed on both sides by hovels
and palaces iu confusion. Dogs and
pigs meander about, jostle equally of-
TEA CI.K.A.NINO PROCESS.
fenslve beggars anil imU.eu.vr children:
stuffy litters, suspended on long bam
boo poles anil carried by coolies, make
life a burden; odors, concentrated be
yond the power of descriptive writing
to portray, overwhelm the nostrils: the
effluvia of ages of non-sanitation,
drawn heavenward by the torrid sun,
spreads disease; the chatter of a
thousand gutteral Mongols and Chi
nese is intermingled with the yelping
of the dogs, the squealing of the pigs,
the screaming of the children, and the
loud cries of the coolies —such is Pe
kin.
Of course, there are parts in llit> out
lying bills where the rlcli mandarins
and merchants live, where true Ori
ental luxury can be found. There,
magnificent palace-like dwellings dot
the landscape, surrounded by idyllic
gardens. The art and Imagination of
the Chinese architect have found full
scope for his talent, anil as a result
these habitations are a credit.extornnlly
and Internally—all save the sanitation,
of which the Chinese are iu blissful
ignorance. Yet the wealthy Chinese
ins luxury, even though n coolie takes
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CHINESE FIXOEK NAILS.
the place of an electric fan to cool
Ills fevered brow.
Taken all in all, China and the Chi
nese make an Interesting study from
any viewpoint, hut it Is wrong to un
derestimate their brain {tower in such
study, for they are far more advanced
than is generally conceded. Let China
be civilized, and the world will wit
ness as great a metamorphosis as that
which so astonished the world when
Japan emerged front her chrysalis of
Middle Age conservatism and provln
claiistti.
The nobles In China, both male nml
female, cultivate extremely long nail*
on the llitimb aud alt the tinges ex
cept Hie one nearest the thumb. Sl*
teell luetics is cousldertil a good length,
but those who manage to attain the
length of seventeen or eighteen are re
garded with envious admiration.
C'llltritK 111 ( fKKIS wiIMSS.
I'rotMldy Ihe Idea of Ihe lui|tosslbll
ity of doing suy work with such long
nails itpoii lb* lingers may have given
i hem the fash humble reputation.
Among Ibe Mlgwesc silver eases are
worn upon ibe Augers to protect the
long nails.
Although In bygone times European
Indies used to dress their hair iu won
derful and elaborate ways, nowadays
it is worn niueh more simply ooiffed.
In China, however—that dark, mys
terious land which is the world's cen
tre of interest to-day—women still
dress their hair iu the most elaborate
and fantastic manner.
The I'ekin ladies glue their hair into
imitations of the magpie or jay bird,
or pile it high with gorgeous flowers,
and bunches, loops and tassels of
pearls pendant from a great gold but,
which forms the "hairpin."
The blue-black locks are parted in
curious zigzags, and the ornaments are
balanced from the hairpin on each
side of the head.—Scientific American.
"DON COYOT£," OF THE PLAINS.
HIP American Wild Dog is an Int«r«At
init Animal*
One of the interesting and typical
animals of the Kur West is the Ameri
can wild dog. lowland wolf or coyote.
Cauls latrans, ir being known tinder
these and other titles. While a very
common animal, it is rarely well
figured in the books, and is made to
look more foxlike than Wolfish, ways
Professor C. I-'. Holder in the Scien
tific American. The accompanying il
lustration gives a correct idea of a
young male two-thirds grown. In
general appearance it resembles the
typical wolf, the fur being a dull yel
lowish gray, with dark, even black,
clouded spots: beneath it is sometimes
reddish and white.
While the coyote hunts singly in
towns or villages, he runs in packs iu
the open, audit is here that lie dem
onstrates his skill and cunning. A
friend of mine observed a pack of coy
otes on tne edge of the desert manipu
lating a jack rabbit. They swept
across the country iu a line, soon starl
ing a hare, .ieu formed in two paral
lel lines about liiHi feet apart. There
was a regular plan of action, and none
of the coyotes seemed overexcited, but
when the hare was started they
wheeled into columns like soldiers, the
lending coyote running at the top of
his speed. After a few moments lie
lropped to the rear and a fresh coy
ite IOOK the lead, aud this was kept
up until the hare was run down. The
chase was a silent one. This method
recalls the wild dogs of Australia, or
dingo.
Seven or eight years ago Southern
ami Central California abounded iu
coyotes, and the State Legislature
passed an anti-coyote act. putting a
price upon his head or sealp. 1 had
the temerity to oppose this, bin flme
has shown the fallacy of killing all
COYOTE.
the coyotes, aud Ihe act was repealed
My argument was that as the cuyoii
was the only enemy of the Jink rabbit
itud ground squirrel his destruction by
wholesale would result iu ii vast In
crease of rabbits iiinl squirrel* Tin
Jack rabbit, a famous glnller of
(ixiug trees and au all around enemy
I lo Ibe agriculturist, without a redeem
, lug feature. Is the miiural food nf Ibe
' coyote, which does uol disdain the
| ground squirrel. The coyolc Is also a
; siiuke enter, even attacking the rattle
! suake, Iu a word, lie Is a valuable
scavenger nud au animal to Ik> pre
served,
IKm Coyote can lie latin-1, ami I
kucW of ouc lust suet' Where a herder
kepi one ibat was apparently as t a Un
as • tog
J DR. TALMAGK SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Spiritual Values—Earthly Iticlies
Am Transitory, Bat tha Glories of
11env«iijAreEverlasting—Compares the
l'rlceless Soul With the Valueless Hodjr
[Copyright isoti.t
WASHINGTON, D. C. From Berh'n,
tvlierc he preached in the American# *
to a. congregation comprising liianyt
countrymen who nre traveling
Europe. Dr. Talmage sends this disc)
in which, by original methods, he
lates spiritual values and urges highi
preciation of tilings religious, llidi
is Mark viii, 36: "What shall it pro!
] man if he shall gain the whole world]
I lose his own soul?" J
Men o[ all occupations are to be &
in the assemblies of the house of Codl
in these days of extensive business 01
tions a large proportion are engaged 1
Monday morning to Saturday night in
gain making. In many of the fata
across the breakfast table and the 1
table are discussed questions of l'>ss I ■
gain. You are every day asking court
"What is the value of this'' Wluit is
value ot that?" You would not think of
giving something of greater value for that
which is of losser value. You would not
think of selling that which cost you $lO
for $5. It you had a property that was
worth 15,000, you would not sell it for
S4OOO. You are intelligent in all matters
of bargain making. Are you as wise in
the things that pertain to the matters of
the soul? Christ adapted His instruc
tions to the circumstances of those to
whom He spoke. When lie talked to
, fishermen, lie spoke of the gospel net.
' When He talked to the farmers, He said:
"A sower went forth to sow." When He
talked to the shepherds. He told the para
ble of the lost sheep. And am I not right
when speaking to an audience made up of
bargain makers that 1 addresi them in the
words of my text, asking, "What shall it
profit a man if he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul?"
I propose, as far as possible, to estimate
and compare the value of the two proper
ties.
P'irst, I have to say that the world is a
very grand property. Its flowers are
GoiVs thoughts in bloom. Its rocks are
Cod's thoughts iu s'.one. Its dewdrons
are Coil's thoughts in pearl. This world
is Cod's child—a wayward child, indeed;
it has wandered off through the heavens.
Hut about 190) years ago, one Christmas
night. Cod sent out a sister world to call
that wanderer back, and it hung over
; Bethlehem only long enough to get the
promise ot the wanderer's return, and
now that lost world, with soft feet of
i light, comes treading back through the
i heavens. The hills, how beautiful they
billow up. the edge of the wave white
Willi the foam of crocuses! How beautiful
I the rainbow, the arched bridge on which
heaven and earth come and talk to each
other in tears after the storm is over!
How nimble the feet of lamplighters that
in a few minutes set all the dome of the
night ablaze with brackets of fire! How
I bright the oar of the saffron cloud that
' rows across the drop sea of heaven! How
i beautiful the spring, with bridal blossoms
in her hair! I wonder who it is that beats
time on a .lune morning for the bird or
-1 chestra. How gently the harebell lolls its
fragrance on the air! There may be
grander worlds, buyer worlds than this,
but I think that this is a most exquisite
world—a mignonette on the bosom of im
mensity! "Oh," you say, "take my soul;
give me that world! 1 am willing to take
it in exchange. I am ready now for the
bargain. It is so beautiful a world, so
sweet a world, so grand a world!"
But let us look more minutely into the
value of this world. You will not buy
propcrtv unless you can get a good title to
it..After you have looked at the property
and found out that it suits you you send
an attorney to the public office, and he
examines tlie book of deeds and the book
of mortgages and the book of judgments
and the book of liens, and he decides
1 whethei the title is good before you will
have anything to do with it. There might
be ,i splendid property and in every way
exactly suited to your want, but if you
cannot get a good title you will not take
it. Now, 1 am here to say that it is im
possible to get a good title to this world.
If 1 settle uown unon it, in the very year
I so set tie down upon it as a permaiienl
possession, I may lie driven away from it.
Aye. in five minutes afterward I give up
my soul for the world 1 may have to part
with the world, ami what kind of a title
Jc you call that? There is only one way
in which 1 can hold an earthly possession,
ami that !•< through the senses. All beau
tiful sights through the eye, but the eye
may lie lilowcii out; all captivating sounds
through the car, but my ear may be deaf
ened; all lusciodsness of fruits anil viands
through my taste, but mv taste may be de
stroyed; all appreciation ot culture and of
art through my mind, but I may lose my
mind. What a frail hold, then, 1 ha\e
upon anv earthly possession!
In courts of law, if you want to get a
man off a property you must serve upon
t him a writ of ejectment, giving him a cer
i tain time to vacate the premises, but
; when death comes to us ami serves a writ
of ejectment he does not give us one sec
ond of forewarning. He says: "Oft of this
place! You have no right any longer to
the powession." We might cry out. "I.
gave you SIOO,OOO for that property;" the
plea would be ot no avail. We might say,
"We have a warrantee deed for that prop
erty," the pica would be of no avail.
We might say. We have a lieu on that
storehouse;'' that would do us no good.
' Death is blind, and lie cannot see a seal
and cannot read an indenture. So that,
wheu you propose that ( give up mv soul
first and last. I want to tell you that
lor the world you cannot give me the tirsl
item of title.
Having examined the title of a property
four next quest,on in about insurance. \ oil
would not lie silly enough to buy a large
warehouse that could not possibly be in
«uicd. Yon would not have anything to
do with such a property. Now. I v'l
what assurance can you give me ihat tin.
| world is not going to lie burned up?
Ab»olutclv none, (.eulogists tell us that
if i4 all'cutly on lire; thai the heart of the
world is on - great liwug coal: lli.it i' is
just like a slop on lire at sea, the flumes
not bursting out because the hatches ,uv
kept down. \ml yet vou propose to palm
oil on me, m return for my soul, a world
lor which, iu the lir»t place, you (five no
title, and.in the second |>l*-c (or which
voit i.in gt\e no insurance. "Oh." you
•ay, "the water of the ocean* will wash
over all the land and put out the lire."
Oh. no. There nre inflammable elements
m ihe water hydrogen and utygeti ' all
of) tin hydrogen, umf then the Atlantic
mid the I'acific oceans would bla'e like
Im i t .s oi shavings You want lue to 'ake
litis world, lor which you can guv uo pu
tittle insurance.
Astronomers have swept their tehstoiie*
Ihioiiah the ski and have lound out tliai
there have been tiflrcii worlds, in the la-t
two centuries thai have immmm *d li
It Ist the* looked |u*t like othri worlds
I'lieii llin gol tlevpb red they were on
hie. Then 11 lev got ashen, showing llu\
weie burned down. Then the\ disap
pea led. showing thai even the ashes were
Mattered. And. il the ideologist lie right
>in his prophecy, tlitn our world IS togo iu
tie- same Hill Ami let )ou want me to
Pit liange lilt soul lor It Ah, no; It is a
world toal is miming now Su|i|«»te ton
[ brought all UmMWM* agent lo look Al
your ptoiieily (or the |mr|Mi*c >■( gmng
} oil a pom V upon It slid while he stand
in limit of the house lis should say, ' That
house is mi lire now in Ihe basement.'
J vou could not get anr insurance upon it
Vet >«u talk about (hut wurli as (hwtgli
it were a safe investment, an though votl
could get some insurance upon it, when
down in the basement it is on fire.
Here is a man who has had a large es
tate for forty or fifty years. He lies down
to die. You say: "That man is worth
million* and millions of dollars." Is he?
You call up a surveyor, with his compass
and chains, and you sav: "There is a
property extending three miles in one di
rection and three miles in another direc
tion." Is that the way to measure that
man's property? No! You do not want
any surveyor, with compass and chains.
That, is not the way to measure that
man's property now. It is an undertaker
vou need, who will come and put his
inger in hS* vest pocket and take out a
|>e line, anil he will measure five feet
ne inches one way and two feet and a
'f the other way. That is_ the man's
X'rty. Oh. no. I forgot. Not so much
'hat, for In- <?"es not own even the
0 in which he lies in the cemetery,
deed to that belongs to the executors
heirs. Oh, what a property you pro
to give me for my soul! If you sell a
>f goods you go into the counting
and sav to your partner: "l)o you
that man is good for this bill? Can
■e propel- security? Will he meet
ivmeut?" Now, when you are of-
Ins world as a possession I want
the matter. I do not want you
togo into this bargain blindly. I want
you to ask about the title, about the in
surance. about whether men have ever
had any trouble with it, about whether
you can keep it about whether you can
get nil or the ten thousandth or one hun
dred thousandth part of it.
There is the world now. I shall say no
more about it. itiake up your mind for
yourself, as 1 shall, before Cod. have to
make un my mind for myself, about the
value of this world. I cannot afford to
make a mistake for my soul, and you can
not afford to make a mistake for your soul.
Christ is glorious to our souls now. but
how much grander our appreciation after
awhile! A conqueror comes back after the
battle. lie has been lighting for us. He
comes upon the platform. He has one
arm in a sling, and the other ami holds a
crutch. As he mounts the platform, oh,
the enthusiasm of the audience! They
say. "That man fought for us and im
periled his life for us," and how wild the
huzza that follows huzza.
When the Lord Jesus Christ shall at
last stand out before the multitudes of
the redeemed of hcav n and we meet llim
face to face and feel hat He was wounded
in the head and t ouwled in the hands
and wounded in t' ' feet and wounded in
the side for us, » thinks we will be over
whelmed.
We will sit. ne time gazing in silence
until some lei er amid the white robed
choir shall life the baton of light and give
the signal that it is time to wake the song
of jubilee, and all heaven then will break
forth into "Hosanna! hosanna! Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain."
I calculate further the value of the soul
by the price that has been paid for it.
lu St. Petersburg there is a diamond that
the Government paid WOO,OOO for. "Well."
you say, "it must have been very valuable
or the Government would not have paid
$200,000 for it."
I want to see what the soul is worth
and what your soul is worth by seeing
what has been pai.i for it. For that im
mortal soul the richest blood that was ever
shed. the deepest groan that was ever ut
tered. all the griefs of earth compressed
into one tear, all the sufferings of earth
gathered into one rapier of pain and stuck
through llis holy heart. Does it not im
ply tremendous value?
I argue, also, the value of the soul from
the home that has been fitted up for it in
the future. One would have thought that
a street of adamant would have done.
Ao, it is a street of gold. One would
have thought that a wall of granite would
have done. No, it is the flame of sar
donyx, mingling with the green of emer
ald.'
One would have thought that an occa
sional doxology would have done. No, it
is a perpetual song. If the ages of heaven
marched iu a straight line, some day the
last regiment might pass out of sight.
Hut no. the ages of heaven do not march
in a straight line, but in a circle around
about the throne of God. forever, forever,
tramp, tramp! A soul so bought, so
equipped, so provided for must be a price
less soul, a majestic soul, a tremendous
soul.
If a man sell a bill of goods worth SOOOO,
and he is cheated out of it, lie may get
$o0t)0 somewhere else, but a man who in
vests his soul invests all. Saving that, he
haves all. In the light of m> text, it
seems to me as if you were offering your
soul to the highest bidder, and I hear you
say. "What is bid for il. my deathless
spirit? What is bill lor it?" Satan says.
"I will bill the world." You say. "Begone,
that is no equivalent! Sell my soul for the
world? No! llegone!"
Well, there are a great many people who
say. "I will not sell my soul for the world.
I find the world is an unsatisfying por
tion." What. then, will you do with your
soul? Son.e one whispers here. "I will
give my soul to Christ." Will you? That
is the wisest resolution you ever made.
Will you give il to Christ? When? To
morrow? No, now. I congratulate you
if you hare come to such a decision.
Oh, if the eternal Spirit of God would
now come down upon you and snow you
the vanity of tin* world and the immense
importance of Christ's religion ami the in
finite value of your own immortal souls,
what an hour this would Im-!
What a moment this would lie! Do you
know that t lirist has bought your soul'.'
Do you know that lie Iris paid an infinite
price for it? Do you know that He i*
worthy ol it? Will you give it to llim
now?
I was reading lately of a sailor who liad
just got ashore and was telling about In*
last experience at sea. lie sunt "The last
time 1 crossed tlie ocean we hail a terrific
time. After we had been out three or four
days the machinery got disarranged, and
the steam began to cscaiie. and the cap
tain, fathering the people and the crew
on deck. *atd, 'I nless some one will go
down and shut oil that steam and arrange
that mailiiucix it the pc II of Ills life we
| must all l>e dcstioied. lie was not will
■ lug togo down liiin*'lf. N.i one seetued
wining to u" I lie pa-«ugei- gathered at
one end of the stcairci wr.ititig for their
fate. The < ..plain •.aid' "I give you a last
warning. Ii there n> no one here willing
to imperil li* lilt- and g" down and tix
ih.it muhineiv we must all I<• lost. A
plain sailor > ml. 'l'll go, mi. and he
wrap|H a o hiinselt in a i nurse piece ol can
vas and went down and I a* gone hul a
lew moment when the escaping steam
-topped I'lie captain cried out to the
ha ■..-cllgcl - All wmd' latUs go down
lielou and see what has become ol the
jiisir fellow ritev went down. There he
lav deal Vicarious •uttering! Died for
all! Oil. d • Voil slip|sisc that tliose people
on the si p ever folgot, ever call forget,
that pirn lellow ? "No. tln't *a> "It
was through Ins ant nfiee that I got
ashore." The liit.e came when our whole
race must die nule«s miiiih one should en
dure torture and sorrow and shame Who
shall come lo the leniie? *»liall it I*' one
oi tin* -el iphliu ' St»i one Shall il lie
one ot the cherubim' \ol one Miall il
lie an inhabitant ot sonic ouie and uiilall
en world? Vol one I lieu t hrist »aid.
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