THE CHINESE.


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OUR CHINESE IN CHINA.

BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.

This is an old theme, but it presents fresh aspects from time to time. I
am quite sure that the readers of the MISSIONARY will be interested in
these extracts from three comparatively recent letters:

"My DEAR PASTOR:

"Since I left for my home, I am perfectly well and safe. I am very glad
that I havn't got any persecution come to me. I told my parents the
first thing when I reached my home that I don't worship the idols and
the ancestors when I marry. They did not say anything except, 'Do what
you please,' and then I thought I could stop the bride to worship too.
They said, 'She couldn't,' [_i.e._ could not be prevented from
worshiping]. In the day I married, when the bride worship the ancestors
the spectators called me saying, 'Mr. Fung Jung, go, worship with the
bride.' My mother answered them, 'That is all right, he did worship.'
Two days after, the news that I did not worship the ancestors reached my
wife's parents. They immediately send a woman to me and asked me what
was the matter I did not worship the ancestor. I explained to her as