Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-02-01
TIE CHINESE NEW YEAR
THE cRLRsTIALs INDULGE IN SOME oLAMoRoUs
OBsRRvANCEs OF THE FEsTIyAL-A SERMON
At FHR JOSS HOUSE BY A HKATHKs
DIvINR-HE DENOUECEs TIN
LADY BRYAN sNNDLE.

| Inc season OF tue SnluA NC" Aedi 10 upoH
us and the heather of the Orient has fallen
into his annual religious obssrvances. The
temple of the gods is already rendolent with
the efuvia of sinking punk and the some
what less obnoxious scents of reast pig.
| GIVING THR DEVIL DEAL
An APPEAL reporter called at the Chinese
| temple Yesterday and remained through the
entire service. AS he approached the gospel
mill his oars were salnted, not with the mel
| low notes of the bell, bnt the explosion of in
| Vulnerable bombs and fire crackers. A man
| was standing in front of the place Of worship
burning long strings of crackers, and in the
midst of the pandemonium which it created
he stood with the sedate look Of an under
| taker. After exploding several thousand
crackers he ignited some bombs, which went
to pieces with a dull boom and sent the frag-
ments flying high in the air. This ceremony
is always INDUCED in for the purpose of ex-
orcising the devils which are supposed to col
lest about the temples for the purpose of in
terfering with the services. 1t is the theory
ploded, drives the i,nps of darkness a mile
away and each bomb Fifty. The priest in
formed the reporter that the devils had been
driven about as far as New Mexico, where he
hoped they would remain.
THR sERvICR
The church is small wooden building
ahonr 10 v liz opd s,.rnonpto] NV n fr;unrula r
red flag bearing the golden dragon and frnged
with white. In the center was an altar sur
mounted with high gilded eandlesticks con
tanning long candles, which are kept burning
ao.sd man clear around the corner. The
altar is also covered with tinsel illigrees and
pot-bellied divinitles in bronze. In the center
Is bronze dish containing spiced pork smoking
hot To this piece of meat most of the cere-
monies of the temple seem to be direct ed.
The devotees stand in front of the altar and
indulge in a series of solemn genuhections to
the pork and then bend back and forth ex-
actly as they do when saving a stubborn stick
of mountain mahogany. Occasionally the
sexton steps up to the brass gong pendent
from the ceiling and gets in right handler on
it with stick covered at the end with ball
of stuffed buckskin. At the sound of the gong
the congregation get down quickly on their
knees and remain there for several minutes,
but whether or rom fright or . religious feel
ing the reporter is unable to state.
THE PREACHER.
Rev. Ching Ching Cove, the pastor, noun
ted the platform at IL o'clock The divine
was a man of about sixty years of age, land his
head was Of melancholy, intellectual mould.
He was completely bald, with high forehead
and broad brow, forcibly reminding one of
the Rev. DIR. Stone of San Francisco. His
attire was neat and he wore somewhat Ion
ger blouse thar. his congregation. The reper-
ter learned that he was recently officiating in
Truckee, but resigned on account of the dis
covery that he had been exercising too much
warmth toward some of the females Of the flock
He was relieved from the psstorship of the
afterward received call to Carson at an ad- |
vance of salary. His flock here have every
confidence in his piety and zeal for the good |
work of converting backsiders to the faith of !
CONTIGUOUS.
THE SERMON.
The text was taken from CONTIGUOUS, 9TH |
18th, " To be honest wins the esteem of
ieaven." The reverend gentleman opened
lis discourse by alludi, to the fact that hon
'sty was rapidly becoming thing of the past
IN the Pacific slope. The Americans were in
Iced such bad lot that he had come to the
onclusion that the whole population was a
rowd Of thieves and imposters. To such An
xtent had the morals of the coast degenerat-
d that even the Chinese were imsregnated
nth the oder of sin aud iniquity. He was
aimed to observe that the practice Of robbIng
en- roosts was becoming aIarminsly prevalent
a Carson, and he hoped that the intelligent
lembers of his congregation would fro~n the
ractiee down. Gambling was also very much
ldulged in, but the preacher did not really