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Show ANTI-FOREIGN WRITERS OF CHINA. Disappointed Authors, Some Samples of the J Falsehoods They Utter, from the native writers. One of these reads: "In the kingdom of O-Kwo-Er they constantly practice killing men to sacrifice in praying for happiness. happi-ness. When a principal man dies they offer 1,000 men as a sacrifice. To procure victims they catch foreigners foreign-ers and traders coming into their borders, bor-ders, and if these are mt sufficient they seize travelers, so that no one dares to go to market alone for lear of being carried off. It is considered honorable to have many wives. The principal man is allowed 3,000." Another author writes: "The Mani Disappointed authors" in CJiina that a those who have failed to obtain re- j munerative offices under the Govern-I Ben,t devote their time and whatever : talent they may possess to "writing; of the Lord of Heaven") originated with. Jesus. Its adherents falsely as- sert that Jesus was endowed with Divine Di-vine gifts. f Preachers are for the most part educated to their profession from their childhood. ' Those' who enter this religion practice wickedness without restraint. Every seventh-day they assemble in church. ';. When the- .-ceremonies are ! oyer they give themselves'up to debauchery. de-bauchery. .'"' - V . ! "They make use of oceult' and dev j i'lish arts and. bewitch the ignorant by' magical arts and incantations, so they ! joyfully eiter the sect. - the relatives and friends from the house, and the corpse is put into' the coffin with closed doors. . Both eyes are secretly taken out and the orifice j sealed up. with a plaster. . The reason for extracting the eyes is this: From one hundred pounds of Chinese lead can- be extracted eight pounds of sil; ver, and the remaining ninety-two pounds of lead can be sold at the original, orig-inal, cost. But the only way to obtain this silver is by compounding ..the lead with the eyes of Chinamen. The eyes of foreigners are of no use for tals purpose- It is impossible to. enumerate all thein practices; If we. tracts and drawing scurrilous jiic-:ures, jiic-:ures, which are Intended to Inflame ! the minds of the ignorant natives igainst the Christians. They are sold by the thousand to credulous natives n the interior of the country and ac-:ompllsh ac-:ompllsh the purpose which the authors au-thors Intended. One of these booklets has been translated trans-lated by Christian missionaries. It--19 entitled "A Death Blow to Corrupt chean sect neitner eat meat nor ann wine. They meet in lonely places.' Another veracious scribe, author of "The $Iirrpr of the West," says: "In England they have the art of cutting out paper men and horses, and by burning eharms and repeating incantations incan-tations transforming them into rea' men and horses, . They may, however, be ''dissolved by beating a gong or by I disc.hargnur large guns at them. They 1V, "AV - J J xA in i "4 A BOXER DEMONSTRATION IN CHINA. Doctrine," and has had an enormous irculation throughout the Chinese Empire, one zealous person alone purchasing pur-chasing 800.000 for gratuitous distribution. distri-bution. This tract is spoken of as one jf the most powerful of the many antl-3hristian antl-3hristian influences now at work in Shins. . Some idea of its character can be ptthered from the 'ng The religion of T'ien-Chu (lit.. Sect When a person enters this religion the teacher gives him four ounces of silver sil-ver and a pill. When he has taken this pill his whole mind Is contused and darkened, so that he destroys his ancestral tablets and only worships an image of a naked child which points one finger toward heaven and another toward the earth. They say this is the Prince Jesus. In case of funerals fu-nerals the religious teachers eject all seek for the general motive which leads to them it is a fixed determination determina-tion utterly to befool our people, and under false pretense of religion to exterminate ex-terminate them. Thus- they wish to take possession of the Middle Kingdom." King-dom." . One of the authors of the tract, who calls himself "The Man Most Distressed Dis-tressed in Heart," fortifies his arguments argu-ments by a great array of quotations may also be dissolved by spouting water over .them. And so on, ad nauseum, a hundred other- native writers being called in evidence to substantiate the charger laid against "the dissolute and abandoned aban-doned non-human species." Most of the passages in the tract exceed In indecency in-decency anything that can be imagined, imag-ined, and are too utterly abominable even to be hinted at |