Show deterioration IN OLD FAITH priests of budelia in china unworthy of the greit great traditions of the past in ill modern clinin has fallen into a shocking state of and deeny according to 0 o the correspondent of tile london illies who la Is traveling across tile celestial ile ho writes bat at tile first allu where hot akoi bic being sold w illy men inon rested eliere I liere was it a teil lille land and I 1 vent ent across ac boss to seo see it the priest politely invited tile mo into 1110 guest room ile ho probably ably didiot ex 0 poet mo me to enter but I 1 did so mid and found lit in a small email arboin sonio some 20 nien men smoking opium or drowsing after the debauch and it was tho the pi priest lost who had supplied alij alid opium ditl tile tho opium pipes could tho the buddhist falth filfli na as exemplified in its degraded ministers lit in china sink much lower on oil tho the fourth foul th day out wo we reached ato xuan yin griir tile liall hall or tile goddes sol or marcy it fine temple in a filthy state its two to towers aro need as a it rolli roin mon lodging house in this degraded complo tile tho goddess herself abid till all lioi hot attendants aro are represented with tile the smallest of small feet fres coos of nf force and oven even or of beauty adorn tile walls walla of tills this decay ing building which tho expenditure of a few hundred dollars would went restore to its pristine glory A few cents would make it clean but tit the cents aio not spent it Is no ones business opium Is smoked in the ditty dirty ro tomina ollis again next lay day wo readied reached hi yin alao oil one of tile fittest temples I 1 havo seen lit in ChI china iiii it UPS lips within art an enclosure comparable with that of the temple of fleaven in peking and has ails splendid did halls and courts and pavilions vi lions yet what a mini the roofs roof S have decayed decay eil or fallen in tho the trl tri alTh ways are aio tottering ma ain nure is dried in courtyards courty aids fit for a palace I 1 havo have seen no more striking stil king evidence of decay truly buddhism in china is sadly deteriorating |