Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-08
All SINS SUNDAY SCHOOL.
HOsc the Chicago Hedtl.en Were Enter.
tanned at a Sunday School Banquet.
Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune
All Ching Yuen, the aristocrat, wore
black satin jacket, a straw hat jauntily tipped
on one side of his head, and new felt shoes,
which made no sound as he proudly trod
across the floor. Lo 30, being only hired
man on moderate wages, could not be ex-
pected to "rag OUT very well, but he was
neat if not gaupy. All Sam Chong, Fong
Sang, Low Lee, r Gin, and the rest of the
fourteen Celestials who were present at the
banquet there are twenty-one who actually
belong to the Sunday schooD we're arrayed
in much the same scale of splendor as Lo
Bo.
It is now two months since the Chinese
Sunday-school was started in an upper room
of Farwell Hall, and already it has attained
place among the prominent religious in
situations of the city. An eccentric man
with a queer history-David D. Jones-was
the founder of it. Born in Wales, he has
lived vagabond life as kind of itinerant
missionary in Egypt, Spain, and the far
West of America. He lived for several years
in the Chinese quarter in Evanston,
| Wyoming Territory, and thus acquired a
knowledge of the Chinese language. At
Yuen, whe is sole proprietor of a laundry at
| No. 81 West Madison street, and is reported
to be worth as much as $4,000 Mr.. Jones
lives with Ching Yuen in the rear part of
| the basement where the laundry is located.
| 1t was great day for the Chinese, was
yesterday. The pupils of the Sunday-school
had extended formal invitation to their
teachers to participate in banquet at the
close of the regular exercises. 1t was a sort
of return compliment for the dinner given
to the Cinnamon by the teachers on the Sun
day after the Fourth of July. 1t must be
understood that All Sin is just as indie
pendent and proud as his American brother
Only the other day, when party of Chinese
were invited out to visit the Rev. Mr.
Humphreys at Oak Park, they hired livery,
carriages and We're driven out in style al
about three times the expense of railroad
| fares.
The regular Sunday-school exercises were
gone through as usual A popularity of this
Sunday-school is that there is teacher iol
every pupil. Most of the teachers are ladies
The teaching is necessarily simple in it:
scope, as few of the almond eyed scholars
can speak English. There is an English
Chinese primer. with pictures in it, and hang
ing against the wall are large charts OF
which are printed in Chinese characters The
Lords Prayer. ':Praise God. from whom al
blessings how,'' and the Ten Command
nents. Of course there is plenty of singing
The favrite piece with the pupils is ssComt
to Jesus" although they like ssThe old. ole
| story and 81 am SO glad that Jesus loves
me.''
There was short internission between
the Sunday-school and dinner, which was
spent in social chat, teachers and pupil.
mixing together without reserve. The
Cinnamon were studiously polite, and
strange to say. not afflicted with any shynes
OF difidence. Some unpleasantness arose
from the fact tnat the hotel keeper who sup
piled the dinner had sent over common
knives and forks. This was resented by the
! leading Chinses, who insisted on having
nothing less than silver, and their ire was
only abated by having better knives ant
forks substituted. When all were ready the
company sat down at the table, each teacher
being escorted to her place by her own pupil
who gravely took his seat beside her. Grace
was said by the Rev. Mr.. Humphreys, an6
all fell to with zest. The Chinese usee
the knives and forks as skillfully as if they
had never heard of chop-sticks.
These Chinese are said to he extremel,
SiateAul lor Tue atlentlon SHOWN them by tht
Mclean ladies, and have manifested theil
gratitude by making them several choice
presents. One of the ladies was recentl,
presented with an elegant and costly silk ane
ivory fan, imported from China, and another
has been notified that there is pair of shoes
coming for her all the way from that far-of
shore. Evidently the ssHeathen Chinee'' O
this city is either exceptionally good, or elst
he has been misrepresented on the Pacif,
slope,