Deseret Evening News | 1903-01-30 | Page 8 | Experiences in China

EXP NCI S IN CHINA Lecture liy 11 Hov Hm li II U 11 i Lust 1191 Nl Bev L I D n lectured last night In St Marks cathedral before a n Rood good audience on his hI experiences In China He ridiculed the talk of ot superficial ob observers servers who visit China Chinn and come homo home and a tell about how the tho arc doing nothing and on l dont amount to anything anyhow when tho same len never take the pains to make Inquiry as all to the OIls are doing The fhe lecturer gave nw a 11 very cry entertain entertaining ing of at the tho domestic custom of ot the tho Chinese noting particularly their fear nf of evil spirits Tor Por Instance they believe bellve these spirits cnn can travel only anI In lines nell So flo In the case nse of such fuch Ol I an AM have drains the drains laid lal l In tortuous lines that tho spirits can IlIn nil their way n Into the houKes The said aid this bo hI very ory well w HM IlK proof against evil 1111 spirits but not the of microbes The l I not so 80 much the III Christian faith Itself no It ItIs Is the foreigner And this opposition Is by b the ml rill Ing classes H who we PIH that the prevalence of the th faith would result In Inthe Inthe the diminution of their power The speaker showed that Christians make the very cry taut I Rt Christians and It Is of them to lake the Ini Initiative themselves otter after conversion and start out to convert others At A t the close of or the th lecture Mr Ir ely t drew Chinese o characters or spec metis menA of If the sign n language on a 11 black hInck t oard and said there Is III no alphabet In Inthe the Chinese language that there words In till the al although though a few hundred are all that are arc for ordinary conversation Knowledge I of 01 the au nu authors thors Is IN nil Ill that In necessary for se AI position hill but InrI the Hax Boxer r trouble the Chinese 11 court U 19 he to on n Its 1111 ayes er to the R of It nf other things of 01 om A sum of money mane was tak taken en 11 at lit the door Inor for lor Ih lie who left lert IJ hl train for